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derailing from the obvious hot topic but the new unreleased leaks we've been getting are subpar compared to the OG leaks. i dont think lana's post-BTD unreleased are all that good except for BAR demo

th--and i cannot emphasize it enough--is

the way not even her releasing / announcing music makes people tweet as much about her than this 
 
lana really knows how to bring up topics and stir debates nobody thought they'd be having in these past few days 
 
the sheer incompetence of her to just stop talking for once

i'm sure she's definitely been called a whore. what woman hasn't. there's probably something she's aware of that spawned that comment, whether it was a review or a statement or a comment or something someone said to her. i'm sure she wouldn't pull that out of nowhere.
 
also i just looked this up, and this is kind of an awful takeaway from the ride music video:
 
https://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/lana-del-rey-ride/
 
and a very good point to "she's a whore as part of her persona" as a literal headline.
 
https://www.afarinmajidi.com/blog/2019/4/4/why-is-everyone-pretending-that-lana-del-rey-and-harvey-weinstein-didnt-fuck
 
"he’s not so much a femme fatale as she is a self-conscious corporate whore who makes a killing with her slutty image in a slut-shaming world. She’s a gorgeous paradox!"
 
what the fuck is that comment? jesus.
 
there's probably more. every woman gets called a whore at some point.

LITERALLY my first thought! She was reading Slim Aarons and she got to thinking..."fuck off". 
 
Do we know this is the album title and not a song title though? On IG she said "the record" and I never know which she means by that.    Apologies if that's already been covered here somewhere. 
 
I think the title is genius! Glamour tainted with pollution. Poison-green vinyl. 
 
I want National Anthem visuals but apocalyptic...I'm picturing that scene at the end of The Virgin Suicides with the debutante ball where everyone is wearing gas masks...an image like the one below as the album cover. Glamour and paranoia in the age of Covid. 
 

idk i really like the juxtaposition of something "classy" and stereotypically white like a country club where people are blinded by money and privilege to notice the toxicity of the outside world just my thoughts thoooo

The way we’re trying to guess this era’s aesthetic by dissecting her posts knowing damn well she’ll just go the opposite way lol do we even learn?

this would serve. I love a long album but sometimes I think back to how the standard UV edition was a perfect length

i think that her bringing up twigs for for an entirely separate point lana was trying to make. twigs is not an example of what lana was saying in the first rant, but she's an example of the point that she made of lana being labelled a "whore".
 
again as lana brings up more people, people think it's immediately an attack. it wasn't an attack. when twigs gets on a pole people call it art, because it's art. when lana gets on the pole, people call her a whore, because she's a whore? that's not correct. if nicki gets on the pole is she a whore? beyonce? sia? dua lipa? marina? rihanna? gaga?
 
it goes back to lana's point she's describing extremely poorly - she is a "whore" because she is lana del rey. she is "depressed" because she is lana del rey. she is "dumb" because she is lana del rey. she is "anti-feminist" because she is lana del rey. she is this and that and the other.
 
this never happens in the commentary for these other women. critics don't make stories about twigs to build a fake presumed persona and then use that as a weapon. critics don't make stories about beyonce to build a fake persumed person and then use that as a weapon. critics don't make stories about ariana to build a fake presumed person and then use that as a weapon in reviews to drag her down.
 
"lana del rey" is a label to describe her as much as "beyonce" is a label to describe beyonce. i think that's the best comparison i can make. when something is compared to beyonce's name, its a compliment, but in reviews about lana's work when they use her own name to describe her work it's an insult because of these pre-conceived notions of her.
 
the point is less about twigs not being art and more about lana being a "whore".

fuck my anticipating keeps on building thank god we don't have to wait 4 years between albums with her

If we're talking about vinyl coulors/effects then it should be something like this -
 

 
Kinda looks like Chemtrails especially if the vinyl is a lighter blue.

Heroin was referenced in FIILY tho
 
i hope your feeling is wrong

god pls no, not with this fire and energy she has

I don't want that I'm clear

this is it for me. i cannot deny lana had a real point to her post, but in the convos ive had with people outside of this forum i feel like i have to pretend that she didnt make a point about internalized misogny (twofold, perhaps). but theres simply no way to convince the whiners on twitter. most of them made up their mind about lana a long time ago anyways. it's a shame to see her lose casual listeners through this debacle though

I honestly think Lana's original point is REALLY interesting and REALLY complex - where's the line between asking women to be responsible with their output and then asking them to edit their truth? men aren't asked to be responsible. men aren't asked to edit their truth. That is a genuinely complex and nuanced question. But her point became moot when she used those those WOCs names as if to suggest they haven't recieved far worse critisism than Lana has ever or will ever recieve.
 
there could have been a really interseting conversation that came from her post if she hadn't executed it the way she did. the hate she recieved from mostly women at the start of her career WAS notably vicious and i think hurt her immeasurably to not be taken seriously and to be accused of fabricating her authenticity.

But Lana didn't name Twigs as her opposite. She named the media's reactions to their art as opposite.

Ajay deleted, sadly. She made great points and filled in some blanks for those who didn't know the context.

lmaaaaaooo
 
"this is our reality."
 
trying to get home from a fucking house party.  oh, how she suffers 

this is always how I conceptualize things post-BTD. im curious as to how everyone else sees things
 
BTD: January 2011 - August 2012
PD: September 2012 - December 2013
UV: January 2014 - March 2015
HM: April 2015 - December 2016
LFL: January 2017 - August 2018
NFR: September 2018 - February 2020
COCC (lol): March 2020 - present

she's more intelligent than we giver her credit for, but not exactly as wise as we think she is. 
 
i think she and ASAP would make a hot couple

lana del rey died with honeymoon, she sang her swan song and lust for life was her manifesto, she moved out of the black (lana) into the blue (elizabeth) .. she was born to die

cool blues / earthy tones i think. sunset vibes.

Sorry to open this endless discussion but someones gotta do it... what flower/colour pallet do we think this era will be?