People Are Trying To Crowdfund An Entire Festival Dedicated To Santana's 1999 Hit 'Smooth'

Straight from the "headlines we never thought we'd get to write but, Jesus, are we glad we were wrong" files comes a tale of the power of people and their incredibly stupid creative ideas: there is a Kickstarter campaign to organise a music festival dedicated to Carlos Santana's chart-busting 1999 hit, Smooth, featuring Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas.

OK.

As Fusion reports, SMOOTHcon 2016 is the brainchild of Michigan man Matthew Sullivan — aka "SMOOTH Sully" - and aims to "return the emotion" so copiously heaped upon the masses all those years ago — 15 years, in fact, by the time a successfully backed SMOOTHcon 2016 would come to fruition.

"This project is a work in progress," the campaign's Kickstarter page concedes.

"Will update with frequency based on what fellow Smoothalos want out of a SMOOTH - Santana feat. Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 convention event."

Based on the suggestions so far, if the group reaches its objective (at the time of writing, they're about $199,393 short of their $200,000 goal, with just over two weeks remaining to "make it real", ha), this has the potential to be the most wonderfully insane event this side of DashCon and its infamous ball pit.

For example, this is what's on offer so far:

Obviously, the whole project is pretty damn tongue-in-cheek, nigh totally insincere, but, then again, there could be untold millions around the world who would be more than happy to see this come to fruition. We don't even necessarily mean Santana fans; more the kinds of people who crowdfunded that guy's potato salad and consequent PotatoStock event.

Make it happen, Smoothalos. Your people need you.