#rly appreciated him wearing a romantic sheer blouse for me personally

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MSG night 3 thoughts

A few highlights/ramblings from seeing Harry last night:

- Jenny was wonderful. Sounded great, as magnetic as the first time I saw her 15 years ago, and it was cool to see the crowd being so into her when the online fandom reaction was so shitty when she was first announced. I was mad excited when she closed with She’s Not Me. a JAM. Red Bull & Hennessy was the other standout from her set.

- Harry sounded incredible. The videos don’t fully capture it imo. He was on top form vocally.

- I don’t rly need to go into Harry Thee Performer because I know you all know. It’s hard to express how it felt to experience stage!harry again. Like to connect to his joy, his brightness. He’s so in his element and I think that comfort is what I vibed with most. Idk how to describe what I mean exactly but I guess it was the experience of seeing him mere feet from me but not feeling freaked out by it. Like pretty quickly I didn’t feel that jarring, heightened ‘oh shit that’s harry’s face that I see on my screen every day of my life right in front of me’ feeling. It was just his energy adding to mine when he’d come back around. I’m definitely not making sense but I just rly felt his joy and it made me groove a LOT in a way that felt v freeing.

- The stage setup is excellent. The screens are fucking huge and he rly gets around the arena. 

- Standing by Pauli/Niji was the best call, 1) bc they were so fun (and Niji.....once again respectfully i am looking 👀 ) and 2) it was less crowded on that side. I got there at 7:40ish and we were maybe 4/5 ppl deep from the stage? There’s a mic there and it felt like he spent so much time on our side. Highly recommend that section to anyone with pit tickets at the upcoming shows

- Standing there also resulted in some of my fave harry songs being performed right in front of my eyeballs. Specifically, Woman. Harry performing Woman directly in front of me was almost a transcendental experience. I’ve had a few moments like that over the years at shows when i'm totally in the moment, feeling the music and barely aware of myself or anything around me. This was one of them. It was PERFECT. I didn’t realize he’d be by my section for it and it was the best surprise of the night. Absolute highlight for me. 

- My other faves of the night were probably Lights Up, Sunflower vol 6, WMYB, Fine Line, SOTT always. Honestly wasn’t a weak song in the set? Even Only Angel aka my least fave harry song is enjoyable live for me. Wasn’t sure how TBSL would translate live but it had a ton of energy. The arrangements and transitions create a rly cohesive experience so the energy never dips even when they go to a Falling or a Cherry. The overall production of the show feels tighter than last tour and rly high quality but not to the point where it feels overdone. 

- With that said, I’m not sure how I feel about the watermelon sugar/kiwi encore. Something about the way they do it without any break, and maybe just those two songs as a pairing, felt anticlimactic. Kiwi goes the fuck off of course but I’d personally change that if I was on his team. But what do I know lol. Also thoroughly enjoyed screaming ‘it’s new york baby always jacked up’ at him and then witnessing the coke snort choreo right in front of me.

- When he was throwing sunflowers into the crowd he threw one a few ppl over from us and it was just like the bouquet toss scene in clueless where they fall onto the ground fighting for it. 

- OH also I didn’t know he had run the jewels on the pre-show playlist? Nothing I love more than when harold surprises me. Also v pleased that he had stockholm syndrome on there

And shout out to @daintyharru​ for meeting up! I had such a fun time chatting with you.

Anyway tl;dr wonderful show, wonderful pop star. I love him very much.