The plague of throwing bizarre shit onstage at concert events continues. A couple of months in the past, nation famous person Kane Brown acquired nailed within the nuts with a thrown cowboy boot whereas performing in Wichita. Then there was Bebe Rexha taking a telephone to the attention in New York, and other people tossing their lifeless mom’s ashes and a wheel of brie onstage whereas Pink was enjoying a few big London reveals this previous weekend. (She appreciated the brie, anyway.) Yesterday, the nation star Kelsea Ballerini grew to become the newest casualty when a thrown friendship bracelet hit her within the face throughout a Boise present.

Personalised friendship bracelets have turn into a bit a part of Taylor Swift fan tradition. Individuals change bracelets with strangers at Swift’s reveals, and so they bathe Taylor’s celeb company with the presents each time they spot them. However it seems that not each blonde pop-country singer is into the friendship-bracelet factor, at the very least in projectile type. Admittedly, a friendship bracelet will not be going to decapitate anybody, however in case you caught one within the eye while you weren’t anticipating it, that would actually suck.

Final night time, Kelsea Ballerini performed Boise’s Outlaw Subject. In fan movies from the present, you may see her head all of a sudden jerk backward mid-song. (Fan stories declare that the thrown object was a friendship bracelet. I can’t see it for myself within the video, at the very least with out doing Zapruder-style evaluation.) Ballerini regarded shaken. She stopped singing and turned her again on the viewers whereas her fiddle participant checked her eye, after which she apparently left the stage for a short time.

Later, Ballerini returned and completed the present. Speaking the the gang between songs, Ballerini stated:

Can we simply discuss what simply occurred? All I care about is preserving everybody protected. So in case you ever don’t really feel protected, please let somebody round you realize. There’s safety in every single place tonight. If anybody’s pushing an excessive amount of otherwise you simply have that intestine feeling or something, simply all the time flag it. Don’t throw issues. ? I all the time need reveals of mine — each present for each artist, however I’m answerable for this one — I need it to be a protected place for everybody. We have now little youngsters right here, and may you assist me try this tonight?

You may watch all of it occur beneath.

We will joke all day about friendship bracelets, however the deadliest mass capturing in American historical past occurred at a rustic competition in 2017. If nation singers don’t need random shit flying round at their reveals, there’s a very actual context for that.