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in terms of skill, composition, and originality "Video Games" is her best song. "Born To Die" comes in second. National Anthem and blue jeans have a pop chord progression that have been used in literally thousands of songs.

in terms of skill, composition, and originality "Video Games" is her best song. "Born To Die" comes in second. National Anthem and blue jeans have a pop chord progression that have been used in literally thousands of songs.

As a native american, I don't think Lana really thought about what she was doing in the video. Point is most of you think it looks cool, and it does, but it brings to mind stereotypes. The stereotypical indian that was created in the old films, (all indians were played by white people painted red back then, not so different from blackface) Native Americans did not create their own stereotypes. For most people, when they think of Native Americans the first thing that comes to mind is Pocahontas savages who spoke broken english and wore headdresses and yelled around like fucking idiots, that is not the case however. They did not speak broken english, only wore headdresses when they earned it and were highly regarded in the tribe, and Pocahontas was modeled after an asian model. Point is, a white woman wearing a headdress is perpetuating stereotypes and not helping but rather hurting the modern Native image. She's making indian customs into costumes. She's not helping the modern Native image but rather regressing the thoughts of native americans back to old ways. It would be different if she had a Native American wearing a headdress in her video. It makes no sense for her to wear it and it pisses me off that she's wearing it while intoxicated and acting like a fucking idiot playing with fire and throwing bottles and shit. It's stupid and unnecessary. She definitely lost a whole lot of respect from me by doing this.
 
 
As for the "old america" thing I think she's referring to the post-war type feel of america, like the pride for being an American back then which I think is highly romanticized nowadays and pretty false considering how hard life was for everyone back then. I think what she was trying to say is she liked how they dressed and their style was back then......
 
Oh lana....I used to think you were like the greatest person alive but I just don't know anymore
 
I've got a war in my mind.

As a native american, I don't think Lana really thought about what she was doing in the video. Point is most of you think it looks cool, and it does, but it brings to mind stereotypes. The stereotypical indian that was created in the old films, (all indians were played by white people painted red back then, not so different from blackface) Native Americans did not create their own stereotypes. For most people, when they think of Native Americans the first thing that comes to mind is Pocahontas savages who spoke broken english and wore headdresses and yelled around like fucking idiots, that is not the case however. They did not speak broken english, only wore headdresses when they earned it and were highly regarded in the tribe, and Pocahontas was modeled after an asian model. Point is, a white woman wearing a headdress is perpetuating stereotypes and not helping but rather hurting the modern Native image. She's making indian customs into costumes. She's not helping the modern Native image but rather regressing the thoughts of native americans back to old ways. It would be different if she had a Native American wearing a headdress in her video. It makes no sense for her to wear it and it pisses me off that she's wearing it while intoxicated and acting like a fucking idiot playing with fire and throwing bottles and shit. It's stupid and unnecessary. She definitely lost a whole lot of respect from me by doing this.
 
 
As for the "old america" thing I think she's referring to the post-war type feel of america, like the pride for being an American back then which I think is highly romanticized nowadays and pretty false considering how hard life was for everyone back then. I think what she was trying to say is she liked how they dressed and their style was back then......
 
Oh lana....I used to think you were like the greatest person alive but I just don't know anymore
 
I've got a war in my mind.

Let the praise or backlash begin.

bleh i don't wanna cause trouble but i just want to explain why headdresses are a problem.
 
First off, it perpetuates the stereotypes of native americans that old hollywood used to develop in their movies. Something that native americans have been trying to fight off for well over 30-40 years now.
 
Second, Native Americans never wore head dresses unless they earned it. It represents something entirely more than just a fashion item.
 
"representing the way america used to be" doesn't make sense for wearing a headdress. America treated Native Americans like complete fucking dogs and that's what your saying Lana is representing?
 
To native americans (and many others) wearing a headdress is no different than blackface, it does nothing but further stereotypes and make something that used to be high regarded in a culture into nothing more than a bracelet or hat
 
 
it's acceptable to like the headdress because it probably looks fucking cool, but you probably don't know why wearing it is insensitive in the first place.

LOL, now that's just silly. There was a mass genocide of Jews during WWII, that's horrible!!! You can't compare that to Lana wearing a beautiful headdress!! It's not like there was Native American genocide hurr in good 'ole Amurica~!!
 
