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  1. Groupie Lover liked a post in a topic by velvetxcrowbar in Instagram Updates   
    groupielover posted all screenshots on their story
  2. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Thunder Revenant in TEMPORARY Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 19th, 2021   
    Next announcement will be on Sep 10th. She'll tell us that the album was not yet ready but she'll give us a new date sooooon and then proceeds to post nothing but pics of her cringy influencer friends until the end of the year.
  3. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Shades in Lana with a fan in Downtown Los Angeles, CA - June 14, 2020   
    the fact that she used to look like this i-
     

  4. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by ArtDecoDelRey in Lana with a fan in Downtown Los Angeles, CA - June 14, 2020   
    i thought i liked her blonde, but it doesn't seem to be jiving well with her skin... especially since it looks like she's been spending all day outside lol
  5. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by M J in Lana with a fan in Downtown Los Angeles, CA - June 14, 2020   
    If any vibes these pics give me it’s the vibes of that photo of her with a burger king crown
  6. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Elle in Lana with a fan in Downtown Los Angeles, CA - June 14, 2020   
    Earlier today, Lana was spotted by a fan while out shopping in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

    In the photos, you are able to see Lana's new sunny blonde haircolour & pink acrylic nails, giving major classic LG vibes.





  7. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by I Come In Peace in TEMPORARY Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 19th, 2021   
    If Chuck is shooting the cover she'll officially be a COCC Destroyer
  8. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by UltraviolenceBaby in TEMPORARY Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 19th, 2021   
    she's obsessed with photoshop to the level she makes lana looks like a wax figure
    i remember two years ago she tried to publish a book full with lana's pics/ outtakes but as what i remember if im not wrong lana refused it 
    so i don't think they'd be working together again tbh but i don't mind it as long as she isn't chuck 
  9. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by SweetHenny in TEMPORARY Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 19th, 2021   
    Goddamn man-child
    Your COCC was so big 
    That I almost said I love you
     
  10. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Trash Magic in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    Come on, the only valid criticism here is hosting a party during a pandemic which honestly who cares at this point
     
    You guys always want her depressed but she has always said she writes the best when she is happy! And NFR! is her best album imo so her environment seems to have a positive impact on her. In no position to judge her friend group unless there is evidence they are shitty people. Plus a lot of people were showing concern for her mental state with all the instagram posts last month so is this not positive to see?
  11. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Thunder Revenant in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    I'm sure the virus will understand and hold back because it would be a bummer if the birthday party of these rich people would have negative vibes
  12. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by bluefiona in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    Someone please check on Lana's creepy stalker dat1guitarguy on Instagram. Once he finds out she has a new man, he's going to go on a rampage in his parents basement. 
     

     
     
    Edit: Just went into this mackenziestith person's IG account and she basically was filming Lana's backyard, including those grassed animals Lana bought years ago. What was the point of filming Lana head to toe in her home? Or the point to film her backyard like that? Knowing the woman has stalkers. She even filmed her way to Lana's house. 
     
    I don't care if Lana met these girls in church, in a temple or at a AA meeting. The fact that she has one girl in her circle who makes her living selling celebrity stories to the tabloids and this girl who filmed Lana and her backyard...
     
    Lana's either blind as hell or stupid. Maybe Lana fell on her head a few times. Who freaking knows. But famous people can smell an awestruck starfucker a mile away except for Lana. It's one thing if this happens in the beginning of her fame, when she was 26. She's been in the business for 13+ years. She's 35 years old. Lana...girl...get your shit together and get rid of these awestruck starfuckers in your circle. 
     
    Toby was the only one eating his cake, phone away, minding his own business. It's the nobodies instagram influencers filming everything and showing it off. Nevermind Lana has stalkers and it's not safe for people to see inside her house so directly. It's bad enough you got one of her most obsessed stalkers (dat1guitarguy) going to her church meetings and standing in front of her house.  
  13. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by anwdelrey in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    The fact that the girl who created Ultraviolence has this sort of friend group now... personality change check!!
  14. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by I Come In Peace in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    I used Remini to make the picture HQ & it is so cursed...
     
