#that was the show they announced the new album iirc

[9w1ft]

hey so i was looking at some of your old posts and saw that you mentioned that karlie and taylor were actually neighbours/lived close during quarantine, could you break down the timeline a bit for me? i wasn't a kaylor then so now i'm interested how/where did they spend time in 2020/2021

thanks for the question, anon!

i’m going to try to keep this as a summary and i won’t be getting too technical with my language or submitting anything that can’t be figured out by watching interviews, googling stuff, and scrolling instagram. people can add stuff in the comments if they’d like.

okay so, basically, at the start of quarantine in the US, march 2020, karlie documented herself being in upstate new york (bedford area, specifically) along with josh, mikey, and misha at this rental property they have often been seen at over the years. so the basic concept is that this was her quarantine pod.

it is worth noting that after folklore was released in july 2020 and we got the visuals and subsequent interviews for the album, that we learned that taylor shot the photoshoot and video content in upstate new york, spending time at blake and ryan’s place, shooting stuff at a place located in lewisboro (not blake and ryan’s place iirc), which is located right by bedford. adjacent towns. connected by the same lakes ponds and forests (pound ridge). so she would have been there in upstate new york where karlie was sometime before album release in july, and it would have had to have been early enough so as to be able to send the artwork for the folklore physicals to print.

but deduction aside, taylor did not really document herself being anywhere until may, where she did her “biiig isolation” instagram post from goldwyn mansion in beverly hills california. however in a subsequent rolling stone interview taylor says that she and william bowery were “stuck in LA” at the beginning of the pandemic. and we also have been told that she reached out to aaron dessner in april about recording music, and in the long pond studio sessions movie, it is implied in the conversation she has with jack and aaron that she stayed in california until around august before meeting up with them at long pond. folklore was still finished when she was in LA. when taylor was in upstate new york remains a mystery iirc but we can say between april and july.

back to karlie… in mid june, karlie posted to instagram from the puck building apartment, saying she was on her way out west to be close to family. then she starts putting out klossy vlog content from a rental property located in california, and around july her and josh are papped around santa monica. iirc misha was seen at the same house seen in the klossy vlogs? she posts a lot from california, she attends and documents going to a protest in LA as well. so we have a general idea of when she was there.

at the end of 2020, we get articles saying karlie and josh have been revealed as the buyers of the many arched, echoey miami mansion, and articles say that the property was sold “over the summer” so at some point karlie moves out of the california rental. in the back half of the year karlie is sort of obscuring where she is and what she posts so it’s hard to be certain exactly when she was where, but we later get an explanation for this because soon enough we learn that she has been hiding the fact that she’s carrying. but we do know from some of her adidas photo shoots that she did spend some amount of time back in nyc. once she makes the announcement, the focus of karlie’s posting shifts to the florida(!!), which becomes positioned as her main location for the duration of the year, through levi being born in march 2021, and the newborn haze period of it all.

taylor is less consistent with showing off her locations during late 2020 and 2021 but the general swiftie lore is that she spent time in london and nyc? she didn’t make many appearances (covid was still very much running the world) but there were the grammys, she was doing stuff for red tv, announcing red tv at the end of september and releasing it in november, filming and then promoting the all too well short film, the i bet you think about me mv was shot in la iirc, and such.

as the pandemic became a part of everyday life and the world adjusted to the new normal, both taylor and karlie began varying their locations again, and it’s been a mix of things again ever since. but this 2020 period is so interesting to me, given how things played out, how they were in similar locations at noteworthy times, and in locations that taylor went on to feature visually and lyrically in her work— folkevermore and red tv, ttpd and arguably the eras tour visuals for the opening and closing lover and midnights segments, if you are inclined to see the parallels in the arches as seen in the miami property etc.

anyway lmfao and i still consider this to be a summary!!

