There are two categories of people this year: Those that have concert tickets and then there’s you.
The music bustling as energy, soaring through speakers and anthems being recited in large spaces; thundering through the air and bringing everyone to sway in unison- the power of the African sound.
However, you’re here, watching through the 48MP recording of someone who won’t keep their hand steady and screams in between your favourite part of the music.
Here’s how you can survive the rest of the month:
Throw your phone away
There’s no way you won’t see a post of your favourite artiste calling some people his true fans and you’re just there, with a squeezed face like someone that just drank lemon juice, sitting in your bed and deceiving yourself that you’re having fun too. Just get rid of your phone before you get the urge to whoop up someone.
Follow live updates online
If you’re lucky, you’d get someone with steady hands. If you’re on the other side of luck, it’s blurry videos you’d get. To be fair though, there are some really decent blogs that let you live through the concerts from their recordings. Good luck finding one of those.
Place your hope in the future
When you think about the present, you can get really sad and feel like you have failed to fulfil your 2020 promise of painting the city in rainbow colours when the lockdown gets lifted. Yet, here you are, with no access to even monochrome colours to paint the town with.
Just settle for next year; it’s almost here.
Set up a concert in your house
You do it every other week anyway, so why not? Invite your friends over and set up speakers in your house. Get those lights for extra effects and make sure you have a microphone. When you feel like it, just carry the microphone up and say “Put your hands up in the air!!”
Stop being stubborn and buy tickets
It shouldn’t even be legal for you to be a stan of your fave artiste and not be in their show. You get the see them once in a year, jumping back and forth to entertain you and you don’t want to go? Who cares if it’s your whole salary you withdraw to pay for the tickets? It’s the joy in your soul for those few hours that matters and you definitely deserve every minute of it.