hi guys i didn’t notice until someone commented but the audio in this is a little wonky i just discovered my mic wasn’t plugged in all the way 😞 im so sorry it’s the curse from the ugly merch designers……it will be better next time love u
girl i remember one of the most delusional things i had ever seen on stan twitter was some harrie saying “actually guys, the reason harry’s merch is so low effort is because he knows a lot of fans make their livings off selling their own designs on etsy. he doesn’t want people to buy official merch, he wants us to support fanmade stuff! he is literally so thoughtful!” and before you say it was sarcasm they were being FORREAL
I love when pop/indie artists use rock fonts. Like Phoebe Bridgers’s logo makes her look like she js streams “BLOOD! DEATH!” meanwhile she has the most soft music ever
I love Lous' merch. I have a lot of it lol. But I also use it almost daily. Like when all of my Louis merch is in the laundry basket I know it is time to do the laundry. I have Niall as well, and I do like it. I am a Niall girl and will always be a Niall girl. I just personally like the style of Louis' merch better. At first I felt bad for it, and I know a lot of people on twitter and tiktok (I use neither now) was super mad that I called myself a "Niall girl" when I mostly had Louis merch. But oh well!
Glad to be an Olivia Rodrigo fan. Her merch is sooo fucking good and unique!!! Also she sells a lot of "girly" clothes which is soo cool because every other merch is just oversized and a lot of the shirts are really ugly because of how they are cutted
@@honestlyali28 ISTG the merch is for us teenage girlies (and ofc boys and adults) and it shows perfectly, what Olivia's music and aesthetic is about! And she sells cute tops?!?! I absolutely love Olivia for that and not just having oversized shirts with a basic design.
i like the cardigan for each album idea but i wish they weren’t all the same cable pattern for each sweater. it would have been so iconic had she done a new sweater design for each album (something like red being a pullover cable sweater, 1989 been a cropped light blue cardigan, speak now being a purple balloon sleeve sweater, etc) and i’m sure the fans would have eaten it up. i’m also biased because i’m a knitter, but considering how influential the harry styles cardigan was, musicians could collaborate with yarn companies and release knitting patterns because i am sure some crafters would eat that up.
a different style cardigan for each album/era would be sooo cute you're right! And artists could totally jump in on the crochet hype by commissioning one interesting era specific crochet piece, wearing it in promotion, and then selling the pattern + doing a brand deal with the specific color yarn. Life could be a dream
i don‘t get why not more artists make merch like simple plain sweatshirts with a cute embroidery song lyric or something like that - those have always been my favorite kind because the artist name or face isn‘t all over the piece but it’s still a cute and subtle way to embrace your love for an artist. also i like embroidery so much more than print because it doesn’t get washed off over time. a really good example for this is the no tears left to cry sweatshirt from ari, i wear it all the time and i think it’s the perfect kind of fan merch!
also adding to your point about why you’d wear merch, i made a friend in my class because she complimented my louis merch and it was top two best experiences of my life 🙏🏻
I complimented a girl in JB HiFi the other day because of her Skegss shirt, and she was saying nice things about the singlet I wore on that day as well (it was a sky blue one), and we hugged each other
another great quality piece of merch is the love on tour tote bags. i use my bunny one everyday and it’s so sturdy and the perfect size, i wish all merch totes were like that one!
I purchased Zayn's new merch yesterday and he designed it himself. There are sustainable options as well. I think most of my clothing items in the past year is merch. I loved learning about the history of it.
