Rina Sawayama, Minor Feelings (live), Fox Theater, Oakland, November 21, 2022 (4K)

Rina Sawayama opens her concert by playing the song "Minor Feelings" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California on November 21, 2022. Minor Feelings was the opening track on Sawayama's second studio album, Hold the Girl (2022). The song gets its name from the book Minor Feelings by Korean-American poet Cathy Park Hong.
Rina Sawayama (Japanese: 澤山リナ) is a singer, songwriter, model, and actress born in Japan and raised in London. Joining her onstage were Emily Rosenfield (guitar / keyboards) and Simone Odaranile (drums), as well as dancers Chanté and Summer Jay Jones.
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Minor Feelings lyrics:
How am I supposed to feel
When you're telling me that nothing in my life is real?
When you throw your words and hide behind a plastic shield
I just sit and smile
Writing my own fairy tales
Building forts between the sofa and the windowsill
Dreaming of the day I'm tall enough to save myself
But I was just a child
What it takes to recognize
Emotions that I try to hide
The more I keep them all inside
The more they bury me alive
All my life, I've felt out of place
All my life, I've been saving face
Well, all these minor feelings
Are majorly breaking me down
All my life, you took me for a fool
All my life, you told me what to do
All these minor feelings
Are majorly getting to me now
Written by Rina Sawayama / Lauren Aquilina / Victor Jamieson
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Hold The Girl live tour dates (2022 - 2023):
Nov. 1 - Brooklyn, NY @ Avant Gardner
Nov. 11 - Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
Nov. 12 - Austin TX @ Emo’s
Nov. 13 - Houston TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Nov. 16 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
Nov. 18 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA
Nov. 21 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater
Nov. 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
Nov. 28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Avant Gardner
Nov. 29 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore
Nov. 30 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
Dec. 2 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
Jan. 9 - Auckland, New Zealand @ Powerstation
Jan. 12 - Sydney, Australia @ Roundhouse
Jan. 13 - Melbourne, Australia @ 170 Russell
Jan. 14 - Brisbane, Australia @ The Triffid
Jan. 17 - Nagoya, Japan @ Club Diamond Hall
Jan. 18 - Osaka, Japan @ Zepp Bayside
Jan. 20 - Tokyo, Japan @ Tokyo Garden Theatre
Feb. 14 - Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique
Feb. 15 - Paris, France @ Olympia
Feb. 16 - Zurich, Switzerland @ Volkshaus
Feb. 18 - Milan, Italy @ Fabrique
Feb. 19 - Munich, Germany @ Muffathalle
Feb. 21 - Utrecht, Netherlands @ Tivoli Vrendenburg
Feb. 23 - Warsaw, Poland @ Stodola
Feb. 24 - Berlin, Germany @ Huxley’s Neue Welt
Feb. 26 - Stockholm, Sweden @ Berns
Feb. 27 - Oslo, Norway @ Rockefeller Music Hall
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Rina Sawayama official bio:
The devil works hard, but Rina Sawayama works harder. Fresh off the triumph of her UK and US headline tour, which sold out the Roundhouse in London and saw five-star reviews from The Guardian and NME, the newly minted British-Japanese pop star is following up her celebrated debut album Sawayama with Hold The Girl, a colossally ambitious and utterly original record that marries intimate storytelling with arena-sized tunes. In between Sawayama landing on over 50 album of the year lists, including the New York Times (#2), The Guardian (#3) and Rolling Stone (#6), a “superstar-in-the-making”(NME) TV performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and starring alongside Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4, you’d be forgiven for wondering when she even sleeps.
But Rina - whose whole raison d’être is bending huge chart influences and blockbuster melodies to her will with precision-tuned songwriting and powerful vocals - is the rare pop artist for whom honesty is never not an option. Making Hold The Girl was a hardwon battle - one that didn’t come easy - and was written during a turbulent period in her life that saw her step back and focus on herself: “A lot of people ignore the symptoms of their emotional pain,” she explains. “It’s when I stopped that I was able to make something meaningful. I’ve worked hard, but I’ve also worked hard on my mental health.”
Writing and recording Hold The Girl coincided with Rina beginning intensive therapy to process a pain from her youth, and these tracks act as a journey through the revelations and growth she experienced. Rina was born in Japan but moved to London as a child and was raised by her single mother: a relationship she lovingly pays tribute to on the song Catch Me in the Air.
Existing in rarefied spaces as one of the few East Asian faces around - Rina studied politics, psychology and sociology at Cambridge and fronted fashion campaigns as a jobbing model prior to her music career - only served to gird her determination to make her music a broad church that embraces everyone.
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Typo catcher: Reena Sawayama, Rima Sawayama, Rina Sayawama, Rina Samayawa, Minor Fillings, Miner Feelings

[@michaelaudie4734]

What kind of camera were you using?

[@TimBracken]

It's a pocket-sized point-and-shoot camera with a big zoom: Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-HX99.

[@michaelaudie4734]

@@TimBracken I'm looking for something to replace my phone at concerts.

[@TimBracken]

Hi Michael, this is the best one I've found for a pocket-sized camera with a big optical zoom (it can magnify 30x for nice closeups from far away) but keep in mind three things:
(1) If you're shooting in 4K, the camera will shut off videos at 5 minutes. This applies to all imported pocket-sized cameras, not just this one. If these cameras could shoot 4K videos longer than that, they would be classified as video cameras and get bigger taxes/tariffs. So sometimes I have to stitch two separate 4K videos together using a video editor, which is a bit of a pain.
(2) Even breaking the videos into 5-minute chunks, the camera can't shoot an entire concert in 4K. It will literally overheat and shut off after enough consecutive shooting. You can mitigate this by switching "Auto Pwr OFF Temp." to "high" but you still won't get the whole concert and will need to selectively shoot songs in 4K. (You can shoot in HD with better results though).
(3) The zoom ring is right next to one of the microphones, and the mics are very sensitive. That sensitivity is good for high-fidelity audio, but it means that during quiet and medium-loud songs, you have to touch and release that zoom very lightly or else people will hear a clicking sound in the videos.
If you find a better camera alternative, please circle back here and let me know what you bought. 😊
Cheers,
Tim