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I'm a loser, babe. Do you wanna tear my heart out? Joe Keery in Loser by Tame Impala
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I'm a loser, babe. Do you wanna tear my heart out? Joe Keery in Loser by Tame Impala
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yes this is my third post tonight but ANOTHER NINJAGO ANIMATION!!! icecat duo means the world to me. the fsct that their arcs are opposite... like zane feels like his change is negative and goes from being free to feeling like a cog in the machine that is the ninja... and his identity is slowly crumbling and fragmenting... and sora views her change as positive (going from being a cog in imperium's machine to finally being free) and as time goes on her identity is only bolstered more and more... i NEED more icecat interactions THAT IS HIS DAUGHTER!!!
༯ On tour
pairing: Joe keery X Reader
part 2
summary: Your best friend Joe takes you on a tour with his band to see Tame Impala. However, during his set, an unspeakable tension develops between you two.
warning: cussing, feeling nervous, teasing, Joe rolling his hips into the mic stand😵💫, kissing, confessing feelings.
note: that backwards hat goodbye.🫠 also writing this because i am experiencing the biggest fomo of this tour.
Ever since “Currents” by Tame Impala was released, you’ve longed to experience it live. Now, your wish was coming true. Because your best friend - Joe is taking you on tour with him since he is the opener for Tame Impala.
You’ve talked his ear off about Tame, he knew how much his music meant to you. He would feel guilty if he didn’t take you to at least one show of his.
Now you’re on the tour bus with Joe’s band, driving to the arena in Atlanta.
Joe’s team gave you permission to take your camera with you and take photos of them while they’re on stage. You planned to take photos throughout the whole trip, because this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, you wanted to have memories as much as possible.
“With what song are you opening?” you asked Joe, he was sat on the opposite side of the booth in the bus, scribbling lyrics in his notebook probably for a new song.
“Not telling you”
“Oh cmon at least the first song!”
You asked about the setlist, but he said that it’s a “surprise”
“No”
“Pleaasseee”
“No”
“Okay i’ll just go ask Javi” you replied as started standing up.
“No no okay I’ll tell you” you turned around and sat down.
“Im listening”
“It’s awake” oh my, your favourite song?
“No way”
“Yes way” Joe said, taking a sip out of his coffee mug
“That’s such a good song for the opening!”
“Mhm I know”
“Okay now what is the second one” you asked smiling
“Im not falling for your tricks you know that”
You just sighed out loud, acting disappointed.
There was some kind of feeling in your body, excitement? but also nervous. You couldn’t really tell what you felt. On the other side, you saw Joe putting on his bracelet as his leg moved up and down. He was definitely nervous, this meant so much to him and to his career, he was cared of messing up. He concealed his nerves, but small things like talking less and his leg moving up and down betrayed him.
On the other side of the bus, you saw Dalton inging “Pie in the sky” with his headphones in his ears, dancing around without a single care in the world.
But then your attention turned back to Joe, he went silent, awfully silent. You stood up from your seat and sat down next to him, his gaze was focused down on the floor and then to you.
“You nervous?”
“No”
“Joe”
“Yeah?”
“Don’t lie to me” you said
“Okay I am a little” he admitted
“It’s okay to be nervous, this is a huge thing you’re doing. It’s totally alright to feel some kind of emotion”
“Thank you”
He wrapped his hand around your shoulders, pulling you closer.
His band mates always teased both of you that one day you’ll start dating. Yeah sure there were some moments where it felt like you were more than friends, but none of you made the first big move.
Putting your favourite song first on the setlist? Maybe on a accident, right?
Taking you on the whole tour with them? That’s what friends do, right?
Getting into a fight with your ex boyfriend 5 months ago because he cheated on you? Thats what he deserved, right?
Knowing your go to meal when you’re on your period? Taking care of you, right?
Cracking one of his teasing corny jokes while you’re sad? Just to make you laugh, right?
Or maybe, just maybe, you were more than friends.
Walking into the arena felt like a dream, the stage? It was an enormous circle, with instruments in the centre. Joe explained to you how you could walk all around to take pictures, the security won’t make a problem.
“Where’s your mic stand?” you asked
“It’s that one in the centre” he pointed out, coming closer to you so you could see where his finger pointing at. You could feel the warmth of his body and his expensive smelling cologne.
You’ll admit he occasionally made you nervous but you chose to ignore it. After all, he was your best friend.
In exactly 5 minutes they were supposed to be on stage, the arena was pretty filled up. One of the fans saw that you’re a “photographer” for them and gave you a bracelet that said “djo 29” It was so cute you wore it the whole entire night.
The moment they stepped on the stage, the fans went crazy. When Joe approached his mic stand his eyes immediately landed on you, giving you a wink.
You shot him a smile and thumbs up, signalling that everything is going great.
He grabbed his Gibson guitar and began strumming. All of them were seriously so talented.
“Up on a hill
Blue eyes made of plastic”
The moment the crowd heard those lyrics, all you could hear behind you were screams. Seeing them being this excited for Joe made your heart melt, because he deserved all of the support.
You walked around, taking pictures of the band but also of some fans. You saw a girl with a poster that had Gator Tillman on it. That was your favourite character Joe played. The girl immediately posed when you asked her to take a picture of it.
When Gap Tooth Smile started, you couldn’t help it but sing the whole entire song.
What really confused you is Joe staring at you the whole entire time during the song. One time he took the microphone and squatted at the edge of the stage, singing to you.
He got you feeling so nervous , you pulled out your camera to take a picture of him. Your hear was pounding furiously in your chest.
It felt like you blacked out during that song, Joe’s whole attention span was on you, singing the lyrics. He knew exactly what he was doing.
Later when they started playing Egg, the crowd went even wilder. Joe gave his everything while performing this song.
