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| I love you, All Time Low, but I'm too old for you. |
It's
a sad day when you realize you are probably too old for All Time Low concerts.
I
was annoyed and irritated the entire time I was at the concert. I traveled an
hour and a half (an hour and ten minutes when I drive) to Main Street Armory in
Rochester, NY on Tuesday for my fourth ATL concert. Even though four sounds
like a lot, I like seeing bands repetitively, especially after a band releases
a new album.
You
realize you're too old for an ATL concert when everyone around you has braces,
has an unnatural hair color and their parents are standing off to the side.
Even at my first ATL concert at a mere age 16 none of this applied to me. I
feel like the young are just getting younger.
You
realize you're too old for an ATL concert when you think about your car getting
towed because you just aren't sure if where you parked is legal. You realize
you're too old for an ATL concert when you woke up at 8 a.m. for a job
interview and then think about how much sleep you're going to get after the
show because you have to work one of your jobs the next afternoon.
You
realize you're too old for an ATL concert when Alex and Jack's dick jokes just
aren't funny to you anymore. Maybe it was because I was so beyond my normal
state of angry, but the "your mom" and stripper jokes weren't making
me even smile. I used to say I would pay good money for just
Alex and Jack to do a comedy tour just the two of them but now that thought
makes me irritated.
ATL
shows and fans generally annoy me. They have mediocre openers that the crowd
thinks is amazing, and these bands always want the crowd to open a pit. Let me
tell you, no one actually wanted to open the pit on Tuesday
and one of the bands had to keep asking. If we aren't feeling it,
we aren't feeling it.
I
feel like people generally grow out of "pop-punk" but since ATL is
the only pop-punk band that I really ever listened to, it's hard for me to
outgrow them. I bought their latest album when it came out and the store's
clerk said, "oh, I used to listen to them." To be honest, I was kind
of taken back. I also bought an old Kanye CD to which she told me "good
choice."
Maybe
I'm just growing up. That's what people have to do. I have considered ATL one
of my favorite bands since I was in ninth grade but haven't given them the
title of favorite band in a while. I've become a huge rap and hip-hop fan
within the past year and a half and I've gotten more into indie and rock bands too.
In
a perfect world, ATL fans would all be the same age as me, have natural hair
colors and worry about if their car was about to be towed. I remember my first
ATL concert and it is still one of my favorite concerts to date but this last
concert will be the last ATL concert for a while. I was consistently unhappy
the entire time, the youngins got on my nerves and I was generally too old.
Overall,
the show was okay. The highlight was when Jack made one of the roadies
crowdsurf on a pizza inflatable while wearing a Finn from "Adventure
Time" costume. The shows have become too scripted and rehearsed for my
liking. The setlist wasn't that great and there was a random Green Day cover in
the encore which the crowd ate up but I thought it was pointless. The jokes are
stale and practiced beforehand.
My sister is 16 and this was her second ATL show. I always forget that my sister is the age she is but she felt the same way as me. My friend Chloe is about to go to her seventh ATL show in a few weeks and I'm really not sure how she is able to do that. All I know is that I'm too old for this.