Preface:
This thread is for the songs Zedicon Prime covers as she (casually) tours the galaxy. She isn’t so much ‘on tour’ as she is just sightseeing while spontaneously performing for crowds small and large wherever she happens to be exploring. Since (at first) there’s no way to buy tickets or even know where she is going to suddenly start singing and dancing, it makes for quite the thrill whenever anyone happens to be where she shows up and does this.
No credit is claimed for the songs. They are just some favorites, and I hope RP-ing her covering them helps bring more support to the artists who created them.
The following is a short concert of nine songs. If you listen to each, it will be roughly 32 minutes (the average concert being 1.5 to 3 hours) for the whole performance. That’s about the same amount of time as many (other bands’) opening acts.
Zedicon will be performing it at various entertainment hotspots in both high-sec and beyond.
Just like her dad and mom, she stayed ‘down-periscope’ for months or even years at times, charging up, growing, thinking of amazing stuff, and then, without warning, …went supernova --in the best of ways. Tonight, the girl who many often regarded as just a bookworm… turned entertainer, diva.
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The Show is About to Begin:
In Gottin’s Lamp tonight, there was a small band setting up in the back corner, away from the bar. All of them looked like college-age women. They were focused on their work, and familiar with setup.
Their hair was all intricately braided, each braid unique, their hair so long it went down to their behinds, and the colors were mermaid-vibrant;
~the guitarist’s hair was an almost-neon lime-green, worn in a thick braided ponytail resting in front of one shoulder,
~the keyboard player’s was a hypnotic violet, in quad-tails (two pairs of pigtails)
~the bassist’s was cyan, worn in side buns like Princess Leia’s,
~and the drummer’s was yellow-orange, braided like a crown.
~Only Z’s (pink-orange) hair was just down her back, looking like a cascading waterfall of fire, plus a couple side-strands framing her face.
Their outfits were couture, form-fitting as can be, but covering their flesh, neck to toe, showing only their faces and hands, out of respect for the traditional Amarr whose territory they were performing in tonight.
Each of them had a mic in front of their position on stage, and not just at the level of their musical instruments; all of them would be joining in for layered vocals, from time to time.
They must have been some of her friends from Soliara.
What do their instruments look like?
The bass guitar looks like an orbital customs office.
The drum-set looks like a mining station built around asteroids.
The guitar looks like one of the player-owned stations or refineries.
The keyboard looks like a jump gate at a nearly horizontal angle.
Z’s microphone looks like a capsuleer pod.
Dozens of guests had been entering Gottin’s Lamp for half an hour before Z’ and her band got there. They all ordered drinks and light snacks, then helped each other with introductions before picking tables to sit around. The place was packed to capacity. It would be only standing-room if anyone else decided to stop in.
Gottin’s was a bar, so of course people there could drink. That said, she made sure, well in advance, they understood they could only chill at her place for the afterparty if they arrived and stayed sober.
Every table was given a candle, but not just a votive in a normal clear glass (shotglass-like) cylinder; they were inside stained-glass figurines of different New Eden creatures and storybook scenes, with pinholes allowing starlight-like spots out in all directions, the candle flame within making those dots of light seem to dance/sway. ( example )
She had hired a team of waiters and waitresses, too, ensuring the dozens in attendance tonight all got served during the ~30-second pauses between the 9 songs.
Here in Amarr space, the waiters were basically in tuxedos, and the waitresses looked a bit like less-provocative French maids (formal here, not showy).
NOT POSTING DURING FIRST IN-GAME CONCERT:
In Caldari space, she’d again hire local servers, those dressed in business casual, ‘business smart’, and preppy.
In Gallente space, the male servers would look like Chippendales dancers, and the females dressed like Playboy Bunnies.
In Minmatar space, servers would be in different tribal fashions, venue by venue, based on who would be in the audience, sometimes looking like Native Americans, for example.
In fringe/null/pirate space, they might not have on anything at all, save perhaps a speedo for the men.
When a couple people (one man and one woman, both in modest Amarr fashions) walked in from the hallway and posted up around the band, everyone now ready on stage, it was clear those last arrivals would be doing backup dancing.
