Female underwear lay onstage at the concert of American pop-punk band All Time Low Thursday night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. At right, the band's lead guitarist Jack Barakat interacts with the crowd. Photo courtesy of Ovation Productions.
MANILA, Philippines–Female teenagers turned up in droves, dozens of them throwing their bras onto the stage in a gesture of adulation over American pop-punk band All Time Low Thursday night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum.
“The girls brought extra bras on purpose,” a lady fan told the Inquirer. “They didn’t just take off what they were wearing tonight.”
The throwing of underwear, including panties, was apparently an anticipated sidelight of the band’s concerts; some of the bras had written messages from their owners to the band members.
All Time Low vocalist-rhythm guitarist Alexander Gaskarth looked amazed at the crowd’s wild reception and shouted: “You guys are the f**kin’ s***t!” A young mother, who accompanied her kids to the show, winced in embarrassment upon hearing such profanities which were casually tossed all through the night.
But the fans couldn’t care less. They stood on their chairs to get a better view of their idols, closed their eyes while singing along to the band’s juvenile musings on life and love, and screamed out their feelings in between the songs: “Marry me, Jack!” – referring to All Time Low lead guitarist Jack Barakat, whose microphone stand bore much of the ladies’ undergarments.