This is what happens when the majority of a site’s output is clickbait nonsense written by hacks: when they actually want to publish something longer and more thoughtful they don’t have anyone on staff capable of doing it anymore.

I’m not usually one of the people in the comments, braying about how far the AVClub has fallen, but...this review is almost unreadable. It’s so, so overwritten. Like, to the point that the only possible reasons are that:

Lol! This is the weirdest,most rambling, Ritalin-fueled mess I’ve ever read here.

This article is like a tasting menu…way too long, amazingly self indulgent, and hiding a few good things in a mass of filler.

I’ve seen that shit at jam band shows, man. People are idiots.

Oh-KAY punk-boi, we get it.  You have the most-est hardest-of-the-hardcore cred. None of us are worthy to rock in your pit. I’ll just slink off to the Neil Diamond tribute, if it’s ok with you.

Funny how someone can write an entire piece on this and not mention that, isn’t it?

You think people are SUPPOSED to just push and shove everyone out of the way who get there and secured their place before them? You think that’s the right behavior? People who want to get a good spot show up early. Otherwise you have to be further away. That’s concert etiquette. If you think shoving people out of the…

It’s also possible to slide closer to the stage as gaps appear in the crowd; the people in the video are body-checking their way to the front.

“How else are you supposed to get to the stage at a show?”

Then you show up early and get a spot close to the stage.  You don’t go pushing your way through a crowd because you were too lazy to show up early.  Sucks to suck and they deserved to embarrassed. 

Yeah, this incident seems to be dividing the “show up early and get a good spot” crowd from the “show up late and shove everyone out of the way to get to the front” crowd.

Yeah I think she was just being too nice/too worried about getting controversy - halting the show to stop people from being aggressive and pushing is generally a good idea, it helps avoid Astroworld situations

I think she did exactly the right thing that night. I love when bands call people out for shitty behavior. If you’re going to go to a concert to be overly aggressive and violent, you deserve to be embarrassed. She didn’t need to apologize at all.

Well that can’t be right, Travis Scott said there was no way that a performer on stage could see something happening in the crowd, even if it was multiple people being trampled to death and ambulances being brought in.

A couple of people were pushing their way towards the stage fairly aggressively. Not the worst transgression at a concert, but definitely very annoying and it was enough of a hubbub that she noticed it from the stage.

I’m sorry, but do you have flat nipples?

I am so confused; a singer is well within their rights to halt a show and call for unruly audience members to be tossed. Even the apology indicates their behavior was poor. She’s overthinking this. 

Much like with Andor, people just don’t have the patience anymore to let a story develop. In the process, they are losing out on excellently crafted works that reward the patient viewer in the end.

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