Fan Dropping Lady Gaga Off a Stage

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About

Fan Dropping Lady Gaga Off a Stage refers to a viral video of an onstage accident in which recording artist Lady Gaga fall from a stage during a concert.

Origin

During a performance of her stage residency at the Park MGM Hotel and Casino on October 17th, 2019, Lady Gaga invited a fan on stage to dance with her. After lifting her up, the fan lost balance and he and the performer fell from the stage. Neither were injured.

Following the accident, Twitter user @lau_calerone shared the video. Within 24 hours, the tweet received more than 2.7 million views, 28,000 likes and 7,600 retweets (shown below).

Spread

Throughout the night, concert attendees shared videos of the fall. For example, Twitter user @idkpinecone tweeted, "Holy shit Lady Gaga just fell right in front of me." The tweet received more than 1.3 million views, 13,000 likes and 3,600 retweets in 24 hours (shown below).

Additionally, fans posted about her well being. Redditor ^[1] UltimaterializerX wrote, "I was there. We legitimately all thought she was dead. Then she brought him up on stage and asked everyone on the internet to be nice to him, and played the next song with him like nothing even happened. Poor guy was crying most of the time until she cheered him up."

However, fans noted that after the fall, Lady Gaga returned to the stage and continued to perform. She also brought the fan back on stage and said to him, "you promise me you’re not gonna be sad about that, right?" Video of the promise received more than 10,000 views, 730 likes and 145 retweets in 24 hours (shown below).

Online, people mocked the fall and joked about her supposed injuries (examples below).

That day, Lady Gaga shared a series of images of her recovering from the fall on Instagram.^[10] The post stated, "Post show routine: ice bath for 5-10 min, hot bath for 20, then compression suit packed with ice packs for 20. #rocknroll #enigma #gaga #gagavegas #vegas." The post received more than 1 million likes (shown below, right).

Several media outlets covered the fall, including TMZ,^[2] Entertainment Tonight,^[3] BBC,^[4] Mashable, ^[5] Insider,^[6] CNN,^[7] Time,^[8] BuzzFeed ^[9]