Music Concerts Are Overrated? 🏟️agree or Disagree?
Summary
A straphanger makes the case that concerts have become exhausting ordeals nobody actually wants to attend. The whole experience is broken, they argue: you book tickets months out with friends who inevitably bail, leaving you to drag yourself to a Wednesday night show after work. Then comes airport-level security, mandatory wristbands linked to your credit card for overpriced drinks that are either too weak or too strong, and somehow every concert now features five opening acts like it's a full festival. Kareem listens as the rider dismantles the modern live music experience piece by piece. It's a rant that'll resonate with anyone who's ever felt trapped by tickets they bought in a moment of optimism.
Full Transcript
Concerts are overrated and bad. I could be convinced. Think about it, think about it.
So you get—you get really excited, you book your tickets, all your friends are like, "Yeah, let's go to the show." The show rolls around, it's like a weekday. It's like Wednesday night. You've been working all day, you're so exhausted.
None of your friends bought tickets. They're all going to do some like fun, and you're like, "Now I have to go to this concert." And then you get to the concert, and there's like this huge security line. Security is like more intense than TSA.
You get into the concert, you have to like get a wristband that you like connect your credit card to, and then you have to use it to get this drink that's either like too weak or too strong, and it's or too expensive. Or well, it's definitely too expensive and it definitely sucks. And then you stand in there, and there's like five artists playing.
It's like every show is like a music festival now. So what's your take?