Minami Takahashi

I don't do this much but I made a Big Eyes one that I liked and thought I'd share. I have a few others I will put up later too!
 

Ever since BTD people want to bring Lana down. Guess she's an easy target. 
Would be nice if they could add a line about her new album coming out though. That's all. 

Such a tired conversation. Forcing people to identify as something. Get over yourself faded White trash!

i actually hurt reading this recent stuff about lana, it seems like theres been so much negative media about her lately.. from her dress, to kathy griffin, big eyes snubs, this, etc etc theres just a lot going on lately and i feel like if i was in lana's position i would be falling apart honestly i care about her being happy so much fuck them hoes lana

Waiting for Azealia Banks to say something on this. I bet Lana herself would have a lot to say but she NEVER goes public about this stuff.
 
The saddest thing about this is if this happened to someone like Lorde or Taylor Swift everyone one would immediately come to their defence, fan or not, the things Kim Gordon said are that harsh, but Lana is always left to fend for herself. She's like the nerdy kid in high school, everyone sees this stuff happen to her but they just watch. No one thinks to throw her any fucking support.
 
Also I must be forgetting the song where Lana says no to voting or earning equal pay.
Let's just list all the sexism displayed in this paragraph:
1 Slut-Shaming Lana for her taste in men and lovemaking.
2 Criticising Lana's apt description of a true feminist because Lana said it.
3 Insinuating that Lana shouldn't sing as an individual who has chosen a different lifestyle to her, but instead sing about very certain topics. She's basically saying that Lana Del Rey's experiences are less valuable because she's a female, she should be singing about how independent she is and act like everyone wants her too because anything less is just unheard of in society (Jim Morrison, Kanye West, Eminem, pretty much all male rappers)
4 Advising Lana to kill herself. This isn't sexist so much as simply inhumane and reprehensibly irresponsible.
 
Does Kim think she's gonna get away with all this?

Note how Kim retweets a few pissed off Lana fans who defend their fave, as if to say "look how childish and stupid they are!" When she legitimately asked a girl to kill herself and published it in a book. Such a class act.
The bitch even retweeted someone saying "Kim Gordon has had a bigger impact in music than Lana Del Rey ever will"
Arrogant cunt. And we're supposed to sit quietly and allow her to trash her fellow woman because she was a big deal in the 90s?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/01/13/vinyls-back-and-these-are-the-top-albums-of-2014-infographic/
 
Music lovers do like our Lizzy :-)

We all know she already covered Once Upon A Dream. And it was lovely, but some people loved it more than others.
 
So if you had a choice, what Disney song would you really want Lana to rework or cover?
 
I'll go first. I find myself drawn to Colors Of The Wind for her. I can see her getting into the message of that song, and maybe even having it effect her style for one of her eras. Natural and hippie-ish. I could also see Part Of Your World, but more for her Lizzy Grant singing voice. I'd love to hear your opinions too!

"Old Money" has been haunting me since the first listen.  And the more I listened, the more I was playing flims in my head.  Finally, I realized that Old Money and Gatsby are made for each other.  I combed through the entired film Wednesday and I think the video really captures the feelings I get.
 
Please let me know what you think!  

Djesus, dem Norwegian kids trying to sing along. 

My video of Ultraviolence live!

I understand why Old Money is leading, it's so flawless 

I understand why Old Money is leading, it's so flawless 

I've make some little statistics:
The countries where Lana is the most popular* (judging by Born to Die sales per inhabitants) are:
 
1- United Kingdom (876 000 units sold for approximately 64 000 000 people)
2- Germany (600 000 / 80 000 000)
3- France (400 000 / 64 000 000)
4- Australia (140 000 / 23 500 000)
5- USA (1 000 000 / 318 000 000)
6- Poland (100 000 / 39 000 000)
 
* I only did the statistics for countries where Born To Die sold more than 100 000 copies

They say I'm too young to love you
I don't know what I need
They think I don't understand
The freedom land of the 70's
 
I think I'm too cool to know ya
You say I'm like the ice I freeze
I'm churning out novels like
Beat poetry on amphetamines
 
I say, I say...
 
