MISSY HIGGINS!!
Okay, so I left you with my "*cries* I AM GOING TO CÉLINE DION OH MY GOD I CAN BARELY EVEN UNDERSTAND MYSELF" voicepost of epic emotion and life-changing events. After that, my grandma called me back. First thing she says? "Got it." kjdshfasjhfa. I was freaking out because okay, I have to go to Missy Higgins. Missy Higgins will not wait two hours to perform just because Liss got a Céline ticket and needed to deal. I took a shower after the doctor, before the Céline call, and I didn't need to but I did because I like showering when I'm depressed. SO, that being said, I had to redo all of my hair and makeup, which I knew and had allotted for. BUT when I got the Céline invitation, that went out the window because all the time I'd set aside to get ready went to me crying and falling to my knees in the doorway of my bedroom and just... fucking losing it in general.
SO, I AM BEHIND. AND I CAN'T FIND A HAIRBRUSH ANYWHERE IN THIS FUCKING HOUSEHOLD. I text Em and ask her how long it'll take me to get to her new apartment from my house and she says "40 min". I thought it'd take 20-30, so I was fucked. I finally left and YOU. GUYS. THE TRAFFIC. WAS HORRENDOUS. I'VE NEVER BEEN IN SUCH BAD STOP-AND-GO TRAFFIC. I was freaking out. Missy was starting in 20 minutes and I wasn't even halfway to Em's, let ALONE the time it'd take to get from her apt to the club. WELL, THANK GOD, MISSY DID NOT START AT 6:30 LIKE I THOUGHT SHE DID. She started at 7, doors just opened at 6:30. So I finally get there, and Emily. I love her. I've been learning lately that even though I didn't have THAT many close friendships in high school compared to other people, the ones that I did have? Were true. Because I can get with these friends, and nothing has changed. I was worried, tbh, about me and Em being awkward or something, but seriously you guys, that girl. ♥ I don't want to say she was in "awe", but it was something like that. Like I knew she was really shaken up and she really missed me and was really nostalgic and was actually genuine about it. Just in the way she hugged me and talked to me and looked at me, and the things she was saying over and over again.
So, anyway. We go to the club and had to park in a parking garage KIND OF far away. And I didn't bring a jacket because I'm Liss and never bring jackets. FREEZING MY FUCKING ASS OFF WALKING TO MISSY HIGGINS. So we get there, okay, to the door right. And he's all, "Are you 21?" and I was like, "I HAVE TO BE 21 TO SEE MISSY HIGGINS?!" and he was like, "No lol you just have to be 21 to DRINK at Missy Higgins." SO WE GO TO THE DOOR, AND I CAN'T FIND MY TICKET. I thought I left it in the car from when I gave Emily hers. And I was so pissed, "Just knowing my day today, it fell out and down a sewer drain on the walk over here." So I was freaking out, thinking I'd have to go all the way back to the car in subzero temperatures, but I remembered it was in my wallet, thank god. The doorman was like "All that work and you had it on you the whole time!" They were so nice there, they were dressed all serious in suits and opened doors for us and stuff.
SO WE GET THERE, and by now it's 7:30. But! Thank god! She had an opening act! So we didn't miss ANY of her! The guy sucked though, we all thought he was plastered. OH and it was awesome, Em and I were walking and someone hit her butt and she was ready to kick some ass, but when she whipped around to do so, she saw it was one of her friends from school and her other friend. She was SO sweet you guys. So we were so excited to find people to hang out with and they were so nice. The girl, I didn't catch her name, knew of Missy Higgins bc she spent last semester in Australia. I thought that was fucking awesome. "All the people I met in Australia are so jealous of me right now." Emily found out about Missy through her roommates. I found out about her through a House/Cameron video on youtube lol. So we all told those stories.
THEN MISSY CAME. AND WE WERE SO CLOSE TO HER. I WAS LIKE 10 FEET AWAY FROM HER. AND OKAY, IF YOU THINK SHE IS FUCKING ADORABLE IN HER SONGS AND PICTURES, YOU ARE WRONG. SHE IS SO FUCKING ADORABLE IRL, I COULDN'T EVEN DEAL. SHE IS SO TINY AND BEAUTIFUL AND HER LITTLE HAIR IS FLINGING AROUND AND SHE WAS WEARING THIS CUTE LITTLE DRESS AND SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND PERSONABLE AND GIGGLY AND COOL AND SDKLJFHSDA.
