Designed Manager. Once upon a time the fans manifested the grip with the artists who opened the concerts of their idols whistling, screaming, launching objects, contesting their performance, calling the headliner aloud. Today it can be done online. And we go further: changes are demanded by the artist, convinced that he can have a say. As a manager, in fact.
It happened in Gracie Abrams, a very successful pop singer -songwriter in the United States as well as daughter of the filmmaker JJ Abrams (at this link his profile). On February 9 Abrams will kick off a European tour that on the 25th of the same month will touch the Assago Forum, at the gates of Milan.
The American Dora Jar was chosen as the opening artist, who expressed his contentment on Instagram: «To all the wonderful fans of Gracie in Europe and the United Kingdom: it is a great honor to announce that I will play a little of my songs For you ».
Evidently not all Abrams fans are wonderful. Hidden behind the pseudonym Dexter Morgan, like the protagonist of the series Dexteran alleged fan launched an online appeal on Change.org to exclude Dora Jar from the tour. The reason? Fans are “perplexed because we do not know it and less than two weeks available before the tour it is substantially impossible to familiarize yourself with its songs with a slow pace”.
“In order for the concert to be memorable,” we read in the appeal no longer traceable on the site, “the opening artist should create the right atmosphere and make the public excited, but it may not happen with the slow songs of Dora”. The fan-to-do-men -man swears that “it is not a personal concern” and citing an article from 2019 of Billboard He says that “the artists who open are essential for the success of the concert as a whole since they set the atmosphere for the main artist, helping to keep the public's energy level high for the duration of the show”.
The solution: replace Dora Jar with “a more famous artist or band that makes more energetic music”.
How serious is the guy who signs Dexter Morgan? Is it really a fan of Abrams? Is it a trollata? This could remain there, in one of the tens of thousands of petitions that are loaded every day on Change.org, by the request to exclude someone from Big Brother to the no to the repatriation of the Ukrainian orphans found in the Bergamo area. Whatever the truth, the two singers called into question took this story seriously.
Dora Jar replied that “hatred is part of this profession” and not to worry about her, “it does not depress me. I am ready to perform for fans who love music and who have an open mind. Those who are not interested can always go to buy the merch while I play ».
Abrams called the initiative “A gigantic rejection of incredibly uncool and bizarre, which does not even mean meaning. I only heard great excitement from everyone and I couldn't be luckier and proud to share the stage with this marvel of talent ». Abrams then invited to listen to in streaming all that Dora Jar did, “whether or not you are at the show. Dora Forever and ever ».