rightofjupiter

ahhhh nicole playing roadburn festival...do i need to go?? had been planning a trip that way for may but maybe it needs to be april...saw nicole open for grimes' art angels tour in 2015/16? but i wasn't a fan at the time...

i agree, they don't! but i do think that promotion is no longer meaningful to her, and that she gets some kind of satisfaction from feeling like she's opting out. also– and i understand wanting more from her as a fan, because it is SO fun to have a big album rollout to engage with– but she's hardly fucking us over; the most meaningful thing she does, and what fans most respond to, is the art, and we get SO much of it. she never fails to deliver on that front.

based on BBS and what i assume will continue to play out on the new record– her relationship with the media– i'm guessing maybe this refers to something on the record that will reference back to her shooting down the papparrazi helicopter? idk just a vibe i get.

lana's desire to promote her own work in a "normal" way (ie album rollouts in line w current marketing trends) was extremely affected by the media slander of BTD's release and then all but destroyed during QFTC. imo her lack of traditional promo over the past 2 records is a huge fuck you to the media, which she's long disliked, and she is doing it her way now, aka putting all her energy into making the music and letting the rest go by the wayside. i think she continues to carry a lot of pain and hurt over her experience with being perceived by the public/media so differently from her self-perception/intention. i do think this era will be her first big promo era since NFR but that she will prob remain ambivalent about promo for the rest of her career. and that is fine! i love interviews/photoshoots/IG posts etc but she's absolutely right in knowing that people will consume the music regardless of how much time/energy she puts into promo, and that it's a losing game to try and control her public perception so why bother. she also knows that the music and the promo have nothing to do with each other– one is art-making, the other is business– and she doesn't need to worry about $ and accruing new fans prob ever again. not promoting her new work has nothing to do with how she feels about the music or her fans imo, as she is aware that promotion is mostly a game of trying to control public perception which has only ever been a losing game for her (with the exception of the fawning reception of NFR maybe, and which she then effectively killed with QFTC).

so fucking hyped for a&w to be my sweet sweet valentine

Congrats to all!

i highly recommend this i have an ig just for following artists i stan

ahhhhhh i hope it comes out this fri??? maybe someone answered this a few pages back but how long is it typically between a song's length showing up and it being released?

fr i know march/april are gonna go the fuck off

still BOPPING (sobbing) to this nearly daily

chuck w the fishtail braids!! queen of black leggings tbh

ok she fucking slayed this

only the clothes-everywhere girlies know relatable queen

the only performance i care about is kacey musgraves tribute to loretta lynn...so far no one i care about has walked the red carpet tho i will say doja cat looks great (though boring in comparison to her recent fashion week looks).

of course! still a cute photo

there's gotta be a filter bc it looks badly photoshopped lol

anyone have the glitch princess instrumentals?

no i'm with u i love it too

a perfect song

ahhh my bday is march 9 too! pisces lana fans 4ever

so excited for everyone who gets to go!!! we will obvs need you to spill here immediately after

YESSSSS MAMA was supposed to see her years ago and missed it bc of catastrophic depressive episode i am going to go FERAL at this show

a&w friday...performance of it at the grammys sunday...it WOULD make sense i NEVER get on the delulu train but here i am i really do think lana and her team are shooting for a MASSIVE era to officially claim her title as Queen of Music

ugh idk why none of these new tracks are hitting for me? idk there's just something missing, they're too angular for me or something