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If you thought I was being serious or that I was unaware of that fact, then c'mon down to Florida, I got something for ya some swampland to sell you.

C'mon girl, don't lie. You know calling your album 25 when you're actually a couple years older is your secret homage to Lana.

The way I've always interpreted it is that the whole song is from Lana's perspective, but she's characterizing how Barrie interpreted her attempt to broach the issue. I don't really wanna break up, we got it going on It's (referring to Barrie's understanding) what you gathered from my talk but you were wrong In other words, what Barrie gathered from her attempts to talk to him was that everything was fine, but they really weren't. And the next lines suggest his misunderstanding occurred perhaps at least in part because she was unclear, maybe because she has a hard time talking about it. I have heavy heartstrings I'm not simple, it's trigonometry It's hard to express I can't explain Barrie's account is not inconsistent with some comments she has made about their breakup in interviews: It sounds like she may have stopped seeing him, but never officially told him it was over. In other words, the fadeaway or ghosting.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/fashion/exes-explain-ghosting-the-ultimate-silent-treatment.html

Wait... You're trying to compare first day post-release iTunes sales of an album that cannibalized those sales with a month-long pre-order and physical release and leaked a few days early with the first day sales of an album that was surprise released and initially available only on iTunes. (And yet it still came close.) An apples and oranges comparison if there ever was one. Or to continue the fruit metaphors, an extremely cherry-picked statistic. Honestly, this comes off kinda desperate. Also, it's not clear to me anyone in the industry actually separates out pre-orders in calculating first day sales. At the end of the day, everybody knows 25 outsells Beyoncé in any scenario given the same release strategy. So this is pretty useless.

http://www.theonion.com/article/nation-satisfied-selena-gomez-completes-transition-51874

inb4 @@leaked_version calls it a flop if it doesn't sell 30 million copies like 21 did.

While early reports certainly suggest Islamist terrorism, is there really any hard evidence yet that it's ISIS specifically?

Definitely unofficial and almost certainly fraudulent. The back cover should say "Ray" not "Rey" and the "A.K.A Lizzy Grant" part (missing the final period btw) is questionable since it's made to look like it's part of the title when it wasn't. The title of "Gramma" is truncated and it's "Oh say CAN you see". There's at least two three other details that probably also suggest it's fake, but I don't want to tip off the next idiot who tries to pull this shit.

A better question is: "Are flower crowns cliché?"

Here's the original thread about that: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/3769-lana-del-rey-and-mac-miller-to-executive-produce-daniel-johnston-film/

Damn, another cover. My follow-up covers-themed podcast is just getting longer and longer.... Highly ironic song for her to cover though.

Because Adele is just some random person...

Exhibit A why I find it so odd I was onced voted "Best Stan". I will never understand stan culture. Both the before and after reactions are so extreme in opposite ways. LOL. Why am I being mentioned here? I endorse this post so much.

We already have the perfect gapless album. It's called AKA.

Ha, I wouldn't recommend anyone writing a thesis on Lana that depends in any way on taking stuff she says about herself at face value. She contradicts herself so much.

...CONTINUED Ummm... You know, pink flamingos always fascinated me. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the first time she's spoken of Lana as a persona? Me too.

Star in a Werner Herzog film, please. Alright. If she follows through on this (we know how often she changes her mind) and doesn't tour for Honeymoon at all, THEN. THEN I can understand criticism for lack of promotion. I really like this description especially the "slaughter-of-the-lamb" metaphor. It's really apt. Also, there's this. Was her last known pre-fame show an omen? Oh yeah, I forgot about that about her mom. Also, LOL at all you over-emotional thirsty fans. You disturbed Chuck. Not that I think we need another Tropico, but this would not exactly be a lack of promo. There. You said it. Explicitly. You're 30. Was that so hard? Not sure what she's trying (not) to say about Franni. That he's not as famous as her? That she's a self-admitted weirdo and he's not? Or that she can't imagine a future having a family with him? Twincest vibes. C'mon, you know I inspired the title of Ultraviolence. Don't lie. In all seriousness, I can't believe she's unaware of fans such as myself. (I don't mean me specifically, I mean straight male fans generally.) Though we may be a minority post-fame, I suspect we were a large majority of her fans in the early days. I mean, this is a woman who wears a fake wedding ring to minimize advances from men. She has to know. #Lolita #YouLikeYourGirlsInsane Ha, Lana would play Sharon Tate. Don't play like you don't fetishize dead celebs. Spanish director. Hmm... Almodóvar perhaps? TO BE CONTINUED... (fucking quote limits)

LOL at people who had been complaining about her being done with promo.

Thanks. I've copied and pasted your links into the OP.

Several music videos, a bunch of interviews, and a tour in support of Ultraviolence was "trolling" us? Seriously? You have to be a pretty thirsty entitled fan to have that perspective. Honestly, I think you're much closer to trolling everyone than Lana ever was. If there's anything twisted here, it's the idea that selling 2 million copies worldwide can be considered a huge commercial flop (with the possible exception of overspending), I don't care who you are. There's hardly any artist that can sustain multi-million sale figures throughout their career. It's silly to call that "flopping" rather than the natural trajectory of a career. By your logic, any artist that has a world-beating breakout album is doomed to "flop" simply because they inevitably won't be able to endlessly reproduce sales at that level every time. Man, The Wall is such a flop because it sold way less than Dark Side. Bad was such a flop because it's no Thriller. Again, the albums we're talking about can only be considered "flops" if you have unrealistic expectations. That's a somewhat selective interpretation of those figures. Let's face it, despite being called an EP, Paradise was essentially an album. Given that, another reading of these numbers is that they are back up a bit with UV and HM after a steep decline with Paradise from an unlikely to be repeated debut. Again, it's unrealistic to expect her to sell multi-millions even if she did it once. Selling in the neighborhood of a million is still pretty damn good. Certainly not "flopping" at least.