As anyone who reads this blog must know, I am a huge Beyonce fan. I think that she has an amazing work ethic wrapped up in a superstar package (extremely beautiful, great voice, great performer, wonderful at transmitting emotions while performing and singing, etc.) while still being humble and accessible. And, of course, she is famous for doing complicated dance routines in superhigh stilleto heels.

Nonetheless, even I had to admit that I found this video — and the analysis on CNN — hilarious, not because I like seeing my favorite star fall, but because I think it’s amazing the way that she got up and just kept on giving an amazing performance. No break. No pause. No time to check for injuries. No obvious embarrassment. Single-minded focus and determination. The show must go on, literally.

The best review of the fall that I’ve read is on a blog that I read religiously called “Young, Black and Fabulous”, which tracks all that’s happening in black entertainment in the US. I’ll have to translate the post from black slang into plain English, but the best part of the review is the following: “I’m just trippin’ that this chick bounced the hell back up like her weave was an invincible air mattress and kept the party goin’ without missing nan a beat. Her recovery game is on point. I know that mess had her dazed and confused…. Concert goers say she had a bloody knee and sat down to do the next set, but continued the rest of the concert full out. . . . These other chicks in the game still aint got nothing on B. ”

Translation into plain English: “I’m so surprised (tripping) that this young lady was able to recover so quickly from her fall as if her fake hair extensions were some sort of invincible air mattress that softened her fall. She continued to dance and party without missing a beat. Her ability to recover is amazing. I know that the fall left her stunned. . . . Concert goers say she had a bloody knee and sat down to do the next set, but otherwise she continued to perform at the highest level as if nothing had happened. . . . Beyonce is still the best pop diva out there.”

It reminds me a lot of my favorite episode of “Sex and the City”, “The Real Me”, when Carrie gets invited to be a model for a day, and she falls flat on her face in front of everyone because she’s wearing “hooker heels” and had been drinking too much Veuve Cliquot to calm her nerves. She gets up in front of the entire audience only dressed in jeweled underwear trying to give her best sexy looks and then takes a huge fall. For a moment, you see her trying to decide if she will just get off the stage and drink her sorrows away, or finish the show. She decides to finish the show, and the audience goes wild for her obvious courage and determination. And then she ends up being the star of the fashion show because of her chutzpah.

The voice-over then sums up her motivation. Carrie had wanted to be a model, but her stumble proved that she was just a normal person. Someone real. And “when real people fall, they get right back up and keep on walking”. I think Beyonce, a big Sex and the City fan, has obviously taken this message to heart.