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Got tix 

I CAN'T FUCKING WAITTTTTTT

Why do I believe her this time https://www.instagram.com/p/CVoX7sqPlnJ/?utm_medium=copy_link

God. I cannot fucking wait to listen to this 

4 minutes ago, House of Balloons said:

no, it’s just super elitist and hypocritical for someone who claims to be staying away from social media.

Touch grass 

I feel like BB is closing this arc of critical turbulence she's been caught in since NFR (both the initial good will she finally had and then losing much of it so soon after) and revisiting that similar turmoil at the beginning of her career with BTD, and I think she means very deliberately for this whole thing to be very profound and /final/ in a sense. Like, this is her processing her trauma of being Lana Del Rey, from start to end, from Video Games to Arcadia type of thing. 

So I would be very interested to see where she goes next. I think NFR-COCC-BB is comparable to her BTD-UV-HM run; an overarching era with some very distinct personal disposition that comes out in the content of each album, e.g. what she sings about and her style of storytelling, the imagery she uses etc. I expect the next album to be very very very different, perhaps less immediately intimate. 

I can't listen to white mustang because of the weak ass whistling at the end... It just sounds so strained and flat, hollow, empty. Like you can just tell she was trying her hardest to whistle that tune and that's why it's so bad 

Whoever did the whistling on pumped up kicks should've been enlisted for WM because its just another reason I don't revisit LFL too much 

Lana shouldve covered Misery is a Butterfly (by Blonde Redhead) on the NFR tour. It makes perfect sense as a parallel to HIAB, plus that song with a trip hop arrangement around it a la the verses of DBJAG + orchestral undertones would fit her so well. I wish she'd fully go in this direction again, it's so much more interesting than what she seems to be doing now 

2 hours ago, Trash Magic said:

Certainly better than any of the stuff she did with BØRED. Such a dark time. Actually looking forward to this. Is she also on Don’t Go Dark or was that just a rumour before we knew more info?

Wow I forgot about her borns phase. I suppose she dropped him after the pedo allegations?? 

We need Lana's speak-singing blunt satire 2020s pessimism post-punk album, with the title: Talking Like An Answering Machine. 

Not that moody, she'll have bursts of exhaustion and delirium while she drones a single line on and on and on and on for a whole song 

Is she for real? Yes she is, no she isn't, the album to confound everybody 

Somehow these singles are really reaffirming why NFR is so legendary. Not even in terms of direct influence on lorde, just in hearing elements of its sound elsewhere makes me appreciate how well Lana did it two years ago lol. NFR is like the BTD of the late 2010s/early 2020s, a brilliantly crafted seminal precursor/inspiration to a new string of alt-pop albums that adopt that sound, heralding a new paradigm in the genre etc.

I feel like we're definitely in the midst of this very particular chill/folky/surfy sparse sunshine scene of alt-pop music right now that people are gonna look back on in like five years and reminisce over the same way people look back to 2011-2014 and reminisce over albums like BTD, pure heroine, electra heart, etc 

I think california is the best song of solar power so far anyhow

It's unidentified flying bill

The cover..... WE WON. WHAT THE FUCK 

9 minutes ago, palemoonbaby said:

And even if Lana will go into pop someday, it will be sound innovative, even like new music genre. Upbeat, happy but really sadcore-ish and dark at the same time. It wouldn't be in radio stations but really popular in Internet.

So... born to die

Random observation but I think the ADIAML cover bears this obscure similarity to the NFR cover lol. I think it's because of the blue and the comic book/superhero undertones in both (in the pops of colour and the fonts). And something to do with how they both pose, this intensity in facial expression coupled with hands that are reaching out

I'm genuinely pumped for this album to come out, I've never followed a marina release before 

Does anyone have DL links for Strange Chalice of Seeing and Liquor Castle? Can't find them anywhere apart from YouTube but I want the files separated into their respective tracks 

The drums in WW remind me of when the trumpets kick in in I Can Fly, both very euphoric moments 

The songs are v similar in theme too

Her new singles absolutely slap!? Her last album was too placid for me 

So fucking good top to bottom left to right up and down from side to side 

Manifesting something as summery chill and full of progressive longing as Wildflower by Beach House 

OK... WOW

Wildflower Wildfire= Rock 

Text Book = Candy

Blue Banisters = Sweet 

24 minutes ago, Aristocrat said:

 

patriarchy ceased to exist years ago (except in the middle east)

Men and women are not equal in several respects, and many of these aspects men are at a disadvantage compared to women. There are no "structures" that support a patriarchy, on the contrary, women currently have more "privileges" and advantages (such as positive discrimination) than men.

Putting men as oppressors (patriarchy) is sexist and makes the true causes of women's problems invisible.

Feminism seeks to end discrimination that affects women, and there is no need for a patriarchal system for them to exist.

Also have to know how to distinguish that it is a discrimination of simple disparity (where the individual responsibility applies) for example the wage gap or the "glass ceiling" that are not discrimination quasi, they are working life choices.

Positive discrimination still exists because patriarchy still exists

Men don't have to be actively oppressing women in order for patriarchy to exist, the patriarchal structure is what reproduces the oppression and men passively benefit from it. It's not a villain narrative. Men and women can be agents of patriarchy. And we're all agents /within/ patriarchy. 

Also I'm dubious of any empirical assessment that says we're post-patriarchy, or post-racism, or post-homophobia, or whatever. Usually people just point to the very shallow instances of legislation that make us feel accomplished, which only leads to neglect of deeper and consistent manifestations of injustice. Sexism isn't solved because women have greater representation in the workplace, or in parliament. But whatever this is lanaboards 

1 hour ago, Charlottexseax said:

 

 

Look I know y’all are illiterate and I don’t like having serious discourse on here but: 

 

Men and women alike are oppressed (by racism, classism, homophobia, etc), feminism doesn’t aim to “elevate” women to the same status men (which is: still oppressed) but to completely liberate them from all oppressions, which include racism, classism, etc... cause men are still oppressed (not on the basis of their sex, but still oppressed)

 

That’s why intersectionality was created, by a black woman (Kimberlé Crenshaw), to tackle all the issues that are outside the strict man/women dicotomy but still affect women in other ways (like racism and classism)

 

 

sorry for the OT but y’all are so ignorant 

Yeah exactly, feminism is about liberation from patriarchy. Patriarchy is the pervasive structure, the object of feminist discourse.

"men and women should be equal" is reductive and the only reason it ever gets invoked (including in this thread) is because people want feminism to be palatable by repackaging it into some neoliberal individual responsibility type of idea, totally dodging the idea of dismantling harmful structures. You lot really think feminism is just when men and women get along? And when women are mean to men, they're defeating the feminist mission? Not the girlboss wave of feminism rotting brains 

That said, marina commodifying feminism is also super lib 

Also the way Google definitions are being thrown around lol... if only life was so simple.