Hasn't Coachella always been a mess?
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
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"It's like Costco for music" is honestly a genius summary of Coachella.
Costco has better food though
@@crosscourttennis1796 yup
Coachella never felt like a music event. It felt like an influencer meeting place, with music playing
Never?
You mean the last 8 or 9 years. Cause I’ve been going for 11 years and there was a shift when instagram decided to make Coachella their fashion week
@@PrecipitatingRelaxation right! I’ve never been but I use to watch the festival live since around 2014 and the shift in the subculture from then to now is so obvious. Like the peak fashion just use to be flare pants a peasant crop top and now people are treating it like a fashion show. I just know they are uncomfortable as hell walking around in a desert though.
@@kennyb1588 I’m just glad that I’ve heard and seen so much negative press this year. How Coachella has fallen off and isn’t cool anymore…I’m like YEAH!! It sucks!!!! Cause I would like this phase to be over. It’s even influenced the dang lineup…from rage against the machine to The Weeknd?!?! What’s happening lol
@@PrecipitatingRelaxation bingo
The free water was actually a response to the disaster that was Woodstock 99. The first Coachella was only a few months after Woodstock 99 so they needed to rebuild the reputation of music festivals.
Penny pinchers will avoid all necessary expenses until they see a risk in profits.
I'm always baffled at how much organisations and companies get away with in the US. Like... not refunding concert tickets??? not feeding your employees???? Not proberly informing them about the job??? festival tents with too little exits???!!! I live in Belgium which has a huge festival culture and am proud to say, though not perfect, our festivals deal with it A LOT better.
And right wingers around the world want their countries to become like the US, with no regulations whatsoever, land of the free and whatnot
I'm from a third world country and even here this kind of treatment of employees wouldn't fly
is basically modern slavery
As someone who’s been to festivals from the UK, Canada, Belgium, France, Mexico and of course the U.S., there just seems to be something so prototípically American about Coechella.
It objectively gets the most impressive lineups and artists and yet the only purpose it truly has is to sell you shit and for people to flex being there. It’s weird
Right? I live in France so I totally get what you mean. In my city every year we have the _Nuits Sonores_ and it's really great. Music and fun are the whole purpose of a festival, not really anything else like cool pics or celebrities hangout or fashion or the place to be or whatever else... just music and fun. Also what shocked me the most were the prices: it's so expensive! I've never had to pay more than 20-30€ (= $40 max) for a pass in France. I had a friend who went to the _Boom_ festival in Portugal a few years back and he told me it was wonderful. All of these experiences compared to what I hear from Coachella... idk it feels so different. It's the same word and it's supposed to be similar events but they don't feel the same at all.
yes! i go to german festivals all the time and i was shocked that not only people still go but it is the norm and people pay thousands for it
That’s because you’ve only seen the influencer side of it most people who go are generally there for the music and dgaf about the pictures.
Influencers have ruined the subculture around it tbh even a few years ago it was never about crazy outfits the peak “outfits” use to be just “bohemian” style and even then most people just wore jean shirts and a t-shirt with a flower crown or something.
Correct
Did you go to Tomorrowland in Belgium you lucky duck?
I like Fantanos take on it; music festivals are almost always the worst way to deliver and consume music in general.
Coachella, along with the wash of insufferable influencers presence, it’s safe to say music is on the back burner for this one.
Watching fantano for any opinions 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
@@chuckiemyers what a weird thing to say 😅. Enjoy your day.
@@chuckiemyers that's like. the point of his channel my guy. you watch people you like to hear their opinions, and then you agree or don't agree. that's how this channel works too
@@normalizenatalie Having your ears open for opinions 💀💀💀💀💀
@@chuckiemyers Watching 💀💀💀
The lack of drinking seems insane as someone from the uk
It's just safer
Safer, chiller, friendlier but in truth I'd pick UK/European crowds all day
wait is there not alcohol? i must have missed that
from someone who loves being home all the time, i truly believe that 90% of the reason why people go, is for the Instagram post and to say they went for the experience. Other than that, it sounds like an absolutely awful way to waste money and energy lol
but like i’m down to perform there one day 🤪
Da lofi goddd hola
hi!! I love your music
I mean sure if you don't like getting fucked up with friends music festivals definitely not for you
these massive multi genre festivals are usually super ass to actually be at unless your on hella drugs lol
I don't go, but some of the smaller musicians I listen to perform there so I'd honestly support them if I got the chance
Its a festival for niche internet micro celebrities to take pictures and then stand awkwardly at a stage cause they don’t know any of the music.
