I think the problem is that his team doesn’t believe in him.
I remember at the beginning of the last year, when walls was released, some fans said that they talked with his manager and he told them that they didn’t do a lot of promo because they thought walls wouldn’t do well on the charts.
Same in the documentary they didn’t believe this festival will happen and Louis was so so so sure that it will happen.
They don’t know what capable Louis is of and that is so frustrating.
Oh, that is FOR SURE what is happening. LTHQ is my villain origin story.
You can see it clearly in the documentary, when Louis is sitting down with Matt Vines to talk about the festival (the sequence where Louis wears his blue cap and white football jersey, after Mexico). The tension... Louis' body language is everything: he's not looking at Matt for one second, he seems super tense and sad, he's smoking in a nervous manner. I think it's very telling - he's far from being his carefree, chippy self like he is around others.
Then there's the interview bit, Louis says the following:
Early on I piled the pressure onto my manager, Matt, and I’m like ‘if nothing else happens this year, this is got to happen this year’ and I said 'I’m gonna be reminding you every single time I speak to you' and every time I did, I put the pressure on him because I could just feel how amazing it’s gonna be.
A bit later, we come back to footage of the meeting and this happens:
Cameraman: Is there a probably that it won’t happen?
L: Well fucking yeah (laughs)(...)
Matt: That it won’t happen? Yeah, there’s every possibility that it won’t happen...
L: When it happens, not if; it will happen, I just got a good feeling about it.. ugh…. It’s just gonna be a really special night (...)
I think there's a lot of things that Louis communicated through the documentary, either directly or indirectly. The quote above is direct - he's showing he was so enthusiastic with the idea of the festival that he told Matt he would gently harass him until they made it happen. Underlying, he is saying that Matt didn't jump on board the moment he heard the idea, didn't start moving water and earth to make it happen, which is what you should be doing if you're Louis Tomlinson's manager. Because Louis has a strong fanbase and it was clear that the event would be a success on its own (COVID permitting). Because if you're an artist's manager, your job is to make your client shine and give them as many opportunities as possible. So with that quote, Louis also said: my manager is shit and I have to harass him to make him do his fucking job.
Their interaction about whether it would happen is also very telling. Why would Louis, who is the most optimistic person there is, who always gets up after being put down, work with someone who has as little faith as Matt? If Louis says "not if, but when it happens", shouldn't the person who is in charge of his career be on the same wavelength? Shouldn't that person also say: no matter what comes up, we'll do everything we can so it happens. Why would Louis work with someone who doesn't believe in his full potential?
Why is it that Louis always says that his strength and determination comes from his fans? Like we're the only ones who believe in him? Why on earth does he feel like he doesn't deserve to be where he is and is always surprised by the support he receives from us? For me it's clear as day that people around him have worked very hard at undermining his career and his confidence, and I absolutely believe his team, including his useless manager, is part of that.
I think there's a reason why the last thing Louis says in the documentary is: "If I've got these lot behind me, who the fuck is gonna stop us?"
The fans have been here all along and the support he's received is the reason he never gave up. I think Louis is building back his confidence and the fact that everything that he does goes beyond his (and everyone's) expectations because of the fans is showing him that if he's got the mindset and the willpower, and our support, he can make it, no matter who in the industry is working so hard against him, or how little the people supposedly working for him actually work. There's a reasons he made this whole festival by himself...."Together we’re unstoppable!"
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🔎 Let's recap what's happened so far (as of September 1, 2021)
I started writing down the important info/dates related to Louis working on LT2, but then ended up adding faith in the future, 369, the merch, the fest... so it's really a timeline giving a general overview of his work projects in 2021.
📱 means twitter/announcements
🎤 is for studio/LT2
🎉 is for the AFHF
📱Feb 14, 2021: Louis tweets "I've been doing a lot of thinking about my next record. It's going to be special!". About a potential release date, he replies "No concrete plans (...) I'm sure I will have something out this year but unlikely that will be the album. Who knows though!". He also replies that he's "doing good. Really motivated!
📱March 6: Louis announces via twitter his idea to create a management company.
📱March 22: Asked about his projects, Louis replies "lots of stuff in early stages". He also replies "Seen a few I really like. Potentially" to a tweet asking him if he ever considered making a visual album. Finally, he replies "369" to a tweet asking him if he has ideas for new tattoos.
☀️ March 25-April 10: Louis is in Mexico with Charlie Lightening.
📱March 26: Louis tweets "Faith in the future"
📱March 30: Louis replies "Got a decent chorus idea down" to a tweet asking him what he's been up to. He also replies "369" to a tweet asking him to explain... 369. This is the same day he mentions the documentary while he was in Mexico... for the documentary.
📱 April 15: Louis replies "Faith in the future. Keep your head up" to a fan on Twitter (a few days after getting back from Mexico)
📱April 19: Louis tweets "Got something BIG planned later this year! It's going to be special!!" (in reference to the Away From Home Festival)
🔮👕 April 28: 369 merch drop
📱💼🎵 May 10, 2021: BMG global deal announcement. Confirmation that Louis is actively working on LT2 : Jamie Nelson from BMG UK is quoted saying "(Louis) is already busy working on new music". The press release mentions that "recording is already underway for his second solo album".
This means that Louis could have been working on the album anytime between mid-February and mid-May. No information on that was shared (by Louis nor his collaborators), probably because it was under embargo at the time.
