No matter how many times we watch the video of Madonna’s Brit Awards tumble from earlier tonight, we keep going back to one word. Ouch.
The Queen of Pop was accidentally pulled backwards down a flight of stairs by a dancer who was trying to remove her cape. Understandably, she looks pretty upset by the mishap, but did continue without further disruption.
This was Madonna’s first Brit Awards performance in 20 years, which also featured performances by Taylor Swift, Sam Smith, Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith, George Ezra, and Royal Blood, plus a surprise performance by Kanye West.
Coincidentally, the fall took place during her performance of “Living for Love”, a song that contains the lyric, “Watched my stumble”.