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Astroworld Was An Otherworldly Tragedy
Somehow this all makes sense.
These are strange times.
On Saturday night in Houston, Texas, Travis Scott is the headline act at the Astroworld Festival. Fifty thousand people gather in NRG park to watch him and Drake dance and yell amid assorted lights and pyrotechnics.
His daughter and her mother watch from the side of the stage.
People push forward seconds after he starts.
Their force crushes those in front who have no chance to escape.
Death and transfiguration.
Eight people ranging in age from 14 to 27 died.
Many more were hurt and rushed to hospitals in the area.
A security guard said someone injected him in the neck; then he blacked out— it took Narcan to revive him.
It took Narcan to revive a lot of people that night.
Eleven youngs had heart attacks — heart attacks.
Strange might be an understatement. What’s not an understatement is the certainty that Live Nation knows how to do shows like this. To insist that we can’t fob this off on random chance.
The top dog of concerts in America had more than 500 people on staff, at least fifty…