MY CAMERA WAS BROKEN. I was freaking out, and Em's friend said, "Here if you want, you can take pictures with mine and I'll send them to Emily to give to you?" LIKE, HOW NICE IS THAT. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ So I took some. AND LOL SOME ARE SO CUTE THAT I LOOKED AT THEM AND SAID "OH MY GOD THAT IS GOING TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ICON." so I really really hope she sends them to Emily because I did get some really good ones (I think. I hope.) and I want to make things. I wish I would have been closer to Missy, we weren't even the closest ones to her. But I was close enough to see people's camera screens getting really REALLY good closeup shots of her and I was jeal. At one point, some guy plowed through the crowd with his girlfriend and I was like "WHERE ARE THEY GOING. *LATCHES ON BEHIND THEM, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE PATH THEY HAD BLAZED*. I didn't get too much further and I heard everyone around me being all pissed so I took like two close pictures and then went back to my friends lol.
AND MISSY, DID I MENTION HOW FUCKING CUTE SHE IS?! BECAUSE SHE IS FUCKING CUTE. AND OKAY, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO is list all the songs she played and see if I can remember stuff she did/said about each. I think that'll be the easiest way. Then there are other things that she said in between songs that had nothing to do with anything lol and I'll post those too. She totally has ADD though, I will say that much. I LOVE HER.
- There was a mic on one side of the stage (our side) where she sang the songs she needed to play guitar to, and there was a piano on the other side for when she had piano songs. So. LOL I THOUGHT THAT WAS RELEVANT OR STH.
100 Round The Bends
I don't remember anything specific.
All For Believing
She opened the show with this. It was so dramatic and great. I was so jskdfhasjkdska. Like okay. I LOVE Missy but I LOVE Céline Dion. And it made me wonder how the hell I'd deal with that if I was THIS CLOSE to crying just because MISSY HIGGINS was standing in front of me. Like, it was an extremely emotional experience, and I don't even have an attachment to Missy Higgins outside of her music and talent. I cannot even imagine October, I cannot even.
Angela
YOU GUYS. SHE IS SO AMAZING. She said this song was born when she was staying in this one hotel that had gorgeous black and white photos everywhere. And this song was based off of a picture of Gone With The Wind, but she had no idea that's what it was because she hadn't seen the film yet. So she didn't know the story of the picture but she said she saw something in Vivien Leigh's eyes that made her feel as though she had that man wrapped around her finger. So she named her Angela and wrote a song from an outsider's perspective of someone who wants to get to Clark Gable but can't because "Angela" is in the way.
Don't Ever
SHE PLAYED. A FUCKING. XYLOPHONE. FOR THIS. Em's friend was like "OH MY GOD, CAMERA" and shoved her camera at me. That was so awesome, she doesn't even know me and she's trusting me with that. OKAY SO MISSY SAID THEY WERE GONNA DO AN ACOUSTIC VERSION OF IT AND SHE PLAYED XYLOPHONE. and it was so cute - she totally fucked up, she was doing her little *ping ping* on it, and she accidentally hit the wrong little note once and HER FACE WAS SO CUTE. it was this giggly little "OH SHIT, MY BAD!" face and she threw her arms up in the air and yelled "WE'LL GET A HOUSE!!!" and then resumed singing "where the trees hang low..." lolllll. Then when it ended, she was like, "Seriously, there were six notes to choose from, that's all I had to do..." LOL.
Forgive Me
She said that a lot of people think this song is about her dad, but it's not because "I would never write a song like this about my dad." She explained it was about a man who was unfaithful to his kids and wife. Andddd I fucking love this song. I always have. And she sang it with such emotion and it really was gorgeous. And SERIOUSLY this chick has such a commanding presence. Or maybe that's just because I love her music and I was really enthralled. Either way, really.