You took a lot of pictures in the meantime, the colorful lights coming from the ceiling made the pictures look ten times better.
Standing in front Joe while he sang the bridge of Egg, he looked ridiculously good. You couldn’t help it but look at the veins on his neck every time he sang a higher note.
“Back to the egg, it's crimson and gold (crimson and gold)
I'll follow the rules and do what I'm told”
He was looking straight at you during the bridge until his hips rolled towards the microphone stand.
You could feel your cheeks burning and throat tighten. You felt frozen, you couldn’t move. There is no way he did that while looking directly into your eyes.
You continued on taking pictures of the others just to avoid what just happened.
After they finished, Joe told you earlier to wait for him in the VIP area. He said that he will join you once they finish. Ten minutes later you saw a group for there guys approach you - Joe, Javi and Dalton. They looked so hyped after their first show, smiling from ear to ear.
When you saw Joe, you couldn’t believe yourself. He wore a backwards hat and a white t shirt and showed off his toned body. Hate to admit it, but he looked so good, you couldn’t take your eyes off him.
“Hey there!” Joe yelled as he approached you, his arms outstretched for a hug.
“You guys did amazing!” you said as you hugged all three of them.
“Thank you it was crazy out there” Dalton said.
“I took some really really good pictures” you said proudly.
“Tonight back in the bus you’re gonna show us all of them” Javi joined the conversation, taking a sip of his beer.
Javi and Dalton both left you two alone, to go grab some snacks.
You were left alone with Joe, he stood right beside you, your shoulders touching from time to time.
“So how did you like it?” he asked
“I loved it!”
“What?” he couldn’t hear you from the loud arena
You tiptoed up to his ear and said “I said I loved it!”
He smiled “I’m really glad, you’re about to love it even more”
About 15 minutes later Kevin got on the stage. It felt unreal, seeing him live after all of these years. You felt so happy, singing the songs out loud and dancing to them. Joe joined you during “Let It Happen” dancing around together without a single care. All of this felt like an unreal dream.
You saw Javi holding up your camera and trying to figure out how to take photos, while Dalton tried to explain but he didn’t listen to him. They looked like two little kids arguing.
Joe grabbed his hat and placed it on your head, and he started laughing because of how big the hat was for your head.
When it started falling off your head, you placed it back on Joe’s head and whispered into his ear “It looks better on you”. You decided to tease him after what he had done during egg.
“You think so?” he smirked
“Mhmm”
He shook his head laughing.
There was tension between you two the entire night, it was the only thing you could feel it at the moment.
When “Loser” started playing you got all excited and started singing it to Joe, while he stood there laughing.
“I fell into ya, I fell into ya
Tried to correct it, well, shit, I wrecked it”
You turn your head enough just to catch him staring with his hazel eyes.
“Cmon sing” you smacked his shoulder. He shook his head no.
You held onto the barricade, and then you felt Joe shift from beside you to behind you. His hands caged you between him and the barricade. You could feel his chest against your back. And something poking you on your lower back, is it what you thought it is?
“Oh, my love, can't you see that you're on my mind?” You sang out the lyrics loudly.
Joe’s face drew nearer to your ear and he teased, “Am I?”
You felt your body heated up again.
You slightly turned your face back to him “Maybe” you bit your lip, his eyes immediately saw that.
You both stayed like that, looking at each other’s eyes and not saying a single word. It felt like you two were the only people existing.
Suddenly the concert ended. As Joe heard Kevin say goodbye he grabbed your hand and guided you towards an unfamiliar room. When you entered it you realised this is their dressing room.
“Tell me” Joe said. His eyes looked darker now.
“Tell you what?”
“Tell me that you didn’t feel something back there” he sounded so serious.
“I wha-“
“- Tell me that you didn’t feel anything when I sang Gap Tooth Smile directly at you” He said with his voice shaky
“I felt everything Joe, everything!”
He wasted no time cupping your jaw and kissing you deeply. It wasn’t a soft kiss, it was one filled with hunger and lust. Years of bottled up feelings finally coming out. Your head was spinning.
His hands grabbed your waist and pulled you flush against him.
Your hands wrapped around his neck trying to pull him even more closer. Your noses would touch every time you deepened into the kiss, making you chuckle.
Joe kissed you like it was just the two of you in this world, his hands gripped your waist, afraid that you’d disappear if he let go of you.
You had the thoughts of wondering if Joe was a good kisser, his lips always looked so soft. Turns out he was really good at kissing, you were melting under his touch.
He broke the kiss, panting because of the lack of air in his lungs.
“Holy shit” he rested his forehead against yours
“Holy shit” you whispered.
“I can’t believe that happened” he said
“Well it did” you chuckled “Wait are Javi and Dalton still betting on us?”
“Uh yeah I’m pretty sure Javi just lost the bet”
“He maybe lost something, but i gained something really really nice” he whispered in your ear.
“Hmm like what”
“A really beautiful girl that makes my mind go crazy”
“You’re too cheesy” you smacked his chest.
“Hmm you say so? Let me ask you something, did you like the part during Egg?” he smirked
“What part?”
“Oh you know exactly what part”
“Oh - that” you felt your cheeks burn
His mouth found your earlobe and kissed it before whispering, “I bet you liked it” and gently biting it.
“You made me go crazy I started imagining that you’re the mic stand” he said
“You can’t just say that!”
“Oh yes i can baby” baby. The nickname.
“Tonight, back in the hotel, I will make love to you to catch up on all of the lost time” he kissed your neck.
“mhm”
“Oh you like that? How about here?” he asked as he kissed the other side of your neck.
“Joe please I-“
“This is just the start honey”
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Nobody even talk to me I’m so serious
well, hey there, handsome
[photos by caity krone on the set of the music video for ‘loser’ by tame impala]
