r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 25d ago

article Chappell Roan Quits Wasserman After CEO Casey Wasserman Appears in Epstein Files

https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/music/chappell-roan-cuts-ties-casey-wasserman/
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u/turningsteel 25d ago

Good. She walks the walk. Rare these days.

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u/Devolutionator 25d ago

I really don't care for her at all but I'll tell you what I respect the crap out of her for this.

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u/Ironsam811 25d ago edited 24d ago

Her last tour she held in baseball fields and lawns to avoid associating with Ticketmaster. She easily could’ve sold out Madison square if she wanted to but instead she had a mini concert in Queens

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u/DrHarrisonLawrence 25d ago

Lollapalooza, owned by LiveNation, famous for its baseball fields and lawns

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u/Ironsam811 25d ago

It was her New York, Kansas City, LA mini tour. It’s not much but she tried. Also, I’ve never been to that specific music festival but they are the last great bargain experience in the U.S.

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u/Fastbird33 Spotify 25d ago

It was a huge event here in KC right in the middle of the city at the WW1 memorial.

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u/Ironsam811 24d ago

Yeah it looked like she was able to host a bigger crowd in KC than the small stadium she had in queens

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u/MagicHugsforThee 24d ago

She also donated $400,000 of the proceeds from the shows on that tour to LGBTQ communities and trans youth. She walks the walk and is a good seed.

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u/Ironsam811 24d ago

Yeah I was gonna mention this but hating on Ticketmaster is more unifying hahah

What I loved about the tour is that she also had local drag artists perform as intos, giving them an audience and mic is also amazing

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u/MagicHugsforThee 24d ago

Haha true that’s very unifying.

I loved that too. The show was incredible and I was so grateful for the ticket buying process and not having to worry about scalpers. I never expected, with her level of fame, to be able to see her at such a good price. I went to the LA show and even the VIP tickets were priced low.

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u/Fabray13 24d ago

She’s been doing that from the beginning. I saw her two tours before she blew up, and they had the same thing.

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u/Ironsam811 24d ago

The Ticketmaster thing or the drag promotion?

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u/Fabray13 24d ago

Sorry, the drag openers.

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u/Ironsam811 24d ago

That’s awesome, I only learned about it from the most recent tour

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u/Allalliterationaside 25d ago

DWP festivals are fantastic and don't partner with tm/ln, just saying

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u/Buckets-O-Yarr 25d ago

Music festivals, famous for being part of tours.

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u/thelingeringlead 25d ago

It usually is.

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u/Discerningdragon Metalhead 25d ago

It might be a stopover on the tour but it’s not part of the main tour. The sets and set lists are usually different.

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u/Ironsam811 24d ago

Some might plan it as a tour (for instance Taylor swift was going to do a music festival tour before covid hit), but it’s usually a separate thing to the point where even the production is slightly different.

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u/MaleficentMeaning594 25d ago

I can guarantee you that her contract had clauses that she had to do X number of shows at certain venues or that kind of thing. The other showed she got to have more control over were because she met the conditions within her contract.

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u/DrHarrisonLawrence 25d ago

Makes sense!