i like lana because she's like me - by BDM - Notebook

I live in fear of this Substack accidentally becoming a “pop music blog” (as opposed to “a Taylor Swift blog,” which it obviously is). But I ended up watching some of live streaming sets at Coachella on Friday. Two of my up-and-coming pop girls (Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan) did a great job. Against my better judgement, I also stayed up to watch Lana’s Coachella set. It was… mostly… not so good. Not entirely. But mostly. Two things were clear: one, that Lana was extremely uncomfortable on the stage, and two, that something was going wrong with her equipment. It felt like every time she started to relax and really sing, the microphone would start acting up, which would cause her to go back to whispering into the microphone, repeat repeat. By the end of the set I felt terrible for her but also very affectionate and loyal, like I knew she wasn’t doing a good job but also if anybody came along and said “wow she’s bad at this” I was going to knee them in the groin.1 It was like I was

I live in fear of this Substack accidentally becoming a “pop music blog” (as opposed to “a Taylor Swift blog,” which it obviously is). But I ended up watching some of live streaming sets at Coachella on Friday. Two of my up-and-coming pop girls (Sabrina Carpenter and Chappell Roan) did a great job. Against my better judgement, I also stayed up to watch Lana’s Coachella set. It was… mostly… not so good. Not entirely. But mostly. Two things were clear: one, that Lana was extremely uncomfortable on the stage, and two, that something was going wrong with her equipment. It felt like every time she