Kina Grannis
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"For Now" Music Video / Tour BTS
🕑 Added 2018-07-20 00:22:18 +0000 UTC Hello KG Records Fam!Writing to you from an off day in Oregon! So far we're 6 shows deep into the tour and I am finally getting back into my tour rhythm. The crowds have been some of the warmest and most loving feeling yet. Every night has felt like a completely unique but equally special experience. And one of the best parts has been looking out from stage and seeing my KG Records family scattered throughout the crowd wearing our little KG Fox pins!! I've had the pleasure of meeting so many of you, and have been so moved to see that we've had some new members join us along the way as well. (Warmest of welcomes to any newcomers!!)
I’ve been closing out my set this tour with my song “For Now”, and it has felt especially fitting. One thing I really felt while writing this song is how amazing and beautiful and unlikely it is that all of us—and yes, i’m talking about you on the other side of this screen from me—happen to exist at this same moment in time. Human history is a long long line, and we have all randomly popped into existence during this same tiny moment. I feel so grateful not only to get to exist—to get to feel and learn and experience life—but to get to exist with ALL OF YOU and everyone else who happens to be hanging out on our planet right now. I am so grateful our paths have intersected. I am grateful for the impact you have all made in my life, and hopeful that I might make the tiniest of ripples in yours as well. It’s good to be here together :) Thanks for figuring out this life thing with me. ❤️🙏🏻
Some little tidbits about the video:
- Jesse captured this footage for me (thanks Jesse!) at the San Diego and San Francisco shows :)
- at 0:48 seconds--meet my aunt! This was pre-show at the first stop of tour. I was feeling really nervous and anxious, both about playing the show and being about to start tour. It didn't hit me until during the show that night, but I think there has been a lot of emotion around this tour for me since it's the first one since Jakarta. Lots of feelings to unpack here.
- at 0:54--I found a little gift bag in my green room the first night. Turns out my tour manager Sam and our merch girl Lauren got me a beginning of tour gift! They wrote the sweetest card ever and got me two stones for protection and grounding and it was the most unexpected and wonderful way to kick things off. <3 <3
- 1:31--these are my sisters! They joined me for a song at the SF show and it was (as always) such a highlight. Also so helpful to have multiple sisters around for post-show breakdowns when I'm feeling extra emotional and just need to cry and hug for a while.
Ok, I'm going to go take a little break from the bus and get some fresh air while I can. Thank you all for making this tour possible and being so incredibly great :)
xoxoxo
Kina
p.s. Newbies--feel free to introduce yourselves in the comments, I'd love to know about you! (Where you're from, what you love, how our paths came to be intertwined!)
Comments
I like that right expression from your songs, it is like you were chose by the nature to transfer its music and words to us. So well done. I have known your songs from your cover of that nice song of Cat Stevens: the Wind. Since that day I can not pass a day without earing your song. Thank you Kina!
This and many of your other songs are so healing. Thank you for sharing your stories and music with us Kina. I am from NYC and I have been a fan since middle school (so about 10-11 years now?). I found you through my love and slight obsession haha with Ingrid Michaelson and the Asian Youtube space back then, which included David Choi. Hope your tour is going super well, see you this Sunday!
Hello Kina! I’m a new Patreon member but a long-time fan (sorry I didn’t think to join Patreon sooner! ::facepalm::) I first fell in love with your music right after the Doritos competition 10 years ago and 2 weeks ago marked my 5th time seeing you perform live! Your performance felt so incredibly healing and beautiful and all things right in the world. I still have the shirt you signed for me when I was recovering from heart surgery. You are amazing!💜
same!!
David W
You have the best record company supporters in the world me thinks! May your tour continue to unfold with Love, Joy & Peace I'm looking forward to being at the London concert _/\_
So good
Love the video and thanks for sharing your tour stories!
Hi Kina! I love this song and how it makes me feel connected to you because yes, it's a beautiful thing that we are all alive now <3 Sad I couldn't come to see you but I was there the last time you were in SF :) Have a wonderful rest of your tour!
Loved this. Very powerful! Thank you!!!
Erik Smith
So pretty! You have the best patreon. ‹3
Hello Kina! Wonderful song and beautiful video! But I did not see what you hold in your left hand in the first minute. ) Perhaps it's not so important; most importantly: by the left hand - from the heart... :) I just wanted to say that you sing very very beautifully! =:) Keep it up! Sincerely, Michael.
Your lyrics capture so much of how I feel and think about my own mortality and the impermanence and miraculous wonder of existence. Its a miracle to just be here. And I love love love the song and the video and the whole album! ♥️
Loved it. Keep doing what you're doing. You're amazing!
