Do yourself, the world and me a big favour: stop phone-filming at gigs | Jason Okundaye

I“Make a general excuse, I am afraid to give up the moment when Lana Del Rey comes on the stage in Wembley in July: Stop recording concerts on my phone. Last Sunday, producer and Dej Kitanada The fan responded to x Who was frustrated by unified party employees with their phones in the air, and writing: “I think we came in this era where everyone tries to capture a moment because they are on social media. It shows their estimate instead of dancing and enjoying programs as we are used to.” Although I was not in the Kaytranada show, it prompted me to rights.

In the past, I recorded the vehicles, and I insisted on myself that there is no weakness in my enjoyment, or that returning the camera specified for a panoramic snapshot for the entire stage was part of the experience of concerts. You lost a moment of moment, it could be good to give up yourself and friends sing alongside your favorite artist, and create a personal archive of the best musical units.

But what Kaytranada really Samranada is the fact that recording concerts to download footage on social media aims to betray a kind of calm for your fans and reap the unfinished social rewards that you are a source of FOMO. The registration of concerts can be like allowing everyone to know that you have been invited to the most amazing party – the baked uniqueness factor at the ticket price. Personally, I go to more accurate and mysterious ways to refer to a situation, such as dropping the concerts that I attend in a newspaper.

The registry and download process was almost entirely by social media such as Tiktok, where clips can become viral and even captured by the press. In particular with large and expected tours, there is a race to be the person who picks up and echoes the best clips of a certain moment, with all the hopes associated with fast numbers and participation. Break the news of Charlie XCX George Daniel dances on the optic option of O2 a long time before anyone else? here Your published post in NME A new follower; Don’t spend everything once.

I was among the first people in the world to see the Beyoncé Renaissance World tour in Stockholm in 2023-I downloaded a video of its opening with Love in Love 2 to my previous account on Twitter/X while it was still in the middle of the song. I got thousands of likes and re -tweeting her and people hanging, shocked a lot of shock because she opened a round of dance album with R&b song. But what is the goal of doing this, really? Although I am still enjoying, I was distracted by my phone during a concert by one of my favorite artists, all for some fast -demolished internet bang. I didn’t even look at any of these clips again.

It is necessarily not necessarily associated with your phone at a concert, but it can become just a fuck and coercion. At the end of the night, you find yourself with an exhausted battery, and perhaps the camera with perhaps a hundred clips, and a lot of time is lost by each one to know what is best to use to appear on social media. I also had a ticket to Beyoncé’s London, where I didn’t feel any need to record the same performance twice and may have been the best experience of concerts in my life. But we cannot always attend every round twice – with today’s prices, it is a hole that is going only once.

I assume, though, there are those who perform a kind of public service. Beyonce began her tour of Cowboy Carter in California this week, and, As with other major partiesThere were many live broadcasts via Instagram and Tiktok from the people who committed to capturing the offer from Open to close to those fans who could not come because of the site or expenses. There are problems with this; Some people complain of “spoilers of concerts” who fill the timelines (although I personally don’t think It could be the ceremony “Spoiled”), and I am not particularly clear at the point that becomes piracy. But as DVD tablets of roses and uncertainty about whether you will put your eyes on a creative stage design that goes beyond press footage again, I can see why registration is still necessary for future generations.

But it is not necessary to be you. A safe comfort in the knowledge that the most dedicated fans, perhaps with multiple night tickets, will shoot the best angles and load them and more surprising moments to pass to pass at a later time. Maybe you limit yourself to sections or two Instagram The story, then lock your phone away, wrap your hands into the air and “move the hips”, says Kaytranada.