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She looked amazing tonight    

Going to Coachella is a lifelong dream 

She looked amazing tonight    

What if she plays a new song from Ultraviolence

I thought first that you spelled 'Courtney love' wrong
 
But their music is nice, I really like 'Mirage'

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

I think most people didn't understand Tropico just like most didn't really understand National Anthem (video and song). Calling Tropico, a free web video, one of the biggest flop in music in 2013 makes the joke goes too VH1 not Lana. You cant take someone who calls a free video that had milions of views as a flop tbh. I honestly think many critics in USA treat Lana as a joke not because they criticize her work or because they dont like her music/video but the reasons they use to justify their opinions are quite ridiculous and almost childish. The joke is on them tbh....
 
I am no Gaga fan but is quite unfair to call Artpop a flop and the biggest flop of 2013. Maybe a flop Gaga standards but not a flop in general. It's also hardly the worst album out in 2013. The 20/20 Experience is so forgettable people dont even give themselves the trouble to call JT on how bad that shit is. 
 
Also comparing Lana to Gaga and saying Lana wants to channel Gaga is not only inaccurate but very lazy and makes the writer sound very dumb tbh. They have nothing in common and one thing is for sure: Lana doesnt want to channel Gaga in any way lol

No, not everything that she does is "flawless". But tell me honestly if putting Poolside over Tropico is not mocking her. I like humour and I think it has a place here also. But can't you see the contradictory in wanting her to tour and at the same time ridicule her or putting other artists way above her. I don't want to pick a fight with you and I very much respect the incredible work you have made about her. But please move away from the SNL era when anything awful was ok to say about her. Where I live she has been respected from the start.Remember she's also only a human being, not a robot or mannequin.

How can a free gift from Lana "flop"? So you don't like it? well, that's ok. Personally I enjoyed watching how beautiful Lana is, and how well the scenes fits with her lyrics. You can skip to the scene that you like if you think the whole film is too long ( to view it as three separate music videos works fine).  The VH1 journalist has the same mindset as the persons on this board who writes that "Poolside is better". So sad to see such spiteful comments. As the soup-nazi used to say " no soup for you".

This is why artists have to endure so much bullshit (because that's exactly what it is) when they share their projects with the public, because now it's all about success being defined by the number of views and monetary worth, along with the nitpicking and pointless comparisons of who-does-what-better, which leaves zero room for art to be appreciated for what it is.
 
Because she can, and she wanted to, so she did.
 
You mean, besides because she could, wanted to, and did? "Because fuck you, that's why."
 
"Summertime Sadness" is almost two-years-old, there's a contradiction here if we're going to talk about old songs being used for recent projects. So if "Young & Beautiful" and Cedric Gervais' remix of "Summertime Sadness" (keyword "remix" of a song that is, again, almost two-years-old, TWO-YEARS-OLD,) were to have been featured in Tropico instead, it would have validated Tropico's worth as a 30-minute film? It was a short-film, let's not over-exaggerate here like it was a grueling four-hour loop of the same songs over and over again.
 
On what basis are we comparing Tropico to that it can be fairly dictated that it wasn't good? Tropico wasn't meant to be a revolutionary short-film, it was simply a short-film telling the story of redemption with the intention of bringing the era of BTD to a close. Just because Tropico may have been a bit difficult to follow the first viewing, does not mean it wasn't good; just because Tropico was "awkwardly literal," doesn't mean it wasn't good (not to mention, it may have been "literal," but I want to know where it was "awkward.") And just because there wasn't enough dialogue between the cast, just because there was only one Lana-written monologue, doesn't mean that Tropico wasn't good. If anything, Lana's reading of an excerpt from Walt Whitman's "I Sing the Body Electric" solidified and clarified the meaning behind "Body Electric". I look at that song in a totally different light after Tropico.

And Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" was a well-placed reading, as it helped smoothly transition between the final moments of Eden and the dead-paradise-reality Lana found herself in during "Gods & Monsters". Did we not read these poems? Did we not read a single poem from the likes of those two men? I'm trying hard to not say that this is a matter of appreciating Tropico more if we weren't so absorbed in the elements of mainstream artists' work, but seriously, let's not write off an artists' work just because we may not have understood it fully.

The cinematography was beautiful all throughout Tropico, and if anything, the short-film shed light on the inner-workings behind Lana's work, we got insight to how and where she finds her muse, we had a-chance-a-minute for a half-hour to open our minds and go on a small little adventure with Lana; it was beautifully strange and strangely beautiful. And this is coming from someone who didn't entirely care for "Body Electric," "Gods & Monsters," and "Bel Air," and I still think that Tropico is being seriously underrated, whether it was meant to cater to the masses or not. For what Tropico is, it is very beautiful, and it's not being given a fair chance (which seems to be a reoccurring theme with the general public when it comes to Lana.)
 
Well, this answered my question when I asked on what basis we were comparing Tropico to, if not indirectly, since this seems to be a biased comparison between two artists who, aside from starting out in New York, have hardly anything in common as far as sound, personality, influences and delivery go. If you had not spent the half-hour thinking of all the "very Gaga/not-so-Gaga" comparisons you could've came up with instead of letting yourself be immersed in Tropico, maybe you would have seen both Lana and her short-film in a different light. Not to mention I hardly see any element of Tropico that is even closely similar to Gaga's projects, so...is this because you're bored and had a quota to reach?

But never mind that, it's quite pitiful that comparisons like this are pretty much what structures art today. So much effort is invested into finding likeness in art that we forget to appreciate art as it is; a multi-dimensional form of expression that does not need to be compared to the likeness of another artist's expression to dictate its worth. Had you been around when Picasso was, all his art would've been Tropico to you just because it wasn't Da Vinci or Michelangelo.

You didn't care for Tropico not because it "wasn't good" or because it was "bloated and awkwardly literal."

You didn't care for Tropico not because the songs were "old" and "less-than-stellar."

You didn't care for Tropico not because it was a poor-shot at "being Gaga."

You didn't care for Tropico because you misunderstood Lana, but most especially, because you misunderstood art.

Besides that, comparing female artists to the likes of Gaga is very 2010, so "for 2014," you might want to find another artist to set your unreasonably supported expectations for other artists to or just stop with the comparisons altogether since it's as old as it is unfair, and hardly what art is about.

And with that, I call this whole listing a flop.

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Is vh1 on the list of biggest flops?

Omg I can't wait for this tbh

http://www.buzzfeed.com/hunterschwarz/exclusive-footage-from-britney-spears-upcoming-documentary-i
 

"The 27-year-old singer" 

"The 27-year-old singer" 

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