Pop Shots – On Stage Antics

Welcome to your weekly dose of pop world musings. Covering all things pop culture, this week Pop Shots is hitting you with thoughts on everything from virtual ABBA refusing to tour, to Katy Perry and Lady Gaga having major mishaps during performances, to Oasis poking fun at Coldplay’s kiss-cam, and since this is Pop Shots you know everything is seasoned with a little bit of attitude.

* ABBA Voyage, which is a virtual ABBA concert experience, will not be making its way to Australia, as plans to bring it there have failed. I’m sorry, were the holograms tough to negotiate with? Did they have an extensive tour rider? How does a DVD tell you “no”?

* Fat Joe recently made the claim that he drinks 30 to 40 cans of Diet Pepsi per day. When reached for comment, his internal organs said, “Someone get us the f*ck out of here!”

* Katy Perry nearly plunged to her doom when the flying butterfly prop she was riding atop malfunctioned in mid-air during a recent tour stop in San Francisco. Between Beyonce’s flying car malfunction, and now Katy’s flying butterfly malfunction, I just have to ask – what do pop stars have against standing on the ground??? Casey Kasem told us all to keep our feet there!

* In more performance mishap news, Lady Gaga slipped and fell in the middle of a Mayhem Ball concert in Las Vegas. OK, so maybe the ground is dangerous, too.

* Teddy Swims’ “Lose Control” has set a record, becoming the first song to spend 100 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Remember back in the day when people said it felt like we were hearing the same ten songs all day long on the radio? I feel like this proves things have become even worse with streaming, but congrats, and all, to Teddy for becoming part of the problem.

* During a recent Oasis show Liam Gallagher poked fun at the Coldplay kiss-cam incident, saying, “Do we have any love birds in the house? Don’t worry, we won’t have none of that Coldplay snidey f*cking camera sh*t here. Doesn’t matter to us who you’re f*cking, mingling with, tingling with, fingering with … it’s none of our f*cking business.” All of this has to be leading to Limp Bizkit having a Nookie-cam, right?

* Charli XCX and The 1975‘s George Daniel are now married. May they live anonymously ever after!

* Maple Leif Garrett, aka Justin Bieber, ruled both the Top Streaming Albums chart, and the Top Streaming Songs chart, with the release of his surprise LP, SWAG. The fact that he used out of date slang as his album title is all the proof anyone needs that he’s truly a dad now.

* Less than three weeks after performing his final show, which included tributes from a plethora of rock legends, Ozzy Osbourne passed away at the age of 76. His transition from musical devil to TV dad was one for the ages, and generations will continue to board the “Crazy Train.”

That’s all for this edition of Pop Shots, but come back next Monday for more shots on all things pop.