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Been meaning to give some feedback on your comments here, but I've been a little busy planning for a vacation I'm leaving for later today and getting shit done at work before I go. I'll be gone for about two weeks, but I should have time to comment when I get back. Until then, keep up the great work!

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.

Wow, really? I confess I never looked at them until embarrassingly late in the game, but I think I've always had the ability to. Weird since you generally have more privileges than the rest of us. Pretty much this. I wouldn't necessarily oppose more mods depending on who it was, but I'm not convinced our activity has dwindled to the point where that is actually the problem. Are there any specific things you think are not being done that should be that you think more moderators would help? Why do I have a bad feeling there was an unsuccessful attempt at an upgrade followed by a reversion?

Oh, this is a really minor thing, but is there any way to fix the way statuses get out of order when you "Load More" in Staff Chat?

MAKE @@annedauphine A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE INTERVIEWS SECTION MAKE @@annedauphine A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE INTERVIEWS SECTION More delegation of admin powers to mods. I know @@YUNGATA has more privileges, but I'm not sure if she has enough, or if maybe more mods should have those too. Is there any way to put a time delay on posting from new accounts? Some spam accounts are more sophisticated, but I can't count the number of spammers that have a status update, posts, and have created a thread, but show they've been online for only like 7 seconds. More transparency about the site's financial situation. If donation is necessary to keep the site going, I think more people would be willing to donate if they knew what the site's cost are and how much existing revenue streams are bringing in. Would also be nice to demonstrate you're not pulling a @ on us or something. Not that I would care if you made a profit as long as that was transparent. And one more thing, MAKE LANABOARDS GREAT AGAIN MAKE @@annedauphine A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE INTERVIEWS SECTION (Also, I'm sure I'll think of more.) @@YUNGATA @@SitarHero @

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.