Apparently concert venues are having a hard time getting Millennials to fill the seats. Well, hello. Millennial here. I think I can help.
DEAR CONCERT VENUES:
🎟️ Just tell me what the ticket costs. I do not want to select a $79 ticket and discover at checkout that it is actually $146 because of a facility fee, service fee, processing fee, and a fee for having successfully paid the other fees.
📱 Stop making ticket buying a military operation. I should not need three apps, a verified fan code, a presale password from a credit card I don’t own, and 11:00 AM availability on a Tuesday to buy two seats.
💺 Assigned seats. We did our time standing shoulder-to-shoulder at shows in 2008. Some of us have mortgages now. Some of us have sciatica.
🕖 Start earlier. A 7 PM show is not embarrassing. In fact, I would like to formally recognize whoever invented the 7 PM show.
⏰ And tell us the actual times. “Doors at 7” is not useful information if the opener starts at 8:15 and the person I came to see appears at 10:07.
🚗 Parking instructions written for a normal person. Tell me which garage to use, what it costs, and whether I will spend 55 minutes trying to leave it afterward. I am willing to pay $20 for certainty.
🍺 I will buy your $14 beer. I have accepted this. But if I miss three songs waiting for it, you have broken the social contract.
🚽 Enough bathrooms. We are in our 30s and 40s. Half of us have had children. This is now infrastructure.
🔉 It can still be loud. We are Millennials, not the Greatest Generation. But some of us are bringing earplugs now and we are no longer ashamed of it.
DEAR ARTISTS:
⏰ Please go on roughly when you said you would. We have babysitters. The babysitter has an end time. This is now a logistics problem involving several adults.
🎤 Play the songs from 2004–2014. You know which ones. We know which ones. Nobody needs to pretend otherwise.
🎶 Play some new stuff. Absolutely. We support your continued artistic development. But there is a point in the evening when you need to play the song that was on our iPod Nano while we drove to high school.
📵 You can tell us to put our phones away. We secretly want someone to make us do this anyway.
🪑 An intermission would not offend us. We can use the bathroom, answer the babysitter, check whether the dog has destroyed anything, and look at Zillow for eight minutes.
And please understand: Millennials still like concerts.
We have disposable income now. We are nostalgic. We will absolutely spend irresponsible amounts of money to hear a band we first discovered on LimeWire.
But we also have jobs, children, dogs, mortgages, lower-back problems, and a very clear memory of when concert tickets cost $35.
You want Millennials back?
Make it easy to buy the ticket. Tell us when the show actually starts. Give us somewhere to sit. Play the song from 2007.
We’ll be there.
We just need to be home by 11.
So proud of you. The journey wasn’t always easy, but you never stopped trusting the process — and it shows, on and off the court. You’ve grown into someone special. This moment is earned, not given. 🙌
I’m excited to announce my commitment to Northeastern State University!!
I’m thankful for everyone who has supported me throughout my journey. Go River Hawks!! 💚🤍 @RiverHawksWBK@Coach_Ferg@NWCoachStew
For all the casuals that missed everything that happened this NFL off-season, here's a quick recap
1. Dianna Russini was riding the dick off of Mike Vrabel for scoops
2. Every sports account is a prediction market affiliate
3. The Rams took a QB at 13 that McVay hates
4. Banner year for DUIs. Tony Romo embraced his inner Cowboy with one. Kyle Shanahan embraced his inner 49er by getting out of one. I think Jordan Addison had like 6
5. Stefon Diggs choked the shit out of his chef that he was banging then got 12 million from the Commanders who love that shit. The tried to trade for Josh Jacobs for the same reason.
6. Brandon Aiyuk became a role model to everyone who ever wanted to be a CTE influencer
7. ESPN fired everyone cool except Matt Miller who lost his arm then even more tragically was outed as a scammer
8. Aaron Rodgers reconciled with his family for attention
9. Falcons have two left handed QBs (Penix, Tua) with zero right brain cells
10. Tom Brady went off the deep end
11. Dolphins held tryouts from local citizens of Miami for every position
12. The 49ers electrical substation became sentient and went full Widow's Bay
13. Travis Kelce married an older woman. Rashee Rice missed the wedding because he was in jail for having a shitty knee or something
14. The NFL can eject players from games even when referees missed something (the DK Metcalf rule)
15. Everyone that tore an ACL or dislocated something is somehow on track to play Week 1
16. The fat kid from Superbad is going to kick your ass
Last varsity summer league night. We’ve made great strides this summer, but we’re not finished. One more opportunity to compete and grow before they head off to their Club Teams! #CougarCulture
Last week before the summer moratorium. Our girls have brought the Jucie to every workout and game this summer. Let’s finish strong and head into the break with a bang. #CougarCulture
After an amazing visit and team camp I am excited and grateful to have received an offer from Northeastern State University! Thank you to @Coach_Ferg for believing in me!
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