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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seeing what's happened to artists like lil peep, whose unpublished work is still being milked for a quick buck regardless of quality or artist intent, i have to say: good for her, i'd do the same.

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seeing what's happened to artists like lil peep, whose unpublished work is still being milked for a quick buck regardless of quality or artist intent, i have to say: good for her, i'd do the same.

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seeing what's happened to artists like lil peep, whose unpublished work is still being milked for a quick buck regardless of quality or artist intent, i have to say: good for her, i'd do the same.

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seeing what's happened to artists like lil peep, whose unpublished work is still being milked for a quick buck regardless of quality or artist intent, i have to say: good for her, i'd do the same.

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.

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.

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.

? or some of y'all are just weird af.

meaning: the usual suspects / stuff she's directly or indirectly mentioned in songs or interviews AND books whose themes relate to her persona / vibe / interests and thus we might like to read.
 
stuff she's mentioned one way or another : (surely incomplete, i'll keep editing this if people add others in the replies)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman Paradise Lost - John Milton Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi Burnt Norton - TS Eliot On The Road - Jack Kerouac Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Howl - Allen Ginsberg Victoria Holt - Road to Paradise Island Norman Rockwell (no specific book afaik) The Master Key System - Charles F. Haanel (@MoonAgain) The Bible (@HANGINGFROOT) Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (@Barry) The Satanic Witch - Anton LaVey Aleister Crowley (no specific book mentioned) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Nature (essay) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (this + the 3 above by @trayertrash) Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-77 - Allen Ginsberg Matcha - Jessica Flint & Anna Kavaliunas Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days - Jenna Rainey (this + 2 above @ ig post feb 19) Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (ig post march 19) Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories about the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estés The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity - Clarissa Pinkola Estés Untie the Strong Woman: To Know and Honor Holy Mother - Clarissa Pinkola Estés (this + 2 above @ ig post july 2019) In The Nature Of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 - Henry-Russell Hitchcock Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - Richard Prum (@kristinaj this + 2 above @ ig posts september 2019) Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald The Dawn Of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare - Tom Horn and Nita Horn (@AnarKissed) Surfing California - Bank Wright  
our Lana-related recs : (add a brief description)
The Girls - Emma Cline (coming of age story of a teen girl who joins a Manson-like cult in the 60s) Marlena - Julie Buntin (story of a toxic & dangerous friendship between 2 teen girls, marked by drug addiction and general recklessness) White Oleander - Janet Fitch (a very California book about a girl placed in several foster homes & her toxic, beautiful mother) Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (imo it's impossible Lana hasn't read this book; a series of seminal essays about 60s California by prob the most iconic Cali writer) Junky - William Burroughs (THE book about heroin addiction) Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (psychedelic noir set in 60s California about a stoner P.I. looking for a lost girl; also: watch the movie!!!) The Two Mrs. Greenvilles - Dominick Dunne (@kitschesque, "BTD era glamour") Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (@RainOverLondon, "teenage girl named cécile who lives a lavish and languorous lifestyle, spending the summer at her family’s french riviera villa with her father, raymond, and his mistress, elsa; call me by your name meets gossip girl") Lithium For Medea - Kate Braverman (a story of addiction, of complicated mother/daughter relationships & toxic romances set in Venice, LA)

YES!! like i said, it seems literally impossible to me that Lana's never read her & you make a really great point with those car photos as they're THE iconic Didion shoot (i believe several of them were used as book covers throughout the years).
 
as for The White Album vs Slouching, both are great so you can't go wrong with either. i don't remember from which of them this short essay "LA Notebook" is from, but to me it encapsulates the vibe of most of her books & her style of writing, and it's just so UV, Honeymoon & NFR Lana to me!

meaning: the usual suspects / stuff she's directly or indirectly mentioned in songs or interviews AND books whose themes relate to her persona / vibe / interests and thus we might like to read.
 
stuff she's mentioned one way or another : (surely incomplete, i'll keep editing this if people add others in the replies)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman Paradise Lost - John Milton Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi Burnt Norton - TS Eliot On The Road - Jack Kerouac Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Howl - Allen Ginsberg Victoria Holt - Road to Paradise Island Norman Rockwell (no specific book afaik) The Master Key System - Charles F. Haanel (@MoonAgain) The Bible (@HANGINGFROOT) Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (@Barry) The Satanic Witch - Anton LaVey Aleister Crowley (no specific book mentioned) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Nature (essay) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (this + the 3 above by @trayertrash) Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-77 - Allen Ginsberg Matcha - Jessica Flint & Anna Kavaliunas Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days - Jenna Rainey (this + 2 above @ ig post feb 19) Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (ig post march 19) Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories about the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estés The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity - Clarissa Pinkola Estés Untie the Strong Woman: To Know and Honor Holy Mother - Clarissa Pinkola Estés (this + 2 above @ ig post july 2019) In The Nature Of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 - Henry-Russell Hitchcock Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - Richard Prum (@kristinaj this + 2 above @ ig posts september 2019) Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald The Dawn Of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare - Tom Horn and Nita Horn (@AnarKissed) Surfing California - Bank Wright  
our Lana-related recs : (add a brief description)
The Girls - Emma Cline (coming of age story of a teen girl who joins a Manson-like cult in the 60s) Marlena - Julie Buntin (story of a toxic & dangerous friendship between 2 teen girls, marked by drug addiction and general recklessness) White Oleander - Janet Fitch (a very California book about a girl placed in several foster homes & her toxic, beautiful mother) Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (imo it's impossible Lana hasn't read this book; a series of seminal essays about 60s California by prob the most iconic Cali writer) Junky - William Burroughs (THE book about heroin addiction) Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (psychedelic noir set in 60s California about a stoner P.I. looking for a lost girl; also: watch the movie!!!) The Two Mrs. Greenvilles - Dominick Dunne (@kitschesque, "BTD era glamour") Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (@RainOverLondon, "teenage girl named cécile who lives a lavish and languorous lifestyle, spending the summer at her family’s french riviera villa with her father, raymond, and his mistress, elsa; call me by your name meets gossip girl") Lithium For Medea - Kate Braverman (a story of addiction, of complicated mother/daughter relationships & toxic romances set in Venice, LA)

