What the World Saw
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Part 2: Tumblr Reaction to the Shard YouTube Video
Tumblr overnight reblog chain - Thursday 9 January 2014
First Post
Southernstarlight posted 12:47 a.m.
KAYLA VALENTINE — LIVE FROM THE TOP OF THE SHARD
Full recording of Kayla’s performance at the Never Send a Man world-premiere after-party. She was only supposed to perform the first two songs. She asked to add “You Made Me” at the last minute. I’m sorry but the acoustic version of “A Woman’s Work” is the version we deserved all along.
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#kayla valentine #a woman’s work #never send a man #you made me #country music #live music #she sounds incredible #the shard
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bamasweetheart reblogged southernstarlight
The film version is beautiful but this sounds like her. Not “Kayla Valentine, singer of a major motion-picture theme.” Just Kayla with a guitar, singing the way she used to before everybody outside the South knew her name.
#I am not insulting the film version #the orchestra is gorgeous #but this feels like home
londoncalling93 reblogged bamasweetheart
I had never heard her sing before seeing the film tonight and I genuinely did not know she was a country artist. The version in the film makes her sound enormous. This version makes it feel as though she’s sitting across the table from you.
tennesseetornado reblogged londoncalling93
That is basically the difference between Movie Kayla and Actual Kayla.
celluloidqueen reblogged tennesseetornado
Can we discuss the fact she sang an unplanned song about the man who broke her heart while staring at somebody at the back of the room?
eagle-eyed-stan reblogged celluloidqueen
YES! Notice where Kayla was looking while she was singing! She wasn’t looking down at the front row where Chloë, John Latham, and Sam Bradwell were standing. She kept doing that cute little head tilt and staring directly at the back of the crowd.
tennesseetornado reblogged celluloidqueen
We managed four reblogs before somebody started this.
acoustic-aesthetics reblogged tennesseetornado
I mean, yes, the drama is piping hot, but can we please appreciate that she stripped away all the heavy production for this? Just her and a guitar, singing about getting her heart broken. The acoustic arrangement of the theme song was amazing, but the vulnerability in You Made Me was next level. Let’s focus on the art!
celluloidqueen reblogged tennesseetornado
She literally kept looking at the same place. I have eyes.
bamasweetheart reblogged celluloidqueen
She does sometimes look above the audience when she sings emotional songs.
nashvillenightowl reblogged celluloidqueen
I watched the recording back three times and she is NOT looking at the crowd during “You Made Me.” She’s looking at one specific spot the whole song. Like laser focused.
#kayla valentine #someone explain this to me
sweetteaandsyrup reblogged nashvillenightowl
WAIT I thought it was just me. She keeps glancing back, not front. Front row is literally full of movie people, that’s where you’d look if it was about one of them, right?
#is it an actor #never send a man cast #kayla valentine
framebyframe reblogged bamasweetheart
At 12:41 she looks towards the rear doors immediately after singing the line about him walking into the bar. At 13:06 she looks there again during the goodbye-note verse. At 13:49 she looks at exactly the same place before the last chorus.
That is not random stage focus.
tennesseetornado reblogged framebyframe
You have put timestamps on her heartbreak.
framebyframe reblogged tennesseetornado
I study film editing.
tennesseetornado reblogged framebyframe
You are watching a fixed livestream camera.
framebyframe reblogged tennesseetornado
The principles of visual storytelling still apply.
chloegoodmanisqueen reblogged framebyframe
Okay but WHO was standing there?
It cannot have been one of the actors because all the main cast were seated at the front. You can see Chloë Goodman and Sam Bradwell in the audience shots.
johnlathamdefensesquad reblogged chloegoodmanisqueen
Everyone jumping to “it’s an actor from the movie” but nobody’s asking why she’s looking at the BACK of the room instead. That premiere was packed with famous people up front. She’s not singing to any of them.
#never send a man #kayla valentine #use your eyes people
alabamasweetheartarchive reblogged johnlathamdefensesquad
Okay hear me out — she’s from a small town, this is a movie premiere full of A-listers she’s never met before tonight. Statistically the person she’s staring at is way more likely to be someone she already knew coming in. A studio person? Someone from her label?
#kayla valentine #theory time
bradwellbabe reblogged alabamasweetheartarchive
John Latham was near the front too. If she was singing to somebody, it was not one of the obvious film people.
agentjanebrown reblogged bradwellbabe
Could still have been an actor who wasn’t seated with the main cast.
chloegoodmanisqueen reblogged agentjanebrown
Why would a random supporting actor be the man from her biggest heartbreak song?
agentjanebrown reblogged chloegoodmanisqueen
Actors have personal lives.
bamasweetheart reblogged agentjanebrown
The song is about someone she met in Nashville. He was British. She has said both of those things in radio interviews. So yes, technically an actor at a London film première would fit.
songsaboutgirls reblogged bamasweetheart
Wait, he was British?
bamasweetheart reblogged songsaboutgirls
She never named him, but she once said he was “a sweet English boy who wasn’t as sweet as she thought.”
songsaboutgirls reblogged bamasweetheart
That is both information and absolutely no information.
midnightmatinee reblogged songsaboutgirls
Could it be the actor who plays the younger terrorist?
He is English and about her age.
framebyframe reblogged midnightmatinee
He was photographed leaving the Odeon before the after-party.
tennesseetornado reblogged framebyframe
Of course you checked.
framebyframe reblogged tennesseetornado
I said I study film editing.
ukcountrygirl reblogged framebyframe
I don’t think it was an actor.
There were competition winners and invited guests at the back. The livestream presenter said earlier that friends and family of the cast were there too.
It could have been anybody.
celluloidqueen reblogged ukcountrygirl
Not anybody.
Somebody Kayla recognised.
Somebody she did not expect to see.
southernstarlight reblogged celluloidqueen
She might simply have recognised someone from the première audience and decided the emotion was right for the song.
That does not automatically mean The Man Himself was standing there.
celluloidqueen reblogged southernstarlight
Then explain Chloë Goodman’s face.
chloegoodmanisqueen reblogged celluloidqueen
THANK YOU.
During the second verse Chloë looks over her shoulder.
Then she turns back around looking furious.
goodmaniac reblogged chloegoodmanisqueen
Chloë always looks intense when she is concentrating.
chloegoodmanisqueen reblogged goodmaniac
I have watched every interview she has given since 2006.
That was her angry face.
johnlathamdefensesquad reblogged fancam_republic
She does NOT look like a woman who just enjoyed a nice ballad
#chloe goodman #the shard #suspicious
alabamasweetheartarchive reblogged johnlathamdefensesquad
Right?? That’s not “aww sad song” face, that’s “I am going to have WORDS with someone” face. Chloë Goodman knows something.
#chloe goodman #kayla valentine #she knows
nashvillenightowl reblogged alabamasweetheartarchive
two options: either Chloë just felt protective on Kayla’s behalf hearing that song live for the first time and got emotional-angry on her behalf ... OR she flat out knows who it’s about and is NOT happy with him. Those are very different kinds of mad
#chloe goodman #reading the room
fancam_republic reblogged nashvillenightowl
my vote is she knows exactly who it is. that face is not a stranger’s face. that’s a “I love you but I could kill you” face aimed at someone specific
#chloe goodman #kayla valentine #tea
agentjanebrown reblogged fancam_republic
Maybe Chloë was angry because of the song. The story is about a man sleeping with a nineteen-year-old girl, making her believe he loved her, and leaving a note before disappearing. You do not have to know him personally to be angry about that.