Normally there would be 14 dancers (seven men, and seven women) moving into formation around her band, between her band and the audience, but in small venues such as Gottin’s Lamp, which has a capacity of 50 people, there would only be two dancers (one man and one woman), so there could be up to 43 audience members instead of 31. A few dozen of Z’s friends were invited to this mini concert which would help her iron out the performance before she performed it in additional venues, and five band members plus two dancers plus 36 friends left room for seven corporation members to attend.
It was now 6 PM.
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Song #1:
~overall: beach vibes, for a smooth start, easing the audience into their genre of music
~stage/lighting colors: pastels
~backup dancers: For this first song, their dance style was couples romantically slow-dancing, then holding hands overhead while the female rotated full-circle at times, with a few hula moves worked in for extra fun.
~meal portion offered: Z had also set this concert up to be a free 9-course dining event; right before this first song started, the waiters and waitresses had brought out mocktails (like cocktails, but non-alcoholic; just fruity, light, and healthy, to help whet the audience’s appetites)
~Without much adieu, Z just strolled up on the stage, low-key, humble-looking, wearing not one of her usual sundresses, but a longer and more opaque one, its material soft-looking, comfortable, its pattern of pastel-colored palm-trees, a very soothing visual theme, her arms carefree out at her sides at slight angles, and then she took hold of the mic from its stand, and began swaying side to side to the tempo of the instrumental intro fading in, not unlike how palm leaves and trunks can, while looking down or keeping her eyes closed, getting into the first lines, slowly building up her volume and confidence.
~Her dress’s mild cool and neutral colors contrasted strikingly with her fiery almost-glowing hair.
~As she had entered, the natural fragrance of wildflowers gently filled the air.
~The stage was lit to look like a sandy beach during a gentle sunrise or sunset, somewhat colorful but not as much as the band members’ hair colors. Clips of New Eden’s most beautiful beach-resort views (from a hundred terrestrial and ocean planets) played and transitioned on the wall behind her, gradually fading from one to the other, as if in a dream-state, matching well with the feel of the music.
REMINDER: POST THE VIDEO LINK NEXT, NOT THIS SONG RIGHT BELOW
~Song-start: Since the drummer wasn’t otherwise needed on her instruments at the start, she handled the fingers snapping.
Meanwhile, the guitarist, bassist, and keyboardist kept their heads tilted down a bit, their eyes on their own instruments as they played. Z did the same, as if entirely lost in the singing, not paying attention to anyone or anything else around her. She was very soulful.
~0:55: At the high note of the ~55-second mark, she raised her non-mic hand, turning it this way and that until she finished hitting that note, her eyes still closed, as if savoring a happy memory, or trying to will a fantasy into manifesting.
~1:27: At the “every laugh hits my chest-” part, she was smiling big as she kept singing, and the projector put little clips of her on her back, in a sundress, on a wildflowers meadow, soft grass, the soothing dimness of evening turning into nightfall, blurred town lights on the horizon just out of focus, her head turning to look with love in her eyes at the actor in this scene, really into him.
Their hands slowly… almost nervously… eventually dared to move together, and start gently touching… before they took hold of one another that way, and kept holding on, lovingly firmly.
~1:49: Finally, mid-song, her free hand resting over her heart, she looked out at the patrons and guests watching her, making eye contact with them, as if singing to each, one at a time, holding their gaze unless they looked away. She connected with everyone that intimately, as if imagining they all were feeling butterflies with her.
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Song #2:
~overall: FASTER, CONTRASTING W/ THE MILDER COLORS, and the 1ST EBB of this concert (because of its colors and lyrics, obviously not because of its quicker beat)
~colors: FROM PASTEL TO NEUTRALS/GRAYS
~backup dancers: breakdancing like in Step Up, and like in You Got Served, plus occasionally doing Michael Jackson’s moonwalk move
~meal portion offered: corossol/graviola/guyabano/soursop (fried and seasoned to taste like swordfish filets) sliders (bite-size burgers between buns with interesting toppings chosen by chefs to pair well with the filets/patties)
~For this next song, the overhead projector made the stage-surface look like that of a moon or major asteroid, with lots of detailed craters, and occasional plumes of moondust ejected to the beat, the colors of the partially-exposed valuable-ore also changing, verse by verse.