Micro celebrities? The Kardashians, Justin Bieber are micro celebrities?
@@RodrigoroRex Most of the guests are influencers to the likes of james charles, emma chamberlain, bretman rock (altough obviously less succesful). The kardashians make a small portion of ot
As an artist, I know Coachella would be fun but I'm always so hesitant to go. It seems like people are there to display more of their perfect life for their followers, and not to actually experience the music. I might be wrong though, great video as always!
yo ur music is fire bro, just checked ur shit out
@@wheresthegas1508 thank u, appreciate that fr 👽
Your wrong lol. Crowds at Coachella are some of the best. The reason all you see is instagram influencers is because those are the only people posting shit. Thats a small percentage of the people there lol. The rest of us are jammin :P
@@harjotgill6162 were you there or watching the livestreams? genuinely wondering, because i know that in the livestreams they tried to mellow down the noise of the crowds
They also don’t give a shit about the artists and staff, it’s all about the bottom line. You only go for clout and an experience tbh
I love that you brought up the headdress stuff, I am Native American and man the fetishization of traditional (and to wear war bonnets you gotta actually earn it not just make it or buy it) garb and even tattoos is exhausting to see on social media and people still defend it smh
I’m a Native American woman and I agree wholeheartedly. Even though the headdress is not something I would wear, I still get the significance of it and it annoys me when people try to say “oh, they’re not appropriating! The headdress isn’t specifically yours so everyone can wear it!”.. That’s not how it works.
So is the main issue with wearing it is because its a special bonnet which you have to earn to wear it? Because I would have just saw it as celebrating a different culture. I genuinely never understood what the issue was.
Thank u for talking about the exploitation of the laborers behind the scenes of Coachella. It’s something I haven’t heard anyone critique yet but how can we not?!, fuck Coachella.
its the case with pretty much every business especially in America, its easy to just bandwagon and say fuck Coachella while ignore everything else
not me citing this video as a source for a paper on the sociological impacts of audiovisuals and how the expansion of music marketing has been so dominant that it even transforms a musical festival into something barely focused on the music.
this video rules and i love your content so so much
bro the stone roses bit made my heart ache they're so damn brilliant
their s/t is a straight 10 no skips all perfect songs
Right? A music fest with The Stone Roses headlining should be a no brainer. I think it speaks to how Coachella is almost solely about the most popular modern music. Bjork's set this year was apparently plagued by people who were "freaked out" by her intensity.. like, dafuq?
Imo, Coachella should be one big nerf battle
This the hottest take I've ever heard about anything
@@evenoddridge4829 I’m right tho
@@marvincadigal5334 yeah 100%
I’m pretty disgusted by the security issue. That’s unbelievable. All for privileged affluent kids do drugs and take photos.
Coachella is the perfect example of why I’ve always preferred concerts to festivals. I got to see Denzel and Jean Dawson the week before weekend 1 and it was one of the greatest concerts I’ve ever been to. Everyone was there just to see them. Beautiful stuff
One of the dirty tricks festivals do is make it so re-entry is either limited or not allowed at all so if you want to eat anything other than their $25/serving food trucks you have to potentially miss sets you want to see and are paying for.
I've been before, and even as someone who goes for the music you're not gonna get a good representation of what every artist is capable of because set times can be pretty short and strict and technical difficulties are pretty common, especially weekend 1. On top of that, there's so many stages all far away from each other that always have back-to-back acts going on so you're more than likely going to have to miss someone you like to see someone else or you're going to catch only a portion of someone's already short set. I had to miss Phoebe Bridgers on Friday because I was all the way across the field vying for a good spot for Baby Keem. Even for the artists I saw for the first time at Coachella, it only made me want to go see a dedicated concert of theirs, so they could do more songs in a more intimate setting with a bunch of real fans.
