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THANK YOU! I truly don't know why is so hard for people to understand the importance of this.

idk about you guys but I’ve lost a lot of respect for LDR today...she’s so aware of everything and she still hasn’t said a word. she was active last night on ig and she couldn’t even bring herself to post anything regarding the black lives matter movement. insensitive and disgusting behaviour on her behalf. i hope she AT LEAST reposts a link for a petition

idk about you guys but I’ve lost a lot of respect for LDR today...she’s so aware of everything and she still hasn’t said a word. she was active last night on ig and she couldn’t even bring herself to post anything regarding the black lives matter movement. insensitive and disgusting behaviour on her behalf. i hope she AT LEAST reposts a link for a petition

Ariana unfollowed Lana (and Taylor, Camila/Shawn, Kylie).

idk about you guys but I’ve lost a lot of respect for LDR today...she’s so aware of everything and she still hasn’t said a word. she was active last night on ig and she couldn’t even bring herself to post anything regarding the black lives matter movement. insensitive and disgusting behaviour on her behalf. i hope she AT LEAST reposts a link for a petition

I actually think Lust for Life is a lot more cohesive than people give it credit for. The "lack of cohesion" and the changing vibes is the message of the album for me. It's about a woman who doesn't really know who she is or where her place in the world is, but her desire for happiness has her following different paths and people with the hope of finding something real to hold onto, but her approach relies too heavily on others. Halfway through the album she starts to think on a larger scale and slowly but surely reaches a point by the end of the album where she's learned enough about herself and her lust for life to move down a new path, out of the black and into the blue.

anyone who thinks LFL is her worst album is immature. hate to break it to ya

she really should post about it. Blake did, as well as Ashley or Alex (don't remember which one). She would get dragged to hell for having dated S**n as well as for her recent remarks about racism, but it's just the right thing to do (that is, if she is siding with BLM, which we don't know for sure)

that's actually very true. Ultraviolence still had some of the fierce lyrics of btd/paradise, Honeymoon kept the darkness and "inaccessibility" of UV, Lust For Life had some similar trap beats to HM, and Norman Fucking Rockwell stayed with the vaguely political aspects of LFL

she SHOULD post something but we all know she won’t. she dated a white cop, what do we expect?

I don't think it's a bad album, but I do think it's her worst album.

anyone who thinks LFL is her worst album is immature. hate to break it to ya

If you took out that messy middle section and added Yosemite, bar and rbfy, it would be amazing but that didn’t happen so

i have conflicting feelings over this.
 
on one hand, nowadays it's almost like, if you write a tweet or make an insta story about it, you're good. as if that requires any sort of effort or means the celeb in question is actually spending time thinking - let alone acting - on the injustice they just briefly mentioned on social media beyond the time it took them to write or RT the post. i believe that it's virtue signalling more than anything else.
 
on the other hand, these people have huge platforms and the very least they can do is be clear about their stance, even if it's a surface level one. so i tend to think that yeah, even though social media posts are basically meaningless, saying nothing is the worst option.
 
re: lana, i'm not holding my breath. she's an out-of-touch rich white woman who just dated a cop & self-professedly still believes that there's such a thing as "good cops", so. if she doesn't say anything, i'll hold it against her especially after her tone-deaf comments, but if she does i'll honestly just shrug.

anyone who thinks LFL is her worst album is immature. hate to break it to ya

Am I the only one who interpreted “Norman’s little sister” as just meaning the next album, like they’re all her babies, so the next one would technically be Norman’s little sister, as well as technically all her albums’ little sister too. Idk, that’s how I interpreted it. I didn’t think it meant it was NFR 2.0. But all her albums do seem to carry a little bit of the essence of the previous one while also becoming something totally different and new, so I don’t exactly expect it to be the anti-NFR either.

anyone who thinks LFL is her worst album is immature. hate to break it to ya

she SHOULD post something but we all know she won’t. she dated a white cop, what do we expect?

the statement applies to people who are aware of the issue, not those who aren't aware- "if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" i promise you it takes 30 seconds to share a petition or make a simple post which i'm sure everyone has the time to do (unless there's an extreme emergency)

Relay to another thread pls.

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I hope her words sting w heat. We need a slowburn for this one. 

SZA (whoever she is idk? sorry) is reaching. Of things to be offended by, she is picking a weird non-existent sentiment that wasn't even implied. You really can twist a statement to mean anything these days I suppose, as long as there is enough public outcry about something else.
 
ETA:
What is this LUNACY??????????? This is really dangerous logic. Someone having an opinion on something does not automatically mean they assume the absolute binary on other opinions.
 
For example, if someone thinks women are strong, it does not mean they think men are weak.
 
Saying artists can be overt and sexualised, does not mean that they cannot be feminine. 
 
Aggressively reading between the lines and finding a lens to be offended through is absolutely counterproductive to any intelligent conversation or argument because it means that you can disagree with everything for the sake of it without base. It's the logic of flat-earthers who have no scientific evidence to stand on but the rebuttal is 'well we don't know for sure!'. Lana's clumsy first and subsequent tirades do not imply at all that black women are not "GENTLE soft ethereal beings", she is addressing that she feels resentment that she can't explore the same (whether or not that is true is absolutely up for debate, as we have seen).
 
Consider what you can extrapolate from this statement:
I like the music of Lana del Rey, and London Grammar. I don't like music from Beyonce, I think it's too poppy.
 
Based on what isn't said here and the 'implied suggestion' argument, here are the things you could say:
I only like music from white people I don't like music from black people I only like female singers I hate male singers I only like alternative music I hate pop music I don't like Australian music I'm homophobic as I don't listen to any queer identifying artists On and on, when I'm just saying some artists I like, and I don't really like Beyoncé.
 
There are merits to the arguments that the name-dropping of black artists is unfortunate, but purposefully creating reasons to be offended by looking at words that are unsaid is extremely counterproductive, and just give the concession that people are entitled to be offended at everything based on nothing. 

i have a feeling lana is going to post something soon, but nothing relating to the controversy, probably just a selfie or a picture of the grass, or the sunset. 

A couple of us, on the other thread, think that maybe the audio book will contain the “best of” both written books. And maybe it will be out after COCC? Is she done with her second book? So many questions...

I feel like since were getting the album in September then the second book in march we should be getting violet pretty soon right? its been done since january and we have the cover but still dont know when its being released? Lanas recent activity is making me think were getting it pretty soon 

Duddde if you think Violet is out tomorrow you're gonna be really disappointed