Yeah but that’s why there is pageantry to the show. 60,000 people singing along with Bono with a massive A/V display adding to the experience is a great time, and completely different from being in a 3,000-person theater.

Smaller shows have their charms for sure. Huge shows create their own energy where the connection is to the crowd rather than the artist. Either way, it’s pretty naive to think that some sort of social movement is going to deter acts from booking the biggest venue they can fill.

Not to mention that Swift and Beyonce can sell that many tickets at those prices because 1. duh they have dozens of recent hits each, but also 2. they have generation-spanning appeal. My wife took my daughters to each of her last two tours (including Eras) and yes it was a major investment that we won’t make for…

Best part of the “never” bit is that it’s not like their entire relationship hasn’t been fully publicized from the jump.  But no, apparently there’s a behind the scenes love story so great that they kept it to themselves because it was so white-hot.

Have to say her SVU character may be 0ne of the least likeable in the show’s history, which is saying something. I know they tried to explain her somewhat but way too late.

Wouldn’t mind some Dowd.  He was cranky, but knew his shit.

So your computer also learned that night what it means to me young.  Infection from randos.

Denied for lack of Paxton.

I always roll my eyes a bit at the 80s “because cocaine” justification but this may actually be the legit result of a whole bunch of people high as shit at exactly the same time.

This is a movie that looked so silly I never paid much attention to it but damn the cast and especially the people involved in original songs and scoring the movie are out of all proportion to the end result. Lane, Dafoe, Bubba, Rick fucking Moranis...I need to watch this again out of curiosity.

I remember nothing about this movie except the title and I Can Dream About You, and now totally want to revisit it knowing Lane stars as a sexy rock singer.  Rowr.

Didn’t you just reinforce the point, though, that he was given opportunities that turned out to be crap and the industry pretty much called it a day with him?

Swift and Beyonce broke too many less popular artists’ minds about what the market will bear. They both have massive catalogs of huge hits built over two-ish decades, and Swift in particular recognized that a tour that focused on her recent more quiet music alone wouldn’t make for a super-compelling show. Watching…

Yeah but she’s hit the limit with the nose work.  Any more and she’s going to look like Michael Jackson.

I don’t have any feeling about her one way or the other, but agree that the “this is me now” stuff in particular is making a certain package of herself to sell to the public. Affleck is a pretty low-key guy in terms of public appearances so this has to be pretty annoying. No way she doesn’t spend her days around the…

Feels like IRL Hi Fidelity if Cusack had kept at it.

It’s been interesting watching my kids develop media habits that combine digital and physical.  They all have turntables and collect vinyl records of things they consider important.  The rest can go on playlists to be enjoyed for now, but without any need to own.  

I’m onboard with the suggestion that tickets can only be sold back to the venue, promoter, whoever, at face value and then resold at the same price.

I won’t get into the semantics of whether two episodes per night counts as all at once, but agree that two at a time is about all I can take without a breather.

At first I read that as Psycho German, which works, but Goreman is perfectly on the nose.