Well, my boyfriend's in a band
He plays guitar while I sing Lou Reed
I've got feathers in my hair
I get down to Beat poetry
 
And my jazz collection's rad
I can play almost anything
I'm a Brooklyn baby
I'm a Brooklyn baby
 
They say I'm too young to love you
They say I'm too dumb to sing
They judge me like a picture book
By the colors like they forgot to read
 
I think we're like fire and water
I think we're like the wind and sea
You're burning up, I'm cooling down
You're up, I'm down
You're blind, I see
 
But I'm free, I'm free...
 
Well, my boyfriend's in a band
He plays guitar while I sing Lou Reed
I've got feathers in my hair
I get down to Beat poetry

And my jazz collection's rad
I can play almost anything
I'm a Brooklyn baby
I'm a Brooklyn baby
 
I'm talking 'bout my generation
Talking 'bout that newer nation
And if you don't like it
You can beat it, beat it, baby
 
You never liked the way I said it
If you don't get it, then forget it
'Cuz I don't have to fucking explain it
 
And my boyfriend's in a band
He plays guitar while I sing Lou Reed
I've got feathers in my hair
I get high on hydroponic weed

And my jazz collection's rad
I get down to Beat poetry
I'm a Brooklyn baby
I'm a Brooklyn baby
 
Yeah, my boyfriend's pretty cool
But he's not as cool as me
'Cuz I'm a Brooklyn Baby
I'm a Brooklyn Baby

So I was at the Seattle show yesterday on the 27th, and I thought I'd share my experience just to give other people some insight into what they are really getting themselves into at these shows.
 
We showed up at 6am outside the venue and there were already a few people waiting. By 8am, there was a full line that had formed, and the venue staff gave us raffle tickets for being the early birds that guaranteed us first entry into the show, which was really nice. I was in a group of four— myself, my brother, my friend, and my brother's girlfriend. We hung out all day at the show and would leave in groups of two for food and bathroom breaks. By 10am there was a line around the building, and by noon they had herded the line into winding gates, and later formed more lines on the opposite side of the venue doors. By the afternoon it was a zoo there, and one lady told me about an hour or so before the doors opened that the line on our side had extended into three levels of the parking garage across the street. There were A LOT of people there.
 
As far as the tickets went, myself, my brother and his girlfriend all had will-call through Adventures in Wonderland, and my friend had gotten hers through the Ticketmaster presale. The staff kept telling everybody it was a paperless event and that you needed your credit card only to get inside, but they failed to acknowledge the fact that a lot of us had the AIW tickets which were made available to us around 2pm at the box office. Anyway, the AIW tickets were totally valid. Our line got first entry as promised when the doors opened at 6:30pm, and everyone of course ran to the stage against the staff's command. My friend had a hurt knee so we walked as fast as we could and were still able to get a spot up against the barricade. About 20 minutes later we were given the okay to stand, and then shit really got insane. My brother and I secured spots at the barricade and had the two girls in front of us with our arms extended around them so that they wouldn't get crushed against the barricade. 
 
I'm going to be honest here— the majority of the crowd was extremely rude. "Feral teenage girls" is the only way I can describe it. Fortunately my brother and I are both over 6 feet tall and weight 200 pounds each, so we were able to hold our ground, but it was a nonstop struggle from the time we stood until the end of the show. It honestly was the worst during the opening act— SO much pushing and shoving. There was a group of girls behind me who were physically assaulting me the entire show— hitting me, pinching my ribcage, kicking the backs of my knees, scratching me, pulling at my hair— it was ridiculous. One girl who looked like she was sixteen told me she was going to stab me if I didn't move. I of course didn't move, and she of course didn't stab me. One girl poured water on me. My point is, people are INSANE at these shows. My friend in Chicago warned me about it and I took her warning lightly, but now that I experienced the show, I cannot imagine being under 5'5" and lasting long on the floor. There were at least 20 girls who I saw get pulled over the barricade and taken out by security; some of them were stone cold passed out, and at one point during the show, cops came in and were arresting people. 
 
