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We need to invent time travel so current Marina can go take songwriting lessons from her teen/early 20s self

the fact that she must have tons of unreleased music and 99% of it will either never leak or is lost forever as the files don't exist anymore

The song is good sonically (production-wise), but I think the lyricism is really embarrassing. She was trying to shove in as many random societal issues that she could

01. Genesis (Intro) 02. Ave Maria 03. Gods & Monsters 04. Drive 05. I Talk To Jesus 06. JFK 07. Black Leather Moonlight 08. Body Electric 09. You & Me 10. Pussy 11. Cult Leader 12. Money Power & Glory 13. Black Beauty 14. Melancholia 15. Angels Forever, Forever Angels 16. Bel Air

that wind/breathing sound at the beginning of the title track is one of my favorite things on the album.

her last two albums were shit we need either froot 2.0 or a new Electra heart sellout era. Bring back the bleach blonde hair and the cunty lyrics girl

just re listened to purge the poison for the first time since it dropped and I can't stop laughing... that whole album is comedy really

I made a mockup for what I would LOVE to see for TFJ 15th anniversary (although it will probs not happen) I know it doesn’t look the best but I had to place every single letter one by one and make them join up for the tracklist bit and it took HOURS of hell.

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i fucking can’t stand the weeknd his personality, his voice, his melodies, his lyrics, his songs, his show, his shitty undeserved superbowl

I’m midwest USA (never seen the ocean, I’m cold more than I’m hot, theres not a ton of action here) so I get what you mean (not as drastically I’m sure), its almost like viewing these places and other things she sings about as some sort of mythical heaven and I get more of a broad, longing, feeling telling me I’m missing out sometimes. I’m so curious how people from Los Angeles or whatever feel listening! I imagine its so personal and anthem-esque. To listen to NFR album going from Laurel Canyon to Venice Beach, or going down the PCH? To play Bel Air in your hometown Bel Air? To not dream about these places and weather and live it like… I’m melodramatic maybe that must add a different angle!

Melanie can still make the same quality of music like she used to just look at the PORTALS outtakes... she just makes bad decisions that set her back but overall she still has a lot of stuff to give

Happy 10th anniversary to Night Time, My Time: B-Sides Part 1. Can't wait for Part 2 to be released soon! 💀

SOMETIMES I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING TO RED BLUE AND YELLOW SKIES ON MONDAY THEY DESTROYED ME BUT BY FRIDAY I'M REVIVED PUT ON THAT HOTEL CALIFORNIA WEAR MY BLINDERS IN THE RAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This breaks my heart. My heart goes out to all the trans lives loss and their friends and family. Its scary anymore to be yourself. Im trans in the closet cause I live in a small town with alot of conservatives that literally hate me for being myself. Im also a local drag queen, so I get alot of hate cause of that and I'm scared if I actually come out as trans on top of that it will get worse. Also quick thing drag is not equal to trans cause trans is who you are in the inside and drag is a expression of art. But back on topic, Its crazy how people are threatening me, my family, my friends and the people I work with for me being me. I also have local churches protesting my art. I try not to leave the house unless I have to anymore cause of people.

so now that it’s been years and all she’s putting out rn is hot garbage… can someone PLEATHEEEE leak we appreciate power ft. poppy

It's not fans, just random people out in the streets. I think Verde is trying to make a point about paparazzi and fans taking photos of famous people without their consent. Like "This bothers you, why doesn't that? we're all people." But it comes across as hypocritical since he's basically just becoming part of the problem himself and doing exactly what he's condemning⸺unless he's getting permission and asking them beforehand (which doesn't seem very likely)

sorry to be the bearer of bad news but cherry pop hasn’t actually been registered anywhere, that’s fake

Yes lived in a coastal town my entire life so I feel some connection to some of her beachy/water-y songs!

