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Are you ready for music-festival nostalgia?

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Yes, you read that right jugglers.

Suffice to say, almost all of these events stopped feeling like events years ago.

(Spins award-winning report on the festival from that year is essential, and horrifying, reading.)

It was just a big party.

Even Bonnaroos struggled, dipping to a record-low 45,500 attendees in 2016 a practical dent in its too-big-to-fail status.