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I covered Carmen again, but acapella this time. Just very quickly while I'm alone in the house lol.
 

you all sound so wonderful! I've never covered Lana even though I'm always humming or singing one song of hers or another, but I finally covered one (Without You):
 
www.soundcloud.com/inethic/without-u-2020-04-18-821-am

Thank you both as well! Was happy to share it. Glad you enjoyed it!  

My attempt at a Neil Krug esque coloring, based on the Maxim shoot...I got kinda lazy though lmao

Love this. I hope more and more of Lanas talented fans remix this song. The producers kinda did it dirty ngl, it needs more oomph imo. Thank u for taking the time to do this and share it

Since the release of VBBOTG, I've noticed that a lot of us developed a deeper appreciation for poetry so I figured it'd be fun if we worked on a poem together about America. Thoughts?

Yeah shes driving to go delay the album release date

it has been like this for a couple of weeks now

Thank you Elle!! And thank you for taking ur time and not rushing things. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Love this. I hope more and more of Lanas talented fans remix this song. The producers kinda did it dirty ngl, it needs more oomph imo. Thank u for taking the time to do this and share it

Okay everyone, unfortunately, the rest of the updates will have to continue tomorrow.
We’ve done all we can do for now with what’s available to us currently, and we’ve been in a bit of a waiting game to be cleared before beginning the rest of the update phases. I am prioritizing safety over time in this situation, as it is of my upmost importance that nothing goes wrong during these updates. We need to wait a bit longer for every single bump to be completely smoothed out to prepare to begin the software script update. We did make some great behind-the-scenes headway today during Phase 1, so please don’t be too discouraged, there’s just a few more things we need to get settled before beginning the big software script update, and Melly & I have sort of no choice but to wait out the time until everything is set for takeoff. It doesn’t seem that we’ll be ready to start the main update any time tonight, so we will resume updates tomorrow. The site will remain online until then, and I will update you all tomorrow for when we will be offline.
My sincerest apologies for this delay, and thank you guys so much for being patient and hanging in there during this complicated process x

I'm more excited about the little changes to this site than a pre-order announcement at this point   Thank you Elle and co for all your work behind the scenes.

Hey everyone! The recent leaking of LIB really made my week, as I'm sure it did for many of you as well. It was so great to finally hear it in its entirety and for me it definitely didn't disappoint. That being said, I have listened to the fanmade version I've had in my iTunes so many times now that the song's structure felt off to me. Essentially the version I was using had, what we now know as the bridge as the chorus. I don't really like how the chorus is just one line repeated twice. So I decided to try my hand at splicing together a version with the bridge used twice as a chorus and then the song ending as it does. I also wanted to utilize both versions that leaked. So essentially my "rework" goes like this:
 
Verse 1 (2015 ver.) --> Prechorus (Alt ver.) --> Bridge --> Verse 2 (2015 ver.) --> Prechorus (Alt ver.) --> Bridge + Outro (2015 ver.)
 
 
I'm not great at audio editing. I don't do it often and all I had to do this was garageband. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out though and don't think any of the transitions are too jarring. So, I figured I'd share it with the community. Go easy on me haha! 
 
 
New Link: https://dbree.org/v/41620e

Hi all!
 
We just completed Phase 1 of our updates. This was all behind-the-scenes stuff that will ensure a much smoother process to the big site update and server upgrade, so you all won’t notice any physical changes yet, but they’re coming! Because the site is so outdated, there’s a lot of bumps in the road we’re having to get by, so I apologise for the time this is taking.
 
We’ll have a waiting period before we’re ready and able to start Phase 2, so I decided to put the site back online until that’s ready to begin. I want to give you all as much time online as possible!
 
I’ll notify you all before we go offline again for Phase 2. (I apologise for not giving you all more of an immediate update on the boards before we went offline when Phase 1 started, I didn’t realise it was going to go offline so suddenly )
 
I’ve been posting these updates to the LanaBoards Twitter, so again if you haven’t followed it, I would recommend doing so to stay in-the-know during this process.
 
Thank you all again for your continued patience & support!
 
