While yes, investigations are ongoing, I have a bad feeling about Travis Scott from what I’ve read about him and the situation. There were calls online to ‘cancel’ Travis Scott because of his negligence. With a situation like this, you know the result is Lawsuit City. People are gonna need a lot more than one month of online therapy to manage PTSD. All I can say is read the fine print, be careful accepting refunds because if you take them, it may forfeit your right to sue. Travis Scott just now announced that he’s paying the funeral costs for all those who died at Astroworld and giving one month free of BetterHelp online counselling to anyone who attended the festival and of course it’s a paid partnership with BetterHelp. And now there are people filing lawsuits against Travis Scott and Live Nation, and even some people suing Drake as well. He ignored police’s warnings of the crowd surge and kept performing for half an hour amid people’s pleas for help and cries in distress.Īfterwards, Travis Scott and the Kardashian-Jenners posted canned notes app apologies that clearly looked like something written by a PR person. Travis Scott kept performing even when fans were crying for help and telling him to stop and put safety first. Security staff pooh-poohed concert goers’ concerns and dismissed the surge as just a mosh pit. People fell over, people were trampled, and people were suffocated. People were running to the stage trying to get as close as they could to him. Things got worse as the day went on and in the countdown to Travis Scott’s long-awaited performance the crowd crush happened. They could have nipped it in the bud and they didn’t. Travis Scott has a history of safety issues at his shows, with him encouraging the crowd to ignore security and storm the stage at his 2015 Lollapalooza performance and there are a couple other occasions of similar things happening at his shows.ĭuring the afternoon, hundreds of fans stormed the perimeter of the festival, knocking over metal detectors and running straight past security, already a disaster and a sign of poor organisation and crowd control. As you can imagine, there was police presence, but that didn’t prevent the problem. Music festivals are a big deal and there are tens of thousands of people gathered in one space and packed pretty closely together, uncomfortable in normal times, and even worse during a pandemic. The second day of the festival was cancelled and Travis Scott is under fire because of the poor organisation that led to loss of lives, injuries, and psychological trauma. Sadly though, as of the time I’ve written this article, nine people have lost their lives – most of them in their 20s and a couple teenagers, 300 people ended up injured, and 24 ended up in hospital because of their injuries. Tens of thousands of people woke up on 5 November excited to go to the first day of Astroworld and see their favourite musicians and to tell some cool stories about it when they get together with friends or post on social media, like all of us do when we go to concerts and festivals. The festival focuses mainly on hip hop, but this year, the lineup was more diverse with even some older acts like Earth Wind & Fire and rock acts like Tame Impala in the lineup.įor those of us who aren’t hip hop fans (I’m a total boomer when it comes to music), the first we heard of this festival was the stampede that happened this year, and that’s not a good look for any festival. The first festival was held in 2018 and his goals was to bring back his childhood, with the album being named after the old Six Flags park. The Astroworld in concern here is the music festival, held in founder Travis Scott’s hometown of Houston. Travis Scott is also Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend and the father of Stormi. Singles wise, he’s been pretty successful with multiple top 40 hits. His last two albums, Astroworld and Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight, topped the albums charts. The 30 year old rapper has been releasing music since 2012. Who’s Travis Scott? He’s a rapper who is very popular and has had a lot of success. It is also the name of a music festival and an album by Travis Scott. Astroworld was the name of the Six Flags amusement park in Houston, which closed in 2005. If you Google Astroworld, you’ll find a few different things. If you’re reading my blog, you probably know what Astroworld is and what happened, but in case you’re not up to speed, I’ll explain and from there I’ll share my opinions. The online music community have been talking about one thing for days and that is the Astroworld disaster.
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