Going North
She said that she wrote this in Brooms? She wrote one of her songs in Brooms, I dont remember if it was this one or Steer. She said that where she grew up, north was always warmer so she wanted to get to it. ♥
Nightminds
This one was just so... raw. And her voice was so exposed and I can't even explain. Emily told me she really loved this song. I WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT EMILY ACTUALLY LOVING HER FOR *REAL* AND NOT JUST "OH I SORT OF LIKE HER SO I'LL GO". No. I heard her singing entire songs and it was so fucking sdjfhasjfha.
Peachy
FUCK FUCK FUCK. MISSY IS SUCH A FUCKING ROCKSTAR YOU GUYS. SHE WAS ROCKING THE FUCK OUT. I didn't know she had it in her! I got a couple of good shots of her flipping around, she was jamming that guitar and throwing her head into it and the lights were really bright and when it was done she said it was such a fun song for her to play and I could really tell.
Scar
I freaked out because this song is so fun. This is the one that Emily and I sang full-out. AND MISSY WAS SO CUTE AND ANIMATED IN THIS ONE. She was playing her keyboard and this verse, she totally acted out:
So the next one came with a bag of treats,
She smelled like sugar and spoke like the sea
She told me don't, trust them trust me.
Then she pulled at my stitches one by one,
Looked at my insides clicking her tongue
SHE LIKE CARRIED IMAGINARY BAGS AND DID THIS DIVA-ISH HEAD THING ON "SMELLED LIKE SUGAR" and on "clicking her tongue", she bopped her head back and forth and it was so fucking cute.
Secret
SHE WROTE THIS SONG IN MINNESOTA! ♥!!! She said something about it only having three chords because someone told her that the best songs in history have sometimes been the simplest.
Steer
This was the last song she played. She said she got the idea for it one night when she was walking alone and looking at the stars "and the stars just go forever down there because it's so far away from everything" and she made some comment about how "I was always on romantic walks on the beach... with myself." AND I SCREAMED REALLY LOUD BECAUSE I LOVE WOMEN LIKE THAT. But she said it was one of those moments, "you know how you have those really... defining moments in your life where you can step back and see the big picture? This was one of those."
Sugarcane
The other song from that hotel with the black and white photos - she said there were two. She said she saw another photo of this almost ghostly looking dancer (she did this thing with her arm as though she were imitating what the dancer on the picture was doing) and she was really struck by her beauty. And I thought that was really fucking cool. I loved this concert because I was a fan enough to really love, know, and appreciate her music, but I wasn't a fan enough to really love, know, and appreciate HER and all of these little behind-the-scenes things. I had no idea where specifically her songs came from. So it was really enlightening and I was in awe whenever she'd talk about her songs because I was just learning so much.
Ten Days
I FREAKED OUT, OBVIOUSLY KJSLDHFA. She said she wrote this song (I think when she was in LA) when she was away from someone and she didn't get to see him for ten days. ♥ THIS IS MY FUCKING FAVORITE and it was a really "kjhsdfksha" moment because of it. I was SO like... my eyes were like magnets on her. And it was amazing because I got to SEE her sing this and HEAR her sing this and sing it WITH her and not just a damn mp3. It was like nothing else in that room was going on. It was so quiet and focused in my own head for this song. It was UNREAL.
This Is How It Goes
She ended it really differently. She just kept going and stringing us along, it was very cool actually. She kept humming and then she'd stop. We'd think she was over and then she'd play this random twinkle on the piano. She did this a few times and then she completely busted out the chorus again and she was YELLING and LOUD and AMAZING. IDEK. CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN.
Warm Whispers
This is just a really fucking beautiful song.
Where I Stood
This is the song that everyone knows because it was on Grey's or something. That's how Em's friend's friend knew it lol. Missy didn't really do anything that I have to mention, but this is one of my favorite songs so I'm SO glad she played it.
RANDOM STUFF
- YOU GUYS SHE IS SO CUTE. FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE CONCERT, SHE WAS DRINKING TEA. OUT OF THIS BROWN CARDBOARD STARBUCKSESQUE COFFEE SHOP CUP. WITH A LITTLE LID, AND A TEABAG STRING COMING OUT OF IT. I TRIED SO HARD TO GET A PICTURE OF IT, I WAS OBSESSED WITH THE CUTENESS. She had her little guitar on and then she'd pick up her little cup and FUCKING A IT KILLED ME. Then she was like "I'm drinking this tea, this *reads from label, I don't remember what it was*. It's supposed to help my throat" and then she said sth about it being dry or sth about it being "hard to sing up here", I don't remember.
