bummersummer

if she said that, it's also patently untrue. i already followed her circa question for the culture drama & that's when she went with the zeitgeist and p much turned on lana, she was def all over her ass before that. maybe she doesn't listen to her now but to deny influence/inspiration when the internet is forever is... a choice.

re: ethel cain, it's hilarious to me how she'll get really defensive whenever someone points out the obvious ldr influence in her music / aesthetic (like the pitchfork review of her album which was, lbr, on point) but won't resist inserting herself in the current ldr discourse in a ~i won't be outdone, but make it ironic~ sorta way, thus proving lana truly lives in her mind rent free

the "almost famous" reference

this version of strangers is amazing!! i've been into her since her white silas days & was so bummed when she removed everything but the nightmares ep from streaming services. sad music for sad people in particular was so so good, but i guess since she's using at least strangers & a house in nebraska for her album, it makes sense. everything's still retrievable online anyway.

seconding this request!

her new album just came out today

i get what you mean. my point is that when you know your accounts are still "alive" the temptation to go check them out is a lot bigger, on your browser or briefly redownloading the apps or whatever, bc ~no one will ever know~ lol. if you're not super strong willed, deactivating is def the better option bc if you go back ppl will notice & also in 30 days the accounts are actually all gone lol. personally i feel like she's done with everything remotely resembling pop stardom, i see her becoming increasingly private / reclusive like most of the 60s/70s musicians she admires & doing little to no promo, so i get the impression this severing the connection with the fans (& by fans i mean the typical hyper demanding, with an extremely short attention span pop stan) is by design.

i've seen a lot of comments like this here, on twitter, etc. & find them kinda funny / weird tbh. like, a lot of regular ass ppl deactivate or delete their socials bc while they're active the temptation to go back "for just a min" "just to see what's going on" is always there, so what makes you all believe a celeb would be different, especially since they know ppl are for sure talking abt them? also, maybe this was a therapist's advice? ppl aren't equipped to receive the insane amount of tribal hate OR love that celebs do, it's bound to mess with anyone's head so it seems extremely wise to remove yourself from the craziness when you're already prone to mental illness.

this reminded me of a bbc think piece abt lana's "struggle to be mysterious in pop", specifically this quote i don't think that's the only, or even the main, reason for her to do this but i wonder if it contributed to her decision. a lot of hw actresses do the no social media thing & it only adds to their glamour & mystique, and she's been burned so many times bc of it maybe she just thought 'fuck it, let's try it another way' (agree that she seemed odd / sad in the video tho, my first thought before even reading comments here was that her speech was slurred & she seemed like she was about to cry throughout the whole thing)

i don't think this is so much abt leaks - those can't be controlled anyway & are unofficial - but actual album / song releases by record labels that will then be considered as much a part of your official discography as what you released during your lifetime, even though you had no say in what's chosen / how it's edited or produced / etc. seeing what's happened to artists like lil peep, whose unpublished work is still being milked for a quick buck regardless of quality or artist intent, i have to say: good for her, i'd do the same.

legit surprised so many people dislike breaking up slowly, it's quickly becoming one of my fave lana collabs & fits the vibe of the album perfectly (also the placement in the middle of the 2nd half of the record is flawless). after the hot mess that was lust for life collabs-wise, those in cotcc are a breath of fresh air!! def hft.

why does her caption sound so melodramatic?! it almost reads like an s-word note ffs.

i'm sad to say this, but she definitely falls somewhere among "minimization" & "veiled racism" in this pyramid. you (general you) have to understand that racism doesn't just happen out of malicious hatred, it can be born out of ignorance and/or sheltered privilege - and i definitely think that's her case. if so many poc are saying she's racist, it's for a reason & we (this we applies to white people) need to primarily listen to their voices here. any white person is racist, or has been in the past - how could we not, we were raised in a system that upholds and teaches white supremacy. unlearning that is something we have to actively do all our lives, and the most disappointing thing for me re: lana is not that she falls into some of the behaviors above out of ignorance, but that she refuses to listen and learn and keeps reacting/responding from a haughty defensive place while making the same mistakes over and over.

why does she keep doing this to us!!!

the coke spoon necklace

lana really said play stupid games, win stupid prizes!! you love to see it.

just wanna preface this by saying: absolutely no shade towards you here, just sharing my 2 cents on this subject i kinda hate the notion that kids slow artists down bc of how that almost exclusively applies to female artists; i mean, it never crossed anyone's mind that, idk, hemingway's or, like, mick jagger's careers would be slowed down due to having kids. i'm aware that that does sometimes happen when it comes to women -- some reevaluate their choices & start paying more attention to family than career, others are unable/unwilling to travel as much as before, etc. -- but i also think a big part of it is how motherhood changes our (public AND critics) perception of said women, and how themes associated with their new, more stereotypically "feminine", "softer" lives aren't deemed as interesting or worthy of being explored in art, and that really speaks to how patriarchally-driven all forms of art still are. lana has dealt with this issue all her career -- after all there's a reason why most of her fans are women and/or not straight -- but she managed to carve a niche for herself with a sort of bad/sad girl persona. a much more relevant "question for the culture" would have been why women are so limited re: what they can sing about once they reach a certain age without alienating 90% of their audience OR turning to MOR ~adult contemporary~ adèle-like music in order to keep selling. it's clear that she's struggling with something like this already (a lot of people complain that her music's too slow & contemplative now, with nearly no "bops", & even her die-hard fans complain that she doesn't pay as much attention to aesthetics/looks, don't like her more family&friends-oriented lifestyle, her move to the midwest (cop mistake notwithstanding), etc.) so it's something that must be on her mind to some extent. imo lana's "muse" has always been her personal life (both the real one & the one that goes on inside her head) and idk that she can just put it aside if she does eventually get married / have kids, so it'll be interesting to see how she'll reinvent herself then. sorry for the tl;dr lol

the song is perfectly fine but lacks wow factor for me. maybe it's a grower tho, that was def the case for hope & a couple others off NFR, so we'll see. the cover, tho. it screams ~graphic design is my passion~ sorry to say. i know the single covers have been, um, effortless for a while now but this one's the worst of them all; i mean, the photo copy/paste & amateurish fade into the dark background, the typography, the terrible composition... anyWAY. that designer on ig ain't shit tho. he's right, sure, but that could've been sent via DM if his intentions were that honest. that's just plain petty shade.

if i see another smooth brain take abt how the mask has a transparent layer underneath, i s2g. she's a grown ass woman who knows full well what she's doing, she can take -and deserves- the heat.

there's a difference between acknowledging & condemning her reckless driving - which i did in the post u quoted, ty for cropping that out for max self-righteousness - and pages upon pages of frothing at the mouth sanctimony, which is where the ~cop in ur head~ comes in. but do you.

yes, reckless driving & wearing ineffective masks are bad, those are facts. no one should do either & that most def includes lana. this being said & re: this whole thread:

"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander a lot of v good, poetic quotes in that whole book

i've said it before & i'll say it again, blonde hair washes her out a lot (unless she's wearing a ton of makeup to compensate). i totally get the desire to change tho, so do you, Lana bb. also, v much this!!!

was literally abt to post that. and that one's actually tame when compared to shit like this. meaning, here we go again. truly hope she's staying tf out of twitter for the foreseeable future, for her own mental health's sake.

ok good now she needs to log tf off and stick to strictly music-related posts & tame day-to-day stuff FOR A WHILE, and with as few captions as possible