rubytuesday

In my car practically every day and when it first came out, I listened to it fully for the first time on a night drive in the middle of nowhere and it was great

I feel like most of it was recorded or written whatever while they were on the rocks, because there's only 2 (?) songs that I can think of that are about B. Like BB, the line in Brooklyn Baby, possibly SoC? the fact that the BB is a bonus and she made it so clear the album ended on TOW, she doesn't thank him in the thankyous (although I know a lot of people don't thank their significant others), has so many songs that seem to be about old lovers and her "love you forever"... I feel like she recorded it while already feeling disconnected from the relationship.

Not that I think anyone's being particularly serious with the bipolar comments, but as someone with bipolar, that's not what bipolar disorder is like. It's not changing your mind or having different personalities like a lot of people seem to confuse it with these days. She's fairly reliable in her inconsistencies. They mostly differ on God and happiness, two themes that go way back in her songwriting. "Me and god we don't get along". Let's not forget a lot of her interviews are translated and she also always gets misquoted. We all know she has a lot of quite extreme phases, Jewel-eske to pop Lolita to grunge fuzz to jazz... Her influences and relationships probably just change a lot too. That includes god I suspect.

Yep, Yayo's about him isn't it and that had the motorcycle line too. Think its definitely about Jimmy.

Frances has every right to voice her opinion on it as they directly referenced her dead father. Anyone saying otherwise... Glad Lana's reply was respectful, too. Wish all the Lana fans on twitter would take a leaf out of her book. I know, just like most other Lana fans, that she didn't mean for it to come across that way. We know that. But the point is that it did come across that way and I think the responses are valid considering. Frances is probably sick to death of people discussing her fathers suicide and usually making it seem romantic.... ouch at your idol's kid calling you out like that though.

They're actually one of the biggest papers in the UK and they're pretty well respected, so she does need interviews with them. That's why it's such a big deal I think, especially as Europe and the UK is where she's most popular. It's a shame it got twisted that way on such an influential paper :/

• when was/what happened in Alabama? • what was the first song you wrote and what was it about? • would you ever publish a book of your poetry? bonus question, more like a request : • tell me a story about your teenage wilderness years

Bleed Like Me - Garbage

Born To Die. It's so special to me. I started listening to it having just started outpatient treatment for some issues and it was the first thing in a long time I loved because it made me feel free and young, rather than sad. I loved it on the very first listen, a couple of days before it was officially released and some of the demos were on YouTube. Ultraviolence is maybe the more mature record, possibly the "better" record but BTD will always be my favourite. Iconic for me.

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I don't think so, as I can't see why MDMA/Ex would be used as trucker pills? It'd make more sense for them to be stimulants and/or amphetamine. I think it's probably just an old name for a strain maybe, like black beauties etc.

I'm always interested in her drug/alcohol past. I always assumed she drank as a teen and only developed a drug problem once she was out of college for some reason. Truck driver pills are usually like Dex or something aren't they? We don't really have that term where I'm from.

Ultraviolence VS Born To Die (i haven't heard PWYC yet )

It's sad that she feels this way, but I also think she has specific themes and phases that she evolves into and she enjoys feeling defined by each role. Not to say for one second this is exaggerated or not real, she's sounds depressed and dissociated and that's really sad, but I also think she's been using how she's been feeling to create the new record and define herself as a "legitimate" artist for this new era. I hope that creating music still gives her joy - it must do to some extent as she's still created Ultraviolence that has been promoted and geared towards being in the charts. Hopefully better reactions to this record might have a good impact on her and I hope she finds some of that inner peace that she used to have a couple of years ago, that seems to have been kicked out of her with all the criticisms and bad trappings of fame. I know she said she never wanted to be famous, but a lot of her songs suggest otherwise and I can't think of something more frightening than dreaming for so many years about something, then getting it and realizing it isn't the paradise you truly believed it would be.

we can do it together

there's so many people reading this topic why did i promise to wait till the 16th

It's true, but I didn't do much research haha! If you google Atlantic Group, it comes up with a lot of people saying they're cult-like, several of them mention a list of people who run them. The guy named Jim runs one in New Jersey I believe. There's a LOT of bad stuff written about him which is why I didn't put his last name, but it's easy to find.

^ Part of the Pacific Group (of which Atlantic Group is a branch of) is also partly run/overseen by a man named Jim. I forgot she was part of that, there's a lot of horror stories about the PG groups and its branches.

Pre-Born To Die, summer 2011 when Video Games first blew up.

Do we know why Lana actually got sober? If I remember right she's implied she hasn't had a drink since she was 18 (?). But she went to Kent at 16, so if that wasn't the catalyst for sobriety I wonder what was.

so I guess this means it's not about Jimmy Gnecco then? sounds kind of like a Jim Jones reference. weird as I've been studying Jonestown for a college project and it's so dark and... something I can see Lana being interested by.

I love this! I love when her lyrics aren't too repetitive and she doesn't use the same phrases over again.

Is that Barrie backing singing along to "my boyfriends cool but he's not as cool as me"? omg

it fits with that myspace blog, but i think she just exaggerates soo much of what happens to her to make it sound more sinister. like it probably wasn't a Jim Jones deal, it was probably some guy conning people out of money or something. it also seems coincidental timing that we never heard about it until now, when she's just released a song with "cult leader" in it. idk.. i think each new phase/era has a new theme and she twists life experiences she's had to fit it. maybe this 60s sound is fitting with cult-y communes/ sects etc. i just take what she says with a pinch of salt

Think it's really interesting how she mentions her family had a history of a history of addiction. I always somehow assumed her family wasn't understanding towards addictions. Also surprising to read about her being ready for kids! She seems a bit happier in this interview compared to others at the moment.