- SHE TOLD US THAT SHE'D JUST BEEN ON THE PHONE WITH HER SISTER WHO WAS HAVING RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS LOL. So she had to talk her through them. I thought that was so lovely.
- Later she said that when she was on the phone with her sister, she heard that when she got home, she heard this "terrible music coming from the kitchen - and it was something OBNOXIOUS" (IN HER LITTLE ACCENT) "like Barry White or something... and my sister walks in, and there's my dad, in his bright orange Speedo, and my mother in her pajamas and they are just... dancing in the kitchen. And it made me so happy to think that my parents are back in Australia... acting like... little kids." AND SHE DID THIS MINI-FLAIL WHEN SHE SAID "LITTLE KIDS". lmao then she was like, "Wait, do you guys have Speedos here?" And we were like "YES *claps and stuff*" and she was like "Yeah, you probably invented them or something... *thinks for a second and starts next song*"
- She talked about Vegemite. LMAO IT WAS SO RANDOM. A song ended and she was like "So, we have three different types of Vegemite on our tour bus right now." like what the hell LOL. "Do you guys know what that is? If you don't, it's like this tar-looking stuff that we Aussies apparently like to eat on our toast, I don't know."
- Then she talked about her big yellow tour bus LOLOL. and how she once got lost and ended up driving up the side of the mountain and "I couldn't get back to where I started from because I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYBODY. Well, rather, they couldn't understand me, that was the problem."
- "This dress I'm wearing now, used to be longer, believe it or not. I wasn't aware that you could shrink things in your dry cleaning, but apparently you can. So I got it back and it was shorter and now I'm a little sluttier. But, I mean, it's fine by me, so..." I died of lol. It was a short dress kind of, I mean, upper thigh idk, but she had grey leggings on. AND BOOTS AND A CUTE NECKLACE.
- "DO YOU GUYS KNOW HOW WEIRD IT IS FOR ME TO BE UP HERE AND BE ABLE TO SEE MYSELF ON SEVEN DIFFERENT SCREENS?!" Because lol the club had screens of the stage spaced out across the walls. "And when I'm performing I don't see myself from your eyes, I see myself from like.... I don't know, this third eye *POINTS TO FOREHEAD BETWEEN HER EYES* here..." AND LOL then she waved her arms and watched herself in all the screens.
- SHE TOTALLY WENT OT AND WAS LIKE "Wait, what was I even talking about?" LMAO LMAO AND I WAS THINKING "YOU TOTALLY HAVE ADD"
- LMAO LMAO. She said that she never has liked to do encores at her concert. "I always feel like such a dickhead (or maybe she said "D-head", but I swear she said dickhead) having to walk off stage and then ~wait in the wings~ for three minutes and then come back on. And not only that, but these musicians are up here being downright LIARS when they're all ~oh so this is our third to last song~ when it's not really their third to last song. SO, we're just going to stay here and pretend you guys wanted us to play a couple more songs." I *DIED* OF LOL. I CAN'T EVEN.
- The poor guy in front of me, LMAO. You guys, if you ever get the opportunity to go to an event with me, be it a concert or a sports game or anything where people cheer, TAKE IT. I am NOTORIOUS for being over-the-top hilarious with my cheering. Emily and her friends were laughing and I was like "NO SERIOUSLY, IF I'M EMBARRASSING YOU, YOU REALLY CAN WALK AWAY, I DON'T CARE, I WON'T BE OFFENDED." and she was like "NO NO! IT IS JUST SO FUNNY TO WATCH YOU BECAUSE YOU GET SO INTO IT." And the poor guy in front of me, I was yelling and he like, mock grabbed his ear as though I had just deafened him. I was like "I AM SO SORRY. I'm sorry. I just REALLY love her." And he was like, "HAHA NO I KNOW, IT'S OKAY, I WAS TEASING."
- WHAT ELSE WHAT ELSE WHAT ELSE. I can't remember anything else. OH, when she was done and ready to walk off, I saw people in the front give her things and it made me so happy. I saw a bracelet from one and then a packet of paper from another. AND IT JUST MADE ME SO HAPPY THAT SHE HAS BIG FANS HERE.
