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This is out now. It's interesting - I think it might take more getting used to, but he made a heartfelt and genuine series of interpretations.

Remember six months ago when if you mentioned Project 2025, Republicans made you feel like you were a conspiracy theorist lunatic? I miss those days.

Happy Birthday to the masterpiece that is DYKTTATUOB. The greatest there ever was.

It's like they haven't even listened to her records.

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Thanks for the heads up - I haven't heard of him, but I'll be listening to this tonight. And his record label, Secretly Canadian, is a pretty legit indie label with a long history, so that gives him some credit in my eyes.

Wow! Is the CD accessible? I mean, I'm not asking you to open it if it's sealed and you don't want to, but if you can look at the CD, I'm interested whether it's a pressed CD or a CD-R. Either way, nice catch!

I remember this being the hit of the school playground when it was released.

Thank you Elle for the great detective work. One way or another, hopefully there is information forthcoming from the Auction House. If they care about their reputation at all, they won't want to be stained by being connected to counterfeits/scams. Also, 'Certificate of Authenticity' is not really worth anything, unless it's from someone who is completely reliable, and definitely not if it just comes from the Auction House. I'd trust it in this case if it was a proven CoA from, say, Johnny Blue Eyes or Chuck, but not from some random 'dress expert' or whoever they got to sign it.

It was just 'something real' / 13 Beaches. According to one of the insiders, a file doing the rounds at the time had some weird edit of it, and eclipse misheard what was being sung.

Happy second anniversary to the all time heartstopping world changer that is A&W. More than a song, it's a way of life.

"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.