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I'm really happy when I visit Lana Board now, the new look is so soothing and beautiful.

I love this so much.

I love this so much.

Hi, everyone!
I am pleased to announce to you all that the site theme for Chemtrails Over the Country Club is now live for everyone. To switch to the theme, scroll down to the bottom of the page, click the "Themes" arrow, and select "Chemtrails Over the Country Club"
I hope you all like it! It's been a long time coming, but my design helpers and I put a lot of thought and work into it and wanted to make sure it was just right. Just in time to celebrate Chemtrails's 4 week anniversary!
That being said, I want to thank those who helped me bring my vision for the theme to life - @wraith for designing the logo, and @electra & @Rorman Nockwell for helping with some of the photoshop work. I really appreciate your help so much!
Enjoy! x
 
Preview:

 
 
 
** Also, while I have your attention, please consider voting for me in a contest I entered with a local radio station! If you DM me a screenshot of your vote, I'll enter you in my giveaway, or you can just vote anyway to be nice to me xx
 

I don’t recall any of that with her previous albums, so I think it should be celebrated anyway: COCC came back at the top of the Portuguese chart!
 
Chart History: first week #1, second week #3, third week #1. 

Queen of Portugal 
 

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Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

https://instagram.com/stories/valvogt/2550522134599629234?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=l97gmidiv8tw
She’s in the middle singing and dancing 

As much as we'll miss your condescension and having someone around to give us moral guidance, I have to farewell you with the traditional 'don't let the door hit your ass on the way out'. If you don't want to offend people, maybe you should not rush to call someone you've never met a 'whore'. English is obviously not your first language, so you might not pick up on some of the subtlety behind what Lana is saying, but it's not her fault that you're ignorant.
 
Have fun sticking to morally pure artists, and I hope your wife never reads what you think about her body.

Sigh. The powers of clairvoyance that some people on this board possess is astounding sometimes. I would have thought we were past the point where sexual behaviour wasn't seen as conflicting with loving being around your family, but apparently we've still got a long way to go, baby. 
 
Here is an alternative explanation for some of the behaviour that doesn't require pretending to have some insight into the mental processes of somebody who you've never met. 
 
Singing, writing, performing, dancing, public relations, mixing with people, taking criticism and being optimistic are all different characteristics or skills. A person can have a few, or all, or none of these, but having one doesn't necessarily mean that you would be expected to have any of the others. To be a pop star, though, you're meant to have all of them, to an extreme degree. Each of us will decide which of them is more important - some people don't think a person should be considered a singer if they can't perform live, others don't care as long as they sound good on record. Some of us don't want to see a singer who can't dance at the same time, others of us don't care. Some of us don't care who a singer treats her fans, others of us really care about how the performer relates to people who like her. But you cannot ascribe a mental iilness to somebody because they are missing a few of these attributes. 
 
Even if Lizzy always wanted to be successful, the fact that there are parts of fame that make her miserable don't make her a hypocrite. They just mean that she couldn't see the future (like most of us can't), and the things that she was looking for in being famous came with a higher price than she expected. It's an age old story, and the only artists who manage to get through it are the ones who find a way to ignore all of the bullshit and focus entirely on the creative process. The rest either burn out or overdose or freak out. I'm hoping that the shift in tone in reporting on Lana - from beautiful puppet to worthwhile songwriter and singer - helps her to make the transition, but at this point, anything can happen. 
 
The Beatles stopped performing live because they couldn't hear themselves on stage, and because nobody cared about what they sounded like. Maybe Lana will decide that the chance to see the smiles on the people in the front row is not worth all of the bullshit, and she'll stop singing live as well. It's 100% true that some of her songs live are better than others, and some of her shows are better than others, and she has a few decisions to make about performing. But from her perspective, the things that she enjoyed doing - that were her way into the industry - had nothing to do with standing in front of 50,000 fans. They were writing, singing and putting together videos, and all of them could be done in a small room with only a few people around. That's an attitude I can relate to.
 
Finally, relationships fall apart for all sorts of reasons, and there is no such thing as the objective truth of why something fucks up. Everybody who has an opinion is either a biased participant, or someone who doesn't know what happened. So when it comes to her time with Barrie and what went wrong, the only reasonable response is to nod and move on, and accept what both of them say about it as their take on it.

Ahh interesting, good to know. I don't follow her on insta so that's interesting to me. Thanks for clarifying! With Lana and her wordplay you never really know 100% until you think twice about it lol this time she was actually being literal hahaha

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when i see a new insta post i instantly come here even if its just memes its nice to share excitement with others 

I'm a librarian and look at publishers' advance catalogs all the time -- nothing new from S&S or anyone else yet. Sorry.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

Twitter culture is what happens when you have a massive conversation involving thousands of people who were educated by a system that doesn't even know that things have happened in history that are completely unrelated to America. Unless, of course, there was a Netflix series about it.

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