Miranda Lambert stopped her show when some of the concertgoers appeared distracted from her performance. The Palomino powerhouse paused in the middle of a ballad during her Las Vegas residency over the weekend to address fans who were taking selfies.
Lambert was in the midst of an intimate performance of “Tin Man,” her 2016 hit from The Weight Of These Wings, when she called out the distracted girls. In a one-minute clip shared by fan account @ranfancentral on Twitter on Sunday morning (July 16), Lambert said, “I’m gonna stop right here for a sec… I’m sorry.”
“These girls are worried about their selfie and not listening to the song, and it’s pissing me off a little bit,” Lambert said as members of the audience appeared to cheer and applaud her. “Sorry. I don’t like it at all! We’re here to hear some country music tonight. I’m singin’ some country damn music!”
Lambert appeared to gesture to the selfie-taking concertgoers to lower their phones, asked, “shall we start again?,” and resumed her rendition of “Tin Man” for the Vegas crowd.
The same fan account that shared the one-minute clip of Lambert calling out the selfie-takers also tweeted a video capturing four examples of Lambert “stopping songs because of people showing a lack of respect,” (particularly, during “The House That Built Me,” “Over You,” “Cheyenne” — a Pistol Annies song — and now “Tin Man”). In a video retweeted from 2016, the fan account shows Lambert “refusing to play Vice until everyone shuts up and listens.”
Lambert’s pause during her Vegas show appeared to garner some mixed reactions from fans. A screenshot tweeted on Sunday, for example, showed a commenter saying: “They were talking group selfies with a big light for several minutes. It was super distracting and rude!” Others, however, shared the moment on TikTok and can be seen getting up to leave and heard saying: “Let’s go. Come on. You don’t do that to fans.”
Lambert has not appeared to have comments publicly as of publication time on Monday (July 17).
Lambert kicked off her high-energy residency, named after a line in “Actin’ Up,” at Zappos Theater in September 2022. She has since extended her run in Vegas with shows in July and December. Lambert told host Amy Brown at her iHeartCountry LIVE show at her Nashville bar last year that she’s “built a career on being feminine and still keeping a bada** edge, and I think that’s important and I felt like Velvet Rodeo would encompass that. …(Velvet Rodeo) felt like my catalog as a whole, and it’s a line in the new song and it just felt very Vegas to me.”