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Hmm, maybe not now, but when they were both on the NYC ~indie~ see together they did know each other and Gaga did sort of cycle through styles and was an acoustic tortured soul for a bit. Also The Fame had a lot of glamour/death by opulence/I love a bad boy themes. If BTD, or even LDRakaLG came out in 2009 I could see them being compared.

IS SHE ABOUT TO DRAG GAGA? SHE'S ABOUT TO DRAG GAGA

Your entire country is harassing you for proof of Lana's age? She's really made it guys! Here's her voter registration info. Nothing creepy about it! http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/376-lana%E2%80%99s-fib-about-her-age-some-thoughts/page-2&do=findComment&comment=103972

It would explain a lot, but honestly she's probably just putting some sauce on a weird cult she spent hours reading about online as a teenager and got into. Lizzy Del Grant probably did not live in some weird commune with other teenage girls and a big charismatic "daddy" figure. Do you know what UV is? a 60's/70's throwback album. Do you know what was a "thing" then? Being in a cult. She's the best fanfiction writer tho.

There's a whole song called Fucked My Way Up to the Top. Tasteful went out the window right there and I'm happier for it

I was going to be like "Most of you are 16 at the oldest and male though so..." but any 16 year old male on a Lana del rey forum is going to need feminism in his life too so it's best they know

Honestly this fanbase can be so embarrassing. I know we take pride in Lana sorta science (except more like science fiction) background, but this assumption that she's simply "too deep and complicated for every journalist she's ever encountered so how could they possibly get her" is just silly. She's not a hardline feminist, cool. You do you, and frankly I'm not going to stop listening to her for it, despite feeling very passionately about it myself. BUT THE TRUTH IS: She did this headline to herself. There was a more evenhanded way to approach it and she knows it. She was trying to sound tragic and inward, and I guess she did, but she also sounded super ignorant too. Of course you, as a rich white popstar in 2014, are unmoved by feminism. But something tells me if she actually had to live Marilyn's life, she'd want some more of it. All it says to me is that she's looking at it from an extremely selfish point of view. "I don't feel like I need feminsm because I feel free" is all good and well when you are apart of one of the most free demographics in the world. She says "let's talk about science" but how many girls (especially non-white and non-western girls) are shut out and pushed away from being interested in science? There are lots of feminists talking about that. That's intersectionality, Lizzy. And attempting to drag people for thinking she sounds dumb juts makes you sound x2 worse tbh. "I bet you didn't know about feminism before tumblr" isn't even a fucking insult. I've personally been a feminist for a long time, but god forbid people actually learn about something useful on the fucking internet.

If history is any indication, it's probably just going to be her hanging around on a beach/in a car laying on an American flag watching some dude smoke for 5 minutes

The DN line is questionable awful, but it's a very pretty song. Not the one I think I'll have on repeat the most, but the harmonizing, bridge and piano are highlights. I think most of Lana's songs have a way of allowing you to project onto them, but this isn't one of those songs. The lyrics are obviously very personal, but also awkward and sort of tonally uneven. I haven't decided wether I think that's a good thing or not. I can't figure out wether she misses this relationship and is mourning it, or regrets it, or is still in it.

Cringing at the "Social issues aren't important because look at how many galaxies there are" tumblr level derailing nonsense tbh. That being said, I hope she starts to feel better. Anxiety and depression issues tend to manifest physically eventually, which could be some part of her chronic sick feeling. It is a little disappointing that she seems so closed off and shady about everything all the time though. Of course that's her right, and I can understand not wanting people prying in her personal life too much, but the constant implication that she doesn't even really have a solid personality beyond changing herself to fit other people's expectations just makes me sad.

According to that tumblr Black Beauty is supposed to be reworked, so who knows what it sounds like now.

There's something very National Anthem about the spoken part, but the lyrics (though not her strongest) are 100% Lizzy Grant (I'm surprised no one connected the "I can hear the sirens" line to May Jailer, etc)

I HAVE BEEN SLAIN

Does somebody have a hit out for lana there or??? because she won't step foot near a stage in NYC lately.

I wonder how well it'll play on US radio tbh there's a distinct lack of..Irony(? or maybe a lack of regretfulness?) in UV that usually needs to be present to make a song with this kind of lyrical content palatable. In that sense, UV is also hitting the 50's/60's target.

Super excited to hear all the details filled in from the live version, but I'm hoping the itunes version will go up soon after too

If I recall, the only difference is that her vocals were made more prominent (so yes, remixing/mastering) otherwise there's no change in the production.

Which is also the same version that premiered on BBC-1?