Hannah Montana fan club gets smacked around by fans

I saw Hannah Montana on TV one time. I just don't understand the appeal - the music is annoying, she's like fourteen, and well . . . I guess it just doesn't do it for me.

(That's the nice way for me to say - IT SUCKS! )

But the seven year olds - LOVE HER!  My neighbor was Hannah Montana for Halloween.  She gets mad when I call her Hannah Banana. 

There are a lot of fan clubs that give fans a prepurchase day before opening sales to the general public.  The scalping has been awful to the point that it's hard for an average person to get a ticket.  I'm just saying. 

I'm really amazed at just how popular this tour is.  I read through the linked article and another one from the same original source and see mention of shows selling out in 6 minutes, 8 minutes and the like.  10,000 seats gone like that.

I would think that perhaps the tour promoters would add several more shows based on the demand, but perhaps they can't for some reason or another.

 

By the way, the number of fans that supposedly were able to purchase tickets before they officially went on sale (the number the fan club tosses out) is 70,000.  With 5 million viewers per week, and 10,000+ seat venues selling out like crazy, I have to figure that the fan club probably sold memberships to many, many more people and they may be looking at 250,000 or more angry fans that weren't able to get the benefits they believe that they were promised (the right to purchase tickets before regular people could).

Here in Utah, we were one of those places where it sold out disgustingly quick - withing 5 minutes, according to the news.

Most of the tickets were gobbled up by scalpers.

Due to the disgusting prices (up to $3500 according to one report), they scheduled another concert.

Which sold out in 6 minutes. Mostly to scalpers.

Until they figure out a way to regulate ticket scalping, this is just going to get worse. I bought tickets early to a concert with my Fan Club membership (Rush on their last tour - best concert ever, by the way), and even though I purchased mine ten minutes in (and FIVE DAYS before general ticket sales), almost all the Fan Club tickets were taken - by motherf***in' SCALPERS!

Luckily, I still got wonderful tickets - but lots of people didn't.

Yes, the music is annoying, yes, she's like fourteen, but speaking as the parent of Hannah Montana fans, I believe I can address this.

In the popular music culture there is slutty pop, hiphop, or the bubblegum pop of people like Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus). As my children grow, it is important to me that they develop their own identities, their own sense of music tastes, and their own personalities, but it's also important that they have a moral compass solidly in place. I would far rather my children listen to people like Miley Cyrus than so much of the other, much worse, garbage that is out there, because, while the music is annoying, it doesn't present the conflict with our core values that is so prevalent in many other genres.

In short, I don't like it, but it's not about what I like or don't like. I want my kids to be their own individuals.

As to the ticket mania, that's just another symptom of our self indulgent culture. Too many people believe that they are poor parents if they don't give their children their every heart's desire.

Until they figure out a way to regulate ticket scalping, this is just going to get worse. I bought tickets early to a concert with my Fan Club membership (Rush on their last tour - best concert ever, by the way), and even though I purchased mine ten minutes in (and FIVE DAYS before general ticket sales), almost all the Fan Club tickets were taken - by motherf***in' SCALPERS!

Well, honestly scalping would take care of itself if people just wouldn't buy their tickets at prices that much over face value.  Sadly though, in the free market, tickets (like sports stars) are worth whatever someone is willing to pay for them.

There are some things that could be done to help reduce and/or slowdown the scalping, and that I wish the sellers would do -- limits of 4 tickets per person, or perhaps as high as 6 per person for online sales, but no more.  I can't count the number of times where you see the scalpers at the front of the lines camped out for ticket sales and they are there buying 8 tickets per for each spot they are occupying in the line.  Figure that the first 10 slots in the line to buy tickets at any one of the ticket selling locales is a scalper and you see 80 tickets gone in just the first few seconds of sales at that one locale.  For an average sized venue, there are probably between 30 and 300 locales selling tickets just in the immediate area, plus internet sales and phone sales, and you see just how quickly tickets disappear.

Actually, for internet sales, perhaps requiring the purchasers to pre-register on the ticket sales sites and having to supply a social security number for each potential ticket that they are puchasing would slow down the scalping, but if that was done wouldn't the cure be worse than the disease (in having to give up your social security number to be able to purchase the tickets)???

In the popular music culture there is slutty pop, hiphop, or the bubblegum pop of people like Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus). As my children grow, it is important to me that they develop their own identities, their own sense of music tastes, and their own personalities, but it's also important that they have a moral compass solidly in place. I would far rather my children listen to people like Miley Cyrus than so much of the other, much worse, garbage that is out there, because, while the music is annoying, it doesn't present the conflict with our core values that is so prevalent in many other genres.

