Beyoncé was flying high over a hometown crowd in Houston, Texas, when her vehicle — an airborne car, a tour prop rigged up for her Cowboy Carter run — visibly started to tilt to the side during her performance of “16 Carriages” Saturday night (June 28) at NRG Stadium.
Sitting in the red car suspended in the air, Beyoncé held on and kept singing the Cowboy Carter ballad up until the end of a chorus, when she was heard on the mic directing her crew to “stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.” The song came to a temporarily halt, and fan concern over the car’s tilt — which looked quite alarming from certain angles in the stadium — could be heard in video footage uploaded by concertgoers.
In fan-captured clips from the concert, she maintained a calm expression and put on a smile while waiting for the car to descend.
“If ever I fall, I know ya’ll catch me,” she quipped to the audience upon her return to having two feet on the ground, on stage.
“Ain’t got time to waste, I got art to make/ I got love to create on this holy night/ They won’t dim my light, all these years I fight,” she sang as she got back to the song.
Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment released a statement about the incident post-show.
“Tonight in Houston, at NRG Stadium, a technical mishap caused the flying car, a prop Beyonce uses to circle the stadium, and see her fans up close, to tilt. She was quickly lowered and no one was injured. The show continued without incident,” Parkwood stated in an Instagram Story posted early Sunday morning.
“16 Carriages” is the penultimate song on Beyoncé’s standard Cowboy Carter Tour set list.
The show, which runs for roughly three hours, kicked off in late April and is currently set to wrap by the end of July. She’ll perform at Houston’s NRG Stadium again Sunday night.
