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Oh, no question Azealia and Kanye are multiple orders of magnitude worse. But having your outfit criticized by silly entertainment shows is just par for the course when you're a celebrity. I don't understand why she takes it so personally. And I dunno about you, but if I were sitting at a table with Kathy Griffin and Nancy Pelosi that's not a subject I'd bother with. I also think a lot of people here would look at this situation quite a bit differently if it didn't involve someone they stan.

OK, update me on our progress... How many audio transcriptions are there left to do? How many translations are there left to do? Have we created threads in the Interviews section for every interview that doesn't already have an existing thread somewhere on the forum? If not, how many are there? As a test, I merged one existing thread with one created here: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/2903-the-quietus-october-4/ The original thread was created by @Your Girl Lana and merged into a thread created here in the Interviews section by @@FROGGO. I replaced the entire text of @Your Girl Lana 's OP with the text of the post that had been the OP of @@FROGGO 's thread. Then I deleted @@FROGGO 's post along with my post indicating which threads should be merged. Anyone see any issue with that process? I should probably also do a test run with a translation or transcription done by someone outside the Interview section team to make sure there are no issues with the process for that, which will be a little different in order to try to give the transcriber/translator the OP so they can get the likes. Does anyone have a good example I can try that out with? It would have to be one that doesn't already have its own thread and that someone else did for us. Before I start running wild with merges, do we think we've followed a consistent format in our threads? Do we like the thread naming convention we've followed so far (i.e. "Publication - Month DD")? I quoted past discussion about that (where I ultimately leaned towards leaving it as is), but I thought we should at least revisit the idea before we start doing all the merges, which would provide a nice opportunity to reformat the names if we want to do something different.

A while back, I think in a status update, someone posted a link to an article calling Lana Del Rey the Donald Trump of music, or something like that. I thought it was a ridiculous comparison. But they do share this in common: They are incredibly thin-skinned and have a bizarre compulsion to relitigate every slight in a way that diminishes them.

If you figure out which one I'd still be interested.

Someone call Nancy Pelosi's office for comment.

I think I figured out which interview I was thinking of, in case any of you had wondered:

Is the account still active? Have you tried shooting them a message? Also, thanks for your continued diligence on the Interviews section!

I'm quite skeptical of there being a literal K who was literally on death row. Yeah, I've essentially done this before. I looked at death row inmates with convictions for multiple homicides in states she may have lived in from when she was in high school until "For K" was written. There just aren't that many candidates because (thankfully) not that many people receive death sentences anymore. And when you narrow it down to people with a first or last name beginning with a 'K', I don't think I ended up with anyone I considered likely. But if any of you want to dig, you should be able to find information online at sites like this: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/federal-death-row-prisoners

Yeah, not to pour cold water on your sleuthing, but to the extent that K might reference a real person, most of the connections to this individual are not exactly new and have been made previously by others on the forum either explicitly or implicitly. And to the extent that some of them haven't been, it's partly because once some of us (speaking for myself at least) realized how clear some of the connections are, we thought it best not to draw more attention to this individual. But this post does a really good job of succinctly summing up the case. (Though I think theories of a mythical K still have some currency as some of the narratives in her songs possibly relating to K don't jibe with the details of this person's life so far as I can tell.) I think Elle's suggestion is right, that once we get too hot on the trail, it's best to step back a bit, especially with private individuals. That said, the line can sometimes be blurry. For instance, I have a few Lanalysis theories of my own I've yet to float (pending my chasing down a lead on a semi-related thing I'd necessarily have to reveal in the process), but they involve people who are arguably more public figures. Still a really tricky issue though.

OK, now I'm convinced the lyric is "Medellín". I was watching this 60 Minutes piece (insert obligatory oldster joke here) where Lesley Stahl says people in "Medellín" pronounce it "med-a-zsheen".

Why though? That's a pretty arbitrary distinction. That would be sort of like excluding any Ke$ha albums from a future list because she doesn't spell it with a $ anymore. And AKA is definitely not "unreleased".

