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If you go to a rock show, you gotta rock out

Sep 20, 2025 · 1:25

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If you go to a rock show, you got to rock out." An anonymous rider makes the case for actually engaging with live music instead of standing at the bar like you're too cool for school. Kareem agrees. The conversation touches on performers feeding off audience energy, the importance of losing yourself for those few hours, and how "it's actually the knees" when it comes to moving your body. Bad Bunny gets a shoutout after someone had the audacity to ask concertgoers to sit down. The rider also drops a random bomb: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon definitely didn't write Good Will Hunting.

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So, what's your take? If you go to a rock show, you got to rock out.

100% agree. I've just seen this too many times where like a band's on and everyone's just at the bar. And it's like, if you paid the money to be there,

Might as well not stand at the bar.

Yeah.

Might as well do what? Rock out. You don't have to fully mosh if that's not your style. But just get involved. Shake your head, experience the music,

Do a little bit of this, a little bit of that, A little bit of that, a little bit, you know, people think it's in the hips, but it's actually the knees. So, just, you know, move a little bit. Get a little groovy.

Move the body. Performers usually feed off the audience. So, we try to give back what they give us. I don't like going to shows. If I'm going to a show that is a specific genre, it could be rock or rap.

The music sets the mood and you know what you're going to get. Like I actually went to a Bad Bunny concert recently and everyone was dancing, but the two people behind me were like, "Can you please sit down?"

That's lame. Part of the experience is having fun and dancing. We're not here to watch an opera. We're here to get lit and have a great time and dance in our seats and kiss our loved ones and lose ourselves. That's a good point.

You know, kind of just for the few minutes you have in that room or hours, whatever it is, you want to just be let loose and totally free of whatever maybe was getting to you that day. And and and if you don't fully release yourself, you can't fully get there.

There's also the cool guy thing.

Yeah. People are too cool for school.

Just something.

Yeah.

Move. Nobody gives a really, you know, you just got to just do your thing.

Stop overthinking. Anything else?

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon definitely did not write Good Will Hunting.

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