Texas, in its motion to dismiss, insists that the state bears no responsibility for Miller’s “confusion and frustration she felt” throughout this gutting ordeal.

To be fair, it’s probably harder to find a small town in the south where someone HADN’T been lynched. When Alabama started putting out historical markers acknowledging where lynchings took place, it was wild.

The people in charge of this state know all of this already. They simply don’t care 

Yup, it’s the turning their backs to the artist for me. Wtf. They were super close to the stage and doing this. I love live music and I snap pics when I go - these ladies were all the way out of line. I’d be mortified if the performer noticed me or called me out for being disruptive, but instead these idiots doubled…

When you purchase a concert ticket you are purchasing the PRIVILEGE of attending that concert. You are not purchasing a Right to distract, disturb... generally act like a fuck-up. YOU ARE NOT IN YOUR BEDROOM OR TEEN PARTY — YOU ARE IN THE ARTISTS’ “HOUSE” AND YOU SHOULD RESPECT THAT PRIVILEGE.

Suddenly everyone’s a celebrity (and managing their own insufferable public relations campaign).

Lauper used a special background curtain that prevented cameras from focusing on her. Every image was fuzzy and unusable.

Nah, with recording revenue down in the age of streaming most artists make their money touring and a Vegas residency is an easy and highly lucrative way to play to a rotating crowd every night without traveling.

Then let’s just go with obnoxious. I think people, Lambert obviously included, are so fed up with this self-absorbed behavior in general.

Calling out someone’s rude behavior is not chastising...it is calling out their rude behavior. This was not a quick snap or two...they were clearly positioning and blocking and waiting for the right moment, which can be distracting for a performer. Good on Miranda

Nah, she’s right. She’s the product. Show knows they came to see her perform and they paid money to see her perform. They didn’t pay to use her to get clicks for themselves. I think she’s absolutely right. She’s not a “content creator.” “Content” is some nebulous word for “any fucking thing anyone wants to put on the…

“It was 30 seconds at most.”

You got that right.

Her own fans were the ones asserting their entitlement to filming her concerts: they paid for the privilege to be there, so they should be able to do what they want. There’s truth to that

Agreed. Consider me a new fan.

come on. this is not a selfie, it’s an orchestrated group photo in which they clearly used flash, a big no no. secondly, as a music photographer based in Nashville who, while trying to do my job during the thousands of shows I’ve shot, I’ve constantly been stopped and bothered by these drunk white people insisting I…

Do we want to relativize rudeness, though? Could they have waited until the artist was between songs t0 have someone take their picture?

1. That’s not a selfie. I know English is an evolving language but that’s not a fucking selfie, otherwise any goddamn photo with a face on it is a selfie.