The Story So Far

Hey everybody!

This week I want to talk about an issue in the pop punk community. Everyone knows that when you go to a small pop punk show, it’ll probably be in a club or someplace similar and the barricades for the stage are either tiny or completely nonexistent. Pop punk artists are also much more open to fan interaction during their shows. As a result of all of this, there is a lot of crowdsurfing and stage-diving going on. One of my favorite bands, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, even invites fans up onstage during their last song to take selfies.

Some bands, however, are not as open to fans being onstage, as recent events indicate. A video has surfaced within the past couple days starring one of my favorite bands, The Story So Far, and has since gone viral. In the video, a fan gets up onstage to take a selfie. The lead singer, Parker Cannon, has his back turned to her, but when he turns around and sees her, he kicks her off the stage. Later in the video, other fans jump onstage but none of them attempt to take a photo – they simply jump right back into the crowd.

This video has started a bit of an argument in the music community. On one hand, the girl had no right to be up there taking photos during the set and The Story So Far is notorious for pushing fans off the stage. It’s pretty obvious that you shouldn’t be onstage for more than a few seconds during the show and this girl was overstaying her welcome. On the other hand, the kick from Cannon was pretty violent and she clearly wasn’t expecting it. This could have caused serious injuries to her and to anyone else she may have fallen on.

There have been countless articles about the incident already. Check out the video here.

What do you think? Who was in the wrong here?

Update: The fan who was kicked off the stage has opened up about the incident in an article for Alternative Press. She says there are no hard feelings, she wasn’t injured and that she understood what she was getting into when she went to the show. Check out the article here.