I went for the first time and i had fun and the reason why is simple: i love music. Most people who dont like coachella are people who get thrown off by other people taking pics, etc. whereas i couldnt give af about anybody else cuz i just love music so much i dont care what others are doing as long as they are having fun too. Smiling and jumping arm to arm with strangers to brockhamptons last show ever and singing along to stromae with random french people i have never met before are memories i will cherish for the rest of my life. In the end its all about having a good attitude. Have fun and a good day :)
I don't know all the details but I could see Joji feeling pressure on himself for needing to continue his performance despite his condition because put in that position he would not want to appear to be such a liability when being booked for big slots like Coachella. Unfortunately something like that is something booking agents will take into account when selecting performers. When you love what you do and you are passionate about sharing it with your fans, shrugging off a seizure might seem like a small sacrifice to make if you think its the only thing between you and fully striving towards your dreams.
Even as someone who loves live music more than anything, these massive festivals have never appealed to me (or been an option financially). I think Fantano's video on why festivals are overrated hits the spot. They're unaffordable, there's no intimacy with the artist (compared to concerts), and they can often be unsafe. Honestly the only festivals I'm tempted by are smaller-scale, 1-day fests here in the UK. They're cheap and the crowds are small enough that you can actually see the band.
Coachella had in their rules this year that "appropriative or descriminative" items were banned. It was my first time going, so I have no idea how long that rule has been in effect, but I personally didn't see any offensive stuff
oh wow that's cool, that explains the big shift in the outfits this time! people online are never happy though; there were numerous viral tweets this year complaining about how "boring" the fashion was this year, yet previously the complaint was cultural appropriation. in the past the audience members usually appropriated indigenous & south asian attire, and this year (from what i saw online) many ppl wore a lot of plain fits. this is lowkey proof that many of these ppl, despite all their money, don't know how to dress well .. lol
it’s so funny everyone has this idea of Coachella n they’ve never even been. I’m local n i went both weekends. I literally walked to the festival so logistics don’t bother me as much. Weekend 1 is definitely more tik tok bs. I was tripping on shrooms waiting for Denzel and these “influencers” would not stop bugging security to get on stage it was throwing off my trip lmao. Weekend 2 is when all the locals go it feels like one big high school reunion but the crowds in general are more so there for the music. Ultimately hundreds of thousands of people attend this festival so everyone is gonna have their own perspective. I love the fact that so many artists look forward to performing in the city i grew up in. I’ll always try to go even tho the Coachella sickness after is real
how big of an area is coachella valley? I know chicagoans hate when people flood in for lolla but it's such an opposite landscape out in the desert it must be even weirder
@@normalizenatalie there’s a lot of cities kinda spread out yet close together. Like it’s not as dense as I’m picturing Chicago to be. It’s more suburby in a sense lots of gated communities. in Indio it’s super congested during the festival but isn’t so bad once you get out of the immediate area. It’s been worse previous years
You haven’t paid hundreds of dollars to hear the worst version of some pop star’s live show until you’ve done it in LLLLLLAAAAAAAA 😂
Thank you! Well said.
I worked Coachella Weekend 1 & got to go for free because of my job! It was a lot of fun, but insanely disorganized (coming from the worker’s side) and I probably wouldn’t PAY to go. I got to see them cut 100 gecs set short but also got to catch Brockhampton’s last (2nd to last) performance ever!
Me & my coworkers left LA at 5:30pm and arrived to pick up credentials at 8:30pm. From there, we waited for over 2 hours to just pick up our credentials and then we didn’t get to the camp site until about 2:30am. Just a lot of waiting for shuttles, waiting in lines, general waiting for ANYTHING, and mind you we left a day early to beat all the traffic lol.
The food we sold was overpriced as hell and not made with love, it was all stress food. The people who worked for the actual store were only doing register and expo, while all the daily hires they got to just work the kitchen would make all the food, which made no sense to me. There was no system set up when I got there on my first shift and me & some random guy they hired for the weekend had to come up with a system to expedite the sale of the food.