Xoxo,
Elle

it's so cool that lana actually knows and works with her sound mixers and engineers--i've heard a lot of artists aren't much involved with that part of their work. Personally, I find engineering so incredibly fascinating, and it truly is such a fine-tuned art 

Watch Lana making an announcement while the site is offline and we all have mental
breakdowns bc we can't post on here for several hours
 
On a serious note :Thank you so much for all the work you put into this website!!! Looking forward to the new design!!

Hi all, 
 
I just wanted to let you know of some changes that are going to take place later today (about 12 or so hours from now.)
Some of you may remember I posted this message before a couple of weeks ago after a previous site crash, but it was removed within a half hour along with any other posts that had been posted in that time frame. Basically, I tried to upgrade the server without updating the site first and it didn't work, so I had to revert it. Let me delve more into that - 
 
Essentially, LanaBoards's current server isn't stable enough to continue using. We just had another crash Saturday night following #AugustLeakFest due to traffic, and those sort of crashes are going to continue to happen during high traffic times on our current server. Obviously, we can't have that happen especially with COTCC coming up; however, in order to upgrade to a larger server, the forum script software has to be updated. Otherwise, it will not work properly as I discovered a couple of weeks ago.
 
A few times in the past, I've asked users and set up a poll to see if you all wanted me to update the forum script. Each time, the result was pretty split or with a slight majority in favour of keeping the current forum script that LanaBoards has had since its start in 2012. Now, I have no choice but to update it anyway.
Later today, in about 12 hours or so, Melly and I will be updating the site and then upgrading the server.
 
 
Here's pretty much what you need to know:
- The site will be offline for a few hours while this updating and upgrading occurs. I don't imagine it will take too terribly long (and I sure hope it doesn't), but it could be a few hours. I'll be posting a notice on the site hopefully around an hour or so before it goes offline, but I would highly recommend you all to follow the @/LanaBoards Twitter if you're not already, as I'll be posting updates there while everything is taking place to keep you all up to date on what's happening.
- Things are going to look a little different. LanaBoards has not changed much aesthetically aside from era theme changes over the past 8 years. This is because the same forum software script has not ever changed, but it's so outdated and now causing some problems. I'm still going to be using the same forum company's template, it's just going to be their newest updated script. So it won't be too drastic of a change, but there may be some minor aesthetic & functionality changes here and there. 
- The theme will have to change (yay, finally, I know.) Now, the problem is I have no idea what the site layout is going to look like after the update. I have a brief idea of what it may look like, but I cannot start designing a theme until the update is complete so I'll know how to design it to match the new layout of the site. So, for a few days after the update, we may have to have a simple temporary theme until an actual one is completely designed. I'm working with some other talented users to hopefully design themes for both NFR & VBBOTG, and I'm also going to try to redesign the current LFL theme to fit the new layout as well. I may also go back and redesign some of the themes for other eras (if/when I have time) and feature a list of themes where users can decide which one they would like.
- You really have nothing to worry about! (hopefully, if nothing goes terribly wrong!) All accounts, posts, threads, etc. will remain in tact. Again, the only thing different will be minor aesthetic & functionality changes in the site's layout as I mentioned above. It will pretty much stay the same LanaBoards that you all know and love (& hate sometimes) since we'll still be using the same forum template, but with a sleeker, more updated layout and design.
 
 
Please let me know if you all have any questions or concerns. I'll post a message to this thread as well as in the Status Updates letting you all know before we go offline, but again I would strongly recommend following our Twitter page for updates while we're offline. 
Thank you all so much for your support and cooperation in this!
 
All my love,
Elle xx

Hmmmmm...I'm not usually a big fan of collabs, but Groupie Love was so good I might be here for another hip-hop duet. 
 
I just don't feel like that would work with anything I've heard from Antoff? 

I had to do a whole report on distracted driving in hs for my drivers ed class and it scared me so bad. I still don’t have my license. Just bc the cars have built in screens w shit u can do doesn’t mean u should use it, they’re unsafe. Put your phone away while ur driving PLS

People who use their phones while they drive are the worst people in the world. And if you disagree, you are too.

Still waiting for the punchline of this stellar joke set up
Anyone who thinks you can’t be distracted while driving a stick shift has never visited the south of France.

I s2g pls don’t compare Lana to maya angelou

Why is it when Lana sings like a bird in a cage she is weak, but why Maya Angelou did it, she was strong?