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Why Candy Necklace music video flopped: 1. Visually unappealing (When I say this, I mean the BTS scenes ruin the video even though that was the point but...yeah) 2. No promo 3. It was never a popular song on the album 4. It's 10 minutes and it was never a popular song on the album 5. No promo 6. It was re-uploaded 3 different times in the span of 5 hours 7. No Promo: Random Upload on a Wednesday Edition Still wish they did a directors cut of the "tragic movie star" scenes they were showing through the professional clips because I genuinely think that would have been one of her most popular videos. The whole concept should have been changed into having 2 different videos: One "fake" professional recorded video, then the second being the BTS "real" recorded one. It just became a jumbled mess with the switching back and forth

Truly one of her best videos so I get her frustration It's not really a music video though, it needs to be properly focused on like a film to be appreciated.

I get that everybody's joking, but she didn't post 'This was expensive' to mean 'I need to recoup a few hundred dollars from Youtube so go and watch it'; she meant 'we put a lot of money and effort into this. Go and watch it'. Also, I've never seen a better example of entitlement and 'it's all about MEEEEEEEEEEE' than that comment. I hope they're only 13 years old and grow out of it by 15.

CN MV is one of her best artistic endeavors 10/10

well we'll just have to wait for the 7:13 minute over-budget cinematic masterpiece directed by david lynch on imax that is a&w music video so it can reach 50 billion views on youtube and 1 multibillion dollars at the box office and certify lana del rey as the greatest person alive or dead of all time

God. This fandom and it’s entitlement are unbearable. ”you do what you want instead of pleasing us” Is that not the literal reason why we are fans of Lana? because she doesn’t sell out and is authentic?

This made me realize how insane this fanbase is every where else That's why i'm never leaving you Lanaboards my beloved

what’s the hate with the mv all of a sudden 💀 yall were riding her nuts when it came out and all of a sudden its unwatchable lmfao

I agree that cohesion is important in a record (HM and Chemtrails are my faves for a reason) but luckily even in her least cohesive albums the songs are still somehow grouped in a way. For example LFL has a lot of different sounds but they are like segments of the album (the classic Lana tracks + ballads, the folky songs and the bops). Same with Ocean which in my opinion is really cohesive, it's just that the last 3 tracks are way different than the rest of the album I feel like Lana has a too distinct and iconic sound to ever do a truly not cohesive record like it sometimes happens with artists that just create playlist-like albums with songs that are given to them. I think songwriters as a whole usually have a minimum cohesion on their records just by the fact that they tend to be in a particular headspace when creating their albums

Not seeing any signs that there will be new merch today. Definitely no new vinyl.

I'm kind of more curious to hear what she's going to be writing about now; it seems like she has written her way through a few big life themes in her art and progressed to a new headspace again, so it will be interesting to see what subjects she'll be exploring these days. I think that more automatic songwriting and improvisation will be used heavily in the music to come. I also think there will be a distinct idgaf energy

it's kinda working!

imo the mv is so goood, but most people wont want to watch an eleven minutes mv even tropico doesnt have that many views its something more for the fans, unless its like ride, a mv that's more captivating for the gp, for exemple with the speech from lana

do some promo if you want people to watch girl

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Somehow I wonder how an artist with so much creative depth, meaning behind the songs and complex themes can have such stupid fans. No offence of course

When Lana goes broke because of candy necklace music video so ldr10 is born to die/uv/ honeymoon 2.0 with Rick, Emilie, Justin, and both Dans producing and we get 15 magazine covers, 20 TV appearances, a full tour, 10 vinyl variants, and actually good merch

Maybe she would've posted about the release of the music video at the very first moment, telling fans how much it meant to her and how much work it took, instead of posting a couple of random pics and remembering the music video 3 months later and being surprised at the low views.

Music videos are kind of dead in general but do that promo I guess Also people are so bold in the comments like i would be mortified if I typed that out and she responded to it please have some self respect

honestly i wasn't a fan of the video lol, not going to watch it again she'll be fine

this just pissed me off…

not her taking this into instagram after she sees the mv flopping gurl u should have done the promo this hard 2 months ago

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Seems like they moved the Candy Necklace vinyl from the top to the very bottom of the page in her US store, so they are doing something on the site

Very interested in the "club songs" and other songs they made for fun that he was talking about. I hope one day she'll just drop an entire album of those.

I wouldn’t mind more wordy songs like fingertips and kintsugi AT ALL. Quite the contrary those are my favs because they tell a lot about her story and I’m very curious about itthere’s so much we don’t know

Cry Kill Die 1. Baby Won't You Call Them Cops On Me 2. Cry Kill Die 3. Invite (feat. Doja Cat) 4. Those Gucci Bitches in Hawaii 5. Pantyhouse Thriller 6. Dangerous Girl 7. I'm Not In A Hurry 8. Nikita 9. Cherry Lipstick 10. 4Ever Young In Paradise 11. Hot Like The Tropics 12. Lights, Camera, Acción 13. Peaches x TT A 90s erotic thriller inspired femme fatale revenge trap/hip hop/trip hop album would be such a vibe

Why are some of you guys reading so much into it…it’s kinda clear she’s joking but she still wants the fans to watch it

I think you guys are really taking this too seriously

She def got an angry email from her label after only using her insta to promo Nikki Lane and other ppls bdays.

i’m crying at her latest post “it was expensive watch it”

wdym discontinued literally print more ????

