Steve Lacy: Many Children Don't Know Concert Ethics

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JAKARTA - Steve Lacy recalled his decision to destroy fan cameras on stage. He reiterated that he refused to apologize to those who had bad concert ethics.

The incident occurred in a concert in New Orleans last October, when an audience threw a disposable camera at him.

After the camera landed on stage next to it, the American songwriters destroyed it and refused to apologize for doing so.

Now, towards a year since the incident, Lacy recalls the moment in an interview, confirming that he refused to apologize to concert audiences who had bad ethics.

"I have to accept that that's how these kids are," he told Variety, discussing the incident for the first time since he released an initial statement about it.

At first I was annoyed - they wanted too much. 'Can you do this?', 'Can you do that?', 'I'll throw this for you', 'I love you'... But I don't see them making mistakes like that anymore,' he added.

"Even though sometimes it disturbs me, they are young. Many of these kids are their first concerts, so they don't even know what concert ethics is."

The incident was just one example of an alarming trend, where the concert was interrupted by an audience throwing objects at artists.

Recently, a number of artists were thrown with many objects when they appeared on the panggung, including Bebe Rexha, whose head was hit by a fan's phone and needed stitches.

Meanwhile, P!nk was stunned by a fan throwing his mother's ashes on stage at Hyde Park BST, and Lil Nas X had to stop the show when a fan threw a sex toy on stage.

Elsewhere, US country-pop artist Kelsea Ballerini was hit in the face by an object thrown at her from the crowd.

A similar incident occurred to Harry Styles, who was hit by a object on his face during his Vienna concert. Other artists affected include Ava Max, Taylor Swift, Lil Uzi Vert, and Drake.