#Latest news with #private performanceBloomberg3 days agoBusinessBloombergWhy the Boats Got Bigger as the Rich Got RicherWatching sweaty 13-year-olds lose their minds to a performance by rapper Flo Rida at a bar mitzvah for the son of a finance executive in 2023, Evan Osnos felt something in America had changed. For decades the richest teenagers have booked big talent for private performances, a splurge disturbingly documented by the MTV reality show My Super Sweet 16. But recent years have seen a proliferation in the number of people who can 'blow a hundred and fifty grand on a Thursday' to have the Foo Fighters play in their backyard, drummer Charles Ruggiero tells Osnos.
Bloomberg3 days agoBusinessBloombergWhy the Boats Got Bigger as the Rich Got RicherWatching sweaty 13-year-olds lose their minds to a performance by rapper Flo Rida at a bar mitzvah for the son of a finance executive in 2023, Evan Osnos felt something in America had changed. For decades the richest teenagers have booked big talent for private performances, a splurge disturbingly documented by the MTV reality show My Super Sweet 16. But recent years have seen a proliferation in the number of people who can 'blow a hundred and fifty grand on a Thursday' to have the Foo Fighters play in their backyard, drummer Charles Ruggiero tells Osnos.
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