When We Were Young Festival (Las Vegas) Tour • Page 106

Ya could (should), ya know, do the work to make those scenes care.

 

How did the crowd shift from Paramore to MCR go?

 

Agreed, bring up sexual assault/misogyny in one of those crowds and you'll get laughed out the room. There's people still out here celebrating XXX and booking Kodak Black for festival sets. Different scene, same problems.

 

The great thing about the crowd situation yesterday, in my opinion, is that because of the size of the stage areas, you could sort of pick how involved you wanted to be. For some bands, I moved up close to the front where the energy was high. Others I stayed further back, and even sat on the ground while watching.

Where I was at in the Black Stage GA pit at the end of the night, people were having a blast for Bring Me the Horizon and Paramore's sets. High energy and super fun.

 

people complaining about nostalgia bait is funny

I'm trying to go next Saturday, most likely flying in the morning and taking a red eye back, most stoked for Boys Like Girls

 

My biggest FOMO is that I think this show was my best chance to get a Paramore crowd of actually enjoy

 

When Boys Like Girls stopped mid-song in The Great Escape and asked everyone to put away their phones, the feeling in the crowd completely changed. Everyone was really engaged. It was kind of astonishing. As someone who never records shows just because I'm not interested, I had never thought it would have that much of an effect.

 

No phone shows absolutely rule.

 

I'm just gonna parachute in here - as someone who was never going to go to WWWY but loved the line up and felt a bit of schadenfreude when Saturday was cancelled, I got a pang of jealousy seeing all the bands find ways to play at different clubs, pop up shows, DIYs shows, doing whatever they could to make the most of a shitty situation. From an outsider's perspective, it felt cool and was happy for fans who might not have gotten what they wanted but still got a pretty cool experience nonetheless.

 

Lotta folks showing their whole ass by admitting pleasure for Saturday getting axed.

 

A lot of people doing the same with negative reactions to it being cancelled, TBH. It was a weak day all-around for behavior on the Internet around this whole thing.

(Except on Chorus. Per usual, a rare oasis of reasonable individuals while the rest of the Internet loses its mind.)

 

yeah I drove 10 hours that day and paid over 100 in gas. so funny lol!

 

jfc I looked at the Instagram comments

The elder emos also have a Karen side apparently. My word.

 

Right? It's always good to see Ticketmaster, LiveNation, etc. get egg on their face, but not at the expense of ~80,000's people's money, time, energy and misery.

 

Okay any tips or tricks to know for next weekend?

What time to get in line to get in? Best way to get into GA Pit? Wait times on food/drinks? Merch lines sounded horrible.

 

I guess AAR did a similar thing to MCR

 

Yeah wtf happened here

 

No idea

ive curated my feed to be a Paramore or WWWY video 33% of the time.

 

The whole AAR set was hysterical. They really leaned into it being a cash grab but in a fun way. Multiple mentions of them being the Bionicle band and dedicated Move Along to anyone that collected lego’s and then took a really sentimental wholesome angle when introducing The Last Song. The coolest part about the entire festival was just how stoked all the bands seemed to be to play to this many people.

 

The oddest pit I saw was Story Of The Year. About eight 250+ lb dudes going wild. At one point, one of them started sharing a plate of curly fries with those in the pit before pouring them into the mouth of another guy. Very strange.

 

Never been a big fan of them, but I sat through waiting for Manchester/AK3/Thursday. They absolutely killed it.

 

that Bionicle commercial got me to buy my first album ever lol

 

How can what mcr was doing be interpreted as anything but cynical? Ok, they’re making some comment on cashing in on nostalgia or something, but they are also still taking a fat check from livenation and charging fans for that cheap ass shirt. So what does that really say?

 

How was Alkaline Trio? What was their set like?

 

Hahaha I saw all of that. Same pit with the guy wearing boxing gloves