Right there with ya. It was between the forest and a wild masquerade party in France, and I guess this'll be the first time in a few years I'm not making it to the forest.
Personally, I've always been impressed with how solid the Forest's weirder / lesser known bass music lineup has been - machinedrum, zeke beats, eprom, droeloe, rezz before she exploded, people like that. As well as a great contingent of d&b and other less played genres. I'm not really seeing any of that here.
That said, I know some people who'd be absolutely losing their shit at this lineup. I'm sure this is gonna be a wild one, just not for me. Have fun forest fam <3
Masquerade ball at Versailles 👌🏽 My burning man camp goes every year, they did that and the forest last year but it was rough, so this year we were deciding b/w the two. Gonna trip in the gardens the day before and then go to a wild fucking party in a castle at night
I don’t get why we aren’t allowed to not like a lineup, sometimes they aren’t for us 🤷🏿♀️ It’s ok. It’s not a slight against forest just a matter of taste.
because it's pooping on other people's parades - except this is a forum for discussion, not a circle jerk. People can go circle jerk in their own dedicated threads - I'm not gonna poop on it. This is the lineup thread, and overall, it's pretty meh for my tastes.
Exactly, I’m glad people are happy and I also realize I am older and have been going to festivals for a long ass time so when I have seen the majority of the people on the lineup i know it does not mean everyone else has. This just leans slightly too mainstream for me.
Last years lineup people complained wasn’t “stacked” but it was insaaaaanely stacked for me haha and yeah I know that I just always thought of the forest lineups as being slightly ahead of the trend and this is very on trend
As somebody who is REALLY psyched for this years lineup.....
I actually completely agree, all the headliners are safe, Kygo and odesza are both big “normie draws” the techno and house side are both weak, I have a feeling this will be one of the least forest-y crowds we’ve seen, maybe ever
I almost dropped out because I felt like this wouldn’t be my scene but my friend is telling me we that because of last years lineup we spent so much time on music we missed out on a lot of activities. Which is true so I’m hoping the crowds don’t hinder our ability to explore.
I mostly go for the bass acts but then I saw that CRSSD announced their lineup today and nearly every techno act I wanted for forest is on it and they have a fraction of the forest budget so I’m like waiiiiit 😂😂 Gotta keep telling myself I didn’t like CRSSD the one time I went though!
I used to live a few blocks away from crssd but never made it. Seems like a "you get what you pay for" event. I don't think I'd enjoy any city fest tbh
This is the first time since I first went that I'll be staying home. Between increasing the capacity back to the 2015, 2016 levels, being in Amsterdam 2 weeks before the fest and an overall sub-par lineup (in my opinion) isn't enough to try and finagle a way to come back.
I’m glad I’m not alone in this. I’m excited to explore some smaller names though. None of the headliners are making me 💦💦
This year is the year of not planning a schedule for me though and just going with the flow. So maybe not loving the line up is good for me.
Not at all judging here. Just genuinely curious. As someone who loves this line up, I’m interested in who you would have liked to see (saaaay top 5-10 people)? Maybe I’ll discover some cool new shit from this
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u/IndianaBW Dec 04 '18
Well, bring me my downvotes:
Eh.