Yes, living in the Southern hemisphere, Lana's albums are released in opposite seasons. Ultraviolence will therefore always be a mostly winter album for me, and Honeymoon a spring album. But that's also heavily impacted by me listening to them on repeat at the times they were released. But when she sings about July, for example, I'm not going to think of our winters here because it's much more obvious in her lyrics. It's just an experience I don't have (July being summer, and therefore being a big celebratory time to be outside). so I don't really relate a lot of her lyrics to my own life, like all the locations she mentions too. It's just imaginary to me

It’s cute but A&W is career defining and deserved it. Also she should’ve submitted LTLI for Grammy Pop Duo instead of CN imo

It’s the cheating for me. It’s so….. but no angel 😇 does it right

white roses the sexcxiest song show some respect

honestly need to redirect it to every rule. I could hate the song more

I listen to i can fly whenever i’m on a plane

i think instead of all of us collectively bashing on her bad choices constantly, we should do some sort of game in here for what we do like? like maybe an album megarate?

I always find it fascinating when she sings about California. I think this distant, sunny state has a greater appeal here in cold Central Europe than on the East Coast of the USA, for example. Even when she sings about the beach or the sea. I only know both from occasional vacations, and they are beautiful places that you like to hear about.

allah knows i tried

Melanie should absolutely focus on her life, but few years for music after this era definitely means her career is basically gone. Idc she peaked in 2014-2017 with Cry Baby. Ate with K-12 and PORTALS, and that's probably it. She is such an amazing and talented person that I wish I could hang out with/interview her for hours.

Annual report from National Center for Transgender Equality shows grim statistics by race and gender A new report reveals that 53 transgender people were killed while 32 were lost to suicide across the US in the last year, which saw a marked increase in anti-trans legislation and rhetoric. Notably, while these numbers from the National Center for Transgender Equality’s (NCTE) annual remembrance report have grown since last year, some experts say that the real number of lives lost is probably higher due to the difficulties in accurate reporting and data within the trans community. “It is no coincidence that we are seeing anti-trans violence rise at the same time as we’re seeing anti-trans legislation rise,” said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, the executive director at the NCTE. “Every year from 2020 to today, we have broken the record … of anti-transgender bills ever introduced.” Heng-Lehtinen added that as “policy attacks grow, so do the physical attacks”. “It is because of society sending a signal about whose lives are considered important,” he said. The annual report, released every November, includes deaths from November 2022 through this month. It includes 53 violent deaths and 56 nonviolent deaths, 32 of which were by suicide. In both categories, trans women comprised the majority of deaths. “Even though hate crimes overall are decreasing in the United States, they are actually increasing when it comes to hate crimes against transgender people in particular and, even more so, hate crimes against transgender women,” Heng-Lehtinen said. According to the FBI’s national crime statistics released in October 2023, there was a 32.9% jump in reported hate crimes based on gender identity from the previous year. That jump is reflected in the report, with a disproportionate impact on people of color. While 64% of nonviolent deaths involved white people, 51% of violent deaths were of Black people, and 21 of the 53 violent deaths were of Black trans women. Heng-Lehtinen noted that these numbers are “obviously completely out of proportion to the general population” and emblematic of a “horrible storm of transphobia, meeting misogyny, meeting racism”. NCTE’s list includes 30-year-old Chyna Long, a Black trans choreographer who was killed on 8 October in a residential neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “Once she became who she wanted to be, which is Chyna, she lived in that and every day,” Long’s aunt, Alissa Davenport, told local news station TMJ4. “She lived to be Chyna and she was happy.” Davenport said the murder “took a piece of our joy”. “To know this was done to her, they truly don’t understand what they have done to our family,” she told the outlet. Alongside Long, many other Black trans women on the list were killed in acts of violence. In September, Bre’Asia Bankz was shot to death in Arizona, leaving behind a dog named Tiger whom she loved like “her baby”, according to a GoFundMe page set up by her family to pay for her funeral expenses. In August, DéVonnie J’Rae Johnson was killed in Los Angeles, where she was receiving gender-affirming medical care. She was an accomplished artist, and her family and friends say she wanted to give back to her community. In October, A’nee Johnson died in Washington DC after an assault that left her in a street. She was later hit by a passing car. “I want [people] to remember her for her zeal, her passion and her consistency,” Johnson’s friend Oluwaferanni Olarinde told local Fox affiliate WTTG. “How consistent she was with showing her face and making sure her energy was pure and lively.” Experts emphasize that the number of trans people killed by violence is almost certainly higher than what the report says. “It is very difficult to comprehensively identify everyone who’s been attacked like this,” Heng-Lehtinen said. Those difficulties include obtaining IDs that match a person’s gender identity and being misidentified by surviving family members. “Many transgender people, especially Black transgender people, are nervous going to the police for help and feel like they can’t report crimes,” he said. “It will be too risky or they won’t be taken seriously … all of that adds up to these cases and instances of violence being underreported.” Kris Tassone, who is policy counsel for the NCTE and head of the remembrance project, told the Guardian that “despite strides in vital record updates, more comprehensive efforts are needed to ensure accurate representation and recognition”. While international reporting efforts can be even more difficult, the report includes at least 434 worldwide total deaths of trans people – 336 of which were recorded as violent. Heng-Lehtinen believes it’s “incredibly important” to draw “attention to the violent deaths of trans people” but that it’s also important to remember that activists are still making progress. “There’s all these attacks happening, and that is galvanizing trans people and those who love us to get really involved. So people are fighting back,” he said. “They’re going out and doing a rally or testifying in a state legislature or getting other folks involved.” He points to more transgender candidates running for office at all levels, including the Delaware state senator Sarah McBride, the Nashville city councilor Olivia Hill, and the Montana state representative Zooey Zephyr, as well as increased visibility of trans people in the media – particularly in film. “There’s a lot of resilience here, and there’s a lot of really, really crucial political organizing happening to turn this tide back,” he said. The full 2023 remembrance report is available online and features photos, illustrations and memorials. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/22/transgender-deaths-rememberance-report

