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She was. This is my favourite video of that show. I can see things I never noticed even though I've been front row. The choreography speaks a lot more than I thought and her voice was just perfect, so much passion and intensity in this performance...
Check the other videos on his channel. I wonder what camera he used...
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lol she signed my arm two months ago and I wanted to get it tattooed, but I changed my mind. So glad I listened to my inner voice. Things change, people change and nothing is eternal beside diamonds
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Okay so I decided to do a long write-up about my entire concert-going experience yesterday, mostly because the situation with game day and all was pretty unique. I know a lot of people don't care about the boring details of my life so everything that is about Lana is in bold so you can skip the stuff that's not about her.
TO THE PROMISED LAND
I ended up leaving for the venue around 1:30. I had to stop and print my ticket, and I knew public transit was going to be hell getting down to AT&T station, so I figured I would arrive right around 3:00 if I left that early. I would have lined up earlier, but the person I was trying to meet up with decided they didn’t want to go so early because it would be very difficult for them to make it into the city that early in the morning. Later I would find that I probably would’ve had a better time if I had just arrived at the venue when doors opened, but, alas.
The trip down to the Wells Fargo center was incredible, but in a “what the fuck just happened?” kind of way. When I got on the trolley to the subway, two people immediately got into an altercation about the Eagles’ game. One man on the trolley said we should just flip over the trolley now, since when the Eagles would win the game that night, the city would be in shambles anyway. A nervous laugh was shared among the trolley-goers.
Once off the trolley and into the subway, the normally typical citizens of Philadelphia were replaced a mass of jersey-wearing rabble-rousers. A boisterous group next to me was making fun of someone’s watch. The mood was loud and jovial, and repeated chants of E-A-G-L-E-S washed over the train, along with hums of that seven nation army riff. People were slamming their hands against the roof and windows. It was very hot inside the subway, which was sort of like an omen for what standing close to the barricade was going to be like.
Getting off the subway into the station I sighed a loud “jesus christ”. Finally I was out into the open, I could breathe again. Signs everywhere indicated “TO THE GAME ->”. Seemed more and more like I was going to the wrong big event in the city that day.
WAITING
A bit of a walk later and I found my people in line at the venue. Without coming off too tactless, part of the line looked like a homeless camp. Bottles of pee and rough-looking blankets with tired faces wrapped up in them. Yeesh. Anything for Lana I guess.
I took my spot on line. Some people were marking their hands with numbers, I guess as a way to keep their spot in case they had to leave the line. I didn’t put a mark on my hand, but the people ahead of my were 80-something in line. So I guess I was 90-something, 5 hours from the show.
You’d think it’d be hard to entertain yourself for 4 hours waiting for doors to open, but actually, it was kind of fun with the tail-gaters all around us. People came up to us and asked us what we were waiting for, and most were nice, some were confused. Some entertainer (radio maybe?) had a tent and a microphone, and boy, did he not like us there. Told us multiple times that Lana had died in a car crash and that we should go home, Lana sucks, blah blah blah. I feel his heckling made the comraderie in the line much stronger.
At some point I had to leave the line to find a bathroom, and god was that a quest in itself. I ended up walking a mile and a half to a local CVS. I was probably gone for like an hour. I didn’t want to risk that scenario again so I began drinking my water pretty sparingly, which caused me to get dehydrated (relevant later).
About an hour before doors opened, we all stood and queued up. With the sun setting right around then, it began to get pretty cold. The people around me complained of not feeling their feet anymore, of twitching muscles and general exhaustion. I was right there with them. Not long after, a staff member came out and informed us that we were not allowed to have backpacks. Fuck! Apparently this is common in venues, but I have never gone to a show in a major metropolis at a big stadium before, so this has never been an issue for me. Thinking on my feet I inverted my backpack so it just looked like a brown bag with a draw-string. I was able to get it past security, but they made me throw out my thermos/my water.
AT THE BARRICADE - KALI
Once past security, I went down to the pit and ended up maybe only about 7 feet from the barricade once we all squished together. We waited there for about an hour, and this is when I began to have my doubts. I was really tired, really hungry, really dehydrated, my head hurt bad, and all my muscles hurt. There was a person behind me who complained about all these things in the world’s whiniest voice, and as much as I wanted to hate her, she was pretty much saying everything I was feeling.
Kali came out with little fanfare and performed excellently. Her backup singers were also quite talented. Her drummer was incredibly ferocious, and every time he hit the kicks I could feel it in my chest, like a heart palpitation. I’m not a big fan of hers or anything, but she was definitely entertaining to say the least.
