I often hear about singers canceling concerts because of exhaustion or dehydration.
What is going on? Are they partying like a rock star after the concert even though they have to put on another show the next day or fly to the next city?
I know there are lots of demands for their time outside of the 2 or 3 hour concert, but why can’t the manager just say, “no” and let the singer rest?
Its not like these singers are putting on the first concert ever. Yet they still come down with the same “exhaustion” problem.
Seems to be a “female” thing? I think I hear this happening most to women.
When they are touring they will often be on the road continuously for weeks or months on end, having concerts every day, (not to mention rehearsals, practices and other preparation etc). The concert that you see are perhaps a tiny fraction of the work that they put out. A lot of the time the performers can only perform with the help of a pill.
Well, if “exhaustion” is being used as a smokescreen for “pregnancy” (a suspicion that seems to be rife among gossip writers discussing Beyonce’s cancellation), that’s definitely an exclusively “female” thing.
However, a quick Google search shows that in recent seasons plenty of male entertainers have also canceled appearances due to “exhaustion” or “fatigue”, including Billy Joel, Tyler Perry, Deadmau5, Kings of Leon, the Black Keys, Bob Weir, and Phillip Phillips.
I think it’s much nicer to say someone is dehydrated or exhausted rather than, “sorry the concert’s cancelled, the star is puking his/her guts out right now.”
Road trips are pretty exhausting, as are concerts. It’s not implausible to take her story at face value. There’s a reason baseball teams have starting pitcher rotations. Beyonce can’t rotate out–if she’s too tired to do a show, it’s not like they can force her to do it (or if they did, it would undoubtedly be worse publicity).
Problem is too many celebrities have used ‘exhaustion’ and ‘dehydration’ as an excuse to cover drug problems that when a celebrity really is dealing with an legit issue that’s nobody’s business (e.g., pregnancy, flu, actual exhaustion because they can’t sleep on the bus/plane), it sounds really fake and it’s easy to guess ‘drug problem’ and be right most of the time.
Besides, you expect ‘dehydration’ is something that a performer collapses from during a show, not something that happens the next day. Doesn’t she drink some water after a show? How do you not get into a practice of hydration?
Even if it happened during the show, she will probably feel like shit for at least day or two. I’ve suffered from dehydration before and it isn’t like you drink some water or Gatorade and immediately feel 100%.
In fact, depending on the level of dehydration it can take hours or days to totally rehydrate. It requires a lot more than just chugging some water. You have to continue hydrating over a long period because drinking the lost fluid in a short time will result in a substantial amount being peed out instead of absorbed. You also have to include proper nutrition and electrolytes to properly recover.
Even after that there can be fatigue or general “feeling like crap” as your body recovers from what is a fairly physiologically stressful event.
This is my thought as well. Once you are dehydrated you don’t “just add water” and bounce back. You’ll feel like crap for a while. Watch performers on stage for a 2 hour concert - they’re working hard with few breaks the entire time, especially those with a lot of dancing in their shows like Beyonce. That takes a toll on the body and you can’t just stop in the middle and drink/cool down.