I had a feeling about you, I really did, a real gut feeling that this was the one, this was the crowd. You know, looking at you, one of my favourite things about this tour is that I decided that I wanted to light everybody up. I wanted to illuminate everybody. So you know, one thing I love about that is, Iâm not looking out into a vast, endless sea of darkness that screams and dances that you canât always see. I can see all the things that youâre doing. You think I canât see you up there, thatâs incorrect. Yep, yep. And so, because of this, because I can see every single one of you, it makes me start thinking about you individually, and then my mind starts to wander about, like, your back story. Like, like if youâre back at school yet. Or if you have work off tomorrow. Or if youâre here with your friends. Or how long it took you to make the costumes youâve got. Or how youâre, like, wrapped in Christmas lights, all that. Or if youâve got, like, glitter and puffy paint all over your house because you made signs. Yeah, looking at you. And then I start thinking about other things, like the fact that maybe you travelled a really long distance to be at this particular show. And then I think about the fact that maybe itâs a possibility that you might have listened to my music in really high high times in your life, or really low low moments in your life. Because thatâs what we do, isnât it? Thatâs why weâre all here, because when we feel extreme pain or extreme joy, we turn to music. And thatâs why weâre in this arena together. Thatâs the one thing weâve got in common. I donât know, but looking at you, itâs impossible to pick one age group, or one possible group to talk to, because the coolest thing of looking at you is that everybody is at a different place in their life. Everybodyâs got different hobbies, individual sets of hopes, dreams, wishes, fears, doubts, regrets, all of it. And I guess I just look at you and I never want you to go through anything bad, ever. And I know itâs so naive, but, I guess, I look at you and I knowâŚI know how tricky happiness can be to find in 2015, um, because we have so many ways of looking at what someone else has going on, and maybe feeling like our life comes up short. Or feeling like maybe the other people have it all together, and we donât know where weâre going with our life. Or feeling like weâve got all these insecurities, and feeling like weâre just walking around the world, hoping that no one else can see them. Like, âGod, how long am I gonna be at this party before people realise Iâm not cool?â Um, âhow long am I gonna be dancing before people start laughing at me?â All that stuff. And I guess what I wanted to tell you is that, God, you are not someone elseâs opinion of you. Youâre not someoneâs comment on your Instagram. Youâre so much more than that. This is coming from someone who loves the internet, because it gives me a chance to talk to you, and it gives me a chance to know you, even if you live far away. But the one thing I want is for you to not get hateful comments, or terrible, terrible criticisms. I donât want anyone to ever tell you that youâre not what you should be. But thatâs how life is. And we go through it, and we try and do the best we can, but all Iâm saying is there are enough people that are cruel, and mean, and critical of you. If you could possibly just be kind to yourself as much as you possibly can, that would make me so happy. Donât be too hard on yourself if you make a mistake. Donât focus too much on your regrets. Learn from them. I think sometimes in our heads, we get this idea that thereâs like this like an invisible record, and we get strikes against it when we mess up. And thatâs just not how it works. We learn lessons from the time we mess up. No one has a spotless life. And if you consider yourself damaged or tarnished because youâve made mistakes in your life, thatâs just not how it is. I think itâs the opposite. I think that if you make mistakes, and you learn from them, that makes you wiser, and stronger, and it makes you brave for taking those risks in the first place, donât you think? I wrote a song when I was really struggling to figure out how to be nicer to myself in my own head. And I cared a lot about what other people thought about me. And, to be honest with you L.A., these days all I care about these days is what you think about me. Not people who donât know me. And, when I came to that realisation, I was in London writing with a woman named Imogen Heap, and I brought her this idea that I had written, and it ended up being the very last song on 1989, and I called it Clean. So if you know the words to this one, please sing along, Los Angeles.
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