The Astroworld tragedy is what happens when punk is stripped down to merely the aesthetic without its culture
felt nearly countercultural. Trading slickness and sensuality for discord and chaos was and still is elating. The ability to completely release your body and emotions is cathartic, and doubly so for a rager who has been cooped up in their house for more than a year because of the pandemic.
But the difference between the Astroworld Festival and previous shows is that the chaos was uncontrolled. What happened at Astroworld was a departure from the punk culture. Rooted in punk and metal shows was a sense ofand safety that took years to develop after the AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses crowd crushes. This etiquette hasn’t fully crossed over with today’s rap fans or artists.
People who died at Astroworld were as young as 14, and a nine year old was seriously injured. Scott deals with a crowd young enough to have read about the overcrowded and violent Woodstock ‘99 festival in a textbook rather than to have lived its horrifically similar experience. The unwritten rules of punk spaces – if someone falls, pick them up; shoulders, no elbows; don’t pull people into the fray – predate the people who occupy them now, and it’s part of the reason why ragers wereAnd to top it off, Scott encourages the mayhem. At the Lollapalooza festival in 2015, Scott was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after inciting fans to ignore security and rush the stage.
Mayhem has always been the bedrock of Scott’s stardom but that doesn’t excuse his lack of care. The performer occupies a bully pulpit during his show, and what he says could mean the difference between life and death for fans. Others in the space have been careful, and have been applauded. A$AP Rocky, one of the pioneers of hip hop’s punkness, halted his Rolling Loud performance in 2019 to
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