Audience interactions at concerts can produce endearing, emotional, funny, or bizarre moments. There are four options that are constantly repeated in the most unpredictable ways. Harry Styles witnessed it on more than one occasion this year, helping to reveal the gender of two unborn babies and insisting a fan go to the bathroom when she wanted to help him name her baby. He now he has touched the turn to Pink fit one of these strange situations.
The American singer, recognized worldwide for her hits “So What”, “What About Us” or “Just Give Me A Reson”, had to face a surreal moment last weekend in London. The Doylestown, Pennsylvania native was one of the headliners at the British Summertime Festival, better known as BST Hyde Park. It is an initiative that brings artists such as Blackpink and Guns n’ Roses to the famous English park for several weeks of the summer.
During one of her two performances, as she had to double dates due to high demand, Pink had an unusual run-in with a fan. While the artist was singing on stage, a woman threw a plastic bag at her feet. Not knowing exactly what to do with it. She lifted it over her shoulder, trying to search for answers. In the images, you cannot hear exactly what they are saying, but the American’s reaction is unmissable.
“Is that your mother?” the singer asked, looking up at the stage. Although in the published video it is not possible to appreciate exactly, someone had thrown the ashes of her late mother onto the stage. A strange rumor ran through the rest of the attendees, while the musical performer did not get out of her astonishment: “I don’t know how to take this…”. After a few seconds of hesitation, Pink put the bag behind one of the speakers and continued with her performance.
The video went viral on various social networks, which led to reactions for all tastes, from the most confused to the downright unpleasant. “People don’t know how to just listen to music anymore,” commented one user on Instagram. Through Twitter came the most forceful and out of tune responses, with some characters pointing out that, in Pink’s place, they would have “snorted” or “sprinkled on the stage” the ashes of the deceased.
But it is through this social network that we have also been able to find the origin of this surreal story: “My friends were sitting near this woman and her explanation was as follows. Her mother couldn’t see much of the world because she was very sick when she was alive, so this woman is in charge of taking her ashes to different places. Perhaps she is not to everyone’s taste, but if that comforts her then it is up to her ”.