"hi from the road – Nikki is playing tonight in Asheville. Come see ❤️"

c'mon NFR re-release i'm speaking it into existence

I wonder why they didn't press an A&W 7" vinyl yet. I know those discs can only hold around 6 minutes per side but a picture disc with A1 - American W***e and B1 - Jimmy would have been amazing

yayo's theorized timeline let's start with the first two versions, the version included on the no kung fu mixtape, and the live rehearsal recorded by the rich whores, structurally, they are very similar, they lack the bridge, as well as the "i need you like a baby when i hold you" verse, also, the first two choruses only include the "let me put on a show for you" section, while the last chorus includes the "put me onto your black motorcycle" section, it almost seems like that part was intended to be the bridge at first, now, i'm not entirely sure which came first, one could assume that the version recorded by the rich whores could've been recorded at some point during the summer months of 2007, her peformance of yayo on july 9, 2007, with the rich whores, is incredibly similar to the live rehearsal version it's hard to say exactly when the no kung fu version was recorded, two tracks off of the mixtape have confirmed recording dates, get drunk, which was recorded on august 14, 2007, and the mermaid motel demo, which was recorded on september 6, 2007, which was shortly after the supposed time of recording of the live rehearsal version, regardless, there is no clear evidence to suggest that the no kung fu version of yayo was recorded in the later months of 2007, only just the fact that other tracks off of that mixtape were recorded after july, 2007 now, let's talk about the laptop demo, this is where things get kinda confusing, the laptop demo is different structurally compared to the other three versions, it includes the "i need you like a baby when i hold you" verse, as well as the "hello heaven" bridge, also, the two verses are switched around, the "i need you like a baby when i hold you" verse is the second verse, coming after the opening verse, and the "you have to take me right now" verse is second, coming after the first chorus, but what it shares the with other two demos is that two of the choruses, the first and last, lack the "put me onto your black motorcycle" section, only the second chorus is complete, so, it would be reasonable to guess that the laptop demo came after the live rehearsal and no kung demo, since it includes more verses and bares more of a resemblance to the album version however... the first known performance of yayo on june 14, 2007 includes the "i need you like a baby when i hold you" verse, while the live rehearsal and the no kung fu demos don't, the live performance from june is pretty similar to the laptop demo except for the fact that it ends after the second chorus, however, it isn't really clear whether or not the song was actually done or if she purposely ended it off early, since she says "i think we'll stop it right about there...", also, the june performance lacks the "yayo, how now, yayo" so, in conclusion... it's hard to put together any sort of timeline because she kept changing the song i feel like the laptop demo is more likely to be recorded in between the no kung fu demo and live rehearsal simply because of the fact that it features the most resemblance to the album version despite everything being switched around, but it could've been recorded anytime between june 2007-october 2007 (?) the most likely month the live rehearsal with the rich whores is probably july, 2007, and the no kung fu demo could've been recorded during july 2007-october 2007... not really sure, i don't actually know what month she started working with david kahne, but she did move into the trailer park that month

The footage in itself was cute, and she looked stunning, but her "vision" made it hard to watch honestly. Would've been infinitely better with a full "film noir" aesthetic from start to finish and the BTS sequence at the end. It just did not flow well storytelling wise. Also the "people have a short attention span" argument is a bit exaggerated, "Ride" is 10 minutes long, has an intro and an outro, but it has 150+ million views (and I understand that it was released 10 years ago), but that video is cohesive--Candy Necklace, while beautiful, is not. She also dropped the video at the most random time without any promotion whatsoever... I understand that promotion wise she's into the "less is more mindset", but her feeling upset, while valid, seems a bit misplaced. I guess this post is her idea of promoting.

i'm not surprised tho. it seems like mean girl shit. she gets fat shamed and then she starts fat shaming. also the banana/pussy thing is... weird. i also think her statement is a bit weird too. she claims she doesn't want to be a victim in this situation, i don't think anyone is calling her a victim tho so idk what she's on about but she then says "thank you for your support during this hard time" LMAOOOOO so manipulative

if only people put this energy into real problems... like it's never that serious why are they acting like they're in the hunger games

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Lol I remember at the Quebec show she was like, “I know we have an attention span of one minute, but…” when talking about the video and introducing Candy Necklace. The Tik Tokification of fans is real.

NOT HER EATING SONIC COMPLAINING THE VIDEO WAS EXPENSIVEEEEEEE I'M YELLING ahahahhahahahahahaha

I'm afraid she'll never make a music video again.

I love seeing her passive aggressive

I hope her team keeps on being greedy and releases both lmao

not really cringe but

Cohesiveness is overrated

I really love the new song

This is free hating tbh. I love the whole mv and the idea behind it