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Here's a Lana only video edit for anyone interested
 

same! she is so cute
this part have me screaming

When the hell are we gonna get that Electra merch she was working on? If she thinks I’m gonna buy a white t-shirt with a square album cover on it for $40+ she’s got another thing coming

um
 
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Let's save the breakdowns for in about 12 months. Before that it's really your own fault not Lana's.

Demo You is so amazing damn <3. The YEW's really make the track tbh

t h i s w h e e l s o n t h e b u s s l a n d e r i s g r o s s

Demo You is so amazing damn <3. The YEW's really make the track tbh

ma'am you're skinny but witness?? an amazing album??? i have to scream

Uhm I don't think the demo sounds better tbh. Like the tropical beat and the uptempo definitely make it better imo. 

Ooof the movie is really bad. Like they would be good seperate music videos but as a movie it fails. 
 
The songs are better than I expected tbh. Definitely like at least half of them. Wish she didn't use that distorted voice effect so much, I really hate it. 

they said K12 was coming in 2017 and guess what 

lust for life parallels born to die and Norman fucking Rockwell parallels ultraviolence white hot forever is gonna parallel honeymoon confirmed

Imagine not wanting Jack to produce WHF, after the obvious amazingness that is NFR. Talk about homophobia and severe lack of taste!

Haunted is better than all of K-12

Norman fucking Rockwell - 20
Mariners Apartment Complex - 19
Venice Bitch - 25
Love Song - 2 (+)
Cinnamon Girl - 12 
California - 30 (-)
The Greatest - 18
Bartender - 16
 
Dont' you come for my fav <3

i'm approximately 100% sure the film wasn't intended to be bad just for the sake of being a companion concept for an album. she did not blow a million dollars on this just for the sake of it being throw away.
 
she put a lot of effort into this and it's bad. the album itself isn't even that great either. she clearly wrote the songs around the idea of a musical and it wasn't successful.

this film was lowkey really awful. there were so many lose ends and things that came out of nowhere. and her political route she took was also really awful. she should have focused on one political angle and done it well rather than like fifteen really badly executed ones. omg a transgender teacher? they're being let go because they're trans? omg. wait. we never even see that character again and it's legit never brought up or tied off. okay melanie. i can't believe she did that like fifteen million times during the film too. there were so many lose ends for sub-plots in the film and things that really should have been rounded up. (side note: i was high when we watched this film so if this was actually tied up and we just didn't notice then soz)
 
she's damn well lucky this album has a few really good bangers. regardless i can see her fans eating this shit up despite the fact it was extremely mediocre. at least they have a couple of good songs and a whole lot of content for gifs and twitter layouts.
 
also the teachers pet scene...she is definitely going to "get away" with that. i've never been on the whole melanie x paedophilia bandwagon people try and drag her down with but that scene was so badly inexcusable and tasteless.
 
the film looks stunning, has some amazing song moments but damn, it truly fails in most other aspects. and it's a shame because we would joke before watching it that it was going to be a bad film but we didn't ACTUALLY expect it to be as bad as it was. also, WHERE did she get the budget for this? i'll give her that she at least pulls through when she says she going to do something ambitious, but she's definitely not a good film writer at all.

Ooof the movie is really bad. Like they would be good seperate music videos but as a movie it fails. 
 
The songs are better than I expected tbh. Definitely like at least half of them. Wish she didn't use that distorted voice effect so much, I really hate it. 

Uhm I don't think the demo sounds better tbh. Like the tropical beat and the uptempo definitely make it better imo. 

i kinda wish she released a series of music videos (like she did with crybaby) rather than a whole ass movie, she would save herself the cringey dialogues, filler plots and money all while showcasing her great visuals and aesthetics 

that movie was baddddddddd 
 
the production value? I can appreciate it, but watching it was honestly cringy. Its not well made, the storyline lacks coherence, its not that well written or directed and its more of an ensamble of correlated music videos that an actual movie. And half of the music videos are not that impressive. 
 
The album itself isn't worthy as much as crybaby. Her first album had an actual emotional connection with its theme: Crybaby as in someone who can't stop crying, who cries a lot, someone lost and helpless in their emotions. It can be read as weird but it has an actual meaning: it questions traditional family values through old fashioned items and ¿classic? americana aesthetics. Nowadays it may sound outdated, but for the year it was released it was pretty cool. It actually reminded me a lot of Marina and the Diamonds' Electraheart. 
 
But K-12.... its just a reach. The aesthethic is only relevant for its relationship with the first album. Yes, its supposed to be a critique of society and power dynamics through the child's perception of the school. But it doesn't go further than that, and it ends up feeling cheapy and weird, in a bad way. It feels as an album from someone obsessed with childish-like themes, furniture and clothing (and I mean... not that far from reality). Its cringe-worthy. 
 
I feel bad for Melanie because she put a lof of effort into this project, and the reason for the delay it's surely not the production's fault but for the financing process. Melanie is not beyonce and a film is not easy nor cheap to make. She must have been trough hell trying to accomplish k-12, I can assure you that. But... its just not good. 

Uhm I don't think the demo sounds better tbh. Like the tropical beat and the uptempo definitely make it better imo. 

Uhm I don't think the demo sounds better tbh. Like the tropical beat and the uptempo definitely make it better imo. 

Uhm I don't think the demo sounds better tbh. Like the tropical beat and the uptempo definitely make it better imo.