IDEK. I CAN'T BELIEVE I SAW HER. IT WAS SUCH AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE AND FOR $20?! CHRIST! And it was so amazing because it was such a close, intimate concert. I'd say there were only about 100 people. I'm really bad with judging crowd size but it was seriously so close and the place was small and wasn't even half full. It was AMAZING. I miss her right now.
SO, I AM BEHIND. AND I CAN'T FIND A HAIRBRUSH ANYWHERE IN THIS FUCKING HOUSEHOLD. I text Em and ask her how long it'll take me to get to her new apartment from my house and she says "40 min". I thought it'd take 20-30, so I was fucked. I finally left and YOU. GUYS. THE TRAFFIC. WAS HORRENDOUS. I'VE NEVER BEEN IN SUCH BAD STOP-AND-GO TRAFFIC. I was freaking out. Missy was starting in 20 minutes and I wasn't even halfway to Em's, let ALONE the time it'd take to get from her apt to the club. WELL, THANK GOD, MISSY DID NOT START AT 6:30 LIKE I THOUGHT SHE DID. She started at 7, doors just opened at 6:30. So I finally get there, and Emily. I love her. I've been learning lately that even though I didn't have THAT many close friendships in high school compared to other people, the ones that I did have? Were true. Because I can get with these friends, and nothing has changed. I was worried, tbh, about me and Em being awkward or something, but seriously you guys, that girl. ♥ I don't want to say she was in "awe", but it was something like that. Like I knew she was really shaken up and she really missed me and was really nostalgic and was actually genuine about it. Just in the way she hugged me and talked to me and looked at me, and the things she was saying over and over again.
So, anyway. We go to the club and had to park in a parking garage KIND OF far away. And I didn't bring a jacket because I'm Liss and never bring jackets. FREEZING MY FUCKING ASS OFF WALKING TO MISSY HIGGINS. So we get there, okay, to the door right. And he's all, "Are you 21?" and I was like, "I HAVE TO BE 21 TO SEE MISSY HIGGINS?!" and he was like, "No lol you just have to be 21 to DRINK at Missy Higgins." SO WE GO TO THE DOOR, AND I CAN'T FIND MY TICKET. I thought I left it in the car from when I gave Emily hers. And I was so pissed, "Just knowing my day today, it fell out and down a sewer drain on the walk over here." So I was freaking out, thinking I'd have to go all the way back to the car in subzero temperatures, but I remembered it was in my wallet, thank god. The doorman was like "All that work and you had it on you the whole time!" They were so nice there, they were dressed all serious in suits and opened doors for us and stuff.
SO WE GET THERE, and by now it's 7:30. But! Thank god! She had an opening act! So we didn't miss ANY of her! The guy sucked though, we all thought he was plastered. OH and it was awesome, Em and I were walking and someone hit her butt and she was ready to kick some ass, but when she whipped around to do so, she saw it was one of her friends from school and her other friend. She was SO sweet you guys. So we were so excited to find people to hang out with and they were so nice. The girl, I didn't catch her name, knew of Missy Higgins bc she spent last semester in Australia. I thought that was fucking awesome. "All the people I met in Australia are so jealous of me right now." Emily found out about Missy through her roommates. I found out about her through a House/Cameron video on youtube lol. So we all told those stories.
THEN MISSY CAME. AND WE WERE SO CLOSE TO HER. I WAS LIKE 10 FEET AWAY FROM HER. AND OKAY, IF YOU THINK SHE IS FUCKING ADORABLE IN HER SONGS AND PICTURES, YOU ARE WRONG. SHE IS SO FUCKING ADORABLE IRL, I COULDN'T EVEN DEAL. SHE IS SO TINY AND BEAUTIFUL AND HER LITTLE HAIR IS FLINGING AROUND AND SHE WAS WEARING THIS CUTE LITTLE DRESS AND SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND PERSONABLE AND GIGGLY AND COOL AND SDKLJFHSDA.
