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I'm surprised to find myself quoting cliché Pussycat Dolls lyrics, but it's a classic case of "Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it. [imitation Lil Jon voice 'Hey!']" Lana clearly desperately wanted to be famous, but isn't so sure about it now that she is. Her statements to the contrary-- that she never wanted to be famous-- are frankly revisionist bullshit belied by her past statements and actions. They instead reflect her newfound realization that fame isn't all it's cracked up to be and her projection of that feeling onto her past rather than an accurate representation of her disposition towards fame in the past. There was a good discussion about Lana's love/hate relationship with fame (loving the positive aspects of fame, hating the negative aspects) in another thread beginning around this post.

Anybody else find the idea of continuing to work closely with your rapist for almost ten years afterwards before making allegations against them in a civil suit (coincidentally when you badly want out of your contract with them for other reasons and before pressing criminal charges against them) a bit incredible?

Now they're just trolling

Based on what?

Unfortunately, I don't think they are. There were at least three tracks on that Soundcloud account-- "This Time", "Break the Law", and "Two"-- that I'm 90% sure were sung by Ella and co-written with Natalia Hajjara (the set was labeled "Natalia") and Chris Crowhurst. Links to two of them can still be seen here but of course the links no longer work. I did manage to find a recording of "This Time" sung by Natalia, but it doesn't sound at all like what I remember. If anyone happens to have saved these tracks, please PM me. I'll make it worth your while.

No incestuous kiss 2.0?

^ Which side is @ intended to represent?

@@SitarHero Recant your false Lorde and worship this Ella.

There were a number of tracks by her on the Soundcloud account that "Prom Song (Gone Wrong)" was on. I don't think I saved them but I wish I had. Did anybody happen to save them?

Because Lana's not obsessed with death or dead celebrities...

I stumbled on this about two and a half years ago and have a ridiculously long and almost creepily thorough megapost detailing all of this I need to finish editing. They're poems written about her by an online admirer/acquaintance of hers named Chris Cole. Although he was clearly smitten with her, it doesn't appear they were ever more than friends. I've been in contact with him and will post more about this after following up on one thing with him. Edit: At the time I also looked into the question of who inspired who, and except for the possibility that he may have introduced her to Walt Whitman's poem "I Sing the Body Electric", and perhaps the Arthur/Marilyn theme from "Puppy Love", it appears her lyrics and DIY videos predate all his references to them.

Wait until @@Monicker sees this. Hmmm... I think I just proved your point. Oh man, now @@Monicker's really gonna be pissed.

Me. I Am Synesthesia. #obscure

^ It's called "scatting". This kind. Not this kind.

I don't get the "lemonade" denialism. The lyric before it is "crying tears of gold". Gold tears would look an awful lot like lemonade and it's clearly what she says. She writes some cringe-worthy lyrics sometimes. Deal with it. I also don't get how people are hearing "white lies". If I thought there was any chance she was singing "white lies" I'd be all over that shit and the Lanalysis that would entail. But I'm not because I don't think there is. There's definitely an 'n' in there. It's definitely "white lines". It's definitely a cocaine reference. Besides, it's a recurring phrase on the album. She repeats in in "Florida Kilos", which is clearly about drugs.

A lot of these lyrics are hard to decipher, but I don't understand the persistent doubt about the line "chick-a-cherry cola lime". Aside from clearly sounding like that phonetically, it's an obvious reference (conscious or not) to the line "chick-a-cherry cola" from Savage Garden's "I Want You", as I pointed out right away. She just added a twist of lime.

"Tenement" makes plenty of sense. Tenements are a really common form of housing on the East Side of NYC which she namechecks multiple times in this song.

Don't make me go all Neil deGrasse Tyson on your ass!

^ Because astrology is bunk.

What do we make of this and this?

I think we can be pretty confident about the correct track order (see the "All Lyrics" thread) since that Team Hellions guy KRISTOFFRABLE appears to have been jamie311's source despite his denial of having anything to do with the leaks. His copy of the album had no track titles nor did rips that circulated privately before it leaked publicly with guessed track titles. However, there are two track titles we can be pretty sure about: "Junky Pride" because it was listed that way on her old MySpace account, and "A Star for Nick" because Sean from Nefarious Bovine Radio said it was called that on his podcast. (Of course, this assumes she never changed the names which we all know she has a habit of doing.) Also, according to @@Trash Magic, an LDR.FM mod also said that "Bad Disease" and "Out With a Bang" "were streamed online a long time ago under these titles", but I've never seen any receipts for that. Some people also speculate that "River Road" is the real title of "Next to Me", but as far as I can tell that's based solely on the coincidence that the title "River Road" was scrobbled with the same track length as "Next to Me", but that seems pretty thin to me, especially considering the propensity of certain assholes traders to scrobble tracks under different names and since the title "River Road" bears no relation to the lyrics. More recently, a number of Sirens tracks also surfaced on albums leaked as From the End and Quiet Now under different titles (and in higher quality). Here's my take on that situation: Also, it should be noted that when Sirens leaked publicly the invented title "I'm Indebted to You" was misspelled "Indebited".

@ I'm disinclined to merge it now because the numerous responses would just clutter up that thread, but minor factual questions like these should be posted here rather than getting their own threads.

I hope she liked the serial necrophilia and scene of actual defecation 5 minutes in.