It's lonely at the top.
Just ask NSYNC's Joey Fatone, who found himself stranded about 80 feet above the audience on Tuesday night at SkyDome during the group's Pop Odyssey show.
The incident occurred during Space Cowboy, when the bandmembers fly over the audience. They are strapped to pulleys that take them from the main stage to a smaller stage in the middle of the floor -- except that Fatone remained stuck halfway between.
"All of a sudden it's like, 'konk!' and it just stops, and I get jolted and I'm just stuck there," said Fatone yesterday during an interview with The Sun.
"All the other guys are still going down and I'm just out there, holding on to the thing going, 'Okay, great.' The whole song is still going on. They all run down to go the main stage, and get up on these mechanical bulls that we have and start riding. And I'm still stuck up there. So they had to manually pull me."
Fatone didn't even get to suffer in darkness.
"No," he said. "The lights were on me. I was still up there hanging, and people were watching me. After I unhooked, I didn't bother to get on the bull, I just ran down the aisle, screaming and yelling, singing, 'Yippie Yi Yay!"
Fatone's mishap was predated by other accidents that plagued rehearsals for NSYNC's PopOdyssey tour in New Orleans earlier this year.
Fatone injured his leg during rehearsals when a piece of the stage shot up into him. They had to use a double for some of the dance sequences in the video for NSYNC's latest single, Pop.
"Wade, our choreographer, looked similar to me, so they painted a goatee on him and did it," said Fatone.
