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If those lyrics are legit, she should release it on an album titled Je Suis Charli.

Direct downloads and links to direct downloads on file sharing sites are not allowed, but you may link to leaks posted elsewhere. Just don't waste our time with fake leaks. We've been plagued by them recently.

Even though he gave us "Let My Hair Down".

Yeah, it seems like this either belongs in a Honeymoon discussion thread or as a blog post.

The song was never actually ruled ineligible, but there was an organized smear campaign falsely claiming it had been ruled ineligible. (Or maybe a fake smear campaign by her label to garner sympathy that backfired instead?) We'll never know for sure if that campaign was the cause, but the effect seemed to be that it spooked academy voters and it was not nominated. At any rate, yes, the demo version leaked quite a few months before the smear campaign. It was kind of bizarre for me to see that campaign echo comments I'd made months earlier casting doubt on its eligibility under a strict reading of the rules, but also doubting it would matter, and preemptively declaring any such potential controversy "manufactured". For the record, I had nothing to do with the campaign, but I couldn't help but wonder if anyone involved with it found inspiration in my comments.

You don't listen to any of the songs that aren't on Sirens? "More Mountains" is so good though. I think you overstate the degree of confidence we should have in the authenticity of FTE/QN and understate it with respect to Sirens. So the thing with FTE & QN is we don't actually have any receipts that they're the recordings she registered with the US copyright office as FTE and Rock Me Stable/Young Like Me, though I think it's very plausible, and that's my personal working assumption. However, all we have is the word of an attention-seeking teenage teaser who said the albums and tracks came to him titled that way from an engineer or something involved with the recording, the word of a braggart whose attempts to blueball the entire fanbase appear to have been thwarted by his own messiness. Not the most trustworthy character, but there's also not much reason to doubt his story either. More detailed thoughts on that here. With Sirens, while it's true there's no official paper trail like registrations or anything, there's actually a lot of credible evidence that Sirens is a real album and was really called Sirens. However, the tracks were all unlabeled and the names were made up/guessed. FWIW, I keep separate copies of each with the tracks labeled the way they leaked. True, I can't recall an instance where she's ever been directly questioned about it, or where she's directly referenced it, but May Jailer and Sirens are both mentioned in The FADER's cover story on her.

Man, I swear I've heard this interview before. Or one very similar. Especially the bit about "editing videos for different bands in Brooklyn". Because that's something I've always been curious about. But damned if I can place it. No luck so far.

I did not realize this. This is how it happened in my head: Rick: Who can we get to do background vocals? Lana: I know your wife and she wouldn't mind.

Isn't it "ain't nothing said"?

Maybe she just wanted to eat lunch with her friend in peace without being imposed upon?

Agreed. But the way Lana herself portrays some of these relationships in her interviews and lyrics they sound asymmetrical with Lana as pupil (or yes, even imitator) rather than an exchange of equals. I mean, read the way she describes her relationship with her teacher Mr. Campbell ("He taught me everything"), her metal-loving boyfriend (probably Arthur Lynn, "I wanted to be just like him"), Steven Mertens (got the whole "surf noir" thing from him), etc. And the pervasive theme of submissiveness in her lyrics feeds into it too. Speaking for myself, it's true I don't examine male artists' influences to the same degree. But it's not a sexism thing. I don't scrutinize other female artists to this degree either. I simply don't analyze any other artists to this degree because I am not into any other artists to the degree I am into Lana. But in terms of the criticism she receives generally from the public and the media, I think more scrutiny of her influences is applied not only because of the allegation that she was "fake", but also because she was originally positioned as kind of a throwback and swimming against the current of current pop music. So it is an odd thing when she's namedropping classic artists as influences all the time, but seldom conveys more than the most superficial level of engagement with their work. She also receives more criticism for it because she simultaneously says stupid shit like this: source

I'm gonna push back on this a bit. I agree this is a problem with how female artists are viewed in general, but I'm not sure how well it applies here with respect to Lana. By all accounts it sounds like Barrie & Lana bonded over their mutual pre-existing likes of the same artists. However, in interviews Lana herself has frequently described adopting many of her faves from the men in her life. And there is significant evidence, for instance, that this may have been the case with Arthur Lynn. I also don't think it's at all a stretch to view her appreciation of many of the artists she namedrops as rather superficial.

"Roses" kinda sucks? Also, surprised this is apparently an unpopular opinion.

Hmmm...

"Ruby Tuesday" or receipts that it's a song we already have.

Missing a couple "Uh, uh, feeling's gone" s tho. I think the vocal's alright, but the production and rapping are terrible. Lyrics are meh.

What do you think the odds are that Poppy is Lana?

Can someone remind me which track off Sirens had the skip(s) in it? Was it a song we have in better quality from FTE/QN? I can't be bothered to listen all the way through Sirens right now just to figure that out.

It doesn't surprise me considering they've worked with a lot of the same people (Jeff Bhasker, Jonathan Wilson, Björn Yttling, Greg Kurstin, some of her tracks leaked from ricknowels.com ) If I recall correctly, the original title of the original Lana thread (RIP) on SIN compared Lana to Lykke Li, Sky Ferreira, and Paloma Faith. This also reminds me of this Facebook exchange: This is the YouTube video referenced in that post:

These are two of her best songs ever.

The first one is a little slow. The pace picks up a bit after that.

It looks like the original interview might not be online anymore, but an English translation can still be found here: http://lightsandmusic.net/LAM/?p=92

"Hawaiian glam metal and surf noir". In March 2011 she posted a YouTube link to the song on Facebook and wrote "I'm Doing A Sick Cover of This Song". I talked about it in Part 3 of my LanaDelReydio covers show podcast. #ShamelessSelfPromotion #CallMeJack Lana has talked about being hacked in several interviews, comments which seem to suggest she has been hacked multiple times in multiple ways (she mentioned a hard drive being accessed remotely in addition to her e-mail) perhaps by multiple people. If I recall correctly, I remember back in the day on SIN people making vague comments about feeling so bad/sorry for what happened to her and that her team needed to get their shit together or something like that and being told by someone that those comments were about rumors that she'd been hacked. Later, speculation naturally centered on Ahmed, a prominent Lana fan and fan site operator who was arrested on charges of hacking Sky Ferreira. But I've caught wind of enough rumors to make me suspect any incident of hacking was not isolated, unfortunately. As far as which e-mail address was hacked, I don't know (and wouldn't want to know), but there are at least two e-mail addresses she made the mistake of posting publicly and leaving up after becoming famous. So she's definitely been hacked, and undoubtedly a lot of stuff that has leaked probably came from hacking, but I personally suspect this fanbase has tended to assume more came from hacking than probably has. As @ rightly points out, a lot of tracks have come from sloppy publishing sites or producers inadvertently making them effectively public, or from producers intentionally posting them publicly. There's a number of songs that we know leaked this way, and probably some that we don't know. There are also a number of early songs that Lana herself made public that people probably just saved. Others may have posted more information, but here are links to some posts of mine discussing what's known about her being hacked and where some songs came from: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5687-honeymoon-pre-release-and-discussion-thread/page-225&do=findComment&comment=257095 http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5687-honeymoon-pre-release-and-discussion-thread/page-225&do=findComment&comment=257104 http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/3625-thread-for-minor-general-questions-that-dont-deserve-their-own-thread/page-63&do=findComment&comment=200402 http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5071-the-211-songs/&do=findComment&comment=199514