The large group of girls behind me who were attacking me the whole time did not seem to understand that I was physically pressed against a metal fence with a 5 foot tall person in front of me whom I was trying to protect from getting crushed— they still thought they were entitled and should have been allowed to be where I was standing. Before Lana came on, after the opening act, a security guard told all the guys in the front (myself included) to put our arms out against the bar on the barricade and push our bodies back to keep the girls in front of us safe, which I had to do multiple times throughout the show, and every time I did it all of the girls behind me screamed and acted like I was abusing them. Several of them tried to tell the security to kick us out for pushing back against them, but there was literally no other option— these girls did not seem to understand that our bodies were up against steel and that we were NOT going to move any further. One girl gave me a lot of trouble (the one who was pinching my rib cage) and she kept wedging her arm in-between mine and the guy's next to me on the barricade, and I told her repeatedly to get her arm out because when a pushing wave came she was going to end up with a broken arm, but she refused to listen to me. 
 
Luckily, I had a really nice Australian guy to my right who was protecting his girlfriend against the barricade, and to the right of us was a French female college student from Paris who was super friendly and had seen Lana before in Paris last year. I felt bad for her because she was against the barricade as well and people were pushing on her the entire time and she was fighting back. 
 
Honestly though, the crowds— mainly teenage girls in flower crowns— need to CHILL out. I waited in line for 14 hours and we EARNED our spot against that barricade. Honestly I felt like 80% of the crowd were a bunch of spoiled high school girls who had gotten tickets through their parents, and they had absolutely no respect for anybody and were horribly entitled. One girl who was attacking me informed me she "knew more of Lana's songs than I did," and that I shouldn't even have been there— goes to show the maturity level/age group of these girls. I'm glad I was able to give them a wake-up call that they can't always get their way, especially when they are going to try to cheat their way to the front and threaten and hurt people to do so. As I said, I had the benefit of being a big guy who could easily handle their attempts at destabilizing me, but it was disturbing how aggressive and pissed off they were. When the show ended, the security guard near us came up to the barricade and gave me a thumbs up and told me I did the right thing by pushing back and holding my ground to protect my friend in front of me, and all of the girls who had spent three and a half hours mauling me scoffed and were appalled. It was a nice affirmation.
 
As far as Lana's show goes, it was of course incredible. She came down to the barricade and took pictures with fans midway through the set, but stopped and turned around literally FEET before us unfortunately. I got some great photos though and did my best to enjoy the music. 
 
But, yeah, the show was as insane as I was warned it would be. Worse than punk shows. I've seen Hole live before and the crowd was tamer than this. What it comes down to is that the majority of the crowd was immature, selfish, and incredibly mean-spirited. Beware of that. Unless of course you ARE one of these people, in which case all I have to say to you is: GROW UP.
 
Also: make sure you are hydrated and have eaten something, even if it's light. A lot of these girls were passing out as I said and many of them were pulled over the barricade because they couldn't handle it. One of my friends from college was there on the opposite side with three of her friends, and she told me that two of her friends collapsed one had a panic attack and had to be taken out. I guess my point is, yes, these shows ARE as crazy as people are saying they are, and this is coming from a 23 year old male who has gone to multiple punk and rock shows before and been in moshpits. BE PREPARED PLEASE.

Can't fucking wait, all sounds epic.
 
RIP angels forever/hollywood/jfk/starry eyed

Can't fucking wait, all sounds epic.
 
RIP angels forever/hollywood/jfk/starry eyed

Can't fucking wait, all sounds epic.
 
RIP angels forever/hollywood/jfk/starry eyed

Can't fucking wait, all sounds epic.
 
RIP angels forever/hollywood/jfk/starry eyed

Can't fucking wait, all sounds epic.
 
RIP angels forever/hollywood/jfk/starry eyed

Why was she interviewing Lana by the restrooms? lol
Imagine the situation...
 
Lana's due to pee and a wild journalist appears
-Hey, can I ask u some dumb questions?
-Sure, I was about to pee
 
 
  Awkward situation

Why is this all so messy. I don't understand any of it. 
They should think first then act and not the other way around.