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I definitely think it's a favorite around here, Tiktok takes are kinda shit

there's a lot of people on social media nowadays, mostly young people, who somehow think her lizzy grant days were problematic/traumatic for her for no reason, they claim that she was a prostitute, living in poverty because she was living in a trailer park, being groomed, or addicted to drugs, i'm actually a massive fan of the lizzy grant era and AKA is my #1 favorite album of all time, so clearly i'm very biased towards AKA and the music she made during that time for what it's worth, a lot of people here really like AKA and it seems like the lizzy grant era in general has become more popular here in the past few years, i honestly don't have any social media really so i really don't know for sure what people feel about AKA, i feel like some people may prefer lana's mainstream major-label albums because they do sound quite different compared to AKA, AKA isn't nearly as cinematic or luscious sonically, it's a completely different feel, people are allowed to like what they like, but my issue is people acting like it's wrong to listen to it because they claim it's problematic i actually was watching a video yesterday of somebody showing off their vinyl collection and all they could really say about AKA was that it was "camp" and i honestly felt a bit offended because it seems like "camp" is just a code-word for "bad", AKA is genuinely a masterpiece, not ironically, not in a campy way, GENIUNELY, SERIOUSLY a masterpiece

It's because people on TikTok basically decided to create their own fanfiction around the Lizzy Grant era and Lana's life during the making of AKA, so now they've deemed it "problematic" to listen to AKA is an excellent album and one of my favorites of all time, and she definitely deserves to be appreciated as the icon she is

Imagine not liking AKA

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in. Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album. I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released. I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened. Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.

not gonna lie when i first read the title of this thread i was tempted to just reply "because people are fucking tasteless" and just leave it at that

I didn't really become a fan of Lana until 2017, so I can't speak for what it was like 10 years ago, but I think one of the reasons is just (like you said) its so hard to find AKA as a newer fan and it kind of just gets mixed in with all the other unreleased songs on YouTube or SoundCloud, etc. And often the songs are pitched too, so thats another reason why people may not like them as much...I think that if AKA had been left on streaming as an official release, people would like it more and consider it more I also hope Lana puts it back on streaming one day too lol it would be really interesting to see how it would be received

I doubt they've even listened to it tbh... they just hear other people hating it and go along with it

lack of taste and/or brain power and/or critical thinking skills

It's because they think that all of the songs are controversial thematically like Put Me In The Movie (which is a great song but a very sad one) and this TikTok generation tries to be (fake) woke as hell. Also I think that most newer fans do not know that AKA exists and here's great proof, from the comments, they start panicking when they see the album written as RAY not Rey ⬇️ https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsMKisEgsvx/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== It's really shocking because when I became a stan, I started reading her whole biography including her Lizzy era and I instantly delved into AKA and other Lizzy songs. I was really young then too, in my early teen years, I came home from school and I instantly learned new things about Lizzy then, it was so interesting. It was something so fascinating, like a part of history that wasn't talked about enough. Lizzy era is still one of my favorites and I think that AKA is one of her best albums.

I was there and it was absolutely amazing. She stuck around after to sign anything anyone wanted her to sign. She sounded phenomenal singing too. A LEGEND. The merch also says Masochism on it sooooo hopefully that means something is coming!!

cinematic kitschy diy trailer park glitter glam thrift store boots the house down yas mama slay masterpiece that makes us travel to another dimension

Written by Charlotte Aitchison, David James Parker, Easyfun, Ewart Everton Brown, Colleen Ballinger, Fabian Peter Torsson, Matty Healy, FKA Twigs, Joakim Frans Ahlund, Pope Francis I, Klas Frans Ahlund, Lemony Snicket, Zac Efron, Michael Chapman, Sky Ferreira, Nicholas Chinn, Abel Tesfaye, Patrik Knut Arve, Sylvia Robinson, Troy Rami

Tik tok stans don’t get it. Let’s just gatekeep

The truth is that the tiktok kids are collectively boycotting AKA because it wasn't released as a 22 track lp with Ben, Axel Rose Husband, Coconut and Key Lime Pie, Reflec, Trash Magic, Lemonade Motorcycle Heaven, Jimmy Gnecco, Hundred Dollar Bill and Motel 6 on it. They won't stop till justice has been served

same people who claimed that 'Lana burns bibles'

such a cute fun bop the cunt is there

Give it a week and we’ll have mass rants on here the mental illness can only remain dormant momentarily

the fact that everyone is praising sky rn... 111 will NEVER win

that's because it's not real lmao these are the real writers of Speed Drive: Charli XCX, EASYFUN, Busy Bee, Mad Cobra, Phat Fabe, Joakim Åhlund, Klas Åhlund, Patrik Arve, Sylvia Robinson, Troyton Rami, Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn Speed Drive itself samples 2 songs: Robyn's cover of Cobrastyle and Mickey by Toni Basil. Cobrastyle was written by Klas Åhlund, Joakim Åhlund, Patrik Arve, Mad Cobra, Phat Fabe, Troyton Rami, Busy Bee and Sylvia Robinson; while Mickey was written by Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. only charli and easyfun actually wrote speed drive