@@SammyLammy1D his prices seem on par with other merch as well. The merch he has for mixoloshe is designed by him and they are cheaper than the music merch
I went to Paramore in melb last year and they had some really cool merch, they had a whole themed sticker pack which i especially love because i collect stickers. great video as always 💛
This got me thinking a lot about the merch I own and actually the majority I own is fan made from etsy they're so beautiful and it's cute to support small businesses
soooooo i bought a Louis hoodie from his first tour and from the second tour - i am based in North America specifically in the Pacific Northwest- AND THEY ARE DIFFERENT QUALITIES. first one is way thicker and cozier material (my concert was in the winter as well) but the hoodie strings started to unravel before i tied a knot as the platic ends fell off after a year of washing and wearing. the second tour hoodie is a different color and much THINNER than the first, (this concert was during the height of summer) but has metal ends of the hoodie strings so they won't have the same issue as before. i don't hate either of them, i do actually love them and wear them both frequently. but for essentially $80+ i was not thrilled that my hoodie wasn't as warm the second time i was purchasing it this last tour. i don't know if his merch vendor or contract changed with his 28 brand starting? but it's something that stood out to me. **shrugs with awkward smile**
I also bought a hoodie from the FITF tour when I went to my show (Melbourne), and I also thought that the quality was not great for the $130 they charged for it.
i haven’t watched this video yet but i’m honestly surprised that there isn’t a picture of eras tour merch on the thumbnail coz some of that merch is horrific 😂
Actually thought that the tie dye style merch was so cute at the start but it got bad pretty quickly 😭 Luckly I only use merch from rock bands and they actually kept some pretty cool style on merch way more often
Hey great video! I've been working in the Band Merch Industry for a while. There's a lot of reasons why tour merch specifically is so bad. Most of the companies that get the contracts for tour ALSO are doing all of the logistics, they're sending staff, getting the merch from each stop, sometimes getting them produced in different countries if the tour is global. It's a lot of work and very industry specific work at that, it's basically a sourcing job. Those industry specific guys are old and set in their ways. Nine times out of ten they've prioritizing getting stuff out there, not the creative aspect. On top of that, most artists don't own any of their photos or assets. We get given literally one, maybe 2 photos of the artist from the era and MAYBE we can use the album art if we're lucky. The photographers usually own them. But, the biggest reason the merch sucks is who's approving it. Working in this field for 3 years, Ive only seen an artist approve the merch directly a handful of times, 95% of the time it's some random 50-something year old tour manager or artist manager approving them. ALL MERCH GETS APPROVED BY SOMEONES DAD, NOT CREATIVES. Someones dad on the Merch Company side approves it, then someones dad on the Artist Side approves it.. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO REASON WITH SOMEONES DAD DESIGN-WISE. I will be in meetings where they say "we need more women in their 20s to buy merch" and then shoot down designs MADE by and FOR that demographic because it's not "what they would buy". It is soul crushing haha. Make your own band merch!! They're not gonna put you in jail BUT they do steal fans designs all the time and it helps the creatives show the demand for updated graphics.
i have 5SOS, Louis, & Dermot Kennedy merch that i wear ALL THE TIME - they do it so good IMO. i really loved the look of niall & a good chunk of ed sheerans merch too!
Also something with tour merch; not having enough stock for the shows. I went to hslot night six in Chicago (the last night in that city) and they were out of so many sizes in so many designs I had to buy my merch in sizes three sizes too big because they were out of all small medium and larges
I went to HSLOT last year and didn’t look at the merch until I got there. I remember being super disappointed because a lot of the designs weren’t cute or were in weird colors. I don’t want a bright orange crewneck or a shirt that looks like it cost two dollars to make. But it was my first concert ever and it was Harry so I felt like I haddd to get something to commemorate.
So I went to the Faith In The Future Melbourne show at the start of this year, and while I thought the designs were unique and creative the quality was not it... I don't know what the quality is like for his pieces online as I haven't bought any, but the show-specific hoodie felt like I could've bought it for $30 at Kmart. I also had the same issues that you said with the tote bag I bought, it felt very thin and the strap was skinny as well. I love the points you made in the video!
i have merch by louis that i bought online and it’s literally the best sweatpants i’ve ever had the quality is incredible. i’m sorry you had that experience, i wonder if the quality depends on where the item is being sold
2:22 “and that is how I’m paying every member of one directions bills” your actually so real for that! I rlly love Louis and Olivia’s merch bc there’s actual thought. But like Harry’s and Niall’s are not it for me
5SOS has AMAZING merch for the most part. The only merch of theirs that I didn't like was their highlighter line because the material they used was not good at all, it was canvas like. But it made my day that you complimented them because so many artists could learn from them. Also, another artist that has good merch is Carly Pearce!!! Her assistant designed a line of her merch and it is SO cute. One example: the clay rose crewneck. SO comfortable, attention grabbing, has a cute design BUT it's not over the top, AND it's wearable outside of being a fan. I knew a coworker of mine was a 5SOS fan FROM her merch so that was really cool because I grew up not really having anyone to talk about them with (other than my sister).
