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THE 50 MOST POPULAR WOMEN ON THE WEB (ACCORDING TO GOOGLE) 2012



 
#50 - Vanessa Hudgens (45.6 million results - #34 last year)
#49 - Carrie Underwood (47.1 million results - #47 last year)
#48 - Jessie J (47.1 million results)
#47 - Hilary Duff (48.3 million results - #38 last year)
#46 - Kate Moss (48.5 million results)
#45 - Kate Middleton (49.3 million results - #26 last year)
#44 - Halle Berry (49.4 million results)
#43 - Lisa Ann (51.1 million results)
#42 - Scarlett Johansson (51.2 million results - #44 last year)
#41 - Jessica Alba (53.1 million results - #27 last year)
#40 - Hillary Clinton (53.7 million results)
#39 - Michelle Obama (53.9 million results - #43 last year)
#38 - Kylie Minogue (57 million results - #35 last year)
#37 - Jessica Simpson (57.8 million results - #32 last year)
#36 - Emma Watson (58 million results - #33 last year)
#35 - Jennifer Aniston (59.1 million results - #30 last year)
#34 - Fergie (64.9 million results - #28 last year)
#33 - Amy Winehouse (66 million results)
#32 - Marilyn Monroe (70 million results - #49 last year)
#31 - Ke$ha (80.6 million results - #36 last year)
#30 - Lindsay Lohan (90.9 million results - #17 last year)
#29 - Megan Fox (93.1 million results - #22 last year)
#28 - Whitney Houston (94.6 million results)
#27 - Alicia Keys (94.9 million results)
#26 - Angelina Jolie (103 million results - #20 last year)
#25 - Mariah Carey (107 million results - #24 last year)
#24 - Demi Lovato (113 million results)
#23 - Avril Lavigne (124 million results - #16 last year)
#22 - Kristen Stewart (125 million results - #31 last year)
#21 - Carly Rae Jepsen (126 million results)
#20 - Kim Kardashian (141 million results - #9 last year)
#19 - Christina Aguilera (150 million results - #23 last year)
#18 - Honey Boo Boo Child (168 million results)
#17 - Miley Cyrus (176 million results - #12 last year)
#16 - Selena Gomez (189 million results - #14 last year)
#15 - Shakira (198 million results - #8 last year)
#14 - Jenna Haze (198 million results)
#13 - Paris Hilton (200 million results - #19 last year)
#12 - Beyonce (210 million results - #13 last year)
#11 - Nicki Minaj (243 milion results - #5 last year)
#10 - Katy Perry (249 million results - #7 last year)
#9 - Jennifer Lopez (285 million results - #11 last year)
#8 - Taylor Swift (288 million results - #18 last year)
#7 - Madonna (292 million results - #10 last year)
#6 - Adele (299 million results - #15 last year)
#5 - Britney Spears (343 million results - #6 last year)
#4 - Lady Gaga (388 million results - #1 last year)
#3 - Cher (398 million results - #4 last year)
#2 - Rihanna (508 million results - #3 last year)
 

#1 - Lana Del Rey (722 million results)
 
 
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These are mine. Pretty simple but I like 'em!
 

These are mine. Pretty simple but I like 'em!
 

Nobody mentioned Chateau Marmont?

Born to Die - The "Why won't we just die?" Edition

She has plenty of already-written material she could have used for this release instead, but she wrote new songs which shows that she does care. I highly doubt she sat down and thought to herself "I don't really want to do this album so I'm not gonna try very hard with writing these songs." The fact that she has gotten plastic surgery, admits to hating performing and being very nervous about it, and plenty of other things she's done proves that she cares what other people think of her and that's she's very self-critical, so I really don't think she'd let these specific songs be released if she didn't care or try very hard. I think you have a horrible attitude in this case, you're coming off to me like this: "Oh, Lana didn't impress me with this album, so that means she obviously doesn't care about the artistic value of her work anymore, because she absolutely does everything in her career with me in mind." I don't mean to be rude but that's how you're coming across and it really upset me. I know a handful of hopeful-musicians and I know how much they put into their writing and their music, so I just find it extremely disrespectful that you'd go as far as saying she doesn't care anymore just because you don't like what you've heard of the new album.

I agree with this. From what we know of Lana, she is headstrong, a perfectionist/control-freak when it comes to art, and prioritizes her art and her intuition over the "business aspect", what's thought to be acceptable/"sell well", etc. And we've heard from multiple people, "You just can't tell her what to do", as well as from Lana that her label was giving her free reign to do whatever she wanted, and she was so appreciative for it.
 
