Overseas singer slams pattern of ‘very, very harmful’ live shows

Overseas singer Kelly Hansen has denounced the tendency of followers to throw objects on stage throughout live shows, noting that it places artists in danger.

“Once you’re on stage and you’ve got a highlight on you, it blinds you,” Hansen defined throughout an interview with Fox Information. “You may’t see the viewers. So you may’t see something coming in the direction of you. It’s extremely, very harmful.”

Hansen additional famous that projectiles can typically be giant, with the potential to trigger actual injury.

“Over time, I’ve had quite a lot of stuff thrown on stage, together with full, unopened beer cans,” the rocker admitted. “And it is laborious as a result of at greatest I can see one thing simply on the final minute when it is within the highlight.”

Followers throwing objects have apparently seen a rise in current months, with Taylor Swift, Harry Kinds, Pink, Bebe Rexha and Lil Nas X amongst notable performers who’ve needed to cease live shows as a result of followers threw objects at them from crowds. Hansen prompt the pattern has snowballed.

“Like every part else, any individual sees that and says, ‘Oh, that is a factor, a bandwagon, let me do this. It’s going to be humorous and I am going to get some sort of TikTok out of it,” the singer stated. “However they do not suppose they may damage anyone.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Hansen detailed a few of the bizarre and typically creepy interactions he and his bandmates Foreigner have had with followers.

“With the web, there are quite a lot of loopy individuals on the market,” the singer defined. “I had lots of people say I used to be their husband or they had been touring to the States as a result of the impostor who stated it was me advised them to fly to LA to fulfill me. And I used to be so stressed about that stuff that it freaked me out.”

Foreigner is in the course of his farewell tour, which is ready to run till 2024.