Kaytranada Wants Fans to Dance at Shows: ‘If You Put Your Phone Up, Let’s Move Them Hips at Least!’
"It looks mad awkward from where I stand," he said of seeing phones at his performances.
Kaytranada at the 67th GRAMMY Awards held at the Crypto.com Arena on Feb. 2, 2025 in Los Angeles.
Kaytranada isn’t the biggest fan of how audiences choose to enjoy live shows in the age of smartphones and social media.
Over the weekend, the Montreal-based producer responded to a fan on X who apologized on behalf of “real fans” who dance at his shows as opposed to “standing still” in order to capture content for their social media pages. “Kaytranada, I am so sorry you got TikTok famous and now bastards are standing still during ‘Intimidated,’ ‘Freefall,’ ‘Vex Oh,’ ‘You’re the One,'” the fan wrote. “What the f—k is going on??? All points was I miss you @kaytranada please do some private show for the real fans because I can’t take this no more.”
After seeing the fan’s message, Kaytranada responded by saying that it often feels “awkward” when fans choose not to dance a little even as they’re holding their phones up. “I think we have come in this age where everybody’s trying to catch a moment for their own social media presence,” he wrote in response to the fan’s message. “It shows their appreciation instead of them dancing and enjoying shows like we used to do. It looks mad awkward from where I stand as I’m acknowledging the appreciation but we need to go back to where we used to be y’all.”
He added, “If you put your phone up, let’s move them hips at least!”
In other Kaytranada news, he was chosen by Mariah Carey to remix her song “Don’t Forget About Us” to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Emancipation of Mimi, and it was released earlier this month as the special edition’s lead single.
The expanded album will hit streaming and retailers May 30.
