So You’re the Oldest Person at a Concert

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Right now, the most contentious age-gap debate is the one about who gets to go to Sombr concerts. Last week, a 25-year-old named Meg posted an eight-minute review of her experience at his D.C. show—and in short, she did not have a very good time. She didn’t love the frequent “67” references, or any of the suggestive crowd work, and most notably, the fact that she was one of the only adults in the room (she compared the audience makeup to that at “a middle school dance”). Her video, now at over six million views, inspired a wave of takes weighing in on the situation. Some blamed the show’s young crowd on a general lack of tween-focused media, while others questioned if performers like Sombr should have to self-censor for an underaged fanbase they never asked for. On another ha