Member-only story
Miranda Lambert, Crowd Behavior, and the Audacity of the VIP Section
Audience members disrespect performers and the fans around them with distracting behavior
The stories of people wilding out at concerts keep coming, fast and furious, with bizarre occurrences popping up in the news seemingly every week.
Bebe Rexha was hit in the face by a cell phone thrown by a member of the audience, and Pink was surprised mid-performance by someone tossing their mother’s ashes onto the stage.
Pink paused the song when the bag was thrown at her feet, then asked a fan in the video of the incident, “This is your mom?”
Pink then said, “I don’t know how I feel about this,” before continuing to sing “Just Like a Pill.”
The latest artist to be involved in a kerfuffle with audience members is country megastar Miranda Lambert. In a recent performance of her Velvet Rodeo residency in Las Vegas, Lambert began performing “Tin Man,” a tender, heartbreaking song off her 2016 album The Weight of These Wings.
She cut the song off, however, when a group of fans started taking photos (using the flash) with their backs to her, standing up at their table in the VIP section to frame her in the shot.
