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Do we have more than a couple? I know a couple came from a publishing site.

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Azealia is that you? How's this for a paranoid conspiracy theory? User Ave Maria joined the day after troll account svr407 was banned and posts from suspiciously similar IP addresses.

Hmm... not that I would necessarily go anyways, but that is spectacularly bad timing for me.

For an interview less than 2 minutes, this was surprisingly informative. Not sure there's a 61 anymore, but Parkside Dr. is an actual street in Lake Placid. I would guess her family probably lived at this address when she was young. This also fleshes out the picture of her post-high school years a little more, giving perspective on perhaps why she enrolled at SUNY Geneseo but never attended and took a year off before going to Fordham, as well as how she was able to finish her degree while recording AKA and perhaps why one article said she dropped out (probably just appeared that way) while most sources said she graduated.

and now she’s at a Lana show in 2019 Ah, I never made the connection that it was a cousin of hers doing backup vocals at that show. Probably a good thing I never got around to contacting her about Early Shows stuff. Great catch.

For that matter, Adele didn't even make the list at all. I mean, I get the argument for not ranking Adele high-- too safe, bland, etc.-- but not even making a top 200 list at all? Come on.

Pitchfork has also finally put out there 200 Best Albums of the 2010s list and NFR comes in at #19, a great showing. 19. Lana Del Rey: Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019)Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Lana Del Rey’s fifth and finest album, begins with a breakup and ends with self-affirmation and hope. In between, she takes on wide-lens topics—climate change, gun violence, depression, death—with effortless cool. (She even manages to seamlessly fit in a Sublime cover.) Her indelible pop melodies are strung together with the grace of a tragic ballet. Lana worked on the record with Jack Antonoff, a producer known for encouraging pop artists to indulge their most theatrical, bombastic sides. Del Rey, however, encourages a more somber atmosphere, defined by muted piano, acoustic guitars, and layered harmonies that pair with her angsty, existential stories—’70s in spirit and ’90s in frame of mind, to paraphrase a lyric. If Lana’s music once sounded like a collage of her heroes’ greatest hits, then here is where she lapsed into her own language entirely. –Sam Sodomsky I had mixed feelings about BTD-- great songs, overdone production-- but how THE FUCK is it not on this list? Seriously, the second longest charting album by a female solo artist in the history of the Billboard 200, after only Adele's 21 (released about the same time), and hugely influential, doesn't make Pitchfork's top 200 albums of the decade? FWIW, AKA was released in January of 2010 and should be on this list too, not that I would have ever expected it to be.

*looks up from my posts criticizing her dating the reality TV cop because of his outlook on policing and reform to see a Facebook notification for my 20 year high school reunion and degrees in two different fields on my wall* Something we can agree on! Peace in our time.

If someone has the time to transcribe this interview, I'd be much obliged.

Recency bias is definitely a factor here, but I don't think we should be surprised it would be the other song besides "Video Games" to make this list. Obviously stans are gonna have different favorites from her catalog, but it makes sense that "The Greatest" would resonate most with non-stans. It really captures the moment we're in right now as well as any other song. It's also beautifully written and executed. Full disclosure: "The Greatest" is my favorite track off NFR.

"The Greatest" clocks in at #79 and "Video Games" cracks the Top 10 at #9. 79. Lana Del Rey: “The greatest” (2019) On “The greatest,” Lana Del Rey’s world is aflame. Carefree nights have been poisoned by the constant threat of nuclear warfare; her beloved Malibu is ravaged by monstrous wildfires; nothing feels like it used to, and holding onto hope no longer seems plausible. “The culture is lit, and if this is it, I had a ball/I guess that I’m burned-out after all,” she concludes over a noir swell of strings and keys. Despite its tongue-in-cheek fatalism, “The greatest” doesn’t submit to nihilism; it feels like the logical apex of Del Rey’s ever-present nostalgia. Surfing on a languid ’70s guitar wave, her blasé murmur wraps each turbulent image in a gauze of comforting warmth. The end of the world has never felt so assured. –Quinn Moreland 9. Lana Del Rey: “Video Games” (2011) When Lana Del Rey first arrived, she was bored and glamorous, looking by turns like a queen of Old Hollywood and like she was too young to be smoking. Her makeshift visual for “Video Games” confronted the incongruity without shame: The retro-gazing torch singer uploading webcam footage to YouTube, the beautiful pop star acquiescing to feeling ignored. The most familiar version of “Video Games” is actually the rough mix, a working draft built over live vocals and piano. It’s not quite polished, and like the grain on a photograph, that’s part of its charm. Tolling church bells, harp arpeggios, and chilly gasps of electric air swirl around submerged 808 hits, as Lana, low and smooth, sounds self-assured or desperate or even sarcastic. “They say that the world was built for two/Only worth living if somebody is loving you,” she sang, pining after a man-shaped vacancy, as if self-sacrifice could make her any less alone. It was outright depressing, and she made it look good. –Anna Gaca source: https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-200-best-songs-of-the-2010s/

Petition for this to be a real thing at the next show. Wait, so did Joan Baez sing these by herself or did Lana duet with her?

