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Like you every week, I seem to see another story about a musician having something thrown at them on stage.

Let me just read to you some of these headlines. Drake hit by cell phone fan throws on stage during concert.

Pink stunned by fan throwing their mother's ashes onto stage during show.

Ava Max slapped by concert goer on stage.

And after reading these, I can't help but ask, what? And then also, why?

It makes no sense to me. Why would you pay so much money to stand on the floor of a big concert,

only to try to physically harm the person you allegedly adore?

Make it make sense, please.

Many factors have come together to create this perfect storm of stressful,

expensive concert experiences.

I spent all summer thinking about this, but it wasn't until I watched YouTuber Tiffany Ferguson's

breakdown last week that something clicked. Wanting that high cost and effort to be worth it,

and seeking out that dream experience that you've been imagining and hoping for,

can potentially, one, either make you extra sensitive to everyone else around you,

anyone being annoying or disruptive, or two, can even make you act selfishly in pursuit of your

perfect night. Entitlement. As ticket prices soar, the never-ending barrage of products to buy

keep coming, I mean how many vinyl variants can one artist sell. And as we're closer than ever,

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