--- title: Beyoncé and Solange Fell Over on Stage at Coachella description: Social media reacted to Beyoncé and Solange Knowles falling onstage at Coachella weekend two. canonical: https://time.com/5249655/the-internet-cant-handle-beyonce-and-solange-falling-onstage-at-beychella/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-22T17:20:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:21.660Z og:title: The Internet Can't Handle Beyoncé and Solange Falling Onstage at Beychella og:description: There's even some speculation that Beyoncé may have even dropped Solange og:url: https://time.com/5249655/the-internet-cant-handle-beyonce-and-solange-falling-onstage-at-beychella/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc69b1d676cae26dc/69892e5c86f68e5a6d6e8f5b/gettyimages-949867502.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 6000 og:image:height: 3375 og:image:alt: 2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 2 - Day 2 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Can't Handle Beyoncé and Solange Falling Onstage at Beychella twitter:description: There's even some speculation that Beyoncé may have even dropped Solange twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc69b1d676cae26dc/69892e5c86f68e5a6d6e8f5b/gettyimages-949867502.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Can't Handle Beyoncé and Solange Falling Onstage at Beychella > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella) INDIO, CA - APRIL 21: Solange Knowles (L) and Beyonce Knowles perform onstage during the 2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival at the Empire Polo Field on April 21, 2018 in Indio, California. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Coachella) Kevin Mazur—Getty Images for Coachella by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 22, 2018 5:20 PM UTC The internet woke up to news that Beyoncé and Solange Knowles fell onstage Saturday night during Beyoncé’s Coachella – and people are still trying to figure out what, exactly, happened. The sisters revived their sibling dance-off from weekend one (in incredible new outfits, of course) but this time it appears that either Beyoncé tried to pick up Solange and they both fell, or a giant hug from Solange knocked them both out. There’s even some speculation that Beyoncé may have even dropped Solange. The sisters recovered, doing an almost-rehearsed-looking leg kick, jumping up and laughing. But not before people on social media took notice: > [](https://twitter.com/agerenesh/status/987988544852377600) > [](https://twitter.com/msaudreysings/status/987968531533737984) > [](https://twitter.com/%5Fnormaniaz/status/987991395871936512) > [](https://twitter.com/RoxY968/status/988084834286391296) > [](https://twitter.com/DICKIMINAJ/status/988085252986998784) > [](https://twitter.com/MzMixtapeJunkie/status/988096017756123137) There is even a Twitter Moment dedicated to the fall: The adorable sister snafu wasn’t the only new part of Beyoncé’s [critically acclaimed](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/arts/music/beyonce-coachella-review.html) performance at Coachella (or Beychella): Queen Bey also debuted new costumes and a duet with J Balvin. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5249655/the-internet-cant-handle-beyonce-and-solange-falling-onstage-at-beychella/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5249655/the-internet-cant-handle-beyonce-and-solange-falling-onstage-at-beychella/"},"headline":"The Internet Can't Handle Beyoncé and Solange Falling Onstage at Beychella","datePublished":"2018-04-22T17:20:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:21.660Z","description":"There's even some speculation that Beyoncé may have even dropped Solange","url":"https://time.com/5249655/the-internet-cant-handle-beyonce-and-solange-falling-onstage-at-beychella/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Beyonce","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc69b1d676cae26dc/69892e5c86f68e5a6d6e8f5b/gettyimages-949867502.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc69b1d676cae26dc/69892e5c86f68e5a6d6e8f5b/gettyimages-949867502.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 2 - Day 2","caption":"2018 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival - Weekend 2 - Day 2","creditText":"Kevin Mazur—Getty Images for Coachella","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5249655/the-internet-cant-handle-beyonce-and-solange-falling-onstage-at-beychella/","name":"The Internet Can't Handle Beyoncé and Solange Falling Onstage at Beychella"}}]}] ```