[1ddiscourseoftheday]

30 Oct 19

Niall and Lewis Capaldi did a topless Instagram live in which they rubbed their chests, gave us nipple close ups, rambled and joked for like twenty minutes, and oh yeah- announced a joint North American arena tour. That was just a warm up, it's gonna be nonstop Newis content from here through summer y'all, GOOD TIMES! Tickets will go on sale Nov 8, and Niall said he'll be doing a full tour, and the rest of the dates will be announced soon. Nice To Meet Ya world tour starts in April in Nashville TN and this leg will feature Niall and Lewis with Fletcher opening. "Ultimate heartbreak tour" says Fletcher, and indeed, it will be a confusing mix of goofy hilarious content and heart-rending miserable songs! Can it get better than this, "no it can't!" says Niall.

Niall and Lewis' announcement was unique and in character- likewise Harry had his very own very Harry way of letting us know he's also touring next year (I mean we knew that but you know, he said it). In a preview of his Capital Breakfast interview, filmed via Skype and featuring Harry swaddled in plushy purple hooded bathrobe, he said he turned down the part of Prince Eric in The Little Mermaid: "you know it's one of those things where, sometimes when there are things, and things happen so yeah there's that you know," he said and then, perhaps carelessly, that it was because filming might have interfered with touring, quickly adding on, "I wanna tour next year and stuff, don’t know, that’s, you know, ah, potentially! maybe! I haven’t announced that yet!" When asked about being all oiled up and sexy in the Lights Up video he says oh well idk actually that's just mayonnaise aloe vera mostly umm I was really sunburned. IIRC Little Mermaid filming was scheduled for spring so along with anticipation of Harry dropping a single and his album within the next couple weeks, add tour dates at any time! No stress though! That's fine! We're made of money honest it's no problem guys! Harry has three morning radio appearances listed for tomorrow (UK time so in like a couple hours.) The Jools Holland appearance will air Nov 21 and 22.

As for Louis tour dates it's been noted that many of the areas conspicuously left off the list are the same places he's playing radio festivals, new ones of which are still being announced: it seems possible that those tour dates will be released after so as not to impact ticket sales for the festival shows. Louis was busy all day yesterday recording spots that haven't aired yet so lot more to come, but we've already gotten lots, including the excellent hour long Zack Sang interview. On the subject of what to expect on tour he says "No bells, no whistles, just kinda let the music do the talking and good light show," he said he expects the fan fave from the album to be DLIBYH or Always You, confirmed Walls as the fourth single (just before the album), says "I’m quite british, you know, so when I say a wall, it's a wall," that he'll be on a plane on Halloween, when talking about KMM says yeah well WMI is the first US single off the album really, and says he "never ever ever" gets tired of talking about the band, that he has footage of backstage at the last 1D show and how emotional that night was, that Diana is a banger, and says that he isn't ready to work things out with Zayn. A Long Island radio station has announced an LT tour meet and greet contest, probably the first of many.

Liam did a surprise presentation of a Pride of Britain Award in a pre recorded segment: the Award show will air on Nov 5.

[utvarpcity]

a lil post on my experience seeing weezer + green day this saturday :)

weezer was one of my favourite + most listened bands when i was between 12-14 something? but since i’ve mostly just listened to the same songs and haven’t been keeping up with them that much. but when the hella mega tour was announced i was pretty envious of the people who got to see both them AND green day... so when it became clear they’d come with them to sweden i was beyond thrilled. and since i’ve never seen them live before i might even have been more hyped about them than green day lol, even though i didn’t know how they’d be live. 

they turned out to be great - really nice energy and sounded just as good as in their records. and i was pleased to hear they played many of their older songs! they started out by playing hash pipe which is probably my favourite of their songs, hearing the riff i immediately turned around to scream at my friend (who hadn’t even heard of them before the concert lmao). they played like all their biggest hits which were amazing to finally get to hear live, plus the newer songs a little bit of love and all my favourite songs, and covers of enter sandman and africa (which got the non-weezer-fan part of the audience excited as well). some fun audience interaction, rivers spoke quite a bit of swedish which was fun (said “grymt” a lot which basically means “wicked”).

i stood really close to the stage but off to the side a bit, on the same side as brian bell which was amazing since he was my fave back then (imagine 13 year old me hearing i’d stand just a few metres away from him...) so i felt really lucky to say the least. he played at least 4 instruments that night too. but yeah i was super stoked the whole way through and they played many songs (ended with the iconic buddy holly); they were listed as an opening act on the ticket but it felt more like they were half the show which seems fair considering how legendary they are tbh. what a good time.

