Hello everyone!
This is long overdue because of my Seattle trip and my sickness the week before that, but I’ve been wanting to write about it since it happened. On November 16th, 2019, I saw Post Malone in concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim. Unfortunately, I was pretty sick at the time; I hadn’t even been blogging that week, and I had a low fever the days leading up to the concert. The actual day of the concert my fever broke, so my mom said we could still go.
I spent the first portion of the day resting up since I still was pretty stuffy and I had a sore throat and cough. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t the best idea for me to go, but it was too late to attempt to resell the tickets and it would’ve been a major waste to just not go. I got the tickets for my birthday in August as my main present from my parents; my mom loves Post Malone and I do too, so she thought it would be fun for us to go together.
I live about two hours away from Anaheim so we knew we would have to leave pretty early, plus we wanted to have dinner near the concert venue. I got ready in a very casual outfit; I previously planned to dress cute, but I was sick and not feeling it- I wore leggings and a hoodie with a t-shirt underneath. My mom and I grabbed snacks and water and set out on the two hour car ride at 3:00pm. We got into Anaheim just before 5:00 and parked in the Honda Center’s parking lot.
There was a casual bar/restaurant across the street from the Honda Center (apologies that I can’t remember the name), so we walked there and got burgers. It was actually pretty good, but I lost my appetite and couldn’t finish. This should’ve been my first sign that I wasn’t in the best shape to be going to a huge concert, but oh well. After dinner, we walked back across the street to the venue. There were a couple places for taking photos set up, so my mom basically forced me to pose. We waited in line and got let into the venue around 6:00.
My mom and I bought waters and then pretty much settled into our seats immediately. They were actually really close up- they weren’t on the floor because my mom knows I don’t love crowds and being super close-up, but we had a great view. The first opener (a guy I didn’t know…sorry!) came on and sang for quite a while, then Swae Lee started his set. I actually really enjoyed Swae Lee…I forgot how many of his songs I knew and liked from a few years ago.
Post Malone finally came on at 10:15 (a lot later than I was expecting, to be honest), and the lights were going crazy and there was a whole display as he started out with Hollywood’s Bleeding. He definitely sounded like he was warming up for the first song, but he sounded great after that. Frankly, I was not feeling too good. It was getting difficult for me to breathe, especially with all the smoke in the air, and I kept coughing.
My mom agreed we could leave after about ten songs, so we ended up leaving close to 11:00. I felt horrible physically, but I also felt really bad about leaving the concert early. I fell asleep in the car ride home, and we got back around 1:00am, when I stumbled into bed and fell straight asleep after brushing my teeth. I had never been to a rap concert so I didn’t know what to expect, but I didn’t realize it would go so late. Overall, I’m lucky that I got to see him and experience the concert at all, and I’m thankful that my sickness went away before Seattle!
-Brooke
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