MY CAMERA WAS BROKEN. I was freaking out, and Em's friend said, "Here if you want, you can take pictures with mine and I'll send them to Emily to give to you?" LIKE, HOW NICE IS THAT. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ So I took some. AND LOL SOME ARE SO CUTE THAT I LOOKED AT THEM AND SAID "OH MY GOD THAT IS GOING TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ICON." so I really really hope she sends them to Emily because I did get some really good ones (I think. I hope.) and I want to make things. I wish I would have been closer to Missy, we weren't even the closest ones to her. But I was close enough to see people's camera screens getting really REALLY good closeup shots of her and I was jeal. At one point, some guy plowed through the crowd with his girlfriend and I was like "WHERE ARE THEY GOING. *LATCHES ON BEHIND THEM, TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE PATH THEY HAD BLAZED*. I didn't get too much further and I heard everyone around me being all pissed so I took like two close pictures and then went back to my friends lol.
AND MISSY, DID I MENTION HOW FUCKING CUTE SHE IS?! BECAUSE SHE IS FUCKING CUTE. AND OKAY, WHAT I'M GOING TO DO is list all the songs she played and see if I can remember stuff she did/said about each. I think that'll be the easiest way. Then there are other things that she said in between songs that had nothing to do with anything lol and I'll post those too. She totally has ADD though, I will say that much. I LOVE HER.
- There was a mic on one side of the stage (our side) where she sang the songs she needed to play guitar to, and there was a piano on the other side for when she had piano songs. So. LOL I THOUGHT THAT WAS RELEVANT OR STH.
100 Round The Bends
I don't remember anything specific.
All For Believing
She opened the show with this. It was so dramatic and great. I was so jskdfhasjkdska. Like okay. I LOVE Missy but I LOVE Céline Dion. And it made me wonder how the hell I'd deal with that if I was THIS CLOSE to crying just because MISSY HIGGINS was standing in front of me. Like, it was an extremely emotional experience, and I don't even have an attachment to Missy Higgins outside of her music and talent. I cannot even imagine October, I cannot even.
Angela
YOU GUYS. SHE IS SO AMAZING. She said this song was born when she was staying in this one hotel that had gorgeous black and white photos everywhere. And this song was based off of a picture of Gone With The Wind, but she had no idea that's what it was because she hadn't seen the film yet. So she didn't know the story of the picture but she said she saw something in Vivien Leigh's eyes that made her feel as though she had that man wrapped around her finger. So she named her Angela and wrote a song from an outsider's perspective of someone who wants to get to Clark Gable but can't because "Angela" is in the way.
Don't Ever
SHE PLAYED. A FUCKING. XYLOPHONE. FOR THIS. Em's friend was like "OH MY GOD, CAMERA" and shoved her camera at me. That was so awesome, she doesn't even know me and she's trusting me with that. OKAY SO MISSY SAID THEY WERE GONNA DO AN ACOUSTIC VERSION OF IT AND SHE PLAYED XYLOPHONE. and it was so cute - she totally fucked up, she was doing her little *ping ping* on it, and she accidentally hit the wrong little note once and HER FACE WAS SO CUTE. it was this giggly little "OH SHIT, MY BAD!" face and she threw her arms up in the air and yelled "WE'LL GET A HOUSE!!!" and then resumed singing "where the trees hang low..." lolllll. Then when it ended, she was like, "Seriously, there were six notes to choose from, that's all I had to do..." LOL.
Forgive Me
She said that a lot of people think this song is about her dad, but it's not because "I would never write a song like this about my dad." She explained it was about a man who was unfaithful to his kids and wife. Andddd I fucking love this song. I always have. And she sang it with such emotion and it really was gorgeous. And SERIOUSLY this chick has such a commanding presence. Or maybe that's just because I love her music and I was really enthralled. Either way, really.
Going North
She said that she wrote this in Brooms? She wrote one of her songs in Brooms, I dont remember if it was this one or Steer. She said that where she grew up, north was always warmer so she wanted to get to it. ♥
Nightminds
This one was just so... raw. And her voice was so exposed and I can't even explain. Emily told me she really loved this song. I WAS SO EXCITED ABOUT EMILY ACTUALLY LOVING HER FOR *REAL* AND NOT JUST "OH I SORT OF LIKE HER SO I'LL GO". No. I heard her singing entire songs and it was so fucking sdjfhasjfha.
