fyre festival is going well

Their parents are likely doing Kenny Chesney No Shoes Cruises, though.

Here's to more poop ships.

roundup at WaPo

this is the best news I've had all day

all year, really

i love how they were STILL drowning in business speak on their updates only a few hours ago 'we are attempting to get this back on track to deliver a great experience' etc. meanwhile everyone's in tears and they're trending on twitter at number 1.

this is literature https://www.bustle.com/articles/200567-11-things-to-know-about-fyre-festival-because-its-unlike-any-music-event-youve-attended-before

(via murgatroid)

pretty sure this is Ja Rule's way of telling us he's running for president soon

final announcement

After assessing the situation this morning and looking at best options for our guests, we cannot move forward as we hoped we could

hmm, you don't say

cannot move forward as submerging vertically down towards our gold-filled undersea lair

only thing missing is a tsunami

Is noted music biz scumbag Irv Gotti involved with this somehow?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AkukvsDSvg8/maxresdefault.jpg

9. Ja Rule Is The Perfect Collaborator For The Event

The four-time Grammy nominee is not planning the festival on his own, but he is the founder and his connections to the music industry mean the guest list is going to be incredible. If his name wasn't attached, it would be hard to drop so much cash without a firm lineup, but Ja Rule's connections span the music industry and beyond. He is a consummate artist who will help make sure the weekend is one of luxury, fun, and quality entertainment.

according to Ja Rule's twitter he has been busy partying w/Bethenny Frankel.

http://www.thatdrop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FYRE-560x700.jpg

probably should host this elsewhere for posterity. how many of these people do you think even made it to the island?

Fyre Fest partner also runs this elite club for millennials

http://www.businessinsider.com/magnises-complaints-from-members-2017-1

there are so many shitty edm artists i've never heard of

surely it's only a question of time before they send Martin Sheen in there to kill Ja Rule

I have been looking up artists I am not that familiar with and I may have found a sentence on wikipedia that truly mystifies me
"Free Fallin Tropical Mojito Remix (John Mayer Tribute)" was produced with fellow tropical house producer Nelsaan and was released on Matoma's 23rd birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZiN0O6tI8g

that's some Deep Margaritaville shit

just started giggling at work at that thought

https://soundcloud.com/matoma-official/matoma-nelsaan-free-fallin-remix

what in the

"I bet Eli Roth's fingers are a blur on the keyboard already"

would totally pay to see OTT battle royale/most dangerous game movie starring ja rule and a pack of feral dogs chasing a thousand rich twits through the jungle.

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18194067_10156489445063868_6941025085193034666_n.jpg?oh=5ceaf2956ee14d4cbb7ee76b0f89b22c&oe=59BDC344

lmao

I am nothing if not predictable.

the pack of feral dogs is just the coup de grace here

lol nomar

um, previous nomar

they promised us feral dogs, but it was just big rats

you finished eating that rat?

I think that salad was toppings for the cheese sandwich. that's why there's no dressing. everybody come back.

Well you can't say this McFarland guy has a hard to reach website

http://billymcfarland.net/

McFarland apparently owns this as well

http://spling.com/

It says so much. Are we sure this isn't a Silicon Valley tie-in?

lol @ bustle forever

https://mobile.twitter.com/desusnice/status/858037972096176128

scarlett johansson playing ja rule in the movie adaptation of Fyre Festival

https://mobile.twitter.com/steventurous/status/858038097422028800

*extremely Scarlett Johansson voice* MURDA

wrong kind of hustle in that bustle

Said author at Bustle's response to all this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sljbowman/status/857977052376551424

I kinda love this:

http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/04/fyre-festival-disaster-bahamas

Cristina Gibson, from Bravo’s Montauk-based reality show Summer House, was one of the lucky ones. She was stranded in Miami, not marooned in the Bahamas.

A friend of Gibson's, like many others, booked a spot when the festival was announced in December. “I've been to festivals before,” she reasoned, phoning from South Beach. “I’ve gone to Coachella for years; I’ve gone to Governor’s Ball here in New York. So it’s not like I’m completely naive and had no idea. We checked out the Web site and thought, ‘Oh, this seems spontaneous. This looks fun. The video looks great.’ ”

..."spontaneous"

HE SPEAKS

https://twitter.com/Ruleyork/status/858025172942675968

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-hRV7mWsAAnvOf.jpg

if someone says something is "NOT A SCAM" in all caps, it's a scam

9/11 TRUTH IS NOT A SCAM

This is such a gift & has been just the lift I needed

They should have held it in the bwahahahamas,
Am
I
Right

Movie of this could be like Paul Greengrass doing Spring Breakers.

I'm drooling for the droll 5,000 word New Yorker piece on this mess.

I mean, they had successfully mounted the festival five times previously, so they'd earned some credibility and some goodwill. Which they burned through.

Was it successfully, or was as it "with mounting debts that we stay one step ahead of", in a Barry Hogan / ATP manner?

Regardless, I think the point is that fans had no reason to suspect they were hucksters (it sounds like they even canceled the “right” way back in 2020). With Fyre Fest, there was an element of “why did you trust this shady Instagram thing”

At the time of Fyre Fest, the other festival that came to mind as having gone under with a problematic refund policy was Sunset Junction in L.A., which has never been mounted since though for years before that had devolved far from its original intent as a welcoming neighborhood festival I didn't do something a bit more exclusionary and disruptive to the local businesses and residents. I wonder if there was any weirdness surrounding this one beforehand that got overlooked because they were able to pull it off.