My favourite piece of merch recently is Noah kahan's postcards, there's one for each song on Stick Season with its own art in different earthy colours. So beautiful as wall art or to use as intended or even tattoos!
I still have Niall's light blue Heartbreak Weather crew neck and I wear it regularly 🥰 not that happy with Harry's merch from this tour tho 😅 i only got the little TPWK toiletry bag because it's cute AND useful but the rest was not my style..
I assume the process for making clothes was different in the 70s. I feel like bands used to actually be involved in making their merch, or at least the design. But now most clothes are mass produced and I hate to say it but mainstream merch has sort of become fast fashion. Also merch used to be a way of advertising bands, because you didn't have social media/ internet to do so. So if a shirt looked cooler people were probably more likely to look up the band
Lady Gaga’s BTW ball and Selena Gomez’s Revival tour were my best t-shirts. I think it died early 10s. Although I did get a cool Dua Lipa one during her Future Nostalgia era. It’s tie dye and has an anime version of her on it. When I went to Ariana’s last tour, only her hoodie looked like something good. The shirts were so boring and ugly.
my favourite kind of merch is merch you'd never know it was related to the artist. Before Conan Gray was popular as a music artist, he used to be a RUclipsr. His first piece of merch was a drawing he did of his friend. The drawing was popular on Tumblr, screenprinted in red ink on a white T-shirt. I bought that shirt 5 years ago, and I still wear it regularly till this day. I've also bought merch from Cavetown - these were enamel pins that I have stuck on my bag that I use for work. The enamel pins have absolutely no 'Cavetown' lettering on it - they're of his two cats! I love cats, and again, the only way you'd know it was Cavetown merch is if you either bought those pins or have seen it on his webstore. I've found that Phoebe Bridgers does really, really good merchandise. Her designs take up most of the shirt, they're eye-catching and creative. It's a nice blend of 'This shirt is about an artist' and 'This shirt could be styled like a regular graphic t-shirt'. I also like Boygenius' merch, because they've really leaned into that meme of any three characters being boygenius. They have shirt with three rats, and a shirt with three wolves. It's so cool. I've also recently bought a billie eilish t-shirt, because the only thing it says is 'I don't know you at all'. The only identifying factor that makes it a billie eilish t-shirt is her logo being on the neck of the t-shirt - and even then its something only her fans would recognise.
You are amazing you are always honest and upfront with your posts. You care about the entertainer but really about fans being smart in their purchases. I'm glad I subscribed to your posts.💙💚
you're soo right with band merch. nothing original or creative. like we would come up with good merch ideas. i do own a ts cardigan and its the best piece of merch i own in my closet.
One thing about Ms. Sabrina Carpenter is that her merch EATS especially during the emails i can't send ERA!!! She can proudly have ALL OF MY MONEY!!! The designing and aesthetics with the cream colors, the hearts on everything, and references to her songs from the album (i.e. the Dipshit hats, the slut T-shirts, and the homewrecker sweatsuits) are very well thought out, cute, and high quality as well!! I spent a lot on merch when I saw her live because she and her team actually put effort into it! Even the exclusive merch she released for her holiday EP "fruitcake" was cute as well! One of the artists if they release merch, I will happily buy EVERY TIIME!!!
