The Dynasty Tour/Synopsis

## Act I

The show starts with a pre-recorded sound of Sawayama "is it on?". Guitarist Vic Jamieson and drummer Simone Odaranile go on stage and start playing. Sawayama emerges onstage wearing a full black Mugler outfit with black leather shoes and starts performing "Dynasty". Following her performance, she welcomes the "LGBTQ community" crowd and asks "Are you ready to dance? Are you ready to cry? Are you ready to scream?!" and shushes the screaming crowd saying "I said shut the fuck up" multiple times introducing the next song, "STFU!", accompanied by her backup dancers Shola B Riley and Nakai Warikandwa. As the song finishes, Sawayama and the dancers lay on the ground. Sawayama starts thanking her fans, "I just want to take this time to thank you for your support, thank you for streaming *Sawayama*, thank you for making me feel seen, feeling heard, feeling loved, but most importantly, confident. Do you want to go confident with me?" and starts performing "Comme des Garçons (Like the Boys)". Then, she introduces the next song "about depression," and starts performing "Akasaka Sad". The song finishes with a dance break, and then an instrumental starts playing before performing "Snakeskin". Then, Sawayama leaves the stage while the band play an instrumental interlude with the dancers.

## Act II

The instrumental interlude was followed by "Cyber Stockholm Syndrome", from Sawayama's 2017 mini-album, *Rina*. She walks on stage to perform the song, wearing a custom outfit by AUNÉ Collections, featuring a unique print made especially for the tour with pictures of Rina by Jurga Ramonaite, green butterflies and thistles. The video screen showed a cyber-inspired montage. The song then transitions into "Paradisin'" with a Y2K-Bratz-MSN-chatroom aesthetic montage on the video screen. During the saxophone bridge of the song, Sawayama takes a saxophone and pretends to play it. The song transitions into "Love Me 4 Me". Before finishing the song, Sawayama encouraged the crowd to sing "I'm gonna love myself, cause I don't need anybody else," several times. Then, she asked the attendees to turn to the person next to them and "look in deep in their eyes" and say "you're fucking hot", and the song finally ends. Introducing "Bad Friend", Sawayama told the crowd about the time that she had a really close friend and lost her as a friend because she was "so caught up" in herself. "It's important to look after yourself, but others too", and starts performing "Bad Friend". The song is swiftly transitioned into "Fuck this World", adding "you gotta look after the earth." The song finishes with the last verse being repeated in a robotic voice while Rina, Shola and Nakai put their hands together and raise them up before leaving the stage. The second act finished with an interlude on the video screen featuring clips of telemarketing shows, news coverage of climate change and a short message from Zara Sultana, a Labour Party member of Parliament.

## Act III

For the third part of the show, Sawayama wore a full white look from DROMe. The set started with a pre-recording of Sawayama whispering "Rina, Rina, Rina…" so the crowd started screaming her name to perform "Who's Gonna Save U Now?", followed by "Tokyo Love Hotel". The next song was "Chosen Family", performed by Sawayama sitting next to Simone and Vic in the center of the stage, as the video screen showed a rotating moon. During some shows, Sawayama performed a brand new song titled "Catch Me in the Air", which she wrote for her forthcoming second album, and it's about her relationship with her mom. "I wanted to write about the fact that we have caught each other when we're falling." Then, she introduces the next song to perform to end the set, "I know that we're one big queer family here, so I want to make sure that we're dancing before we go." Sawayama and her backup dancers start dancing to an instrumental interpolation of "Plastic Love" while Sawayama introduces her "coming out song" before performing "Cherry". The video on screen reads "Goodbye???" while Sawayama leaves the stage saying "I have no more songs."

## Encore

The encore of the show started with a second interlude on the video screen featuring Sawayama music videos for "Ordinary Superstar", "Alterlife", "Enter Sandman" and news coverage of the world. Then, a Japanese film started playing before the performance of "XS". Sawayama walked on stage wearing a butterfly-shaped crop top and customized dirty cut jeans by the designer Masha Popova. "XS" was followed by "Lucid", with purple lights on the stage. In the middle of the song, Sawayama starts performing the last song of the show, "Free Woman".