     
  15. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Elle in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    Tobey is the boyfriend of her friend Tatiana, who has been part of her regular girl group for the past 2 years. So I suppose it makes sense that he's there x
  16. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by West Coast in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    Are we all going to ignore that Toby Mcguire is in the second picture? What's up Lanz why is Peter Parker in your backyard? 
  17. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Elle in Lana hosting her friends' birthday party at her home in Los Angeles, CA - June 10th, 2020   
    Currently, Lana Del Rey is hosting a birthday party for her friends Jen Stith & her husband Mike Longenbach and John Booth at her home in Los Angeles, California.
    Also in attendance are her sister Chuck Grant and her other friends Val Vogt, Jessica Buch, Annie Tomberlin, Tatiana Dieteman and her boyfriend Tobey Maguire, and Jen's sister Mackenzie Stith.
    As a gift, Lana bought Jen a diamond "Lennon" nameplate necklace, which is the name of Jen's newborn baby.
    In the photo below, you can see her new lighter locks, which she had recently coloured by her hairdresser Tracey Cunningham.




    More photos:

     
  18. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by gasstationkween in Instagram Updates   
    I’m drunk I love Lana I love blonde
  19. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by pawn shop blues in Instagram Updates   
    Okay, I know no one's going to read this, but whatever. 
     
    I was thinking more about her post (which I know has been covered a million times already) and I had some thoughts. 
    I feel like, in her own very messy and absolutely racially insensitive (though not intentional) way, Lana was really trying to convey her anger for the way that she's been treated by the media, specifically the first couple of years of her career. Yes, NFR was very well received (and LFL to a slightly similar extent) but that’s not counting all of the years of shit she went through at the start. Yes, every artist she mentioned has gone through shit and I don’t want to get into the compare/contrast argument right now. Of course her experiences are not the same as racism and it’s not to say that she is the only one who has gotten criticism by any stretch of the imagination, but I just feel like there was a specific way she was treated that was not the same as any of the other artists she mentioned. People were mean and cruel and kind of merciless about how much they hated her, in a very unapologetic way. This is not only from critics or fans, but a lot of the industry in general. People did not take her seriously. Music publications, people on social media, bloggers, people in the industry like Kim Gordon (who told her to go kill herself)—everyone kind of piled up on her. Both conservatives (who seem to always hate “today’s music”) as well as liberals didn’t like her and weren’t shy about saying exactly why. Every single thing—her looks, her name change, her father’s supposed role in “buying her a career” (not really how it works), her music video monologues, her interview quotes, and especially above all her lyrics—everything was scrutinized. I imagine this was probably doubly hurtful when thinking about how much of her soul she poured into her songs. She wasn’t singing about nice fun pop songs. She was singing about some of the worst moments of her life, horrible abusive relationships, documenting them in songs and she was either made fun of and/or told that she was making it all up. And yes, I realize the fiction/fact element of her work has always been up for debate and I can understand people not fully knowing if what she’s singing about is “real” in that sense, but like even when she told The Guardian about how depressed she was, I vividly remember the vast majority of the comments continuing to make fun of her. And no one was really sticking up for her (besides us fans and actually Kristen Wiig on SNL). No one really called out the obvious misogynistic tone that a lot of the criticisms came from.
     