would also like to add that the lack of plus size merch (good or bad quality) is so disheartening as a fan of mainstream artists. like i understand with indie artists if they simply just cannot afford offering it but there’s no reason ppl like harry, louis, etc. don’t have plus size merch and even if they have a 3xl option it’s not for every piece and most of the time fits like an xl/xxl which defeats the purpose :( it just sucks wanting to support ur favorite artists and not being able to. not to bash harry i love him forever but he preaches inclusivity and yet the only way to wear his merch is to buy fanmade merch or if you can afford to buy pleasing. sorry to rant in ur comments but i’m tired of only being able to buy a poster or tote bag(even tho i love them) at a concert like my walls are full and i have a different tote bag for every day of the year
i just re-listened and that is so weird i definitely hear it it sounds like static and voices speaking?? like a radio? i have no idea i just got a new mic so hopefully next time i can fix it
i would love for you to talk about how artists are being capitalists and releasing 100 variations of the vinyls and songs just so that they can top the charts and have max releasing copies etc etc. like clearly they are taking advantage of the parasocial relationship..like miss swift stop with 100 remixes of anti hero and so many vinyls collection for just 1 new song why why are they doing this especially in this economy??? btw always love your videos
I don't like to call myself a fandom member of any musical artist; it helps me separate me from the parasocial thing, but i have certain guesses that may explain this phenomenon, beside people being easy to please, at least in America (I'm not american): - Artistic education is expensive/risky. - Legal complications. - Cringe culture. - Fast fashion & oversaturation in the market - The question: Is it really necessary? Personally, i don't like to wear merch of things i like. It difficults people to assign me i side of certain boxes, but, what about traditional artistic merch. Musical artists can sell prints, paintings, fanzines, keychains, notebooks, stickers. It may sound stupid, but it gives cohesion to their concept. And i know it was a joke, but Jasmine, you do should care about the process of making merch, because doing it, it's easier to people to generate better solutions. Anyways, thanks for the video
5sos understand their fans so well and they're always involved designing/ making stuff they sell. I think it's because they started out that way before they had a management or anything
if you guys like ari's merch you should check out the artist who designed it Kel Lauren they are really breaking the mold when it comes to music merch I really love their stuff 👍 great vid
most of the time it isn’t bc it’s ugly or unaffordable, they don’t cater to plus size fans. they usually only go up to 2xl, sometimes that isn’t enough.
hi guys i didn’t notice until someone commented but the audio in this is a little wonky i just discovered my mic wasn’t plugged in all the way 😞 im so sorry it’s the curse from the ugly merch designers……it will be better next time love u
artists commissioning fans to design merch is a NEED
Billie has done it once during the HTE era ! The design was soooo good 😭
@@ts9517 omg yes i remember that like fr we need more
i think if you were in charge of all merch we’d never have this problem again
exactly.
girl i remember one of the most delusional things i had ever seen on stan twitter was some harrie saying “actually guys, the reason harry’s merch is so low effort is because he knows a lot of fans make their livings off selling their own designs on etsy. he doesn’t want people to buy official merch, he wants us to support fanmade stuff! he is literally so thoughtful!”
and before you say it was sarcasm they were being FORREAL
glad we're talking about this bc taylor swift's merch is damn near $100 and looks like i made it on picsart 😭
I love when pop/indie artists use rock fonts. Like Phoebe Bridgers’s logo makes her look like she js streams “BLOOD! DEATH!” meanwhile she has the most soft music ever
I have Niall and Louis merch i personally think Louis’ merch is very creative :)
i love louis merch sm it's goes with everything and fits his vibe
Louis merch is so creative and so him!
Louis merch is lowkey the best merch I've ever seen
I love Lous' merch. I have a lot of it lol. But I also use it almost daily. Like when all of my Louis merch is in the laundry basket I know it is time to do the laundry.
I have Niall as well, and I do like it. I am a Niall girl and will always be a Niall girl. I just personally like the style of Louis' merch better. At first I felt bad for it, and I know a lot of people on twitter and tiktok (I use neither now) was super mad that I called myself a "Niall girl" when I mostly had Louis merch. But oh well!
