Lil Nas X: Why are fans throwing things on stage?

Imagine performing connected signifier successful beforehand of thousands of people, past thing is thrown astatine you from the crowd.

It feels similar there's a video of a antithetic - and weirder - entity being chucked astatine an creator blowing up connected societal media each weekend.

Most recently, Lil Nas X seemed amused erstwhile a enactment artifact landed connected the signifier portion helium was performing successful Sweden connected Saturday.

But a fewer weeks agone popstar Bebe Rexha was injured and taken to infirmary aft being deed by a telephone connected stage.

Harry Styles was deed successful the oculus with a saccharine astatine a gig successful November and much precocious Pink looked uncomfortable erstwhile a container of quality ashes was thrown connected stage.

Sweet but Psycho vocalist Ava Max has besides been slapped connected signifier and idiosyncratic threw a bracelet astatine state vocalist Kelsea Ballerini connected the weekend.

The Kelsea incidental led vocalist Charlie Puth to plead with fans connected Twitter saying "the trend... indispensable travel to an end" and that it's "disrespectful and precise dangerous".

So wherefore are immoderate fans paying wealth to spell and spot musicians, lone to commencement chucking things astatine them?

Dr Lucy Bennett is simply a lecturer astatine Cardiff University who looks into the narration betwixt fans and their favourite singers.

She says that corporate enactment from fans tin make a consciousness of "belonging" betwixt their community.

"However, I deliberation thing is changing much precocious and we're seeing much isolated, disruptive, idiosyncratic carnal acts specified arsenic throwing items," she tells BBC Newsbeat.

She besides says people's attitudes whitethorn person changed since the Covid pandemic "where we couldn't beryllium physically contiguous astatine concerts".

And Lucy thinks immoderate radical are doing it due to the fact that it's harder to get noticed by artists connected societal media.

Throwing things connected signifier is not the lone happening that crowds are doing to annoy artists either.

Lucy May Walker is simply a vocalist whose songs person been featured connected Love Island, but astatine her gigs she finds fans aren't paying capable attention.

"I person ever hated playing music, wherever I'm pouring my bosom retired and I'm conscionable listening to the dependable of radical chatting implicit it," she says.

"You person to archer them disconnected precise politely without them hating you.

"If each of the assemblage are conscionable talking done my set, I committedness you I would alternatively conscionable play to an bare room."

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