~Song-start to 0:17: screen shows sudden approaches toward moons, from the POV of ships exiting warp
~0:18-0:27: screen shows her warping in to join numerous fleets over the years, all across New Eden
~0:40: screen shows her noticing a new message alert on her mobile, and clearly her heartrate is going up as she decides whether to reply
~As the first minute was complete, and the beat picked up, she began turning her head side to side, to speak those next lines to each band member as they met her gaze, all of them starting to grin.
~She seemed to stand up on her tiptoes at 1:16,
and then… at 1:22…
Here was the surprise: For this song, she had set up something unseen (maybe a harness under her outfit, which she could be lifted up by?), like the great stage magicians often do, so it would look like she’s in zero-G for some of this song, floating gracefully, her hair swaying like it was underwater. It was like the slow-motion version of an “aerial silk” dance.
Her toes left the stage, she seemingly no longer held down by the force everyone else in the room still was held down by. She kept singing as if this was completely normal. Up and up she rose, until she was several feet above the stage, a whole head or two above all her bandmates, her legs almost dangling, swaying, she now grooving/dancing while suspended mid-air.
~1:51: “We said it’s done” -screen shows a fleet ending, the ships parting ways after being tethered at the nearby station
~1:53: “then we rewind” -screen shows her in a jump-gate tunnel on her way back home
~1:55: “same pattern, different time” -screen shows her shuttle approaching another station on another day
~2:05, for “back on my knees”, she moved her feet up behind her, so her pose went with those words.
Images of moons ‘popping’ all over New Eden, and fleets warping into view to start ‘munching’ the pulled rocks, flashed in sequence to the beat.
~By 2:37, she was lowered back down, smoothly… until her toes met the stage again, and then she started bending over… and was headbanging and kicking at 2:57 and onward.
~3:11, she stood tall, leaning back a bit, head back, chin high, as she yell-sang that line.
Behind her and her band, the scene on the wall was of Planetary Industry/Interaction space-elevators doing their thing.
~At 3:31 of this track; the lyric “Every time I get too close-”, she and one of the other band members grabbed each other and arousingly yanked each other so close they were almost touching while she finished singing this song.
Now the screen had worm-hole entries and exits happening on it –another fitting pairing with the gravity-based lyrics.
~3:38, their stage lit up like the colorful blinking squares of an old-fashioned disco-techa dance-floor. The screen behind/above them was showing footage of big mining fleets, and when their lasers began firing at the targeted asteroid, the laser lightshow of this concert began, firing different colors out over the audience, each one turning on and off, and suddenly moving this way and that, to the faster beat, everything suddenly turning off at the final note.
~Now ALL the band members were floating up a bit for the last seconds of the song. They would be lowered back down to the stage as it ended.
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Song #3:
~overall: MID-SPEED; the 2ND FLOW of this concert
~colors: OF ALL PRECIOUS METALS (GOLD, ETC.) AND STONES (COLORFUL GEMS)
~backup dancers: disco and pop moves like in Saturday Night Fever
~meal portion offered: Wagamama NYC Ramen Short-ribs Soup (by the cup; no bowls)
~Suddenly, at the start of this song, her normally pink-orange hair became completely white and gold, of alternating locks of those distinct and striking, unnatural colors.
~Song-start to 0:14: Clips of: the signature white-and-gold Amarr spaceships and space stations, with CGI making their pinpoints of light from their portholes blinking like LEDs to the beat. (When she performed this mini concert in non-Amarr territories, the ‘nicer’ (high-end) ships and stations of the people who ruled the systems she would then be performing in would instead be what was shown on the screen/wall behind her band, with the ‘skins’/paintjobs most popular to those locals. This was to celebrate the artistic space-worthy creations of each group of people.)
~0:15: “lights up, I walk in slow” -The projector showed footage made within her family’s Victorieux civilian space-yacht, she taking her time strutting in to the slow beat, the camera moving smoothly through it, clearly on stabilizers. It was VERY well appointed, fully furnished with the finest everything the galaxy had to offer. They had spared no expense.
~0:18: “velvet air and silver glow… oh… oh… oh” -screen shows her tan fingertips slowly gliding on the surface of some velvety high-end pillow, then passing over silver and electrum finery.
During every “oh…” her fingertips touch another high-end material/item.
Even the canopies of the beds in the guest rooms had little diamonds sewn into them in diagonal plaid-like grids.
~0:27: “I’m luxury-” camera turns to face her as she grins, resting a hand over her heart, still taking her time strutting through the yacht.