@@SammyLammy1D Its okay it doesn’t depend on What merch you have if you are a Niall gurl you’re a Niall girl :)
Glad to be an Olivia Rodrigo fan. Her merch is sooo fucking good and unique!!! Also she sells a lot of "girly" clothes which is soo cool because every other merch is just oversized and a lot of the shirts are really ugly because of how they are cutted
her merch is SO cute i love being a teen girl in the olivia era
@@honestlyali28 ISTG the merch is for us teenage girlies (and ofc boys and adults) and it shows perfectly, what Olivia's music and aesthetic is about! And she sells cute tops?!?! I absolutely love Olivia for that and not just having oversized shirts with a basic design.
@@ma28910 everything about her marketing/merch/brand overall is PERFECT
i’m not even an olivia rodrigo and i want the merch. like the butterfly tote bag?? so good
@@Izzywildflowerr frr it's so creative and unique oh my goood
i like the cardigan for each album idea but i wish they weren’t all the same cable pattern for each sweater. it would have been so iconic had she done a new sweater design for each album (something like red being a pullover cable sweater, 1989 been a cropped light blue cardigan, speak now being a purple balloon sleeve sweater, etc) and i’m sure the fans would have eaten it up. i’m also biased because i’m a knitter, but considering how influential the harry styles cardigan was, musicians could collaborate with yarn companies and release knitting patterns because i am sure some crafters would eat that up.
a different style cardigan for each album/era would be sooo cute you're right! And artists could totally jump in on the crochet hype by commissioning one interesting era specific crochet piece, wearing it in promotion, and then selling the pattern + doing a brand deal with the specific color yarn. Life could be a dream
your mind omg
i don‘t get why not more artists make merch like simple plain sweatshirts with a cute embroidery song lyric or something like that - those have always been my favorite kind because the artist name or face isn‘t all over the piece but it’s still a cute and subtle way to embrace your love for an artist. also i like embroidery so much more than print because it doesn’t get washed off over time. a really good example for this is the no tears left to cry sweatshirt from ari, i wear it all the time and i think it’s the perfect kind of fan merch!
also adding to your point about why you’d wear merch, i made a friend in my class because she complimented my louis merch and it was top two best experiences of my life 🙏🏻
once i got a free necklace for wearing a mcr shirt and naming fifty songs to someone who asked it was amazing
SAMEEEE
I complimented a girl in JB HiFi the other day because of her Skegss shirt, and she was saying nice things about the singlet I wore on that day as well (it was a sky blue one), and we hugged each other
another great quality piece of merch is the love on tour tote bags. i use my bunny one everyday and it’s so sturdy and the perfect size, i wish all merch totes were like that one!
i wish they would bring back uhhh having size charts on their merch sites too plz
ur sooo pretty I love ur dimples :)))
thank you so much omg
I purchased Zayn's new merch yesterday and he designed it himself. There are sustainable options as well. I think most of my clothing items in the past year is merch. I loved learning about the history of it.
Cool! I am currently broke. But you can bet your @$$ that I am buying his merch as soon as I get paid.
@@SammyLammy1D his prices seem on par with other merch as well. The merch he has for mixoloshe is designed by him and they are cheaper than the music merch
I love that Olivia models all her own merch, to sell it to people it should be something the artist would wear themselves imo
I went to Paramore in melb last year and they had some really cool merch, they had a whole themed sticker pack which i especially love because i collect stickers. great video as always 💛
Olivi Rodrigo and Sabrina carpenter merch is sooo cute also beabadoobee
This got me thinking a lot about the merch I own and actually the majority I own is fan made from etsy they're so beautiful and it's cute to support small businesses
The 00’s-10’s Warped Tour scene and that general umbrella of music had great merch. The cartoon monsters killed lmao
soooooo i bought a Louis hoodie from his first tour and from the second tour - i am based in North America specifically in the Pacific Northwest- AND THEY ARE DIFFERENT QUALITIES. first one is way thicker and cozier material (my concert was in the winter as well) but the hoodie strings started to unravel before i tied a knot as the platic ends fell off after a year of washing and wearing. the second tour hoodie is a different color and much THINNER than the first, (this concert was during the height of summer) but has metal ends of the hoodie strings so they won't have the same issue as before. i don't hate either of them, i do actually love them and wear them both frequently. but for essentially $80+ i was not thrilled that my hoodie wasn't as warm the second time i was purchasing it this last tour. i don't know if his merch vendor or contract changed with his 28 brand starting? but it's something that stood out to me.
