divebarsinger

i remember when this came out me and my friend had been so excited cos we were huge fans since BTD, we listened to it together, heard the opening lyrics to cruel world and cried (i know total cheeseballs). so many memories attached to this record tho, became my solace through so much shit and still is 

old but one of my biggest is "who the fuck is jim?" she says it's jim beam, but she also references her alleged relationship with jimmy gnecco countless times (the going to the gas station for snacks thing) in countless songs which they apparently did together. he fits the profile in so many songs on ultraviolence
don't quote me on this but if i remember at one point she said the ultraviolence song was inspired by jim morrison and pamela courson's relationship, given a book i read about them it does seem quite fitting in some ways. plus she references jim morrison officially in god's & monsters
 
who the fuck is jim who knows

personally i enjoy lana's teeth whistle when she says words beginning with 's' or 't'

i thought ariana's 'thank u next' was the blandest, dullest song ever that'd be nothing without the music video that went with it jaysus

as i've just said, i know this. god you would literally pick an argument with a tree 

i'm kinda relieved she's still hanging around those dive bars in those false lashes

a polaroid of her baptism

i absolutely fucking HATE it what on earth was she thinking???????
 
not only was most of the footage recycled it didn't do the songs justice at all. she has on all accounts one of the best rated albums of 2019 according to critics and she puts out this. jesus

old but one of my biggest is "who the fuck is jim?" she says it's jim beam, but she also references her alleged relationship with jimmy gnecco countless times (the going to the gas station for snacks thing) in countless songs which they apparently did together. he fits the profile in so many songs on ultraviolence
don't quote me on this but if i remember at one point she said the ultraviolence song was inspired by jim morrison and pamela courson's relationship, given a book i read about them it does seem quite fitting in some ways. plus she references jim morrison officially in god's & monsters
 
who the fuck is jim who knows

what i'd have given for a t-shirt with 'fuck it' on the front and 'i love you' on the back 

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

this. i honestly couldn't give a shit about how she looks anymore, i just want my interest kept. i want creativity and spontaneity and the annoying part is... she's clearly very capable? i think the 'doin time' video did that very much and i give her credit for it. it was funny in places, she played more than one character. it was a departure for her, i don't remotely expect big budget either but seriously what's even more frustrating is the songs are GREAT. but she never sells the full package and she has more ability to than she ever did and according to her, she's not even over her own career like we thought she was due to the lack of inspiration. it's all just so, so boring and mediocre. you can't honestly tell me the person who wrote those songs on NFR struggles to come up with videos to go with them, seriously? SERIOUSLY? the imaginative imagery is all there

Ik, I'm normally kind of w/e about it but it bums me out. Those of us who don't praise her laziness get told we want her to be the BTD gangster nancy cigarette tropico queen, as though honeymoon wasn't objectively beautiful, in terms of music and aesthetics :/ Like she's reading her own damn song lyrics from a phone in her own concert... she's stopping concerts to look for her f-cking vape... and I'm supposed to be charmed? Or find her relatable? Like fair enough if it's not right for me to expect more in terms of song lyrics, production, etc. but it's so incredibly disingenuous when people try to say that she's not lazy or entitled at all lmao. She's got all the time in the world to relearn lyrics she wrote, or make a video that makes sense lmao like... not impressed. And then she has the audacity to tweet the water clip from the end of freak and say she wishes she still made beautiful art for the sake of it. Who tf is stopping her.

What makes the Ultraviolence and Honeymoon videos different is that they were undeniably her, and they didn't feel forced in any way, she didn't need to pull anything immature or shocking to make it good. She made them because she wanted to add to the art of the music. I didn't get that from this video. 

Just reading some of your comments and thinking... Her level of mediocrity has gone so far that, if she doesn't make a 180º turn on that in her next projects, whatever they end up being, very few of us will remain being interested about her or her output. I'm personally very frustrated about how she shows under zero responsibility for the things she releases or the messages she is legitimating (absolutely agree with the ones here complaining about the lack of ethnical/racial perspective on the thing with the "cops"). She's starting to cross the thin border between "fresh out of fucks forever" and being absolutely uninteresting, or even disgusting.

Well, I haven't read all the drama but I find all the 3 parts of the video, especially Bartender, extremelly embarrassing. Like, real white girl trash.

imagine being rich and famous to the point that all you have to do for "work" is create beautiful art - and being too lazy to even do that.  honestly id rather her just not do anything or keep it to herself.  bc it feels like a slap in the face to everyone who actually works hard doing shit they dont wanna do just to survive, who dont even have the time theyd like to devote to their art, but keep trying anyway.  she's like "ha ha yeah i made it, im rich and famous, i can just do nothing but barely observe ab how the world (cough, not really the world, just LA) is burning but still not do anything about it".. then has the gall to act like shes doing a lot of good for the world or something
 

idk, it's not as much ab what her aesthetic is as much as it is ab how it's executed.  Lana has always mixed styles that dont necessarily go together, but it worked a lot better in the past.
 
BTD: Old Hollywood glamour / hip hop tinges / 4th of July
Paradise: sepia western / road trip realness / California palm trees
UV: lost in suburbia / sad acid trip / old money Florida
HM: European vacation / cult vibes / 20s jazz
LFL: flower power / space explorers / techno-apocalypse / ruined peaches & black beaches
 
NFR is serving surfing & boats / piano balladry / Laurel Canyon teas / Walmart witchcraft / comic book style / neon green vibes / being too rich for the cops to apprehend you / wasting perfectly good sandwiches and slurpees
 
even LFL had a more beautiful style than NFR in my opinion.  I for one appreciated the 60s flower child vibe juxtaposed against space and technology even if i didn't really get the Hollywood sign thing.  it's not ab Old Hollywood, it's ab beautiful and meaningful style.  NFR is just kinda bland

That would be very very interesting...