~0:32: “livin’ the life” Handsome strong males walked into view in one of those clips up on the screen, all of them in high-end Amarr masculine fashions, and in unison they began lifting up her palanquin (carry-throne on two parallel carrying/shouldering horizontal poles) as she crossed her legs and sang the rest of this song. (To make sure this didn’t trouble anyone who might think it looked like slaves working for her, they were not dressed as slaves, but as eligible bachelors.)
~That footage was also to help raise awareness that Aridia has plenty of high-end attractions now; this music video doubled as a tourism ad aiming to attract major investors to the region, helping the empire further develop and stabilize it.
~1:03: screen now showing her dancing/swaying her way through several dozen guests aboard that yacht of her father’s, having a very fancy party.
~On stage in Gottin’s this whole song, Z stood in a bold stance when she wasn’t briefly strutting between band members, posing, vogueing, sometimes grinning and winking over her shoulder. She also tossed her hair with the air of an heiress about her, practically dripping with wealth and suitors.
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Song #4:
~overall: CHILL BUT SOMEWHAT FAST; FUN
~colors: EARTH TONES AND NATURE GREENS
~backup dancers: country/line/square dancing like in Footloose
~meal portion offered: mini smoothies; in shot glasses, each with a long toothpick speared through sliced fresh fruits, brought directly from her family’s main farm’s latest harvest
~Song-start to 0:14: Now played a couple short clips of her riding horses on her vast Soliara ranch, her bright pink-orange hair like a cape in the breeze while each horse she was on galloped into it, their galloping synchronized to the starting tempo of this latest song.
~0:16: screen shows her limo entering a city
~From 0:19 to 027: During “boots on the ground-”, putting on her cowgirl hat of white with inlaid gold swirls like ivy all over it, stepping out of the high-end taxi-like short-limo, cowgirl boots stepping to the beat.
~0:49: Every time the song reached the “X-O X-O” chorus, the floor-based and ceiling-based colored spot-lights turned on to form crossing light lines, making giant X’s of light behind her band. The O’s were formed by entire rings of lights which were anchored in a big circle around the entire stage, as well as around the screen on the back wall.
For every “X”, the dancers crossed their arms like Japanese do to signal “no entry”,
and for every “O”, the dancers made that letter with their arms up, fingertips touching overhead,
and for every “swirl”, the female dancers lowered down (crouched) while spinning themselves around in a circle, whipping their ponytails/hairstyles in doing so.
~1:20: “rooftop rodeo, stars in my eyes” showed her on a mega-city skyscraper penthouse patio, looking out and up, the city’s many neon signs reflected on her eyes, plus bright stars and planets and a moon overhead also reflected off her eyes, the camera so close it had only showed her from her shoulders up before zooming in to show those details. A passing airship/spaceship’s lights were the last thing seen reflected off and moving across her eyes, now fully zoomed in on, highest-resolution.
~1:59: shows clips of intel convos, with names blurred out, and then labs and factories, some of her family’s employees/specialists doing work such as R+D, back-engineering, manufacturing, and more, the implication being that all the chatting and networking she’d been doing in big cities across the cluster had helped with those subsets of their businesses
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Song #5
~overall: ANOTHER SMOOTH AVG.-TEMPO CATCHY ONE
~colors: white, green, and red (not Christmas-y, but the colors of Bulgaria’s flag)
~backup dancers: popping and locking; “robot” dance moves
~meal portion offered: Harissa Black-oyster Mushroom and Jackfruit Fajitas
~This one sounded Bulgarian (and the inspiration linked is, but in the setting of EVE Online, what she is singing is a distant descendant of that language, with numerous changes), another aspect of the languages spoken on her world, which she liked sharing with those who lived elsewhere. Its title, translated, meant “Dangerously Close” –in a romantic or icebreaking way.
~projector/screen shows: ‘pew’ (combat) highlights from the stealth-bomber training the other month,
and her POV, looking out a cockpit windshield at passing uncloaked ‘enemy’ (practice) ships and other (practice) targets.
~additional colors: her cockpit-lighting remained a deep purple, almost U.V., while brief views of her Overhead showed its customary whites for most radar signatures, then some marked as green (not the usual blue-for-friendly), as if she had customized its colors in her own ships, and finally some of the red for hostiles, as the clips showed her arriving in systems where nearby gate campers were waiting.