    This brings me to LFL. Or really, right after the Honeymoon era. People were talking about her songs getting slower and slower and more depressed and I think Lana herself probably knew that she needed to switch things up a bit. (Her label might have also suggested or maybe even demanded it, as Ultraviolence and Honeymoon were not selling like BTD/Paradise).
    LFL for me is a turning point in her career. For a lot of reasons. For one: Trump and the 2016 election. We already how that changed her live shows (no more American flags), but obviously it changed some of the music too. Listening to the demos for LFL, it’s clear the song (and possibly the entire record) started off in a much darker place. The “lust for life” she had sounded almost ironic or like she was being sarcastic. Cut to the finished product and it’s obviously coming from a more hopeful angle. I imagine some of this comes from her knowing that, in the mist of the 2017 American political scene with Trump’s chaos, it was possibly the wrong time to put out a down/depressing record. I also believe Lana was being genuine in wanting to give her fans more hope.
    That being said, looking at the reception LFL got, critics suddenly seemed more on board with her. She was getting more praise in the industry. Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love interviewed her (along with other musicians like Grimes), and it just seemed like in general people were more receptive to her work. But what’s telling is that Lana started to talk during this time period about wanting to fit in more. She wasn’t getting tattoos, she was thinking of getting some of them removed (I think because she mentioned how it would make her stand out or something like that) and she was also vocal about editing her lyrics, both in recordings as well as in live performances (like cutting the “he hit me” line in UV).
    This brings me to NFR. It’s her most critically acclaimed work for sure, but in some ways it feels like the least “Lana” record (at least compared to “vintage Born to Die” era Lana). It’s definitely more singer/songwriter. Rereading the Ann Powers article Lana hated, I found it interesting how much the writer compared Lana to Joni Mitchell—which is annoying not just because every female singer/songwriter seems to get compared to her if they have even a trace of the Laurel Canyon sound, but also because they are clearly very different artists.
    And, I admit this is maybe farfetched, but maybe the reason Lana got so upset with the article (besides the trauma line she mentioned) was how much she was being compared to an artist she’s never really tried to imitate.
    And this leads to the Instagram post, which I think is a long time coming. People have been upset with Lana seeming to say she paved the way for songs about abuse (which I don’t think she ever said she did, at least not directly) but I think it’s fairly obvious her music played, at least, a big part in the sort of shift in popular music—the more downtempo music, the more downcast lyrics. It would have honestly I think been better if Lana had maybe mentioned soundclound rappers/singers or songs like that 1-800 Who Can Relate (whoo!) song. But even pop has gotten darker as a whole. When Lana came on the scene, it was all about I don’t need a man/I’m fine on my own (I’m talking specifically about female pop singers). Now Ariana Grande can have a song about cheating (Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored) and there doesn’t seem to be controversy at all. Even if that song’s more playful, it’s also kind of hints at the bad thoughts you shouldn’t have but you have anyway. (I'm not saying Lana is solely responsible for a song like this, but I think her music contributed for allowing that sort of mood, again in comparison to the 2011 pop music scene.) 
    I think Lana’s anger has come from feeling she has had a major influence on today’s music without ever really getting the true acknowledgement (as well as the apology) she deserves. I also think she is perhaps frustrated with feeling like she has had to edit her lyrics and music content in order to fit in a little more/be more accepted and less hated. And I think this is where the “women like me in feminism” comes into play. Instead of the awkward pole dance comparison to FKA Twigs, she could have asked how come FKA can write an album documenting an abusive relationship and get acclaim from critics, but when she does it in UV (or really a lot of her songs pre-LFL) she gets told she’s bad for feminism? And maybe it actually was an attempt at a genuine question. Like, what’s the difference? How come that 1-800 song can be a big hit and it gets taken seriously, but Lana discussing her own depression (in song or interviews) gets seen as something to get made fun of?
    To me, the post(s) were her stating that she is going to start writing in a less restrained/more free way again—or maybe already has in Chemtrails. I think she wants to get back to songs about relationships and life that are more nuanced. It’s clear from LFL that the way she specifically has talked about relationships has changed (she’s now more fed up, the men are more losers than before). And obviously it’s good that she’s evolved just like most artists do, but I think she has maybe been feeling artistically restrained and wants to get back to a more uninhibited place without having to deal with all the bullshit again.  
    Sorry this is long but I wanted to write it.
  20. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Chocolate Eyes in Instagram Updates   
    I'm reminded of Slayer who to this day still get accused of glorifying the holocaust for their song "Angel Of Death" about the nazi doctor at Auschwitz. Jeff Hanneman said this in reaction to the controversy: "I know why people misinterpret it, it's because they get this kneejerk reaction to it. When they read the lyrics, there's nothing I put in the lyrics that says necessarily he was a bad man, because to me well, isn't that obvious?" Same can apply to Lana's past lyrics about drugs, Lolita, and abusive relationships. The fact that the music sounds beautiful, soft, and classy make it easier for people to come to the conclusion that she's romanticizing these bad situations. She's also blamed for fueling the Lolita fetishization by clueless teenagers on tumblr. Which to be honest, a lot of these kids did get it by listening to "Lolita", "Off To The Races", and "Put Me In a Movie". But I still don't think it's fair to blame the artist over people misinterpreting their work. I also remember Rihanna's "Love The Way You Lie" in 2011/2012 sparked controversy about romanticizing abuse on feminist blogs. So there's a WOC singer who also went through what Lana talked about. 
  21. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Psychedelic Pussy in Instagram Updates   
    Sometimes I forget we’re all “fans” of Lana
  22. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by Terrence Loves Me in Ultraviolence - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll   
    nothing will EVER compare to the ultraviolence era - every song that was related to that album was unbelievably good. it was just utterly perfect in style and aesthetic, to the powerful and passionate guitars and her sultry vocals (which was the perfect balance of born to die vocals and honeymoon vocals) - we had two incredible deluxe tracks (is this happiness and flipside), the iconic UNTOUCHABLE 5 featuring songs like angels forever, jfk, and starry eyed (the power that these songs have) and lets not forget all the other unreleased songs surrounding the era, Fine China, Say Yes To Heaven, Your Girl, Color Blue :deadbanana: everything was soo depressing and the lyrics were some of her darkest.
     
    the flavour, the flavour of it all... far too much!
  23. velvetxcrowbar liked a post in a topic by PARADIXO in Instagram Updates   
    Can't seem to find any similarities between the two    Would you enlighten us?
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