after having been to their two previous tours i feel fairly familiar with green day’s concert repertoire at this point, and this time it wasn’t very different. but there’s always the same indescribable feeling (they are my forever favourite band after all). bohemian rhapsody played, then hey ho let’s go as the bunny appeared, then starting out with a bang (american idiot and holiday). the setlist was very similar to previous tours with the essential ai songs, a selection of 90s singles (was very pleasantly surprised by the inclusion of brain stew which iirc i don’t think i’ve heard them perform before? complete with mike screaming and all. amazing), and 21 guns+know your enemy. the only new song they performed was pollyanna (and the rock n roll all nite cover) which was nice but i was a little disappointed that they didn’t perform any of the songs from foamf, because there are some songs i absolutely adore on that album and was hoping they’d play. i know it’s been a few years since they released it by now but as this concert originally was supposed to take place in 2020 you can’t convince me they didn’t plan to put any in at the start. oh well.

it was obvious they enjoyed being back on tour though, billie mentioned several times how good it was to finally see it happening. the members are literally 50 years old now but they still have endless energy and sound just as great as always. many audience interactions, but compared to other shows i’ve been to there wasn’t as much talk between the songs or funny antics (like during king for a day for example). but what was lacking in talks was made up for with adlibs and screams and stuff, i loved the energy overall. i really liked tré’s drum solo and jason freese’s saxophone part too. both the fans they brought onto the stage to sing (know your enemy) and play guitar (knowledge) did really well which is always a relief.

the arena was well-equipped with air conditioning and helpful staff; the show itself had some really cool lighting, visual effects on the screens and pyrotechnics going on (more than i’ve seen before) as well as a confetti rain at the end. i stood just as close to the stage as i did back when i saw them in oslo but on the other side, so close to jason white this time which made a fun change (did still go “MIKE!!” once he finally came over though lol).

one of my favourite bits is and will always be hitchin’ a ride, both because it’s one of my absolute favourite songs, and because it’s such a beast live with fun audience involvement and all. also, lastly they played all of jesus of suburbia (billie subbed in ‘ukraine’ instead of ‘anaheim’ in that one part of i don’t care), everyone but billie left the stage and he had a short but sweet talk thanking the fans for waiting for them, then played time of your life as tré and mike joined him towards the end. when it was over it felt empty as always, maybe more so because it felt like it was a shorter set than usual? or maybe that’s just me wanting more lol.

anyway it’s not my first concert since the pandemic but it was the best. went with a friend who’s a very casual fan which was also really fun (she was super impressed). hope i’ll be able to see both bands soon again.

[jy-jk]

NCT 127 in Atlanta

Hopefully I can organize my thoughts into something semi-coherent!

So I guess I’ll just try to do this based on the order of events for the concert. (And hopefully I can remember everything. It went by so fast and I was kinda just living in and enjoying the moment. Unfortunately I feel like that meant I wasn’t trying to commit enough of the experience to memory -- unintentionally of course). 

For reference, I had balcony seats on the right side of the stage when you’re looking @ it. So my experience in terms of member interactions and perceptions will probably be different from people in the pit directly in front of them. 

I’ll start with merch! I had no issues getting what I wanted and it seemed like they had plenty of everything! However, the venue was kinda small so that might have had something to do with it. 

While we were all waiting on the concert to start they would periodically play music videos and it was really nice hearing everyone sing along! They started maybe 10 minutes late at most? But thinking of other concerts I’ve been to before, that’s really nothing. 

They started with Cherry Bomb and it was fantastic! Really the whole concert was fantastic so I’m not going to go through each song and say that because... this would end up getting incredibly repetitive. 

The first person I ended up making eye contact with was Yuta. And let me tell you, that was just the start of some really heart-fluttering interactions. I felt like he was one of the ones to make the biggest effort to look in the balcony areas. Pretty sure we locked eyes the most. At one point he looked up and I ended up with this giant smile on my face as soon as he did and then he smiled this incredibly breath-taking smile. I’ve honestly not stopped thinking about it since. 