Peachy
FUCK FUCK FUCK. MISSY IS SUCH A FUCKING ROCKSTAR YOU GUYS. SHE WAS ROCKING THE FUCK OUT. I didn't know she had it in her! I got a couple of good shots of her flipping around, she was jamming that guitar and throwing her head into it and the lights were really bright and when it was done she said it was such a fun song for her to play and I could really tell.
Scar
I freaked out because this song is so fun. This is the one that Emily and I sang full-out. AND MISSY WAS SO CUTE AND ANIMATED IN THIS ONE. She was playing her keyboard and this verse, she totally acted out:
So the next one came with a bag of treats,
She smelled like sugar and spoke like the sea
She told me don't, trust them trust me.
Then she pulled at my stitches one by one,
Looked at my insides clicking her tongue
SHE LIKE CARRIED IMAGINARY BAGS AND DID THIS DIVA-ISH HEAD THING ON "SMELLED LIKE SUGAR" and on "clicking her tongue", she bopped her head back and forth and it was so fucking cute.
Secret
SHE WROTE THIS SONG IN MINNESOTA! ♥!!! She said something about it only having three chords because someone told her that the best songs in history have sometimes been the simplest.
Steer
This was the last song she played. She said she got the idea for it one night when she was walking alone and looking at the stars "and the stars just go forever down there because it's so far away from everything" and she made some comment about how "I was always on romantic walks on the beach... with myself." AND I SCREAMED REALLY LOUD BECAUSE I LOVE WOMEN LIKE THAT. But she said it was one of those moments, "you know how you have those really... defining moments in your life where you can step back and see the big picture? This was one of those."
Sugarcane
The other song from that hotel with the black and white photos - she said there were two. She said she saw another photo of this almost ghostly looking dancer (she did this thing with her arm as though she were imitating what the dancer on the picture was doing) and she was really struck by her beauty. And I thought that was really fucking cool. I loved this concert because I was a fan enough to really love, know, and appreciate her music, but I wasn't a fan enough to really love, know, and appreciate HER and all of these little behind-the-scenes things. I had no idea where specifically her songs came from. So it was really enlightening and I was in awe whenever she'd talk about her songs because I was just learning so much.
Ten Days
I FREAKED OUT, OBVIOUSLY KJSLDHFA. She said she wrote this song (I think when she was in LA) when she was away from someone and she didn't get to see him for ten days. ♥ THIS IS MY FUCKING FAVORITE and it was a really "kjhsdfksha" moment because of it. I was SO like... my eyes were like magnets on her. And it was amazing because I got to SEE her sing this and HEAR her sing this and sing it WITH her and not just a damn mp3. It was like nothing else in that room was going on. It was so quiet and focused in my own head for this song. It was UNREAL.
This Is How It Goes
She ended it really differently. She just kept going and stringing us along, it was very cool actually. She kept humming and then she'd stop. We'd think she was over and then she'd play this random twinkle on the piano. She did this a few times and then she completely busted out the chorus again and she was YELLING and LOUD and AMAZING. IDEK. CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN.
Warm Whispers
This is just a really fucking beautiful song.
Where I Stood
This is the song that everyone knows because it was on Grey's or something. That's how Em's friend's friend knew it lol. Missy didn't really do anything that I have to mention, but this is one of my favorite songs so I'm SO glad she played it.
RANDOM STUFF
- YOU GUYS SHE IS SO CUTE. FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE CONCERT, SHE WAS DRINKING TEA. OUT OF THIS BROWN CARDBOARD STARBUCKSESQUE COFFEE SHOP CUP. WITH A LITTLE LID, AND A TEABAG STRING COMING OUT OF IT. I TRIED SO HARD TO GET A PICTURE OF IT, I WAS OBSESSED WITH THE CUTENESS. She had her little guitar on and then she'd pick up her little cup and FUCKING A IT KILLED ME. Then she was like "I'm drinking this tea, this *reads from label, I don't remember what it was*. It's supposed to help my throat" and then she said sth about it being dry or sth about it being "hard to sing up here", I don't remember.
- SHE TOLD US THAT SHE'D JUST BEEN ON THE PHONE WITH HER SISTER WHO WAS HAVING RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS LOL. So she had to talk her through them. I thought that was so lovely.
