Officer Abel called for reinforcements.

So fitting! Did you post this gif after the Orlando nightclub shooting too?

Beyonce is one of the artists who played a concert for Muammar Qaddafi’s son, so I wouldn’t hold your breath waiting for her to take a stand here.

I think they’re smart enough to figure out that once they cultivate their die hard fan base, they can literally do anything and their fans will justify it or put up with it.

It’s only 9:40 AM over here; I know the feels.

“Don’t go vilifying Beyoncé or Kendrick or Lorde etc, now!”

Sorry, reading is hard sometimes.

Yes, that is why I stated “Most Coachella attendees (and people in general)...”.

That’s probably true about most people, not just those at Coachella.

Can you honestly tell yourself that if this were a group of artists you were entirely ambivalent towards, you would be saying the same thing?

Let’s be honest. Most Coachella attendees (and people in general) are only as socially-compassionate as is convenient to them or as their public guilt allows. I know people who go to Coachella every year and while I think they’re “nice” people (in the sense that they aren’t blatantly awful), they don’t strike me as…

30 year old me totally agrees with you. I just..can’t anymore.

But how else am I going to spend a whole paycheck on a multi-day gauntlet of blistering sun, filthy hordes, and 2 bands I actually like embedded deep within 17 I don’t?

You forgot the worst part of his resume, Anschutz funds those horrible movie adaptations of the Chronicles of Narnia.

Phil Anschutz’s media conglomerate AEG bought the company that publishes the largest newspaper in my state a few years ago (Oklahoma, OKPUBCO). The paper(The Oklahoman) didn’t endorse anyone for…

Coachella is at this point a cultural force, shaping the summer festival season as well as, for better or worse, influencing an entire subset of festie fashion.

Purim is coming

Next thing you are going to tell me is that Burning Man is just insipid, faux edgy  trustifarian bullshit..

Music festivals are vastly overrated.

If there were acts performing that you did not enjoy, would you still say not to vilify them? Because vilifying people for their associations without logic is incredibly popular here.

So now what the hell am I supposed to do with the Steampunk/Hippie ensemble I’ve carefully curated over the past 12 months?