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I don't think the leaks are intentional but I do believe they're not that actively fought against - because of the publicity / promotion angle? I don't know, maybe. Or maybe simply because they're ultimately not that important to them; I really don't know. I mean, this is a professional artist who, during her relatively brief career (in the public eye, I mean), has had around what, 150? 200 leaks? It's not normal and doesn't make any sense to me. If she and her team - and most especially her label, who invested money on her and surely has every interest in getting it back with profit - were that concerned about it, they could have done a lot more to prevent more recent songs from leaking imo - not allowing so many people to have access to / keep the songs, take legal action in order to discourage further leaks, etc. Fool me once, shame on me; fool me twice... How else do we explain that pretty much every other artist of her calibre manages to control this type of thing to a certain extent? How is she always the only apparently defenceless victim in all these leaking sprees? I can't find any other explanation. Either that or she's surrounded by a bunch of utter incompetents. Or, yeah, she's leaking them herself, grabbing the popcorn and laughing herself silly reading all the ensuing tumblr & twitter meltdowns. EDIT: FYI, this is by no means an apologist take on the leaks. Since this is all speculative, my default position is - I assume they're unwanted & can potentially be harmful to her, so imo it's ethically wrong and irresponsible to leak all this recent stuff.

Born to Die - 16 Off to the Races - 31 Blue Jeans - 19 Video Games - 14 Diet Mtn. Dew - 18 National Anthem - 17 Dark Paradise - 15 Radio - 16 Carmen - 15 Million Dollar Man - 9 Summertime Sadness - 15 This Is What Makes Us Girls - 21 Without You - 21 Lolita - 22 Ride - 14 American - 10 Cola - 18 Body Electric - 18 Gods & Monsters - 18 Yayo - 17 Burning Desire - 16

Kinda random but I accidentally came across this and just thought it's a really gorgeous photo.

Gods & Monsters vs Television Heaven

"Nicolas Winding Refn, acclaimed director of Only God Forgives and Drive, both starring Ryan Gosling, discusses his instinctive approach to filmmaking and tells us why the internet helps creativity flourish." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnLEllBcLEc Just in case anyone's interested.

Tbh it would all be worth it if Kanye did another one of his rants, this time ~in defense of Lana.

@@maru It's amaaaaaazing, made all the waiting worthwhile! Numb, Sound of love & Bad bitches are sooo good as well!

No love for RockaByeBaby? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLC7Jtz8r_8

Really liked Hot Fuss, and Sam's Town was pretty good as well. Didn't like anything else after that. My top 3 Killers songs - Jenny was a friend of mine, All these things that I've done & This river is wild. Honourable mention for Read my mind because it's the one song that never fails to make happy. Oh, and they're GREAT live.

Next one is Austra at a festival in Portugal and then Roger Waters at Wembley in September. However, I'm going to miss Devendra Banhart's gig in my hometown this August quite simply because I'm stupid. Worst of all: Fab Moretti is touring with him and this would be a great chance to meet him. But now I won't. Because I'm SOOO STUPID!

Born to Die - 16 Off to the Races - 29 Blue Jeans - 20 Video Games - 14 Diet Mtn. Dew - 18 National Anthem - 17 Dark Paradise - 15 Radio - 14 Carmen - 15 Million Dollar Man - 10 Summertime Sadness - 15 This Is What Makes Us Girls - 21 Without You - 21 Lolita - 23 Ride - 14 American - 12 Cola - 17 Body Electric - 18 Gods & Monsters - 18 Yayo - 17 Burning Desire - 16

Fave video game of all time: Vampire The Masquerade - Bloodlines. It's a masterpiece, no lie. The storyline, the characters, the setting (LA decadence, hell yeah), the perfect soundtrack. Just . Already played it a few times choosing different clans and the best / most interesting one is Malkavian, for sure. Finally installed Hotline Miami, will try it out this weekend.

Born to Die - 16 Off to the Races - 28 Blue Jeans - 20 Video Games - 14 Diet Mtn. Dew - 18 National Anthem - 17 Dark Paradise - 15 Radio - 14 Carmen - 15 Million Dollar Man - 9 Summertime Sadness - 15 This Is What Makes Us Girls - 21 Without You - 21 Lolita - 25 Ride - 14 American - 12 Cola - 17 Body Electric - 18 Gods & Monsters - 18 Yayo - 17 Burning Desire - 16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isU5pPyWHyQ

Giiiirl. Black Beauty leaked, AS WELL AS Hollywood, JFK, Starry Eyed, Angels Forever & Midnite Dancer Girlfriend.

Born to Die - 15 Off to the Races - 27 Blue Jeans - 20 Video Games - 14 Diet Mtn. Dew - 18 National Anthem - 17 Dark Paradise - 16 Radio - 14 Carmen - 15 Million Dollar Man - 10 Summertime Sadness - 15 This Is What Makes Us Girls - 21 Without You - 21 Lolita - 25 Ride - 14 American - 13 Cola - 17 Body Electric - 17 Gods & Monsters - 18 Yayo - 17 Burning Desire - 16

Please hide the spoilers, people!

Born to Die - 15 Off to the Races - 26 Blue Jeans - 20 Video Games - 14 Diet Mtn. Dew - 18 National Anthem - 17 Dark Paradise - 16 Radio - 13 Carmen - 15 Million Dollar Man - 10 Summertime Sadness - 15 This Is What Makes Us Girls - 21 Without You - 21 Lolita - 26 Ride - 14 American - 14 Cola - 17 Body Electric - 17 Gods & Monsters - 17 Yayo - 17 Burning Desire - 16

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Mermaid Motel vs Motel 6

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Yup, sadly that's pretty much what I think will happen as well. I know this is blasphemy, but I actually think the best video in the cinematography category is Sacrilege by the Yeah Yeah Yeah's. And dumb question time, but what exactly do they 'evaluate' in the art direction category? I mean, what distinguishes it from the cinematography one, for instance?

And the absolute best one there will ever be.

Born to Die - 16 Off to the Races - 25 Blue Jeans - 19 Video Games - 14 Diet Mtn. Dew - 15 National Anthem - 17 Dark Paradise - 13 Radio - 15 Carmen - 16 Million Dollar Man - 12 Summertime Sadness - 15 This Is What Makes Us Girls - 20 Without You - 21 Lolita - 28 Ride - 14 American - 14 Cola - 14 Body Electric - 15 Blue Velvet - 6 Gods & Monsters - 17 Yayo - 17

Yayo AKA vs Kill Kill