**shrugs with awkward smile**
I also bought a hoodie from the FITF tour when I went to my show (Melbourne), and I also thought that the quality was not great for the $130 they charged for it.
i haven’t watched this video yet but i’m honestly surprised that there isn’t a picture of eras tour merch on the thumbnail coz some of that merch is horrific 😂
Actually thought that the tie dye style merch was so cute at the start but it got bad pretty quickly 😭
Luckly I only use merch from rock bands and they actually kept some pretty cool style on merch way more often
Hey great video! I've been working in the Band Merch Industry for a while. There's a lot of reasons why tour merch specifically is so bad.
Most of the companies that get the contracts for tour ALSO are doing all of the logistics, they're sending staff, getting the merch from each stop, sometimes getting them produced in different countries if the tour is global. It's a lot of work and very industry specific work at that, it's basically a sourcing job. Those industry specific guys are old and set in their ways. Nine times out of ten they've prioritizing getting stuff out there, not the creative aspect.
On top of that, most artists don't own any of their photos or assets. We get given literally one, maybe 2 photos of the artist from the era and MAYBE we can use the album art if we're lucky. The photographers usually own them.
But, the biggest reason the merch sucks is who's approving it. Working in this field for 3 years, Ive only seen an artist approve the merch directly a handful of times, 95% of the time it's some random 50-something year old tour manager or artist manager approving them. ALL MERCH GETS APPROVED BY SOMEONES DAD, NOT CREATIVES. Someones dad on the Merch Company side approves it, then someones dad on the Artist Side approves it.. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO REASON WITH SOMEONES DAD DESIGN-WISE. I will be in meetings where they say "we need more women in their 20s to buy merch" and then shoot down designs MADE by and FOR that demographic because it's not "what they would buy". It is soul crushing haha.
Make your own band merch!! They're not gonna put you in jail BUT they do steal fans designs all the time and it helps the creatives show the demand for updated graphics.
Someone that I think has AMAZING merch is Sabrina Carpenter. I mean her recent valentines drop was so cute and fun.
As a lover of the collage aesthetic, that "Yes, and?" shirt at 10:05 was kind of cute!!
i have 5SOS, Louis, & Dermot Kennedy merch that i wear ALL THE TIME - they do it so good IMO.
i really loved the look of niall & a good chunk of ed sheerans merch too!
Also something with tour merch; not having enough stock for the shows. I went to hslot night six in Chicago (the last night in that city) and they were out of so many sizes in so many designs I had to buy my merch in sizes three sizes too big because they were out of all small medium and larges
I went to HSLOT last year and didn’t look at the merch until I got there. I remember being super disappointed because a lot of the designs weren’t cute or were in weird colors. I don’t want a bright orange crewneck or a shirt that looks like it cost two dollars to make. But it was my first concert ever and it was Harry so I felt like I haddd to get something to commemorate.
So I went to the Faith In The Future Melbourne show at the start of this year, and while I thought the designs were unique and creative the quality was not it... I don't know what the quality is like for his pieces online as I haven't bought any, but the show-specific hoodie felt like I could've bought it for $30 at Kmart. I also had the same issues that you said with the tote bag I bought, it felt very thin and the strap was skinny as well. I love the points you made in the video!
i have merch by louis that i bought online and it’s literally the best sweatpants i’ve ever had the quality is incredible. i’m sorry you had that experience, i wonder if the quality depends on where the item is being sold
2:22 “and that is how I’m paying every member of one directions bills” your actually so real for that!
