made sure to let a handsy fan know how she really felt during a concert stop in Florida on Saturday, November 30.
“The Architect” singer, 36, addressed the crowd at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, detailing an incident that occurred the night before when an attendee grabbed Musgraves mid-performance.
“Last night, this Tampa bitch,” Musgraves said to the audience, who booed in response, in a video posted to TikTok. “Y’all. I know. She kind of ruined it. She kind of ruined it for everybody.”
The Grammy winner went on to joke, “I thought I was going to have to get real East Texas on her. Take off my earrings … um, well Florida goes hard.”
Musgraves concluded: “It felt a little bit like when you type your name and birth date into the Florida man thing, but Tampa girl popped up.”
Musgraves was referring to the unfortunate situation that took place at the Amalie Arena in Tampa on Friday, November 29. As she walked through the crowd, singing, a woman reached out and grabbed her, practically spinning her around.
“What the f—?” Musgraves told her in a clip posted to TikTok as she pulled the mic away from her face. The “Rainbow” singer shook her head as she walked away and kept performing, but was clearly unnerved.
According to attendees on social media, the fan was “kicked out” of the venue following the incident.
Musgraves isn’t the first headliner to deal with a handsy fan as of late. During his Florida concert in June, swatted away a concert-goer as they reached for his jacket. And paused two of his recent concerts after getting objects thrown at him.
Musgraves, who recently received four Grammy nominations for her 2024 album Deeper Well, is currently on tour. She will make stops in North Carolina and Tennessee before returning to Arizona after the holidays.
“It is so stunning, I have to say,” she told of her tour in September. “It’s this cool mix of sci-fi and nature, it’s earthy but it’s really a spectacle and I’m really proud of it. At the end of the day, it’s me and it’s my songs and it feels like an intimate show in this arena.”
In their review of her concert, Variety wrote: “For the hour-and-a-half length of her set, the singer could make you believe you were part of a nation that believed in peace, love, understanding, tolerance, a little bit of snark, cheerful agnosticism, saying goodbye to toxicity and hello to self-care, individually and collectively. It was a mellow-ass good time.”
