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The shadow of last Friday night's "Astroworld" stampede in Houston continues. Eight people died, including a boy as young as 14 and a girl aged 16, 25 seriously injured, and more than 300 fans injured.
In the end, the 50,000-person festival carnival became a "cemetery", and the festival unfortunately became one of the deadliest music events in American history.
It is unimaginable that the last pain and despair of people who have been trampled to death alive, their whole bodies have been continuously crushed by the crowd with the soles of their feet, there is no way to call for help, suffocation...
In the face of this huge tragedy, the organizers and the people involved are under investigation by the Houston police.
Now the focus of public opinion is that in addition to the host of the entire music festival, Live Nation, the rest is the main singer of the festival, Travis Scott.
Travis made little intervention throughout the tragedy, singing and dancing passionately on stage for half an hour after several fans were killed, and the audience in front of the stage did not warn.
On the one hand, the dying fans in front of the ambulance are finishing the rescue, and on the other hand, the carnival atmosphere as usual is the usual carnival atmosphere, which makes people not only uncomfortable, but also makes people doubt Travis's actions and purposes.
Enthusiastic netizens also turned out exemplary videos of other singers, and their immediate reaction to fan injuries was in stark contrast to Travis's inaction.
In 2011, when Adele sang his hit "Rolling In The Deep" at Hammersmith Apollo, the sharp-eyed Adele noticed that a fan in the center audience in front of the stage fainted.
Despite the fact that the song was turning on singing mode, Adele immediately turned to the accompaniment band behind her and shouted, "Stop, stop, someone fainted!" ”
Subsequently, Adele also personally commanded the medical staff at the scene to go to the rescue, and also directed the dredging of the "green channel".
"Sorry, doctor, go a little, in the middle of the audience!" Did you see that? Can someone show their concern? ”
Adele also used her finger direction to tell the medical team where the fainting fans were, and directed the live "traffic" on the stage.
"Did anyone go in your direction?" Everyone around gave way and let the medical team pass. ”
In the end, it wasn't until it was determined that the fainting fan received medical help that Adele resumed the show, "Thank you, this is followed by 'Rolling In The Deep'".
Lincoln Park made a similar move at the concert, where one person discovered the situation and the other band members immediately cooperated with the conductor. He also warmly shouted to fans, "We must first ensure your safety, and no one is injured is the most important." ”
Both of these "model student" operations are very different from Travis's actions last Friday night.
At the same time, these singers discovered the situation faster than anyone at the first time, which also explained a hidden problem - the singers themselves who were at the highest altitude in the whole field often used the advantage of the stage elevation to understand the whole scene.
The raised stage is not only convenient for the audience in the backroom to see the singer's own singing and performance, but also can be very convenient for the singer to observe the situation of fans in various directions at any time and actively interact with fans.
And Travis's "altitude" on Friday night was much higher than most live singers'.
The two days of review and reckoning with the chaos of Friday night, from the fans' Douyin videos and photos posted on social media, people seem to be able to see what really happened from Travis's perspective.
First of all, Travis's single lifting performance stage was once raised to the mid-air position, from the photographer's point of view, Travis itself is quite close, he uses the height advantage, just need to turn his eyes, you can definitely see what is happening here,
And the scene of the rescue scene is being staged around the photographer. The fainting and unconscious person is lying on the ground undergoing CPR, and the red and blue emergency lights that constantly flash the color change to illuminate the blind eyes...
At the same time, crazy fans also dance on the roof of the ambulance.
Travis, who was in mid-air, couldn't have failed to notice the movement of this side?!
Moreover, Travis has also voluntarily suspended the singing twice, the first time when the security guard carried the paralyzed victim out of the crowd, and the second time when the second round of stampedes began. Travis couldn't pause his performance for no reason.
Even, Travis once shouted at Mai on stage, "Do you want me to stop?" This question is obviously like a response to the accident, except that he has given the decision to stop or not to the fans who have been instigated to become crazy, and the result of the question can be imagined...
These signals are showing that Travis could not have been unaware of an accident at the scene.
After a few days, Travis finally responded to people's questions for the first time today, but it's easy to imagine that he didn't intend to take any charges for himself.
"Fans are really important to me and I always want to leave them with a positive experience.
If I knew what was going on, I would stop the show and help them get the treatment they needed. I didn't expect the situation to be so serious.
For those killed last night, we are working to determine the identity of their families and will help them through this difficult time. To be honest, I was both shocked and saddened... It is absolutely impossible to imagine such a thing happening. ”
The implication is that at that time, I may have noticed the riot, but I didn't expect that people would die, and if I knew that someone would die because of this, I would definitely stop the performance, and I was as shocked and sad as everyone else.
Kylie Jenner, who went to the scene to cheer on her boyfriend, had already made an announcement two days ago, stressing that she and Travis did not know the real situation at the scene, and that they had seen someone die from the news like people afterwards.
However, the Kylie Music Festival shared a live carnival video on Instagram, in which the ambulance lights can be seen flashing...
Children's shoes who know Travis should know that the absurd things he has done in previous concerts "complement each other" with today's events.
In 2015, when he was holding a concert in Switzerland, the yeezy sneakers on his feet were ripped off by a fanatical fan, and Travis's first reaction was to interrupt the singing, shouting fans to catch the thief and beat him up, and then the scene was instantly thrown into chaos...
In the same year, at the Chicago concert, he encouraged fans to break through the security and rush to the stage.
"All my real ragors, jump over the barricades now!" I want to make a mess! ”
While encouraging fans, he also scolded the security personnel who maintained order to intercept fanatical fans, "All give me a roll."
At the 2017 New York concert, he also directly let the helpless fans who were squeezed to the edge of the stands jump off the high stage, "I see you, do you want to jump?" They'll catch you, don't be afraid to jump! ”
Although the fans fearfully refused, "I don't want to die here", but hearing Travis's encouragement, other fans continued to squeeze over, and some people reached out and pushed out, resulting in the other party really falling off the high platform.
And Travis's "promise" was not fulfilled, the fan fell down and fell to the spine, and what was more tragic was that the security personnel took the wrong posture to take it away from the venue, resulting in a worse fracture and the lower body of the fan paralyzed...
Travis himself has repeatedly advocated the concept of "rage", and often asked fans to "rage" with him during live performances and become "thugs". In this connection, Travis's unusual behavior at previous concerts has also been explained.
And now, is it really unaware, or is it only partially aware, or is it actually already feeling bad but still insisting on continuing the concert? I believe that everyone has their own decisions in their hearts...
At present, Travis has offered to refund the ticket money of all the people who participated in the festival, the cost of the on-site audience psychological counseling who received the traumatic experience from the tragedy, and the funeral expenses of the 8 victims.
At the same time, he also canceled his next music festival performance, but the reason was not to mourn the victims of this tragedy, but to be "upset" due to the incident...
But these remedies did not allow him to escape the responsibility that he had to bear.
He has been civilly sued by a victim for $1 million for "inciting the crowd" and causing great distress to the audience.
Also indicted was Drake, who had been invited by Travis.
Civil rights lawyers in Texas also filed a lawsuit against Travis, saying it was a tragedy that could have been completely prevented and avoided.
And netizens are also fully condemning Travis.
"I hope the victim's family will prosecute him!"
"Adele stopped the show when only one person fainted! Look at this difference... This is called character! ”
"He's going to lose far more than the funeral!" He should pay that much too! ”
"What he needs is imprisonment!"
Hopefully, people can learn from this incident....
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