Sombr has responded to criticism he received from a person who attended his show at Anthem in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 13 and said she “hated it.” She went on to give her reasons in a video that runs nearly nine minutes. The video critique went viral and expanded onto other platforms, including X, over the last few days.
“I thought I was chronically online, but it’s just come to my attention that there’s a TikTok drama going around because a 25-year-old attended my concert and was basically complaining that there were too many tweens there, I was making too many brain rot jokes, and she just thought it was a cringe concert,” Sombr began in his response.
It appears he was referring to Megan Tomasic’s post on TikTok from about four days ago, which criticized his show that she said she attended. She began by saying she likes his music and was excited for the show, but then said, “I’m going to explain to you why, if you’re over the age of 16, you should not spend your money on a Sombr concert.” The 25-year-old, who appeared to not expect the 20-year-old artist’s fanbase to be mainly tweens, cited not liking his jokes nor a section of the show called the “Sombr Dating Show,” where he brought audience members onstage to call their exes. She also criticized him saying “super vulgar stuff about getting his dick sucked” and asking his fans to “bark for me,” alluding that it seemed problematic in that his audience is young.
She added: “It just doesn’t seem like he knows how to entertain. He’s maybe too young. Maybe he has to grow into it. I don’t know. Dancing was terrible, singing was terrible.”
While she referred to the experience as “a nightmare,” she admitted that his fans loved it, with fans sharing clips of the performance and she referenced one saying, “This is my generation’s David Bowie.” She then said, “I’m so sorry, slender man? We’re picking him, we’re picking the weird dancing dude?” whom she likened to Napoleon Dynamite and added that the show was “cringe.”
Sombr accused her of “body shaming” him, saying that “it’s kind of started a massive body shaming hate train directed towards me on a lot of videos of me on the internet right now.”
He went on to say, “I totally respect people having opinions, but I am a 20-year-old artist, freshly 20. And if you’re 25 years old and you’re going to come to my concert and not expect people younger than you to be there, when I the artist am five years younger than you, it’s just a skill issue.”
As far as his jokes, Sombr said that people who go to his concerts would be familiar with his online presence, adding, “I’ve never uttered a serious word in my life.” Plus, he said he spends “five minutes” making jokes at his shows, while the rest is music.
“Live a little, enjoy life,” he continued. “Every age, sex, sexuality, gender, race: Everyone is welcome in my concert, ad I mean everyone. You guys need to find problematic people to hate on, because I am just existing.”
Sombr’s debut album, I Barely Know Her — featuring hits “Back to Friends” and “12 to 12,” both of which he performed at the VMAs — arrived in August. Since his album dropped, his tour that runs through November has sold out and he’s slated as the Saturday Night Live musical guest with host Nikki Glaser on Nov. 8.
