So I was recording a video about this yesterday and as I was wrapping up I received an email about the 2023 lineup being announced. So we're trying this again but this time we're going in a completely different direction. Hello internet, welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, my name is Max. In this video we're going to be discussing the most hyped up music festival of this gear the one we were young festival. We're going to be discussing why people think that this is too good to be true, a potential scam and overall discuss the controversy that comes along with it. In addition to this, we are going to be discussing the 2023 lineup that just announced yesterday and figure out why they decided to announce this before the first festival even began. Let me know your thoughts on the comments below and if you are planning on going next week or next year let me know what bands you planning to see. If you've been mabarded by these festival posters all over your social media on the day that it was announced, you might be entitled to some compensation. I remember exactly where I was when the first lineup dropped and at first I thought it was like some fan-made thing that someone made on Tumblr. It wasn't until the bands on the lineup started posting on their official social media accounts to confirm in my eyes that this is something that's actually happening which you could only ask why. We're looking at a plethora of bands on this lineup here. Some we haven't even heard from in years. We're looking at bands like Mike Embeco Romance, Paramore, Pierce DeVale, Bring Me The Horizon, Avril Lavigne, Taking Back Sunday, even bands I haven't even heard from in years such as Boys Like Girls, All-American Rejects, Law Dispute and even Hot-Dorn Heights. But since the announcement of this lineup there has been a lot of discussion on whether or not this is actually realistic. If you take into account that there are 65 bands on this poster and according to the official festival there's only going to be three stages. If you really do the math we're looking at 30 minutes per set with a five minute change time which that sounds very unrealistic. Now according to the official festival we're looking at a day that runs from 11am to 12am which leaves some room for the headliners and we also have to give a benefit of the doubt for festivals that have had the same structure as this such as Vans Warped War. They had the same amount of bands if not more and they too all had to play on the same day. Grandsand they had six stages instead of three but it's still somewhat doable. Circling back to the festival poster we're looking at big name bands with huge band bases that are going to come out and see them. We're going to touch on why this is anxiety inducing to some people later but just know that a lot of people have their eyes on this festival and it's going to come at a price. In a normal music festival such as Lala Pulusa, Governor's Wall or even Coachella you have the option to buy an entire weekend pass or just one day of the festival. Originally when we were young Fest is supposed to be a one day festival. After the tickets sold out they released the second day on the 24th and then after those tickets sold out they released a random third day on the 29th. So in total we are working with three days here. If you look at the pricing for this festival it is very very expensive. A one day GA tickets start at $225 when tickets went on sale. They also have VIP tickets which start at $500 and they either have this weird thing called GA Plus where the only upgrade is an air-conditioned bathroom and a dedicated entry line and that starts at $400. Keep in mind these prices are for one day of the festival. There are no weekend passes for this. A normal music festival ticket for an entire weekend costs as much if not less than a one day GA plus ticket for when we were young Fest. This festival also offers hotel packages which starts at $500 per person if you're just doing regular GA but even if you take into account if you get the entire weekend you still only have the option to choose either the 24th or the 23rd. There are also options to use payment plans which is very common for most music festivals but I heard as time went on they have been canceling plans for some people and just refunding them their tickets. I don't know if this was just like the fact that they oversold capacity and they had to refund a few people or it was just like a random error which sucks for the person that got refunded if they really wanted to go. I don't know why they decided to just sell the festival for like each separate day. I understand that the lineup is going to be the same but if you knew that there was going to be like a weekend involved you should have probably released weekend passives. For what I've gathered in this information this is definitely set up to be a cash grab and I'm not surprised just look at the demographic. The attendees of these festivals are all retired emails are going to use their pay time off to get a nostalgia hit. They will spend the money to see my chemical romance live for the first time in years or maybe even for the first time but of course consumerism aside that does not address the claims about this festival being a logistical disaster and yet again we only have one company to blame. What really sparked controversy about this festival being a thing is because of the fact that this festival is being backed by live nation. You're probably wondering Max, does a live nation run almost every concert in festival? Why would people be worried about this? Let's throw back to two months ago before this festival announcement. On November 5th, 2021, Astral World, a music festival backed by both live nation and Travis Scott was happening in his hometown Houston, Texas. The festival ends in tragedy with 10 deaths and Justin's injured due to a crowd crash during Scott's performance. Half of the blame went to Travis because it is the responsibility of the performer to stop the show when something is wrong. But the other half went to live nation as they were the company running the event and they were responsible for the layout of the festival grounds, the quantity of staff and the security that was meant to be there, and overall prioritizing the concert goers making sure they have a good time at the show. The music festival being announced literally not long after this event raised a lot of red flags in some people because they were in firm belief that an Astral World 2.0 was going to happen. And while I understand that this tragedy is very serious and as a concert goer myself, this is one of my biggest fears, we also have to look at the demographic of what this specific festival is attracting. If you've ever been to a hardcore email, puncture of any kind, you would understand that the pits kind of go crazy in there. We also have the proper etiquette to take care of each other while we're there. From lifting people off the ground if they fall in, making space for people who need to exit and forming a circle around someone to make sure they're not getting trampled while tying their shoe. Of course, with the Astral event, that is all beyond the concert goers control, even if they were mindful of other people, it would still be hard for them to get out. All of this to say, live nation releasing this festival and having the price be what it is, it is very clear that this festival is going to be paying the court fees for this massive lawsuit because of Astral World. So as of right now, they actually released the map of the festival grounds and from what I've gathered, I guess there was some kind of controversy about the fact that they've decreased the VIP area, which I think VIP is useless, but if you want to spend the money on that, you do you. In addition to this, I don't know if it's just the fact that it's not set to scale, but it just looks very small to me. According to their official Twitter, set times will be released on the 17th of October, which will answer a lot of questions about how they're going to schedule this. Will we have fair scheduling? Will we have enough time to see all the bands that we want to see? We really won't know until then. While we're at it, we might as well look at the lineup for 2023. At first glance, it hurts my eyes looking at this because of how green it is. We have the same amount of nostalgia hits as this year's lineup. Our top two headliners are Green Day and Blink 282. I know that Blink 182 just announced a tour and they also brought Tom back. So congratulations to Blink 182. We also have a few big bands that aren't on this year's lineup, which makes sense, but I really shocked that they're on here. I don't know why 5.6 is of summer is on here, but that's on me. There's also a few bands that I was really wondering why they weren't on this year's lineup. And I guess because they were going to be on next years, like say anything in yellow card, I was really hoping they were going to be on this year's lineup, but I guess they're just going to be playing next year instead. As we move farther down, we will see a few bands that are kind of like on the newer end of the whole spectrum. So movement, citizen, turnover, the front bottoms, knucklepuck. So yeah, all in all, it's really just the same thing. It's just like kind of filling in the gaps that was missing this year, which I guess was why they decided to announce the lineup so early. Like I would imagine if they were going to announce it this year, it would be after the first festival happened. So I guess this just them being very confident that the first festival is going to go well. We won't know until next week. Since the big surge of concern from social media about this festival, the hype of it really died down. We have to keep in mind that this festival was announced in January and as time went on, the bands that are on the lineup have or are currently touring right now. So for example, if you want to see Paramore, instead of flying all the way to Las Vegas to see them, you might as well wait until they come into your area later this year. Even with the pressure of next year's lineup happening, we really don't know what's going to happen until it rolls around. But the festival is happening in a week and even after all of the conspiracies, the potential scams, the claims of it being a quote unquote, emo fire fest, as I mentioned in the title, how will we know that all the speculation that we've seen is in fact true? Well, there's only one way to find out.