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It is true, though -- I have BTD:PE and UV made with high-quality tube gear and they sound miles better than the CD

same … a bit of lo-fi fuzz always works for her, really

I am trying not to say too much until the album drops, but ... Honestly the figure she always seemed most similar to is David Bowie -- while today he is canonized, back in the 70's he was often criticized as being a hollow, cynical manipulator of his own image, appropriating the styles of his avant-garde contemporaries to push a mainstream product (and still today; just read Scaruffi's writeup, and compare it to what he said about the Doors -- he liked Ultraviolence, ironically!). This was unfounded, I think, but his analytical approach to creativity was always in stark contrast to cohorts like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, who seemed to be more like forces of nature than anything else -- and the same could be said for Jim Morrison. So, what is true poetry? I must refer to this telling passage by Robert Graves -- http://www.dhushara.com/book/diana/diana.htm But Graves went further and said that for the female artist, she must BE the White Goddess -- http://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-37-2/articles/the-female-poet-and-the-male-muse/ By this definition, Lana is a true poet.

I immediately saw that Tennyson's poem is a retelling of the Gnostic Sophia-myth, as some others have divined: http://www.sarastroblake.com/lady.htm http://armageddonconspiracy.co.uk/The-Hero-Program(1685768).htm The spiritual path of the individual mirrors the cosmic Gnostic creation mythos; in the first, "I'm in love with a dying man" as she plunges into "The Ocean" of the unconscious; in the second, Sophia (the Lady of Shalott) gazes down from the Pleroma into the reflected Kenoma below, and thus projects herself into it, a fate repeated in the career of the individual soul. The Ray being the individual who becomes Rey when she encounters her brunette alter-ego in the World-Soul. This is Eve with the apple in Tropico, the "creaturely Sophia" (Achamoth) who detaches herself from the heavenly Sophia (the red below and the white above) and falls into the land of Gods and Monsters. See Quispel (recommended reading): https://books.google.com/books?id=bqRGI6bugRcC&pg=PA50&dq=sophia+mirror+inauthor:quispel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAGoVChMIvri348nwxwIVSEeICh159gVf#v=onepage&q=sophia%20mirror%20inauthor%3Aquispel&f=false Also Freke and Gandy (other recommended reading): https://books.google.com/books?id=swM_6ufZ2P4C&pg=PA159&dq=sophia+looks+pleroma+mirror&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBmoVChMIp6Hrv8jwxwIVESqICh0ncAl6#v=onepage&q=sophia%20looks%20pleroma%20mirror&f=false https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenoma Ultimate Soul = Pleroma Ego = Kenoma From the Still Point of the turning world , she watches the Boys who eternally run and return to her. Also http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/6789-freak/ Your halo's full of fire I'm rising up, rising up My heart loves full of fire Loves full of fire Baby if you wanna leave Come to California Be a freak like me too (California being Paradise as the liberated place of the Great Sunshine and hippie freedom lands) http://hermetic.com/stavish/essays/secret-fire.html

idk how to feel whenever Lana gets played in amateur porns also this scene is WTF

Strings are beautiful and soulful and timeless, synthesizers are for soulless bastard 80's robot children

This whole album sounds really good with headphones; I am eternally grateful that she didn't jack the treble up to 11 like w/The Weeknd & WFL

It's all true, and the irony is never lost And FKA Twigs being the actual overhyped hipster blog darling And Halsey being the actual Urban Outfitters-pandering producers' pet

the new girl is better tbh

tbh I think she saw Gagz on the TV and said "I can do this pop thing better than her (because I am SO LEGIT)" and that's why we have a hundred unreleased variations on Go-Go Dancer

Lana: "I want money, power, and glory" Taylor: "In my opinion, the value of an album is, and will continue to be, based on the amount of heart and soul an artist has bled into a body of work, and the financial value that artists (and their labels) place on their music when it goes out into the marketplace. Piracy, file sharing and streaming have shrunk the numbers of paid album sales drastically, and every artist has handled this blow differently.... Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for. It's my opinion that music should not be free, and my prediction is that individual artists and their labels will someday decide what an album's price point is. I hope they don't underestimate themselves or undervalue their art." Me:

Walking is an art, so is my body Papi is a workaholic, I’m his little party I’m his parlor trick, sip-sip of/sips above Bacardi I can make you dope, sick off of my naughtiness He says, “Who the best? You is.” I’m glamorous, famous, notorious, dangerous But you’re crazy “I’m gonna leave you,” he said, “You’re not a real girl You’re like a cartoon All caught up in this fame game Yo, good luck, good luck, good luck May all the stars in the sky bow down to you We’re through.” You gotta be smart and I’m a little smarty Papi is a gangster, I’m his little dolly yes

http://curbed.com/archives/2014/11/11/taylor-swift-blank-space-music-video-mansion-oheka-castle.php

A Good Thread ... see also "The Lucky One" Taylor has to always be the Prettiest Girl in School and she steals anything to get there, since to her it is all simply another trendy fashion accessory

Don't forget all of the Great Gatsby references in "Blank Space" !!!

Paradise has more vocal reverb "Shades" also has (presumably real) tape hiss and is quite a bit better on vinyl where the dynamics aren't smashed not taking any more of this bait

Fairly clear on "Dark Blue" at 2:07 when it cuts out around 2:15; and there is definitely an extra layer of reverb on the iTunes compared to the YT (although this may be due in part to compression, even adjusting for ReplayGain) Get better headphones boo

Tape hiss is a dramatic effect and creates an airy, spacious sound; stop hating on her pseudo-vintage production Hate on the excessive reverb maybe

Lana vinyl is always more HQ than CD so LEAK VINYL PLZ

The Wizard of Oz and the bronzen thief ruled my girl with teutonic teeth

Despite what Pitchfork says, I never hear the Lana influence except that she uses generic canned beats, which really underscores the production laziness with this album http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20951-badlands/?utm_campaign=search&utm_medium=site&utm_source=search-ac I mean, if she did sound like her rival, I'd probably like it more -- where are the fucking "saccharine strings"? Where is the lo-fi crunch?

you peeps are forgetting that she is basically charmed; bish can sit at home trimming her horse shrubbery and BTD will still be on the Billboard 200

I was thinking this is another Bowie reference, maybe? Like, she is actually transmitting "in" the television: https://bowiesongs.wordpress.com/2010/12/07/tvc-15/ also http://www.criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/clips/david-bowie-watches-12-tv-screens-at-once-in-the-man-who-fell-to-earth/view