Overview

• During the July 18 Lifetimes Tour stop at the Chase Center, Perry’s butterfly-shaped stage prop tilted and dropped several feet while she performed “Roar.”
• Perry held on securely without missing a lyric and resumed singing as technicians stabilized the rig.
• She later posted a close-up of her startled expression on her Instagram Stories with the caption “Good Night San Fran.”
• The San Francisco malfunction follows a June tilt of a suspended metallic sphere in Adelaide and a flying-car failure on Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour in Houston.
• Fans and media praised Perry’s composure and urged tour production teams to reassess engineering and safety protocols for high-flying staging.