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Being in school on the night you're seeing the concert is intense. On one hand, you still haven't accepted that you're going, so you're chill in a way. Sometimes, you don't have any TIME to acknowledge it because your trigonometry teacher is taking forever to explain something and oh my God did she just say I have six pages of homework tonight??? Not doing that. I forgot this strangely numb feeling of stress and anxiety that I had before Hippo Campus up until Tuesday, the day I saw Arcade Fire. Planning and getting stuff done for this concert was so hard that I barely had time to be excited for it until I stepped into MSG. I had to scramble for people to go with, sell tickets, tell my coach I couldn't go to practice, tell my art studio I couldn't go to work, and delete 50 million applications off of my phone. All in like, a day before it even happened. So let's skip all the class stuff because they were all irrelevant in that moment. Of course, I had a student gov meeting right after school so I had to sit there while everyone discussed events happening in NOVEMBER LIKE WE HAVE, LIKE, YEARS TO PLAN IT WHY NOW??? I rushed out of there and to home as soon as I could, finished my physics homework, got dressed and did my hair, and left for Manhattan. I LOVE walking around the city, it's one of my favorite things to do ever. We were pretty early and had a lot of time to kill, so my mom and I ate at this nice little pub place four buildings right of MSG. The lady there was so nice to us and called us her girls. EX: "Hey my girls, need any more water?" I had the BEST cobb salad that I've ever had in my entire life. Mom got fish and chips, and the chips were amazing. We sat next to hipster millennials going to AF too. After we ate, we still had a half an hour, so we went into Starbucks and I had my first Pumpkin Spice of the season! It was delicious. I was extremely excited about it. More excited than I probably should have been. Does that make me a basic white girl now???? Anyway, while sipping on the delicious caffeinated fall drink, I got a little anxiety. What if my phone dies? Runs out of storage? What if I sit next to a pretentious snobby dude that questions my age and my Arcade Fire trivia knowledge? I also missed Sophia and Liah who couldn't come. I missed them a lot. But I was still going to try to enjoy this as much as possible, for me and for them. For I was an ambassador of the Mr. Q group chat, and I needed to experience as much as possible at this event. We finish our coffee and walk to MSG. While we walked, we noticed something. Three people carrying obscure instruments heading in the opposite direction. Who were they??? Backup players??? Oh my God. I think I bumped shoulders with one of them by accident. Am I famous yet? After that encounter, we walked in, did the whole security and tickets shabang, and I bought a shirt and a pin of an arcade machine literally on fire. Then, we found our seats. Literally as soon as we sat down, the opening band started playing. They were called The Preservation Hall Jazz band and they were the lit-est jazz band I have ever heard ever. Like, I want to listen to them now. I want to join the fandom. I have never heard a jazz band that wasn't at a coffee shop somewhere, or one that actually made me want to party. After them, Grandmaster Flash came on. My mom was very excited because she loves him and wanted to hear one specific song, White Lines. "My life would be complete," she said. He came out to this whole intro about his life, gave a shoutout to The Bronx where he lived, and explained his whole crayon to vinyl schtick. Everyone was pumped up and excited to hear some GMF songs..... ......but then he started DJing. Like, actual DJing. He gave tributes to artists that passed such as Bowie and Prince, but no original songs by him. Just songs by other people. Every time he played a new song a slide would appear on the screen of a picture of the artist that was literally made in iMovie. It was a cool party, but kind of disappointing. After that was all over, it was time for the party to begin. They walked on the stage, which was designed like a boxing ring, in a wrestling fashion. "Weighing 2,000 pounds collectively, 20 Grammys, 3 Kids Choice Awards, and one shocking Oscar loss, Arcade Fire!!!" They opened up with Everything Now and Nothing Now mattered, besides this. Honestly, I can write full paragraphs about some of the highlights, but I'm just going to do it in bullet point fashion: - When Will almost fell off the stage during Rebellion (Lies) - When Will waved the tambourine around creepily during Creature Comfort - Every time they showed Will on the screen and I took 3.4 billion pics - Willllll. ❤ - When Win yelled something about supporting immigration and everyone cheered - When they played The Suburbs for Houston after Hurricane Harvey (almost made me cry) - Every time Régine sung anything - Every time my brother's friend from baseball's dad texted us from the pit conspiring about commercialism - The couple that looked like Fred and Carrie from Portlandia that smelled really nice that it covered up the weed smell and I was tempted to ask them what perfume they had? - When they played No Cars Go, my first and favorite AF song and I transcended to Heaven up above - At the end where they played Wake Up and went into the pit after the song ended and played with the PH Jazz band again This whole article doesn't even do this concert any justice. So much happened and it was a legendary show. Totally look up the setlist, or you can even find it on my Concert Setlist MasterPlaylist. I hope you have a good weekend guys. I'll probably post videos where I'm NOT singing on the Insta, so keep your eyes peeled and your hearts ready for that.
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