As if further confirmation were needed, in recent weeks we have seen a number of sightings that do not bode well for our species. Let’s talk about what happened at Bebe Rexha, Ava Max and P!NK’s concerts. Three different stories, but not much.
Perhaps the craziest fact happened to the first lady, who saw a phone fly straight into her eye while she was singing. It happened on June 18 last year when Bebe, who is best known for his i’m good (blue) feat. David Guetta about to finish a concert in NY someone threw a smartphone in his face, She fell to her knees on the ground before being rescued and carried off the stage. Spend the night and return to social media with a bruised face and drugs. ,I’m fine», he writes at the bottom of the picture posted on Instagram. He quotes his solo a bit, plays it down a bit.
Baby Rexa. photo via instagram
The boy who threw the phone in her face is 27-year-old Nicolas Malvagna, who was taken into custody after the incident and charged with assault and harassment. His words after the fact are incredible: “I was trying to see if I could hit him up the phone at the end of the show because I thought it would be fun.”
A few hours passed and it was Ava Max’s turn. This time, no flying smartphone: The pop star was slapped by a man who managed to climb onto the stage at her show at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles: “He slapped me so hard it scratched my eye” Gone. He will never go to a concert again,” he tweeted the next day.
Fan jumps on stage and scratches @AvaMax Tonight during ‘The Moto’ pic.twitter.com/r3ZLR2cEkx
— Matt (@intomattyou) 21 June 2023
A few hours ago, news came that during Pink’s concert, a fan threw a bag full of ashes on the stage. Leftovers from the barbecue? No: “They’re from my mother,” she cried. “I mean, is this your mother?” p!nk replied. “I do not know what to say”. We don’t know either, but we know experts who can do it for you:
Pink is confused when a fan throws her mother’s ashes on stage. pic.twitter.com/g7AQ9kUH77
— PopBase (@PopBase) 27 June 2023
It is not that the decline in commodities has just begun. There is a historical tradition: we can probably start from the late 19th century, when vegetables were thrown at theatrical performers as a sign of dissatisfaction with their performance. Since then, things have changed but the juice (tomatoes in this case?) is always the same: the Beatles were showered with incessant sweets during their first US tour, but AC/DC, Madonna, Oasis, Green Day, Marilyn were also Manson, 50 Cent, Kanye West all had their moments. No genre of music is immune from receiving unwanted attentions on stage. For example, Tom Jones received so many panties as a gift that he could open a store. very intimate, He frankly says: “I got so many, sometimes they distracted me from the performance”. David Bowie’s performance was even worse: he was hit with a lollipop during a show in Norway.
On this day in 2004, an audience member threw a lollipop onto the stage during a David Bowie performance in Oslo, Norway. The lollipop gets lodged in Bowie’s left eye. Bowie stopped the concert, gave a pep talk and the lollipop was removed, thankfully no one was hurt #David Bowie #History pic.twitter.com/FkhL9sanpB
— Kenny (@kennylanglea) 19 June 2023
However, today’s pop stars are another matter, not least since everyone at concerts has a phone that makes videos. Let’s take Harry Styles. There is a kind of tradition of throwing things at him while he is singing. More than objects, food. A somewhat silly tradition, but so shall it be. Do you know Skittles, those oval shaped fruit candies? They’re cool, yes, but they don’t get in your eyes. Small and hard like pebbles. When Harry was killed, he was so hurt that even the producers intervened on social networks: “We didn’t think we’d have to say this: please, don’t throw Skittles”. Subtitle: Eat these and don’t break the shells.
On Styles we often go with food, we said: earlier this year a video went viral on TikTok of Harry on stage collecting chicken nuggets that someone threw at him. He laughed, gave them back to the fan who threw them, and the video got millions of views. But this was probably a big mistake. Because from the moment these episodes take on a playful tone, what you, an artist, are giving to the person launching it is a unique moment. Direct connection with you, Superstar, filmed by thousands of phones and which will be broadcast on social networks. Of course, no one has ever died from chicken and Harry was right to laugh, but if we’re going to move from white meat to iPhones, maybe some reasoning needs to be done.
Returning to telephony, an article inIrish Times Confirms Boomers’ great thesis, which this time appears to be correct: Is it always social media’s fault? “Many fans say there is a reason these cases happen more often. Artists such as Doja Cat, Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish consented to take fans’ phones, shoot a video, and then return the phones to their owners. That’s one way of going viral: Impatient fans throw away their iPhones in the hope that their favorite singer will leave a little gift for them. However, in Bebe’s case, the gift might be the emergency room bill (we’re in the States, if you get hurt you pay for air too).
Basically, it goes like this: Since everyone is watching the concert from a screen, Live has become the place to think about how to create the best content. the sense of community is somewhat lost Wave, Making videos is more important to show people that we are here and having fun. Imagine if there is even one pop star in the video who notices me, how many likes I will get.
AlwaysIrish Times Reports of statements by Paul Wertheimer, the historian responsible for security at major events. Wertheimer began this work in 1979 after a brawl outside a Who concert left 11 dead. He attributes the apparent rise in such cases to the lockdown due to Covid: “We told everyone that after the lockdown, the crowd would be more angry, disorderly and energetic. When mobs become agitated, people can feel anonymous and this can lead to anti-social and dangerous acts.
Wertheimer said that most security experts stay close to the stage to protect the performer, but they must also maintain a presence in the crowd, noting that “security hates being in the crowd because they don’t have a good relationship with the public”. “.
Ultimately, even according to Paul there is no safe way to prevent people from throwing things. Brecht said, “I don’t know how you can stop someone from throwing a phone unless you get the crowd so far away that they can’t reach the stage.” “But an artist would never tolerate it.” Waiting to understand the developments, we quote the great Massimo Ranieri: “Perhaps in love roses are no longer used”. We don’t know about love, but introducing it at concerts wouldn’t be a bad start. Anything is better than your mother’s ashes.