Morgan Wallen is facing another controversy after he flipped his piano onstage in the middle of a performance.
Video circulating on social media shows the divisive country singer, 33, appearing to take out his frustrations on a piano after it malfunctioned during his song “Sand in My Boots” at his show Saturday at the Empower Field at Mile High Stadium in Denver, Colorado.
After singing the song without accompaniment, Wallen turned around and pushed over the piano until it crashed onto the stage and broke apart as the audience screamed and cheered.
Wallen did not address the incident onstage and did not immediately return The Independent’s request for comment.
Social media users were quick to criticize Wallen for seemingly acting on his frustration, with one person writing on X: “Morgan Wallen is the real problem. Imagine behaving like this in front of your own fans.”
“This is so unnecessary and unprofessional. men have it so easy cuz if it were a woman….,” another said. One person wrote on Threads: “Why’s he so emotional? He should try smiling more, see if that helps.”
Another person slammed on Threads, “Morgan Wallen is a tool and his fans are too.”
Other people invoked Paramore singer Hayley Williams, who has been public about her dislike of Wallen after confirming that she referred to him as a “racist country singer” in her song “Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party.”
“I only know that this guy exists bc of Hayley Williams,” one person wrote on X. Another added: “What a petulant little baby. Anyone listening or supporting him in this day and age is willfully ignorant. Stream ‘Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party by Hayley Williams.’”
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One person wrote on Threads with a picture of Williams: “You know who would never flip their piano during a technical issue?”
The “Chasin’ You” singer has been at the center of several controversies over the years.
He was briefly suspended from his record label in 2021 after a video emerged of him yelling the n-word. A week after the incident, he shared a five-minute apology video and said that he was on “hour 72 of a 72-hour bender” when the video was taken.
In 2024, Wallen pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of reckless endangerment after he threw a chair off a six-story rooftop bar. He was sentenced to seven days at a DUI education center and two years of probation.