#backtothecountryamericausedtobe

It's funny cause we are talking about this but in the grand scheme of things, nothing is really going to change, Lana is just going to be written up on a few native blogs and this is all going to be forgotten about in a week.
 
The only thing that could actually change things is if Lana was aware of what she did and apologized, that's what I like to see. She'd gain an enormous amount of respect from me if she did that.

bleh i don't wanna cause trouble but i just want to explain why headdresses are a problem.
 
First off, it perpetuates the stereotypes of native americans that old hollywood used to develop in their movies. Something that native americans have been trying to fight off for well over 30-40 years now.
 
Second, Native Americans never wore head dresses unless they earned it. It represents something entirely more than just a fashion item.
 
"representing the way america used to be" doesn't make sense for wearing a headdress. America treated Native Americans like complete fucking dogs and that's what your saying Lana is representing?
 
To native americans (and many others) wearing a headdress is no different than blackface, it does nothing but further stereotypes and make something that used to be high regarded in a culture into nothing more than a bracelet or hat
 
 
it's acceptable to like the headdress because it probably looks fucking cool, but you probably don't know why wearing it is insensitive in the first place.

bleh i don't wanna cause trouble but i just want to explain why headdresses are a problem.
 
First off, it perpetuates the stereotypes of native americans that old hollywood used to develop in their movies. Something that native americans have been trying to fight off for well over 30-40 years now.
 
Second, Native Americans never wore head dresses unless they earned it. It represents something entirely more than just a fashion item.
 
"representing the way america used to be" doesn't make sense for wearing a headdress. America treated Native Americans like complete fucking dogs and that's what your saying Lana is representing?
 
To native americans (and many others) wearing a headdress is no different than blackface, it does nothing but further stereotypes and make something that used to be high regarded in a culture into nothing more than a bracelet or hat
 
 
it's acceptable to like the headdress because it probably looks fucking cool, but you probably don't know why wearing it is insensitive in the first place.

I don't think you understand that we have nothing better to do.

bleh i don't wanna cause trouble but i just want to explain why headdresses are a problem.
 
First off, it perpetuates the stereotypes of native americans that old hollywood used to develop in their movies. Something that native americans have been trying to fight off for well over 30-40 years now.
 
Second, Native Americans never wore head dresses unless they earned it. It represents something entirely more than just a fashion item.
 
"representing the way america used to be" doesn't make sense for wearing a headdress. America treated Native Americans like complete fucking dogs and that's what your saying Lana is representing?
 
To native americans (and many others) wearing a headdress is no different than blackface, it does nothing but further stereotypes and make something that used to be high regarded in a culture into nothing more than a bracelet or hat
 
 
it's acceptable to like the headdress because it probably looks fucking cool, but you probably don't know why wearing it is insensitive in the first place.

bleh i don't wanna cause trouble but i just want to explain why headdresses are a problem.
 
First off, it perpetuates the stereotypes of native americans that old hollywood used to develop in their movies. Something that native americans have been trying to fight off for well over 30-40 years now.
 
Second, Native Americans never wore head dresses unless they earned it. It represents something entirely more than just a fashion item.
 
"representing the way america used to be" doesn't make sense for wearing a headdress. America treated Native Americans like complete fucking dogs and that's what your saying Lana is representing?
 
To native americans (and many others) wearing a headdress is no different than blackface, it does nothing but further stereotypes and make something that used to be high regarded in a culture into nothing more than a bracelet or hat
 
 
it's acceptable to like the headdress because it probably looks fucking cool, but you probably don't know why wearing it is insensitive in the first place.

.....indian. headdress. ..... ....the fuck lana? She's gonna get some back lash for that one in the native country.
 
other than that sounds fucking incredible.

.....indian. headdress. ..... ....the fuck lana? She's gonna get some back lash for that one in the native country.
 
other than that sounds fucking incredible.

.....indian. headdress. ..... ....the fuck lana? She's gonna get some back lash for that one in the native country.
 
other than that sounds fucking incredible.

bitch, why didn't you show it in NYC....

I did catch a "All these things that i've done" by the killers vibe from Ride. I love it.
 
Reminds me of the end of Thelma & Louise too for some reason lol