Rina Sawayama, Hold The Girl (live), Fox Theater, Oakland, November 21, 2022 (4K)

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Rina Sawayama plays her song "Hold The Girl" live in concert before a sold-out crowd at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California on November 21, 2022. The song is the title track from Sawayama's second studio album, Hold the Girl (2022). Rina Sawayama (Japanese: 澤山リナ) is a singer, songwriter, model, and actress born in Japan and raised in London. Joining her onstage were Emily Rosenfield (guitar / keyboards) and Simone Odaranile (drums), as well as dancers Chanté and Summer Jay Jones. ===================== Hold The Girl lyrics: Reach inside and hold you close I won't leave you on your own Teach me the words I used to know Yeah, I forgot 'em long ago So hold the girl Hold the girl Hold the girl Hold the girl Hold that girl Hold that girl Hold that girl Sometimes I get down with guilt For the promises I've broken to my younger self Moving on, maybe I never will 'Cause I left you spinning on the carousel Been living without you Been living without you Reach inside and hold you close I won't leave you on your own Teach me the words I used to know Yeah, I forgot them long ago I wanna rеmember She is mе and I am her So hold the girl Hold the girl (You gotta) Hold that girl (You gotta) Hold that girl (You gotta) Hold that girl (You gotta) Sometimes I just wanna run away Leave behind that old me, start again Then I'll remember who I'm really made of And she's been hide-and-seeking, waiting all alone Been living without you Been living without you Reach inside and hold you close I won't leave you on your own Teach me the words I used to know Yeah, I forgot them long ago I wanna remember She is me and I am her So hold the girl Hold the girl Close to your heart Never ever let her go They'll tell you to sit up, and shut up, and grow up What the hell do they know? 'Cause the girl in your soul's singing on And you owe her the world So hold the girl Hold the girl Written by Rina Sawayama / Jonny Lattimer / Barney Lister =============== Hold The Girl live tour dates (2022 - 2023): Nov. 1 - Brooklyn, NY @ Avant Gardner Nov. 11 - Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom Nov. 12 - Austin TX @ Emo’s Nov. 13 - Houston TX @ White Oak Music Hall Nov. 16 - Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren Nov. 18 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA Nov. 21 - Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater Nov. 23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium Nov. 28 - Brooklyn, NY @ Avant Gardner Nov. 29 - Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Nov. 30 - Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Dec. 2 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner Jan. 9 - Auckland, New Zealand @ Powerstation Jan. 12 - Sydney, Australia @ Roundhouse Jan. 13 - Melbourne, Australia @ 170 Russell Jan. 14 - Brisbane, Australia @ The Triffid Jan. 17 - Nagoya, Japan @ Club Diamond Hall Jan. 18 - Osaka, Japan @ Zepp Bayside Jan. 20 - Tokyo, Japan @ Tokyo Garden Theatre Feb. 14 – Brussels, Belgium @ Ancienne Belgique Feb. 15 – Paris, France @ Olympia Feb. 16 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Volkshaus ===================== Rina Sawayama official bio: The devil works hard, but Rina Sawayama works harder. Fresh off the triumph of her UK and US headline tour, which sold out the Roundhouse in London and saw five-star reviews from The Guardian and NME, the newly minted British-Japanese pop star is following up her celebrated debut album Sawayama with Hold The Girl, a colossally ambitious and utterly original record that marries intimate storytelling with arena-sized tunes. In between Sawayama landing on over 50 album of the year lists, including the New York Times (#2), The Guardian (#3) and Rolling Stone (#6), a “superstar-in-the-making”(NME) TV performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and starring alongside Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4, you’d be forgiven for wondering when she even sleeps. But Rina — whose whole raison d’être is bending huge chart influences and blockbuster melodies to her will with precision-tuned songwriting and powerful vocals — is the rare pop artist for whom honesty is never not an option. Making Hold The Girl was a hardwon battle — one that didn’t come easy — and was written during a turbulent period in her life that saw her step back and focus on herself: “A lot of people ignore the symptoms of their emotional pain,” she explains. “It’s when I stopped that I was able to make something meaningful. I’ve worked hard, but I’ve also worked hard on my mental health.” Writing and recording Hold The Girl coincided with Rina beginning intensive therapy to process a pain from her youth, and these tracks act as a journey through the revelations and growth she experienced. Rina was born in Japan but moved to London as a child and was raised by her single mother: a relationship she lovingly pays tribute to on the song Catch Me in the Air. Existing in rarefied spaces as one of the few East Asian faces around — Rina studied politics, psychology and sociology at Cambridge and fronted fashion campaigns as a jobbing model prior to her music career — only served to gird her determination to make her music a broad church that embraces everyone.