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(obvs this is split up among like five tweets)

i know i said i was done with twitter, and for the most part i am, but i just wanted to come on here and say a few words, specifically in thanks to the members of alphatauri for making last night so memorable.

but first i need to start at the beginning: i have always been connected to live music, never felt more at home than in a sea of people connected by the band on stage. it's a feeling that i chase vigorously.

during my first year at what was then toro rosso, we were in shibuya for a few days before the japanese grand prix of 2018. i still felt like a fish out of water, and it was a very tough week for me mentally, and i knew i needed to get back to something familiar. so lance and i bought concert tickets. it was a group we had never heard of before, who sang almost entirely in japanese. but we went with it, mostly for the experience.

it was a hip hop group called dobermaninfinityofficial. we were the only people from outside japan in the arena that night, but i never felt like an outsider. lance and i, as the naïve eighteen year olds we were, were welcomed with open arms by the concertgoers. they opened that night with a cover of jump around by house of pain, a song that i grew up listening to on the beaches in queensland. that night changed me for the better, reminded me that wherever i was in the world, or what i was going through, i always had a place to call home. i would always be welcomed with open arms.

and that brings us to last night. in the midst of a season that is weighing so much on me mentally, franz and jake gifted me one last thing before i leave at the end of the season. the team was able to get me side-stage tickets to watch doberman infinity live on their lost and found japan tour, as well as bringing me face to face with sway and kazuki. words cannot convey how much last night meant to me.

thank you, franz. and thank you to doberman infinity, for making me feel at home, even when home was a million miles away xx.

- Dakota Elaine Mac (dakotaelainee)

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music: mon5ters by doberman infinity

location tag: tokyo, japan

caption: about last night 💗

*videos of hip hop group doberman infinity performing begin to play*

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Doberman Infinity HERE Live Concert Tour 2022

*video of doberman infinity performing you & i begins to play*

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tagged: dobermaninfinityofficial, di_kazuki_official, alphataurif1

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dakotaelainee hey google play "super ball" by doberman infinity ( and yes, i got to hug kazuki mf hayashi . . . be very jealous )

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dobermaninfinityofficial 応援ありがとうございました！楽屋に君がいてよかった

-----------------> user979 for anybody who wants a translation, this says 'thank you so much for the support! it was a joy having you backstage'

liamlawson30 just when i thought your music taste could not get any stranger

vanessaxu why do you look more excited to see kazuki than you do on race weekends

----------> dakotaelaineee ....no comment

-------------------> yukitsunoda because she likes that damn hip hop singer more than she likes me 🤨

--------------------------> dakotaelaineee he has TATTOOS yuki, CHEST TATTOOS and BICEP TATTOOS

--------------------------------> daniilkvyat i bet she's sleeping in the couch tonight

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marcusarmstrong why is your music taste this unhinged? i swear is metallica one minute and the spice girls the next and now there's foreign hip hop in the mix?

--------------> dakotaelaineee its because im mentally unstable

yukitsunoda when she came home, her mascara was running down her face from how hard she cried during you & i

--------------> dakotaelainee i was emotional!

lilymhe the boots >>>>