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TrailerParkDarling liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in Lorde
http://youtu.be/q_dU8Gnj13I
bless her she walks like a punk duck
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Lana Rey Del Mar liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in Recurring Lyrical Themes and Words
Every song with daddy in it (I literally went through all the lyric-posts and searched for daddy )
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Tyler liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in Lorde
does anyone have a picture of her boyfriend?
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by Beemo in Lorde
@@NEAL I wish she'd call her fans disciples.. or apostles
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by Beemo in Lorde
I made a cover for it using the booklet logo. It's what i'm using
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by Monicker in Chords and scores for songs
I believe she plays the entirety of Get Drunk on the low E, like someone who's been playing guitar for a week Not that it matters anyway, it can be played to your liking--all on the E or a combination of the E and A strings. Or you can just smash your guitar to smithereens and get drunk
A bit of advice to those who are interested in more than just playing along to a handful of your favorite songs, and would like to work toward being competent musicians: with songs like Get Drunk where it's all single notes, try to pick them out by ear, it's the first and most basic step in some of the best ear training you can give yourself. It may be frustrating at first, but it's really not that difficult, and it gets easier with time and practice. It'll really, really develop your overall playing and ear/listening. Train your ear to recognize notes. You will thank yourself later.
And for those who are a little more serious and ambitious, moving on to picking out chords will enrich your overall musicianship tenfold. It'll take more time than picking out single notes, of course, but it's invaluable training. A little tip: keep in mind that most of Lana's song only use major and minor triads (3 note chords) and each song is usually just 3 to 5 total chords, so it's not that hard to play around and find the chords. I mean, think of it this way: there are only 24 different chords to pick from, right? (though there are a handful of her songs that have the occasional 7th or suspended chord or whatever).
If you're just interested in playing along to the occasional song here and there for fun, then kindly ignore everything i've just said. Actually, you should just ignore everything i've ever said and will say and just get hammered.
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by Beemo in Create an Unreleased Lana Album/Playlist
Made this yesterday
Tracklist:
1. Ride (String Arrangement)
2. Black Beauty
3. TV in Black & White
4. Goodbye Kiss
5. Never Let Me Go
6. Angels Forever, Forever Angels
7. Chelsea Hotel No. 2
8. Yayo
9. Your Band is All the Rage
10. Lucky Ones
11. Pawn Shop Blues
12. Video Games
13. Ride
Very laid-back type of playlist. I recommend for rainy days
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MermaidTrailerHeaven liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in LANALYSIS: Relating Songs To Known/Assumed Relationships
Backfire could possibly be about Reeve. In "Love Me Chase Me" (...that's a song of his) there's two lines that match up with Backfire "I'm a jumper" and "change me", compared to Backfire's "We got a jumper" and "I thought that I could change you like the others" he really doesn't seem like the ~crazy~ type though
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by whitman in Lorde
Pure Heroine is such a great debut of a 16 years old singer and that's it. Lorde can really translate the joys and fears of coming of age in her lyrics and that’s why people can relate with them. Somehow its honest lyrics works in the first half but soon start to drag and it seems she’s singing about the same things over and over again and shows that although she is a great lyricist she lacks imagination – as Lana has proved is one of these things that can make a difference.
She's stuck in this minimalistic sound because her label wants to play safe, but I have a feeling that the better is yet to come. Lorde just need some better melodies and to shape her sound.
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by Sucker in Lorde
http://www47.zippyshare.com/v/34025393/file.html
Here you guys go! Ripped and iTunes ready!
