Kelsea Ballerini Was The Latest Musician To Be Hit In The Face With A Projectile While Performing On Stage And It's Time We Start Giving The Animals Doing This Shit The Electric Chair

Rolling Stone -  AT THIS POINT, all of the artists who have had flying objects hurled at them from their concert audience need to start a support group. Earlier this week, someone tossed a bag of their mother’s ashes on stage during Pink’s British Summer Time Festival performance. And just over a week before that, Bebe Rexha was hit in the face with a cell phone someone threw because they thought “it would be funny.” Kelsea Ballerini is now the latest artist to be added to the club.

During her performance at Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden, Ballerini was interrupted mid-song when an unidentified object hit her directly in the eye. It’s unclear from the videos being shared on social media what the item was, though fans suspect it might have been a bracelet. Throughout Ballerini’s live performances, fans have planned to make loads of friendship bracelets to share and trade at her concerts, similar to what Taylor Swift fans have been doing on the Eras tour.

In the clips, the country singer stumbled backward away from the microphone after being hit. A few beats later, she began strumming her guitar again but ultimately ended up retreating backstage.

Arite people, enough is enough. 

Just last week we were talking about Bebe Rexha taking a Motorolla to her grill, and what a complete fucking asshole you have to be to think throwing a phone at somebody's face while they're singing "would be funny."

Just after this happened, singer Ava Max was performing when a guy (somehow) jumped on stage, and slapped her in the face. Mid performance. Scratching her retina and forcing her to run off stage.

Last year some asshole hit Harry Styles in the face with a handful of Skittles

And Steve Lacy (smartly) smashed a disposable camera some loser threw at him on stage, in hopes that he'd stop what he was doing, take a picture, and (somehow) get it back to them

This became a "thing" with these Gen-Zers because like everything, it's all about the clout, it's all about the likes, and it's all about them. 

Fuck the fact that 19,999 other people paid a fortune to be in the same place, watching the same act they're watching, if they themselves don't get it onto Instagram, the entire thing was a waste. They have to capture every second of the show on their phone, and blast it out to their 200 followers so they know they were there. Especially the ones who couldn't go. Gotta rub it in. 

Somewhere along the lines doing that became the norm, and played out, so these little assholes had to figure out a way to up the ante. How'd they do that?

By throwing their phones into the DJ booth, on stage, or to the performer to grab, snap a selfie, and get back to them.

This became the ultimate flex.

Guys like Skrillex, who are too nice, started complying a few years ago, snapping the selfie with the crowd in the background, and tossing the camera phone back into the crowd. 

Now it's gotten out of control.

To the point you have assholes like the guy who hit Bebe Rexha in the face saying "I was just trying to have fun".

News flash people, not every performer has the catlike reflexes like GW

And even if they did, they're there to sing, dance, and perform. Not shag throws from your selfish ass.

Can you imagine if one of these fools had been in Rico's chair, instead of Rico? That High Noon can would have hit Big T square between the eyeballs and we would still be mourning him.

There needs to be a line drawn in the sand that this shits not gonna fly. (Literally).

If you are a big enough jabroni to throw something at somebody on a sporting field or court or rink, or somebody on stage, you deserve death. Plain and simple. Let the networks broadcast that Joe Schmo was put to death by electric chair for hitting Peter of Peter Paul and Mary in the side of the head with their iphone

and hurting him during his performance of "Puff The Magic Dragon". 

I guarantee you not one single person with a brain would complain that the punishment was excessive.

And I also guarantee you that it would send a clear message to all the jagoffs out there that they better thing twice before getting the same idea in the future. 

P.s.- h/t dave