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hahah hi thats so funny.
Goddd some of the old threads on here are so messy. I went back through some of my posts today and its funny to read but so odd because its like a time capsule of your personality. I was literally 13 when I started going on here so I said the dumbest shit.

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in.
 
Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. 
 
I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album.
I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released.
 
I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums  ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it
 
Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened.
 
Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in.
 
Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. 
 
I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album.
I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released.
 
I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums  ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it
 
Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened.
 
Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.

hahah hi thats so funny.
Goddd some of the old threads on here are so messy. I went back through some of my posts today and its funny to read but so odd because its like a time capsule of your personality. I was literally 13 when I started going on here so I said the dumbest shit.

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in.
 
Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. 
 
I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album.
I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released.
 
I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums  ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it
 
Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened.
 
Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.

Would have totally gone to this if it wasn’t announced so close to the day and also taking place during one of my best friend’s birthday weekends since I usually host
I still forever mourn not attending her Dublin show in 2013 that I had tickets to, but couldn’t attend last minute due to a family issue. I’ll see her there one day x

hahah hi thats so funny.
Goddd some of the old threads on here are so messy. I went back through some of my posts today and its funny to read but so odd because its like a time capsule of your personality. I was literally 13 when I started going on here so I said the dumbest shit.

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in.
 
Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. 
 
I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album.
I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released.
 
I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums  ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it
 
Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened.
 
Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.

hahah hi thats so funny.
Goddd some of the old threads on here are so messy. I went back through some of my posts today and its funny to read but so odd because its like a time capsule of your personality. I was literally 13 when I started going on here so I said the dumbest shit.

hahah hi thats so funny.
Goddd some of the old threads on here are so messy. I went back through some of my posts today and its funny to read but so odd because its like a time capsule of your personality. I was literally 13 when I started going on here so I said the dumbest shit.

Omg, unrelated and you won't know me, but I've seen you so many times throughout the years while going through old threads/discussions
 
Welcome back?!

if that is the case then they definitely lack taste!
 
 
but also  i know there’s a very stupid amount of people who have convinced themselves through some parasocial relationship where they think they know want lana wants and has gone through personally and get to have a say in spreading the word that people shouldn’t listen to the album cause it was the worst time of lanas life where she was (apparently):
addicted to *insert drug*, had an ED and this and that and definitely would not want you listening to the album because of that. 
 
- which i understand being speculative based off lyrics and/or interviews but like…. they state it as pure fact and then use that to be lanas knight behind a screen and talk down to others who enjoy the album  
 
* which i assume could turn some newer fans away from that material 

It’s one of my favourite albums 

I love that album so so much I hope she re-releases it one day

cinematic kitschy diy trailer park glitter glam thrift store boots the house down yas mama slay masterpiece that makes us travel to another dimension 

Why would anyone hate one of her best albums? 
 
I love AKA so much. It makes me feel like I'm living that "trailer park life". 

yep  every once in a blue moon somebody makes an account and posts scat porn all over the website, it's been happening for YEARS

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in.
 
Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. 
 
I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album.
I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released.
 
I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums  ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it
 
Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened.
 
Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.

Wait scat trolls???? Thankfully I think I left before that started happening hahaha

Wait scat trolls???? Thankfully I think I left before that started happening hahaha

Wait scat trolls???? Thankfully I think I left before that started happening hahaha

Wait scat trolls???? Thankfully I think I left before that started happening hahaha

I doubt they've even listened to it tbh... they just hear other people hating it and go along with it

It's because people on TikTok basically decided to create their own fanfiction around the Lizzy Grant era and Lana's life during the making of AKA, so now they've deemed it "problematic" to listen to  AKA is an excellent album and one of my favorites of all time, and she definitely deserves to be appreciated as the icon she is

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in.
 
Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. 
 
I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album.
I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released.
 
I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums  ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it
 
Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened.
 
Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.