longtimeman

100%. I feel like it's a very Lynchian video, along the lines of Mulholland Drive, where personas are not as simple as 'real vs fake', and dream and reality are not at all clearly different. For example, the difference in meaning between if we just saw the Hollywood Walk of Fame scene as a MV scene, against what it means for us to be watching it being filmed as a movie, is massive.

There are about ten seconds in 'Margaret' which sound almost exactly like a part of Bonnie Tyler's infamous 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart'. The album version of 'Lucky Ones' has always felt very mid 80s to me. (The demo has an early 90s vibe).

I'd love a copy!

Anyone who enjoys old goth/punks making wonderful music might enjoy the new Damned record, which is way better than i expected:

Huh. I've always disliked him, but now I have a solid reason.

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe that a will can change a contract made during someone's life. So if their record contract allows for posthumous releases, the best they can do is let fans know they shouldn't support any such releases. Or even better, make sure that your contracts are explicit and don't allow it, before you sign them.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people And sometimes angels touch pure evil.

Spotted in the terrible newspaper that my parents read today

it was a public holiday here today, and I spent most of it doing not much at all around the house, listening to the radio. There were three songs from the album played over the day - Fingertips, Peppers and the title track, and it got to the point my wife asked me if I'd turned off the radio and was programming what was playing

It cuts off abruptly too. i"m assuming it's uploaded by someone else.

"Sounding off" is the worst misheard lyric since 'Like the Ford 05 I drive through ...'

I don't know if it's been pointed out before, but she changed her bio to include the Variety review of Ocean Blvd.

I know for a few other bands I follow, there are a lot of very nice looking bootleg 7" singles that come from Greece - apparently there are some enterprising people there who do better than the real labels as far as covers and nice song selection. I wonder if this single comes from the same people?

No. Unfortunately, the way most education systems work these days, if you want to get a solid B+ on an essay, it's enough to recognise where something comes from, and you don't have to work out why a reference is actually being used. None of the references/callbacks, to her own work or to the work of others, are done just for the hell of it.

It's not quite Pink Floyd, but it seems Benji (as part of Ambulance Ltd.) was involved in a David Gilmour release: https://www.discogs.com/release/1536032-Ambulance-LTD-Active-Ingredients-4-Songs-On-Two-7-Records Edit: hang on, that's not a production - it's a cover. I was thrown off by discog's slightly confusing interface.

This is very serious. You should speak to HR and have them give her a talking to.

I'm surprised more people haven't made the link between "his voice breaks at 2:05" and Kintsugi.

Agreed, I wouldn't be surprised if the CD they were playing skipped or something, and everyone was too polite to mention it, while the one reviewer thought it was deliberate.

What happened with this?

Peppers is the sexiest song in Lana's discography.

I like it a lot - maybe even more than I like NFR. It felt to me like she was clarifying her writing after accidentally hitting on a way of expressing herself that resonated with middle aged rock critics (NFR). It's hard to express in a few sentences (knowing that more than three sentences in a post will get a TL;DR response from most people) but it's frustrating how even professors reviewing her records on youtube don't bother to read the full phrase that they're evaluating, rather than hitting on part of a verse that seems clumsy or out of place (or wrong, as though that's a thing). I understand that for most people. any one song should have a maximum of one emotion, but Lana's songs have never been that restrictive. Go back to Born To Die and actually listen to the songs - almost every one of them is trying to show us how point of view works in music.

It's always interesting to revisit these threads and be reminded of how little I have in common with most fans.

She cancelled on about 20 February, and on 22 or 23 February, Italy went into complete lockdown for all people across almost the whole country. It's not like this is ancient history - we all just lived through it.

I can't believe she still gets flack for cancelling a tour to the epicentre of the pandemic, when at best she would have been forced into quarantine for an unspecified amount of time, and at worst ... well, let's not even think about that.