This might be esoteric to the point that I’m exaggerating but I do feel like this is in our collective public consciousness. Especially because the movie that I’m going to talk about is at this point over 32 years old. The thing is that I feel like this is a rule that actual people followed throughout my years of going to concerts.

In this movie, Jeremy Piven’s character tells someone that they can’t go to a concert wearing a t-shirt of the band that you’re going to go see. And a lot of people took that rule to be the god’s honest truth.

Also, if you haven’t seen this movie, it’s strange prescient as it’s people complaining about wokeness before it was called that and was instead called being politically correct or PC. Otherwise known as not being focused on the feelings of straight, white males.

I’m still seeing posts on reddit about it though they’re written by people in the same age range as me. I had only heard the rule from the movie, maybe it was in the public show consciousness and the writer just threw it into the movie. I don’t know.

I’ve heard some people say though that they have a good reason not to do it. They want to wear other shirts to see if they can spark a conversation with people about other bands that they like. That makes sense to me.

The way I feel about it, is that I love people who are in love with bands. I especially love how excited everyone gets now when they go to shows. I think that if you love a band and want to show that by wearing their shirt, you should. I think that if you don’t and want to wear something else, that’s valid too. It’s all the same to me. Just let people have fun.