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Jun. 23rd, 2004 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pixiecrinkleIf I read one more article that calls the performers who were supposed to play this year's lollapalooza "aging" I will scream.
Here's an example.
I joked yesterday to my friend K that they didn't sell as many tickets as they thought because it was aimed at "old people like me." I was kidding. I'm freakin' 27 years old. (OK, so I did find my first major grey hair last night, but that means nothing!) Why shouldn't younger people be interested in these bands? Better yet, why aren't they?
We were the generation that grew up with lollapalooza in high school -- why aren't we nostalgic enough to go now? We're bringing back Strawberry Shortcake, and Care Bears, and He Man in toy stores. What about age makes you unwilling to go to a two day outdoor concert?
I know it's all about demographics and the behavior of the masses, not the behavior of the individual, when it comes to marketing something like this. But it's still vexing me. If aging means I can't go to shows anymore (or that my peers don't go to shows anymore), I don't want to get older.
I'm really just venting and pouting. I'm pissed that our culture is so youth obsessed that you're out of luck over a certain age bracket. I want to act my age *and* have fun.
And I hope I'm not destined to never see PJ Harvey play live. Cause that would suck.
Here's an example.
I joked yesterday to my friend K that they didn't sell as many tickets as they thought because it was aimed at "old people like me." I was kidding. I'm freakin' 27 years old. (OK, so I did find my first major grey hair last night, but that means nothing!) Why shouldn't younger people be interested in these bands? Better yet, why aren't they?
We were the generation that grew up with lollapalooza in high school -- why aren't we nostalgic enough to go now? We're bringing back Strawberry Shortcake, and Care Bears, and He Man in toy stores. What about age makes you unwilling to go to a two day outdoor concert?
I know it's all about demographics and the behavior of the masses, not the behavior of the individual, when it comes to marketing something like this. But it's still vexing me. If aging means I can't go to shows anymore (or that my peers don't go to shows anymore), I don't want to get older.
I'm really just venting and pouting. I'm pissed that our culture is so youth obsessed that you're out of luck over a certain age bracket. I want to act my age *and* have fun.
And I hope I'm not destined to never see PJ Harvey play live. Cause that would suck.
