Posted on 07/24/2023 9:40:07 AM PDT by Red Badger
Singer Miranda Lambert was seemingly unfazed following backlash she received for reprimanding fans for taking selfies during her performance.
In a video clip posted to TikTok, Lambert, 39, noticed someone in the audience during a concert at her Velvet Rodeo residency in Las Vegas, wearing a T-shirt that read “Shoot Tequila, Not Selfies.”
Lambert loved the reference, telling the fan, “That’s bada**.” She then proceeded to take a shot out of a small bottle of tequila with one of her bandmates.
This was the first time she spoke out about the incident that occurred at her concert on July 15, according to Fox News.
This came after Lambert received backlash for stopping her performance of “Tin Man” to call out a group of women for their photo-taking in a viral clip posted to TikTok.
“I’m gonna stop right here for a sec…These girls are worried about a selfie and not listening to the song. It’s pissing me off a little bit,” she said.
@whiskeyriff “Shoot tequila, not selfies” // 🎥: @mmorris785 (Instagram) #whiskeyriff #countrymusic #mirandalambert ♬ original sound – Whiskey Riff She added, “Sorry, I don’t like it — at all. We’re here to hear some country music tonight. I’m singing some country damn music.”
In a phone interview with NBC News, Adela Calin, one of the women who was involved in the selfie-taking controversy, said she was “appalled” by Lambert’s reaction.
“It felt like I was back at school with the teacher scolding me for doing something wrong and telling me to sit down back in my place. I feel like she was determined to make us look like we were young, immature, and vain,” Calin said, adding she and her friends “were just grown women in our 30s to 60s trying to take a picture.”
Calin further explained the excessive photo-taking was a result of them not being able to “get one good picture” due to poor lighting.
“We were so excited because I think we had the best seats in the house in the whole theater,” she shared.
Cat Fight! Meow!
Not young.
You made yourself look old, immature and vain.
It is not a good look.
If the ladies were distracting the performer or disturbing other audience members I can see Miranda doing that.
I am not a fan of hers or Country music in general, but if I paid to see the show, I don’t want others to interfere with that show..............
If I saved up money for a concert, a vacation, or was otherwise just out enjoying my time with friends and wanted to take a pic to remember it, I'm taking the opportunity to take a pic (though I'm not really much of a selfie person). I agree that if they were disrupting the performance for others, or if the venue prohibited photography they fans were out of line. OTOH, I think Lambert should have been flattered that her fans wanted to take a pic of themselves at one of her concerts. I guess Lambert wanted to make the evening memorable for them, and she certainly chose to do so, just not in a good way.
I saw Jamie Johnson at a small venue of about 2k people in a small rural town last year. I was surrounded by idiots with cell phones, talking and texting. A couple in their 70’s at least in front of us making out, drunk fat bxtch on my wife’s left hollering and then folks starting to chant F—k Joe Biden during one of his songs.
I got up in between songs, about 30 minutes in, grabbed the wife and called them all a bunch of F—king Azzholes. Went up by the sound booth and there were several cops. They were fine but another group of idiots were talking about a motorcycle trip during a song.
We left and I’ll never go to another concert, it’s like the movies, azzholes everywhere and I haven’t been to the movies in probably 15 years.
Not a fan of paid performers saying you can’t take a pic.
There’s a video going around of Reba McIntire reacting quite differently. She stops her show, happily and good-naturedly poses for a selfie with a fan. The audience loved it.
These performers take themselves too seriously. It’s supposed to be entertainment, not brain surgery.
How come she just didn’t have her NYPD husband step in and take care of it?
Well, sweetie ... you ARE immature and vain, regardless of your age.
I’m old enough to remember when cameras were expressly forbidden from concert venues.
Yep.
Part of the story that you are missing, because you are not a fan and so do not know the songs and why should you, is that "Tin Man" is not a dance song but a quiet song with almost no instrumental just vocal.
So this was probably the quietest part of the concert and they were making a ruckus that lasted quite a while.
This was not one picture but many and they even admit it.
They may have paid for their tickets but so did everyone else.
Ah, the mark of a sophisticated woman.
Sorry, honey. To stop doing what people paid big-bucks to see in order to publicly chastise with such a crude statement the very same people who paid those big-bucks is, well, crude.
Me too, and especially video recording. Times change. Phones can now take non flash low light photos and they don't bother anyone if done properly.
“Dance, Monkey, Dance!”
In most cases, exactly.
There's always a few who ruin it for the rest of us. Most policies are based on the 2% who abuse or screw things up. I'd prefer we just ban those 2%.
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