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This is so self indulgent and flowery and ultimately meaningless, but there's something funny about the way people who like Lana relate to Lana. There are stans who get really annoyed about young women who feel a connection to her lyrics, calling them tumblr fakes and try hards, etc, but rail against music outlets who call Lana herself a fake try hard. That's not related to this at all but it made me think of that. Just that idea of "The only person who's allowed to be disillusioned is Lana! She's the only one who I'm comfortable with having these specific feelings and damn these girls for twisting her message for their attention seeking fantasies. I think Lana is deep and little girls can't be deep." Not that Lana fans are the only ones guilty of this because marina fans are even worse

St. Tropez, Driving in Cars With Boys, and Serial Killer deserve this album.

What kind of lies are you telling Jimmy? He seems like the "prototype" LDR man because he IS the prototype

LDR is a really good album but I see why she wouldn't want to re-release it at this point in her career, and also why she didn't re-release it after BTD/the initial backlash. Considering how easy it is to get ahold of if you really want to, I'm not crying about it either.

I think she might be combining people named jim/jimmy. The parts about it being a ~rough relationship~ = Jimmy Gnecco, the cult leader line = The AA guy, and the fact that Jim Jones is a famous cult leader = Icing on the cake. Everything she writes is personal, but that doesn't mean that she speaks straightforwardly about one situation for an entire song every time. All writers combine experiences and situations to create songs or stories.

In my dreams it's Black Beauty or Pretty When You Cry (which could work) but Florida Kilos could be remixed into an amazing summer song. I think MPG would flop, I love it, but I don't think they lyrics would really be relatable for the mainstream. FMWUTTT would be so annoyingly butchered that I wouldn't even want to hear a radio edit and Brooklyn Baby calls upon tropes that are too specific to do well imo (it's not like a "I love x town" song. It's like I love this specific part of this specific scene in this specific part of new york that a lot of people have disdain for anyway) Cruel World is too long and doesn't really have a hook. It would get an atrocious remix before it got sent to radio.

I'm pretty sure she's said at some point that medical and financial records, stuff that that were also stolen. Those haven't leaked that I know of but maybe the hacker was a fan who was nice enough not to? Man she needed some of those "Don't leak UV or I'm reporting you" fans in the hotel that night

God I hope a lot of you aren't actually dealing with depressed friends and family IRL

If this was true BTD wouldn't have a 61..

It's pretty good. Very pretty, and I like the superimposed weirdness. I laughed at all the "coolness" from the guy. Her swimming in that tank as he payed her presence dust was a highlight.

Amazon (US) just sent my deluxe copy out, which was lowered to $9.99 for some reason? The regular edition is still $14 but there's some sort of sale going on for the deluxe or something, I don't know.

Broadcast friendly words, vs not. You can say bitch on network TV and radio in the US but you can't say shit outside of cable or subscription radio.

I also have the terrifying urge to get "Ultraviolence" tattooed. Somewhere small and as classy as the word ultraviolence tattooed on you can be anyway.. I also have the good fortune of being seen as a literary type irl, so most people would think I was paying my respects to Burgess and Kubrick (and as a literary type, I kind of would be. I've been in love with the title from the beginning.) Though my closest friends would probably immediately call me out as having an LDR tattoo Even though I've been set on a tattoo for a while, it isn't this one of course, so I'd have to think against about it for a while.

Honeyed Indulgence, Ponzi Scheme Daydreams, and Crystalline Nightmare are all strong contenders for a yet to be formed band name.

It's the classic problem of one member of a minority group having the represent the whole group. People get all mad because the album isn't feminist because Lana is supposed to represent the "artistic, sensitive young woman of 2014" She doesn't do that "well" and..we all look bad I guess? And it upsets music writers, especially younger female ones, because they "want" to be able to go to bat for Lana, but they can't because she isn't playing into their Lena Dunham approved truth, and they don't know how to rationalize liking her, but not all the things she's saying. On the other hand, I think a lot of male music writers do defend Lana for all the wrong reasons... In short: Crappy numetal albums don't represent every white male musician working today, so why do all female artists need to be homogeneously safe and empowering? Lana's truth isn't Lorde's truth, and yes Fiona Apple is always going to be a better writer than either of them (because that woman was sent down from the lyrical heavens) and everyone needs to read "How to be a fan of problematic things"

We..Generally don't. A lot of people hear about her degree and think she knows something about astrophysics or something I think. Tbh I thought Fordham would have a much different sort of metaphysics program.. but wasn't she a philosophy major who concentrated in metaphysics? So there was a lot more "what if" than "what is" if you know what I mean.

http://gawker.com/even-when-she-wants-to-die-lana-del-ray-cant-help-but-1590552466/all The first of many annoying gawker pieces about this era.

I think Is This Happiness is about Barrie, and is the only song on the album that actually is lmao.

The way I see it RS isn't going to stop being sexist towards her, but they also won't give her a really bad grade this time. Pitchfork is likely to totally change their tune about lana though.

I could see Lana pushing for G&R and FK to be on the standards instead of Flipside and ITH Flipside sounds good, but I feel like it doesn't really go anywhere. I think the same applies to ITH (on a much, much lesser scale) G&R is repetitive but it gets into the " game boy game boy" part and it feels more complete, and I don't really need to explain FK's appeal to most people (also you know she needed to get Yayo on this album somehow) Both seem straight out of the Lizzy Grant playbook, flipside sounds like a very polished version one of those demos that people would be really into when it leaked, but then would eventually be forgotten. ITH is pure class though, and should be on all the albums.

"Not a good look" I hope flipside is FK pt2 or a rework of Go Go Dancer or something, just to see everyone upset at fun and the "endorsement of drugs and hedonism" (I don't remember what thread someone said that about FK in but, jesus loosen up)

I feel like a lot of you need to sit down and evaluate what's wrong with you that you don't like Guns and Roses. Especially the Lanalysists among you.

I knew this would be exactly what this video looked like

I know she loves to compulsively lie in interviews, but it seems like such a stupid thing. I remember the early Video Game articles taking more off of her age, so at first I thought they fixed it when they started calling her 26, but those 12 months that they continued to lie about did nothing to or for the ~mystery~ of LDR, so it's just like.. God I hope they had some sort of reason, or that it was initially a mistake because it seems so unnecessary.

I remember something like that too. I think a lot of outlets like Pitchfork felt very "personally" manipulated by what they then thought the inauthenticity of Elizabeth Grant was. You can even tell in the review. An attempt to be "one of them" on a big label. How could a calculated rich girl be this sad, for realzies? I'll admit that there wasn't enough context for a lot of music writers to see much self awareness in Born to Die's lyrical content, so I can excuse a lot of the uneasiness and calling her out on vapidness and misplaced idealism, but a lot of it was straight up post SNL bandwagon hating.