I am ticked off. Sincerely.
The Arcade Fire just released news that they would do 3 back-to-back NYC shows, one of which was at Radio City.
Of course, I got held up in a meeting until 1.5 hours after they went on sale, and they are COMPLETELY sold out.
Most of this due to them being amazing.
However, I also wag my finger at StubHub, for encouring people to be their own scalpers. My understanding was that previously, you could only set a ticket's price up to its face value (or is this an eBay rule?). However, StubHub lets you set it anywhere.
How many people snag these ticketsonly to resell them for a profit? Does the artist or venue see any of this markup? No. And now, there are many seats gobbled up in sets of two, which makes it difficult for several friends to go and sit next to each other.
Perhaps I'll give this encouraged scalping a try to feel some sort of revenge, but it's really irritating and discouraging - sometimes I don't even try to see bands I'd love to see anymore.
Concertgoing is now for the affluent.
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Funny Singing
Listening to classic rock radio during the day constantly brings me chuckles for the silliness of it. Rockers take having fun so seriously.
But there are two moments in particular that get me every time, just because of the absurdity of how the singer does each line.
The first is John Mellencamp's (or 'Coug, as Che Monet calls him) "Pink Houses," which all my life I thought was titled "Ain't that America." I think he called it "Pink Houses because he thinks he's a poet.
Anyway, it's silly how he outbursts the line:
"And vacation down at the gulf of Mexico!"
(Listen to minute 3:17.
He does this exaggerated vibrato on "co-oh-oh" that sounds like me simultaneously singing and hoola hooping when I was 8.
The second is Billy Joel's (or as I call him, the subletter of my future home), "Big Shot" when he sings
"Yes, yes, you had to be a big shot, didn't cha"
I know I know, he sings that line like 10 times in the song. But there's one time near the end where he does this wierd voice like he got bored of playing the same chords and singing the same lines so he just mixed it up without thinking about it. You'll know it when you see it.
I have no analysis for these silly singing examples, but thought they were worth calling out.
But there are two moments in particular that get me every time, just because of the absurdity of how the singer does each line.
The first is John Mellencamp's (or 'Coug, as Che Monet calls him) "Pink Houses," which all my life I thought was titled "Ain't that America." I think he called it "Pink Houses because he thinks he's a poet.
Anyway, it's silly how he outbursts the line:
"And vacation down at the gulf of Mexico!"
(Listen to minute 3:17.
He does this exaggerated vibrato on "co-oh-oh" that sounds like me simultaneously singing and hoola hooping when I was 8.
The second is Billy Joel's (or as I call him, the subletter of my future home), "Big Shot" when he sings
"Yes, yes, you had to be a big shot, didn't cha"
I know I know, he sings that line like 10 times in the song. But there's one time near the end where he does this wierd voice like he got bored of playing the same chords and singing the same lines so he just mixed it up without thinking about it. You'll know it when you see it.
I have no analysis for these silly singing examples, but thought they were worth calling out.
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