Now for something completely different...

I ended up on the guest list for Norwegian DJ-Producer Alan Walker's Sunday night concert in Gurgaon through a friend of a woman my roommate met on a dating app here in Delhi. If it sounds random, it absolutely was. I had never even heard of Alan Walker, but apparently he's a bit of a YouTube sensation with a couple breakthrough hits over the past few years. Plenty of young Indians knew him and flocked to Sunburn Arena by the thousands to lose their minds during his ninety-minute set. I'm not one of these people who dislikes electronic dance music (EDM) on principle, but most of the music didn't really do it for me. Lord knows I've enjoyed my share of EDM over the years and almost certainly will again--it just wasn't my preferred flavor. Some of the remixes were admittedly pretty slick, but the general aesthetic was a touch too slick, sterile, and Northern European for my palate. I prefer my EDM raw, dirty, and unpredictable. Maybe I'm just showing my age. It wouldn't be the first time. The stage production, however, dwarfed anything I've seen in years. Regardless of how out of place I felt in a sea of Indian twenty-somethings dancing to music that didn't make me want to dance, I'm glad I witnessed the spectacle. As general practice, never say no to free concert tickets.