bluefiona

Okay but what YOU might interpret as a nasty comment, isn't to someone else. You're from a different country than I am, for example. People from different countries and cultures have different ideas of what's what. People interpret differently. 
 
I think the actual nasty comments are so few and far between that they don't warrant someone having a meltdown about them every 25 pages or so. Admittedly, my threshold is pretty high ... I've been part of communities that make this one look like the online equivalent of a nunnery. Additionally (and I can't speak for others), I come to this site to read what people REALLY think. I don't come here to read glossed over Instagram rubbish.
 
I'm not saying that I agree with everything everyone says on this thread, just as I'm sure people read my shit and go, "Fuck, STFU Rorman". But you know ... just scroll on or put people on ignore if they repeatedly piss you off.
 
Like, is complaining about people complaining any better than people complaining? Is it helpful? Because I'm typing a fucking post rn complaining about you complaining about people complaining, and it feels pretty fucking futile, which is why this is the end of it.

Listen, Cherry.
 
If you only want to read all rainbows and lollipop shit, go play in her Instagram comments.
 
Disagreeing with someone else or calling them out for being harsh or whatever is okay, but it's literally all you do.
 
Nobody is forcing you to participate in this thread. Maybe you shouldn't?
 
As I've said before, it just ain't that serious.

her laziness and lack of effort is truly ruining my love for her art... at the moment

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/04/obsessed-fan-plotted-kidnap-us-singer-lana-del-rey/
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/02/lana-del-rey-breaks-down-into-tears-in-atlanta-following-thwarted-kidnapping-attempt/
https://www.tmz.com/2015/12/04/lana-del-rey-cars-stolen-house/
https://nylon.com/articles/lana-del-rey-home-break-in
https://metro.co.uk/2018/04/18/lana-del-rey-attacked-gig-fan-jumps-leaves-stage-7476818/
 
She probably didn't expect such rabid fans 

I agree 100%.
 
When was the last time the hipster DJ in-crowd was very enthusiastic about her music, took it and remixed it en masse? 2012. She hasn’t been considered ‘hip’ to that varied crowd since ‘Paradise,’ at the outside. She briefly and successfully presented herself to the world as an international style icon and influencer, which impressed millions, but then abruptly pulled the plug on that. Since then, her public image has been erratic, inconsistent and poorly-defined.
 
To me, for all intents and purposes, she hasn’t really been Lana Del Rey since ‘Paradise.’ She was someone else in the last three albums, perhaps ‘’Elizabeth.’
 
Either way, she is not ‘hip’ now, not ‘cool,’ not ‘in.’ At the upscale Manhattan salon where I get my hair cut, they have a great LDR mix tape, but everything on it is from BTD/P. I say, “Have you heard the music she’s released since?” and the answer is typically something like, “Does she HAVE other albums??” or “I didn’t know she’s released anything else.” To me, that’s telling. Does it tell the whole story? No.
 
I accept what she is now, but that’s not the same thing as liking it. I like MAC and VB, but I am wary of her increasing PC-ism in both her life and her music. I don’t like to see her constrained by it or advocating it.

'Top of the year' is admittedly vague but the top of the year means the start, e.g. January-March. Here's a link to a translator's website who wanted to clarify the meaning: https://www.translatorscafe.com/tcterms/en-US/question.aspx?id=34435     She went onto her old twitter and answered someone who asked when it'll be out with 'who knows.' We're not misunderstanding anything.
 
Tbh I genuinely think this era could have been amazing in a lowkey way. Yeah she attracts the cool-kid listeners but the cool kids are wearing glossier makeup instead of brighter brands and are getting into the environment, it's not the same as it used to be and this $1 poetry stuff could have been good and fit with that aesthetic. I get wanting to wait to release it late summer- if that's what she's planning, god willing- but still. To reiterate, no, we're not mad just because she hasn't released it. She could have waited until summer 2022 to drop it, if she didn't say it would have been the top of 2019. My favourite band are off doing independent projects and the fans know we won't get another album until 2021 at the earliest. No one's mad because fans, even discussion board invested fans, want quality over quantity when they fall in love with a quality artist. If they'd announced that a new album was done, ready for release in a few months, and then just never mentioned it again and sent photos posted on their instagrams to music magazines and gave absolutely no indication of when they intended to drop it, then people would get mad. And rightly so. Artists shouldn't be expected to cater to their fans' every whim, but shouldn't jerk them around either. It's a two way street and miss del rey has closed one of the lanes for the foreseeable future.

The thing is: people who listen to Lana Del Rey like to give off a cool image, especially people who are not really her fans but "pretend" to like her music to come off as a hipster, indie, cool kind of person. It's the truth, the majority of people who listen to her are like that and if you don't believe me just see a picture of the crowd at her concerts. And now Lana is... just not cool. She's not that bad girl who parties at Chateu Mormont with tons of older men, goes to fashion shows wearing all leather and sings about being in the land of gods and monsters. Right now she's just a white female who goes to the church, parties with her other white friends, drinks green tea and sings about going to the beach. She's just bland.
 
