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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Celebrity | August 11, 2025
Concerts are loud, crowded, and expensive. Post-lockdown, they’ve also gotten a little feral, as way too many incidents involving attendees throwing things at performers can attest to. For Maluma, one fan’s choice to bring a baby to his concert and not provide them with ear protection was a step too far.
During a recent performance in Mexico City, he stopped performing to scold a woman for bringing their kid to the show. A video of the moment quickly went viral. Maluma said (via Variety):
“With all due respect… how old are they? A year old? Less? A year. Do you think it’s a good idea to bring a one-year-old baby to a concert where the decibels are this f*cking high? Where is the sound this loud? That baby doesn’t even know what it’s doing here. Next time, protect their ears or something. For real. It’s heavy. It’s your responsibility. You’re waving them around like they’re a toy. That baby doesn’t want to be there, for real. I’m telling you with all love and respect, now that I’m a father … would never bring them to a concert. For the next time, be a bit more aware.”
Maluma stops his concert in Mexico City to scold a mother who brought her 1-year-old baby without ear protection:
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“That is an act of irresponsibility. And you’re swinging him around as if he were a toy. That child doesn’t want to be there.” pic.twitter.com/ptxpcuuHzw
I’m with Maluma on this. Why would you bring a baby to something like this, and why would you leave them so unprotected from the deafening madness of it all? There’s no way that kid enjoyed being there. Did the concert-goer hope that Maluma would be impressed by it, or invite them on-stage? I’m leaning towards that answer over her just not wanting to hire a babysitter. It’s happened before: at a concert for the K-Pop band NMIXX, someone put their baby on the stage during the performance (no ear protection either.)
Fans have been getting odd with their concert interactions lately. Someone flung a bag of their mother’s ashes onto the stage at a Pink concert in 2023. That same Summer, a man was arrested for throwing his phone at Bebe Rexha and bruising her face. The assailant, Nicholas Malvagna, told a police officer, ‘I was trying to see if I could hit her with the phone at the end of the show because it would be funny.’
An article from The Guardian theorised that both post-COVID changes in attitudes and the hunger to go viral might be driving this increase in bad concertgoer behaviour. Whatever it is, it’s a total nightmare that needs to stop. Maybe this Maluma fan didn’t think she was doing anything bad but therein is the issue. Concerts are not a free-for-all. There is a social contract in place, as well as, you know basic common sense. Keep the babies at home until they’re old enough to create their own Spotify playlists.
