Beautiful Loser

I think she wants to tell this because she’s tired of people taking the narrative from her. Just listen to Grandfather… “it took somebody else to make me beautiful, as they intended me to be”… It gets tiring and this is her try to be heard.

fingertips

A mall dress

Yeah, I think this will be another song I’ll stream once and then forget.

Why am I imagining Lana’s voice with that sheet of paper in front of the microphone-kind of quality for this I’m gonna guess with a 80% chance (risk?) Lana is just doing backup vocals again

Do you really think you would though? I had classmates with a freaking indoor swimming pool living in a three-story house and taking vacation trips to Mauritius almost yearly and I naturally noticed they were living differently than my own family and had more money, but I never considered myself to be poor. We did okay, I’m middle class. I don’t think I’d ever start thinking or remembering my childhood to be anything else than what it was. :0

What’s wrong with being middle class? I don’t really like that she’s trying to convince people her family was poor… I don’t think they struggled with rent or having enough food for everyone, or missing presents for Christmas etc? You can be hardworking and middle class, that’s fine. You can choose to be independent and live with little money in a trailer park and experience what that is like, that’s okay. But I never got the impression that she grew up poor? It’s not like being poor or middle class is better or worse than the other?

Well, you know how the Grammys be like

I’ve seen him ask people in the comment sections on Insta to stop badmouthing him so I think some might have taken it too far to be honest. I remember people writing absolute shit comments online about Win Edwards, even here. Some of the comments were disgusting. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ricardo has received similar comments, and if he has, it’s kinda understandable why he’d react like this. (It might be empty threats to make people stop though.) I hope he hasn’t received death threats, no one deserves those from immature fans. I know there are fans in every music fandom who goes to several shows, but there are very few that go to all shows… and even fewer that make sure they get barricade for every show. And goes to events just because Lana will be there? I don’t know, something about that does make me uncomfortable. I can’t imagine dropping everything or reschedule plans just to see my favorite artist. And like Rorman mentioned in another thread, I’d just feel weird and worry Lana would think I’m weird too. It just… doesn’t seem like a normal thing to do. Is it harmless? For now, it seems. Might not have to develop into something bad but… yeah.

Not that it matters, but Variety thinks Lana has a chance to be nominated to album of the year (Did you know… Blvd) and record of the year (A&W). They predict Taylor, SZA or Olivia Rodrigo to win AOTY though. https://variety.com/2023/music/news/grammy-predictions-nominations-2023-taylor-swift-olivia-rodrigo-1235752011/

I’m cringing so hard omg

I think Lana'd be sad to see him wishing someone would leak their song...

I don’t think anyone was disrespectful but to see the same people showing up just to see Lana… I don’t know. Lana was happy to see them though, so that’s sweet.

I've listened to her albums and EP now, listening through them a second time now. Honestly surprised James doesn't have more listens on Spotify, I think it's really funny and sweet!

We'll see who she'll compete against but I have a feeling she will be snubbed again.

August 24, 2018 It was sometime around that day, maybe the same day or a few days before or later, that I asked a hairdresser to chop off my very long hair to give me a bob for the first time! I loved it, and I was glad I finally did it after considering it for years! Then my depression slowly returned. : )))

It just leads me to this

Sooo… The show was great! The lighting was better than when I saw them for the first time, and I like the echo effects they’ve implemented for Eli’s voice on certain songs. When I saw them earlier this year as openers for Arctic Monkeys, the huge arena felt a bit large for them, that they still need some experience to learn how to use a stage that big. I’m sure they’ll get there one day! Because their songs definitely fit bigger venues. However, the crowd just felt… dead to me. Or not dead, people were clearly excited and happy to be there, but it seemed more important to capture every moment on their phones. And don’t get me wrong, I record videos too, but never full songs and never every single one on the set list either. Very, very few joined clapping to the songs, even fewer raised their arms to bop along and not that many even jumped along. I honestly felt sorry for Inhaler, and the opening act, Nieve Ella. I felt awkward at times for enjoying myself. This is the first time I’ve seen how phones really can kill a concert. Maybe I was the only one who was saddened by it. Maybe it was better in the back, but I doubt it. Maybe it’s because the venue was fairly small and us Scandinavians aren’t known for being outgoing and loud at concerts. I was surprised that they came back for an encore after a few minutes of us cheering them to enter the stage again, but I’m glad they did! A second play of Just to keep you satisfied and the night’s only performance of My honest face (I didn’t realize until then that they had left one of their best songs for the encore!! Insane!). No setlists were given out afterwards, unfortunately. But I was happy to see the same girl at the merch booth as my first Inhaler show! She confirmed she’s been their merch lady for a while now. Show was great, the crowd wasn’t it in my opinion. Hopefully it’ll be better next time, if there’ll be a next time!

Finished listening to Everything I know about love, I think she's my new favorite artist! She's very talented... on to the next EP or album!

Absolutely, but most of all, I want a 90 minute show without breaks for hair and wigs and the Ride monologue.

The Burning Desire-esque hair!!

Saaaame, I'm so pleased she finally got some real backup singers for this tour, I've been wanting them for years! And they did an awesome job too! I hope she'll consider keeping real backup singers for future tours, they bring so much to live experiences.

Oh, I could be wrong though! I haven't really paid much attention to this second leg of the tour, with the shows being on while I'm asleep and my instagram feed being bombarded with video clips... I just don't have the time or energy to check them out lol. ^^'

Yep! From what I’ve heard from fan recordings, she still uses backtrack for certain songs, or partly like for the choruses (which is pretty normal).

Byron also hinted in a comment that there'll be more shows!