I rlly love Louis and Olivia’s merch bc there’s actual thought. But like Harry’s and Niall’s are not it for me
5SOS has AMAZING merch for the most part. The only merch of theirs that I didn't like was their highlighter line because the material they used was not good at all, it was canvas like. But it made my day that you complimented them because so many artists could learn from them.
Also, another artist that has good merch is Carly Pearce!!! Her assistant designed a line of her merch and it is SO cute. One example: the clay rose crewneck. SO comfortable, attention grabbing, has a cute design BUT it's not over the top, AND it's wearable outside of being a fan.
I knew a coworker of mine was a 5SOS fan FROM her merch so that was really cool because I grew up not really having anyone to talk about them with (other than my sister).
My favourite piece of merch recently is Noah kahan's postcards, there's one for each song on Stick Season with its own art in different earthy colours. So beautiful as wall art or to use as intended or even tattoos!
congrats on your new place, I hope you get many happy memories from your time there!
I have the yellow tpwk shirt from live on tour and it's such bad quality. After wearing it like 3-4 times the lettering started to fade already
Phoebe’s merch is *so cute* tho like she has this dragon hoodie and ahhh I want it it’s so cuteeee (but it’s $60 so no)
Obsessed with your Miley poster 😍
Phoebe 👏🏼 Bridgers 👏🏼skeleton 👏🏼 sweatpants 👏🏼
All the good merch for my faves can only be found pre-shrunk from Hot Topic 😭
I still have Niall's light blue Heartbreak Weather crew neck and I wear it regularly 🥰 not that happy with Harry's merch from this tour tho 😅 i only got the little TPWK toiletry bag because it's cute AND useful but the rest was not my style..
I’ve have missed you jasmine, happy you are back 😊
I assume the process for making clothes was different in the 70s. I feel like bands used to actually be involved in making their merch, or at least the design. But now most clothes are mass produced and I hate to say it but mainstream merch has sort of become fast fashion. Also merch used to be a way of advertising bands, because you didn't have social media/ internet to do so. So if a shirt looked cooler people were probably more likely to look up the band
Lady Gaga’s BTW ball and Selena Gomez’s Revival tour were my best t-shirts. I think it died early 10s. Although I did get a cool Dua Lipa one during her Future Nostalgia era. It’s tie dye and has an anime version of her on it. When I went to Ariana’s last tour, only her hoodie looked like something good. The shirts were so boring and ugly.
rina sawayama's hold the girl tees are sooo cool too!! like i'm willing to pay $40 for such cool designs and to support an artist i love so much
my favourite kind of merch is merch you'd never know it was related to the artist.
Before Conan Gray was popular as a music artist, he used to be a RUclipsr. His first piece of merch was a drawing he did of his friend. The drawing was popular on Tumblr, screenprinted in red ink on a white T-shirt. I bought that shirt 5 years ago, and I still wear it regularly till this day.
I've also bought merch from Cavetown - these were enamel pins that I have stuck on my bag that I use for work. The enamel pins have absolutely no 'Cavetown' lettering on it - they're of his two cats! I love cats, and again, the only way you'd know it was Cavetown merch is if you either bought those pins or have seen it on his webstore.
I've found that Phoebe Bridgers does really, really good merchandise. Her designs take up most of the shirt, they're eye-catching and creative. It's a nice blend of 'This shirt is about an artist' and 'This shirt could be styled like a regular graphic t-shirt'. I also like Boygenius' merch, because they've really leaned into that meme of any three characters being boygenius. They have shirt with three rats, and a shirt with three wolves. It's so cool.
I've also recently bought a billie eilish t-shirt, because the only thing it says is 'I don't know you at all'. The only identifying factor that makes it a billie eilish t-shirt is her logo being on the neck of the t-shirt - and even then its something only her fans would recognise.
You are amazing you are always honest and upfront with your posts. You care about the entertainer but really about fans being smart in their purchases. I'm glad I subscribed to your posts.💙💚
you're soo right with band merch. nothing original or creative. like we would come up with good merch ideas. i do own a ts cardigan and its the best piece of merch i own in my closet.