That somewhat echos my thoughts on the subject.  I'd much prefer that my daughter was listening to Hannah Montana music, or Britney back in her Disney type days (well before she slutted out), than to be listening to gangsta rap, heavy rock, or pop music with lyrics that you wouldn't want to read, much less hear repeated again and again.

In my daughters case, like yours Gid, I've let her make her own decision, but I was happy when she was enjoying the bubble gum pop, American Idol type music.  While I don't find Fall Out Boy too bad, or other groups that she likes too bad, I'm glad I don't have to be the super strict parent that says she can't have whatever music she wants.  I'd prefer that she decide on her own that the crap is just that, and so far, thankfully, she seems to do a decent job of deciding.

With her (my daughter) being in high school now, and being a bit older, she may decide she'd rather hear other things, and I might see her asking for music with many more explicit lyrics warning labels on them, but so far that hasn't been the case.  For that I breath a sigh of relief.

Well, thanks for the explanation, Gid. As a non-parent, I don't understand a lot of that kind of stuff - but it makes a lot of sense.

(But there's still a lot of good, clean rock I'll try to indoctrinate my children into . . . )

High-school is the age of alternative rock. It's just the way it is.

If people weren't buying tickets at sky-high prices, the scalpers would all go out of business.

The best time to buy scalped tickets is the day before a raid. All the scalpers know about it, so they unload at face value to get back at least their capital.

That was an actual conversation with a scalper.

"Why are you selling me this at face?"

"There's going to be a raid tomorrow..."

$2000 for a ticket?

Who has that kind of money? For a concert!

I can see right now that if I ever have children, they will be deprived of stuff like going to concerts. At least of scalper prices like that.

When first reading about these ticket prices I thought I should go for major, MAJOR plastic surgery and practice my lip synch.

Now I see the error of my ways. I should completely forget my standards and become a ticket scalper!

Why doesn't Hannah Montana sell the tickets for $2000?

Why doesn't Hannah Montana sell the tickets for $2000?

Because the people that put the tour together are trying to put a show on that most fans could afford to see, rather than just the rich and elite.

Well, they apparently have failed.

SanChonino:

I guess my brother and niece lucked out, he was able to get in and buy them before they sold out.


Does anyone else see the next decade's child star turned career rehab with Miss Montana?

I hope not. I think Hillary Duff made it out alive, so maybe another one can too?

No, she actually seems to have a pretty tight knit family. I think that might make a difference.

ParaTed2K pondered:

Does anyone else see the next decade's child star turned career rehab with Miss Montana?

To which there were these answers by Jythier and Gideon MacLeish:

I hope not. I think Hillary Duff made it out alive, so maybe another one can too?

and

No, she actually seems to have a pretty tight knit family. I think that might make a difference.

And to which I would add the following....  Funny that this got brought up here as I joked a bit with my daughter about this.  I asked my daughter if any of her friends in high school were into Hannah Montana at all.  She said at least one was a big fan.

Daughter and I were talking about the fact that it's been some time ago that I took the daughter and her brother and my wife to go see one young Ms. Britney Spears when she was in the bubble gum pop phase, just barely past Disney mouse club, and still no where near the sexxed up, slutted up, skanky thing she is now.  That was some 8 years ago, with Britney still a teen herself, and still living a somewhat sheltered life.

Lindsay Lohan didn't do so hot on the transition, but others (like the previously mentioned Ms. Duff) didn't do so badly.

I hope that Ms. Cyrus comes through ok.

Related news: Man Hangs On Statue, Wins 'Hannah Montana' Tickets

Jody Powell, 35, hung on to a 12-foot statue of "Hannah Montana" for the better part of six days to win tickets to a sold-out concert by Miley Cyrus, star of the Disney Channel TV show. The concert will be held next week in Tampa. "I'm ecstatic. It's like a dream come true," said Powell, holding four tickets to the show and a photo of his fiancee with her 7-year-old daughter, also named Hannah.

"Oh, so you're going with your fiancee and her daughter?"

"Hell no, me and the boys are going."

"Hell no, me and the boys are going."

That would be funny (not true in this case, but it would be funny).

Funnier still would be 'Nah, I'm gonna scalp the tickets for $2,000 per"

I'm starting to wonder why my brother doesn't post his tickets on Ebay lol