3. Music Concerts
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Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly English conversations for listening, imitation and shadowing practice. Today is episode 3 and we’re talking about concerts with Luke.
Luke: Hey Emma, how are you?
Emma: I am good, thank you.
Luke: How are you, audience?
Emma: I think they all said they are ok but they could do with winning the lottery.
Luke: Hashtag agree.
Emma: But we’re talking about concerts today.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: Are you a fan of concerts.
Luke: I am a big fan of concerts. I’ve gone to quite a few. How do you feel about them?
Emma: Um, I, I do like concerts. But I have to be in the mood for them. I’m not really much of a music head. But I know you’re quite the music aficionado.
Luke: Yep. I am a music avocado like you said.
Emma: Right. So, what makes a good concert?
Luke: Um, well now a days, it seems like, in my opinion, um, what I like to see in a concert is authenticity. cause now-a-days what a lot of artists do is they’ll play along to backing tracks and metronomes. And there’s a lot of um, there’s even a lot of miming that goes on today, so what I personally like to see in a concert is just musicians on stage and you can tell there is a connection between the musician and the audience. And to me, even if I don’t like the gen-genres of music they’re playing, a lot of times that is what I like to see in, in uh, the performance.
Emma: Are you referring to right now more like rock concerts and pop concerts, as far as the back tracking and the mimic-miming.
Luke: Yeah, yeah that’s where I see it a lot is especially in the pop world. And and a lot of the a lot of the ugh popular rock, modern rock too, um, yeah, but, and then the other thing about a lot of modern concerts too is just how loud they are.
Emma: Yeah.
Luke: And um.
Emma: You have to bring ear plugs in order to enjoy the music.
Luke: Right, so that, that’s something I kind of think I unnecessary. I like it to be comfortably loud, if that makes sense.
Emma: Is that the fault of like the music mixer at the concert?
Luke: I don’t think it’s that. I don’t think its that. I think it’s, it’s kind of like been kinda like a one-up man’s ship development that there’s something about if you see a band that’s a little bit louder for whatever reason it feels like they’re a little bit better too. And so I feel like and that’s especially true on the on the radio.
Emma: It’s kind of like spicy food.
Luke: Yeah.
Emma: Its no longer about what it tastes like, its about how hot it is.
Luke: Exactly. Um, But that’s just my opinion. I know a lot of people like it really loud, so.
Emma: As with anything, everyone has their own opinion.
Luke: Mm hm.
Emma: So that was our conversation on concerts. We might talk about concerts again sometime but thank you for joining us today and thank you for listening to Dialogue Frog.
Concert
Audience
Could do with
Winning
The lottery
Hashtag
Agree
Fan
Quite
Feel
Mood
Music Head
Aficionado
Avocado
Make
Now-a-days
Opinion
Authenticity
Cause (because)
Artists
Play along
Backing tracks
Metronomes
Miming
Goes on
Personally
Stage
You can tell
Connection
Between
Genre
Music
Performance
Referring
Right now
Rock
Pop
As far as
Especially
Pop world
Popular rock
Modern rock
The other thing
Loud
Bring
Ear plugs
In order to
Enjoy
Unnecessary
Comfortably
If that makes sense
Fault
Music mixer
One-up-manship
Development
Band
For whatever reason
Better
Radio
Kind of like
Spicy
No longer
About
Tastes
Hot
Exactly
Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly English conversations for listening, imitation and shadowing practice. Today is episode 3 and we’re talking about concerts with Luke.
Luke: Hey Emma, how are you?
Emma: I am good, thank you.
Luke: How are you, audience?
Emma: I think they all said they are ok but they could do with winning the lottery.
Luke: Hashtag agree.
Emma: But we’re talking about concerts today.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: Are you a fan of concerts.
Luke: I am a big fan of concerts. I’ve gone to quite a few. How do you feel about them?
Emma: Um, I, I do like concerts. But I have to be in the mood for them. I’m not really much of a music head. But I know you’re quite the music aficionado.
Luke: Yep. I am a music avocado like you said.
Emma: Right. So, what makes a good concert?
Luke: Um, well now a days, it seems like, in my opinion, um, what I like to see in a concert is authenticity. cause now-a-days what a lot of artists do is they’ll play along to backing tracks and metronomes. And there’s a lot of um, there’s even a lot of miming that goes on today, so what I personally like to see in a concert is just musicians on stage and you can tell there is a connection between the musician and the audience. And to me, even if I don’t like the gen-genres of music they’re playing, a lot of times that is what I like to see in, in uh, the performance.
Emma: Are you referring to right now more like rock concerts and pop concerts, as far as the back tracking and the mimic-miming.
Luke: Yeah, yeah that’s where I see it a lot is especially in the pop world. And and a lot of the a lot of the ugh popular rock, modern rock too, um, yeah, but, and then the other thing about a lot of modern concerts too is just how loud they are.
Emma: Yeah.
Luke: And um.
Emma: You have to bring ear plugs in order to enjoy the music.
Luke: Right, so that, that’s something I kind of think I unnecessary. I like it to be comfortably loud, if that makes sense.
Emma: Is that the fault of like the music mixer at the concert?
Luke: I don’t think it’s that. I don’t think its that. I think it’s, it’s kind of like been kinda like a one-up man’s ship development that there’s something about if you see a band that’s a little bit louder for whatever reason it feels like they’re a little bit better too. And so I feel like and that’s especially true on the on the radio.
Emma: It’s kind of like spicy food.
Luke: Yeah.
Emma: Its no longer about what it tastes like, its about how hot it is.
Luke: Exactly. Um, But that’s just my opinion. I know a lot of people like it really loud, so.
Emma: As with anything, everyone has their own opinion.
Luke: Mm hm.
Emma: So that was our conversation on concerts. We might talk about concerts again sometime but thank you for joining us today and thank you for listening to Dialogue Frog.
Concert
Audience
Could do with
Winning
The lottery
Hashtag
Agree
Fan
Quite
Feel
Mood
Music Head
Aficionado
Avocado
Make
Now-a-days
Opinion
Authenticity
Cause (because)
Artists
Play along
Backing tracks
Metronomes
Miming
Goes on
Personally
Stage
You can tell
Connection
Between
Genre
Music
Performance
Referring
Right now
Rock
Pop
As far as
Especially
Pop world
Popular rock
Modern rock
The other thing
Loud
Bring
Ear plugs
In order to
Enjoy
Unnecessary
Comfortably
If that makes sense
Fault
Music mixer
One-up-manship
Development
Band
For whatever reason
Better
Radio
Kind of like
Spicy
No longer
About
Tastes
Hot
Exactly
