#but why did she perform THAT song

[sovamurka]

Team behind "Ma Meilleure Ennemie": How long this song can be?

Arcane team: Ahhhh... 2:30 max??? No, wait, 2:28!

Team behind "Ma Meilleure Ennemie": ...hmmm, quite short. Okay :)

Arcane team: Okay?

Team behind "Ma Meilleure Ennemie": Hehe :D *creates THE BEST FUCKING 2:28 song EVER*

[mintandcreme]

:)

[telomirage]

me: nervous about my first fansign experience despite being assured it was just as fast as hi touch

my first fansign experience: EXTREMELY POSITIVE and also so fast I feel like I blacked out and can't remember the order the members were sitting in (except for that I think Haruna might have been first and Tsuki was definitely last in line at the table)

I went through the line saying hi hello thank you, etc etc to everyone and I'm still riding the high of 1) one member telling me she liked my hair and thought it was pretty, 2) another member brightening up over my eyeliner + gems and saying I looked pretty, and 3) tsuki signing my album, looking up, and pausing with the album held aloft to tell me I was very pretty before handing the album to the staff so they'd give it back to me :')

[uldren-sov]

just some infamous thots but...

I love that we get language in the story that The Band hasn't really talked about "BreakupGate" or even The Vote in the three years since it happened. That they're happy enough to sweep it under the rug, tiptoe around it, or avoid seriously talking about it completely with MC.

I also love that there's a little bit of guilt there through what we hear about Iris at the Overkill (potentially) and Devyn outright during rehearsal (the "sorry" coming from nowhere right?). I imagine that MC at least has seen more comments along Rowan's lines (like just be glad you weren't there for BreakupGate toward August) than anyone trying to actually face what happened.

With Camy, I think the band's lack of willingness to address it is excused by Camy's behavior. She's never given them any real cause to assume she's not fully over it even though it is still a very sensitive topic to her. I think the break up and Seven leaving hurt, and she had a "mourning period" but only as to what was acceptable before she felt her feelings were a burden and dragging the band down. She had to step up, she had to chew through and spit out her feelings for the sake of the band's survival.

She had to continue living the life she and Seven lived without Seven and somehow do it better. The BOTB blurb confirms that she achieved this, she succeeded.

But I love thinking about: at what cost?

And tl;dr it's her personal life, her personal feelings on the issue, her love life, etc. I do not think she gave herself enough time to even think on the matter and to that point I do not think that she trusts her friends with those feelings since they've turned into her responsibility and they've been unwilling to really engage with her meaningfully. Are they concerned? Of course. Are they going to act on it? Doesn't look like it.

It seems like everyone was content to move past it, maybe breathe a sigh of relief when it appeared Camy got back on her feet, and move on without much thought to her outside of equating her assuming responsibility as her being over it all.

Which, to me, is why the Night scene with Seven on the bus is so interesting.

She tells him point blank that she hasn't gotten over him, over them.

I think that's one of the first time she's told anyone she still has lingering feelings on the break up, on The Vote. And it's to Seven. Yes, her rival, yes, who hates her, but yes, it's to someone she's no longer responsible for, someone she no longer has to support and be the leader for. Yes, she has to be strong and guarded in front of Seven, but no, not for the same reasons. Despite how much it hurt to admit and then to be rejected, I think there's some twisted relief in being able to tell someone about it, finally, and know she was going to get an honest response.

I don't think she regretted it either ... :)

At least, until Soft Violence's latest song and performance ... :)

[deus-ex-mona]

it’s all about the ✨metaphors✨ man

[graveyarrdshift]

I'm going to fucking kms

[sureuncertainty]

not to be a swiftie on main (jk i don't care) but listening to tortured poets department has gotten me thinking about Kat's story in Sterling Performance and how she really is the way she is because of the trauma of growing up famous and being essentially puppeted by her parents parading her around and making sure she lived up to their standards and always reflected well on them, never being able to make her own decisions, constantly having to play a part

and the way that Iris completely disdains and derides her because she grew up rich and privileged, and thus couldn't POSSIBLY be a victim of any form of abuse or anything. in much the same way that people on this website talk about how Taylor Swift can't possibly be really suffering bc of her privileges lmao

(i think that's part of why Kat loves Taylor Swift actually)

but yeah the trauma of fame is def something I wanna explore in the sterling performance!