I was also the only person they forced to work in the food truck until 3am, and I had to train 2 random hires to do the job. Mind you, I’m not a manager or anything, I’ve had this job for like 3 months.
Having said ALLOF THAT; very disorganized and stressful, but I would probably do it again and come more prepared for it to be a shit show.
Hi how did you find your job application to work at there/other festivals? Thanks!
Really well researched.
I never quite understood coachella, i always thought that i was just a normal Music festival
silly me
I’ve never watched any of your videos before and I love the casual and down to earth nature of the video!
21:07 yup, thats exactly what people do. my house has been rented out for airbnb for the past couple of coachella festivals, and it's a good way to make profit tbh (especially if your house is ≈5-7 minutes away from where the festival is like mine) and that aside, the traffic here in the valley is HORRIBLE, driving around to work and school takes more time, and the grocery stores are ALL packed. as much as coachella is great for the valley's economy, there is just so much chaos for the week before + after the festival dates.
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Amazing video as always my queen
Idk why there is so much hype over Coachella. Like I’d rather go to lollapalooza, where you are in Chicago and have places to go other than the festival, instead of stuck in the California desert
Honestly, I’d rather just go to a concert than pay a shitload of money to be overstimulated and stressed out in a crowded desert for three days while my favorite artists play. Concerts stress me out enough as is, but at least I get to sit down and listen to the show at a certain point. And then it’s a manageable couple hours, and then I can go home.
If this comes off as hostile toward live music, it’s only because I have really bad anxiety (and probably autism), and it’s hard for me to handle crowded events most times. I’m by no means anti-concert or anti-festival. I’ve enjoyed most of the concerts I’ve been to, and I don’t think any less of anyone for enjoying festivals. Different strokes for different folks.
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As a long time festival goer and one time Coachella attendee, festivals are usually shitshows. Parking and logistics are always chaotic and I’ve paid over a hundred for an Uber before. I still do cherish the memories I’ve made but I do also remember all the shitty things that have happened. I don’t recommend people with anxiety to go. I do recommend everyone to take it easy on the droogs and make sure to keep an eye on all your belongings.
Congrats on 100k, Lemdawg
Stone roses are goated
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basically coachella like most things nowadays have become mainstream and lost its original feel and glory
Coachella was always mainstream.
hey dev stone roses fucking slaps get your american head in the game
Children, mane
Yeah no disrespect to Dev but that was a very 'American' take if I've ever seen one
I would never go to Coachella but I love a smaller/medium sized music festival. I’ve been to a good number festivals, I even was a musical instrument vendor assistant for a bit because I was obsessed with them after graduating high school. I really like ones where there are enough people that something is always happening but there aren’t so many people that you can bump into the same people over and over and make friends. Some of my favorite festivals have been the Philadelphia Folk Festival (not even a huge folk fan but that festival has been running continuously since before Woodstock they are SO ORGANIZED), Beloved (which has since decided to become a place to compost human remains because they weren’t meeting the ecological and spiritual needs in their mission statement), the Great Blue Heron (family fun and forest shenanigans), Rootwire and Resonance (two amazing electronic festivals hosted by papadosio, lineups were great, there was even dinosaurs at resonance).
I hated summer camp music festival, way too big, been to some TINY festivals with like just 1,000 people camping in a forest, those are cool but just more important to bring friends to hang out with. I also have been to wookiefoot’s festival I forget what it’s called I’m not a wook but back before nahko was cancelled I saw some shows and it was cool they had activists from the standing rock Indian reservation back when there were the huge protests against the Dakota access pipeline. I went to an edm festival in Costa Rica that was full of coke and beautiful people who were not very friendly.
Anyway there are a lot of things that can go wrong with organizing one of these and I think the bigger it is the more likely there are to be people who are there more for looking cool and being fucked up than enjoying music and being fucked up like the rest of us.
I love the art installations and all the wonderful people I have met at some of these festivals but I also hate the amount of garbage people and garbage that is at some of the worse organized festivals.
