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Assuming you've followed the directions for setting permissions that Elle has given on recommended fix using Chrome, and you still have the problem (which I did, and it still happened for me on occasion):
 
 
 
It may depend on how you access the web-page (e.g. a bookmark from the browser is different from a within-LB link). So try accessing the page differently. The "tell" for me (and I use chrome/PC) is the red-colored "not secure" notation in the browsers URL text-field (with a white x inside a red circle preceding the  "not secure"). When it's red like that, I CAN'T do stuff. However, if I can get the notation to change to a black-colored "not secure" notation ( with a ! in a triangle preceding), then I can do stuff (I'm just relaying my experiences). 
 
So for instance, when I go to my profile page from a browser bookmark, I see the red notation version and am not able to do some things (i.e., review my past activity). However, if I follow the link on my profile page to my profile page (i.e., using the avatar-picture in the upper-right corner of the profile-page, which is an image-link to it), things turn black-fonted-triangle-version for the URL notation in the browser URL field, and I can do the stuff ON THAT PAGE that I couldn't do before.
 

For anyone who might be interested in this new interview with The Nexus that was released yesterday which mentions Lana:
 
To sum it up the talking points:
- He was sent demos from his publishing (Sony) to try and get him and Lana to work together
- She was introduced to him as Lizzy Grant but by the time they actually met she was fully transformed into Lana Del Rey
- They did a 2 hour writing session for a song inspired by Sugababes
- Lana played them an early demo of Video Games
- Briefly touches on recording Nation Anthem (Would have have been 'I Want It All' version)
 
Transcript:
 
 

Overthinking it again:
 
I like the song; it's a grower for me, but a hard song to interpret, as in confusing. Why would she ask Jesus to take her out of her life (there) when she, in fact, left (there). So I distribute the lyrics over the two characters to make a typical Lana-emo epic out of it. The verses are the LDR-character while the chorus and bridge are the male. Is this a common interpretation? The male character is probably dead, which would make the chorus ironic and prophetic. The bridge, with its clear references to hurting (e.g. "black and blue"), could make a different kind of sense, as in an abuse theme, and an additional (undisclosed) reason for leaving him. It would have been great if this song were at the end of UV (after TOW) to make the ITTJ guy seem the same as the Cruel World guy. Sure it's fucked up that she refers to it as "true love" in the song, but I think part of the point of UV (album and song) was a comparison of abusive relationships to addictive (and ultimately destroying) drugs, so that line might have fit logically/aesthetically as a delusional perspective of the character.

from the Elton/Lana discussion:
"Looking back, there was a more eccentric performative approach to it. I was thinking about Maria Callas, or someone darker coming through." Elton John also says it wasn't bad above that quote, and I would think his opinion trumps (bad word these days) music critics or anti-fans. FWIW, I actually decided to buy BTD after that performance (and on the basis of that performance, as in, ok, this person I need to know better), so I couldn't have thought it was bad. She made a mistake in the beginning of starting too low, but then did an "accelerando" in pitch, carrying on with a kind of Kabuki x hip hop vibe, and then she slayed the bridge. Not bad at all, especially if you don't like your pop divas all sounding alike.

from the Elton/Lana discussion:
"Looking back, there was a more eccentric performative approach to it. I was thinking about Maria Callas, or someone darker coming through." Elton John also says it wasn't bad above that quote, and I would think his opinion trumps (bad word these days) music critics or anti-fans. FWIW, I actually decided to buy BTD after that performance (and on the basis of that performance, as in, ok, this person I need to know better), so I couldn't have thought it was bad. She made a mistake in the beginning of starting too low, but then did an "accelerando" in pitch, carrying on with a kind of Kabuki x hip hop vibe, and then she slayed the bridge. Not bad at all, especially if you don't like your pop divas all sounding alike.

from the Elton/Lana discussion:
"Looking back, there was a more eccentric performative approach to it. I was thinking about Maria Callas, or someone darker coming through." Elton John also says it wasn't bad above that quote, and I would think his opinion trumps (bad word these days) music critics or anti-fans. FWIW, I actually decided to buy BTD after that performance (and on the basis of that performance, as in, ok, this person I need to know better), so I couldn't have thought it was bad. She made a mistake in the beginning of starting too low, but then did an "accelerando" in pitch, carrying on with a kind of Kabuki x hip hop vibe, and then she slayed the bridge. Not bad at all, especially if you don't like your pop divas all sounding alike.

