Quentin

omfg this blog: http://everythinglana.tumblr.com/ is the one that said the time of the season snippet was going to be on her new album so i got really pissed off and sent that person an anon with fake info on the new album and now they've posted some of it on their blog as fact 
 
machinery of the night is a reference to howl (angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night) and then i just made up extra lyrics from trailerparkdarling's crack city 
 
1. Hundred Dollar Bills
       Rerecorded vocals featuring spanish guitars & Barrie (her boyfriend)
       singing harmonies.

3. Catch & Release
       Lyrics: Take me down to the crack city where the coke is pure and the
       rocks are pretty, let’s make a break to crack city, New York to
       Mississippi.
 
i didn't think they'd go with it i am so SORRY 

I don't have time to respond to this entire post right now, but I couldn't not respond quickly to this part:
 

You could, you know, respond to what I've actually written or ask me to clarify what I've written rather than putting words in my mouth and making straw arguments. I never said all the media criticism was valid nor did I endorse any of the accusations you listed. What I did say is that she accused the media of slander against her and her family about things she continues to lie about in the same breath, and that she falsely claimed that she doesn't have money and that her family never had any money. In the same response that she mentions media slander, she says, "Everything they wrote was fucking crazy. Like about my dad, about me, like having millions of dollars, and all this shit." While I don't doubt that there were lean periods for her family financially, or that her father may have sustained large losses in the market during the bursting of various bubbles, or that much of his net worth was merely on paper, or whatever caveats you'd like to add, I'm quite confident in concluding that her father did have at least a million dollars (if not millions), and what you yourself wrote supports that conclusion. Later in the interview she says, "Saying I came from billions of dollars is crazy. We never had any money." I think it's telling that she moves the goalposts from millions to billions mid-interview, because I think she knows her dad probably is worth a couple million. No one ever said she came from billions of dollars, although she certainly did rub elbows with her dad's business contacts who were billionaires. At any rate, even if I am somehow wrong about her dad having millions of dollars, her claim that her family "never had any money" is just patently false. One need not even consider her father's business assets to determine this. It is obvious considering the property her father owns and the cost of tuition at Kent. Again, I never said anywhere, and do not necessarily believe, that her dad significantly funded her career (though I also don't think he was completely uninvolved in her career either). If Lana defended herself against this accusation by saying "My dad didn't fund my career" I would simply leave it at that. But that's not what she says. She says, "We never had any money" when the opposite is true. And if lying about coming from privilege weren't shitty enough, she has the gall to accuse the media of slander for saying so.

And it gets worse. Later in the interview she says, "Before I had no money. And now everything I make, I lose. So I don’t have money again, because I lose half." Perhaps she's referring to all the other people she has to pay, but presumably she's referring to taxes. It's one thing when rich people bitch about how much they have to pay in taxes. (And I confess, most of you would probably consider me rich, and I've been known to express sticker shock about how much I've had to pay at one time, but not that it was unfair. In fact, I think I should have to pay more.) But it's a whole 'nother thing for the rich to not only claim that they're not rich after taxes, but that they don't have any money afterwards. Boo fucking hoo. Tell it to your topiary pony, Lana.

On a final note, I really take issue with this:
Frankly, this is an incredibly presumptuous and rude remark, especially considering this was your first post made mere hours after joining the forum. You might take some time to familiarize yourself with members' views and contributions to the forum before making insulting comments like that toward them. If you're going to wing in here and question other fans' presence on a discussion forum for expressing their honest criticism, then, I may ask, why are you here?

Welcome to LanaBoards!

ARGHHH, I'm banging my head against the wall with this formatting. NOTHING IS BEING POSTED THE WAY IT SHOULD. WHEN I HIT POST, ENTIRE ARTICLES DISAPPEAR JLKSFJAKSLDJFALKJFAKLSDHFAJ GFDAJKSFA;LKSFJAL;
 
sorry, I just needed to rant

@@maru
 
Channel V at Splendour in the Grass
 
 
 
 
This interviewer is SUCH a fangirl.
Also, when interviewers and interviewees constantly speak at the same time --->
 
Once again I need a little help figuring out a word/expression. It's roughly between 6:37 and 6:41, when the interviewer says "did you get any backlash from your ???, you know, reenactment?"; no idea what she says.
EDIT: Added it, thanks @@jess9715! I did not know that.