So all and all I would love to go to another festival if the lineup is right that it seems like it would attract good people.
Any really big name artist I would pay to see them individually, I don’t want to deal with a whole festival full of a crowd of kinda normie people doing stupid things. I like when the people going to the festival all feel invested in creating the experience for each other and making connections, the set up and geometry of a festival is really important for that. Beloved had just one stage it was great that everyone was always going to the same place. Other festivals have had workshops and rituals and interactive art exhibits to get people together and getting to know one another.
Anyway thank you for attending me Ted talk ramble, posting comments makes me anxious so if you’re reading this it means I was very brave. Hope the rest of your day is good 😌
A survival guide is pretty good for a festival.
Smaller midwestern festivals are cool. camping experience definitely helps
I went to a smaller festival for old people a few years back and everyone had a campaign chair they placed in the morning that'd be "their spot" for the rest of the day.
Flumes set looked so dope
You know what's better than coachella?
Staying at home and watching youtube videos while playing video games
stone roses is pretty well known in the UK plus they had just reunited so i think thats probably why they were chosen as a headliner. probs not so famous in LA though
The only festival I’ve been to is Summerfest in Milwaukee. It’s split up between so many days and has so many stages that it barely has the typical festival “vibe”. I could never survive a typical music festival
Coachella is the best organized festival even in the “bad” years. Coachella is 10X better than all the videos, pictures and posts you see online. If you ever get a chance to go it’s worth every penny.
I’m just glad that Black Midi was there
I went to Coachella this year. It was my 3rd time going. Always weekend 2 because weekend 2 is for the music lovers. Weekend 1 is for the internet stars and celebrity chasers. I was hesitant to go the first time but I fell in love immediately. I don’t go there to do drugs and I don’t drink much. I go for the music and I’ve discovered so many of my favorite current artists thanks to Coachella. I’ve seen a ton of incredible performances from artists I otherwise would’ve never seen live and might’ve never even heard of. Camping is 100% the way to go for budgetary and logistical reasons but if you stay off site day parking is completely free, which is nice, and there are multiple lots around the festival so you can usually find a shortish line if you know what you’re doing. This year I spent about $800 total on everything. Accommodations, food, wristband, camp gear and gas. I realize that’s a lot of money, believe me I’m pretty broke these days but I’ve seen so many posts that say you can’t go to Coachella for less than like 2 grand which is just wrong. Also, I’d never heard about the poor security guard treatment before, that’s super shitty and upsetting! And 5 weeks are you kidding!?! Sheesh!
It just seems like a social status of telling people you went to Coachella. Severely overpriced, lack of interest of the ACTUAL MUSICIANS, security are lacking fair treatment & aren’t payed a lot at all. Just seems like a drug festival to me. Also people who attend concerts KNOW it’s overpriced, and not one musician will have their best performance remembered at Coachella.
Festivals can be super stressful for sure. even just the amount of people around you can be overwhelming. Self care is a must to have a good time :) and also, you will NEVER see all the artists you set out to see lol. but i still love them :')
There were plenty of food options at coachella. Never waited longer than 5-10 minutes to get food
what some people don't realize is that even the vendor your looking at has an hour wait, there is another vendor 5 minutes away selling the same food with no wait
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So true bestie
I’m not going to Cochela until Dev Lemons is on the line up 🤧😮💨😤
I really love music festivals in my country Colombia, because it's the only way to get a lot of incredible bands and musicians, it's hard to have separate concerts in these regions and the only big music festival that we have is called Estereo Picnic that occures always on the same weekends as lollapalloza
“I wanna be adored” by the stone roses was my childhood JAMMM, it’s unfortunate that so many ppl at coachella didn’t know who they are😑
Bamboozle and Warped Tour are my thing!!!! Probably no where close to what Coachella are like.
