The presale fatigue is so real. There's so much hype for the presale and because concert tickets are a huge investment--and we're now competing with fans from around the globe for all shows--if we don't get a ticket during the presale or that first sale, then that's it. You take the L and move on. Meanwhile, seats sit on secondary markets unsold. It's such a shame.
*Insert the Olivia Wilde nodding gif* I'll be dreaming of the day that even just a fraction of these get implemented...What I've been sensing from the K-pop end of things is a deliberate denying of transformative changes that benefit the fans. I've written before that the industry is now manufacturing disappointment for the sake of it, because that's what keeps fans coming back. Not getting the best tickets, not getting the merch you want, not getting a specific photocard or limited edition album and so on. It is exploitative and manipulative on purpose. That frustration felt by the fans will most probably overrule the dampened morale like you rightly pointed out, and that's what drives up sales. Fans are not considered as emotional beings anymore, but only in commercial terms. It infuriates me all the time, like, how is this allowed?!
Having watched the ongoing manipulation of fans for over 40 years (if you really want to feel your jaw hit the floor, read about the games with buying tickets for the Michael Jackson tour in 1984), I’ll say up front that the only reason you won’t see so many of your innovations implemented is because either there’s too much money tied up in keeping things the same or the people keeping things the same are too arrogant and lazy to change. Instead of cursing the darkness, though, I would LOVE to see more musicians and artists of all sorts do an end-run around the bums and show that it’s possible to make money AND grow prestige while making the bums bankrupt. (One thing I can predict for sure is that a lot of the ticket pricing games will end, decisively and brutally, once a certain percentage of boomers and GenXers who have been encouraging the current system die off or simply run out of money. Way too much of the current game comes from pointing and yelling “Well, that’s how the Rolling Stones and the Eagles are doing it!”)
I definitely have to do more reading on him! I was shocked enough when I learned he would host movie nights for the fans that would just hang out by the gate of his house.
And I definitely don't expect implementation--especially the US is so monopolized it feels like a lost cause. But it feels good to put down ideas for how things could work.
The presale fatigue is so real. There's so much hype for the presale and because concert tickets are a huge investment--and we're now competing with fans from around the globe for all shows--if we don't get a ticket during the presale or that first sale, then that's it. You take the L and move on. Meanwhile, seats sit on secondary markets unsold. It's such a shame.
*Insert the Olivia Wilde nodding gif* I'll be dreaming of the day that even just a fraction of these get implemented...What I've been sensing from the K-pop end of things is a deliberate denying of transformative changes that benefit the fans. I've written before that the industry is now manufacturing disappointment for the sake of it, because that's what keeps fans coming back. Not getting the best tickets, not getting the merch you want, not getting a specific photocard or limited edition album and so on. It is exploitative and manipulative on purpose. That frustration felt by the fans will most probably overrule the dampened morale like you rightly pointed out, and that's what drives up sales. Fans are not considered as emotional beings anymore, but only in commercial terms. It infuriates me all the time, like, how is this allowed?!
I can definitely see the disappointment being used as intermittent reinforcement which tends to strengthen investment.
I don't get how it's allowed either. It seems so outright unethical.
Having watched the ongoing manipulation of fans for over 40 years (if you really want to feel your jaw hit the floor, read about the games with buying tickets for the Michael Jackson tour in 1984), I’ll say up front that the only reason you won’t see so many of your innovations implemented is because either there’s too much money tied up in keeping things the same or the people keeping things the same are too arrogant and lazy to change. Instead of cursing the darkness, though, I would LOVE to see more musicians and artists of all sorts do an end-run around the bums and show that it’s possible to make money AND grow prestige while making the bums bankrupt. (One thing I can predict for sure is that a lot of the ticket pricing games will end, decisively and brutally, once a certain percentage of boomers and GenXers who have been encouraging the current system die off or simply run out of money. Way too much of the current game comes from pointing and yelling “Well, that’s how the Rolling Stones and the Eagles are doing it!”)
I definitely have to do more reading on him! I was shocked enough when I learned he would host movie nights for the fans that would just hang out by the gate of his house.
And I definitely don't expect implementation--especially the US is so monopolized it feels like a lost cause. But it feels good to put down ideas for how things could work.
Absolutely. Best of all, there’s always the opportunity to implement so many of these once there’s an opening to do so.