Dubai - So cheap and so close: if there was one thing Mais Mustafa (36) didn't care about, it was the exact seat she got at the last minute for one of Coldplay's concerts in Dubai in mid-January. She had been warned in advance that the view might be restricted. But she still hadn't expected the seat she got.

In an Instagram clip, the 36-year-old more or less poked fun at herself. True to the motto "Humor is when you laugh anyway", the video first shows Mustafa walking to the concert site beaming with joy.

This is followed by a hard cut to a wall, next to which part of the Coldplay stage can be seen on the right-hand side. According to the visitor, even the sound of the concert was kept out quite well.

"And I told everyone that I was so lucky to get tickets at the last minute at a really good price," Mustafa comments on the failure with a teary-eyed laughing emoji.

Instagram users can also laugh about the botched concert. In addition to more than three million clicks, the curious clip has now received a good 60,000 likes.

But a look at the Southerner's other videos makes you wonder.

In it, she dances happily at the concert. The stage is suddenly completely visible in the background, but there is no trace of the wall.

Newsweek therefore contacted the woman from Iraq to find out what had really happened at the concert.

She had attended the event with her cousin, Mustafa told the US magazine. They were both surprised at how bad their seats were.

But they didn't let it spoil their mood. "In the end, my cousin and I moved and stood somewhere else so that we could enjoy the concert," she explained.

In the end, Mais Mustafa made the best of everything. In hindsight, she's just as happy not to have missed the concert.