Yeah, I mean, if I read that exchange blind and didn't know who it was about, I would infer that that person was trying to say without explicitly saying it that they had been abused as a child, and probably by a family member or in some way that implicates a family member. And even knowing who said it I'm not sure that isn't the correct inference to make.

His nickname is #Fuckstick. Get it right.

"The whole area is a terrorists utopia". In terms of the incidence of terrorist attacks, the UAE is not. But your ignorant belief that it is is based on racist generalizations about the entire region. Being scared of actual terrorists is not racist or xenophobic. Fearing that people are terrorists simply because they're Arab or Muslim or Middle Eastern is. The UAE is not in chaos, not unsafe in terms of terrorist attacks, and its government hasn't been linked to any state-sponsored terrorism.

I'm afraid so.

@ me next time Yeah, reading through Ann's article again, I'm pretty sure she's referring to this line in the last two paragraphs that I've bolded below: That sorta echoes another line earlier in the piece. Anyway, damn... I thought I read things into things a lot. I don't think Ann had any special knowledge here. I think her comments were just based off the narrative content of her lyrics and Lana read something into these words that I don't think Ann intended, something she's sensitive about, and it triggered her. And now she's put out there, vaguely, what Ann didn't. Basically the Streisand effect in interview response form. Is that right? It was a sort of Trumpian statement to begin with, but that would make it even more so. Oh yeah, I'm not saying her being into Joni is a new thing, just that it seems heightened lately.

Hmm... Would be really curious to know which one of them chose Central Park. I mean, surely it's just a coincidence that a new season of Live PD just started, and he recently joined Live Rescue which just had a new season start... #Bothsidesism Lana endorsing Lanalysis and the entire forum right here. Hi Lana. TIWMUG.mp3 Ah yeah, that's the shit right there.

Between this and the "For Free" cover, man, Ann Powers really got in her head with that backhanded comparison to Joni Mitchell. Living "for free" in there. A little less Live PD, please and thanks. Must be the season of the witch... Well... this explains a lot. LOL at Lana saying she didn't promote out of spite at not getting enough credit for mixing. Cock tease. Blueballin' me here. She's obviously thought about it a lot. She even has a title for it. And a Christmas album, can you imagine? Somewhere in the back of my mind (and in rough outline on my laptop) I've been coordinating this concept covers-themed Lana Del Reydio podcast follow-up to the one I did several years ago. I know it's not true, but I paranoidly believe that Lana keeps putting out covers just to ensure that critical ol' me will never finish it. I love it though, keep 'em coming, Lana. Ummm... what the fuck? Is there something you're trying to tell us here, Lana? I'm gonna have to go back and read that Ann Powers review again. I do not remember reading that into it. No......

"I'm not technically a racist, I'm just an Islamaphobic xenophobe!" is not much of a defense. lol When there is significant overlap between a religious group and an ethnic or national group, there is significant overlap between religious bigotry and racism. Functionally, there is no difference. Morally, there is no difference. It's a distinction without a difference. The only difference is the term "racist" hurts yours and Wynwood's snowflake feelings because there is more stigma attached to it. I can imagine one of my Dutch Protestant ancestors saying of their Polish Catholic neighbors, "I don't hate those Polacks because I'm racist, I'm just anti-Catholic!" Nah dude, you racist too. It is racist if your belief that it is in shambles is not based in fact but irrational racist fear. None of this is relevant to the stastical likelihood of a terrorist bombing. For the purposes of this discussion, yes, it is meaningless. You're catching heat because you're conflating separate issues-- the issue of safety from terrorist bombings and the issue of societal treatment of women, LGBT, and minorities-- in order to defend a bigoted statement.

Fearing and assuming a terrorist attack would occur in a place that does not have that high of a statistical rate of terrorism, but simply because it is an Arab Muslim nation, while conspicuously not voicing such fears about concerts in Western cities Lana has performed in that have higher rates of terrorist incidents or even specific incidents of attacks at concerts is bigoted and racist. And coming from someone with several warning points for using racist slurs it's simply not credible to say some other meaning was intended.

Are you trying to be cute?

No. Why would you assume so?

As with the Israel show, Lana might want to reconsider. The UAE and Abu Dhabi specifically have a really bad human rights record and homosexual acts are illegal. Somebody tell her registered Republican Fox News-appearing Okie TV cop boyfriend she's performing someplace that practices sharia law. Whether she drops the concert or he drops her it's a win in my book. While the UAE has a bad record of funding terrorism, incidents of terrorism occurring in Abu Dhabi are actually really rare. This can only be interpreted as a racist statement.