Thank you @artnews for the beautifulll review. Thank you to everyone that has taken the time to see my long little show I SAID WHAT I SAID. Thank you for laughing and crying with me. More shows to be announced soon (New York are you free at 4:30 on the 27th?? really cool space … REALLY cool girl introducing the performance… maybe you don’t wanna miss it idk idk)…
Thank you to my girls at @surrender.dorothy.nyc for making my first two shows possible and thank you to @heavymannerslibrary in LA for giving me a space to perform this super nasty very long thing in one of my favorite places on earth.
More from me too soon in probably a very annoying capacity sorry in advance (got tickets to sell 🔨)
And for the Substack set of you… I WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT nation… I can’t wait to tell you all about the show on the blog at the end of the month.
(and if you’re curious about the mention of constant crying during the show. I set the record for tears at my last show in LA the other night. I thought maybe more time with the material would make it easier but it seeming to have the reverse effect.)
@mackenzie has a “true love of the game. The game being the Internet.”
To the less chronically online, it’s difficult to pinpoint what exactly Mackenzie Thomas does, because she is renowned for her mere existence. She reads her melodramatic teenage journal entries on TikTok. She dances alone in photobooth videos. She lip-syncs to music on city streets with a four-foot selfie stick. She waxes poetic on her own introspections via Substack. And she tweets… *a lot.*
At the link in bio, we speak to the self-proclaimed E-girl on how her instinct to document, revisit, and rework inspired her one-woman show, ‘I Said What I Said,’ and taking pride in her digital footprint.
Photos: @taryn._
“‘Euphoria’ has grown too big for its plot; the cast’s lives have become public business, their star power overshadowing characters that used to feel real, the show itself becoming stranger than fiction,” @mackenzie writes for CULTURED. “Four years since its last season aired, it returns with a disjointed whimper rather than a bang.”
Ahead of the divisive show’s season three premiere tonight, the writer stacks its rollercoaster up against her own coming of age—and Gen Z’s. “I’ll always look back on ‘Euphoria’ with fondness, as a skewed snapshot, or a picture of a picture of my generation. We can’t talk about us without talking about it: conflicted, desperate, and hopeful all at once.”
Link in bio to read the full feature now.
