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Died of cancer apparently, was my favorite fashion designer. rest in peace  
 
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/10/20/357699525/reports-fashion-icon-oscar-de-la-renta-dies-after-long-cancer-fight

I always watch porn mentally
 
 
When was the last time you killed something?

"It's a very personal project" this says it all. Bitch won't even release it lmao.

I understand what you are saying but personally I think her voice sounds so much better, more real and more raw on UV than on BTD and Paradise! I think that the problems you have with her vocals has more to do with the production than with her actual vocals! PWYC was improvised on the spot. She wasn't thinking about her vocals at all and personally I think that's what makes the song so great! It's emotional and raw! But I agree that her voice on Sirens was amazing!

Pretty When You Cry is one of her best lyrics!

This is so true

Pretty When You Cry is one of her best lyrics!

Record of the Year: Awarded for quality vocal or instrumental recording tracks.
Song of the Year: Awarded for quality songs containing both lyrics and melody.

Record of the Year: Awarded for quality vocal or instrumental recording tracks.
Song of the Year: Awarded for quality songs containing both lyrics and melody.

https://twitter.com/robgrantdotcom/status/523674092709617664

PERFECT! Her voice sounds better than ever. And it seems like she looked at the camera! Glad that you enjoyed the show, you're such a good Lana fan

Kinda surprised some of you said Tropico doesn't deserve to be nominated. I personally believe it should    However, Interscope really needs to get their shit together. Pop? Really hoes? 

PERFECT! Her voice sounds better than ever. And it seems like she looked at the camera! Glad that you enjoyed the show, you're such a good Lana fan

I don't care who K is, or even if he ever existed, or is a composite, or was actually a high school friend who got busted cheating on tests and had to leave school. It won't change what I feel about any of the songs that we consider about him.
 
With ONE exception. If it turns out he's a real person, I want to see a photo of him, so I can mentally replace BS with him in my mind when thinking about Blue Jeans and BTD.

Here's my recording of her singing "Old Money."  Sorry it's kinda shaky; I was on maximum zoom.  Also, she kept disappearing behind that stupid column and the barrier at the left of the stage, but at least you can hear her the whole time.  Interesting how she changed one of the lyrics from "those summer nights" to "those Jersey nights..."
 

Hey everyone,

We just got back from Lana's concert at Hollywood Forever on Friday, October 17. So, for whoever may be interested, here's my report on the concert.
 
Before I go farther, here's the set list:
 
Cruel World (the entire song, not just the intro)
Cola
Body Electric
Blue Jeans
West Coast
Born To Die
Ultraviolence
Old Money (my favorite of the set.. it was just gorgeous!)
Summertime Sadness
Million Dollar Man
Video Games
Ride
National Anthem
 
13 songs, and the concert lasted about 70 minutes.

First, let me say that I came away with mixed emotions. The music was great, Lana sang beautifully, and was gorgeous as always. We managed to get a spot at the front, but it was way off to the stage left side, so when Lana came down to greet people during "National Anthem," she didn't get down to where we were. That left me bummed, and I was also hoping we'd see her after the show, but that didn't happen, either. So, while I thoroughly enjoyed the show overall, I was disappointed about those two things. Perhaps I had set my expectations too high and set myself up for disappointment. But I'm not sorry we went.

Second, it has hit home that the Paradise Tour days are definitely over. As many of you may already know, I've only been an LDR fan for less than 5 months. I've been watching all of these old Paradise tour videos on YouTube from last year, and was half-expecting a repeat of those performances, including the live string quartet. Well, no live strings tonight, of course, and I've finally had to accept the fact that Lana has moved on from that era of music. While she still performs a lot of Born To Die/Paradise songs, they're performed differently now than they were back then. Makes me wish I'd been a fan 3 years ago.

Anyway, here's the rest of the report.

First off, I got a reminder e-mail this morning from TicketFly, which alerted me to something that had not been made apparent before: The gates opened at 6, but Lana wasn't scheduled to come on stage until about 8. With that in mind, and since the venue *seemed* to be adamant about the "no lining up before 5 PM" rule, we left home in San Diego around noon, stopped in Huntington Beach to have lunch with a long-time friend, then continued up to LA. We arrived in the vicinity at about 4:30. Even though we had bought the on-site parking, we didn't use it because of something else in the TicketFly e-mail: They said the on-site parking wouldn't be opening until 6, and that off-site parking in another garage would be opening at 5:30. I wanted to be in line by 5:00, so we parked several blocks away and just walked to the venue. It took about 20 minutes.

As we walked up Gower St., the street that intersects Santa Monica Blvd., we saw what appeared to be the end of the line. This was at 4:50 PM. So much for no lining up before 5!  This is what it looked like at 5 PM:
 

 
Shortly after 5 PM, though, the line started moving.  I didn't know why, but it was moving and kept moving!  Finally, as we approached the cemetery's front lawn, I saw why:  Apparently, they had set up some wooden stakes with yellow "caution" tape to act as one of those switchback-like things that they use in amusement park lines (the name escapes me at the moment, as it's after 1 AM as I'm writing this), and were having people line up inside that.  We were about halfway back.  We stood there and waited until 6 PM, and then the gates opened.
 
Mayhem.
 
As soon as the gates opened, there were screams, and suddenly the entire crowd just surged towards the gate, paying no need whatsoever to the wooden stakes with their "caution" tape, simply trampling them down.  We were pretty much sucked in.  It didn't surge very far, though, as we were funneled into a single entry line, which eventually became 2.  That took about half an hour or so.  Once we were through the gates, we walked (the security guards kept yelling "DO NOT RUN!!!") down toward the lawn by the stage.  We had ended up pretty far back in the entry crowd, yet it seemed that not everyone wanted to be at the front of the stage.  A lot of people brought blankets and picnic stuff and were sitting pretty far back.  So, we actually got a spot in the front row!!  But, we were way off to the stage left side.  The viewing angle wasn't too good, as there was a column right where our view of Lana was half of the time as she moved back and forth across the stage.
 