- Later she said that when she was on the phone with her sister, she heard that when she got home, she heard this "terrible music coming from the kitchen - and it was something OBNOXIOUS" (IN HER LITTLE ACCENT) "like Barry White or something... and my sister walks in, and there's my dad, in his bright orange Speedo, and my mother in her pajamas and they are just... dancing in the kitchen. And it made me so happy to think that my parents are back in Australia... acting like... little kids." AND SHE DID THIS MINI-FLAIL WHEN SHE SAID "LITTLE KIDS". lmao then she was like, "Wait, do you guys have Speedos here?" And we were like "YES *claps and stuff*" and she was like "Yeah, you probably invented them or something... *thinks for a second and starts next song*"
- She talked about Vegemite. LMAO IT WAS SO RANDOM. A song ended and she was like "So, we have three different types of Vegemite on our tour bus right now." like what the hell LOL. "Do you guys know what that is? If you don't, it's like this tar-looking stuff that we Aussies apparently like to eat on our toast, I don't know."
- Then she talked about her big yellow tour bus LOLOL. and how she once got lost and ended up driving up the side of the mountain and "I couldn't get back to where I started from because I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND ANYBODY. Well, rather, they couldn't understand me, that was the problem."
- "This dress I'm wearing now, used to be longer, believe it or not. I wasn't aware that you could shrink things in your dry cleaning, but apparently you can. So I got it back and it was shorter and now I'm a little sluttier. But, I mean, it's fine by me, so..." I died of lol. It was a short dress kind of, I mean, upper thigh idk, but she had grey leggings on. AND BOOTS AND A CUTE NECKLACE.
- "DO YOU GUYS KNOW HOW WEIRD IT IS FOR ME TO BE UP HERE AND BE ABLE TO SEE MYSELF ON SEVEN DIFFERENT SCREENS?!" Because lol the club had screens of the stage spaced out across the walls. "And when I'm performing I don't see myself from your eyes, I see myself from like.... I don't know, this third eye *POINTS TO FOREHEAD BETWEEN HER EYES* here..." AND LOL then she waved her arms and watched herself in all the screens.
- SHE TOTALLY WENT OT AND WAS LIKE "Wait, what was I even talking about?" LMAO LMAO AND I WAS THINKING "YOU TOTALLY HAVE ADD"
- LMAO LMAO. She said that she never has liked to do encores at her concert. "I always feel like such a dickhead (or maybe she said "D-head", but I swear she said dickhead) having to walk off stage and then ~wait in the wings~ for three minutes and then come back on. And not only that, but these musicians are up here being downright LIARS when they're all ~oh so this is our third to last song~ when it's not really their third to last song. SO, we're just going to stay here and pretend you guys wanted us to play a couple more songs." I *DIED* OF LOL. I CAN'T EVEN.
- The poor guy in front of me, LMAO. You guys, if you ever get the opportunity to go to an event with me, be it a concert or a sports game or anything where people cheer, TAKE IT. I am NOTORIOUS for being over-the-top hilarious with my cheering. Emily and her friends were laughing and I was like "NO SERIOUSLY, IF I'M EMBARRASSING YOU, YOU REALLY CAN WALK AWAY, I DON'T CARE, I WON'T BE OFFENDED." and she was like "NO NO! IT IS JUST SO FUNNY TO WATCH YOU BECAUSE YOU GET SO INTO IT." And the poor guy in front of me, I was yelling and he like, mock grabbed his ear as though I had just deafened him. I was like "I AM SO SORRY. I'm sorry. I just REALLY love her." And he was like, "HAHA NO I KNOW, IT'S OKAY, I WAS TEASING."
- WHAT ELSE WHAT ELSE WHAT ELSE. I can't remember anything else. OH, when she was done and ready to walk off, I saw people in the front give her things and it made me so happy. I saw a bracelet from one and then a packet of paper from another. AND IT JUST MADE ME SO HAPPY THAT SHE HAS BIG FANS HERE.
IDEK. I CAN'T BELIEVE I SAW HER. IT WAS SUCH AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE AND FOR $20?! CHRIST! And it was so amazing because it was such a close, intimate concert. I'd say there were only about 100 people. I'm really bad with judging crowd size but it was seriously so close and the place was small and wasn't even half full. It was AMAZING. I miss her right now.