Finally, music festivals are dealing with a serious epidemic - Coachella and Lollapalooza have officially banned selfie sticks.
Following the lead of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the festivals have warned that the ‘wands of idiocy’ will not be welcome on their upcoming summer dates, consigning fans to poorly framed selfies capturing the takers’ nostril, their neighbour’s elbow and two-thirds sky.
Lollapalooza has also banned ‘narsisstics’, which may be a pun, or may be an attempt to eradicate narcissism as a whole from the event.
While admirable, the ban is going to make featuring the work of people who have sought fame by singing about their feelings to thousands on brightly lit stages pretty difficult. (I mean, Tyler, The Creator is on the lineup. The guy calls himself The Creator. If that isn’t grounds to accuse someone of staring at the pond a little too hard, then what is?)
The ban is ostensibly on the grounds that it is a safety hazard and can impede the view of other punters, which is valid but does call in to question what gigs plan to do about this.
Either way, this is good news for almost everyone – festival attendees who don’t like being clobbered in the back of the head, Facebook friends who don’t really want to see eighty shots of friends looking suspiciously dish-eyed, and artists who feel that they don’t really make music to pout to.
The only losers are the selfie addicts themselves, who will be forced to stretch out their aims like it’s 2014.
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