世論 What Japan Thinks

Following on from Disneyland, another big summer event is attending a festival. This ranking survey from goo Ranking looked at what sorts of things tend to happen at music festivals.

Demographics

Between the 7th and 9th of July 2013 1,096 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.5% of the sample were female, 24.4% in their teens, 25.2% in their twenties, 24.8% in their thirties, and 25.6% in their forties; there was no-one older than 49 in this sample. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Here’s a bunch of Santa Clauses playing with balls from about the only Japan music festival I can name, Summersonic:

I’ve never been to a music festival either in Japan or elsewhere, so I cannot comment much; all I know is that Glastonbury usually ends up as a mud bath.

Ranking result

Q: What sorts of things tend to happen at music festivals? (Sample size=1,096)

Rank		Score
1	I get too excited and high-five strangers	100
2	I just scream “Hoooo!” during the performance	76.2
3	Rip-off food and drink prices at the venue	64.7
4	Becoming a fan of a group I previously wasn’t interested after hearing their performance	57.4
5	Getting stuck in the toilet queue and being late for a performance	53.5
6	Getting extremely drunk due to too much excitement	52.7
7	Getting a little lonely attending by myself	51.3
8	Having two bands I want to see playing at the same time, and worrying over which to choose	47.1
9	Starting off being sure to apply sun cream, but by the end finding it too much bother and not using any	44.5
10	Buying a cheap raincoat and having it rip on the first day	35.6
11	Buying a raincoat but encountering no rain	31.4
12	Having meaningless “Bottoms up!” at the slightest provocation	24.4
13	Due to my wrist swelling after the festival, being unable to remove the wristband	23.0
14	Making up a full timetable of who to see before the event, but ending up not catching many of them at all	22.4
15	Buying a one-day pass ahead of time, but then due to additions artists on the line-up, regretting not being able to attend a much better day	20.7
16	Waking up in my tent in the morning due to the heat	16.8
17	Being surprised by someone saying “It’s easier to go by yourself than in a group”	15.1
18	Being unable to properly enjoy a performance due to everyone around me drinking and talking	13.7
19	Using all my money and having to borrow cash on the final day	12.3
20	Witnessing a couple arguing over which band to see	12.0
21	Enjoying seeing another artist enjoying themselves in the wings listening to the performing band	11.8
22	People coming to the festival for the food	11.2
23	People being proud of their camping equiment	10.6
24	Nothing starting on time	10.1
25	Enjoying going to a hot springs in the morning	9.0