Pink’s Brush With Death!

I am thoroughly confident I speak on behalf of all Australians when I say this country is absolutely batshit crazy about all things Pink. The very clever Guy Blackman recently wrote a piece in The Age discussing why folks from the land down under are just mad for Alecia Moore, and the town of Ballarat even renamed itself Pinkville the other week (which added to my increasingly long list of Reasons I Love The ‘Rat Wholeheartedly). It’s difficult to even begin imagining how devastated our nation would be if Pink were ever injured – or worse, killed! – whilst performing on our soil, and yet such a disaster very nearly happened during a show in Brisbane.

Rock goddess Pink proved she’s made of the tough stuff when her bungee broke in the middle of one of her high-flying acrobatics-inspired stunts.

Performing one of her last songs in the first leg of her Funhouse tour in Brisbane, the Cirque du Soleil-trained singer sent the audience into a frenzy when she almost fell to the stage. Pink had to make an emergency slide back to the stage on a long piece of silk from the heights of the Boondall Entertainment Centre on Tuesday.

And there’s video footage!

If you’re like me and truly believe that Pink is the future of pop music (and the only worthy heir to Madonna’s throne*), you’ll find yourself both pleased and unsurprised by the following eye-witness testimony.

A concert-goer said Pink was high in the air when the bungee broke.

“A pink silk was thrown down to her from above,” said the concert-goer, 22. “She had to wrap her foot around the silk, then unclip two clips where she was held to the bungee and then slide down to the stage on the silk. It was amazing because she kept singing and basically we were left wondering if it was a part of the show.”

Will nothing stop that woman from belting out the wondrous pop hits?!

* (glares at Lady Gaga)

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