September 22, 2009
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here’s a strange thing. i’ve realized that i don’t like it when singers smile too much. i went to this show a few years ago that was a farewell, last show for a popular local band. the singer came out and everyone cheered, and he was smiling, getting into the crowd. but he kept fucking smiling. he was smiling while he was singing, in-between songs, when he was talking to the crowd. to me, it looked like he was totally loving the good will the crowd was laying on him. he was loving it a little too much, the cocky bastard.
i went to a show last night and the girl was doing the same thing. she was totally hot, btw, and everyone loved her. the rest of the band was set up on stage while the singer was nowhere to be found. the band did a short song without the singer, then the singer traipsed out on stage to an uproar. they loved her. she was smiling her ass off. she came to the edge of the stage and did one of those “say what?” things where she leans to the crowd and cups her ear. the crowd cheers louder. man, they fucking loved her.
so she did her whole show, smiling the whole time, raising her arms in the air, sometimes in an effort to make people cheer louder when it was already really cheery in there, but also sometimes in an “i am the master” type pose. both of which i found incredibly annoying. she was so overtly loving the fact that people were cheering her on and encouraging them to do it more. at the end of the show she gives a little “give it up for [her own band's name]! let’s hear it for [her own band's name]!” now i’ve been to a lot of shows and i have never ever seen a band ask you to cheer for them like that. it’s usually a shout out to the opening bands, or to the crowd, or to the bartenders, or ANYONE but themselves. so i was a little appalled at her demand that i cheer for her band. but not nearly as appalled as when she immediately followed that up with “give it up for ME!” i’m not sure if i imagined it or not but i could have sworn she said “give it up for ME! (lower voice) you love me.” amazingly everyone cheered louder.
i totally get that all artists are a bit egomaniac like that, and i would so love it if people cheered for me like that. but hopefully, if i were in that position, i’d have at least the little thinnest sliver of class required to be thankful and gracious about it. i suspect people want to punch me in the face enough without me going out and getting all cocky, rock-star, douchebaggy on top of my usual assholery.
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lol. last paragraph is the funniest, especially the last sentence. i went to a KOL concert a couple of weeks ago and they were so humble and thankful. really cool i thought.
uh uh. i have never seen a band or a singer ask the crowd to give it up for THEMSELVES. that is as lame as Ryan Adams (formerly of Whiskeytown) acting like a complete douche with his audience, making them all sing along to his songs, and then obnoxiously calling out this one girl in the crowd who doesn’t appear to be singing along, shouting, “hey you, girl in the front! how come you’re not singing ‘NA NA NA’ like everybody else??! what’s wrong with you?” my friend witnessed this happen. now THAT is assholery.