Some time between Kali’s set ending and Lana’s set starting, the Eagles won their game. A cheer went up through the audience, so loud and passionate that I briefly considered that Lana had come out and I had missed it somehow. The venue turned the lights green briefly to celebrate it. This wasn’t just a Lana concert, but a Philly concert. We were all part of more than one community.
(P.S. Shot in the dark, but there was a brunette long-haired guy standing not too far from me when I was up against the barricade. He was there alone, I think. I thought he was cute but he was just far enough from me where I felt it would be weird to strike up a conversation. Anyway, if you’re out there, you were fucking cute, hmu.)
MAIN EVENT - LANA
As is the usual case with Lana’s entry, first her band came out, then her dancers, then she herself. Sometime during the entry sequence I got pushed from my spot further center but a little further back, and I was now standing behind a really tall guy, which would make it almost impossible for me to see her. I tried to enjoy the show- let me tell you, she was REALLY serving, vocals and moves- but I was getting a bit fed up with my whole situation. I paid a pretty penny to watch her through someone else’s phone… not my idea of fun.
Before she sang Yayo, I believe someone in the pit called out “You made it Lana!” and she looked up and gave a knowing glance and a smile. Honestly, just thinking about it makes me feel some kind of way. Yeah, you did make it. You made it out of that trailer park life… She reiterated that the song was about her friend Rob.
For me, the highlight of the show was Honeymoon. The whole stage was lit in red, and in the verses, those notes from the guitar and upright bass just hang on forever, creating some endless tension. This tension was highlighted as her dancers came on dressed in black holding wedding bouquets- they just stood still at her side. You are just desperately waiting for something to happen, because something must happen.
War was pretty emotional, it made me feel for the song in a way I hadn’t before, with the background visuals all protests and missile shells and war planes intermixed with veterans reuniting with their spouses. The sense was that amidst war, life goes on. Love still happens. We still dance. One could interpret it as a lamentation on how easily war gets integrated into our lives, but I think Lana’s message was more optimistic, that these moments of life will always exist no matter what.
I stuck around in the pit until Video Games I think, but by this time I was starting to get really faint, and feared passing out (three people passed out in the pit while we were waiting), so I made my exit for the back of the pit. As it turned out, the view in the back of the pit was much better- no more angling my head around other people’s phones and heads, and I could hear her much better, since I didn’t have to listen past everyone’s singing. From back there I enjoyed listening to the Old Money pseudo-acapella. It was a very pleasant surprise. Something I noticed from both her GBA acapella and this one, her lower register live is so much richer than it used to be. She also sang “Those jersey shores seem long ago” instead of “summer nights”, which made me wonder if it was another throwback to Rob…
I got very emotional during Ultraviolence and Summertime Sadness. It was probably part delirium and exhaustion, but maybe with the recent revelation about her relationship with Rob, someone close to her who died unexpectedly, “think I’ll miss you forever”, it just reminded me of some very personal stuff, and I definitely cried.
The show ended with OTTR, per usual. I recorded part of it for my roommate, as this is their favorite song by Lana. And then I went home! I wanted to stalk the venue to try and get a selfie, but as mentioned before, I was beat. So after 12 hours of this wonderful and whacky quest, I called an uber, and made it back to my apartment.
In conclusion, Lana served, but I was unnerved. If I had to do it again, I would just arrive when the doors open and hang out in the back of the pit. The view was much better and the air much more breathable, and I could actually hear her sing.
I enjoyed reading every bits! Question: did you find the sound quality better at the back? I've read the sound is better near the mixing board in arena concerts. I'm not talking about sound quality being bad because of fans screaming, but more about the best spot in the arena for a richer/better quality sound.
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I have the Endless Summer Tour tote bag and I use it every other day for my grocery and it last, it's quite surprising. I throw it the washing machine every two weeks since summer 2015 and it aged beautifully. I had to sew it once to fix it but that's all. I love it and I got it for free with the VIP package, but I wouldn't have paid for it, it's usually low quality stuff. This clothe stand looks like a tourist trap. The lighters are scratched, but discounted I think. I loved the white windbreaker on Lana pics, but it looks yellowish under artificial light, it looks cheep and dirty + it's absolutely non-functional lol.
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Ticket prices drastically dropped for this show. If you have a 20 dollar bill in your pocket, you can watch Lana sing. Queen of discounts!