Would've been cool to see her but it is not relevant anymore really... her most recent mention about it was in 2019 and she stands firm that it was great
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elton-john-lana-del-rey-musicians-on-musicians-cover-902354/

Lana Del Rey has declined to be featured in upcoming documentary 'Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years of SNL Music' following the director's request.
In a new interview with Rolling Stone, Oscar-winning filmmaker Questlove, the director of the upcoming Saturday Night Live [SNL] music documentary 'Ladies & Gentlemen...50 Years of SNL Music', stated that he reached out to Lana Del Rey in hopes to have her be featured in the documentary to discuss the negative critisim received for her performance on SNL in 2012.
He said, "I wanted to reach out to anyone that’s ever caught bullets for a performance, and so instantly I reached out to both Lana Del Rey and to Ashlee Simpson. Both, understandably, not knowing what kind of storyteller I am, declined, and I get it. 'This is something I want to put behind me. I don’t want to be known as the person that messed up on SNL.' I think if I just pressed harder and gave them the 'my aim is true' standpoint, maybe I could have pushed a little further, but I understood."
Lana Del Rey recently alluded to her infamous SNL performance through her Coachella billboard which stated "Has Anyone Else Died For You?" with an image of a cross alongside the text "Lana Del Rey SNL Jan 14 2012" printed on the lower right corner.
The documentary is set to premiere on Monday, January 27th at 8/7c on NBC, and will be available to stream the following day on Peacock. The three-hour special broadcast event includes a look back at some of the show's 900+ musical guests and promises "untold stories behind the culture-defining, groundbreaking, and news-making musical performances, sketches, and cameos of the past 50 years."
 

 
 

Patti Smith said that she’s excited to hear Lana’s new album!
 
As a fan, then, what are you looking forward to in 2025?
Smith: I’m waiting for the new Lana Del Rey album. I’m looking forward to Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein. And Gerhard Richter has a big museum show coming up, I think at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. He’s my favorite artist—I met him! I went to visit him in Cologne.
 
https://www.wmagazine.com/culture/patti-smith-soundwalk-collective-correspondences-art-show-exhibit

David Lynch, the writer-filmmaker whose works include Mulholland Drive and Twin Peaks, has died aged 78.
 
Lynch's death was announced on his Facebook page by his family.
 
"There's a big hole in the world now that he's no longer with us," the post said.
 
"But, as he would say, 'Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.' … It's a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way."
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly9vymjexvo
 
RIP to the one of the greatest filmmakers of all times.

Well I think it was her first Grammy nomination of consequence, and it was for Best Pop Vocal Album, and as I'm Lana-spelled-backwards with respect to "authority-figure" opinions on useless issues, I'll just go with that. Also, she might have considered it an album to begin with, then changed her mind later, because the album was shortish, and technically contained two cover songs. :^)
 
It's also a weird album in virtue of having a title with no title track. There's no song on the album I know of that uses the word "paradise", although the songs are relevant to that (and uses "heaven" a lot). Maybe a better title would have been "Fucked up holiday" or "Soft Ressurection" [the latter would have seemed a wry reference to the Born-to-Die-negative-hype wave, but she probably would have been ex-communicated by the Vatican, and therefore, decided not to go that way].

It’s out!

