Sabrina Carpenter may start banning phones at her concerts
Please, please, please don’t prove she’s right.
Sabrina Carpenter has claimed that she would “absolutely” consider banning phones at future concerts after she had to lock up her own device during a recent show she attended.
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“This will honestly piss off my fans, but absolutely,” the 26-year-old “Espresso” singer told Rolling Stone about the possibility in an interview published Wednesday.
Carpenter started thinking about having fans lock their phones away in pouches after seeing the Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak duo, Silk Sonic, do just that during a performance in Las Vegas.
“They locked my phone,” she said. “I’ve never had a better experience at a concert. I genuinely felt like I was back in the Seventies — wasn’t alive. Genuinely felt like I was there.”
“Everyone’s singing, dancing, looking at each other, and laughing,” she added. “It really, really just felt so beautiful.”
“I’ve grown up in the age of people having iPhones at shows,” the “Please Please Please” superstar acknowledged. “It unfortunately feels super normal to me. I can’t blame people for wanting to have memories.”
But Carpenter’s fanbase might not need to worry just yet. The “Manchild” singer suggested that she would not start enforcing the no-phone rule for quite some time.
“Depending on how long I want to be touring, and what age I am, girl, take those phones away,” she said. “You cannot zoom in on my face.”
“Right now, my skin is soft and supple. It’s fine,” she added. “Do not zoom in on me when I’m 80 years old up there.”
The “Nonsense” songstress received mixed reactions for her phone remarks.
“Bad idea for people who have responsibilities, like what if something urgent happened?” one person wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Oh, sorry, my phone was locked. I was in a concert.”
“I think people should be able to do that whatever they want. Their life, their experience,” another person commented. “They pay money to go to concerts. They should be able to film it if they want.”
“Charge less for tickets, fees and parking, then you can have a small hill to stand on in terms of taking away the memories people take with vids and phones,” added a third.
However, others welcomed the idea and agreed that a no-phone rule could heighten the audience’s concert experience.
“All phones should be banned at concerts,” one fan tweeted. “Everyone should live in the moment and trust their memory.”
“She gets it!” added another. “It’s about living in the moment and enjoying the experience fully.”
“I love this idea [because] I went to one of her concerts and could barely see her because of everyone’s phones,” a third critic wrote on X. “No one was even dancing or enjoying [because] they were just filming and screaming.”
Elsewhere during the interview, the “Short n’ Sweet” artist discussed the scrutiny she and other female artists face.
Carpenter’s remarks came shortly after she announced her upcoming album, “Man’s Best Friend,” and the controversial cover art that shows the Disney Channel alum in a black dress and down on her hands and knees while a person off-camera pulls her hair.
“I don’t want to be pessimistic, but I truly feel like I’ve never lived in a time where women have been picked apart more, and scrutinized in every capacity,” the “Bed Chem” singer told the outlet. “I’m not just talking about me. I’m talking about every female artist that is making art right now.”
“We’re in such a weird time where you would think it’s girl power, and women supporting women, but in reality, the second you see a picture of someone wearing a dress on a carpet, you have to say everything mean about it in the first 30 seconds that you see it,” Carpenter added.
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