{"id":2386,"date":"2011-05-17T17:05:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2011-05-17T17:05:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:05:19","slug":"why-do-music-related-events-need-pretty-women-to-sell-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/05\/17\/why-do-music-related-events-need-pretty-women-to-sell-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Why do Music Related Events Need Pretty Women to Sell Tickets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultra Music Festival&#8217;s Post UMF 13 Video:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"349\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iWXOOWOFRow?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know who was performing because every other frame was some pretty girl smiling with some skimpy outfit.<\/p>\n<p>I DO NOT go to Ultra to see pretty girls walk around. I could honestly care less. I go to experience the music BUT my most viewed Flickr photos from UMF are always the photos I intentionally tag &#8220;hot girl UMF&#8221;. The fact that people love looking at girls so much that they&#8217;ll pay $300 + airfare + hotels to go to Ultra Music Festival is beyond me. Do me a favor. Stay home or go to a strip club. Some of us are trying to enjoy the great music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and to UMF organizers, saying &#8220;thank you&#8221; to us by showing 1.5 minutes of hot girls in a video is no way to promote the festival. Maybe it is and maybe, for the millionth time, I&#8217;m the crazy one for attending this show simply because I enjoy great dance music.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ultra Music Festival&#8217;s Post UMF 13 Video: I don&#8217;t know who was performing because every other frame was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-rants","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Cu","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12252,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2024\/03\/28\/photography-ultra-music-festival-2024-in-miami-fl\/","url_meta":{"origin":2386,"position":0},"title":"Photography: Ultra Music Festival 2024 in Miami, FL","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 28, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I have attended a lot of the instances of Ultra Music Festival in Miami, FL. 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