Tanja Savic Stops Song, Warns Fans Stage Could Collapse
A video from Tanja Savic's August 5 concert shows her stopping mid song after the stage began swaying under fans who had climbed onto it to get closer to her.
Singer Tanja Savic stopped a song in the middle of her set after the stage construction visibly began swaying under fans who had climbed onto it. A video of the interruption surfaced online and was posted on August 5.
The club was packed. As the hits kept coming, part of the crowd started moving toward the stage to get closer to the singer. First a few, then more, and the climbing turned into a steady stream. The structure started swaying under the weight of the people standing on it, and the music died down.
Tanja Savic stopped, picked up the microphone and addressed the crowd below her.
“Please stop climbing up, because you’re all going to fall through this stage. Please, be careful.”
The audience listened. The climbing stopped, and the show went on to the end without incident.
Why Did the Singer Stop the Song?
Because the stage was carrying people it was never built to hold. The response did not come over the sound system, it came from the stage itself. The singer cut off what she was singing, delivered the warning and only continued once the climbing had stopped.
The whole interruption lasted only a short time. What remains unclear is how a group of people ended up standing on the structure a performer sings from in the first place, and staying there long enough for it to visibly sway.
Split, Health Problems and Plans for Fall
This is not the first time this season that Tanja Savic’s name has been tied to a show that did not go as planned. Before this, the singer canceled a concert in Split, citing poor health as the reason. She has previously spoken about hair loss and an iron deficiency that has been an issue for years.
She also spoke herself about the shows in Croatia and how she views her own schedule, in a statement that touched on her private life as well.
“We’ve booked concerts in Split, there will be a regional tour, but when it comes to my own shows I’m not that involved, I try to keep it simple and not stress over it. I’m relaxed, I have people who handle that for me. I had family obligations, I was with my kids. Muki and I are behind on the wedding! After four and a half years together, that doesn’t matter. The paperwork isn’t important. What matters is the peace, the happiness you feel when you’re together.”
That was said by Tanja Savic, who at the time was with her fiance Muhamed Besic Muki. The two have been together for four and a half years and, by her own account, getting married is not a priority for them.
What Comes Next
Her schedule tightens as fall approaches. On September 12, she performs at Tasmajdan stadium as the opening guest for Dragan Kojic Keba’s concert. That is a show of a different format and a different production scale than a club performance, and it is a little over a month away.
The sequence of events looks like this:
- a canceled show in Split, officially due to health issues
- August 5, a song cut short in a packed club because the stage swayed
- September 12, Tasmajdan, opening guest at Keba’s concert
Club shows by domestic stars are sold as closeness with the audience. People pay for a ticket because the singer is within arm’s reach, and then at some point that closeness stops being a figure of speech. A stage built for a singer and a band ends up carrying the very people who paid for admission to stand in front of it.
This time no one was hurt, because the warning came from the stage and the crowd listened to it. That is not a safety system, that is one person’s presence of mind. Who steps in when the performer does not notice in time is not something this story answers.
