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21Sep22

Harry’s teary gaze had us in throes As an MSG banner arose For the walking form of Joy, happiness, love, And his fifteen consecutive shows.

Harry and his Hannah Montana moment

I’m never going to recover 🫶🏼

fave HSLOT 2022 shows

HSLOT Residencies: New York. 

may I ask about the mitski curse or is it secret knowledge

*LONG POST INCOMING* It all started in 2016.

I've been a Mitski fan since 2014 when First Love/Late Spring premiered on Stereogum and desperately wanted to see her live. The chance finally came after I moved to New York; I had tickets for her show in February 2016 at The Knitting Factory. But then. A freeze hit the city that weekend, resulting in a pipe in the shitty apartment bursting so I missed the show because I had to wait for the emergency repair guy to come by. Okay, well that's a bummer, I though. I've been waiting for almost two years to see Mitski but surely I'll get another chance. July 2016. I was living in Texas for the summer, a few hours away from Austin, where Mitski had a show scheduled. Perfect! I can drive up to the show! My old, barely functioning truck can handle the drive! It did not. My car broke down two hours outside Austin.

November 2016. Third try to see Mitski in a year is the charm, right? Oh wait, I waited too long to buy a flight to my grandma's for thanksgiving and I had to fly out the day of the Mitski show because every other flight was $500 more expensive.

By 2017 I was starting to get worried. I had tickets to see her April 2017, but I got horrific food poisoning and couldn't get out of bed for three days.

I didn't get another try until late 2018 on the Be The Cowboy tour during her 4 night residency at Brooklyn Steel. Except Mitski's popularity had blown up significantly and I couldn't get tickets when they went on sale the first three shows. BUT THEN a fourth show was added, on a Monday night, and I finally got tickets! Perfect! Until I had a final project for one of my classes scheduled the same night that I could not miss without failing the class, and I desperately tried to find tickets for another night but none were available for under $300.

At that point I was convinced: I was cursed. There were no tour dates I was even able to TRY to make, and then in September 2019 Mitski played Summer Stage (two weeks after I moved from New York) and announced it would indefinitely be her last live show.

October 2021: Mitski releases Working for the Knife and announces a tour. The closest tour date to where I was living was 8 hours away, but I fought for my life for tickets and was determined I would finally break the curse.

I got COVID two days before Mitski's Denver show in March 2022.

BUT WAIT! Mitski was announced as one of the openers for HSLOT's European stadium leg! And my friends and I planned a bar trip to Scotland that lined up with the weekend of Harry's show in Glasgow! Okay, maybe seeing Mitski as an opener at a stadium show isn't ideal, but I was desperate. Except, of course, the stadium entry was a complete mess, and we didn't get into the show until the very end of Mitski's set. I had finally seen her live, but for 8 minutes and at what cost.

I wasn't happy, but I told myself it wasn't the end of the world because I already had plans to see Mitski at the All Things Go festival in October, so redemption would come soon enough. Then Hurricane Ian hit and my flight to DC that had a layover in Orlando was cancelled the day before I was supposed to leave. At that point, there was nothing I could do but laugh. Why did I think it would go any differently this time? No. I couldn't take it anymore. I dropped wayyyyy too much money on a different flight to DC with no layover. That flight was delayed by 5 hours, but I made it. Nothing was going to stop me.

Mitski's set starts. We're in the pit, I'm 5'2" so I'm on my tip toes, straining my neck to keep my eyes on Mitski. And then. Everyone's BeReals went off during Francis Forever and the crowd became a sea of phones. I was crushed. I had broken the curse, but 9 years too late.

hiiiiiiii! I was checking your playlists tag and saw the last hslot 2022 is that one from residencies? and if so is that really a dma song there……….

Hey! First of all I don't think that tag is very consistent but I guess there was an attempt. I unfortunately haven't heard a single word about any of the preshow music played at any of the residencies apart from grapejuice being played before the show of the night of the New York Lesbian Larrie Run. But I want to know about it. I want a list pls🥲 If anyone was there and kept track please send it my way. But I'll try to gather a list of songs through mentions on twitter at some point either way and it will be far from complete but itll be something. Anyway.

The DMA song (And Yep it was The Glow) was heard in Manchester I believe. So before Louis started mentioning it in relation to his new album. I mean they've been doing this over and over ppl just dont pay enough attention to their playlists and song recs. Like (Sorry this is getting ranty) we've known since the beginning of it all they (harry mostly) were putting out .. vibes.. to say the least through posting song lyrics and shit but now we're just not even registering the songs played at their venues and I need some justice for their song reccing pls... think of it this way: if you're an artist.. and your number one passion is music? And you're in a position where you can't directly say all you would want to say? Wouldn't you do it through music? Wouldn't you find those pieces of work that you resonate with or are giving that vibe you wanna transfer onto the people willing to listen or take those songs that are basically claimed by your loved one and just kinda.. put things on your mind out in the open through that? Just. It's all in the music? Like. Pay. Attention. To. Their. Playlists. People.😤

HSLOT 2022 USA residencies 1 (Toronto, New York, Austin)

15 August 2022 - 3 October 2022