longtimeman

"Handmade beauty sealed up by two man made walls" "My life is my poetry, my love making is my legacy!"

Industry Plant is a term used by people who know nothing about the industry, but want to sound like they do.

I love this photo. It's also interesting to see how he, as a Christian musician, is so vehemently anti-Trump.

Lana doesn't do Easter Eggs. At best, she drops direct, obvious hints that may or may not pay off three years later.

It's awful, because Meta just doesn't care. There's nothing Lana can do about it, and accounts are just being banned even though it couldn't be clearer that they're not trying to impersonate her.

This record cover is maybe the funniest multi-language puns in the history of music.

The problem is that there's nothing sexy or interesting about what happened. It's not like she was out the night before doing coke with Madonna, and blew it. She was nervous, and didn't have the experience to know how to sell herself on screen. And the social media world acted as though the performance proved she was worthless as a performer, and should just go away. The only redemption she needed was having the record she released that month being rarely out of the Billboard chart in well over a decade since, and getting a lot of the critical acclaim that nobody shitting on her over that performance ever dreamed she'd get. And she even got to befriend and then ghost that piece of trash Juliette Lewis, so I guess the slate is clean now

I think she''s a collaborative songwriter, which means that although she doesn't compose on an instrument (leaving that to her producers), she is still very involved in creating the melodies and structures of her songs. This interview with Rick Nowels about Lust For Life gives some good background. I know Jack has also talked several times about how working with her happens.

I can really imagine Patti checking lanaboards every day, and complaining to her bandmates that the first single hasn't even dropped yet

The below will very soon be the law of the land. We can laugh at the absurdity of these morons saying that gametes at conception are ready to produce and have babies of their own, but this is the shape of the next bunch of years.

A lot of people are going to learn the very tough lesson that rights can be lost as well as won. And it makes me desperately sad as someone living far away to contemplate that.

The first time I saw that music video, LH came straight to mind. I think there's also a shared overarching theme of the darkness behind both the city and the culture of LA, most prominently in songs like Gods and Monsters, Heroin and Dark But Just A Game. Also the dream/nightmare aspect of an ingenue arriving in LA from Mulholland Drive is strongly matched by the 'Radio'/'Carmen' part of Born To Die.

@venice biotch Conngrats on the award - your art/rat thread was a gamechanger here - one of the best threads since I joined over a decade ago.

I'll never be able to express how much David Lynch means to me, so I'll just say that he was one of the artists who the world instantly becomes worse with his passing. He truly loved movies and loved the people who saw them. My favourite thing about him is that he would make 'difficult' films, but be sure that people understood them more than they allowed themselves to accept. So watch Mulholland Dr twice - it's not about the twist; it's about the journey, like all of life. I have posted this clip so many times already, but it sums his artistic world up.

Firstly, I know nobody cares about my opinion. But, on first listen, this is really enjoyable, but I'm confused who else is liking this. I mean, when pop artists go 'back to the 80s', it usually doesn't mean back to the cassette culture of 1981, where labels like Industrial, Come Organisation and United Dairies would put out random craziness from bands with names like Whitehouse and Nurse With Wound. That is some of my favourite music in the world, but I still get confused when it briefly crosses over. I'm always happy when the dingiest darkest music gets more ears (unironically) listening. Maybe next will be a cover of '150 Murderous Passions'?