US dance-pop pin ups Krewella were booed off stage in Las Vegas this week after refusing to acquiesce to the audience’s request for “one more tune” unless they were paid an extra $1000 in cash.
The sisters, no strangers to controversy after kicking out a founding member of their group last year for suffering with addiction, reportedly played an extended 45 minute set at OMNIA nightclub at the end of which they demanded extra cash to continue playing.
Witnesses claim they closed, opened and middled their set with their new single Somewhere To Run before taking to the mic about the 45 minute mark to read off a prepared statement detailing how they “loved the fans and do it all for [those] guys”.
“They then said ‘thank you Los Angeles’ and left the stage,” continued eye and ear witness Ted Riggs, who caught the show accidentally while trying to put the bang on a 22-year-old co-worker who in his words “is into shit music”. “I don’t think they realised or cared that they weren’t even in LA, they just dropped headphones and bailed within seconds of the last track being mixed in.”
Ted claims that the audience requested an encore by starting a chorus of “one more tune” to try and coax the sisters away from their cocaine and back on stage but that it failed.
“People, weirdly, wanted to hear more of their predictable brand of cheesy dance-pop,” he explained. “But the girls weren’t receptive to the wishes of the fans who support them despite their music being the aural equivalent of consuming feces.”
Reports from staff backstage claim that Krewella could hear clearly the fans’ request for one more tune but chose to ignore it until a production manager suggested doing an encore.
“First off they acted kinda mystified by what an encore was and then when it was explained to them they were just concerned about how they would get paid for it,” claimed a source backstage. “It was only when the team suggested a $1000 bonus that the girls went back out and gave the fans one more tune – the same one they’d already played 3 times that night.”