Why is AKA left off? THE ELECTION IS RIGGED!!!

Yeah, as @Aquababe pointed out in another thread, these were fan edits that someone posted on her MySpace back in 2009. I'm pretty sure this came up in the LDR.FM days and we had this same debate over the lyrics. I don't think we were very convinced she actually says "wicked fun" the second time in the bridge then, nor am I now. (If I run a high pass filter and slow it down a bit I'm pretty sure it's still "make it fun"). But she definitely says "make it fun" every time in the outro. Now can Tupac's sweetheart get some bread and lunches up in these neon reservations?

stefani u suck

No, it's just hidden, though I'm tempted to merge this one with it. We will be very quick to close this one if it also becomes a problem.

Literal illuminati

There's a whole separate thread about this topic: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/1362-oldest-lanalizzy-song-not-including-sirens/

We refer to Sirens as May Jailer recordings because that's the name the likely original source said they were recorded under. And we do the same for QN/FTE because of the significant overlap in track listings and similar sound. But there is absolutely zero evidence that she ever performed under that name. I don't think so, but you may be thinking of when someone blew up a picture of her driver's license. Or perhaps when I looked up her voter registration in the state of New York using her actual DOB instead of her claimed DOB and noted that "hort of a long-form birth certificate, this is about the most conclusive evidence she was born in 1985 you could get."

I'm no Rick acolyte-- he's the producer responsible for the sappiest drivel on BTD-- but your "24" bashing will not stand. That said, I think working with a variety of producers is good for the creative process, even if she ends up working primarily with one or two for the album. Assuming her Instagram post is indicative of who she's working with, I'm not so thrilled about Haynie, but I'm looking forward to seeing what Jonathan Wilson's influence will be.

Wait... Are you saying you think "24" or "Swan Song" are masterpieces in Rick's hands that you don't think would have been as masterful in Auerbach or Haynie's hands, or are you dissing them as bad songs that not even Auerbach or Haynie could have saved? Good.

@evalionisameme It's all good. Just trying to reinforce what I'd like to be social norms for the community.

I don't believe she did any recording for AKA in the UK. She did spend a lot of time recording in the UK between AKA and BTD beginning in May 2010 if not earlier. Yup. Receipts here. Dude, you're the one being rude with the entitled attitude. And as noted in my post linked above, yes, someone already tried asking Tim Larcombe about it. I don't think I could even count on one hand the number of times I've seen people on the forum say they tried to contact him. (See one particularly egregious example here.) That's just people on the forum. And just the people that posted about trying. Think how many people in the entire fanbase have probably pestered him about this. Things new sleuths say/think that are amusing/annoying to old hands like me: Assuming you might be the first person (or even one of just a few people) to contact anyone even semi-obvious in 2016. (And for fuck's sake, if you somehow still manage to be the first, be polite so that you don't burn bridges for people after you who might have important questions you didn't know enough to ask in your quick and dirty smash and grab operation.) Thinking a couple days of dedicated searching is hardcore and enough to expect to find something. This wasn't necessarily true even in the golden age of sleuthing when there was a lot left to find, let alone now in 2016. Presuming a producer will just give you tracks if you ask. I have to tell you, in all my years of sleuthing this has never happened, and I've contacted quite a few. Ironically, Shawn Lee was the closest I came. He was the most willing and one of the nicest. So leave him alone.

Yeah, there were a couple threads about that at the time: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/3466-bob-leone-talks-about-lana-gaga-so-legit/ http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/3597-bob-leone-on-so-legit-again/

Yeah, I tried contacting him in 2013, and also got no response. He'd already been on my radar to contact, but unfortunately I didn't get around to it until after she namedropped him explicitly in an interview. I'd love more than anything for someone to have success contacting him, but I don't think it's going to happen. He should probably be left alone. Well, I think Lana's been pretty clear it's been more than just one guy. As for Bob Leone specifically? Well... actually I just remembered I have an unfinished draft of a post I wrote on this very subject over a year ago that I forgot I never posted. I'll try to polish it up and post it as soon as I'm able.