Fuck Your Social Media<p><strong>Why I’m Not Going To Buy Your Fucking Merch</strong></p><p>When you’re an artist who loves their own music, you get Caravan Palace. Sometimes when you go to a show at a big venue, with an artist that’s been around the block a few times, it’s alright, but you can feel the artist is just putting on a show. Do this, do that, play this, play that.</p><p>But with Caravan Palace, you can tell they love their music. They aren’t just doing this, doing that, because that’s what the audience needs to see to feel good. They just, like, groove. They play music they think is good and it’s infectious.</p><p>Anyways, they played in Denver. I walked in with my <a href="https://fysm.world/im-a-motherfucking-barbie-girl/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Aqua</a> shirt and felt right at home. Both in attire, because people were dressed in sparkly dance garb like at Aqua, and the fact that I work with kids and this was all ages – a normally risky move for music so intertwined with not being sober let’s get fucked up and dance yo.</p><p>But when you love you’re own music like Caravan Palace does, no extraneous requirements are needed.</p><p>The show was upbeat and fun. And because that’s such a fucking generic description, let me just say that I don’t think I would describe most dancey, edmy, ravey types of shows as fun. Maybe as intoxicating. Maybe as enchanting. Maybe as anxiety inducing. But fun is a very specific, carefree descriptor.</p><p>When you love your own music like Caravan Palace does, it’s fun. It even kept my anxiety in check.</p><p>I normally wait until the latter part of the night to hit up the merch table. And because of that, Caravan Palace was all out of shirts. Which sucks. I love collecting shirts. But I had to get <em>something</em>, it didn’t feel right leaving empty handed.</p><p>So, despite the hunt being half the fun, and despite it being a shuffled reminder that I was too late, I bought a CD. Which brings me to the premise at the top.</p><p>If you phone in your performance; if you take advantage of your fans and/or audience’s want to support you; if you assume we’re going to support you and put in no effort on stage because of that assumption; less people will buy your merch. If you exude positivity while being fun, upbeat, and sharing the joy that your music brings to you with your audience, people will buy a CD even though it’ll make them depressed because it’ll be a constant reminder that I was too fucking late.</p><p>Anyways, I felt sad leaving, not because of the shirt, but because I was leaving, so obviously, the first <a href="https://fysm.world/must-see-list/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Must See Show</a> of 2025!</p> <p><em>Did you know I too have <a href="https://fysm-world.myspreadshop.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">merch</a>? And for those without money, a <a href="https://fysm.world/about/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">mailing list</a>? Your contributions help, um, my dogs eat. But in all seriousness, even though the previous is true, if you hate social media as much as I do, why not get a weekly blast of music news?</em></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://fysm.world/tag/caravan-palace/" target="_blank">#caravanPalace</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://fysm.world/tag/dance/" target="_blank">#dance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://fysm.world/tag/edm/" target="_blank">#edm</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://fysm.world/tag/rave/" target="_blank">#rave</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://fysm.world/tag/swing/" target="_blank">#swing</a></p>