Yondr pouches<\/a>. The dearth of information has turned fans into investigators trying to determine where the next show will be and if\u2014or when\u2014a new album is coming.<\/p>\nWhen there\u2019s a \u201cfirehose of music and content, scarcity becomes a powerful tool,\u201d says Jesse Sachs, a culture marketing strategist. That can, in turn, help artists make their work stand out in an era of ubiquity.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo much of the rollout has resisted the normal internet cycle,\u201d says twilightxgalaxy, a moderator of the Phoebe Bridgers subreddit who asked to remain unnamed to preserve their privacy. \u201cInformation has been limited, fragmented, and sometimes only available to the people physically present, which has made every new detail feel more significant.\u201d<\/p>\n
They say the daily drip of information and engagement online turned \u201ca surprise announcement into a full-scale community detective project.\u201d<\/p>\n
That detective work involved a daily thread of show speculation that included educated guesses based on a theory that Bridgers was playing places with a history of UFO sightings, as well as a fair share of wishcasting. Group chats sprung up as people scoured their towns in real life for show flyers. People are digitally compiling photos of cards handed out at the shows that appear to be part of a bigger picture\u2014possibly an album cover\u2014and speculating on musical themes.<\/p>\n
As a fan, I wasn\u2019t above a little light detective work myself. Did I ask Claude to come up with a list of potential California tour stops based on the fan theory that she was playing places with UFO sightings? Was I prepared to drive eight hours to Area 51 for a shot to see her live with a few hundred people? Yes I did, and yes I was.<\/p>\n
My investigation didn\u2019t yield results, unfortunately, but LeAnna Chase Williams, a Cincinnati-based content creator, managed to crack the code. She pegged a venue called the Burl in Lexington, Kentucky\u2014the town where she grew up\u2014as the likely next tour stop after a Chattanooga, Tennessee, show.<\/p>\n
Chase Williams had been following the tour as it wended across the Southeast and through Appalachia. Lexington is a little less than five hours from Chattanooga and is a college town, a common theme for many of Bridgers\u2019 shows. The Burl is \u201cone of the only cooler indie music venues in Lex,\u201d says Chase Williams, \u201cand when I looked up their events schedule and saw that the next day they randomly had no event booked, I knew something was up.\u201d<\/p>\n
She drove down on May 22 and waited in the rain for hours with dozens of other fans who had made the same bet, and was rewarded when Bridgers\u2019 crew showed up with posters announcing the show.<\/p>\n
She describes sitting cross-legged watching Bridgers performing on a couch in front of an audience of around 200 as the \u201cbest.\u201d The no-phones policy \u201cmade the entire experience,\u201d Chase Williams, 26, says. \u201cI truly wish every concert was like that, having now experienced it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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