The Teenage Girl

I felt their hands land on my shoulders, pushing me forward and backward. It eventually made me feel dizzy, but once I help myself out of that sea of humans, my heart pumped very fast like I was on a roller coaster. After a 20 minutes of delay, the concert finally started. I screamed my lungs out as I clearly could not control my excitement. The intense and humid atmosphere fitted perfectly into the concert, making everyone enjoy the concert to their fullest. After the concert ended, I was exhausted but I could not believe that I was seeing the world star Bigbang with my own eyes. As soon as my dad starting driving we did not stop talking how amazing the concert was and how it should've been longer until we arrived at a restaurant to eat a late dinner before we went home.

Normally, when you think of Metallica, you think of the heavy metal sound the band is famous for. But, if you think that's the only kind of music the band members, and former band members, enjoy making, you are sorely mistaken.

Moments later I could hear the beating drums, and the electronic music sounding from all the speakers, no movement on stage besides the flickering lights. The crowd fell silent, awaiting the moment for Tyler Joseph (the lead singer) to enter the stage. The lights dimmed, the music stopped, the crowd grew stiff and the world stood still. Then, the sounds abruptly bursted my ears. I immediately remembered the song and sang along to it, even though my raspy voice hurt my throat, it was something to add

The wind tousled my hair around as I closed my eyes and took deep, shaky breaths. The faint sound of the crowd cheering upstage didn't help with my nerves, so, instead, I turned my ears to the delicate waves rolling up the beach. I opened my eyes and gazed out at the lake; now an open canvas for the golden sun which had began setting. Quietly, I plucked each string of my guitar- though I’d already tuned them several times. On the outside, I may have seemed ready, content, and excited; however, on the inside, no matter how tranquilizing the back stage scenery was, I was terrified to the core.

Finally, let’s talk about heavy metal. Before ninth grade, I hated modern heavy metal. I thought it sounded like garbage, but now it’s probably my favorite kind of rock. I love the instrumentals, vocals, and overall aggression to the music. My favorite heavy metal bands are Slipknot, Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, and Avenged Sevenfold.

Before the concert began, I was able to observe the audience members outside of the entrance doors. Unlike the other Kennesaw State concerts that I attended, there was an extremely large and diverse crowd dressed formally. The doors opened fifteen minutes before the concert began and an usher escorted me to the second row in front of the stage. As the performance began, felt a formal and prestigious atmosphere within the crowd. I began to copy my neighbor’s etiquette in order to fit in with the audience.

Excruciatingly loud noises were coming from every direction, attacking my eardrums as if the sound waves were soldiers in combat. People were pushing and shoving, laughing and crying, acting as if they belonged in an asylum of the deranged. Lights were blinding everyone's eyes but that was the least of their concerns. A loud voice was ringing through the stadium bombarding my ears and the ones of the large sea of people around me. The intense repelling smell of sweat and tears were traveling through the air around me. But my aching feet, sore throat, and watering eyes were the least of my concerns as I, and everyone else were all just trying to reach the same goal. The goal of getting closer to the stage, the music, the artist, the intense

We arrived at the Orpheum and I could hear my self screaming “yay” like one of those cheerleaders off of a movie. We got inside and got to our seats. They said over an inter-come that we had to cut off our phones and put them away. I thought that sucked but I did what they said and now I don’t have any pictures of the people, but I do of what the place looked like. The play was about two hours long with all the

The concert I went to was called Bronco fusion. It was held after the first week of school, the ASI team wanted to start off the school year with a a concert so people can enjoy some good music. It was going to be my second time going to a concert, I didn’t know what to expect because the concert I’ve too wasn’t as heavily crowded as this one. I usually don’t like big crowd events, but I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and meet new people. From the phalet it says that there were going to be four performance by 2 DJ from our school, RL grimes the DJ, and Tinashe. Although there were four performance I will be discussing only the about the DJ, because they had the biggest impact throughout the performance and how Tinashe didn’t really fall

What type of music piques your interests? Is it the thrumming bass of hip hop or the smooth guitars of country? Classical? Jazz? Maybe it's something else entirely? No matter your choice in music, it can be said that certain varieties of music, whether for better or for worse, can be misjudged. One such choice in music, often times misunderstood more than any other, is new metal, that is, heavy metal with features of hip hop, rap, and grunge incorporated. People often times view the sounds of this alternative metal sub genre as nothing more than loud, angry and dark music. These views, in many cases could not be farther from the truth. Often times, people will think of loud screaming music when they hear the words heavy metal, or alternative

The concert took place at Campbell Hall, a performance hall/lecture hall, on the UCSB campus. Since the hall where the concert took place is also used as a lecture hall, I mostly associated thoughts of the previous classes I had taken there with the venue. The hall has hundreds of seats that position the audience to the left, the center, or to the right of the stage.The seats ascend as they move farther back from the stage, and the stage is at the bottom —thus when one sits (if not in the first few rows) they are looking down at the stage. The performer was positioned in the center of the stage, toward the front to an extent, there was a piano, the lights were off —aside from the light on the stage— drawing the audience’s focus to the performer

Addie and I were jumping and screaming so much that we had to take off our shoes! About 5 songs after the concert started, a couple came up to us and told us that they had front row tickets and

Just because a lot of people like to bring up the flaws in society does not mean that people should act differently around it when they bring up these so called flaws. Metal music deserves respect because they talk about the relativity ideas of the society today. First of all metal music is defined as a “genre of rock music that includes a group of related

After finding a spot to set up my chair, I sat for hours, enjoying the numerous bands that played that night. I had no idea who any of them were, but it was so much better than sitting at home. As the night stretched on, I glanced down at my phone to look at the time: almost eleven. The final band was still playing and seemed nowhere close to ending their performance, but it was getting late. Although I was thoroughly enjoying the music and did not want to leave, I packed up my lawn chair, located my keys in my purse, and started back towards my

We arrived at the theatre about an hour before the performance started. We anxiously waited in the lobby with hundreds of people, mostly women, all dressed in their finest. Just when the room seemed to reach just beyond its capacity, the doors opened, and people trickled into the large performance space. My aunt, my mother, and I scanned the seat numbers until we found ours