Country superstar Luke Bryan shrugged off a recent onstage mishap with his trademark humor. During a weekend performance, Bryan slipped on a phone that had been thrown on stage, causing him to tumble to the ground.
Footage captured by fans showed Bryan asking the crowd, “Did anybody get that?” after regaining his footing. “It’s OK, hey, my lawyer will be calling,” he joked, eliciting laughter from the audience.
Despite the fall, Bryan remained in good spirits, making light of the situation by replaying the moment on a fan’s phone and declaring it “viral.”
On Sunday’s live episode of “American Idol,” host Ryan Seacrest checked in with Bryan, asking if he had suffered any injuries. “What are you talking about, Ryan?” Bryan quipped back.
The incident highlighted the growing concern over fan behavior at concerts. Emily Nicole, a concertgoer who witnessed the event, told “Good Morning America” that attendees were throwing various items onto the stage, including phones, cowboy boots, hats, and water bottles, in an attempt to get their objects signed.
“People were trying to get their stuff signed,” Nicole explained. “So they thought the best way to get that to happen was by throwing things on stage, which was not safe at all and just super disrespectful.”
This is not the first time artists have faced such behavior from fans. Last year, Bebe Rexha was struck in the face by a phone thrown by a fan in New York City. Harry Styles also suffered a facial injury after being hit by a flying object during a concert in Vienna.
Industry experts predict that incidents like these will lead to stricter policies against the throwing of items onstage. “Artists have had enough,” said Kelley L. Carter, ABC News entertainment contributor and senior entertainment reporter at Andscape. “So much remains to be seen about how incidents like this might change the concert experience. I think that there’s definitely going to be a zero tolerance policy that’s eventually going to be put into place.”
