You don't need to know your Dutch angles to be a film critic on YouTube because the simple fact is your success is measured by your ability to stalk, record and upload. And to all you auteurs (yes, every one of you deserving of this title) we salute you for bringing us footage of celebrities taking a 'hit' on stage, albeit shaky, pixelated and sometimes including karaoke-style singalongs worthy of a Simon Cowell beating. Let it be known that the following list of our Celebrity Top 10 Greatest 'Hits' was not sponsored by Johnson & Johnson, Dettol or any other paracetamol or pharmaceutical companies. Proceed with caution and watch your step.
Lady Gaga: Hit by back-up dancer, Auckland
Skip to hit: 3:02 minute mark
It was actually this incident that inspired this list when Lady Gaga was left with a concussion after a back-up dancer accidentally hit her with a prop during an Auckland concert last month. He is now on the NZ equivalent of Centrelink payments.
Katy Perry: Dives into cake and slips on stage, Los Angeles
Skip to hit: 25 second mark
The banana peel had a new contender when Katy Perry intentionally dived into a cake (rather than jump out of one) after performing 'I Kissed A Girl' at the Latin MTV VMA's in 2008. As she tried to get up she slid all over the place like a disassembled parfait. And no, she did not like it.
Mariah Carey: Trips over $10,000 Christian Louboutin shoes, Singapore
Skip to hit: 10 second mark
With 4,651,183 hits and counting, we can safely say we contributed to that hanging 183. This footage is not only a source of entertainment, but educational in transcribing the syllabus for Diva 101. MiMi trips over her $10,000,000 Christian Loubotin shoes at the 2010 Singapore Grand Prix, flailing arms and all. A member of her entourage is then ushered on stage by the diva and forced to take MiMi's shoes off. For bonus eye rolling head to the 48 second mark.
Taylor Swift: Granny pants exposed, Missouri
Skip to hit: 1:08 second
We can now join ranks with the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Joe Jonas and Taylor Lautner as people who have been privy to Taylor Swift's bottom half. When the wind machine went full throttle during a performance in Missouri last year, it revealed a pair of flesh-toned granny pants. She was not notified by text.
Joe Jonas: BLEEDS on stage, Los Angeles
Skip to hit: 11 second mark
This time the scene of the crime was the 2007 AMAs, when the Jonas Brothers smashed through panes of glass during their performance. Nick and Kevin came out the opposite side unscathed, while brother Joe tripped and face planted into shards of glass. Joe finally gets up and battles on with
a bleeding hand, touching his adoring fans and spreading Disney induced Hep B in the process.
Lady Gaga (again): Falls off her piano, this time in Houston
Skip to hit: Just hit play for an instant OH&S catastrophe
We couldn't NOT include this footage of Lady Gaga falling off her piano for the same reasons her insurance providers couldn't not have had a heart attack after watching it.
Beyonce: Tumbles down steps face first, Orlando
Skip to hit: 14 second mark
Before Willow Smith there was Beyonce, the original hair whipper. Watch as she makes her recovery after sliding down the steps of her duplex stage. Forget Pantene because
this is truly how you volumise hair.
Chris Martin: Drops it like it's hot and stays down, Tampa
Skip to hit: 14 second mark
This is what happens when you choose to dance like a 1998 Microsoft screensaver all the time (think about the way he interpretively moves his arms in 99 per cent of music videos, and then look at the configuration of
this screensaver).
Courtney Love: Hijacks Madonna interview and falls off stool, Los Angeles
Skip to hit: WATCH THE WHOLE THING
Okay, technically this hit didn't happen on a stage, but it
does involve both Courtney Love in the height of her drug addling period, and sweet Madge. Madonna is casually being interviewed at the MTV VMAs in 1995 until Courtney Love throws her compact case at her (20 second mark), and proceeds to hijack the interview. Madonna eventually leaves and Courtney quips in paranoia, "Madonna did I bum you out? Are you pissed at me?! Swear to God?!" Later on she takes her hit when she loses balance and falls off her stool (7:30 minute mark), exposing her doll parts.
Justin Bieber: Walks into revolving door, location undisclosed
Skip to hit: 4 second mark
So we were originally looking for leaked footage of the Biebs walking into a glass door backstage during a concert in Paris last month to no avail (
These Gen X reporters do a mum and dad recap of the event on ABC news here). Now call it an act of divine intervention, but we were delivered the below footage instead. Watch as Justin walks straight into a door and ricochets off it to nurse his perfectly conditioned bangs. Proof that the world doesn't revolve around celebrities.
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WORDS: Lisa Marie Corso