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I also guessed Q2 2025 back on the first page of this damn thread but now I’m not expecting anything until fall/winter 2025.

is there a release date?

Casey Anthony for Department of Child Welfare next 🤩🤩🤩

Given the nature of TikTok’s algorithm, I think OP needs to set a benchmark for “viral-ness” of a song. Is it “viral” when it’s been used in 10k videos? 20k? Anecdotally seeing a bunch of videos using her songs on your Lana-oriented algorithm isn’t an accurate picture of the songs impact on the platform.

Taylor did a few late night shows (Fallon, Graham Norton) for Midnights in 2022–and Beyoncé didn’t do a traditional press tour, per se, but she did announce her lead singles with a Super Bowl commercial and covered W Mag I think.

Lana, but not Lana Del Rey. This is such a funny marketing tactic, to go thru the trouble of creating an account on here to promote your own music.

If this album ever does come it better be extremely polished from beginning to end A full photoshoot and album booklet with photos of Lana herself in different outfits (NOT random pics). Custom typography. Dolby Atmos mixes. Signed editions. At least a mini press tour. Magazines. A music video on release day.

To me, it’s simply a sign of desperation. People who are struggling so badly, they would rather swallow a Trump shaped pill than vote for another 4 years of the same. That’s a terrifying sign of how our country is treating its citizens. I’m privileged in that I don’t necessarily understand where they’re coming from firsthand, but I don’t want to judge them for it, or write them off as stupid.

I never said it was? Trump will be horrible for the working class, but, his message still resonated for reasons that multiple users have outlined above. And, pragmatically speaking, voters will almost always chose the promise of a smaller govt as opposed to large govt in the US—barring a crisis (depressions or pandemic).

I don’t think anyone in the last few pages of this thread is defending Trump as an individual—but refusing to understand the legitimate reasons the majority of US voters voted for Trumpism, and turning this thread into a bunch of “everyone who voted for Trump is a moron” posts is boring. I find the last few pages of discussion interesting and stimulating, and I don’t see a lot of radicalism or off-base comments.

A "socialist style economic justice platform" is not in Americans' best interests. Healthcare wait times would skyrocket with socialized healthcare for 300 million people (not to mention how quickly the population would grow with a fully open border, further straining resources), prices for everyday goods would also sky rocket as America would lose its position as a world superpower and trade would suffer, inflation would be rampant just like after COVID stimulus (and the only solution would to be pump more money in, further exasperating the issue), and the US would probably fall into complete anarchy and unrest--with a power vacuum so large, a real dictator installs themselves in it's place.

Democrats won’t win with any economic platform that is not inherently capitalist and also plays into “trickle down.” People love hearing the term “tax cuts” and hate hearing “raise taxes”, even if neither the cuts or raises directly impact them. What Americans think “populism” is, is really just deregulated corporatism with a splash of “I’m gonna lower gas and egg prices by eliminating carbon regulation and being tough on trade.” Strong borders, less government spending, and pushing for companies to make their products in America is not a controversial platform—it’s just that we haven’t overtly gotten that message without a side of social conservatism.

Trump’s core base maxes out at ~50-60 million. It’s these 4-5 million swing voters (the ones who voted for Obama and Biden and now voted Trump; and who voted Trump for President but for “small” Democrats down ballot) that decide elections, and they vote with their wallets and what directly impacts them.

Lady Gaga has a history of very quickly souring on a project (and then throwing it under the bus) if it isn't commercially and critically acclaimed lol. That's nothing new.

The median voter, the ones who decide elections, do not give a flying fuck about LGBTQ+ issues. These are the fringest of fringe issues. I've said it before, and @cheaptrailertrashglm is echoing it again, this election came down to if the middle class felt that they were better off today than they were 5 years ago under Trump. The answer was a resounding "no." 75 million people did not show up and vote for Trump because they care about trans women in sports. 70 million people did not show up and vote for Harris because she will continue to allow gender affirming surgery for prison inmates. The Democrats (the establishment ones--not Bernie and AOC's flank) need to realize that they do not have a winning coalition without white, middle class workers. What the conservative talking points on LGBTQ+/trans issues did help the Republicans with is that it solidified their message of being "the common-sense party." Even though our small, left-leaning LB community may not agree with that, the majority of the US thinks that spending time and money on LGBTQ+ issues is a waste, and nothing but "wokeism". The next generation of Democrats needs to realize that they need to simplify their messaging. They cannot be everything to everyone. They cannot be pro-fracking in PA, and in the same breath also be the party that believes in climate change. They cannot be the party of economic growth, but also implement carbon taxes. They cannot promise to be the outsiders who will go against the elites, and then bring out Lady Gaga and Beyoncé to campaign stops. The Democrats need to position themselves in the next election as "common sense outsiders," promising to make the economy better for everyone. Kamala Harris's "Opportunity Economy" was just a remarketing of the "American Dream" ideal that everyone can and wants to be an entrepreneur. That dream is dead, and most Americans don't want an "opportunity economy", they just want an economy where they can work 40 hours a week and not feel like they're still coming up short. After they are elected, they can devote some time, quietly, to expanding LGBTQ+ rights, access to abortion, and other socially progressive agenda items--but they cannot run on it. (They also need a way to build a non-traditional media apparatus, because the venn diagram of people who read/watch traditional news and vote blue is becoming a circle, but that's a different conversation.) If 2028's Presidential nominee does not win, the Democratic Party will be dead for the next decade.

Banned for always posting cryptic status updates about dupes but never delivering the drama.

It’s gonna be so interesting to see the Democratic Primary in 2028. They no longer have a winning coalition. 90% LGBTQ+, 90% of non-white women, and only ~50% of white women cannot win them any future elections. They’re gonna need to veer to a much more populist economic platform that focuses less on race, gender, and sexual equality and appeals to white middle class Americans ‍💀😭

I would put money on them trying in the next 10 years (this has nothing to do with the current state of the house/senate), BUT, I am undecided if Amy Coney Barrett and John Robert’s would vote with Alito and Thomas. ACB has become somewhat of a swing vote, unexpectedly. The republicans also have the slimmest majority in the house, and chaos agents like Nancy Mace who are socially to the left of the GOP, will become a huge thorn in the their side.

I was stuck on a boat with my extended family for a week with spotty wifi and no cell service 💀

is the whole moving just him yapping like a boomer while two Gen Z-ers stare at him traumatized?

It wasn’t rigged. People showed up and voted for Trump and didn’t bother even voting down ballot, which is why Dems did better in senate and gubernatorial elections in the same states that Harris lost. That’s a “good” sign for Democrats that Trumpism probably ends with Trump. Trump-like figures like Kari Lake, Dr. Oz, and Mark Robinson continue to fail to get MAGA support. 2028’s Republican primary will be interesting. I have a feeling Nancy Mace could unexpectedly become a big player (and I don’t hate all her policies, as she’s more left-leaning socially than other GOP members). As far as this current incoming administration, ATP I just pray they don’t crash or tank the stock market (I hate to admit that the record highs of markets have helped me cope with the Harris loss a bit better), and are too busy infighting amongst themselves to pass any weird policies for women and LGBTQ+.

So…if it were an entirely different dress 🙃

Bad week for elections on LB this week

One of her best looks imo

CHIHIRO. Finally starting to understand this album, it should've come out in the fall, not the spring/summer.