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Don't worry, Barrie. Taylor Swift will be calling you asking you to star in a knock-off of a Lana video before you know it. And of course Lana will ask you to open for her while she's dating Jimmy Gnecco.

But who doesn't want to know if Scarlett Johansson is wearing any underwear? #DirtyOldManPost
 

No, you're not.  

I completely disagree with this and almost everyone in this thread. 
I really don't understand Lana's reaction or the reaction of most of this fanbase to the interview. Many of you have completely lost any shred of objectivity in worshiping your queen. "I'm your cult leader", indeed. Neither the interviewer nor the editor did anything wrong here. (Oh, BTW, they never used the word "suicidal".) This is as clear cut a case of attacking the messenger if there ever was one. Shame on any fans who sent hate messages to them. It's also just stupid. You only validate all the negative press she's ever received. I'm also really bothered by the tendency in this fanbase (perhaps online millennial culture generally?) to celebrate "sassy" responses even when in the wrong as if it's somehow inherently admirable because it's "sticking up for yourself". I find that really warped. In my view Lana did three things wrong here: 1) Saying dumb shit in the first place. 2) Saying more dumb shit on Twitter blaming the journalist for the original dumb shit she said. 3) Deleting the dumb shit she said on Twitter even though someone has certainly screencapped her dumb shit. If Lana doesn't like headlines like these, there's an easy solution: Don't give journalists soundbites like this to work with. And if she just can't help herself there's an easy solution to that: Stop giving interviews. This is just the umpteenth example of Lana's victim-playing far exceeding her victimhood. It's getting really old.
 
I mean, most of what Lana has been bitching about is the media and how she doesn't like how it's portrayed her... so of course the logical thing for her to do is give a shitload of interviews to the media. And then act surprised and indignant when she inevitably doesn't like how it portrays her... You know, by quoting her verbatim in their headline. But, you know, it's just oh so scandalous that anyone would even raise the question that someone who titled their album Born to Die or sang "but I wish I was dead" or "I wanna die" et cetera et cetera might have a death wish. Please.
 
This whole kerfuffle is also just dumb from a PR perspective. In light of her unfair criticism of this interview, her praise of the very good NYT article will likely now be seen (unfairly) as a puff piece. And instead of coverage dominated by mostly positive reviews and successful worldwide sales figures, she fucks it up with this bullshit. Unless it's part of a deliberate strategy to stir up controversy on the thinking that all publicity is good publicity, but nothing about Lana's media strategy since she hit the big time has seemed very well thought out to me. People who think this is actually Lana being some sort of media Svengali are like political pundits who used to talk about Obama playing multi-dimensional chess: fawning partisans who see what they want to see.
 
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Something I've been thinking about lately is a theme in both her music and interviews: passivity. (And also in this instance passive-aggressiveness.) The passivity or submissiveness in her lyrics has been pretty well dissected, especially the feminist angle, but as it relates to her interviews, I don't think it really has been. She's always talking about how sad she is and how her treatment by the media makes her sad and that she keeps playing for her fans even though it doesn't make her happy and she doesn't want to do this shit anymore... as if she has absolutely zero agency and is just an object acted upon by external forces. She constantly blames others and takes no responsibility for her own role in her current situation or her ability to take action to get out of it. I mean, she has resources at her disposal such that she could do almost anything she wants. If she really doesn't want to do this shit anymore, barring contractual obligations (which would still be her responsibility, she signed the papers), she should be able to stop making music today, never work a day in her life again, and still live a quiet, comfortable middle-class life on the money she's already earned, if she hasn't completely squandered it on topiary ponies or making self-indulgent 30-minute short films. And if she's contractually obligated to produce a certain number of albums, she's got plenty of stuff already recorded she could use. At some point she needs to put up or shut up. Or at least stop pointing her finger everywhere else and look within. Really, this episode is a low point for both her and her fanbase.

The Guardian is an amazing paper, one of the few international papers that actually do NEWS. About "shit" British media...oh please you can't even begin to compare BBC to CNN, ABC or any US network, not even in the same league credibility and integrity wise. CNN manipulated a entire war and US media created TMZ as a "thing" that has more access then most newspapers online journals combined, so go figure. As far as I'm concerned the only country where Pierce Morgan could find a job after the Daily Mirror scandal was in America....on Larry King's chair..... at CNN. By the way the Brits actually punished The Daily Mirror executives....
 
Take a sit kid and go read a bit. 

His grindr on the side... grindr on the side makes me a sad, sad gaayyy.

it's real.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYno78wUIE

Thank you!

Thanks! Here you go!
 

I love this! 
 
