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I am hyperbolizing here, but I have noticed a pattern. Artist I like announces that they are going on tour, I get excited and look at the dates, many times they do not come to Texas, but if they do, it is always AUSTIN AND/OR SAN ANTONIO (except Phoebe Bridgers randomly went to Fort Worth)

Why do so many artists (particularly the ones who are not big names like Taylor Swift or Bruno Mars) skip Houston?

Edit: Something that I have noticed is that many of my favorite artists skipping Houston have been here on previous tours, in particular like 2017-2019, did something happen to make these people stop coming?

I (M15) am a huge Clairo fan. It started in 2021 when I was in sixth grade, I had a huge crush on this girl who was into Clairo, and I said I loved her music, dead ass I had never heard a single Clairo song in my life.

In 2023 I became a huge Phoenix fan and streamed After Midnight on repeat (still do) , in 2024 I became a huge Wallows fan and streamed 'Are You Bored Yet' (though that one less religiously)

In 2025 I decided to check her out, and I started streaming her music religiously. I would listen to her records on bus rides back from my swim meets.

My favorite albums are Immunity and Charm. When I found out that Rostam produced Immunity it made so much sense to me because I absolutely adored Vampire Weekend's early albums.

Anyways now that I shared, how did you guys discover Clairo's music?

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So there is this kid that used to be my close friend, I’m a progressive and he’s a conservative , but that never mattered to us. Until second semester sophomore year (this past semester) he kind of low became a groyper. Well so we were in a friend group that had mixed political belief, one of the members who I was close friends with decided he was a Nazi and didn’t want any liberals to sit with him at the lunch table anymore. Another kid went with him. Now this kid was like kind of my friend but also kind of friends with these kids who were bullying me. We slowly grew apart and got in lots of arguments, but I accepted his apologies many times. However even more times I found myself apologizing to save the friendship even though I don’t think I did anything wrong. Eventually one day he was so mean to me (also that day he said super anti semitic stuff and it became clear to me be was a full on Nazi now) he also called one of my new closest friends the f slur. Anyways! so I cut him off, and I enjoy the last month of the school year with my new friends. Now a few days into summer break I get a text from him saying he’s sorry for being an asshole. I say ‘I’m not that gullible’ he says ‘I’m being for real’ I tell him that I forgive him and I hope he lives a has a great life, but I don’t want to be in it. I justify my response by saying ‘I have been so much happier since I stopped interacting with you, why would I change that now’ but I worry that was too harsh! what do you all think, should I have given him a second chance, was I too mean?