I felt like Taeyong was a GIANT flirt the entire time. At one point I saw him looking at the girls next to me for what felt like a full minute and wiggled his eyebrow at them. I’m amazed they didn’t all melt tbh. He also winked at people quite a few times. He made a huge effort to speak english most of the time though and that was pretty cute. Not to mention he’s somehow more gorgeous irl. 

At some point during one of the first few ments, Johnny got us all to do the wave.

Later, they performed Jet Lag, which is going to be on their new album. And it was truly incredible. They were all really excited that we loved it so much because it was something a little different for them. 

After that, vocal line performed Timeless and No Longer. This was also the point that a girl in the pit passed out. The boys looked really concerned while they were trying to get her out to get her some help. I think I ended up seeing one other girl pass out and another one almost pass out. So this is my PSA: please please please take care of yourselves out there. Try to stay as hydrated as possible. Dress comfortably and in something that you won’t get too hot in. At least at this venue, the balcony even got hot. So I can only imagine how bad it was down there. Stay safe everyone! 

Then they left the stage and Johnny came out to do Regular to Irregular. This was the transition into Regular, and they had each member come out individually to put on their suit jackets. And let me just tell you, I never knew seeing a man put on a suit jacket could be so hot but whew. They all looked gorgeous. 

Not sure if any of you had heard about this previously, but after Regular is when they brought out the jungle gym type thing for Wake Up and Baby Don’t Like It. Tbh I was just concerned the whole time that one of them would fall and hurt themselves. But it was still really cool regardless! 

Mad City was next and let me tell you... seeing it performed live was pretty intense. 

They played a VCR next that let into a “dance battle” of sorts with Yuta, Jungwoo, and Haechan that was really interesting! I thought the VCR was genuinely pretty funny and the dance battle was good! (It was also at this point that they changed into their brighter outfits that I thought were interesting to say the least lol). 

During Replay (iirc), they all got light sticks and were waving them with the crowd. They were super high energy at this part and it was a lot of fun! It did really make me wish I had gotten a light stick though. By this time in the concert, I think I had made eye contact with Johnny a few times as well! Nothing specific to note there, but I felt my heart skip a beat every time it happened lol

Then they had another ment and talked about how they were sad the show was “almost over.” Doyoung was always the one closest to my side for their ments and he was just so damn cute. He was the representative for Atlanta and every time he said “My city, Atlanta,” I just felt so proud lol. You could also see him sorta rehearsing/mouthing to himself what he was going to say next while the other members were talking. It was so cute. He spoke really well and it seemed like he really enjoyed his time here! Oh! And a little before this (it was during Replay I’m pretty sure), they had confetti pop out and at one point I caught Doyoung tilting his head up with a giant smile on his face sorta basking in the falling confetti. I’m still kicking myself for not managing to get a picture of it because it felt like such a genuine and sweet moment. 

They performed 2 more songs and after that the show was over. (But of course we all knew about the planned encore). So we all started cheering for them to come back out. And that’s when they played a Highway to Heaven VCR and boy oh boy did they look incredible in that. Not to mention the song was really great, as expected. 

After that, they all came back out in some form or another of sparkly suit and I was LIVING for Jaehyun’s jacket... and just Jaehyun in general. He’s also somehow more gorgeous in person. But to be fair... they all were and I was constantly feeling a little overwhelmed with how good they looked. Oh and I forgot to mention that because of where I was sitting, I could usually see them moving to get on stage. So right before this quite a few of them had their makeup artists following them doing quick touch-ups. 

They performed Superhuman, which was also fantastic. And a little later on, Mark noted that the version they performed that night was different from any other version they’ve done because they’re still always tweaking and improving it before it’s fully released. 

Then they split into 2 groups to go change again, which I thought was kinda funny considering they had literally just changed into their sparkle outfits. The first group were the “youngsters” (Haechan, Mark, Jaehyun, Jungwoo, and Doyoung) and they talked about what they liked about Atlanta. And of course I recorded some of it because I’m a sucker for people hyping up my city. Jaehyun said he really loved the weather. And he wasn’t wrong, the weather the past few days has been incredible. I’m glad they came when they did because if they had come any later in the month it probably would’ve been ridiculously hot. Doyoung talked about the food he and Jungwoo ate when they went on their “date.” It always came back to food for him lol it was so cute. They also mentioned quite a few times that they went to the aquarium. I’m definitely looking forward to the video they got while they were in Atlanta! 

