I enjoyed it.
The only problem was once I walked through the festival
gates all I saw was this.
I then realised I had discovered a new species – the festival
girl. Also known as the Festi-Girl.
Given their attire and the temperature at this particular
festival I can only hope that they will soon become endangered. More on that in
a minute.
The festival girl is a young woman (most likely a teen) who
attends a music festival in the hopes of ensnaring a partner by wearing little
clothing and racing about the place. The fact that the purpose of the very
festival is to listen to music is irrelevant. They call to one another in high
pitched squeals and often embrace by throwing their arms and legs around the
other person and spinning around. For example “SaaaaaarrrrrrrraaaaaAAAHHAHHHHHH!!!”
Imagine that the capitalised letters are in a higher tone. And by “higher tone”
I mean blood will gently cascade from your ears.
These girls attend music festivals in little packs so as to
attract as much attention as possible from moronic young males who can be seen
wearing hats with little propellers on them and tight, tight pants. When the
two sexes meet they interact with a dialogue consisting of monosyllabic responses
punctuated with giggling and hair flicking.
Before their targets have been sucked in they need to prune
themselves into an appropriate state of skankiness. This involves each girl in
the group choosing a complete outfit which makes them looks like they’ve stumbled
out of a forest having been lost for at least three days without shelter.
Let me explain. Starting from the top. The festival girl
likes their hair to be long, messed up and often badly dyed. They believe that
festivals are a time to reunite with 70s era (not that they are aware as
anything that happened less than a year prior is not worth knowing) by wearing
a band around their heads which often pulls their raggy hair up in an odd bun.
This is to make them seem bigger and more of a threat to other festival girls
that may be “snakin’ [their] man”.
Then there’s the make-up. In the words of every great
consumer “more is more” and these festival girls certainly provide. Under their
layers of foundation, which are only a colour match to the rest of their bodies
in the dark, are several million layers of fake tan. This fake tan covers their
entire bodies and they feel that looking orange, brown and speckled in most
areas is the best way to achieve a state of true beauty.
Now if the messy hair and dirty looking skin doesn’t make
you think they’ve emerged from a hedge then just check out their “clothes”.
Festival girls prefer to wear clothing that leaves very little to the
imagination. After all they have to be quick about their advances to the
opposite sex after all any minute they might grow up and be taken seriously.
First, I assume there is basic underwear – often their brassieres, which hold
nothing but scrunched up tissues and a lot of hoping, are on display for
everyone to see. In the world outside the festival it is more appropriate to
cover this up but as it is a festival the illusion of covering it up is all
that is necessary which is why festival girls where a singlet that looks like
it has been through a lawnmower. Next come the shorts. A festival girl must
show off as much leg as possible. It is a double bonus if they can get away
with their bottoms hanging out the back. Usually they take regular pants and
cut them to within an inch of their life, leaving the now exposed pockets to
dangle limply against their orange thighs. It is not in a festival girls’
knowledge to check the back of their thighs for cellulite and cover up as
festival girls are not designed to look backwards – always forwards. Possibly upwards.
Add some oversized lace-up boots and we’re done.
Over the course of the day I noticed every festival girl I
saw looked a) exactly like the one before her and b) miserable. I was confused.
Why would they attend a music festival – which is meant to be fun – only to
look sour? Then I realised. A festival girl’s life is filled with drama. If
they have no drama going on then they die. Festival girls live in a state of
anger, shame, guilt, confusion and lust. These emotions usually culminate in a
series of episodes which they act out during the day such as: cheating on
someone, being cheated on, actually speaking your mind, getting insulted,
losing your friends in a crowd and being unbelievably unprepared for the
weather.
Which leads me to my final point... when you think of a
music festival you think of sunny skies, green grass, heat, snow cones and
laughter. The music festival I was attending was in a climate where my car was
covered in ice by the time I went home. Needless to say that an anorexic pair
of shorts wouldn’t cut in this weather. I would look pretty miserable too if I
had dressed entirely for the opposite sex and under the pressure of my festival
girl group – mostly because I would be cold. I was wearing a snow jacket and
ear muffs and I was having a great time! I can only assume since the festival
ended at a temperature of -2 degrees that they perished.
One can only hope.
