About a week and a half ago, AEG Live had announced that they were planning to bring a new "Coachella-styled" festival to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York. With this being two weeks after Governors Ball (I bet Governors Ball isn't too happy to hear about this). I started to think about festival overkill. The festival bubble is almost at its breaking point to which it seems like there's a new iteration of something announced almost every week. Myself, being a staunch veteran of music festivals, try to find something different with each experience. What the lineup is going to be like, do I have the funds to book flights and a hotel?

When buying tickets, you also have to get acquainted with the wait time screen and come up with some Da Vinci-like strategy to get your hands on a three day pass the first day tickets are sold (looking at you, Lollapalooza). Is the juice really worth the squeeze at this point? Live streams of festivals have changed the game to where you can experience these in the comfort of your own home. Is there really a need to drop a small fortune at this point?

Spin Magazine did a post back in early January on the immense overlap of talent when it came to the three major festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo). The good thing is, there are many chances to see many of your favorite artists. The bad thing; as we expand how many festivals occur, there is only so much talent to go around. You actually have to have talent to draw an audience and make your festival profitable.

For a lot of the 2015 festival lineup, you can shuffle them within a deck and still get a semblance of the same thing. It’s almost why I get jealous of the festivals overseas like Glastonbury, Slam Dunk, and Reading and Leeds. They seem to get it right every single year. If you put time into your festival to make it memorable, it will be profitable. With artists, some of their appearances are negotiated a year an advance with a high price tag. With more festivals on the horizon, the demand for talent is going to be more vigorous. Motley Crue can only do so many more reunion shows.

We also have to talk about fan safety. I know festival companies can’t factor in weather, but Tomorrowworld’s Atlanta edition was a disaster area with many fans stranded, sleeping on tables or walking for miles without shuttles or taxis. Coincidentally, these pictures looked less like Dreamville and more out of a scene from The Walking dead.

If fans are paying about $500 on average for a festival ticket, they should get the best experiences possible where officials have to take into account the worst case scenarios. My fear is that the festival experience has become more about bank roll and less about the overall experience. Listen, we are all going to go to one whether we travel far and wide or right in the backyard. Hell, we might as well start throwing them in our backyard. In order to make them memorable experiences, perhaps we should constrict instead of expanding like some global takeover. They always say less is more, and it this case, they might be right.

This post was written by M.J. Rawls, writer/photographer of Mind Equals Blown, Under The Gun Review, Music Mayhem Magazine and a ton of others. He loves A Perfect Circle, friends and family, and Emilia Clarke. If you want to check out his writing and pictures, talk about sports or horror movies, or send inquiries, follow him on Twitter (@viewtifulj21)