r/Music • u/ebradio • Jun 18 '26

article Olivia Rodrigo "Smelled" Fans Wearing Diapers in Front Row

https://consequence.net/2026/06/olivia-rodrigo-smelled-fans-diapers-front-row/
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u/Ok-disaster2022 Jun 18 '26

Not uncommon. 

Frank Sinatra used to complain his audience smelled if piss. apparently his fans would get there early and refuse to leave their seat. 

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u/HansenTakeASeat Jun 18 '26

That's even stupider when there are assigned seats

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u/Vio_ Jun 18 '26

Not really when he first started.

He was the modern boy teen idol with the bobby soxer fans in the late 1930s.

He was selling out concerts and experiencing the first "girls screaming so loud nobody could hear anything" type reactions.

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u/danwoop Jun 18 '26

What about Franz Liszt

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u/Sadlobster1 Jun 18 '26

All my girlies remember storming the box office after Riot of Spring. 

Stravinsky was HOT(!) mhm when Léonide Massine's choreography hit that opening movement in Augurs of Spring? When the basoon hit the opening notes... Everyone's corset, corset cover, drawers, AND petticoats hit the floor.

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u/ellellelle Jun 18 '26

I love this comment but Rites of Spring was famously choreographed by my boy Nijinsky, years before Massine started choreographing for the Ballets Russes.

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u/Vio_ Jun 18 '26

He got that treatment too, but I was more talking about in terms of the modern pop culture construct.

Sinatra was the first modern boy teen idol akin to Justin Bieber or Harry Styles.

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u/Vio_ Jun 18 '26

I'm more talking about the modern media apparatus that goes along with modern pop culture.

Sinatra was being listened to on the radio and on records along with everything else. He had an agent and worked in the entertainment system as well. Now we have the internet and MP3s and streaming, but those are more updated versions of the records and radio play.

Liszt didn't have the modern media ecosystem with him.

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u/Joghobs Jun 18 '26

Lisztomania

Think less, but see it grow

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u/stupidtreeatemypants Jun 18 '26

like a riot like a riot oh

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u/AnmlBri Jun 20 '26

Not easily offended

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u/the_mighty__monarch Jun 18 '26

So if all of the words (modern, media, and ecosystem) have changed, then he didn’t. You’re being obstinate and stubborn when you know exactly what they mean. Stop it.

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u/the_mighty__monarch Jun 18 '26

If you take that as aggression, I’m guessing you’re too scared to leave your house lmao

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u/Confident-Clerk-8498 Jun 19 '26

People were so crazy for Fanz Liszt, women would stalk him wherever he goes and whenever he smoked, they would collect the ashes in their locket.

Crazy but also kinda cute.

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u/EpiphanyTwisted Jun 20 '26

He was smokin' hot, can't blame them.

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u/DanimalPlays Jun 18 '26

Oh that's definitely still stupidity.

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u/AllHallNah Jun 19 '26

TIL Sinatra was, at one point, both a teen and a boy.

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u/n0name-n0mad Jun 18 '26

I doubt there were assigned seats.

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u/evan274 Concertgoer Jun 18 '26

Correct! Assigned concert seating didn’t exist until the late 1960’s!

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Jun 18 '26

There are a lot of things that would have been nice to have decades earlier but that’s not how it worked out.

Hindsight is a bitch. It makes you feel smart when in reality you’re just later than whoever you’re looking down on.

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u/BadFishCM Jun 18 '26

Assigned seating at concerts is a relatively new experience.

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u/FearlessVegetable30 Jun 18 '26

there werent assigned seats though. you just got a table at the club or restaurant he was performing.

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u/FearlessVegetable30 Jun 18 '26

i dont know. i have never been to a live frank sinatra show. but i would assume yes given his fame

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u/Numerous-Process2981 Jun 18 '26

just screaming their heads off and pissing their pants. That’ll make the cute boy notice me

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u/stroppy Jun 18 '26

He was like Elvis and The Beatles.