T-Pain: an act of God

This past Monday, T-Pain canceled his show that was supposed to be held in Bender Arena. For all of you like me, who thought T-Pain was a robot because of his love for auto tune and his most recent robot-esque dance moves in "I'm On a Boat", were proved wrong. Apparently he came down with some laryngitis, which would make it impossible to sing, so his agent contacted the head of SUB Sunday morning and told him the bad news. SUB recently sent out emails to everyone who was going to the show, both students and general admission, that there will be full refunds given this week and next week. T-Pain was on his "College Tour", which is what is sounds like, most recently visiting Georgetown on April 18th.

Now this is just a bit of bad luck for everyone who wanted to hear T-Pain, or maybe just "I'm on a Boat", and there is nothing anyone could have done about this. This is something that would come up in a Force Majeure Clause in a contract. This was something that was beyond the control of T-Pain, so according to this clause, the contract is considered void and prevents everyone involved from fulfilling the contract. I do not know the details of the contract, but knowing that T-Pain is a big artist and that this clause is an industry standard, I would assume it is in the contract.

So unfortunately there was no T-Pain, but it ended up working out for everyone: SUB did not have to pay T-Pain and T-Pain did not have to perform during is illness. Thank God for Force Majeure!

John Geraghty