Ja Don't Rule
The only thing it proves is that some rich people have more money than brains. But that's hardly news is it.
It just seems like something we wouldn't pay attention to. Any more than the Electric Daisy Carnival - an EDM festival. It simply isn't relevant to our interests, either musical or cultural, and is interesting only in how much it turned out to be all hot air and hype, and how abjectly it failed. And even the failure is, in mass-cultural terms, more a matter of Billy Blatherskiter not being a seasoned or audacious enough bullshitter to grab the narrative, spin it, and convert it to a triumph.
I'd never heard of it before seeing it here. I expect I won't hear much about it in the future either.
But I hate to miss an opportunity to laugh at rich people being stupid.
Or watching a rich person's attempt at making himself wealthier fail spectacularly. This is up there next to Geraldo Rivera opening the Al Capone vaults (which contained nothing) on live TV, Jay Leno's failed attempt at going prime time, and the 2016 Cleveland Browns as far as that makes me wish I could laugh in the perpetrators' faces.
Phish would not have the audacity to charge $250,000 a ticket.
Fyre Festival Organizers Hit With $100 Million Lawsuit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009
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The lawsuit was filed by concertgoer Daniel Jung and his attorney, Mark Geragos, who says the whole debacle “was nothing more than a get-rich-quick scam from the very beginning” and that they “intended to fleece attendees for hundreds of millions of dollars by inducing them to fly to a remote island without food, shelter or water — and without regard to what might happen to them after that.”
Defendants instructed attendees to upload funds to a wristband for use at the festival rather than bringing any cash. As such, Attendees were unable to purchase basic transportation on local taxis or buses, which accept only cash. As a result … at least one attendee suffered a medical emergency and lost consciousness after being locked inside a nearby building with other concert-goers waiting to be airlifted from the island,” according to an excerpt from Variety.
Tee-hee
Fyre Festival organizers Billy McFarland and Ja Rule pose together at PHD Terrace Dream Midtown on December 14, 2016 in New York City.
Which one is Ja Rule?
It's unfortunate that concert goers were let down. I don't care what the attendees' bank accounts reflect, I don't get happy when I hear that a musical fest went wrong. Those here taking pride in its failure...why? It would suck if this happened to a prog fest.
You're right. Although the humor we see comes from the grandiose promises of Billy Blatherskite (the white guy in the photo, though he's usually got a million candle-power grin and a perfect shave) versus the disastrous reality. If it was just a regular festival that went wrong, that'd be a shame. But the inflated ticket prices, the boasts of upscale exclusivity, the combination of second-string acts and promises of first-string viral Internet celebrities to hang with - Billy was selling cool to people with more money than cool. Which makes the attendees seem a bit pathetic besides unfortunate. They wanted to be something they weren't, weren't content with just making money, and thought they could buy their way past the velvet rope and into the VIP Room. Which mostly just gets you the chance to hang with a higher class of wannabees, but try telling them that.
For me the fascinating thing is why the organizers let everything get so out of hand.
At some point, when it was painfully clear they would not be able to deliver on any of the promised accommodations and amenities, why didn't they have the good sense to cancel the event??!
They just thought that by magic they would pull everything off? And everyone would be happy in their disaster relief tents and cheese sandwiches? And everyone would go home saying "wow man that was great"?
To be fair... Woodstock turned into an unmitigated disaster, didn't it, and nobody wonders aloud why the organizers didn't cancel it.
They were probably scrambling to fix things even at the last moment, grabbing at every possible straw to pull the whole thing out of the fire even as people started showing up, concentrating on micromanaging last-minute desperate quick fixes and not on the command decision of whether it was time to pull the plug. None of them had ever done anything even vaguely like that before; they seemed to have no idea of how hard it was; and they probably figured they could throw some money and salesmanship at anything and have it work. Billy-boy's entire career - such as it is - has been as a charmer and bullshit salesman, Ja Rule has got to have a ton of charisma or he never would have gotten anywhere as a rapper, and they've probably both gotten out of scrapes before with a bit of banana oil. So why would this be any different?
Last edited by Baribrotzer; 05-02-2017 at 12:29 AM.
I don't have anything against the people who went, or begrudge them the right to spend their money the way they want. But if the food at ProgDay was advertised as a culinary experience and everyone paid $1000 for two lunches and what you got was one of those lame-ass American Cheese sandwiches it would be funny, at our expense.
Don't get me wrong, the food at ProgDay is perfect for what it is, and well-priced to boot.
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Plus, the weather was an unforeseen factor along with the gate crashing. Woodstock was a musical success and history had been good to it. Fyre could never recover to be anything but the debacle it was. And, contrary to Woodstock, it was created for all the wrong reasons.
Furthermore, Woodstock is somewhat renowned for all the people who claimed they were there, but weren't. I'm pretty sure you won't see that with Fyre. Probably the opposite, with people being embarrassed to admit they were there.
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