Oh my effing g dang I love your videos
reading the title, also reminded me of coachella in 2019 when ariana grande & nicki minaj could'nt hear themselves while performing. imperfection is inevitable, & it should have been expected due to the pandemic. definitely can't defend the treatment of the security guards though...
had nooooo clue about the whole security thing, how fucked up is that, and why tf do they need to be there so long?? it's not like it's that long between week 1 and week 2
2008/2007 with daft punk was so amazing
i never go to coachella but watch my favorite artists livestream every year. and the crowd is always Dead dead. artists putting on some of their best preformance for these rich kids and no ones vibing. beyonce's coachella one of the most iconic preformances of all time, and everyone in the front row is looking at their phones. like yeah i am jealous i wish i was there for the show. but i never want to be in that crowd. the culture of coachella is Trash
They mute the crowd on live feeds sis 😂😂
@@kennyb1588 i dont mean noise bro. its the dead look on their faces when the camera shows them
You are awesome
I went to weekend 2 this year. I honestly had a blast but if you really wanted to go for solely the music aspect, you probably wouldn’t have such a great time. All of the artists I saw were pretty great, King Gizzard blew me away, Brockhampton’s last show was sick, Denzel Curry’s set was so fun. I think that each person’s experience will vary but if you try to make the most of it and were smart about how you went about things, I’m sure you’d have a good time
Also to add onto the water thing, tons of security and staff were giving out FREE water bottles to the crowds. Food was quite pricey but like mentioned in the video, this has always been the case so we just kinda have to work around it
This is why Jazz Fest is the Superior big music festival. Come to NOLA y’all.
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My favorite music festival is 80/35 in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. There are 3 or 4 free stages and along with the street vendors the local food places stay open so if you want a Jimmy John's sub it's right there for regular prices. I only pay for the main stage if there is a particular artist I want to see otherwise I just check out new bands and get on with some music discovery.
I would rather just watch Coachella on UA-cam.
Coachella sucks this year
Nice Eric Andre reference you got there, Mate.
Can't tell if you're trolling with the Stone Roses bit. If not, go listen to them please.
I hadn’t heard about Joji’s set! Poor guy. I know that the internal pressure to perform is hard enough to cope with but if he was getting the pressure both internally and externally from Coachella and the label my heart hurts for him
my parents got to go in the early 2000s and said the music selection was great and the people were tolerable
They did Joji dirty and I will never forgive them
88 rising is trash.
her chair looks so comfy
Super new but grats on 100k. You funny.
holy shit, the security guard's experience is insane
Tbh i feel like festivals like Glastonbury, Bonnaroo, Reading & Leeds, Lollapalooza, Pitchfork, and SXSW are much more than Coachella and i never even went to but still wish to go to all those festivals (except for Coachella).
The one festival I went to was like $70 for the weekend and everybody was strung out on mushrooms that they sold at the beer tent lol
I've been to festivals troghout Europe, never heard such insane stuff
Coolest thing about Coachella this year was that Rina Sawayama was there 🥰🥰
Nah download was £250 and they liked it this year, hit every nail on the head after having a terrible year in 2019
i went this year for the first time and actually had a blast. however, the one horrible thing about this festival is... the damn crowd! like you said soooo many people who are there just for the sake of being there and not for the music. i've been to a few other music fests and i find it to be much more fun when the crowd is there for the music and not the instagram photos. aside from that, though, this festival is run so smoothly compared to others, and the caliber of acts that perform are unmatched to nearly any other festival in the world. definitely would recommend going if you can but it can be a headache to enjoy the coachella crowd
I think you brining up the perspective of the musicians and of the workers is amazing and im 100% on board for hearing more about that but as far as what everyone else was posting about coachella is kind of like ehh. With the hyper rise of complainers, the 'entitled' and tik tok clout demons this isnt a surprise to me to see people looking for reason to post something bad about the festival. Ive been going to Coachella for what seems like forever and it was actually pretty chill this time. I would say when Beyonce headlined it was the most chaotic. When you have 100 thousands people at festivals theres always going to be a lot of crazy stuff going on. EDC is 4x as big as Coachella and its always been pretty chill. The zoomers just have a platform to complain on now and people are willing to listen to it nowadays. If I complained about coachella on social media in 2012 people would say no one forced me to go or what did i expect? Also I dont understand why people are saying tik tok was the first to break the third wall, umm there was an app like 8 years ago called snapchat which was responsible for making Kylie a billionaire and had the exact same content of tik tok OMEGALUL
I’ve been to two festivals daynvegas (first year) and smokers club, festivals are only worth it if you feel like being in a tsunami of people, while dehydrated and hungry in the hot sun. I’m also on the boat of just going to a concert just to see one artist cause most festivals have a big lineup and if they have multiple stage where they perform you will probably miss a lot of artist that you want to see unless you want to swim through the crowd of people who are also slowing dying with you.