~On stage, every time a band member slowly made her way over to her, she raised a hand their way, to signal them to stop, while she kept holding her mic in her other hand, she always backing off, her steps perfectly sync’ed to the beat.
~last scene on the screen behind her band: a fleet of frigates firing their lasers like a lightshow, all those lasers the colors of the Bulgarian flag
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Song #6:
~overall: ANOTHER EBB
~colors: COOL COLORS and DARKEST
~backup dancers: modern expressive ballet
~meal portion offered: glazed tender baked mega-carrots (~twice as thick as regular store-bought ones, and all of colors other than orange), miso garlic butter melting cabbage, Asian long-fries, edible flowers
~She walks out in between the tables of the venue while performing this one.
~The lyric “Sunlight on my skin-” was sung while a sunny-yellow spotlight stayed on her.
~That now-yellow-orange spotlight stayed on her, to go with the “sunlight on my skin” lyric returning.
~During (0:30) “glitter tears in my eyes”, the irises of her eyes sparkled brightly, silvery.
She hung her head at times, wiping her eyes as if she had been crying.
~0:37: “I move fast-”: The screen showed her doing a wheelie on her street-bike on one of the highways of her world.
~1:04: “afterglow”: -a lighting special effect, based on holograms and on little indirect lights hidden in her dress, made her seem to softly glow golden-white
~1:22 mark: the HANDS-UP PART
–screen then showing: AMARR CALDARI GALLENTE MINMATAR (ALL) NIGHTCLUBS ‘CIRCUITS’; her sequence of visits to the best of them, entering with a bit of nostalgia or even sadness on her face, then she forcing herself to smile and ‘let go’, dancing until she felt a little better, over and over, and genuinely smiling as she helped others who entered with similar at-first-stressed facial-expressions.
~2:24: Hologram projectors made it look like she had become two of herself, and then three, and four, on and on, until there appeared to be many of her all throughout Gottin’s Lamp, each hologram facing a different direction and doing different dance moves, all to this song’s beat.
Then those holograms walked back toward her, and appeared to merge with her.
~3:58: At “lights go down, I’m still here-”, on the screen was a view of her by herself, exiting one of those many night-clubs, making her way back to her car, then to the spaceport, and then heading back out into orbit, by herself like usual.
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Song #7:
~overall: ANOTHER FLOW
~colors: blue, yellow, red (the colors of Romania’s flag), kept steady (unmoving) the entire time, so as to not pull any attention off the singers.
~backup dancers: not dancing; stationary finger-snapping, with some foot-tapping similar to a tap-dancing move
~meal portion offered: classy narrow slices of Garash (a flourless walnut-chocolate meringue cake), beside a single scoop of black-raspberry chocolate-chip gelato
~A handsome bearded brunette middle-aged rugged-looking man walked, dressed in inconspicuous Amarr masculine attire, up on stage with a spare mic; this would clearly be a duet. Z’ warmly received him, opening her arms for a hug, and standing up on her tiptoes a moment before pecking his cheeks.
~This song of the mini-concert was sung in her homeworld’s official language, which sounded like ancient (Earth) Romanian.
~Z’ and the unnamed man just faced each other for the entire song, never looking away from each other’s eyes.
~0:35-0:39: During “at you and your smile”, he rested his non-mic hand gently on one of her cheeks while he gazed at her lips.
~0:41: When it was her turn to sing, she ran her non-mic-hand fingers through his hair for a line or two.
~Her bandmates stood still as they played, and they all whistled toward their mic stands.
~screen shows: hauling, delivering groceries, and clients smiling as they receive those drop-offs, those things now all their own, which went with some of this song’s lyrics
~fade to black at end; all the lights overhead dimmed until they were off, leaving the band/stage in darkness, the last light allowing the audience to see Z’ and that other singer still facing each other, never looking away
~implied: Z’s family/businesses took their customer relationships seriously
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Song #8:
~overall: EBB
~colors: WARM COLORS and BRIGHTER (than the color scheme / lighting of the other songs)
~backup dancers: ballroom/formal, because of the “circles” lyric, with some tango mixed in (each time the beat picks up for the chorus)
~meal portion offered: hibiscus virgin spritzers
~Behind her, the wall showed a music video of her waking up on her bed on Soliara III, sunrays coming through her open blinds. She held up a hand to block that light until her eyes had time to adjust, and then she sat up and started going through her morning routine, eventually making her way down to the kitchen, and then out onto the porch under the cabin’s awning.