The first group to change came back and they were in tour shirts and black pants. And honestly what a look, I was so into it. This group were the older “cool guys” (Johnny, Yuta, Taeyong, and Taeil). And they ended up doing a little contest to see who looked the coolest. They started with playing rock paper scissors to decide the order. Then each of them had to do a pose and the most/loudest cheers would decide the winner. Taeyong went first and he teased the whole damn audience by making a move to look like he was about to lift his shirt, but didn’t. And then did the cutest pose I’ve ever seen. But at first it was funny because they were all trying to accuse him of cheating because he was wearing his Christian Dior visor backwards w/ the brand clearly showing. Next was Yuta and he did two poses, sexy and then cute. He had on a bucket hat and my god I’ve never liked bucket hats all that much... but Yuta looks gorgeous in one. Tbh I can’t remember who was third and fourth between Johnny and Taeil... but they both also did cute and sexy poses. And let me just note that ATL loved tf out of Johnny. Oh man he was really being hyped up by the crowd. During his poses, the members were making fun of him saying the was his ear was folded up because of his mic was really cool (I don’t think Johnny had realized his ear was all scrunched up before that). It was pretty funny. Then he fixed it and continued with his pose. Anyway, by the end instead of announcing the winner, Taeyong said he thought we were the coolest. Truly the king of fanservice. I think they briefly had a chance to talk about what they liked about Atlanta before the second group to change came back. 

After they were all back, I think that was when Johnny was trying to hype us up again by having us yell ‘yeah’ after they yelled ‘oh’. Johnny had started to elaborate more and then Mark was basically like, ‘yeah dude, they’ll do it... just go’ lol. That was also when Johnny said ‘I don’t know, I just like to experiment’. It was pretty funny. 

Then they performed Summer 127 and this was when they got their baskets with balls in them to throw. I just thought they were plain old balls, whatever. I figured if I caught one that would be cool and I’d keep it as something to remember the concert by. And I did get one! This was probably when I managed to make eye contact with the rest of the members that I hadn’t previously because they all made a conscious effort to throw them to people in balcony seating as well. Anyway, it wasn’t until someone in my group (who had also managed to get a ball) pointed it out that I saw they were signed. Each member’s basket had balls they had signed themselves. I got one from Jungwoo! He signed it and put Zeus underneath. Then under that it says ‘Love you’ with a heart. Truly one of the coolest things to ever be thrown into a crowd at a concert. I’m going to cherish it forever. The person in my group who also got a ball from Jaehyun AND LET ME JUST TELL YOU. I was excited for her (and lowkey jealous of her too) when I saw the interaction surrounding him throwing the ball to her. He threw it and when she caught it he sorta tipped his head back and gave this smug ass look. It was probably the rudest thing I’ve ever seen and he just looked so beautiful doing it. 

They had their final ending ment after that, and I recorded all 10 minutes of that because why not. They all (minus Johnny, Mark, and Jaehyun) spoke Korean and had a translator for the final one. And it was nice to see them speak more comfortably. While I really appreciated all the hard work that went into making an effort to speak mostly in english, you could tell it was a little bit of a strain for some of them. They promised that they would come back to Atlanta! So I’m hoping they stay true to that! Because I have it recorded (and idk how many people will have even read this far) and this is half just for myself to be able to remember the concert better, I won’t go into too much detail about the ending ment. 

And after performing 0 mile and getting a picture with the crowd (with Doyoung wearing his Atlanta sash... so so so cute), that was it! The whole experience was really amazing and I’d go see them in concert again in a heartbeat! 

I thought I’d also have some overall thoughts to share at the end to wrap it up a little nicer, but I basically covered them all already. I’ll probably post some pictures (and maybe another video or two) in separate posts. Oh yeah and this concert also made me realize I’m horrible at getting good action shots lol. Almost none of my pictures of them dancing look good because I caught them at awkward times.