There have been multiple high-profile incidents recently.
Adele has said she will “kill” anyone who throws objects at her in a good-humoured rant about fan behaviour at a recent concert.
As part of her Las Vegas residency at Caesar’s Palace, the Grammy winning singer said that she had noticed a deterioration of “show etiquette” recently and pointed to the amount of objects being thrown at musicians on stage.
“Have you noticed how people are like, forgetting fucking show etiquette at the moment? People just throwing shit on stage, have you seen them?” she said. “I fucking dare you. Dare you to throw something at me and I’ll fucking kill you.”
During her speech, Adele held out a t-shirt cannon to the crowd. “Stop throwing things at the artist when you can shoot things to people … I’ve been seeing these people. These people lost it, can you imagine?”
Adele talks about concertgoers throwing things at artists:
“I fucking dare you. Dare you to throw something at me and I’ll fucking kill you.” pic.twitter.com/vy680y8ekm
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) July 4, 2023
Increase in fans throwing objects at musicians
A number of high-profile incidents have happened recently where fans have chucked things on stage, including someone throwing a bag of their mother’s ashes at pop-artist Pink at a concert in Wembley last week.
“This is your mum?” the American singer can be heard asking in a video of the incident. “I don’t know how I feel about this.”
Pink is left confused after a fan throws their mother’s ashes on stage. pic.twitter.com/g7AQ9kUH77
— Pop Base (@PopBase) June 27, 2023
Pop singer Bebe Rexha received a black eye and was taken to hospital recently after an audience member threw a phone at her at a concert in New York City. A 27-year-old man was later arrested and charged with assault.
American country artist Kelsea Ballerini was also hit in the face by an object during a performance in Idaho last week.
Lil Nas X also fell victim to the trend in a slightly more amusing manner. At a concert in Sweden on Saturday, a fan threw a sex toy on stage much to the rapper’s bemusement. While the incident was slightly less dangerous than the others, it still shows a worrying trend that seems to be increasing recently.
Prevention methods like netting and no-phone rules may become more common if the trend increases, which will, for a lot of fans, take away from the overall concert experience.
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