longtimeman

You beautiful person @@longtimeman    thank you for the opportunity!

The competitions all done, and I'd like to congratulate @@Rhubarb on winning it. Thanks to everyone who entered, and helped me to celebrate a year of Lana obsession with a fun contest.
 

entering can't hurt this is awesome around the holiday season

I feel really bad for her, actually. She's tricked into thinking that she's in a safe place with a journalist and then they go and write a passive-aggressive article with the same kind of vitriol that she's been a victim of since her first taste of fame. That slander she constantly faces is also something that they took the time to point out in the article before contradicting themselves and producing their own version.

The Playground/Dum Dum single is like something out of a dream.

Very true. Any writer that can write something as bland and outright wrong as "That nastiness pervaded her new identity as well. Lizzy Grant was all about blond sweetness, but Lana Del Rey flaunted her obsessions with fatalism, death, seediness, and danger" can be ignored completely. It's not only that they've obviously never listened to a Lizzy Grant era song, it's that this is just the old authenticity/persona debate that we should be well and truly past be now.

Kind of shitty and insulting article. I thought the part where she says she lives in east los angeles and speaks spanish in all her songs, and the interviewer has an aside where he says neither of those are true -- was actually very indicative of the dynamic between LDR and the media. It seems she says things that are kind of hyperbolic not meaning them to be taken literally (she lives in koreatown, she speaks spanish in some of her songs) but then the media nitpicks what she says and accuses her of lying. I don't think lying is really what she is doing but I also don't think she cares much about telling the truth. Anyways I just thought that part was weird/kind of interesting.

Playground 7" Picture Disc.
Side A- Playground
Side B- Dum Dum
 

 

 
Thank you all for your feedback, please keep it coming and any critique x

I love you.

you're amazing  

i need this

Welp, here's my post lol

The competitions all done, and I'd like to congratulate @@Rhubarb on winning it. Thanks to everyone who entered, and helped me to celebrate a year of Lana obsession with a fun contest.
 

That webpage is hilarious (I hesitate to call it an 'article'). 
 
 
 
Funny for so many reasons.

'Once Upon A Dream'12" Picture Disc for the Motion Picture Maleficent.
Features Once Upon a Dream, the intrumental and other scores from the movie.
 

 

More specifically, if John Lennon were alive today, tumblr would be full of things he said in the sixties pointing out what a sexist pig he is, regardless of what he had came to believe later on. 
 
In any case, my definition of myself as a feminist depends totally on what particular feminists think of me. If they think that I'm a feminist, then I'm happy to be a member. If they think I'm not, then I'm happy to be out of their club.

What did they name them?

nvm

I agree with this so much. I feel like that if I've been having a generally shitty day at work, but somebody I like comes up and asks how I'm going. The truth is, I'm not going great, but the fact that I'm talking with someone cool has brightened me up, so I'm not lying when I say 'good'. That's how she feels to me in some of the live videos - where she's feeling a bunch of different emotions at once. You're not expected to do that, though, as a celebrity - you're meant to be either party girl, or sassy, or downbeat, or thoughtful, but not more than one of those at once. 
 
 
 
There are lots of artists in the past who have had major success, and then pulled back completely from fame and made the transition. I think that's what Lana wants to do, and that's her strategy with UV sounding how it does and being presented as it is. There's also an element of 'will you love me if I do this? How about this?' She wants to push the public as far as she can to see how much control she can have over her own creative world, so we might be in for a bumpy ride, but in ten years, I think she'll be doing what she wants to do, at her own pace, and for people who care about her.

What an awesome gesture to do

Hallelujah, I wanna take you for all that you got...

God bless you!

How generous of you!