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^me at Music To Watch Boys to, my recent Honeymoon epiphany, futureretro and the whole thread in general

you're a very angry little one, aren't you?

you're a very angry little one, aren't you?

scat gifs > futureretro.

I feel like after next week, the album will get an exclusive stream somewhere. I mean hopefully, makes more sense than playing the whole album in a bunch of stores

Me 
 
would CRY if we got a btd 2.0, i'm SO sick of BTD you don't even understand. definitely my least favourite lana album

amazing in good quality since the song is actually out there
http://picosong.com/J4yJ/

I thought a Halsey track sounded kinda Lana-ish before Halsey even sang it or was even a thing. #HipsterAlert

No seriously.

Following my own advice to "Keep an Eye on the 'Industry Players'", I follow a lot of music industry accounts on Soundcloud, including one for TaP mgmt, Lana's manager Ben Mawson's company that manages Lana as well as OTTR, TIWMUG, and G&M co-writer Tim Larcombe. So a couple years ago a set labeled "Tim Larcombe" popped up on there which included two instrumental tracks labeled "BT I" and "BT II", "BT" presumably standing for "backing track", which sounded vaguely Lana-esque so I saved them in case they ended up being used on an album. (I'm not exactly sure when they appeared. This archive.org snapshot indicates they were uploaded in October 2012, but I'm not sure they were public that early. I saved them in September 2013, but I know I found them awhile before I got around to ripping them.) Anyway, fast forward to this morning when I was listening to Halsey in order to defend her detractors from a more educated position when I listened to "Strange Love" and experienced some major déjà vu. I recognized the backing track instantly as "BT I". Sure enough, Tim Larcombe is indeed the producer of "Strange Love":


Listen to a copy of "BT I" (click on the Soundcloud link below it if the embedded stream doesn't work) that I uploaded as a private track in April 2014 to show to @@Monicker, who deemed it "pretty uninspired":





I don't think Halsey is a complete ripoff of Lana; she's extremely derivative of her contemporaries in general, one of them being Lana. Her voice doesn't sound at all like Lana. Only a couple songs sound like Lana ripoffs ("New Americana" being the most blatant well-documented example). But she occupies a lyrical universe that overlaps a lot with Lana's. However, being a documented fan of Lana with a song title the same as one of Lana's with a backing track possibly even written for Lana by a producer that worked with Lana and has the same management as Lana... I know some of that's probably coincidence, but it's all just a little too much. And it's easy to imagine her going, "OMG, you worked with Lana? OMG, Can I work with you? OMG, you've got a backing track you wrote for Lana that she didn't use? OMG, can I use it? Great! I'll name it after one of her unreleased tracks!" 

No one has the song...one person knew the title before other people and that is it. if anyone says they have the song, they are lying 

No one has the demo.
 
She also said in the tumblr FAQin hell that even if she doesn't do a repackage, we will definitely be getting another song

but thanks to the elvis presley and michael jackson of our generation (melanie martinez and Ashley, respectively) the phrase has come up so much it's become meaningless

omg the vinyl comes out this week, I'm so hyped

You're equally annoying so like take a seat
 
These kids are annoying Jesus

this is exactly how i feel, especially the bolded part

this is exactly how i feel, especially the bolded part

this is exactly how i feel, especially the bolded part

i liked TLY 
but lol it isn't that jazzy, lana

i liked TLY 
but lol it isn't that jazzy, lana

i liked TLY 
but lol it isn't that jazzy, lana

i liked TLY 
but lol it isn't that jazzy, lana

i liked TLY 
but lol it isn't that jazzy, lana

literally calm down, it isn't that serious

literally calm down, it isn't that serious

maybe the radio might actually have to play her now

maybe the radio might actually have to play her now