PARADIXO

I'd like to both Trash Magic but I want Kiki to do an interview! She seems so interesting

I've heard this album like 25 times already. It's seriously perfect.

This really bothers me because she said in an interview a couple years ago how much she loved Eminem. I can only imagine what it would feel like to have someone you've admired and looked up to for awhile speak so violently against you. I don't care what the context was or whether or not he meant it; it's still really mean and she's literally the sweetest person.

Looking at that Vine on mute is so funny, he looks like a 6 year old from Wisconsin trying to be hood
 
But he's "the master of his genre"

"overreacting" about violence against women? Oh god

I WAS MAKING A BEAUTIFUL THREAD FUCK YOU             
 
But oh well, HBD Paradise. Such a great EP. Gods and Monsters, Cola, Bel Air, Yayo - I like every single song. The videos, Paradise Tour, everything about this "era" was so beautiful. The photoshoots tho!!!
 

Better than Tropico, I remember I was shaking so bad

Help me make this thread beautiful then! For this thread teamwork is required! Everyone is supposed to contribute stuff!
 
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And let's not forget the amazing Paradise Box Set!
 

 
Are these still being sold? I want to get one soooo bad!
 
Anyway...I remember that this album was the reason why I became a Lana fan.
 
Summer 2012. I somehow stumble across Video Games appearing at the top of the radio airplay charts in Germany when I checked them online while being stuck in Florida with my horrible host family. I had never heard of Lana before and so I went to some weird-ass filesharing site to check it out. What I heard was the Club Clique Remix, although it was labled as only "Video games" and damn, I hated it. I thought it sounded awful and couldn't imagine something like this being played on the radio. Back in Germany I saw that she was being advertised on YouTube and decided to give her another try because I thought she was really beautiful. I watched the BTD video, but again didn't like the song. I found her voice to be much to low.
 
A few months later one of my "students" in my Audio Editing 101 class decided to use the Summertime Sadness for a simple edit. When I heard it I couldn't believe what I was listening too. The song literally blew my mind and so I was eager to listen to more of her songs but lazy as I was I really didn't bother to listen to the album all the way through. However, I did watch the National Anthem video and thought it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen and that song quickly became my new favourite song.
 
On souncloud I stumbled across the Cola preview and that was literally the moment I decided to stan for her. I waited, and waited and waited  for Paradise to leak/come out so I could finally listen to it and once I did, it was the Fall of 2012, I fell in love with her. I listened to the album non-stop from september - January until I decided it was time to get into her unreleased stuff as well.

Decline? 

I WAS MAKING A BEAUTIFUL THREAD FUCK YOU             
 
But oh well, HBD Paradise. Such a great EP. Gods and Monsters, Cola, Bel Air, Yayo - I like every single song. The videos, Paradise Tour, everything about this "era" was so beautiful. The photoshoots tho!!!
 

*Gods & Monsters plays*

I WAS MAKING A BEAUTIFUL THREAD FUCK YOU             
 
But oh well, HBD Paradise. Such a great EP. Gods and Monsters, Cola, Bel Air, Yayo - I like every single song. The videos, Paradise Tour, everything about this "era" was so beautiful. The photoshoots tho!!!
 

I WAS MAKING A BEAUTIFUL THREAD FUCK YOU             
 
But oh well, HBD Paradise. Such a great EP. Gods and Monsters, Cola, Bel Air, Yayo - I like every single song. The videos, Paradise Tour, everything about this "era" was so beautiful. The photoshoots tho!!!
 

If you like Lana Del Rey, you'll love Jackson Novem

I wanted to put together the three others I had in mind but I just finished this one and really like how it turned. Blue Hydrangeas, so original I know but I love them so I had to put them in. Hope you guys like it
 

YES PLEASE That song is beautiful

The song structures of most IM songs are so different to Lana's that it's hard to picture it, but imagine her covering Remember Tomorrow?! Especially great because it would annoy all the humourless heavy metal fans 
 

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It's always so funny to read this intelligent way of arguing that sometimes happens on LB
On other sites people just drag each other with curse words and  shade wherever they can but here we get paragraphs like this

I think artistic experimentation was definitely a part of this, but I also think it went beyond this into adjusting her sound to the expectations of the market (or record executives at least) after years of struggling unsuccessfully. She's hinted at that before in several interviews, like this one:

Me too. I always wished that at the height of her buzz she would have blown everyone's minds by releasing several albums simultaneously each in a different genre. Like re-releasing the 90s indie-pop-rock of AKA; a heavier or darker alterna-rock album like the live rock versions of "Brite Lites" and "Yayo", "Velvet Crowbar", "Pinup Galore", or "The Man I Love" (we sorta got this with UV); an acoustic folk album like Sirens; an album of covers of jazz standards; etc. etc. And a pure (almost bubblegum) pop album.

FINALLY someone gets me