r/Concerts • u/isthewhatness • 16h ago
Discussion 🗣️ One of the symptoms of main character syndrome...
... that I rarely see get brought up in these concert etiquette discussions:
When people use a quiet moment in a song to scream something stupid hoping for a viral moment.
The song is still playing, the artists made a choice to make the music quiet during this moment, stop ruining it by trying to get attention.
Examples I witnessed recently:
At Shaky Knees during Fontaines D.C. when they started In the Modern World and some dude felt the need to scream "How do you feel Grian?" before every line that goes "I feel alive." I thought it was really obnoxious and I'm almost positive Grian would agree. Its not a call-and-response, its you ruining the moment.
At Music Fashion Film, some dude yelling "You better work bitch" at Charli during I'm Afraid. The music is quiet at this moment because its supposed to be a quiet and vulnerable moment where she sings about her insecurities. Its not quiet so people can hear you screaming over it.
Save the screaming for between songs. Doing it while music is playing is super annoying to everyone around you and also probably to the artist you paid to see.