Listen, children: I remember the bygone years of the early ’10s, when smartphones weren’t the norm at music festivals. All my teenage self had was a flip phone (procured for battery purposes) and a dream. So, forgive this wisened 29-year-old hag for questioning what was going on in the crowd for Sabrina Carpenter and Madonna.
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This weekend, Madonna (and a gospel choir) joined Sabrina’s headlining show to perform “Vogue,” “Like a Prayer,” and a duet that will likely appear on Madonna’s new album.
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If you’re like me and didn’t attend the festival, you can instead watch clips from it — where your slack-jawed face scrolling inches away from your phone is probably just as visibly hyped as the people in the crowd.
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As this clip from Entertainment Tonight shows, the audience appears to all be quietly recording the show on their phones, with barely anyone dancing.
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At this point, Madonna had been on stage for a while, so this isn’t a case of “oh, let me just grab a quick photo.”
As Consequence of Sound wrote of the livestream, “I heard a pretty good beat drop after ‘Heaven help me’ and the crowd shot showed tens of thousands of phone lights holding deathly still. There’s no wrong way to listen to music, except this.”
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The comments asked the same questions I did: Is it the phones?
Is it the Coachella of it all?
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Do the audience know who Madonna is?
Also, consider how annoying it is when people take multiple videos of themselves using flash during concerts. This isn’t relevant to the article, I just didn’t have an ending and the practice has bothered me for a hot minute. Okay, bye!
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