i want to hear your rant on modest and otra !!!!
I was just WAITING for someone to ask. Just be warned it may or may not be long but it has been brewing in me for a while.
When the boys started announcing tour dates for OTRA I was anticipating an announcement about them either coming to Georgia or North Carolina since those cities were PROMISED that we would be seeing them next year. So, my mom and I had started a challenge to not only get us VIP next year but for it to be FRONT ROW!!!!! So, I kept patiently waiting for them to announce US dates.
When it came time for these dates to be announced, I waited with baited breath for both CHARLOTTE and ATLANTA to be announced. Now, I do understand that there are bigger cities and more key states when it comes to the tour of ANY musician, but I was just hoping at least ONE of these would make the list seeing as both of these cities had hosted the boys for the past three tours and have sold very well. But, to my dismay, neither made it. HOWEVER, that is not the main thing that bothers me. What REALLY bothers me is that the WHOLE SOUTH was skipped/forgotten about, with the furthest south place on the tour being BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. This really hurt me and lots of others as well because we had hoped that the loyalty to the region would continue. But when it didn’t, it made us all upset.
Now, let me take this time to say that I in NO WAY blame the boys. I think if it were up to them, they would have been in the south for several dates. This I blame on MODEST!. If they are in fact the ones in charge of booking venues for the tour, they made a FATAL mistake by not booking southern venues. The south is a good source of income while they are on tour because we do host some of the larger venues that were visited on the WWA tour. We also were some of the most spirited crowds regardless if the venue was packed out or not and regardless of the size of the crowd itself. We brought it hard and had so much fun. Also, when they are in the south, the boys never get mobbed or papped so it seems as if this respect we give them would earn us respect from Modest! and earn us tour dates. But obviously, Modest! doesn’t care about these factors and just continues to kiss the butts of certain states/cities (CALIFORNIA and PENNSYLVANIA [WHY PA???] being the two butt kissing states for this tour and previous ones).
But why does Modest! feel the need to be so unfair? What did us in the south do to deserve this treatment? I understand if GA and NC don’t make it because they’re not MAJOR states. But what about FL, TN, TX, NV, and AZ? Aren’t those kind of major? SO what I am saying is, Modest! made MANY mistakes by skipping the south. If there aren’t dates coming for us (which I doubt there are at this point) they may have costed themselves HUGE amounts of money and the boys a HUGE number of fans due to their stupidity.
If you have ANY questions or want me to elaborate on ANYTHING, feel free to message me and I will do my best to answer!!
