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every time she shows up on an award show, especially Grammy night this year, black twitter explodes with a lot of nasty comments about how she doesn't look as young as she is. the gawker post is just riffing on that, not seriously asking if she's really older.
― some dude, Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
Earlier this month, Lorde told Rookie's Tavi Gevinson that The Virgin Suicides "really resonated with me as a teenager. I mean, I am still a teenager."
probably means "the virgin suicides really resonated w/ me when i saw it last week but i still wanna pretend i grew up on it or w/e"
― dyl, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
two weeks pass...
eight years pass...
Reportedly in her latest newsletter:
"I donāt know how much youāve been following the live music industry conversation, but lemme hit you with a five minute explainer, cause I think itās interesting, and good to know about if youāre going to concerts at the moment.
Basically, for artists, promoters and crews, things are at an almost unprecedented level of difficulty. Itās a storm of factors. Letās start with three yearsā worth of shows happening in one. Add global economic downturn, and then add the totally understandable wariness for concertgoers around health risks. On the logistical side thereās things like immense crew shortages (hereās an article from last week about this in New Zealand), extremely overbooked trucks and tour buses and venues, inflated flight and accommodation costs, ongoing general COVID costs, and truly. mindboggling. freight costs. To freight a stage set across the world can cost up to three times the pre-pandemic price right now. I donāt know shit about money, but I know enough to understand that no industry has a profit margin that high. Ticket prices would have to increase to start accommodating even a little of this, but absolutely no one wants to charge their harried and extremely-compassionate-and-flexible audience any more fucking money. Nearly every tour has been besieged with cancellations and postponements and promises and letdowns, and audiences have shown such understanding and such faith, that between that and the post-COVID wariness about getting out there at all, scaring people away by charging the true cost aināt an option. All we want to do is play for you.
Profits being down across the board is fine for an artist like me. Iām lucky. But for pretty much every artist selling less tickets than I am, touring has become a demented struggle to break even or face debt. For some, touring is completely out of the question, even if they were to sell the whole thing out! The math doesnāt make sense. Understandably, all of this takes a toll ā on crews, on promoters, and on artists. Youāll notice a ton of artists cancelling shows citing mental health concerns in the past year, and I really think the stress of this stuff is a factor ā weāre a collection of the worldās most sensitive flowers who also spent the last two years inside, and maybe the task of creating a space where peopleās pain and grief and jubilation can be held night after night with a razor thin profit margin and dozens of people to pay is feeling like a teeny bit much.
Me personally? Iām doing pretty good. You guys have come to the shows in such mammoth numbers (we sold almost 20,000 tickets in London, like what the hell) and not having crippling stage fright hanging over me for the first time is such a fucking blessing that you could tell me I had to cycle from city to city and Iād still be loving it. But Iām not immune to the stress ā just a month ago I was looking at a show that was pretty undersold and panicking, only for it to sell the remaining 2000 tickets in ten days. Wild stuff.
I wanted to put all of this in your minds to illustrate that nothingās simple when it comes to touring at the moment, and if your faves are confusing you with their erratic moves, some of this could be playing a part."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 November 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
The quoted bits made me cringe too, along with the one about spending two years indoors. You released an album about the beach one year ago, you're such a damn liar.
I love Melodrama as much as the next ilmer but would never have signed up for her newsletter. Carry on.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 11 November 2022 12:04 (one year ago) link