What can I say, I have no life I'm very generous.
 
 

Next Libération interview
 

@@elllipsis You've joined six days ago and you're helping...

@@maru
 
El País interview (translation from Spanish)
 
 
 
Cute interview. I had no idea she'd spent 4 months in Santander when she was 16! (I guess that last question & answer gives a bit more context to what she recently said re: Barrie + not knowing any "worthwhile" people; she's disillusioned... but yeah, this is OT so I'll just shut up, sorry.)
 
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I'll transcribe the one from Channel V at Splendour In The Grass now.
By the way, that interview in CatRadio is not in Spanish, it's in Catalan. That will probably... complicate matters.

@@maru
20H TF1 was aired 30/01/2012
C à vous France 5 16/11/2012
Le grand journal Canal+ (the video isn't on their website anymore, can't find it on youtube) 30/01/2012
Le grand journal Canal+ with Bobby Womack 28/09/12
 
i'll start to translate the liberation interview now
 
EDIT : The concert privée was filmed on 23/09/11 and aired for the first time on 07/03/2012

Gonzai interview *hipster alert*
 
 

@@maru [-] November 15th, RTL Radio Station (with Steven Bellery) - France
Cherie FM in 6 parts (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) and Europe 1, you probably have this one i guess ?
 
She also participed to La Musicale Special Girls for Canal+ (not so long after the Concert Privée) but as i stated here we can't find the interview anywhere. I've PMed the guy from the link Paraiso gave me to ask him if he still has the files but he didn't answer yet and their boards is kind of dead

I like that she rhymed pain with pain. Has she been taking rhyming lessons from Pitbull?

or she saw the gif in the 'lana browsing lanaboards' thread and decided to tweet the vid, it's a subliminal message directed to us

TSUGI interview peeps, i'll correct the mistakes (if there still are) later corrected
Enjoy, the Twin Peaks vibes are strong in this one
 
 

Ugh, that interviewer was so annoying.   Transcribing what Lana says is relatively easy because she speaks very slowly... but that interviewer...  I ended up unapologetically editing his questions...

I didn't know she did an interview for TSUGI I think i'll do them all, they're pretty short and i have nothing to do until two weeks
The Libération Next interview is also on their website btw.

wait, so when she says wicked games she means wicked game by chris isaak? i thought she was referring to wicked games by the weeknd 
 
let me see that ass, look at all this cash 

I'll be glad to help (for all that is french at least)...
 
I'm In it

Nerdy, you say....?  Thank you!! 
 
Thank you so much, I'll definitely be needing you for some German interviews, and I'm glad you like the tiny heads!! 
 
Thank you! You found a lot of older interviews :3 
 
 
Thanks Quentin! (And congrats on your baby girl and new album, Kanye :3) 
 
 
Thank you so much to everyone that's volunteered! It'll make my life a lot easier. You are all incredibly cool 
 
It'll be anywhere from a couple of days to a week before I contact any of you to do anything -- I'm currently working on tying up the existing loose ends (2011 interviews) so that you guys aren't brought in on a project that's such a mess! 
 
You guys have all made me really happy! Thanks again! 
 
I hope no one is put off by all of the tiny Jay-Z heads in this post 
 
For anyone that is, I'm sincerely sorry
 
 
 
 
 

I'll be glad to help (for all that is french at least)...
 
I'm In it

Two points:
 
1. I agree that we could do without some of the personal snark, but I strongly disagree that spiritedly debating a polarizing topic somehow "destroys" a thread. Isn't that what a discussion forum is for? Personally I think this has been one of the most interesting Lana-related discussions here in awhile.
 
2. There have been several comments in this thread insinuating that people should stop expressing their opinions, which I don't think is appropriate. Again, isn't that the point of a discussion forum? (Ha, maybe that's contradictory-- asking people to stop expressing their opinion that others should stop expressing their opinion-- but so be it.)

