{"id":832638,"date":"2026-07-30T03:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832638\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T03:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T03:54:21","slug":"usher-takes-swipe-at-fan-who-snubbed-x-rated-concert-moment-at-alabama-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/832638\/","title":{"rendered":"Usher takes swipe at fan who snubbed X-rated concert moment at Alabama show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/usher-cancels-australian-tour-concert-november-december-dates-20250704-p5pp98.html\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Usher<\/a> has taken a cheeky swipe at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/usher-awkward-onstage-moment-fan-gabrielle-cheyenne-20260727-p60itm.html\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">woman who brutally snubbed his on-stage lap dance at a recent show<\/a> with a message to the crowd on Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/entertainment\/celebrity\/usher-what-happened-what-is-he-doing-now-explainer-20240131-p5pl7d.html\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">R&amp;B superstar<\/a>, 47, was performing the R&amp;B Tour in Birmingham, Alabama, when he invited a female member from the crowd up on stage and gave her a sassy warning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9dbf99c8669ced2c05bfc6da689a52cadc7b632c62eba9ec5b9d569c50df32b5.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Usher took a cheeky swipe at the fan who snubbed his X-rated on-stage performance with a warning to the crowd at his latest show. \u00a0TikTok\/@an.banks<\/p>\n<p>Before he pulled her up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/music-and-concerts-6i9y\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on stage<\/a> for a sensual performance of Can U Handle It? he laid out the rules.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow before we get started, don\u2019t bring your ass up here if you don\u2019t want to be here,\u201d Usher told the crowd in fan footage shared from the show.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod don\u2019t like ugly. But he most certainly don\u2019t feel too good about pretty privilege either,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Brown, who is co-headlining the tour with Usher, laughed when the Jumbotron camera panned to him at that moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Yeah! Hitmaker then put on one hell of a show with the woman, who clearly didn\u2019t feel the same way about being on stage that Nashville nurse Gabrielle Cheyenne did earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to more footage from the show, Usher was later straddled by another fan who was filmed grinding on the singer while he lay on a bed in another viral clip.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The cheeky comment from Usher came just days after he booted Cheyenne from the stage after she appeared to be uninterested in him during the steamy on-stage moment.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/82d7b860d39b8d68d7ad301ab7eb14e658e297e8dff63ac068f62c573de2eb3b.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">\u201cNow before we get started, don\u2019t bring your ass up here if you don\u2019t want to be here,\u201d he told the audience. \u00a0TikTok\/@an.banks<\/p>\n<p>Usher noticed she wasn\u2019t enthused in the moment and told the crowd: \u201cI don\u2019t think she wanna be on the stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fan footage, Usher walked away from her and waved his hand, signalling for her to leave as some in the crowd began to boo.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old defended herself on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gabrielle.cheyenne.3\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-eRZcwA dNXoqI\">Facebook<\/a>, and explained that she and her mother had floor seats for the show. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir team approached us and moved us to VIP before the show even started,\u201d she said, attributing it to \u201cpretty privileges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She continued on Instagram, insisting her attitude was not \u201cnasty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Usher\u2019s awkward onstage encounter with uncomfortable fan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/220b7a3913b1d9c17f2aacd1ed2bacf77c25517133e4273832668f9982446470.png\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Earlier this week he booted Gabrielle Cheyenne from the stage after she noticed how unbothered she appeared to be on stage. \u00a0Instagram\/@malaysiarosee<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYa\u2019ll don\u2019t know me in real life! I\u2019m quiet and keep to myself but don\u2019t think that ya\u2019ll are gonna bully me about an experience that ya\u2019ll didn\u2019t get,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The R&amp;B star has become known for his raunchy and provocative on-stage interactions with fans during his shows. <\/p>\n<p>The bed segment, which has been the centre of all the drama this week, has been a regular inclusion of his R&amp;B Tour. <\/p>\n<p>During the moment Usher will serenade a fan \u2013 and deliver an X-rated performance in the process. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usher has taken a cheeky swipe at the woman who brutally snubbed his on-stage lap dance at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":832639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,63,134],"class_list":["post-832638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}