Katy Perry’s latest concert stunt was supposed to bring her closer to the crowd. Instead, it nearly sent her sailing into the unknown.
The pop star found herself trapped inside a giant inflatable water bottle during her performance at the Isle of MTV Malta festival, where a playful crowd-surfing moment briefly turned chaotic.
Perry was performing “I Kissed a Girl” when she climbed inside the oversized plastic bottle, which had “Katyade” written on the side. The plan was simple enough: fans were supposed to roll her through the audience and guide her back toward a giant straw near the stage.
But the crowd had other ideas.
Video from the show shows Perry being carried away from the stage as fans pushed the inflatable bottle toward the back of the audience instead of sending her where she needed to go.
“Go back to the stage!” Perry shouted from inside the bottle. “Oh, my God!”
For a few tense seconds, it looked like the stunt had completely gotten away from her. Perry could be heard trying to redirect the audience as the huge bottle bounced over the crowd, with fans eventually realizing they needed to steer her back toward the stage.
The moment quickly turned into one of the most viral clips from the festival, with fans joking online that Perry almost became “The One That Got Away” in real time.
The inflatable bottle has been part of Perry’s recent live show, giving her a dramatic and very on-brand way to crowd-surf above her audience. The bottle stunt, branded as “Katyade,” has appeared throughout her tour as a playful way to connect with fans from the middle of the crowd.
After the Malta performance, Perry admitted the stunt went a little farther than expected.
“I basically get in this giant inflatable water bottle, and I roll it into the crowd,” she said in a clip shared by Isle of MTV Malta. “And tonight I went kind of far, and I was a little bit worried I was not gonna come back.”
Luckily, Perry did make it back. The crowd eventually rolled her toward the giant straw as intended, allowing her to finish the performance without injury.
The Malta show came near the end of Perry’s European run, which wrapped on July 25 after nearly 40 days and 20 performances. The singer has also been making headlines offstage for her relationship with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The pair made their red carpet debut in June at the Tribeca Festival premiere of Katy Perry: The Lifetimes Tour — Live from Paris.
Still, for one night in Malta, it wasn’t the romance or the music that stole the show. It was Katy Perry, sealed inside a massive plastic bottle, shouting directions while thousands of fans accidentally rolled her the wrong way.
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