So, we stood there from 6:45 on, and Lana came out on stage at about 8:05.  She was wearing a red, long-sleeved dress with a short skirt, showing off those beautiful legs. She came down the stairs briefly to greet the front row during "Cruel World," but only stayed down long enough to greet a few people before going back up.
 
During "West Coast," my wife said she couldn't take the noise anymore (we were very close to the speakers) and wanted to move farther back.  We moved back, but I went back and forth a couple of times between where she was, and where we had been at the front.  I stayed with her during "Ultraviolence," and then went back up for a bit.  Just in time, since the next song was "Old Money," so I could get the whole thing recorded from close up.  I stayed up there for "Summertime Sadness," then went back to where my wife was for the rest of the show until Lana announced that her next song would be "National Anthem," and that she would be coming down to greet her fans.  At that point, we both went back up to the front, though this time, we were even farther stage left than before, since someone else had taken the spots we had vacated.  Lana had earlier requested that the "house front" speakers be turned down, so it was more bearable when we went back up for "National Anthem."  Lana did come down off the stage to greet fans and take selfies, but she didn't get all the way over to where we were -- not by a longshot.  That was somewhat disappointing, since I've seen videos of previous shows where she would go from end to end.  Oh well, win some, lose some.
 
After the show was over, we hung around for a while to see if perhaps she would come out to greet the fans or sign autographs or something.  No such luck, I'm afraid; she was gone.    So, we made our way back out of the cemetery, walked 20 minutes back to our car, and made the 2.5-hour drive home in about 2.25 hours.
 
And there you have it, folks!
 
My suggestion to anyone going on Saturday:  If you want to be in front, get there at 4 PM!

I can't if that wins over Tropico. 

I really hope Tropico wins!

TROPICO will defenitly be nominated and possibly win.

Either that or Kesha told her mom only a short time ago 

Does everyone song have to be a personal story or a social criticism?

I wish this song had been on the standard edition of Ultraviolence, it's so good! It's very alternative and the instrumental is GREAT.

I think if Kesha remains alone on this sue he wont go to jail, because to prove rape after 10 years is basically impossible. I do believe she wont be alone tho, I think we will see more girls coming forward, let's hope Gaga is just a support act in this horror story and not another victim.
 
I do believe his punishment will come from the International community, more then US's industry. I think the world is different at this moment. Every country/culture has their on rules in what is tolerable and what's not and a hit is only a hit when is international. Look at Chris Brown, you may think he got away with it but he was denied visa to the UK, Singapore,  Japan and Brazil among other countries. He was kicked to the curve by Rock in Rio and isn't singing at any major festival outside America. Yes he was sitting at the Grammy's, 1 year after almost beating Rihanna to death, but his ass was ignored at the Brits Awards.
 
I doubt any major artist will touch him any time soon,  America may tolerate this but their international career would suffer a major damage. Bitches like that get treated like Ebola in South America and in this day and age the likes of Gaga, Katy, Rihanna can't afford a loss like SA or Japan/Singapore. 
 
Why you think Gaga didn't release the DWYW video with R Kelly?? Can you imagine the size of the damage to her image when people outside US find out a woman as famous as her was working with a well known rapist? Worst, a rapist of underage girls?? I mean I know America Industry seems to don't care much, but here for example, I saw legends from artists to footballers lose their careers for a lot less.
 
Dado Dolabella was a very famous, hot young actor, quite a good one. He had a fight with his girlfriend in a club, also a famous actress, and things got nasty. He beat her, punched a cleaning lady. In the end the law gave him basically what Chris Brown got but the industry and society as a whole were a lot more severe. He lost his contract with Globo International, lost his leading role in 2 major movies, and was black listed in several of the most high end night clubs.
 
Rape/ Pedo/ Domestic violence in Asia and SA is the Ebola. 

I've been reading a lot about this and yes, it's terrible. Dr Luke is not just a shit hit-maker/record producer, he's a horrible person. He's an authoritarian and he wants to control everything - Britney Spears' Femme Fatale, Miley Cyrus' most famous singles, Katy Perry's career, etc. I do believe in Kesha, she's not a drama queen and she never really wanted lots of attention. It's so sad because she is so talented. She can sing, write, produce and she has such a nice personality. 
 
I don't think Lukasz will go to jail. Look at R. Kelly, some rumors say that he raped teenagers and he's still there... releasing albums, videos, performing. But I do hope he loses his job... it would be immoral if someone wants to work with him after all this freaking mess. Good luck, K$!
 
P.S.: Wow at Gaga supporting her 

I've been reading a lot about this and yes, it's terrible. Dr Luke is not just a shit hit-maker/record producer, he's a horrible person. He's an authoritarian and he wants to control everything - Britney Spears' Femme Fatale, Miley Cyrus' most famous singles, Katy Perry's career, etc. I do believe in Kesha, she's not a drama queen and she never really wanted lots of attention. It's so sad because she is so talented. She can sing, write, produce and she has such a nice personality. 
 
I don't think Lukasz will go to jail. Look at R. Kelly, some rumors say that he raped teenagers and he's still there... releasing albums, videos, performing. But I do hope he loses his job... it would be immoral if someone wants to work with him after all this freaking mess. Good luck, K$!
 
P.S.: Wow at Gaga supporting her