Adele also had to tell security guards to chill out at a recent show
Taylor Swift made headlines for chastising a security guard at a concert earlier this summer
Look, we’re not major sticklers or anything, but it really seems like we all need to sit down in a room, have a little chat, and not come out until we’ve locked down some written code of conduct for concert behavior. It’s confusing as hell out there right now. Are you allowed to throw things at artists? You obviously shouldn’t be, but people keep doing it anyway. Are you allowed to stand up and take a selfie? Not according to Miranda Lambert, but it’s also kind of weird and annoying to sit down and picnic the whole time, according to Maggie Rogers. (This author, at least, is mostly on her side on that one.)
Security guards, historically meant to curtail these sorts of conflicts, have also been brought into the fray in recent months. Just last week, a guard at a Taylor Swift show was fired over a viral video of him singing along to “Cruel Summer.” While he wasn’t cut loose by Swift directly, she did call out a different security guard for bothering a fan mid-song in a widely-shared clip from earlier this summer. Now, Adele is also getting in on the action with her own viral confrontation, which occurred at one of her Las Vegas residency shows over the weekend.
In the above video, a fan can be seen standing and singing along to multiple songs, while at least two security guards put their hands on him and tell him to chill out. “Look behind you, everybody’s upset,” says one, gesturing to a mostly seated crowd. “I’ll stay calm,” the fan says to another guard, as a voice in the video can be heard asking, “We can sing though, right?”