The Killers Concert and its ironies
So this week has had it’s ups and downs. On the plus side I got to see a friend I’ve known since the 5th grade. She drove over for The Killers concert yesterday. For the most part I enjoyed it…. well minus the retarded college kids smoking their pot like they’re life depends on it. And the fans that refuse to sit down. *inserts dry laugh*
Truth to be told, I didn’t know much about the band, so it was weird finding out about them at their concert. Since the tickets were free… I don’t have much to complain about, though these guys are defiantly not what I’d listen to. I love rock… but this band was too pop-punk-ish. I think the thing that amused me the most was how the majority of the people at the concert all fit into one genre. The college pre-kids. No goths, no grudge, basically… no real ‘rock fan’ that I cold see from my view from bleachers. There were a few Asian… after all this crowd is pro-preppy… so fobish Asians would be a norm no? I only saw one black person during the entire 4 hours of the concert. That actually amused me the most I think… how this was clearly a ‘white-people’ music.
Which brings me to my random thought… so we still fight against racism… and yet… unconsciously we already divided what’s ‘black’ and what’s ‘white’ even in music. Granted there are a small percentage that cross the ‘border’ of the musical segregation… but for the mass majority… you’ll see more white people at a Blink182 concert then black people; and there will be more black people at a 50cent concert. And more Asians then Whites or Blacks, at a Rain concert.
Where’s the equality in this? Is this what we call ‘free of segregation’?