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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJgyeXoLFPg when she starts crying around min 5... she's a beautiful soul.

these were my exact thoughts. can you imagine these two collab'ing on an OTTR/Trainwreck type of song? i'd die also, question for the stans - who is she singing about in this album? babygirl sure sounds mad...

To The Hilt is sf gorgeous

kinda the 'it book' of the summer, i know, but i liked it quite a lot. for those who haven't heard about it, it's about a teen girl in the 60s who joins a Manson-like cult, and the book mostly revolves around the circumstances that made it happen, life through a teenage girl's eyes & her relationship with other girls/women. what i liked the most about it was that men are refreshingly very secondary to the story, including the cult leader, and most of the book is actually about her fascination/crush on the cult's most charismatic girl, Suzanne. now i'm obsessed with who could possibly play Suzanne in a film adaptation, lol. and on a curious side note, the cover is a Neil Krug photo.

Banks - Judas

because, riddle me that, her being a socially progressive individual who believes in equality and social solidarity somehow seems preferable to her being a conservative, capitalist, nationalist cunt.

well... i've definitely been converted, can't stop listening to the album. there's not one bad song it in. Haunt, Trainwreck & To The Hilt are fab, but Gemini Feed is still my everything at the moment. on a side note, i'm sf in love with her witchy style <3

which is basically a protest against capitalism, repression and subjugation. it would be completely incoherent to be quoting Ginsberg and constantly mentioning him and other beat writers as main inspirations while being social and even fiscally conservative. and that's excluding the fact that we know she voted for, or at least supported, Obama; the re-imagination of JFK as a black president; the vaguely lesbian theme in SS; how she seems to relate to the fringes of society in her videos and lyrics (cults, gangs, strippers, drug dealers, etc) - nothing even remotely compatible with Republican ideology. of course she could be doing all this for the stylistic aspect alone, or some cool-by-association factor... but even so, it would still be baffling. i'm not american so their whole bipartisan system is bizarre to me; even in multi-party systems it's often quite hard to find a party or a candidate that completely fits one's ideology and beliefs, so given the current choice in the US it's definitely easy for me to understand why someone would prefer not to publicly claim to be a supporter of one or the other - and how they choose to vote in private is another matter (of pros vs cons, basically).

starring in a film about porn stars =/= starring in porn. also, they're not together anymore.

the only song of hers that gives me a feeling i can't quite define - like a melancholic longing mixed with something more ominous and eerie - is Get Drunk.

@@Flipflopfan

eh, i never liked him. and she's bi, right? hope she dates a woman next.

Honeymoon - 24 Music To Watch Boys To - 26 God Knows I Tried - 15 Art Deco - 21 Religion - 25 + Salvatore - 16 - The Blackest Day - 29 Swan Song - 16

(vintage music tho?) one of my absolute favorite songs (and bands) & probably my all time fave fanmade video. <3 https://youtu.be/jrl9c15msZw

Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon

NO BRA NO PANTIES i was sf obsessed with this song back then. love everything she's done since. dl'ing 1992 right now!

this

how come there's no topic here about the bisexual queen of alt pop? my fave song / vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZfCUM1uyvw iconic bi/lesbian anthem w/ a viral video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0MT8SwNa_U her most recent vid, released a few days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOm2rGwmhWg

this entire thread

@@slang yeah, she was at the Miles Davis Hall the last time, which only holds about 1500. the Stravinski Auditorium's max capacity is around 4000, iirc. i'm lucky to live right next to Montreux, bc Montreux Jazz is probably my favorite festival. it's very different from any other festival i've ever been to, because it's basically a bunch of different venues - some paying, some free - in the part of the city that's near the lake, including shows in boats, pool parties and open air gigs in parks. and then you have lots of food/drink stands and an artisan market along this walk by the lake, so even people who aren't going to any concert can enjoy the ambiance of the festival.

Lana already played at Montreux Jazz once in 2012 (i was there), she definitely knows how legendary it is. i mean, Smoke on the Water is about it!

@@BlueJeans i agree with parts of your comment, but not with others. i don't think most Trump voters are truly aware of what electing him would represent for their country AND for them - exactly like in the UK, they're revolted against the status quo & being manipulated by a xenophobic/racist populist discourse that basically puts the real problems under the rug while not offering anything of substance as an alternative. so i don't think the vast majority of Trump voters are significantly better informed than Brexit ones, not least because Trump doesn't even have a clear or well-systematized ideology or plan of action. exactly like the UKIP on Brexit. re: the EU. i think the UK didn't have legitimate reasons to leave - they were the 3rd most powerful economy in it, nothing about Brexit is gonna benefit them on an economic level & the anti-immigration / ~take our country back~ arguments are empty. they were in a comfortable position within the EU and made a mistake, or at the very least a really huge gamble. however i disagree that the EU is/has been beneficial to all its member countries lately (namely those with weaker, more unstable economies that were rendered even less stable by the introduction if the euro - now THAT was a huge mistake), and i'm absolutely against this current neo-liberal, undemocratic, alienated from its citizens & economy/society-destroying version of the EU. i'm in favor of its disintegration and reformation under different principles, because i don't think the EU as it now stands is salvageable. Brexit is in a large part the EU's fault, and if nothing is done to address their role in this + in the growing anti-EU sentiment all over Europe, the far-right is only going to continue to rise and we're going to have a very big neo-fascist problem very, very soon.

that's true about every referendum/election ever, and politics in general everywhere. hypothetical scenario: say Trump was elected president - everything you're saying also applies to his supporters. what should americans do in that case, repeat the elections too? i don't believe they'll repeat this referendum, but it shocks me it's being even somewhat seriously debated.

no one is surprised over the outrage and revolt, but arguing that that's reason enough to repeat or try to change the result of a democratic referendum people had months to prepare for is a very different thing.