High pressure situations can give rise to humiliation long before you have time to open your Vine app. Some signs of this impending doom often include: being in front of thousands of people and generally expecting nothing to go wrong.
Earlier this month, the dance music community had an all-time flub of its own. The kind of flub that goes viral faster than Snapchats of period stains on a festival bro’s shoulder.
The crime? Someone ralphed on stage at an Above & Beyond show and the Internet found the pictures.
Photos courtesy of Mettinger Photography on Facebook.
Meet Jessica Woolard and Jasmine Alexander. These two Crayola-haired kandi girls are your quintessential EDM BFF’s―note the Batman and Robin costumes. The two had their meet-cute under the strobe lights at an annual EDC and they’ve been bonafide festi-fam ever since.
On Halloween in Denver, Above and Beyond headlined a show at The Fillmore Auditorium. Like any true A&B show, two lucky fans are chosen by one of the Three Muska-tears to join them on stage and “push the button” for the next song. It’s the kind of dance music gimmick that’s both a big ol’ pile of steaming aged cheddar and a PG-13 tearjerker. It was at this show that Jessica and Jasmine's A&B dedication paid off.
“It’s funny because it was 11:11, so obviously we had to make a wish,” said Jasmine, who was dressed as Robin. “And for some reason, the last song that was playing before Above and Beyond [came on] had these lyrics that said ‘we are the lucky ones.' We looked at each other and just knew it was going to happen.”
Well, someone must have telepathically intercepted that 11:11 wish. Because once Tony cut through the jungle of ravers and plucked these two off the dance floor, things started to look down for the girls―or in Jessica’s case, things started to come up.
The infamous backstage photo shows a scantily clad Batman shielding her face with red ringlets of hair while scooping a hot handful of liquid. Jono can be seen in the photo thinking, “Why didn’t I just become a lawyer like my Dad told me?”
“At first I thought she was crying,” said Jasmine. “Jono came up to me and said ‘I think your friend is puking over there.’ He didn’t seem upset to me. He was laughing about it. All I could say was ‘yeah… she is.’”
After close inspection, we couldn’t determine the contents of her upchuck. Both Batman and Robin assure me that neither were drinking or doing drugs, but chugging bottles of water. Which explains the waterylooking yak that’s reminiscent of anytime you’ve been forced into beer bonging.