Monday, February 05, 2024
Fyre Fest: 'If You Have to See A Lineup Before You Drop $1M Don't Bother'
www.ticketnews.com: A failed festival and subsequent prison sentence for defrauding thousands of concertgoers isn’t stopping Billy McFarland. In fact, he seems to be more energized than ever before ahead of the alleged second — and first — edition of Fyre Festival.
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I am not a big concert person, but I do sometimes find the stories of what goes on in the concert world very interesting. The concert world provides a place where the technology that I am interested in can be used in situations with a much higher budget and different constraints.
Regarding this particular concert, it seems like it is almost certainly a scam. Asking audience members to commit vast amounts of money when they do not know what they are going to get into is immoral at best and an illegal scam at worst. While there are benefits for an audience being somewhat surprised by what they experience during the production, it is also important that they know what to expect so that they can make an informed decision as to whether they want to invest the time, money, and emotional energy into interacting with a production. We need to be careful about this in the theater because we do not want a person to come into a theater expecting a happy store, but leave scarred due to not being prepared for the content. This is why we have content warnings.
Ah yes, time to watch a bunch of rich people get duped out of their money, again. I’ll be curious to see how many people were a part of the first Fyre Festival and are coming back for a second round of being duped. The line “If you have to ask who the lineup is before dropping a million bucks, Fyre is not for you” had me gut laughing, because obviously Fyre is not for me. I wouldn’t drop that much money even if I knew who the lineup was, not that I have that much money and probably never will. This entire thing boggles my mind; I don’t understand how anyone could drop such a large sum of money on something so unplanned, and that’s likely to turn out to be an unpleasant experience. Maybe I’m just boring and don’t actually like adventure. The most adventurous thing I end up doing is moving to new states/cities without ever having visited them before.
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