Usually, you can expect artists performing live to get ticked off at fans who spend the whole night on their phones. But country star Dustin Lynch is pro-phone, and he recently explained his stance.
"When they post it to social media and to Snapchat, it's the whole 'Wish you were here' or 'You shoulda came,'" he told ABC News Radio (via The Boot). "So, it's a great advertisement, too, for us."
Lynch said the phones usually spring into action right away.
"A lot of people get there four or five hours early, and they're just standing, waiting," Lynch adds. "So, when we hit the stage, that first song, the phones are out, the Snapchats are going off, and they're videoing and taking the pictures."
But Lynch might be alone in his phone crusade. Fellow country star Kip Moore told concertgoers to "put down the phone" in 2013.
"It's upsetting that people have lost the ability to live in the moment, and I think it's only gonna get worse and worse," Kip said (via Country Weekly). "There's some times in a show when I'll go sing right to somebody face to face, and they'll waste the whole 10 seconds trying to get their phone out of their pocket, and by the time they finally look up, I'm gone."
Fans have not always been nice to Lynch. This summer, someone in the audience at his show took a break from texting to toss a beer car at Lynch's face.
"The moral of the story is don't throw beer cans, period," he said after the incident. "It's not cool. This guy caused an incident that almost ruined a great night. The crowd was insanely loud and supportive and that's why I wanted to finish my show [despite the bleeding]. I didn't want to get off the stage until I had to."
Roll tide, Dustin. If anyone else attacks you during your show, rest assured thousands of people will capture the incident on their phones.