~For this 2nd-final track, her irises (in person; on stage) softly glowed like gentle sunshine, golden yellow, like little nightlights on her face, giving her natural tan complexion a romantic and superhuman glow.
Her hair turned golden-yellow, as well, and began sparkling and intensifying its yellow at just the right parts of this music.
~The floor-mounted stage-lights stayed off.
~Overhead, those lights smoothly transitioned through a never-ending cycle of all three warm colors, those beams/cones of color slowly moving here and there, leaving komorebi-like light-patterns ever-changing all over the stage and surrounding bar-floor.
~screen begins to show: NEWS FEED excerpts, such as all the articles/lore posted/linked in the Lumen Discord channels she had seen over the years, especially those posted in the last month.
~0:36: “daylight in my eyes… hide behind the night… somethin’ bright” -Those lyric parts were sync’ed to images on the back-wall screen of her scrolling through her news feed on a mobile device, that device’s screen-light illuminating her face, the rest of her ranch bedroom dark, stars and a shooting star visible through her window panes.
~0:58: “scared of what I find” showed a moment of her reading Nauplius posts, going wide-eyed, raising a hand to cover her mouth as it slightly fell open
~The whole song, she and her band were casual, moving here and there, nothing much choreographed, just being natural, going with the overall feel of this track.
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Song #9 of 9:
~overall: FLOW TO FINISH
~colors: alternating between a combo of white and pink… and a combo of white and sky-blue
~backup dancers: barbershop quarter line, snapping while bent over a bit as they file in… they then swing-dancing as couples, the girls doing belly dancing and beckoning the guys when not holding hands with them or being flipped
~meal portion offered: peppermints –in the finest dark chocolates; not the regular mints made with sugar and styled like red and white candy canes ( check these out )
~Z’ strode out into the middle of Gottin’s and sat on one of the empty tabletops…
Meanwhile, the stage lights, both on the floor and overhead, were only on one at a time, turning on in sequence, creating brief cones of light up or down, moving in a circle all around the stage, each turned-on cone of colored light perfectly sync’ed to the opening keyboard notes.
~0:07: During “You walk in-”, when the drum/stepping sounds were added, the stage-lights from below and above were white or sky-blue, all at once, mostly highlighting the drummer and her instruments.
screen: curiously, it does not show anything obvious/literal, such as a guy and gal daydreaming about each other, or walking together to start a date;
instead is shown: ANCIENT RUINS and ARTIFACTS, as if telling the audience one of her pass-times, i.e. a great way to find common ground and always have reasons to meet up beyond normal focused-on-each-other dates/hangouts,
and probably also implying that she is often curious about the many rediscovered prehistoric/ancient sites her father and his teams keep finding on various worlds
~0:14: ”and I lose my lines-” color combo now pink and white, and stays that combo when she is singing about herself, as opposed to singing about the person on her mind
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~0:27: “in the traffic when I’m stuck” shows her singing in the middle of a Soliara III traffic jam.
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~0:39: Every “always on my mind”, she put her non-mic palm on the side of her head as she turned her torso side to side, almost frowning for emphasis.
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~0:40 mark: She gracefully moved off the table she’d been sitting on until now, and began casually walking to each audience member, to rest a friendly hand on their shoulder for a few words of the coming lines.
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~0:45 mark: “I just want you right here-”, now singing about wanting to be with the unnamed person, the lights are all three colors; white, sky-blue, and pink, symbolizing her imagining or even getting what she wants
~at 1:15: “miss a call-”: She was now center-stage like at the start of this concert. She reached out in front of her as if begging the audience not to leave her.
The screen was showing The Scope clips of handshakes between people forming alliances and business partnerships with LUMEN/SFRIM and other significant groups.
The screen going from ruins to handshakes… was a way of saying that teamwork across the cluster would reveal what all those forgotten wonders were,
and a way of saying things had gotten better, since the times when those ruins had become ruins.
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~1:34: “-rides home, all alone.” showed the shuttle windshield’s POV of her strapped onto the pilot’s bucket-seat, a little misty-eyed but determined-looking.
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(CONTINUED IN A REPLY BELOW)
