There is one thing about concerts that neither Jason Aldean nor I can get our heads around. These days, every concert has one, and it's a little absurd.
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Jason Aldean recently sat down on the Bobby Bones Show, where he shared his thoughts about one concert tradition that he finds ridiculous. Encores.
Encores used to be so sincere. A spontaneous moment of genuine demand by an audience who needs that one more song. Now, however, they're a staple for every concert you go to. The artists will disappear backstage, only to pop out again as planned.
Now, it is a fun moment, and really not that big of a deal, but it does rub me the wrong way to think that the encore is an expected and planned moment rather what it used to be. And Aldean thinks the same thing.
"I'm not a big encore guy," he said. "I hate when artists kind of bait [the crowd] into that."
Jason Aldean Explains His Hated For Encores
It turns out Jason Aldean had a lot to say on the issue when Bobby Bones brought it up.
Continuing his mini rant, he mockingly says, "It's like, 'Oh, I'm not going to play one of my biggest songs so that you guys cheer when I'm done for me to come back out and do this,'" pointing out the absurdity.
"And I always tell [the crowd], 'Listen, I'm gonna just play you guys everything we got, and when it's over it's over.' Like, that's it. I'm not going to go offstage for five minutes and wait for you guys to cheer for me to come back out. Let's just play everything we got, and when we leave the stage it's done," he continued.
"So I've always kind of done it like that."
Although he hates what encores have become, by shutting the audience down in this way, he is eliminating having organic and natural encores appear.
Despite finding staged encores silly, I don't think he should be so hasty to cut them out entirely. I suppose the easy answer is just to not plan them, but allow them to play out if they happen.