Do I like the lyrics? Nope, not one bit. Do I think that Lana believes that she is still delivering quality content and that she wanted to release this? Yes.

It is impossible to judge an entire song from 10 or 20 second snippets, so I have completely refrained from doing so. You guys really shouldn't already judge an EP that hasn't came out yet though, don't want to fall prey to the expectancy effect.
 
I don't think "Ride" is as terrible as people are making it out to be, but I do think it could have been a wee bit better. I am waiting until I can listen to the EP for a few weeks in full before making any judgements. On a few albums a song I hated to begin with became my favorite, and songs I liked a lot became average. It takes a lot of listening to fully absorb a song, let alone an album in full. You have to listen to the flow, the progression, the lyrics.
 
No one should be saying it is the worst or best album yet.

So many deaf people in here. You're in my prayers :love:

I haven't listened to much of the new snippets-only American-and I'm completely fine with people's differing opinions and all, but reading this last bit really upset me. I think it's very disrespectful to Lana that you'd say she doesn't care about her music or the artistic value in it just because it didn't appeal to you. Maybe she is changing as a person, so she wrote in a different style or just wanted to experiment with sounds more on this rerelease? I don't know really, but it just makes me very sad to see you say she doesn't care because you don't like it. Personally, I think if she didn't care then she wouldn't have bothered making this EP, or having the Ride video be 10 minutes long. Idk, that actually really upset me so I'm just going to stop now.

These are the songs I like from the snippets:
 
none
 

Nobody mentioned Chateau Marmont?

Does anyone else agree that the piano in "Bel Air" sounds a bit similar to this song in the movie "Casper"
 

Wearing her quirky catch-phrases to death. Has anyone ever really stopped to look at the title "Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)"? Jesus Christ, Elizabeth, enough is enough! You know, I have a minute to kill, I'm going to make the whole AKA album with Gramma-esque titles.
 
1. Kill Kill (Florida Dark Surf Paradise)
2. Queen of the Gas Station (Neon Chevrolet Darling)
3. Oh Say Can You See (By the Dawn's Early Light?)
4. Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)
5. For K Part 2 (Rehab Daddy Issues)
6. Jump (Sonic Palm Tree Cocaine Heart)
7. Mermaid Motel (Miss America Gogo Dancer)
8. Raise Me Up (Mississippi South Pickup Truck Baby Doll)
9. Pawn Shop Blues (Hotel Jesus Meth)
10. Brite Lites (Jersey Dance Queen Lolita)
11. Put Me in a Movie (Little Girl Cinema Noir)
12. Smarty (Dope Criminal Pin-Up)
13. Yayo (Retro Boss Axl Rose Husband)
 
That came way too easy.

Can you just put all your unreleased songs on itunes so i can download them guilt free and collect them all please? Kthnxbi

I feel like if I was fake, this person would make the message say something that would make people mad. This one is a very Lana-esque response. I don't think Lana would have slapped a headdress in the video with no personal meaning behind it. We know Lana doesn't do anything in her music or videos just cause she feels like it, there is a story behind the reasoning. Of course, the message could possibly be a fake though.

Her themes are the same in most songs~ so most videos could be about any of her songs. That's what I love about them I think

get down like your tutor taught you to and do it

NOTE: Please respect the privacy of people mentioned in this post who are not public figures.

Here's something "juicy"...

Some time ago I was reading this interview and wondered if the teacher she mentions was a teacher at her boarding school.
 
If you do a little digging, using archive.org you can find that there was a Mr. Campbell that was an English teacher at her boarding school when she attended there, though he doesn't teach there now, and that they follow/friend each other on various social media platforms.

I subsequently discovered "Prom Song (Gone Wrong)" which is a love song in a high school setting, which notably has the following lyrics: "You played me Biggie Smalls and then my first Nirvana song."

More recently, in preparing for the covers-themed LanaDelReydio show I'm working on, I was looking up interviews where she mentions Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, or "Heart-shaped Box" and noticed this in one of the interviews I found:
 
I nearly did a spit take. But then I found something really weird. In another interview published just a couple days later, she changes the story:
 
Suddenly, Mr. Campbell turns into a she. WTF is that about? Is she trying to hide something?
 
Now I'm not necessarily saying I think she fucked her teacher. But I think she at least fantasized about it. (Perhaps the fact that it's her teacher is what "Gone Wrong" refers to.) And I think "Lolita" is about him too. Consider that in Nabokov's novel, Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged literature professor.

All of which just makes this serendipitous: