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yeah can a mod please fix this, recently the site been taking ages to load on my phone :/

lana and chuck posting ASL and 14/f/nirvana on instagram is making me think there'll be a song about hooking up with some 45+ dude via yahoo chat or smth 

They're getting less and less imaginative...
 

As for the quick judgment in the media, I suppose it's a mixture of going along with the overall journalistic opinion on her and being overwhelmed with deciphering who she is. It may be easier for some to write something off as "fake" when the subject you're dealing with is too complex to be broken down in a few words.
 
Also, and I think this needs to be pointed out explicitly, a lot of what Lana does follows an almost story-like type of narration. The way she speaks about her past, the way she sometimes (but definitely not always; more on that later) explains her work and especially the way she speaks in her work sounds very scripted, well-thought-out and partially exaggerated (as in artistically modified). It almost seems as if she is really trying to create an unreality with words and images. All this is doubtlessly essential part of her artistry.
 
She almost succeeds at creating this illusional reality (= unreality), but a conflict of some sort arises when she suddenly spares us "the epic narrative" and austerely speaks about things as they are/were. For instance, when she talks about "this guy" she once was with, she suddenly seems a lot more real. Few people are willing to live and express their lives like Lana does; society calls them dreamers. I am not trying to say Lana is necessarily a dreamer, but she certainly has highly imaginative qualities. 
 
I don't think the word "fake" applies to artists and work of arts in general unless we're indeed talking about replica of something. In the end, the CDs, the music videos or even the words she utters are real, so there's nothing fake about that. Considering all of us are experiencing her art in a very intense way, it may be hard at times to put things in perspective, but I am of the personal conviction that what she does should be regarded like a painting in a gallery, presupposing it is a painting and not a photograph. Not that I'm for the institutionalisation of art, though. Why are we presupposing that the art she creates is real? Reality isn't created, reality exists and oh my, I am getting into this a bit too much right now. 
 
I am sure that what she does is authentic, but bear in mind that she's proclaimed to be "making [her] life a work of art." She is not creating a standalone piece [of art], she is making her whole life one; her being both creator and creation at the same time. 
 
It's not quite as simple as that, though. I reckon that I have mostly been arguing for her making art which shall not be mistaken for reality (what the hell is reality even?), but there is another conflict that arises here. I don't know who of you have met her or seen her live, but we all know how squeaky, excited and disappointingly [irony] humble she is on and off stage. 
 
I guess she's real and unreal at the same time. Personally, I think she struggles holding the balance between being a creator and creation of blood and flesh, like all artists do sometimes. I don't know if any of this even remotely answers your questions or meets the purpose of this thread. Well, at least I spent some time thinking on this fairly eventless Wednesday. 

As promised, with the leak of "Behind Closed Doors", I've added a new volume to my collection to tame some of the longer compilations. I'm pretty pleased with the results, though it's weird to get used to. But it gives me an excuse to listen to Lana nonstop to get into it.
 
Not to disappoint, but I did not make that hip-hop volume. It just would have been too short and basically only shortened two volumes, leaving "Black Leather Moonlight" unruly. So here's what I came up with...
 
For some perspective, here's what my library now looks like. I'm waiting to integrate the Black Beauty EP into my unreleased collections, at least until the Ultraviolence tracklist confirms none of these will be going into an "Ultraviolence: Demos" album. But I made Summer Wine and Chelsea Hotel No. 2 their own singles, leaving only the five Nowels leaks in that EP.
 



 
And now the tracklists!
 
My fav volume is the same as ever. Consisting of Lizzy tracks from 2006-2009.
 

 
The new and improved volume 2 focuses heavily on cutesy love songs, mostly pop with a brief foray into organic sounds from BTTB-OOW. Butterflies kinda sticks out but I can't separate it from Butterflies Part 2...In the future, should Hollywood not make it to Ultraviolence, it would be a good pre-Butterflies track.
 

 
Volume 3! The new one! A working title, since this lyric doesn't come from any of these songs. Basically this is sassy, aggressive, often rock-inspired Lana. Feedback on this please!
 

 
Volume 4 is now my sadcore volume. Without COTBR, VC, and TOSTB, it is a lot more melancholy. I like it.
 

 
Volume 5 isn't just Lana doing pop, it's Lana pretty much going way leftfield into mainstream/hip-hop territory. I guess. It fits shut up
 

 
Volume 6 remains, though I'm contemplating splitting it up between laptop demos with instrumentals and a cappellas
 

 
(old screenshot, name isn't changed)
 
Please tell me what you think!

So did they stop selling the Ghost EP Cd because it was included in that bonus bundle?

'voodoo' sounds a bit slay-ish

Oh my. Did Rob subtly confirm that Black Beauty is on Ultraviolence?  

omg i hope no one reading this thinks anyone has actually described my balls as being either gothic or elegant. what would that require anyway? piercings? a perm? cause i have neither lmaoooo
 
ps if anyone wants to buy the same dildo, its on sale 
 

I wonder if she is writing music in rehab? I can only imagine the raw emotion that would come from those songs..

Trust no one

cum 2 the south pls biotch

Zoe's power was so badass
 
And then when she revenge fucked that rapist to death whew kween
 
As soon as they started giving her extra shit/coven pride/bringing Kyle back to life, she was done. Not just her character but even Taissa's acting became corny. Really Kyle should've stayed a zombie the whole time, wouldn't have been half as dull. And then her hell. WHY WOULDN'T HER HELL REFERENCE THE TIME SHE ACCIDENTALLY KILLED HER BOYFRIEND? Dumbass.
 
 
Um have you seen Kit

Trust no one

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Coven was such a mess, as much as I enjoyed it. 
#asylumforever 
 
also yES @@SitarHero i have been craving a Lily lead role since Nora. Mary Eunice was close but I still want more screen time for her. 
I also really want Alexandra Breckenridge (Young Moira in Murder House & irrelevant victim in Coven) to get a bigger role because damn, she is gorgeous and really talented IMO. I really want Taissa Farmiga to go away, too.

Definitely don't trust rick with uploading shit to his site

Should we trust Lana  

I'm sorry it took so long, I was busy with school!

 

She was legen- wait for it -dary as Barney's Mom   

Thanks. Nothing wrong with a little bit of shade. Even if it's uneventful like in this case.

May 1st is a Thursday though...

She's a very good liar 

She's such a saint.
I hope she's wearing a baseball cap on the cover lol

Makes sense. Maleficent will premiere in May, too. They will promote her with the help of the movie. Clever move from Intersope.