Obviously I love concerts and I always have a good time no matter what, but I can’t deny that there are some things that I frequently see or experience at concerts that drive me crazy. Most of them have to do with people in the audience rather than the show itself. An annoying audience can distract from a good concert.
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Some of my Memorable Concerts
I started off by trying to rank my concert experiences but picking favorites feels like trying to pick a favorite child. There hasn’t been a concert where I didn’t have the time of my life so it was hard to put any of them in last place. Instead I’ll just tell you about the some that stand out to me and what made them memorable.
Continue readingMy Concert Bucket List
I’ve seen over 30 artists and bands (including opening acts) in concert, but there is always room in my heart for more! Here are 8 artists that are on my concert bucket list. (Also known as: reasons I really need COVID-19 to go away so concerts can be a thing again.)
Continue readingWhen Sickness Strikes on a Concert Day
My life is largely spent counting down the days until my next concert, so it’d take a lot for something to happen that stops me from going. (Unless of course it gets canceled for some reason or another.) Nobody likes getting sick. When you’re sick, all you want to do is stay home and sleep. That wasn’t an option for me though when I got sick the day before I had two concert days in a row back in June 2018.
Continue readingMy Thoughts on Jonas Brothers: Chasing Happiness
During my downtime that comes with the on-campus semester being cut short, I watched the Jonas Brothers’ documentary Chasing Happiness. The documentary came out in 2019 and is available on Amazon Prime Video. I chose to watch this because the Jonas Brothers are on my list of people I want to see in concert one day (a complete list coming soon).
Continue readingConversation with a Concert Expert
This week I interviewed someone who I consider to be a concert expert. (Through email because social distancing!) I met Alicia when I was 13 because she was friends with my older sister. Over the years I’ve gotten closer to her and concerts are a big part of why. We have similar taste in music and have some of the same favorite performers. I’ve been to several concerts with Alicia, and there have also been times when we both attended the same concert but with different people. If I’m a 10 on the Concert Expert Scale, then Alicia is a 1,000. Any concert-related questions I have, I usually ask her. I know concerts are a big part of her life, so I wanted to get her input about her own experiences and concerts in general!
Read our conversation below.
Continue readingWorking Up the Nerve to go to a Concert Alone
If I had worked up the nerve to go to concerts alone in the past I would have saved myself and others a lot of money. I have considered going alone to several concerts before. Sometimes people in my life can’t afford it, or they aren’t willing to pay as much as I am for a ticket, or they simply are not a fan of the artist I want to see. This either ends with me not going to the concert at all, or buying two tickets and bribing someone to come with me.
Continue reading“Maybe the way to overthrow the patriarchy is to listen to boy bands.”
I recently read a post on the social journalism platform Medium called “The Social Implications of Dissing “Boy Bands”” written by Heidi Samuelson. This post struck a personal chord with me. Samuelson writes about how boy bands are perceived by society and the implications those perceptions have on fans, specifically teenage girls, and on the band members themselves. Growing up, music, fandom, and boy bands were a big part of my life and helped me get through high school. Boy bands played a huge role in jumpstarting my concert obsession, and still play a role in my concert-going today. However, as Samuelson writes about, I experienced a lot of people who thought my interests were stupid or silly.
Continue readingWho Am I?
Welcome to Backstage Pass! As you may already know from my About Me, I’m Victoria and one of my favorite hobbies is going to concerts. It is not a cheap hobby to have, but it is an addicting one. I was first bit by the concert bug in 2010 when I was 12 years old and went to see Justin Bieber perform at the Times Union Center in Albany, NY. (My actual first concert was the American Idol tour in 2006 but I don’t really count that because I can’t remember much from it.)
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