 
Listen to the concert here: https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/radiokoren-hyllar-lana-del-rey
Watch the concert here: https://www.berwaldhallen.se/play/dark-paradise-ett-portratt-av-lana-del-rey/
 
Setlist:
- Video Games
- Say Yes To Heaven
- Did you know that there´s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
— Caroline Shaw: and the swallow (Psalm 84)
— [Speech by conductor Hans Ek]
- Chemtrails over the Country Club
- West Coast
- A&W
- Love
- Burnt Norton (read by T.S. Eliot)
- Fingertips
— Charles Ives: Remembrance (A sound of a distant heart); Walt Whitman reads America 
— Charles Ives: The Sixty-Seventh Psalm
- Brooklyn Baby
- Get free
- Norman Fucking Rockwell (Slow down Version, Allen Ginsburg reads America)
- Dark Paradise
- Encore: Young and Beautiful


 
I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did!  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4uzAADWe00
In Every Dream Home A Heartache   Roxy Music

The song inverts the "standing on the shoulders of giants" saying a bit, but it sort of means the same thing? Why the references to critics and negative-hypers in this song? The only possible interpretation I can get is the idea that she attributes her lineage as responsible for all the things that were proposed to have been constructed about her. 

This book is funny af; highly recommended
Apparently they are making a movie
If you have ever worked in retail, you'll relate
Would also make a good Christmas present for an Ikea fan cos it's based on an Ikea knock-off

the whole story
https://www.thecut.com/article/matty-healy-azealia-banks-beef-explained.html
 

THIS NIGHT JUST KEEPS ON GIVING CHARLI MENTIONED LANA IN HER SPEECH AT 1:19 AHHHHHHH

- Lana Didn’t Get Interviewed 
- Lana made some photos on the red carpet (alone, with jack, with Lainey Wilson)
- she got photographed with jack and charli 
- she held a speech for jack about 6minutes about her marriage, the grammys and how jack is a huge supporter of her etc.
- she got photographed with raye 

Full transcription of her speech:
 
Hello. So happy to be here. Congratulations to everybody. Jack, you're such a big reason for why I'm friends with so many of the people I know in this room. I knew nobody when I started. That's why the first time I was ever nominated for any Grammy, I just didn't go. I didn't know how to do it. I really didn't. I didn't know a person. Then when I met Jack in 2018, he dragged me from the Clive Davis party, which is like one of the few things I actually love to do, to people watch, and he brought me to a diner and he was like, "if you just come to my home studio, I think we could write something really amazing." And I was not convinced. He is the most persistent, convincing person. I needed that. There are things, there are so many things I would not have done if he hadn't made me. After his wedding, he told me to stay at the Seaside Motel last year for five days because there was only one slot left on the Zoom session to submit to the Grammys. I at the time didn't even know that you personally had to submit. I thought that if your song was good, people just put it on a ballot, and if people voted for it the most, you won. So I waited for five days. I did a Zoom session with, you know, I started seeing like anonymous people enter the Zoom room with no names and thousands and thousands of them. We had taken an hour to practice a song that wasn't even the song that was being submitted because I didn't know how to do like, "Jimmy Jimmy Cocoa Puff, Jimmy, Jimmy, ride," so I just did my favourite song. We ended up being nominated for, was it maybe five nominations last year? So, you know, I mean, there's so many things that I learn every year. I'm so happy for everybody who has won an award. I'm hearing words tonight like innocence, is the most important thing to hold on to. Truth prevails above all. Follow your heart. This is a way different climate than 15 years ago. I'm just, you know, I have so many thoughts in my head, and I'm hoping that everyone who is here tonight who received an award will just fly with the confidence that getting it has instilled in you, if it means anything to you. Because, you know, if you have momentum, keep it up. Don't ever let it stop. Jack is a big reason why part of my story and the perception of me turned around. If it did at all, it is in part because of the music that he helped bring out in me. I love to sing. I love to write. It kind of diminished a little bit over those 10 years before I met him. Most of all, I'm grateful for him, for his example that he gave me in his marriage to Margaret. I saw the way he looked at her when he met her. He's a big reason why I waited so long to get married and why I met my amazing husband. I really feel like there's kind of a singer's curse around meeting an honest partner who has no skin in the game, no dog in the race. It's super nerve-racking to have to kind of hold on to an innocent perception of how things could go when you're in an industry where maybe your values and your morals don't quite match up with what's going on, especially when people think that you probably don't have any morals or values. So it can get all twisted up. So, Jack, thank you so much for maybe helping other people look at me in a way that is a little bit closer to how I percieve myself. Freud would say that that's very important, considering 30% of how you feel about yourself is what you hear other people say about you. Regardless of whether you care or not, that's just true. So, other than my managers who really have turned my life around in the way that I still think making music is fun, you have so many friends. You've just really made it feel like Hollywood can be glamourous still, and you can still have a very rich home life even when you get rich. I was talking about me, not you! You'll be richer than all of us with your 50% on everything! Jack has more marble in his house, more herringbone-patterend wood floors, more shiplap, more farmhouse sinks, and car elevator lifts in Brooklyn than I could ever imagine he'd be interested in. Congratulations! 
 