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by StationToStation in Lorde
Downloadlink to 'Pure Heroine' in converted m4a quality: http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/18072431/file.html
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Summersault liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in Lana Arrives at LAX Airport (Sept 21st)
someone is travelling with a multi function table top grinder:
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lola liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in Lana Arrives at LAX Airport (Sept 21st)
someone is travelling with a multi function table top grinder:
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Sitar liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in Lorde
http://youtu.be/C_KEUGmYum0 < Royals makeup tutorial (that girl is srsly so hardcore, watch her 3 minute makeup challenge, no one does it better )
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TrailerParkDarling liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in Lorde
http://youtu.be/C_KEUGmYum0 < Royals makeup tutorial (that girl is srsly so hardcore, watch her 3 minute makeup challenge, no one does it better )
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ednafrau liked a post in a topic by fruitpunchlips in LANALYSIS: Relating Songs To Known/Assumed Relationships
Backfire could possibly be about Reeve. In "Love Me Chase Me" (...that's a song of his) there's two lines that match up with Backfire "I'm a jumper" and "change me", compared to Backfire's "We got a jumper" and "I thought that I could change you like the others" he really doesn't seem like the ~crazy~ type though
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fruitpunchlips liked a post in a topic by Valentino in Lana, Lorde, & Feminism
Feminism as a movement kind of has a dark history when it comes to glossing over women of color, lower class women, and trans women. For a long time it was a movement heralded by upper middle class white women for upper middle class white women, with women not fitting into those qualifications being ignored, thrown under the bus, or used as tokens. I think it's pretty understandable why someone would not want to relate to a movement that historically hasn't had your interests at heart despite claiming to speak for you. Feminism nowadays generally tries to acknowledge its past failings as a movement, but being that "woman" is necessarily a broad category it's hard to have one movement that speaks for all women and addresses the varying levels of oppression (class, race, trans, sexuality, disability, etc).
Feminism is as much the movement it is associated with as it is the ideals it espouses. If you want to associate yourself with feminism, you need to acknowledge that yes, there are skeletons in the closet and deal with them. You can also agree with the ideals without adopting the label. Does believing people shouldn't live in equality mean one must identify as a socialist? Does believing people should have a chance to work hard and succeed mean one should call oneself a capitalist? You can't boil down complex political movements to a single-issue, especially not ideologies which purport to explain every facet of society (feminism has expanded a lot to issues most wouldn't associate with gender - environmentalism, distribution of wealth).
In addition, feminism is so broad that saying you're a feminist is quite unhelpful. Which subset of feminism are you? A lib fem is going to have different views than a rad fem. Is pornography good for the soul or inherently degrading to women? What is the true nature of the patriarchy? How can women take control of their own lives and do women have a responsibility to other women? These are all questions to which you'll get wildly different responses - all from people who identify as "feminist."
That's something that really bothers me about female artists (actually any artist, but lesser known female artists like to talk about feminism a lot) talking about feminism - their analysis is superficial and seems to come from like the Sparknotes version of second-wave feminism. It's a lazy way to make your songs seem like intellectual critiques of society without actually having the content to back it up. Grrl power! Don't ever be dependent on a man, ever! Implying, of course, that the roles traditionally assigned to women are lesser and that women who "play" into them are less intelligent... which sounds a lot like internalized misogyny to me. Marina and the Diamonds's "Girls" is a grade-A example of a "feminist" song that is actually super misogynistic (thankfully she's realized the unfortunate implications of the song). You'll still hear people proclaiming that lyrics like "look like a girl but I think like a guy!" are scathing deconstructions of gender when they actually reinforce this idea that there's a way to look like and think like a guy/girl. Not to mention the entire idea that instead of criticizing the institutions that "fuel a new insecurity" for women, we criticize women for... being influenced by the media.
Disclaimer: I don't study politics, women's studies, or gender theory. Most of what I know regarding feminism as a movement today comes from my frequenting self-proclaimed feminist circles which, though harmful in other ways, opened my eyes to the superficial and ultimately harmful nature of my own "brand" of feminism. I think there are a lot of women like me who grow up dissatisfied with gender roles and the way women are treated, but instead take it out on other women who are content with this system and imply that these women are the ones keeping them down, which is not necessarily true and demeans a woman's choice just for fitting into gender-conforming lines. Seeing this attitude being perpetuated reminds me of my old, harmful attitude and it upsets me because a) it reminds me of how terrible my grasp of politics was at a young age (not that it's much better now, but it was worse then) and b) it's actually not really helpful to women and might even be harmful.