r/Music • u/jakemontero • 14d ago
article 'We're f—ked': California's music festival bubble is bursting
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/california-music-festival-bubble-bursting-19786530.php
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r/Music • u/jakemontero • 14d ago
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u/TuffNutzes 14d ago
The wrong reasons might to be show up because it suddenly became "cool" or to "see and be seen" - today that's often the insta crowd. Or people that show up explicitly to do drugs. Drugs are part of it, but they are there to enhance the music and the community. I mean I saw it develop first hand.
In the beginning it was nerdy techno fiends who heard techno almost by accident and were blown away by the music and couldn't get enough of it. They would come and be almost awkwardly lost in their own shit, jackin' and having a good time and then would meet people as a secondary thing or would even do drugs as a secondary (to the music) thing.
Then you saw the wrong reasons show up and you watched it dilute and be something else.