Blue Ink

Also, fwiw I actually really liked White Hot Forever as an album title  felt synonymous with passion, fire and youth. Bit given recent uhh... events... I can understand how it could've been really misconstrued.

This title calls for a Slim Aarons style album cover with chemtrails in the sky...
 

COCC 

Oops, that wasn't intentional! I'm just so used to typing 2021 for any sort of news lately, it doesn't even feel like 2020 is a thing anymore. I'm not entirely sure that this year is even happening or is real x

okay but COCC is so iconic..it’s gonna crack me up everytime i see the abbreviation

i hope that the title lends itself to heavier production than NFR, but i don't feel super confident about that if jack sticks around. also the abbreviation is COCC bye

No more Chuck Grant album covers
Society has progressed past the need for Chuck Grant album covers
 
We need a photographer who will actually release more than 2 images from the shoot!!!!!

I’m not so certain about the title but i’m v excited for the new music either way

I hope she brings ANGRY and LOUD and STRONG vocals to this record.
 
SCREAM YOUR HEART OUT LANAAAAA! 
 

I am way more excited for this record than NFR and it also comes from the fact that I'm coming in with zero expectations since release date is so close and we have nothing. I don't even want to know about the cover or design I'm just here for the music and sound and I want it to be loud and rocky à la West Coast

I'm skipping everything that touches this situation. I don't need this amount of negativity in my life.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!! this is exactly what she meant, i wish people could understand this

I don't see THAT many hate comments on insta. More people sending her love than hate. Thank God.

I don't see THAT many hate comments on insta. More people sending her love than hate. Thank God.

I don't see THAT many hate comments on insta. More people sending her love than hate. Thank God.

As a soft/delicate woman I always felt glad someone like Lana made it big. What she says is so relatable. It always seemed like there is only space for loud or outspoken people. If you aren't like that, you are perceived as weak and, especially as a woman, it is your duty to show that you are "strong" and impose yourself. This reminds me of what Susan Cain said in her TED Talk titled "The power of introverts".

The submissive woman has not always been championed by the patriarchy, it has been forced by the patriarchy. It's about choice. She wants to choose to be submissive, not have it forced upon her. She’s absolutely right when saying there needs to be a space for fragility in the feminist community. There's been a prominent focus on being a strong, independent woman and clearly she does not see herself in that image. It's forcing her to be something she isn’t. The same way a woman can be pressured and forced into a submissive role. Women need a space to be whoever they want to be and do whatever pleases or displeases them.
 
 
when she talked about fucking people in the industry, Fox News slut shamed her. And just because we can't see it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

I personally felt it was the best bit

"God bless and FUCK OFF if you don't like the posts", though

she looks so sad and completely over it and I hate the media so much for twisting her words to THAT extent and I hate how sensitive everyone is nowadays that everything she does is gonna be turned into something it’s not just because of this stupid incident that shouldn’t have been a big deal at all. i really really hope she’s okay. yes, what she said was basically the same thing as the previous follow-up of the statement but she said that again because some people just don’t get it still. I’m glad that the fans know her good intentions but still disagree w her to some extent because that’s healthy. maybe this time those words won’t be twisted

Lana: okay I'm done talking about this subject
Everyone: . . . wow that was weird
. . .
. . .
. . . 
Lana: OKAY JUST TO ADD ONE MORE THING-

I don’t know, I listened to the post and I agree with her. Was the original post clumsy ? Perhaps a bit but I did agree with what she said.
Now, as someone else said, I’m waiting for her to be crucified for naming Twigs. Everybody praised her dancing on the pole. And sure it was a nice esthetic performance with meaning behind it. But So was what she did with Tropico (like it or not).
That being said, she should just enjoy the life she built for herself. The media has always been vicious to her and her best intentions won’t be enough to change enough.
 
