Beyonce pauses concert after car prop mishap left her dangling over crowds
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Johnny Diaz
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NEW YORK – American superstar singer Beyonce gave thousands of fans a scare during a concert in Houston on June 28, as a car prop in which she sang high above the crowds suddenly tilted sharply to one side in an apparent malfunction.
The moment, which was caught on video, showed Beyonce – wearing a white cowboy hat and with an American flag by her side – performing her song, 16 Carriages (2024), from the back of a red convertible when it slanted in the air over the crowds.
“Stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop. Stop,” Beyonce calmly announced as she paused the performance over the roaring crowd, which called for her to be brought down.
The car and Beyonce were harnessed to cables and she could be seen gripping one as the vehicle continued to dangle over concertgoers, who held up their illuminated smartphones like candles.
Beyonce, 43, was slowly lowered to safety, much to the joy and relief of her fans who cheered her.
“OMG, she scared me,” one fan said in a video that was uploaded onto social media.
In another clip when she was back onstage, Beyonce told the crowd: “If ever I fall, I know y’all would catch me.”
It was not clear what led to the mishap.
Parkwood Entertainment, Beyonce’s management company, said in an Instagram post that a technical mishap caused the flying car, a prop Beyonce uses to circle the stadium and see her fans up close, to tilt. The company said: “She was quickly lowered and no one was injured.”
A representative for NRG Stadium, where the concert took place, did not give further details.
In a compilation of images from the show, the company also included one of Beyonce performing from the dangling prop.
The concert, in her home town, was the first of her two shows at NRG Stadium last weekend.
The concerts are part of her international Cowboy Carter Tour, which opened in April in Los Angeles. The tour is in support of her 2024 album, Cowboy Carter, which won Album of the Year and Best Country Album at the Grammys in February. NYTIMES
