The good news for Katy Perry is that American Idol doesn't air its auditions live, which means that her wardrobe malfunction could be blocked by a handy American Idol logo. She didn't actually show any unintended skin on primetime, and she was able to laugh off the incident even as she tried to get up. Her outfit didn't allow her to just pop right back up, and it took a few tries for her fellow judges to work out the technique to put her back on her feet. Lionel Richie finally got her halfway up, and Luke Bryan was able to help her the rest of the way into a vertical position. All things considered, Perry's wardrobe malfunction went just about as well as it could have. Unlike past incidents with Janet Jackson and Chrissy Teigen, nobody outside of her immediate vicinity (and the episode editors) actually saw anything.