so real
I am happy to stay home and experience it from my couch....Couchella tickets are hassle free :)
I went to Coachella weekend 2 for my first multi-day festival, and was a big fan. I have a couple responses.
- One thing that was really special was how good the sound and general performances were. Compared to TV show performances and Astroworld especially.
- The people that don't care about music don't matter, they're not in the main crowd, except maybe in VIP.
- It's weird that people act "shocked" that people get sweaty? I mean it's still super fun and I knew it would be exhausting.
- I think a lot more of the technical issues were weekend 1 than weekend 2, and more people care about the music on weekend 2 I guess?
- Yuma tent had several exits, the mess was at the one entrance, but they purposely put smaller performers there so it was fine for when I was there.
- I bought resale tickets for $275 and camped with someone I met online. Camping is the more "real" fest experience IMO but not for everyone.
Come to Glastonbury in the Uk it’s amazing and less pretentious and isn’t in the desert lol
Dear god don’t let Coachella speak for all other festivals. Personally I’ve never been to Coachella, so I can’t speak for it, but I’ve been to plenty other other festivals I speak for. I’ve had great festival experiences, and I’ve had rough festival experiences. It mostly comes down to the crowd the festival attracts and the people throwing the festival. Happy to give more of a perspective if anyone wants to get more into it!
It's sucks being in Australia. Because when big artists come here. You've either gotta be in Melbourne, sydney or go to festivals. Because very rarely do they have solo concerts at all the big cities.
I went to New York Comic Con in October and it was the first indoor event of that size since the pandemic started. It was a bit of a mess, not fully prepared and figuring out along the way but the first event of 150K indoors attendees (reduced capacity compared to 250K+ most years) in two years was bound to be like that. Now put that in the middle of the desert and it'd be worse, I'll be honest I never heard of any of those music acts you mentioned other than Kanye West and Weeknd so I wouldn't have enjoyed myself TBH.
music midtown in ATL is like a diet version of this. just make it humid and substitute influencer culture with southern Greek life culture
I went to Coachella and camped and had a great time. I prefer festivals cause it is such a great way to meet people. Def saw the influencer prototype but it wasn’t overwhelming like people say.
12:45 - thats odd, i live in the uk and the stone roses are pretty well known over here (or at least they were). probably a british thing
When you mentioned you’re from PA, I thought to myself, “hmm I wonder if she’s ever been to MIA” and then you mentioned it in a minute later lol. That’s also the only festival I’ve been to. (2016 and 2021)
i went and i thought it was fun. my feet hurt but that was it. but honestly if ur completely aware of ur surroundings and notice the people around u… it’s a bit yucky, simply because the people are like too much into themselves rather than the music and the vibe i guess. i was like snapping in n out of a zone when i was walking to each set but when i would like snap out of it i had like caught awareness of it. i had met sum cool vibey people tho so i guess it mixed. but all in all i had a good time and would come again.
On the topic of everyone leaving at the same time... If you had the day parking pass, you could leave right after the final set at 11:30ish and probably wait in an hour of traffic to exit the parking and get out of town. If you had the camping pass (me), you weren't allowed to exit the camping area until 2am, presumably to give the day parkers enough time to get out. This wouldn't be such a problem if this wasn't a Monday morning because people (like me and my SO) had in-person class and work on Monday so you have to get back home. The upshot is you have people sleeping from 12am to 2am after the final set, then driving exhausted for several hours back home. On my 3 hour drive alone I saw 2 pretty gnarly accidents, one was for sure a Coachella camper because there was camping gear strewn all over the road.
ok love ur content & was also at made in America in 2016 are you by chance from Philly 🤪