Could you change it to a normal Unreleased cover for me? Like remove the The Unreleased Collection bit and change the My Baby Blue bit to Unreleased but keeping the font and colour?  

Here's another one I did for Elle's unreleased collection. I kinda like it, the colours are just so pretty.
 

 
 
If anybody wants me to change the title or anything else just let me know and I'll do it.

Florida Kilos 2.0 (A Few Fixes + Song Title)

 

The daddy from the video is actually hot 

I kinda think it's about Taylor Swift, though Taylor hasn't said anything publicly about Lana. In the interview, she said the artist 'sneered about' her apparently inauthentic style. So to me it sounds like it wasn't a very public accusation. Taylor's been accused of copying Lana's videos because worked with Anthony Mandler twice, sure that might not be her fault... but the comparisons are still there. Both videos were after Lana's:  National Anthem = 22, Ride = I Knew You Were Trouble.
 
She didn't say anything about copying her sound. Just her style. Taylor's videos were almost carbon copies and she even did a monologue- which would have been her idea and not Mandler's. Also, Taylor has a reputation for being a 'whore' since she's dated so many men especially in the music industry: Fucked Her Way Up To The Top? Lana could be bitter that she used Reeve Carney in her I Knew You Were Trouble video?
 
A while ago, there was a thread on here which was about a song that Taylor wrote called The Lucky One (which was supposedly about Joni Mitchell but it was never confirmed by anybody apart from Taylor herself in an interview- though, if it were really about Lana do we think she would just downright say it?) Also, Lorde and Taylor are pretty good friends. One of them attended the other's birthday party or something, so if Lorde has any hate against Lana, I'm sure it would have rubbed off on Taylor a little bit. I think Taylor probably said really mean things Lana in private and Lana heard it.

New to town with a made up name in the angel city,
Chasing fortune and fame.
And the camera flashes, make it look like a dream.
You had it figured out since you were in school.
Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool.
So overnight you look like a sixties’ queen.

Now it’s big black cars, and Riviera views,
And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you
And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page.

OMG you're right...

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What I remember Lorde saying is that she heard the lyrics "I'm nothing without you" and thought it was a bad message to be sending to girls. People are going to hear a quote like that and think Lorde is in the right and standing up for feminism. But contextually, "Without You" isn't saying "a woman is nothing without a man" but more like "fame and success means nothing without love."
 
I hope FMWUTTT is about Lorde. She's a pretentious teenager who needs to stop running her mouth. 

Hey guys, new set of pieces here. Really wanted to create my own collage styled art prints inspired by songs off of Ultraviolence. I was originally going to make  one for each track, but decided to narrow it down to 9 prints for 9 lyrics from 9 songs, these are six of the nine planned pieces. Not sure what the final 3 will be yet, so shoot ideas at me. I'm making the 12 x 12 prints soon and is super excited, woo.

 

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Sry for double posting but I finished my translation. Wasn't sure if I should create a new thread because some people might not notice that there's the full interview now but whatever. Maybe someone could change the title or add sth like "full interview" or idk.
 
FULL INTERVIEW (Translation)
 
 
 
 
I kinda really like this interview or at least most of it. The part where she says she's feeling alone and that she thinks she experiences differently...I said almost the same thing to a friend when I had a mini meltdown a few days ago.   Also what she says about her imagination, that she's dreaming all the time - I kinda relate to her...
 
Anyway, I hope I didn't make too many mistakes.
And guys PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS A TRANSLATION OF A TRANSLATION!
Now let the the meltdowns about feminism etc begin

Please state that this is fan made, you had me running u_u Que raiva u_u

considering she's credited as ldr on every track except old money where she's lizzy grant, i wouldn't rule that out tbh.
 
ALSO anyone notice the absence of Edward Gallegos's name on the writing credits

Where have you been? Where did you go? Those summer nights seem long ago. = What's happening? Where did we go? The Jersey Shore was long ago.

Really beautiful, I love the summery feel, and I can't wait to walk around Brooklyn listening to this song feeling super great and awesome and smile like a mad man, it's going to be great.
 
I really love the lyrics too, they're spontaneous but not pretentious or too cinematic, it feels really autobiographical and personal which is super great, compared to the slight disconnect (not a bad thing) in Ultraviolence, where it sounds like she's telling a story, compared to actually feeling like you're in the song with her and how she's singing it. Would love to figure out the rest of the lyrics (I did a really rough version in the lyrics section.)
 
The production is amazing too, the drums are great and fuck, the Dan Auerbach guitars are so god damn sexy, just like him. 
 
Also, Barrie at the end. So great and unexpected and it works so damn well.

Sounds like it!
 
AH, I love it!

If it is the Scottish word it's "bonnies"