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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'?

A certain person here did the same sort of 'in you face' thing to Lana a while back too, so we're not immune from it.

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Be fair - it must be awful to be in a prison somewhere where the guards force you to listen to music you hate, and post on a forum dedicated to those artists.

I just tapped on the comments on the first twitter post I saw showing this post (I think it was Pop crave or something like that). I know I shouldn't read the comments, but sometimes life is boring.

In case you are wondering how deeply online some people are, there is a group of Taylor fans that are on Twitter etc claiming this post is 'Taylor Shade' because there's some obscure thing going on about Taylor not using spice or not using the right spices or something, as though Lana walks around the supermarket thinking about Taylor

There is nobody funnier in the world of music.

Pole dancing to Candy Necklace at Coachella.

This was phenomenal!

It could be, but also, he's my age, so like me, bands like Mazzy Star and Nirvana were huge when he was in late high school/early post-school years, and it's just as likely he's just been listening to them since then.

'Dolly's Interlude' cracked me up, because if you've heard her Rock covers album, you'd know nobody does awkward, fake 'ad-libbing' quite as terribly and charmingly as Dolly. The thought of something like that existing with Dolly and Lana is just too much

Home from work, and I'm getting excited. We've already had the cancelled record, so I'm confident this is for real (even if the date slightly changes). And I know why people care about the artwork, but in my life experience, iconic records make iconic covers, not the other way around.

Not in a million years. There are about twenty artists that the record industry relies on entirely for money from sales of physical items, and Lana is towards the top of that list.

I love that I thought 'I've got to leave for work in five minutes - let's just quickly check lanaboards for a sec ..'