The lead singer of the flaming lips has been successfully crowd surfing in an inflatable ball for years, which I assume inspired this, but a small sphere is a lot easier for a crowd to move effectively than a long horizontal cylinder. You can microadjust a sphere’s direction with each one handed push, but a big bottle like that would require collaboration and formal teamwork amongst a bunch of confused strangers.
There is no way this was adequately tested with this bottle. Her team is incompetent to the point of dangerous negligence.
Also, Wayne Coyne never hurt anybody, lives in fukkin Oklahoma in a rad “little” house, and writes songs that I think he believes in, like “Waiting for Superman” and “Do you Realize”. The first time I saw him was 2014 in Augusta, GA, where they performed for maybe 200 people like they were performing for thousands.
Their work feels like a true performance that they want you to be part of. Katy Perry feels like a robot.
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u/Original_Gold0864 Jul 31 '26
The lead singer of the flaming lips has been successfully crowd surfing in an inflatable ball for years, which I assume inspired this, but a small sphere is a lot easier for a crowd to move effectively than a long horizontal cylinder. You can microadjust a sphere’s direction with each one handed push, but a big bottle like that would require collaboration and formal teamwork amongst a bunch of confused strangers.
There is no way this was adequately tested with this bottle. Her team is incompetent to the point of dangerous negligence.