Yves Tumor has responded after being booed by the crowd during the artist’s opening set for Swedish House Mafia.
The performance happened on Thursday (Sept. 11) at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, N.Y. Videos posted of the opening set show the experimental electronic artist playing industrial electronic music and also lying on the decks during parts of the show, with other footage showing members of the large crowd booing Tumor’s performance.
The situation got messier after the show, when Tumor posted a video to Instagram Stories saying that “if anyone’s curious how the show went, I just got booed offstage for playing the best set of the night by a bunch of the corniest people I’ve ever seen in my f–king life.”
“This city is truly hell on earth,” the artist continued in the video that showed debris being thrown at a poster of New York City. “I thought L.A. was bad. I thought Berlin was bad. I thought Paris was bad. Berlin is definitely worse.”
In a series of other Stories posted to Instagram, Tumor shared a screenshot of negative reactions to the set and wrote, “these subhumans are already spamming my comments. That’s how much they loved it they had that much energy to search me. I truly love my stalkers.” Another Story shows Tumor’s response to the question “What’s the genre called” to which they write “blatant racism.” Another appears to be a screenshot of a text message sent by Swedish House Mafia’s creative director Alexander Wessely saying, “I’m so sorry, that was f–ked up…. You killed it me and the guys loved it.”
Meanwhile, in the charged comments section of a post about about the situation on the Instagram account of EDM House Network, deadmau5 wrote that “This entire comment section is a great litmus test of what EDM is all about right here,” a statement nodding to the culture wars that are common within the scene as underground and more commercial scenes and sounds collide.
A representative for Tumor did not immediately respond to Billboard‘s request for comment.
Swedish House Mafia is performing in New York City again Friday (Sept. 12) Under the K Bridge Park in Brooklyn. Their performance at Arthur Ashe Stadium made them the first electronic act to ever headline the venue.
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