Am too stupid to figure out pictures or embeds for the time being but she just pretty much confirmed the film isn't coming on her Insta stories. Transcription in the spoiler thingy:

of course– that increased sociopolitical vulnerability leads to increased preventable death has been knowledge for ages middle fingers up to the psychopaths passing these transphobic laws

Let the Light In deserved to be a single, have a MV, acknowledged by Lana and nominated for Best Duo at the Grammys. OHHHHH LET THE LIIIGHT IIIN

Idk why but Paradise is always associated with Winter in my mind, simply because they remind me of Florida winters? Winter especially on the coastline is very festive and comfy but there's a certain type of excitement and carefree vibe because you can still go to the beach, walk barefoot, get a tan and be wild. There's also a certain type of glamour I feel during winter that makes me think of Paradise.

electric chair to whoever did that. The biggest of fuck you's too

This is probably my favorite leak of 2023 tbh, and we’ve had some top tier leaks this year. Can the lyrics be updated on the OP though they don’t seem right lol

can this chick stop already? It’s so cringe I can’t… look at her react to fucking fart at some point… her viewers must be loosing braincells hahahahaha shes right about the price tho

i hope she's okay

Want to make this my signature

ICÓNICAS

all my lovers die just sitting on youtube

Something I find very interesting about this year is that it seems like everything was conspiring for Lana to get more recognition/win her first Grammys. the collaboration with Jon Batiste (Grammy Darling) the collaboration on Taylor's Midnights, the way Tayor has spoken on different occasions about Lana, the visionary award, the success of Ocean Blvd, SYTH going viral on TIKTOK, among other events... this has been her year.

yeah this thread could use a little positivity. evil is one of my favorite songs from her and was on repeat for like a whole week when the album dropped

Missing you @PatentLeatherDoOver

good god. we found one of “genuinely crazy” fans they talked about

I really wish I could go back and listen to kick iii for the first time again because the album is just so insane and unpredictable that I need my mind to be blown for a second time. Even after listening to it so many times it still gets me feeling so rabid and feral !!!! Like wtf kind of vibrational wavelength was she accessing while working on it ?!? Get wrapped up in some shit, not sure who you think you're dealing with... all these other bitches are irrelevant, heaven sent

we deserve this let me manifesting

This era is so underrated. I think that version of Plastic Rainbow is one of my all-time favourites by Marina

if she sung anything more “political” i would hope it’s something she connects to herself in the same vein as girls, sex yeah!, or can’t pin me down in the sense that i feel she’s a better writer when it comes to self reflection and her own personal experiences to something political/societal than when she’s trying to make a broader statement on a subject with some current world topics thrown in