{"id":170,"date":"2026-04-19T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/?p=170"},"modified":"2026-04-21T02:44:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T02:44:30","slug":"why-music-festivals-feel-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/2026\/04\/19\/why-music-festivals-feel-different\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Music Festivals Are Different Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/88b0246e60da4709c7f18c76230e1190fb2c8ff4\/96_0_4872_2923\/master\/4872.jpg?width=1200&amp;height=900&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;s=fe14c3f9a2c77ec1c9a84e893973a285\" alt=\"Concerts ruined by selfish people using their phones | Mobile phones | The  Guardian\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With Coachella fresh on everybody&#8217;s minds, I felt inspired to write a few words about the origin of the festival, <em>Bieberchella, <\/em>those damn phones, and why we get together to do it all over and over and over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While people seem to pretty divided on whether or not they love or hate music festivals, I can definitely side with loving them. Humans have congregated together to dance in song and ritual since the dawn of our existence, and the modern-day music festival is just a continuation of that: something we\u2019ve always done, and always will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only now, we have phones and lasers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to my article below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-stephanie-039-s-world wp-block-embed-stephanie-039-s-world\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"yeHKfznbwt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/2026\/04\/19\/the-foreseeable-future-of-music-festivals\/\">The foreseeable future of music festivals<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The foreseeable future of music festivals&#8221; &#8212; Stephanie&#039;s World\" src=\"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/2026\/04\/19\/the-foreseeable-future-of-music-festivals\/embed\/#?secret=aSKUqR9SEH#?secret=yeHKfznbwt\" data-secret=\"yeHKfznbwt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Coachella fresh on everybody&#8217;s minds, I felt inspired to write a few words about the origin of the festival, Bieberchella, those damn phones, and why we get together to do it all over and over and over again. While people seem to pretty divided on whether or not they love or hate music festivals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myweb.fiu.edu\/sloor002\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}