The Livestream Experience performance of “Lane Boy” stays solidly within the traditional Blurryface era, that is, until the second verse. Both Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun were dressed in their Blurryface era clothes while the dancers were clothed in hazmat suits, same as the song’s music video and live performances. However, as soon as Joseph starts rapping the second verse, the instrumental intro to “Nico And The Niners” comes in, and Joseph uses “Redecorate”’s bridge as “Lane Boy”’s outro to help bring the Blurryface, Trench and Scaled And Icy eras together sonically. He kept these creative changes for the Takeover Tour.

Although the video performance has not been released, Joseph and the dancers spent a large portion of the performance kneeling, referring to the “Lane Boy” interlude of giving in to temptation. Specifically, it is referring to following what society wants you to say and be. Joseph told Alternative Press that “Lane Boy” is “the moment where [he] broke character.” With a similar theme in the first verse of “Stressed Out,” “Lane Boy” exhibits Joseph and his growing defiance against the secular world and the bishops of DEMA, the fictitious city that represents Joseph’s depression.

The song then fades into “Chlorine,” and is fairly straightforward, following the “Alt Mix”‘ omission of the outro and replacing it with the interlude, mainly for time reasons. In the Livestream Experience, Joseph and Dun stayed on the same set and in the same clothing as they did for “Lane Boy,” changing only the background and lighting, illuminating the barrels of chlorine that were present in the song’s music video. Instead of the green-blue lighting that is traditionally used for Blurryface’s “Lane Boy,” a pink-blue palette was used to better match the Scaled And Icy era, even though the song is from Trench, fusing all three eras together. The same design was used on the Takeover Tour, the band’s first tour following Scaled And Icy’s release.