A global boy band has sparked a debate online around concert etiquette after telling fans to stop filming during one of their concerts.<\/p>\n
Kicking off their global tour in the South Korean city of Incheon in July, the five members of K-pop boy band Cortis were greeted by a sea of illuminated screens and screaming fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut your phone down,\u201d one of the members bellowed.<\/p>\n
He was met with piercing screams, but scantly any phone were dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told you, put your phone down,\u201d he repeats, louder this time.<\/p>\n
Some fans did just that, but thousands of phones remained in the air within the packed stadium.<\/p>\n
\u2018Put your phone down\u2019 is also the name of the band\u2019s ongoing concert tour, with the hopes of encouraging fans to stop watching concerts through six-inch screens and engage with their performances in real life \u2014 a message the band has long advocated for.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s drawn mixed reactions from their fandom and across the wider music industry, with clips from the gig posted online sparking a general debate over whether filming at concerts should be discouraged, or even banned all together.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing fans not engaging with the members, not listening, and not even enjoying the show is crazy. If you\u2019re not going to enjoy it and are just there to film, please don\u2019t go. That\u2019s not being a real concertgoer anyway,\u201d one Tik Tok user argued.<\/p>\n
Another added: \u201cDo people have to record the entire thing? Record a bit and then enjoy the rest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWouldn\u2019t it make more sense to live in the moment? Realistically, how many times do you re-watch those videos?\u201d one person asked.<\/p>\n
But not everyone agrees, with people online arguing that fans have the right to record as much as they want to have physical memories of the gig to look back on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry, but that is not realistic. Of course people are gonna wanna film the experience to remember the moment\u201d one wrote, with another adding \u201cI\u2019m not putting my phone down sorry not sorry\u201d.<\/p>\n
One fan admit that she would definitely be recording the band when they come to the US after splurging several hundred US dollars on a ticket, writing: \u201cI paid $460 for my ticket you know damn well I will be recording\u201d.<\/p>\n
One user waded in to say: \u201cThis no filming thing is so stupid \u2014 like I want to look back on the video. \u2018Live in the moment\u2019 \u2014 guess what \u2014 I won\u2019t remember a thing after the concert, so yeah I want to record\u201d.<\/p>\n
Others argued recorded clips later shared online make live performances more accessible for those who would otherwise never get the chance to see their favourite bans performing in front of a crowd.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly I don\u2019t really like the put your phone down thing, but it\u2019s only because I\u2019m not able to attend concerts so having people record and post it is super nice,\u201d one person wrote.<\/p>\n
Let us know in the comments whether you think people should be discouraged from filming concerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A global boy band has sparked a debate online around concert etiquette after telling fans to stop filming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-846508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846508","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=846508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}