No, Lana doesn't owe us anything, but I'm also not obligated to like her or refrain from valid criticism of her just because I like her music. Frankly, it amazes me the amount of excuses some of you make for her at times. (As a side note, I think a lot of projection is going on there.)

I started writing a long diatribe quoting the interview extensively and dissecting the info in it as well as what I found objectionable, but honestly, there's so much to criticize here that it became one big TL;DR that I had trouble even organizing coherently. (And that wasn't even getting around to responding to some of the replies in this thread!) I might still post that, but for those of you who still don't get what some of us took exception to, here's the CliffsNotes version:
Superficial America-bashing that seems rooted in pettiness over harsher media criticism and less commercial success in the US (and a ridiculously false perception of it at that), not in any sort of intelligent critique of the US Bringing up the subject of being criticized as anti-feminist, bitching about it, then expressing complacent views on feminism and denying obvious inspiration by female icons Denying she cares about her appearance when she certainly does Stating she has a degree in metaphysics even though Fordham does not offer a degree in metaphysics (and as Maru pointed out there is some doubt whether she even graduated at all) Hurling accusations of media slander against her and her family about things she continues to lie about in the same breath Falsely claiming that she doesn't have money and that her family never had any money Bitching about a lack of control of her image and how the media portrays her in the same interview she admits to "fucking around with" journalists in her answers in previous interviews Judgmental and pretentious statements that other people don't care about music/poetry/art as much as her and Barrie in the same interview she says music isn't her primary focus A pervasive attitude of defensiveness and victim-playing throughout

you shouldn't get so sad and/or upset -- the reason we are all here is because we feel connected to her in some way, and to some varying degree. there's a strong emotional investment in her. while i wouldn't say that she's a friend (because there is a difference between being a stalker and a psycho), i will say that i when i -do- have a (real, physical) friend, i put an emotional investment in that person. so if we hear (or read) something from that person that we disagree with, well, its ok to disagree. i fight with my friends every now and then. the worst or most dangerous kinds of relationships are the ones where you can't tell the other person to go fuck their own ass and die. constant harmony is not possible or recommended. but again, i'm a bit of a cynic
 
just because you disagree with someone or your perspective on that person gets shifted in a different direction doesn't mean your feelings for them necessarily have to change. since she's still a celebrity, and really, more of a distant entity in our lives, we're probably even less likely to allow negative opinions to influence our overall feelings. because no matter what she says none of it really changes the music. and i'm pretty sure she's got some fans for life. but music isn't the only aspect i adore. i think i love her. like, really. capital letters, hand-signing, hue-changing L-O-V-E. so as a result, i'm gonna call her a bitch when she's being a bitch. but whatever, she can say or do what she wants to fucking say or do. i don't really care, but it doesn't mean i won't have an opinion about it. interviews will always offer another glance into her as a person (whether intentional or not). and i'm not gonna lie, i'm very interested in her as a person. everyone here is, no? 
 
i don't think anyone here is making her out to be a horrible person. a child, maybe. but part of me thinks that no one ever really grows up, as a result of everyone still being controlled by their emotions (whether they realize it or not) ... anyway, she's just a fucking spaz NBD KK

.... you guys are really annoying me and twisting words. no one here is like OMG IM DONE WITH LANA DEL REY IM LEAVING THE FORUM. 
 
we're allowed to have our opinions, just as you have yours. if you want to think everything she shits out is 100% gold, that's super cool but we're allowed to think otherwise, and that doesn't mean we aren't fans or that we don't support her. if we weren't fans, we wouldn't be on this forum. being a fan doesn't mean you're always LANA DEL REY IS MY QUEEEEEN etc. at the end of the day, I think it was a discussion ~ not any sort of uprising against Lana as some of you are making it out to be

I think that while we try to "rationalize" the behaviour in this interview with "personality disorders", an inability to take criticism/adjust to fame properly,  she's human and just had an "off" day, etc, none of those rationalizations excuse her shitty attitude. They may explain, but they don't excuse it. 

Those legs