 
More photos of her presenting:
 

Beautiful angel wow x
 

Welcome to the The Right Person Will Stay Pre- Release Thread
Annual Discussion & Meltdown!
To be released on May 21st, 2025
 
November 25th: Lana Del Rey has announced via her Honeymoon Instagram that the title of her newest record will be "The Right Person Will Stay" with 13 tracks including production by Luke Laird, Jack Antonoff, Zach Dawes, Drew Erickson, and others. The lead single is set to be "Henry, Come On"

 
 
What we know so far:
- In a journal entry dated March 28th, 2023 posted on Instagram, Jack Antonoff wrote that "Lana refuses to leave [the studio]"
-  Lana Del Rey has revealed to a fan while at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama that she is "working on a new recording" in July 2023. Later that month, she visited Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama where she recorded 3-4 songs.
- In November 2023, Lana Del Rey hung out with Luke Laird, a country music producer/songwriter, in Nashville. They later visited again in January.
- In January 2024, Lana Del Rey stated she was working on new songs with Jack Antonoff in an Instagram story post.
- In January 2024, Lana Del Rey originally announced the title of the record to be 'Lasso' with a release date of September 2024, though this did not come to fruition.
- In August 2024, Lana Del Rey said, “We have two more [songs] coming out by the end of the year!” in an interview with Vogue. It is unclear if she meant songs with Quavo or solo songs.
 
Potential tracks (unconfirmed):
- Henry, Come On (created with Luke Laird, snippet uploaded to Lana's Instagram on January 18th, 2024)
- Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver cover originally released on December 1st, 2023)
- Tough (w/ Quavo) (country/hip-hop collaboration originally released on July 3rd, 2024)
- The Right Person Will Stay (hypothetical title track)
- Lasso (hypothetical original title track)
- Prettiest Girl in Country Music (country song written with Nikki Lane performed on January 24th, 2022)
- Hey Blue Baby (country song performed at Jack Antonoff's Ally Coalition on December 5th, 2018)
- I Must Be Stupid For Being So Happy (country song performed at Jack Antonoff's Ally Coalition on December 5th, 2018)
- Roses Bloom for You (Lust for Life outtake Lana acknowledged wanting to release in December 2024. She also performed a warmup of the song before a performance in August 2024)
- In God's Time (registered in July 2024)
- Fenway Park Intro Song ("Past, Present, Future" intro song debuted at her Fenway Park concert in June 2024)
- Stand By Your Man (Tammy Wynette cover performed multiple times during Lana's 2023 tour)
- Dolly Parton collab (Lana, Nikki Lane, and Luke Laird visited Dolly Parton's home in January 2024)

these kinda gagged me