Beyonce was bedazzling the crowd in Brazil with her "Let him go, gurl" anthem "Irreplaceable" when she slipped on the stage, nearly dinging her halo in front of thousands. Being the trained and skilled performer that she is, Beyonce caught herself and broke her fall, playing it off as though she meant to take a dramatic dip. Her detractors are no doubt seething that Beyonce didn't land lace front first on the floor, but hey, the girl is blessed.
This is why some celebrities and lay folks call YouTube the devil. There's not a moment that goes by undocumented. If you melt down and start hurling racial epithets in a comedy club, somebody's gotta whip out a video phone and send it to TMZ. If one of your stage crew messes up badly during your performance and you holler about "firing" them in front of thousands of concertgoers, it's all over YouTube. If you run amuck in the streets, attack paparazzi with an umbrella and shave your head in public, some loser photographer has to video the whole thing and send it to "Entertainment Tonight."
Can't a celebrity mess up once in a while and not have it tweeted, Facebooked and YouTubed for everybody to mock and laugh at? Of course not, what else would we talk about if we stopped talking about celebrities' flaws? Our own mistakes? The war in Afghanistan? Health care reform? Yeah, right.
