Last but not least: smartphone slap

Anyone who last went to a concert years ago and is finally attending one again today might think they're watching the wrong movie. Audience behavior has changed fundamentally over the last decade: Whereas people used to surrender to the moment, nowadays many visitors want to capture the moment for themselves and posterity in sound and vision. The result: countless blurred recordings of the same concert on YouTube, but large sections of the audience who are primarily concerned with ensuring that the recording is not blurred.

This development not only disturbs the part of the audience that misses the exuberant atmosphere, but above all the musicians themselves. They are degraded to subjects who perform not for a particularly beautiful live experience, but for a particularly beautiful movie. Singer Kate Bush asks the audienceto leave their smartphones in their pockets: "I want to have contact with you as an audience, not with your iPhones, iPads or cameras". Lenny Kravitz also complainsThe "technology stuff" makes it more difficult for people to be in the here and now. Elton John described the development to the Time Magazine as "sick": "I always want to shout to them from the stage: Put that thing down and just listen. Experience the artist directly and not through some damn machine."

Marky Ramone's solution involves far less communication: The smartphone clap made from a seven-inch and a drumstick is used to make short work of filming spectators. Rock 'n' roll! (hae)