benign violation

sorry y'all, this disorganized verbal rant does nothing for me!
 
i find her "advocacy for fragility" in the feminist movement is so bizarre. doesn't she realise that a submissive woman has always been championed by the patriarchy and oppressive men? clearly her glorification for sexist and old Americana is still deeply ingrained despite the narrative progress with NFR. also - making reparations to one community doesn't mean you can't have racial bias to another. i get the (deserved) backlash is intense, and i'm so sad, but WHY is she not referring back to her publicist before making these follow-up statements? 

honestly i hope Lana goes scorched Earth.  i think she is tone deaf, full of privileged ignorance, and pretty foolish to be intentionally calling in this sort of shit when she clearly cares way too much what her haters think - but no fucks given Lana would be a million times more engaging than whatever she's been serving recently.  there's plenty of people who are problematic as fuck that are still authentically themselves and end up being kinda bad bitches.  she said "fresh outta fucks forever" but it's clear she gives several fucks.  if she wants to express herself however she wants, which i think she should, she's gotta be willing to face whatever people respond to it with.  it's like damn.  you cant want to express yourself but be afraid of backlash.  there's artists i really respect who have received a million times more backlash than Lana but just stick to what they believe because that's authentic for them.  i worry about her self image bc she's a fucking uber successful millionaire pop star thats worried about what people on the internet write about her??????  good god girl get a grip

idk i read her statement not as overtly racist but not really recognizing how her own privilege, as a wealthy white woman in america, played into it.  she has done and said racist stuff in the past.  even very recently.  i posted whole things on lanaboards months ago about her blindness to racial dynamics in her 3 part video throwing shit at cops and laughing with no fear of being shot and killed.  compare that to beyonce making a video with powerful statements about Black resilience in the face of racist policing and police brutality and getting a bunch of republicans talking about lynching her or how shes "anti american" or some shit.  she wore a headdress in the Ride video while saying "i believe in the place america used to be" (presumably referring to... idk the '70s?  def not pre-colonialism).  she dated a TV cop who engaged in racial profiling on his stupid tv show and said hes "one of the good ones".....  there's a precedent for people thinking she's ignorant and blind to the racial subtext of the shit she puts out.
 
i think Lana specifically referencing mostly Black women - then proceeding into an angry post ab the backlash she's gotten -  reads as her slating those artists as her competition, or not getting backlash, or having advantages over her or whatever. which would be dismissing those artists experiences.  re-reading it, i can see how possibly she didn't mean it like that.  but i dont think its insanity for people to read the subtext of a white woman complaining that these (more) popular Black artists are more successful than her or not as attacked as her or something.  she really made it sound like that.
 
i also think its an incredibly white privilege-y thing to say "oh well this definitely isnt about race."  i think race dynamics play a much larger role in society than a lot of white people are willing to acknowledge.  part of what's interesting about this generation is how these issues ARE coming into the mainstream consciousness more.  and i think Lana, if she wants to be taken seriously like she says, should pay more attention to that.  idk, is she not not racist or not not anti-racist?
 
BEYOND the race thing, her whole point is that she wasn't glamorizing abuse.  WHY then, has she recently done things such as stop singing "Cola" bc of how it glamorizes a Harvey Weinstein-esque predatory relationship or "he hit me and it felt like a kiss"?  she clearly thinks those things are problematic.  i think its possible Lana has faced abusive or exploitative scenarios and relationships in her life, if her music is to be taken as autobiographical to some extent.  she literally started out singing about Lolita relating the story to herself.  which is straight up about an underage girl being abused and exploited by a narcissistic older man.  she may not be glamorizing it.  and i dont think acknowledging the reality of those dynamics is bad.  but she could use her story as a way to advocate for women instead of being "not not a feminist."

It kind of really concerns me that she (still) finds being told no to be so off-putting. Taking constructive criticism personally is not a place you wanna be, especially as a creative.

Not really impressed with the album. There are some obvious highlights but there are a lot of songs that go nowhere. Also, the production on certain tracks is horrendous. Jack Antonoff has never been a good producer though so it's understandable

Bartender is bewitching

https://twitter.com/ComplexMusic/status/1166799614130970625?s=20
 
Why is no one talking about this?

https://twitter.com/ComplexMusic/status/1166799614130970625?s=20
 
Why is no one talking about this?

Bartender is bewitching

Bartender is bewitching

Bartender is bewitching

Bartender is bewitching

Pro life queen

finally see a fan who agrees, lol. her work during halfaxa + visions was her peak in my opinion, not that art angels was terrible or anything, but i do miss her old sound a lot

rarely a Lana song moves me but this one did.

rarely a Lana song moves me but this one did.

rarely a Lana song moves me but this one did.

rarely a Lana song moves me but this one did.

rarely a Lana song moves me but this one did.

fake woke is better than purposely vapid.

How is it rude? Lmao it's the truth, her reasoning makes ZERO sense in reality and you'd have to be delusional (purposely or not) not to realize it. money IS the only thing she'd get out of it in actuality if she does perform (along with alienating a bunch of people from supporting her which would be deserved). we don't live in fairy land and if you havent realized that after all thats been happening in the world then, well, goodbye.

I don't really check for Dua but you are all so bitter. She has the perfect voice for the Bond sountrack. Pretending she sounds bad is just absurd.

Swan Song is fantastic. Not much to be said other than that
 
On topic: I really don't want Jack on the album. His sound is so clinical, soulless and redundant. I hope they're just working on a track for his album or something.

Swan Song is fantastic. Not much to be said other than that
 
On topic: I really don't want Jack on the album. His sound is so clinical, soulless and redundant. I hope they're just working on a track for his album or something.

Swan Song is fantastic. Not much to be said other than that
 
On topic: I really don't want Jack on the album. His sound is so clinical, soulless and redundant. I hope they're just working on a track for his album or something.