If you wait 'til very last minute, you might even get paid to attend the concert.
Poor Byron...
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They say starting at 10am they give out wristbands in random order. At 6pm you line up in sequential order and they let you in in sequential order. Kind of unfair, but that’s what they said
Start your own number system. Get a sharpie. You can be the boss
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Her dresses look better live than on photographs. Concert photography is hard, there's just so much spotlights moving around. That harsh light makes the dress look super cheap, hair looks like straw etc.
I don't like saggy belts when there's already a waistline on the dress. She doesn't look comfortable in it, she had to fix it a few times and hide her crotch with her hands while sitting/laying on the stage.
I prefer the black shirt / jeans look just because she seems more comfortable performing in those.
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It’s true about the lawsuit. Although I know my song wasn’t inspired by Creep, Radiohead feel it was and want 100% of the publishing - I offered up to 40 over the last few months but they will only accept 100. Their lawyers have been relentless, so we will deal with it in court.Let's make some adjustments...
"The rumour about a probable lawsuit is true. Although I know my song wasn't inspired by Creep, Radiohead's label feel it was and asked 100% of the publishing - I offered up to 40% over the last few months, but they keep asking for 100%. Their lawyers have been relentless, so if they don't accept my final offer (40%), I assume we'll have to deal with that in court."
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What exactly is the difference? In her tweet, she said she was willing to offer up to 40%, yet they refused it. The next logical step would be a) you give us 100% or b) see you in court.
The next logical step is to go up to 50%. They refused 40% because they want her to go up to 50%, or maybe 60%, but really wanting 100% is not logical. I don't like when people negotiate like that, I find it insulting. It's intimidating. If I was Lana, my first offer would have been 1% "haha you wanna play that game?"
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It's better to say "flu" than "cold" in her situation. You can go to work with a cold, unless it's a bad cold. Not with the flu.
I hope it's just a bad cold.
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In reality they want 50%, but they are asking the highest percentage, it's negotiation. She wants that track to remain hers (it's her baby), so she won't give them 50%. Maybe the court thing is what Lana anticipate is gonna happen next, but in reality they just didn't give her an answer yet.
"We want 100%" is different than "We will only accept 100%" when you are negotiate.
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The show was awesome!
I had a really great seat, I really liked Jhen Aiko! I had no idea who she was, but she made me a fan!
She did not do Ultraviolence or Serial Killer, which was a bummer cause I really wanted to hear SK.
She looked so beautiful and the stage I thought looked really great! I love how the stage lighting wasn't harsh and you can see her perfectly.
She did call out Radiohead a lot during the show, before she got into her melody she talked about it for maybe 5 minutes or so and I really thought was she was going to sing Get Free, but she didn't
She was very talkative and seemed very relaxed.
The fans though were crazy! I counted 3 fights from my seat and the last one happened next to my seat during OTTR..
During the ending of OTTR, it seemed like she had to get off the stage quickly and she did not go back down to the pit or do an encore.
100000/10000000 Would see her again!
*** Edit, be sure to check my insta out, I uploaded videos and pics. Wanderlust_770
Why why why why why why why? Just swallow some chill pills
Thx for the review!
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Thought this was just an interesting note - Lana's usual makeup artist Pammy Cochrane isn't with her on tour, as she is currently in Australia. Annie Cardea has been doing her makeup so far. It doesn't seem as if Lana's usual hairstylist Anna Cofone is with her on tour either.
I just checked her insta and her website on wix and I'm like... "she's not the same caliber as Pam". Why would Pamela go to Australia when Lana is doing her biggest tour? It could be family issues, but the fact that Anna doesn't seem to be with her as well, I'm wondering if she didn't renew their contract... and Johnny is somewhere in rainbowland... I don't get it. It cannot be because the show is not selling well? I read that the venue was 2/3 full or something. I'm confused.
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OK so I like Radiohead, but I am so fucking pissed about this I am seeing red. I've studied music theory (it's been a long time though) and this 100% writing credit shit is just preposterous. I'm attempting to analyze the sheet music for both but unfortunately there's none for Get Free yet so I'm breaking down the chords and am going to try to make my own sheet music for it, maybe try to transpose it. They're in different keys (Creep is G Major, Get Free is B flat), and while some notes are similar, it ain't 100 fucking percent. The rhythm of the vocal line melodies is also discrepant.
TL;DR Radiohead can fuck off
Can't wait. We just want the fucking proof.
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The outfit look so much better with that light, pose and angle