One thing about Ms. Sabrina Carpenter is that her merch EATS especially during the emails i can't send ERA!!! She can proudly have ALL OF MY MONEY!!! The designing and aesthetics with the cream colors, the hearts on everything, and references to her songs from the album (i.e. the Dipshit hats, the slut T-shirts, and the homewrecker sweatsuits) are very well thought out, cute, and high quality as well!! I spent a lot on merch when I saw her live because she and her team actually put effort into it! Even the exclusive merch she released for her holiday EP "fruitcake" was cute as well! One of the artists if they release merch, I will happily buy EVERY TIIME!!!
would also like to add that the lack of plus size merch (good or bad quality) is so disheartening as a fan of mainstream artists. like i understand with indie artists if they simply just cannot afford offering it but there’s no reason ppl like harry, louis, etc. don’t have plus size merch and even if they have a 3xl option it’s not for every piece and most of the time fits like an xl/xxl which defeats the purpose :( it just sucks wanting to support ur favorite artists and not being able to. not to bash harry i love him forever but he preaches inclusivity and yet the only way to wear his merch is to buy fanmade merch or if you can afford to buy pleasing. sorry to rant in ur comments but i’m tired of only being able to buy a poster or tote bag(even tho i love them) at a concert like my walls are full and i have a different tote bag for every day of the year
also not to sound mean or anything but I am so confused with the noise in the background 😭
i just re-listened and that is so weird i definitely hear it it sounds like static and voices speaking?? like a radio? i have no idea i just got a new mic so hopefully next time i can fix it
love your videos so much!
I never have this issue bc kpop merch is just superior
hi, which merch did you buy, if you would like to tell? because I once purchased kpop original merch that wasn't in good condition...
i would love for you to talk about how artists are being capitalists and releasing 100 variations of the vinyls and songs just so that they can top the charts and have max releasing copies etc etc. like clearly they are taking advantage of the parasocial relationship..like miss swift stop with 100 remixes of anti hero and so many vinyls collection for just 1 new song why why are they doing this especially in this economy???
btw always love your videos
I don't like to call myself a fandom member of any musical artist; it helps me separate me from the parasocial thing, but i have certain guesses that may explain this phenomenon, beside people being easy to please, at least in America (I'm not american):
- Artistic education is expensive/risky.
- Legal complications.
- Cringe culture.
- Fast fashion & oversaturation in the market
- The question: Is it really necessary?
Personally, i don't like to wear merch of things i like. It difficults people to assign me i side of certain boxes, but, what about traditional artistic merch. Musical artists can sell prints, paintings, fanzines, keychains, notebooks, stickers. It may sound stupid, but it gives cohesion to their concept.
And i know it was a joke, but Jasmine, you do should care about the process of making merch, because doing it, it's easier to people to generate better solutions. Anyways, thanks for the video
Love love love Louis merch
19:16 amooo
I have one t-shirt. The quality is sooo good
5sos understand their fans so well and they're always involved designing/ making stuff they sell. I think it's because they started out that way before they had a management or anything
I hate when merch is just the artist’s name and it’s like $80
thank u for feeding us queen ❤
Even RUclipsr merch sucks. I got a Dan and Phil sweater for the first time and the quality is so bad it makes me so mad.
if you guys like ari's merch you should check out the artist who designed it Kel Lauren they are really breaking the mold when it comes to music merch I really love their stuff 👍 great vid
most of the time it isn’t bc it’s ugly or unaffordable, they don’t cater to plus size fans. they usually only go up to 2xl, sometimes that isn’t enough.
omg I agree 100%!!!
pop music merch has always sucked though! you talk about the 70s bands merch but that was mostly rock!
What do you think about Niall's new tour merch? 🫶🏻
Honestly the only good merch anymore is in kpop they know how to do merch
really, could you maybe tell me what you bought
louis merch on top
my fav
I know that not a SINGLE black person was in the room when that 'I am free' longsleeve was designed.
Oh lord...