Apparently Avril Lavigne isn’t much of a good sport when it comes to impatient audiences. When some fans booed the technical difficulties that the singer and her band were hitting during their first song. Lavigne responded with a stream of inappropriate language that inspired Tampa Bay Ray’s spokesman Rick Vaughn, ”The Rays demand profanity-free performances from all of our concert performers and we are extremely disappointed by the language used in last night’s show. It is not consistent with the family-friendly atmosphere that Tropicana Field is known for.”
Well, as sports games related entertainment glitches go, this one seems fairly mild. There may be a few parents out there explaining what some new words mean… words that will NEVER be used in front of grandma, but most of the youngun’s seem unlikely to have been paying too much attention. Avril is no longer the teenage pop queen she once was, which is probably why she was playing stadium concerts at all.
We can sympathize with her frustration with rudeness, as she pointed out, stadium concerts often suffer from technical problems and being obnoxious about them doesn’t make anyone have a better time. But patience is required of performers as well as audience members. A little good humor would have solved the problem with a lot less drama than the curse words!
