Southwest Will Be Bringing You A Bunch Of LIVE Concerts On Your Flights!
(Billboard) — Warner Music Nashville (WMN) announced today that they have teamed up with Southwest Airlines to produce a variety of promotions that will bring music into the skies. With this new partnership, Southwest will continue their history of pop-up shows on board flights featuring WMN artists, with the label also agreeing to continue their tradition of traveling with the airline.
Perhaps the most popular aspect of the agreement is the continuation of the Live at 35 in-air concert series, as well as the Opry at the Southwest Porch at Bryant Park series of summer concerts. Launched as a curiosity in 2011, the Live at 35 series has only grown in popularity over the past six years, as Southwest passengers hope that their flight will be one of the lucky ones to feature a sure-to-go-viral performance. To celebrate the announcement, Atlantic Records/WMN artist Devin Dawson performed to a capacity crowd aboard a Southwest flight leaving Nashville for Philadelphia one Sunday afternoon as the latest member of the Live at 35 family of musicians.
Apparently this has been going on since 2011 and is seemingly quite rare since no one had ever heard of it before, but this is the internet so let’s react to updated news like the sky is falling. Buckle up!
If some no name artist starts setting up his “set” in the front of your cabin then I think you’re well within your rights to react like there’s a hostile takeover happening. That’s air law. Grab some fellow passengers and, “Let’s roll,” on them.
I just can’t believe that Southwest would ever think this is a good idea and let the information be posted on social media, as if the reaction would be, “Thank you! I’ve always thought the one thing my discount flight was missing was a struggling artist tuning his Fender!” Every person on every flight should act like you’d act when you were a kid and your parents were mad at you: keep your head down, don’t say anything, barely breathe, and don’t draw attention to yourself. I don’t care if you’re a passenger, a flight attendant, or the fucking pilot (do NOT interrupt my movie with dumbass announcements like the weather at my destination. Unless the plane is going down then STFU). It’s insane that people still haven’t grasped this.
Everyone is on edge on an airplane. They’re annoyed and maybe nervous and just looking for a reason to freak out. A Devin Dawson set at 35,000 feet is exactly the kind of thing we’re all hoping doesn’t happen. That’s number one on the list. Yeah, it comes before terrorist attack or engine failure, we’re all just sitting, cramped up, mumbling “I don’t need a Devin Dawson concert right now” like it’s a fuckin mantra.
Now if this was JT or Selena Gomez, someone who was gonna get asses shaking, then maybe we’re having a different conversation. But don’t promote your F list artists on my flight and try telling me it’s for my benefit. I’m on a business trip and am doing Jason Bourne math, trying to see how many bloody marys I can have at this altitude while remaining sober enough to appear sober at my meeting when I land, I don’t need this racket to confuse me.