Swan Song

When I tell you I came here so fast as soon as I saw the post lmao

When I tell you I came here so fast as soon as I saw the post lmao

When I tell you I came here so fast as soon as I saw the post lmao

When I tell you I came here so fast as soon as I saw the post lmao

if lana loses legit fans im hoping they put her discography jacket on depop or sth so i can buy it 

This is what I get for being the Lana stan in my friend group because everyone is messaging me asking if Lana is losing her mind 

Well, stanning her was fun while it lasted  

same + im black 

This is what I get for being the Lana stan in my friend group because everyone is messaging me asking if Lana is losing her mind 

This is what I get for being the Lana stan in my friend group because everyone is messaging me asking if Lana is losing her mind 

This is what I get for being the Lana stan in my friend group because everyone is messaging me asking if Lana is losing her mind 

This is what I get for being the Lana stan in my friend group because everyone is messaging me asking if Lana is losing her mind 

As usual, a horrible day to be a Lana stan

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you know what would have worked? if she just said something like: "i'm sick of holding myself back so people don't criticize me or my work. from now on, i'm going to sing about exactly whatever the fuck i want and not apologize for it. new album coming in september, get ready."
 
imagine the hype she would have created?!

I wonder if Lorde ever comes up when she is with Jack? And if Lorde and Lana talk? I'm curious about these things.

You can still end up being racist without intent to be racist, and I think that's the point here. No one is saying Lana is a racist or a bigot or has intent to be evil or insulting. But what she said was tone deaf and ignorant. Black women have suffered a lot of critcism in the arts and have had to fight hard for their place.... they deserve their attention and #1 hits. I always say you don't have to bring others down to raise another person up. Her post is also full of many great points. I think she could have gotten her message across in a more clear and concise way without dropping a single name. It's a complex statement full of good and bad. We can disagree and call her out on the not so good parts, while still agreeing with her on other things.
 
Considering she's friends with Ariana, I doubt she even meant to be insulting, but she's still wrong for having dropped those names in the way she did. On the flipside, she has a point in the media's reaction and how people have interpreted her music. And there is no doubt she's been an absolute trendsetter for alternative music and paved the way for artists that now sing dark & "depressing" songs as well.

lana stans on twitter rn:
 

while i stand by my previous post, i wanna add something:
 
a far better point for lana to have made is that men's music/lyrical content/image have never been nowhere near as scrutinized and judged as women's are, and most of her negative, misconstrued & sometimes even downright misogynistic press - as those of us who are old enough to this fandom to remember hipster runoff know - has been written by men. they're also still the gatekeepers of the industry, so even if her post has to do with women & their freedom (or lack thereof) to create whatever they want while still being considered "serious artists", naming other women was actually beside the point. after all, there's a reason why her music (and most of the artists she mentioned) appeals almost exclusively to women and gay men.
 
also, and without getting too ~lb resident armchair psychologist~ here, this post is symptomatic of her issues with other women/womanhood in general. her inability to downright call herself a feminist & instead having to resort to a double negative is pretty telling; she went from daddy's girl to guy's girl to daddy's girl again (but now the other kind) and only recently did she start hanging out with girl friends in a significant & seemingly healthier way. she's definitely made progress, but more than racism/ignorance i think she still has a lot of unresolved internalized misogyny issues she needs to work on.

The Guardian's put their article out already 
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/21/lana-del-rey-hits-back-at-critics-who-say-she-glamorises-abuse
 
 

i don’t think lana’s a raging racist or intended to “shade” black women like doja, nicki, megan & beyonce... but i think the issue w/ people is how she even mentioned them in the first place. there was simply no need because she didn’t even congratulate them or say she was happy, she just went to go on and complain about her own problems after black women have just dominated the charts for the first time since the 90s? i agree that lana was relentlessly criticised early in her career and it was obviously due to misogyny, but she could’ve made a post without namedropping anyone else because it just made her seem bitter. also lana did not “pave the way”, black women have been singing about these topics for DECADES. and lana did glamorise abusive relationships like lolita and that’s just facts so idk why that was even brought up.
yall can defend lana as ik some people will regardless but there’s an obvious issue here lol
 
edit: also yes i find it strange how every time lana drags someone into her controversies it’s always black artists... but anyways

she said what she said. tbh if i were her i would just log tf out of social media for a whole week and let everyone battle it out among themselves while i kept picking flowers & eating ripe fruit & sunbathing.
 
while there's def some ignorance re: the struggles of poc musicians throughout the decades in her casual naming dropping of some of those artists, it's disingenuous to read her first paragraph as racist; she basically just picked the most famous/successful female artists rn, most if not all also artists she's friendly with and/or a fan of. the entire point of her post is that women should be able to write & sing about whatever the fuck they want without being shamed for doing so, so turning that single paragraph into world wide stan wars™️ is pretty damn sad.

omg i hate to be THAT bitch but.... im not really feeling the way she went about this? like I get what she's trying to say but she could've made the same point without dragging Doja, Nicki, Beyoncé, etc. into the mix. imo it kind of looks bad when she's pointing to all the successes of these black women and making it about her??? especially after dating a goddamn cop this is bad optics tbh...not to mention we cannot take on the hive and the barbs ctfu 
 
at least a new album is confirmed tho 

I mean she’s going to be 35 soon and she is not in any relationship that we know of right now.... plus she seems the type that would want to be in a committed relationship with someone for awhile before starting a family. It’s sad for her. She’s always said that she’s wanted a family and I’m sure her best friend having a baby is an especially introspective and possibly anxious time for her.

LMAO She must really not like her mother?! Going out of her way to post a mother's day message and thanking anybody BUT her mother. The conspiracy about their relationship thickens.