[didhewinkback]

just from like a practical standpoint an entire discography set would require so much rehearsal and everyone is one foot out the door spending their days exploring italy rn like that is simply not happening in any planet lol

[skitskatdacat63]

I feel like at least several times a month, I have a random insane revitalization of my love for The Smiths. Not that I ever stop loving them, but I'll listen to some song and then suddenly fall into this pit of just deep, intense love for their music again where I can't stop listening to their music on repeat and watching live performances and looking at pics like AAAAAHHHHHH WHY IS THEIR MUSIC SO GOOOD?????? WHY IS IT PERFECT?????? WHY WERE THEY SO GENDER???????

(songs I am feeling intense brainrot over rn in case you're curious: "I Want The One I Can't Have(live)", "Stretch Out and Wait(live)", "You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby", "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others(demo)", "What She Said", "The Boy With The Thorn in His Side(live)"(p.s. I Want The One I Can't Have is Martian-coded to me, pls listen)(also it reminds me of that movie I watched yesterday)

[taylorsabrina]

the more guts world tour stuff i see the more bummed out i am that i'm gonna miss yet another one of olivia's tours, i wanna see her live so bad. :((((((

[cellphonehippie]

just found out all of australia had the same surprise song for the red tour (well according to setlist.com)

[aflerglow]

if taylor had just edited the lover album down it would've been her best album by far

[leapinarmadillo]

i'm judging everyone, especially self proclaimed mj fans, who says the 2nd act Thriller staging was amazing in mj the musical. i was pleasantly surprised that the first act only had a snippet of Thriller within a medley (which btw WBSS was great). that was nice. we all know Thriller, so referencing it almost in passing like that felt like a nice nod and good use of time. well that got completely undone by the 2nd act. which i thought was in horrible taste. why are we dragging this legend's corpse around like this. they thought they did something really significant with the themes there. they thought they came up with some artsy excuse to (over)use Thriller. 1. it was incoherent 2. even if you can justify it, i don't care, i thought it was way too dark (in a serious, unfun way) and disrespectful to michael

[mihotose]

they had collectively performed twenty six songs in the fukuoka shows (of which ceribou and dollche each performed fifteen) and the extended encore in the tokyo shows put the setlist up to thirty songs (of which ceribou and dollche each performed seventeen)

*in aqours 1st they collectively performed twenty (of which anchan and shuka performed sixteen)

**in liella 1st they collectively performed twenty two (of which sayurin performed nineteen)

[hamletthedane]

My conspiracy theory is that one of the reasons they fired Stephanie J. Block for the role of Elphaba in 2000 and replaced her with Idina Menzel at the end of the OBC workshops is because SJB played the role SO gay that it was quickly crossing the line of plausible deniability. Like she doesn't seem to be able to help herself.

And thank god she eventually got to play the role on Broadway (arguably one of the best - if not THE best - actresses who ever did), because we finally got to see her get super fucking handsy and stare lovingly into Glinda's eyes inches away from her face for three hours:

Like holy shit why do you keep looking at Annaleigh Ashford like you want to eat her alive??

Plus I cannot emphasize enough just how effective and moving this particular version of For Good is. Straight up feels like wedding vows.

(Ironically, she also has the best chemistry with Fiyero's character, and arguably the very sweetest performance of As Long As You're Mine in the entire slime tutorial universe.* So I'm just reading this as a Thropple Truther performance.)

*But that's just because she was (and still is) literally married to him. So they get uh. A little carried away in their performance. *cut to Sebastian Arcelus holding lantern up, his face covered in green makeup from aggressively making out with his wife on stage for several minutes* Apparently the makeup team HATED that song for them.

[malachitezmeyka]

One of the singing competitions my grandma endlessly watches featured a song I was learning in singing lessons and was supposed to perform before I cancelled two days prior to the concert, so now I'm like... half triggered, half wrecked with guilt