I think it's rad that they went for a gender neutral name

bless. it was always p obvious it was calciatore to me, but it's nice to be proven right lmao
 
anyway, this song grew on me. it has a certain kitsch factor that i wasn't really a fan of at first & bc of that it used to be one of my least fave songs from HM, but now i like it.

meaning: the usual suspects / stuff she's directly or indirectly mentioned in songs or interviews AND books whose themes relate to her persona / vibe / interests and thus we might like to read.
 
stuff she's mentioned one way or another : (surely incomplete, i'll keep editing this if people add others in the replies)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman Paradise Lost - John Milton Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi Burnt Norton - TS Eliot On The Road - Jack Kerouac Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Howl - Allen Ginsberg Victoria Holt - Road to Paradise Island Norman Rockwell (no specific book afaik) The Master Key System - Charles F. Haanel (@MoonAgain) The Bible (@HANGINGFROOT) Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (@Barry) The Satanic Witch - Anton LaVey Aleister Crowley (no specific book mentioned) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Nature (essay) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (this + the 3 above by @trayertrash) Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-77 - Allen Ginsberg Matcha - Jessica Flint & Anna Kavaliunas Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days - Jenna Rainey (this + 2 above @ ig post feb 19) Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (ig post march 19) Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories about the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estés The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity - Clarissa Pinkola Estés Untie the Strong Woman: To Know and Honor Holy Mother - Clarissa Pinkola Estés (this + 2 above @ ig post july 2019) In The Nature Of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 - Henry-Russell Hitchcock Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - Richard Prum (@kristinaj this + 2 above @ ig posts september 2019) Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald The Dawn Of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare - Tom Horn and Nita Horn (@AnarKissed) Surfing California - Bank Wright  
our Lana-related recs : (add a brief description)
The Girls - Emma Cline (coming of age story of a teen girl who joins a Manson-like cult in the 60s) Marlena - Julie Buntin (story of a toxic & dangerous friendship between 2 teen girls, marked by drug addiction and general recklessness) White Oleander - Janet Fitch (a very California book about a girl placed in several foster homes & her toxic, beautiful mother) Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (imo it's impossible Lana hasn't read this book; a series of seminal essays about 60s California by prob the most iconic Cali writer) Junky - William Burroughs (THE book about heroin addiction) Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (psychedelic noir set in 60s California about a stoner P.I. looking for a lost girl; also: watch the movie!!!) The Two Mrs. Greenvilles - Dominick Dunne (@kitschesque, "BTD era glamour") Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (@RainOverLondon, "teenage girl named cécile who lives a lavish and languorous lifestyle, spending the summer at her family’s french riviera villa with her father, raymond, and his mistress, elsa; call me by your name meets gossip girl") Lithium For Medea - Kate Braverman (a story of addiction, of complicated mother/daughter relationships & toxic romances set in Venice, LA)

loving the early summer vibes of her new song
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkxJl3hXnzc

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.

Did she... ?

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.

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.

i was thinking about this today, kinda. in my view the israel thing was infinitely worse & didn't get anywhere near the backlash this did. personally, it was the closest i ever got to unstanning her (and by this i mean downright stop listening to her music) - and tbh if she hadn't canceled the show, even if she did so with a lame ass excuse, i probably would've.
 
not to say she didn't do/say anything wrong this time, but ultimately the victims/targets of her ignorance and tone deafness here are rich, famous, successful women. in the israel debacle she showed a total disregard for the lives of oppressed, colonized, poor civilians & an unwillingness to listen to those who tried to explain to her why it was wrong to perform there.
 
this is not an invitation to discuss the israel-palestine conflict, btw. i've learned my lesson re: discussing politics on lb. my point is that this goes to show how hypocritical and performative a lot of these concerned responses are, how people care so very much when it's a pop culture matter & someone they idolize is being targeted, but not when it affects regular brown people dying in another continent.

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

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

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

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