It's such an earworm literally can't stop listening to it there's something about it that scratches my brain (and its short ass length makes it very replayable) like it's that serious to me

Why would anyone hate one of her best albums? I love AKA so much. It makes me feel like I'm living that "trailer park life".

well they can choke it's one of my fav albums ever not me doing exactly that

Lipsters repping Lanaboards by having IBS and just shitting at the barricades #Lanarrhea

swamperella is descending into another swamp

Where is swamparella???????

tonight's vibe

she’s been eating so hard with hot in it, hot girl & now this… just fun bad girl songs !

When she does a 10-year anniversary Cola high note

HOT, riding through the streets

opening this thread feels like venturing in a whole new dark corner of lanaboards

oh barbie ur so fine ur so fine u blow my mind jump into the drivers seat and put it into speed drive speed drive kinda sounds like red balloon but it has that charli (album) touch

Everything Gaga has touched since after ARTPOP is bland garbage so I’m not shocked her fans don’t like music that actually has sonic color and texture. They prefer H&M dressing room music I guess

Charli making Speed Drive in 20 minutes

Y’all will literally wear diapers to get barricade? i- that’s actually so crazy I could never

hahah hi thats so funny. Goddd some of the old threads on here are so messy. I went back through some of my posts today and its funny to read but so odd because its like a time capsule of your personality. I was literally 13 when I started going on here so I said the dumbest shit.

me pretending I don't care about Pretty Dull, All My Lovers Die, Innocent Kind, Downhill Lullaby alt and any other song from Masochism so they leak faster

I actually have a theory about this... Everyone has different tastes when it comes to music but I've noticed a lot of newer fans do like AKA or at least some songs from it. I feel like the disdain to AKA comes from the baseless (and just plain wrong) rumor that Lizzy Grant was unhappy during that time, so that turns people off. I also feel like on TikTok, Lana gets the same treatment as Beyonce where people kinda just pretend to be like 'I LOVE HER!!!" even though they only heard the popular singles so they just go off what other people said. In conclusion, TikTok is 24/7 fake news and none of them should be trusted

yep every once in a blue moon somebody makes an account and posts scat porn all over the website, it's been happening for YEARS

It's probably their SJW/keyboard warrior side hating the put me in a movie lyrics etc By finding a download of the original itunes purchase or @bigspender's 2021 WAV remaster

whenever i think of the lana cult on tiktok i think of @cancermoon one of the scat troll's many accounts because they have the same profile pic/meme oh, yeah @Heaux scat is still a thing here if you're wondering

I read the title and immediately asked myself 'what would @lizzyology and @Surf Noir say?'

fantastic video made by @poetic jess

me neither, but i am keeping it cute cause she deserves some credit for cleaning up her act (at least for this show) and her fans also deserve to be happy but we'll be back to our regular programming as soon as she disappears after finishing this mini tour, we all know it

Sour 2.0. Still writes like Taylor Swift, still tries to emulate Lorde with the use of back up vocals, still tries to give it an Avril Lavigne meets Paramore rock twists to the vocal inflections. The most derivative girl in pop music right now.

Put the merch online mother

this is the kind of Sky Ferreira that i love to see, a sweet and humble girl with a professional attitude i hope this perfect show could means something in the future with her new projects.

if that is the case then they definitely lack taste! but also i know there’s a very stupid amount of people who have convinced themselves through some parasocial relationship where they think they know want lana wants and has gone through personally and get to have a say in spreading the word that people shouldn’t listen to the album cause it was the worst time of lanas life where she was (apparently): addicted to *insert drug*, had an ED and this and that and definitely would not want you listening to the album because of that. - which i understand being speculative based off lyrics and/or interviews but like…. they state it as pure fact and then use that to be lanas knight behind a screen and talk down to others who enjoy the album * which i assume could turn some newer fans away from that material

My sole purpose on this earth is to like every post that mentions Pretty Dull