*plays « Please don’t let me be misunderstood » *

Here's the complete post transcribed:
"Hey. So I don’t wanna beat a dead horse and I don’t wanna go on and on about this post thing, but I just wanna remind you that in that post, my one and only personal declaration I’ve ever made - thanks for being so warm and welcoming - was about the need for fragility in the feminist movement. It’s gonna be important. & when I mentioned women who look like me, I didn’t mean white like me, I mean the kind of women who other people might not believe because they think “oh, well, look at her, she fuckin’ deserves it” or whatever. There’s a lot of people like that, y’know? I just think it’s sad that the women I mentioned about, whether they sing about dancing for money or whatever, the same stuff by the way that I’ve been singing about chronicling for 13 years. That’s why I’m in that echelon, yes they are my friends and peers, contemporaries. The difference is when I get on the pole people call me a whore, but when Twigs gets on the pole it’s art. So y’know I mean I’m reminded constantly by my friends that lyrically there are layers and complicated psychological factors that play into some of my songwriting, but I just want to say y’know the culture’s super sick right now and the fact they want to turn my post, my advocacy for fragility, into a race war, it’s really bad. It’s actually really bad, especially when it that same declaration I was talking again about the idea of how important it is for me to make reparations to the Navajo community because they touched me so much in my youth and that I believe in personal reparations because it’s the right thing to do. I think what’s really sad is like as a personal advocate, as a girl’s girl, as somebody who wants the best for every culture, when Marianne Williamson was talking about reparations to the black community that never got done during the emancipation period. That was why I liked her, because I always felt that way. So I just wanna say to all of the other women out there who are like me – good girls, good intentioned, who get fucked up the ass constantly by the culture just because you say what you really mean - I’m with you and I feel for you and I know that you feel for me. Y’know I’m super strong, you can call me whatever. I’m sorry that I didn’t add one caucasian, 100% caucasian person, into the mix of the women that I admire. It really says more about you than it does about me. I think what’s interesting is that the very first time I decide to tell you anything about my life or the fact that I’m writing books that chronical that fragility, that 200,000 hateful, spiteful comments come in, and my phone number leaked, and comments like “you fucking white bitch…” It’s the opposite of the spirit of an advocate. It’s what causes fragility. But it’s not gonna stop me. Period. I just want to say nobody gets to tell your story except for you, and even if that means it’s kind of messy like this along the way, ‘cause unfortunately when you have a good heart it doesn’t always shine through, and you trudge on anyway. You make those personal reparations to heal your own family karmic lineage and the sickness of this country, y’know? Domestic abuse, mental health problems, this is the second epidemic that’s arising out of this pandemic. It’s a real thing. That’s what I was talking about. So, as ever I’m grateful that my muse is still here and that I have over the last 3 years been blessed to have the insight and ability to channel two books worth of beautiful poems. I think my new record Chemtrails Over the Country Club is special as well. I’m sorry that a couple of the girls I talked to who were mentioned in that post have a super different opinion of my insight and especially because we’ve been so close for so long. It really again makes you reach into the depth of your own heart and say “am I good intentioned?” and of course for me the answer is always, yes. I barely ever share a thing, and this is why, y’know? The reason why I’m making this post and I know it seems a bit much, right? But there are women out there like me who have so much to give and don’t quite get to the place spiritually or karmically where they’re supposed to be because there are other women who hate them and try and take them down, whether in my case it’s certain alternative singers or malintented journalists or men who hate women, yknow? But I’m not the enemy and I’m definitely not racist, so don’t get it twisted. Nobody gets to tell your story except for you, and that’s what I’m gonna do in the next couple books. So god bless, and yeah, fuck off if you don’t like the post."
 
Nobody gets to tell your story

 
 
 
from 'Behind the Iron Gates'

She’s just super emotional. That’s how i sound after i have a crying sesh. Super nasally and just loopy.
 
She was speaking from the heart and even though she says she’s strong you can tell this really brought her spirit down.

I pray she gets left alone this time