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This assumes (wrongly) that Rick Nowels is uniquely bad at security among producers she works with.

I'd vote Marine Le Pen off the island.

Regina Spektor - "I Want To Sing"

A lot of BTD was recorded in the UK. She spent a lot of time starting at least as early as May 2010 up until "Video Games" blew up bouncing back and forth between New York and London.

And David Kahne played keyboard on "Love Changes" from that album and produced it.

Couldn't find any interviews where Lana talked about her, but in that contentious 2014 Rolling Stone interview ("I am confident. I am.") by Brian Hiatt he quotes Jimmy Iovine comparing Lana to Stevie again. Status magazine said in their interview that Lana took inspiration from Stevie Nicks, but didn't quote her saying that. Same with Pitchfork.

And finally, some Tropico map porn:

National Anthem English -> Parseltongue -> English Survival of the richest, the city’s ours until the fall They're Monaco and Hamptons bound But we don’t feel like outsiders at all We are the new Americana High on legal marijuana Raised on Biggie and Nirvana We are the new Americana Young James Dean, some say he looks just like his father But he could never love somebody’s daughter Football team loved more than just the game So he vowed to be his husband at the altar

Here are a few images I found online taken from the documents linked in the OP: I'll post a few more when I get a chance to screenshot some.

Lana and Penguin Prison (AKA Chris Glover) definitely knew each other even before that:

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Was listening to Sirens on the way in to work this morning when I realized these lyrics likely foreshadow her lying about her age.

It's lucky for you @Monicker doesn't come around anymore because he would fight you.

Also #tbt to that time Stevie was relegated to being Taylor Swift's fucking backup singer while she butchered Stevie's songs: http://ew.com/article/2010/01/31/tayor-swift-and-stevie-nicks-grammys-duet-out-of-sight-or-out-of-tune/amp/

Yes. God I feel old. "Lover's Fa... oops, @Elle beat me to the punch. Also, #tbt to when Jimmy Iovine compared Lana to Stevie Nicks. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/interscope-records-jimmy-iovine-lana-288663

I used to know a guy whose parents named him DM after Depeche Mode. Gentlest soul I ever met. Fun fact: The Bloodhound Gang started out as a Depeche Mode cover band.

When the title Tropico first surfaced, there was a lot of speculation about where the name came from. People wondered if it had anything to do with a video game of the same name. Or if it was a reference to the Pat Benatar album. I just assumed it was a word Lana came up with independently, or perhaps that she forgot Pat Benatar's album was where the word first entered her mind. (After all, she does often reference others' lyrics and album titles seemingly unconsciously. See: Lust for Life.) At any rate, I never gave it much thought after the release of the film, which I watched a grand total of two times (three if you count searching through it for screenshots for this thread). But recently I've developed a possible theory about where the name may have come from that I don't recall seeing discussed on the forum before (though maybe I just missed it): Tropico is/was the name of a real place in California. Now just a neighborhood in Glendale, CA and Los Angeles' Atwater Village, it was once incorporated as an independent city from 1911 until 1918 when the upper half merged with Glendale and the lower half merged with Los Angeles. Today, there seem to be only a few references to the name of the city that once was: a post office, a seedy motel, a new apartment project, an old folks' home. Here are links to several pages about "the lost city of Tropico": https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-city-of-tropico-california http://atwater-village.blogspot.com/2007/02/sunday-drive-through-lost-city-of.html https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120717082459/http://www.glendalehistorical.org/tropico.html http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Glendale.html https://calisphere.org/search/?q=tropico (There's probably some great cover/fan art material in some of the PDFs here.) Tropico was also home to Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where Walt Disney and many old Hollywood celebrities are buried or have their ashes interred. I have no idea if Lana is aware of any of this history-- given her proximity to it I suspect it may have inspired the name either way-- but it is certainly in keeping with themes in her work of old Hollywood and lost Americana. Feel free to post anything else interesting you find about the city of Tropico.

Is this tweet of Rob's a reference to this? https://twitter.com/robgrantdotcom/status/820025191363473408 You don't think she'd actually reuse the title "Stairway to Heaven", would she?