The Good Listener: Is It OK To Attend A Concert On A First Date? — npr.org

We get a lot of mail at NPR Music, and alongside the boxes of chocolate we bought ourselves to eat alone in the dark on Valentine's Day is a slew of smart questions about how music fits into our lives — and, this week, thoughts on the collision of concert etiquette and first-date etiquette. Emily writes via email: "I have high hopes for two upcoming events: a concert by a band I like and a date with a boy I like. The only problem is that I don't know how many tickets to buy, because I haven't asked him. I'm pretty confident he'll say yes, so that's not the advice I'm asking for. What I'm wondering is, is going to a concert a good or bad way to do a first date? On one hand, it seems like a natural setting for that sort of thing — available drinks, music for dancing, distractions in case the conversation is boring and all that. But it's not like we can/should talk during the show, and I can see the potential for awkwardness. Or am I just being neurotic?"

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