ThePhanastasio

I searched, and nothing came up that was precisely what I wanted to talk about, so I hope that it was appropriate to start a thread about this.

So, what do you think about people in the audience talking during concerts? I don't mean the normal talking about what's going on on the stage, songs being played, how awesome it is to be at the concert, or anything like that. I mean the people who just won't shut up, who talk through the entire concert about things which are completely trivial and stupid, often shouting to their friends to be heard over the band and completely ignoring the concert itself, aside from ceasing talking long enough to applaud at the end of a song then going right back into the, "Oh my God, did you see Jane's new car? Yah. Yah. It's like blue. It's like, a Pontiac Firebird..."

Does this irk anyone else? Does anyone else see this as completely fine, even going so far as to do this yourself, and is it usually accepted as good concert behavior in your opinion?

I personally almost always get stuck next to people who are talking through the whole show. I know that it would typically be douchey to just tell someone to shut the hell up during a show, because, I mean, it's a concert and it's supposed to be fun. But the talky people who don't seem to give a **** about being there irk me to no end. And they make my concert experience less fun than it needs to be. I always hope that someone else around me will just tell them to shut up so that I'm not the one who has to start the bad vibes, but GOD.

Also, do you think that this is really common at concerts, or am I just unlucky?

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