If you live in mommy's basement & just leech of her, you shouldn't attend Cochel

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The LOSER on the bottom doesn't appear to be able to carry his own weight in life...so he just leech off his mommy...  :

I asked people at Coachella how much money they make — and if their ticket was worth it

Seeing live music is expensive these days. Since the pandemic, the costs of touring are higher, the processes for getting tickets are more difficult, and the demand for live music has skyrocketed.

Attending a music festival, which has long been a way to get more bang for your buck, is no exception. And tickets for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival remain some of the highest-priced in the U.S. In 2019, general admission Coachella passes were $429 including taxes and fees. Now they’re up by more than 25%, with the cheapest option (Tier 1 passes) clocking in at $549 with fees (and selling out rapidly).

When comparing Coachella to festivals across the country that often book similar performers, Coachella’s base pricing can be nearly double that of a festival like the Governors Ball Music Festival in New York City or Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

Still, the event is widely seen as the “gold standard of pop music gatherings” and marks the unofficial start of summer festival season. And so with around 250,000 people attending this year's festivities over the course of two weekends, we wanted to know: Who's choosing to spend their cash on Coachella? How much money do they make? And most importantly, do they find the steep tickets worthwhile?



Danielle Veira
Pronouns: She/her

Age: 37

Lives in: Washington, D.C.

Occupation: Strategic communications

Income: $210,000. I’m a rich auntie; I am a single woman in the world.

First time at Coachella? Yes

Worth it? I like the diversity of the artists. I like that I'm not crowded and overwhelmed. Even the food I would say [is worth it], like today we’re having chicken fingers, but yesterday, we had fantastic dumplings and noodles. It’s very organized. We were talking about how, like, East Coast festivals, people are kind of pushy. Nobody pushed me once. Maybe people run into you walking and stuff like that. But we were pretty far up for Calvin Harris, and I didn't feel any surge of the crowd. Everybody is just nice.



Marco Salazar
Pronouns: He/him

Age: 34

Lives in: San Diego

Occupation: Software developer

Income: More than six figures

First time at Coachella? It's my 17th year.

Worth it? Yeah. Because I've been coming here since I was like 17 or 18, it's kind of like a formative thing for me. I love coming out to the desert; I've lived nearby my entire life. So it's kind of like revisiting that time when I discovered music, and I'm discovering more and more new artists every time.



Rolando Garcia
Pronouns: He/they

Age: 26

Lives in: Austin, Texas

Occupation: None

Income: No income, unless you count Mommy and Daddy.

First time at Coachella? Yes

Worth it? Yeah, I’ve had a great time. I've been doing festivals for years, and I feel like this is a festival on "easy mode" because everyone is so nice. No one's up against you for any reason. I can just walk up to the front.

[theking]

Now, this guy can easily afford Cochella  :

Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Dance to Bad Bunny at Coachella
The billionaire and his partner were joined by Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble at the music festival


Who knew that Jeff Bezos was a secret Bad Bunny fan?

The billionaire and his partner Lauren Sánchez were spotted by photographers at the rapper's Coachella set on Friday night. According to pics, the pair were very affectionate, dancing while holding hands and walking around with their arms around each other.

Kris Jenner and Corey Gamble joined the couple for the outing.

Sánchez, 53, embraced her festival style, wearing a short multi-color sequin skirt and cropped white tank. She finished off the look with a pair of crisp white sneakers. Bezos, 59, also kept it casual in a long-sleeve light blue button-up shirt with butterflies on the front, a pair of jeans, and white sneakers with dark trim around the ankle.

Bezos and Sánchez weren't the only ones dancing along to Bad Bunny's festival performance.

In a video posted on TikTok, Kendall Jenner cheered on Bad Bunny, 29 — with whom she's fueled romance rumors in recent months — as he performed his headlining set during the first weekend of the annual music festival.

In the clip, Kendall danced in the audience as the superstar (whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) plays his Un Verano Sin Ti smash "Después de la Playa." Wearing a leather jacket and blue denim shorts, she was surrounded by others in the crowd as she showed off a few moves, including a little spin.

The track was the 25th and final song performed during Bad Bunny's Coachella set, which also included hits such as "I Like It" and "Moscow Mule."