Travis Scott and The Astroworld Festival Disaster

Rock bands like The Who and Pearl Jam are familiar with audience members dying at their shows because of tramplings. For Travis Scott’s Astroworld concert, the truth about a deadly stampede surfaced.

With eight deaths, the Astroworld Festival will forever be marred. At an event that was supposed to be for fun and enjoyment, sadness and shock ruled the day.

While details now remain scant, what is clear is that these situations will persist as long as concertgoers find excitement and entertainment at shows that rush the doors and stages. From the perspective of a rap artist of Scott’s stature, it will be a question how he will organize future festivals.

What these occurrences show is human behavior. If one person follows another person in rushing, then crushing will soon result. Scott was actually arrested in 2017 for inciting spectators to rush the stage. Was this a full circle of those circumstances?

The young people who had their lives stolen from them will be remembered by their friends and family. At a time where they just wanted to enjoy the festivities and lose themselves in the music, they instead fell by their fellow concertgoers.

In reality, this kind of thing will persist without defining venues that have assigned seats. Even if this were the case, though, would this solve the problem? The mob mentality will always be something on the downside of human nature, especislly outdoors.

To some, to see this broadcast on the Internet, the shock of seeing a young person go into cardiac arrest would entice them. They would be titillated by the sight of someone not responding to a medical personnel’s efforts to save their life.

They would be more entertained by the idea of bodies dropping all around the concert. The music would take a backseat to the carnage of human lives being lost.

Travis Scott will most likely have to cough up hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to the families to try to make this wrong seem right. His role, of course, had nothing to do with the horrific scene of death and destruction.

Like a businessman sued for producing a faulty toy that asphyxiated a child, Scott will know what it's like to do the right thing and still have to take the brunt of what happened.

It’s difficult to say that outside venues will continue as assigned seating was implemented after the Who concert disaster. They are of course irrelevant at these events.

For anyone to consider the idea that the dozens of police and security personnel could have done more must not know that they are there to maintain peace and order. They can be overwhelmed by thousands of concertgoers, too.

Of the eight people who died, at least one was a minor. That person and the seven others' life force was extinguished because of the irrational actions of a few people. In taking in the scenery and wishing to just have a good time, they were sacrificed to the gods of rap.

In time, other outdoor festivals will most likely alter their safety precautions to accommodate everyone's protection, the performer’s and the audience’s.

But will Travis Scott regret the line “And it ain't a mosh pit if ain't no injuries”? It’s this kind of mentality that may see him as insensitive in lawsuits. If this rapper expects to show contrition and profusely apologize, he’s going to have to account for lyrics like this, even if it technically was not a mosh pit and it’s all art.

Whatever the case, there will most likely be a hat in hand tour of media outlets from Houston to across the nation and maybe the world where Scott will have to employ integrity and admit his poor security measures prior to the concert. He is the headliner of the show so he will remain the focal point of the suits. How will he recover from all of this?