There have been plenty of videos this year of crowds getting rowdy at country music concerts, and at least one singer — Braxton Keith — has had his fill of the behavior.
The 25-year-old country crooner from Texas apparently reached his boiling point during a show in Oklahoma heading into the weekend. Video on TikTok showed Keith stop his show and lecture the crowd.
“Now most of y’all are behaving yourselves,” he said. “But there’s a bunch of people up here that are having a good time, and then there’s a bunch of beer throwing,” he said as fans cheered.
But Keith was clearly not in the mood for the cheering.
“Listen. Calm down,” he continued. “I don’t come to and of y’all’s job and do anything like that to y’all. So until you all can learn some concert etiquette, my name is Braxton Keith, thank y’all for coming to Ardmore, Oklahoma tonight.”
He then stepped away from the mic and exited the stage.
Show over.
Parade noted that some fans were confused by the move, and in others videos they can be heard trying to figure out what just took place.
“I missed it,” Parade said one fan can be heard saying. “What happened? He’s leaving. Don’t cheer. He’s leaving. Wait, what?”
In a year when beers flying out of the crowd and connecting with singers onstage and fans charging live performance has become all too common, social media had Keith’s back on his decision to pull the plug on his show mid-way through.
“Nah he’s so valid for that,” Kaley Elliott commented on the video.
“I haven’t gotten into Braxton’s music, but he does have my respect,” another wrote. “If you want to throw beer, go to a Gavin Adcock or Treaty Oak Revival show. And honestly, who would want to throw beer after paying those prices for them?”
“He’s not wrong,” Jacob Holly wrote. “The Gavin Adcock concert mentality only goes at Gavin’s shows. Other artists aren’t going to put up with that.”
“Good for him,” another wrote. “The disrespect of this generation has gotten absolutely out of control.”
There were others, though, who thought things could have been handled better.
“How about giving a warning first,” one person wrote. “It’s not fair to the fans that acted right. So he punished them too … Karen!”
Keith has yet to further address the incident.
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