Last week, the Oklahoma City metal band chatpileband waded into their Twitter mentions to respond to a complaint. Their headlining show in London, the user moaned, was only 45 minutes long.
“My friend,” the band responded, “I’m begging you to go to a punk show once or twice in your life.” On the surface it’s a fairly unremarkable exchange, simply another example of how Twitter emboldens the loud and the wrong.
But beneath the surface, it shows how audience entitlement towards bands is developing and raises troubling questions about what we expect from the musicians who entertain us.
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