Fame and success must have many good things, but also a counterpart with which not everyone is willing to deal with: continuous overexposure. (Quakertoown, Pennsylvania, 26 years old), the singer and feeling of current pop, knows well that the thousands of people who sing and dance their songs in the concerts return home with thousands of photos of her and her show made with a mobile phone. Images about which the artist has no control.
Carpenter, which on August 29 will release its seventh album Man’s Best Friend y Of which this June already launched the advance, he has now talked about the possibility of prohibiting mobile phones in their concerts. In a tone close to the joke, he ensures that one of the reasons why this veto is raised is because he does not want his followers to record and photograph on the stage when he is greater, although he is comprehensive about this new reality in which there are many who. “I have grown up in the era of people with iPhones at concerts. Unfortunately, it seems supernormal. I can’t blame people for wanting to have memories,” he says.
But for this he cannot always last: “Depending on how long you want to be on tour and the age you have, girl, remove those phones. You can’t do zoom On my face. Right now, my skin is soft and flexible. No problem. But don’t do me zoom When I am 80 years there. ”
But beyond the apparent joke, for carpenter prohibit mobiles is a win win [expresión en inglés que indica que todo el mundo gana]both for the artist and for public. If that avoids unwanted photos and videos, it will have a much more authentic musical experience if you do not have a mobile in your hand. And she speaks from her own experience. In the same interview, the artist tells how much he recently enjoyed watching Silk Sonic in Las Vegas, the duo composed of Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak, in a live beautiful”.
If Carpenter continues to maintain this opinion when the tour begins Man’s Best Friend It may be that by then, whether they are history in their recitals: “Honestly, this will piss my fans, but absolutely,” he says about the possibility of prohibiting them.
But she would not be the first to make this decision either. In June 2023, Bob Dylan did, that is: mobile phones saved in seized covers with an electronic closure and cannot be opened to take photos, record videos or send messages during the concert. Before him, they had used this Bonus service, Jack White or Quentin Tarantino. This same month of June, the manager From Iron Maiden, Rod Smallwood, asked the group’s followers to leave their phones during the world tour Run for Your Lives of the band. “We really want fans to enjoy shows First hand, instead of doing it on your small screens, ”Smallwood explained.
We will have to wait to check if the author of Espresso It rises to this trend of zero mobiles in concerts. From its passage through the Spring Sound Festival in Barcelona at the beginning of June, where the former Disney girl, surely there are phones full phones.