📱🌏May 10, 2021: Louis announces that his worldwide tour is rescheduled, with dates now going from early February to late April 2022.
📱May 11: Tour promo video sponsored by Samsung UK posted on Louis' IG.
📱May 25, 2021: Louis tweets "Another great day writing"; he follows Robert Harvey on Twitter
🎤 May 28: studio (via wearesuperhi on IG)
🎤June 4: studio (via random dude on the street; June 6 on Louis' IG with caption "studio"; picture also shared on Dave Gibson's IG and Charlie's IG with caption "Mega tunes being put down, can’t wait for this #LT2")(the t-shirt Louis is wearing is the one from June 4, hence the IG posts are from that date and not June 6)
🎤 June 9: studio (via fans)
🎤June 10: studio (via fans)
⚽️ (Louis was pretty busy with the Euro Cup through late June to mid-July)
🎤 July 1: studio (via Robert Harvey on IG)
🎤 July 2: studio (via wearesuperhi on IG)
🎤 July 9: studio (via wearesuperhi on IG)
🔮👕 Mid-July: surprise 369 merch is sent to 369 fans
😜👕July 28: summer smiley merch drop
🎉 July 29: The Away From Home Festival is announced.
📸🎤 August 5: papped at the studio (via fans); Daily Mail article (published on the 6): "The outing comes as Louis recorded new music for fans"
🎤 August 16: ??? David Gibson on IG - cryptic picture of the sea captioned "LT2"
🎤 August 17: studio (via Robert Harvey on IG)
🎤 August 18: studio (via fans and via wearesuperhi on IG)
📱🎉 🌏 August 25: The Away From Home Global Streaming Event is announced.
🎉 👕 August 27: Festival merch drop. Additional items added on the 29.
📱🎉 August 28: Louis tweets about today being the last day of rehearsal for the festival. He teases the name of his new song by replying on Twitter that the setlist will be "mostly the same as tour with the odd change".
🎉 🧍♂️🎉 August 30: Away From Home Festival!!! Louis introduces his new song Change and mentions "it's going on the new album". No further details about LT2 are provided during the show. "Faith in the future" briefly appears on screen when Louis walks on stage. Exclusive merch being sold on site.
🎤🏢 For reference, all pictures of the studio point out to Louis recording at the Wendy House Production in London.
When they were all in the park the day of the festival. Did u notice that Matt Vines said he was relieved that Louis had everything under control?
Like isn’t it the other way round?
What Matt says:
Louis’s been great through this process. I think the good thing about this is that he knew exactly what he wanted to do and that has made the process so much easier. I think he has enjoyed having that control over everything and that is really exciting. And I am really pleased with him.
Funny how there's nothing in the doc that comes across as Louis being pleased with Matt, who's "working" for him...
As I said here, it's obvious that Matt doesn't do shit for Louis :/
Waiting for the day Louis will tweet "CHANGE" and then tell us he's dropping the song as a new single and dropping his team... faith-ing in the future!!!
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Probably this will sound mean, but I think Louis traveled to Mexico at the beginning just to relax and to get some inspiration to write songs, but also there he came up with the idea of the festival(he has said he write from his owns experiences and in the documentary he also said he couldn’t find inspo). Louis was in Mexico way before Charlie (I say this because many fans believe that he and Charlie traveled at the same time). Days before we got the photos of him and Oli, some fans were saying that they saw him but none believe it because there weren’t any photos. And the first photos that we got from him, we just could see Louis and Oli but Charlie wasn’t there yet. Charlie traveled to Mexico and after spending there three or four days they all got back to London. Perhaps Louis just called Charlie to filmed the moment in which he got the idea of doing a free festival.
I think there's a bit more to the Mexico trip/footage.
I agree Louis probably was there for fun (or for his long awaited honeymoon with Oli) and since he's getting along well with Charlie, he probably was like, come on over and let's have a little bit of fun and do a little bit of work.
But we know Louis also visited Tulum and that city has a link with Walls - so I would bet my left arm that there is a lot of footage that was filmed but didn't make it into the AFHF doc and the question is WHY and it' driving me crazy.
In any case, the Mexico footage we got was so worth it... look at that purple sunset... Louis playing guitar on the beach... Louis on the phone like a teenager girl talking to her crush. I wanne be there so bad.
Wait omg so I just saw a clip so basically we were gonna have a tour documentary!!! I’ll scream if we still don’t get one even though we have already been spoiled and given two events already
Yes!!! Charlie was with Louis at the beginning of his tour in 2020, so there definitely was a project in the works. I think it makes sense, seeing how Louis and Charlie like to work together and how Louis wants to give back to his fans.
I'm so glad some of that footage was used - the girl screaming her love for him in Spanish at the beginning... ICONIC!!! It set the tone for the whole thing, I loved it so much.
The footage from Barcelona and Madrid was also so special - from Louis saying he felt like God after the first performance, to the look on his face the day after when it's becoming clear that it's getting cancelled. It was so hard to watch... but again it's Louis sharing his vulnerability with us - I'm happy this was included.
I'm sure he'll make a tour doc for LTWT 2022... *fingers crossed*
the stream isn't even over and i'm here thinking about how many times i'm gonna watch it until september 6 and then for the rest of my life on a dowloaded version.