Compare her to Britney Spears, for example: on instagram, Britney posts videos of her working out, pictures of her children's doodles, doodles SHE paints herself and those motivation images grannys find on google. But her audience knows she's like that and her audience kinda connects with her that way. Lana, on the other hand, appeals to a very hip cool young crowd and recently she's just not it. If "real" fans are already dropping her imagine how casual fans must feel lol.
 
I promise this is the first and last long post I make on this thread  don't wanna get too invested like some of y'all.

I just came back from the Fashion Spot forum. I'm not sure if it's allowed in here to post a link from another forum but anyway - they are ripping Lana and Steven into shreds over there. They hate the cover, the styling, etc. 
 
One example:
 
"Steven Klein should be banned for this. 
OMG It's so terrible that I can't even describe
And lana del rey should release a new album Immediately to apologize for that terrible cover" 
 

I just came back from the Fashion Spot forum. I'm not sure if it's allowed in here to post a link from another forum but anyway - they are ripping Lana and Steven into shreds over there. They hate the cover, the styling, etc. 
 
One example:
 
"Steven Klein should be banned for this. 
OMG It's so terrible that I can't even describe
And lana del rey should release a new album Immediately to apologize for that terrible cover" 
 

I actually like the photos . It's been a real long time since she's done anything like this. I hope something comes out soon. 

I just came back from the Fashion Spot forum. I'm not sure if it's allowed in here to post a link from another forum but anyway - they are ripping Lana and Steven into shreds over there. They hate the cover, the styling, etc. 
 
One example:
 
"Steven Klein should be banned for this. 
OMG It's so terrible that I can't even describe
And lana del rey should release a new album Immediately to apologize for that terrible cover" 
 

I actually like the photos . It's been a real long time since she's done anything like this. I hope something comes out soon. 

I just came back from the Fashion Spot forum. I'm not sure if it's allowed in here to post a link from another forum but anyway - they are ripping Lana and Steven into shreds over there. They hate the cover, the styling, etc. 
 
One example:
 
"Steven Klein should be banned for this. 
OMG It's so terrible that I can't even describe
And lana del rey should release a new album Immediately to apologize for that terrible cover" 
 

welllll..... i can't say i don't agree. it's not Lana's fault tho, she did the best she could    but i'm still happy about the shoot, because it's at least SOMETHING, and i sort of feel that it's a sign and well get the album in a few months

I just came back from the Fashion Spot forum. I'm not sure if it's allowed in here to post a link from another forum but anyway - they are ripping Lana and Steven into shreds over there. They hate the cover, the styling, etc. 
 
One example:
 
"Steven Klein should be banned for this. 
OMG It's so terrible that I can't even describe
And lana del rey should release a new album Immediately to apologize for that terrible cover" 
 

I just came back from the Fashion Spot forum. I'm not sure if it's allowed in here to post a link from another forum but anyway - they are ripping Lana and Steven into shreds over there. They hate the cover, the styling, etc. 
 
One example:
 
"Steven Klein should be banned for this. 
OMG It's so terrible that I can't even describe
And lana del rey should release a new album Immediately to apologize for that terrible cover" 
 

I'm getting very sick of the tackiness, it seems a bit overdone at this point, but like whatever at least her [CONTENT WARNING] face looks good.

doesnt this mean we also owe her nothing? lol. she lives a life of luxury without having to have a 9 to 5 bc she makes beautiful music. whatever people say on the internet will not reach or affect her.  meanwhile i am actually very into this shoot. soooo different from what we expect of LDR and not even lazy!!  like a futuristic caricature of old time glamour mass produced in a factory. but  Where Is NFR

Yes, she talks about her poetry book My Ass Clapping Over the Violets & about which brand has the best leggings

No but seriously, the only Lana fillers I care about are on the second half of Honeymoon

honestly if you're expecting this thread to be about NFR News (aka non-existent information) then you're a tad bit delusional

Much of her 2012-forward fame was predicated on her appearance, which she exploited hand-over-fist, and fans and the media ate it up.
 
So many, including me, are just continuing to follow that aspect of her career, since it was critical to her appeal and something she willed into existence or at least agreed to.
 
Since she's taken a radical left turn in that regard, as an aspect of her career, it's a worthy topic. 
 
'Image' has played a huge part in popular music, from Sinatra, Elvis, Little Richard, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Supremes, Dylan, Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, the Eagles, Led Zeppelin, James Taylor, Springsteen and Donna Summer to the Police, Duran Duran, Prince, Michael Jackson, the 80s big hair metal bands and Nirvana all the way to Ice Cube, L.L. Cool J, the Beastie Boys, Lady Gaga, Nick Jonas, Beyonce and Justin Bieber. 
 
It may not be an angle of popular culture that interests you, but it is a big slice of the pie, just as 'rock star dress and fashion' is, and has become the topic of traveling shows to the Metropolitan Museum in NYC and elsewhere. 

Ahh I see. Makes sense.
 
Anyway. I think it’s just time we come to terms with he fact she really is going to look like Priscilla at 50.