LanaFlowers

A genius that doesn't view writing as a craft but as something that just comes to your brain half-formed and perfect on the basis of it being hers... right. 

her and kanye have too much in common

That isn't what anyone has said at all. It's the fact that she speaks as if she has a level of awareness about everything which eludes mere mortals.
She's obviously very talented and successful, but this interview seems to be a prime example of letting it go to one's head.

They're not like OTHER celebs with their NORMIE bars, their NORMIE dance clubs, and their...room temperature tea! nuh-uh! we stan a  ~ q u i r k y ~  kween 

They're not like OTHER celebs with their NORMIE bars, their NORMIE dance clubs, and their...room temperature tea! nuh-uh! we stan a  ~ q u i r k y ~  kween 

I think it's more cringy than funny because they obviously have this idea built in their heads that they're these Anton LaVey type of characters who hold satanic rituals in their houses when they're just like every other person in LA who wears yoga pants and Sketchers, looking for the freshest roses to put on their $5,000 solid oak dining room table 

I may not be the biggest fan of gen z, but goddamn these kids deserve better than fragile white sadness lmao

I hear you - it applies to me as well in that not all of my relationships have been/are great - but she said, "I actually don't see any value in [calling them out] - it's just true." 
 
So she's saying that she doesn't do it to try and resolve a situation, she simply wants to blame them because she thinks things are their fault. Not really constructive or healthy. 
 
"I'm having a bad day and it's your fault"? Telling other people that they are responsible for your unhappiness is yikes, especially when you're 35. 

I do like unapologetic lana but I hope she doesn't let that ego get ahead of her and with this interview we can now see the kinda dynamic she has with Jack and why she's continued to collab with him lmao...a true yes man till the end! imo jack is REALLY not good for her artistry, yes man never are he's just there to stroke her ego and tell her she's the bestest.
 
on the music side of things I'm now worried with the words "folk, country album...piano"  pls dont let dealer be the yosemite of the era

I'm not trying to tell her how to feel, which is why I'm writing this all on lanaboards instead of in an angry email or something. How "valid" her feelings are is of literally no interest to me. I think it's a joke that she calls herself an underdog and then plays with her fans about the release date of her album because she knows they'll buy it anyway. Refusing to listen to any type of criticism is never a good sign in an artist. Her calling out Kanye in that comment and in her song is starting to look much more like projection than any valid concerns. She can feel however she wants and she doesn't need my permission to feel it. But equally I don't need her permission to think that she sounds like a self-absorbed yuppie with both a god and a victim complex. 

Now I'm scared about the record. It's either gonna be ground-breaking or a disaster. She's coming through as if she's scared as well. And that's the real reason why we have a delay.

I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say that getting the response of "you just want her to be depressed" is so, so tiring. I don't. But I also know that casting yourself in some curse-of-cassandra role, blaming other people entirely, constantly thinking of yourself as a victim of society and "the culture" and never questioning yourself, your motives, your actions, and whether you're right about things isn't a sign of happiness. She literally says in the interview "I don't feel like I'm doing okay. I just know now that I'm always right." That isn't a sign of someone getting better or "being confident", and from the fact she goes on to talk about the virus and trump and stuff she isn't just talking about women singing sexually or whatever (which she also absolutely did not invent). She's projecting out a shit ton, which again she says nearly verbatim. If you read this and came away thinking that she's just happy and confident I really don't know what to say other than maybe read it again. 
 
It's not unheard of for people to think of themselves both as a victim and as a mega-genius. The two go very much hand in hand. 

I don’t understand how she still believes, that she’s an underdog? I‘d say that with LFL that has changed dramatically. She’s been acknowledged as inspiration by a lot of other big artists. So this is something what makes her seem to blow up her ego as others have rightfully said. Nonetheless I can’t wait for the album and loved the parts about the music.

maybe she shouldn't have gotten critical acclaim after all if it results in her developing a superiority complex

Love two new song titles but jesus christ
 
This interview is literally Lana just rimming herself, and jack joining in
 
I mean they could only ever have that dynamic because Lana would have nothing to do with him otherwise, but still

No, this superior attitude of hers is definitely new.  
 
I can never understand why people get soooo pressed when people criticise her. You actually can be both a fan AND critical of some of her words and actions. 
 
Props to the people who actually construct counter arguments instead of the blanket "u R a H8eR aNd I dOn'T lIKe iT" nonsense. 

Lmao where is anyone here offended? It's been a civil discourse if anything. Users have pointed out things that they don't agree with and also things they've liked about the interview. That's how criticism works. I'm sorry, but I am not going to kiss anyone's ass, that's just completely wrong. I find it actually weird, that there are some here more concerned about what other users disagree with?

Blaming "SJW culture" for people not being sychophants, I really have to laugh. 

She sounds so pretentious and out of touch.

I Couldn't Stop Laughin' 

No, I Just Couldn't Help Myself

See, You Messed Up My Mental Health

I Was Quite Unwell 

 

 

this part is so funny, WHY does jack think that making iced tea with friends and going to the garden center are shocking eccentric activities in freaky places  and Lana's examples aren't much better either

I guess it makes sense that she reacted to the backlash earlier this year the way that she did if she thinks that singing about being crazy a hundred times over is equivalent to singing about domestic crises? All of her vaguely "political" songs delve into a very isolated focus at some point, focusing on just her feelings with the real world stuff just as a catalyst and not the focus at all, which is why I maintain that they're not political songs - she never gives a real point of view. And that's fine because that's how a lot of people feel and it's part of why people are drawn to her. But trying to claim that she "knew we weren't ready" and had been singing about it for years? I really think she thinks she's this generations Bob Dylan from how much she brings him up in relation to her and I don't think she'll really be of much interest to me for as long as she continues blowing up her own ego. Especially when she reacts to people's pain with god bless and fuck off. Glad we got some insight on the album, and thank you to Elle for writing this up, but she's becoming more and more of a warning against resting on your own laurels and surrounding yourself with yesmen. 

Hmm interesting and indeed that post is not progressive feminism at all! That makes me think she only has a one-sided view of femininity, and that's only the 'fragile' kind. Oh my God, so messy. 
 
Yes I definitely have to watch the movie though. It does sound so sad. I think Lana must have felt like she was treated like that from time to time, especially by men (the other woman, million dollar man, if I'm not mistaken?) But yeah, not all the time. Perhaps it's just how she views herself in a romanticised way.
 

2013: Illumilana
2019: Kabbalana
 
ugh the GROWTH

2013: Illumilana
2019: Kabbalana
 
ugh the GROWTH