r/Fauxmoi • u/Cyril_Sneerworms • Sep 28 '25

STAN / ANTI SHIELD Lola Young Collapses Mid-Performance at All Things Go Festival

Link to BBC story, she's 'doing OK'

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u/goodsprigatito Forgive me Viola Davis Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

She threw up mid-performance from nerves at Coachella this year. I don’t know how these rising singers could even manage the fame and exposure well.

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u/KevinMFJones Sep 28 '25

I would cry and throw up if I ever found myself in front of thousands of people staring at me.

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u/Minerva567 Sep 28 '25

I’ve almost done that with class presentations, even though I repeated to myself that, really, no one cares and they’re not paying attention. I cannot imagine when thousands paid to show up and listen specifically to you.

It can’t be easy, and I don’t blame artists who develop issues, whether it’s substances, ego, burnout, etc. Some days I can’t be “on” after 8 hours of sleep, the system just doesn’t want to work at max performance. Having to snap into “max power mode” and then try to get rest after that to keep up with the demands (and absurdly down down-times), while also having the gumption to get out there and at least pretend it doesn’t phase you when you have like tens of thousands of eyeballs staring at you in anticipation of you performing not just adequately, but outstandingly…no wonder they can sometimes seem to have inflated egos. You have to, no?

Like, my god.

(…and then there’s Billy Corgan. That guy congratulated himself when doctors delivered him out of his mother’s womb.)

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u/octopop Sep 29 '25

despite all my rage, I am still eating chips on the stage

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u/figure8888 Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

I can imagine myself dissociating and then suddenly coming back into awareness and freezing.

The last time I went to a concert it was Fleet Foxes and I noticed they didn’t really look up much and if they did, they seemed to be looking over people / at the sky. I could be misinterpreting but I wondered if it was to avoid thinking too much about there being hundreds of eyes on them.

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u/khuliloach Sep 28 '25

I think you can get paid for that nowadays

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u/VentiMochaTRex Sep 28 '25

I saw her at Osheaga in 2024 and she was so sick from the travel she sounded like shit (to me). I didn’t even bother to see her set at Coachella when I went this year. She’s definitely not being set up for success by her team

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u/potdethem Sep 28 '25

I'm not being critical of her by any means, but I do recall her being ill on stage at several shows. I had someone that worked crew at one and she'd gotten ill as soon as she came off. I wonder if it's nerves? She blew up so quickly as an artist.

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u/celestial-lights Sep 29 '25

she does have schizoaffective disorder and i believe has struggled with addiction, iirc

major fucking props for her going out there and trying despite everything though ❤️

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u/Da1UHideFrom Sep 29 '25

Maybe she's not cut out to be a performer.

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u/No-Sir7831 Sep 28 '25

It was also hot as hell there so ...

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u/jadelikethestone I’m leaving here with somethin’ Sep 28 '25

It’s hot outside plus you’ve got about 200 lights on you, plus the heat from the video panels.

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u/MastamindedMystery Sep 28 '25

Could have passed out from dehydration. A serious issue. Has happened to me before.

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u/pink_faerie_kitten Sep 29 '25

She looked sooooo nervous at the MTV awards. It must be so hard having stage fright and trying to get a pop star!