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The second one in LA was kinda meh for me, so I wasn’t expecting a whole lot for this one but I was pleasantly surprised by the vocal harmonies in both songs (especially how Castle of Glass is a song where the harmonies shine). The last time I can remember Mike/LP doing multiple small scale performances of one song was Heavy in 2017, so I’m really hoping that more performances builds up to more releases.

I thought Alanis Morissette sounded great during the tribute show (can't get her head tilt out of my head though). The only performance I wasn't feeling was Julia Michaels on Heavy.

Also curious to hear HE with live instrumentals, although we probably won't hear that until Mike plays with band members like Matt and Dan. OML songs sound different live, and the post traumatic songs sound a lot different when Mike started PT shows by himself vs. PT shows after Matt and Dan joined in.

I've always disagreed when people said A Thousand Suns and One More Light were the band selling out. I believe those were the band's genuine creations, not because "MtM was big" or "Hunting Party metal didn't do well so let's go pop". Even Happy Endings, a song that undeniably fits in today's pop genre, does not qualify as a sellout in my book. A song's genre has nothing to do with selling out. Unfortunately, this statement by Mike is drifting into that sellout narrative and yes, I am taking this out of context. Like Justin said up there it's like he's "saying the quiet part out loud" and that just invites other people to take it out of context, possibly with harsher words than I do. All that said, do I want more songs from Mike and maybe an album? Absolutely. But I don't want the sales/reception of a single song to be that album's sole motivation.