I'll say it until no one really wants to hear it anymore; it is a problem of curation and audience. These types of acts are universally meaningless to me as a lover of music, and if you investigate the history of what music actually becomes popular here then it becomes quickly apparently that the musical tastes of people in this country are far more deeply varied than anyone is giving is credit for. I think Massive Attack could basically sell out whatever they want here; that Pearl Jam can't sell shit through their cynical tour with a now 3rd-or-4th-bassist-pixies in tow should not really surprise anyone - Edder Vedder has a terrible voice and his music has largely aged extremely poorly! Green Day are adults who dress as children! Put Springsteen in any stadium and watch the people turn up in droves.
Green Day playing Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety is a show I would've gone to. Alas.
"DO YOU HAVE THE TIME, TO LISTEN TO ME WHINE."
Should have been my headline haha.
I'll say it until no one really wants to hear it anymore; it is a problem of curation and audience. These types of acts are universally meaningless to me as a lover of music, and if you investigate the history of what music actually becomes popular here then it becomes quickly apparently that the musical tastes of people in this country are far more deeply varied than anyone is giving is credit for. I think Massive Attack could basically sell out whatever they want here; that Pearl Jam can't sell shit through their cynical tour with a now 3rd-or-4th-bassist-pixies in tow should not really surprise anyone - Edder Vedder has a terrible voice and his music has largely aged extremely poorly! Green Day are adults who dress as children! Put Springsteen in any stadium and watch the people turn up in droves.