Rock star Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders really wishes that you would just put your phone away. The singer is tired of crowds watching performances through their phones.
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"Hi All! Question: What is it with people and their phones? Why do people have to know how many steps they take every day? What difference does it make?" she wrote. "But my real question is: why do people have to film or take pictures at concerts or museums? Why???"
The rock star says that audiences ignore the rules even if venues ask them not to use their cellphones. She said people "feel entitled, even though the artist clearly has asked them not to do it."
According to the artist, being filmed makes her feel like a monkey in the zoo.
"It reminds me of monkeys wanking in full view of the people standing around their enclosure.. and frankly, in that case, people deserve to be wanked at because monkeys should not be in an enclosure in the first place.. However, an artist on a stage?" she wrote. "And no one seems to be able to understand why artists don't like it. If you've ever had a mosquito buzzing around your head when you're trying to go to sleep, you will get a vague idea of what it's like to have people filming your show or taking photos while you're on stage."
Rock Star Wants Fans to Stop
Hynde's message then circled back to her conversation with Harris, 79, and said that shortly after, at Harris's show at the Royal Albert Hall, her experience was disrupted by a fan in front of her who filmed the set.
The rock star highlighted a recent concert from country legend Emmylou Harris. She said someone ruined the show.
"The concert was obscured by the bright light of his phone throughout the whole show," she said. "(Someone did eventually tell him that he was being rude and his filming was distracting. His response was, 'Mind your own business.). It happened when I went to see Sarah Snook do her one woman show The Picture of Dorian Gray."
Hynde had some condemning comments for the human experience.
"My conclusion is: If Jesus Christ were to walk into a room the first thing everyone would do would be to pull out their phone," she wrote. "Can someone please explain?"
