Pretty Dull

Yeah. This is where the 'ethics' of it all comes back and drenches me with guilt. I love these artists. All I want to do is consume their material. If I can buy it, I will. If there's stuff that never left the cutting room floor, or there's some label exec who killed the song, I wanna hear that shit too. Gimme gimme. BUT! The fact that you could never be sharing out your sessions or song samples personally, and have a close production team you work with tightly, and your work STILL ends up online - it's like "Was I hacked? Or did someone on my team leak it behind my back? Who was on the music video set that I haven't seen before? Did they say something? Is it someone from the label? Is the janitor secretly popping flash drives into the computers when they come in to mop?"
 

Tell that to stan culture. Those 0.1 differences on Pitchfork review scores. How many streams on Spotify? What's Metacritic got to say about it? Where is that album on the charts?

The commodification and quantification and metricization of art is one of the nastier slimes capitalism could have ever unleashed, because now people utterly dismiss and toss out entire bodies of works just based on numbers and comparisons. It's wild, and these people - you've got these mega-forces in the industry like T-Swift, Gaga, Beyonce, Ariana, Ed, Bieber, The Jonas's - folks who are just selling out stadiums and names that have been everywhere for almost a decade+ at this point - these people look at new artists, or smaller artists, and just go "Oh? Who is she? Debut single didn't chart? Album not in the Top 200? Flop. Stream Midnights or w/e". It's so homogenized and ape-brained.

For some people, it's just about being creative, making music, seeing what lands, and if their bills are paid, they're content - they're not out here trying to usurp some pop chart record holder, they're not trying to buy an $18 million mansion in the Bahamas off their first album; they're out here to literally have fun with their work, and make enough overhead to keep doing it.

I feel so bad for her re: leaking. It's such an invasion of privacy and the leakers never consider the artistry behind the music. Not only that but I'd question myself as to what else these people have access to; having no sense of privacy would make me extremely paranoid, so props to her for maintaining her composure. I'd feel so invaded if people went through my emails, calls, photos, music, etc. Like, stop. It's fun to share demos and alt cuts from scrapped/released projects between us fans, but it's a whole diff vibe to leak someone's record.
 
Plus, you can tell she puts her heart into her projects. She makes the best with the budgets she has (in a complimentary way, not shady) and gives us visuals and sounds that are fucking fun. IDK but her songs getting leaked almost seems weirdly targeted/evil/misogynistic. I say this because her leaks are usually shared in such a toxic 'haha fuck her she's a flop' kinda way. And like?!?!?! IDGI?!?!? She's out here traveling the world whilst sharing her projects with people who like her. That's badass, no? That's what art and music is all about!?!? How is that a flop? You don't need to be breaking records with your music to be successful.
 
This went on for quite long. I should buy her record.
 

i hope LDR10 makes us feel like this

you guys are talking down on covers as if her covers of summer wine, blue velvet, goodbye kiss, doin' time, some things last a long time, heart-shaped box, roadhouse blues, the end of the world, the good life, where the boys are (coming soon! ...i hope) and buddy's rendezvous don't exist  i think lana is perfectly capable 
 
also... to say that a.i covers aren't really any different from actual covers recorded by the artist is just so, so wrong

xcx world seeing AR and problematique get released
 

i hate the idea that music is meaningless unless it’s super deep + written by the artist themselves
 
like is it a nice plus, sure! but.. if a song is good.. it’s good!
also lana has proved time and time again that her covers are fantastic. season of the witch, doin time, chelsea hotel, summer wine.. the list goes on
 
a covers album is something lana has wanted to do for such a long time, so? (also ai covers never really work all that well)

Yesterday, Lana Del Rey stopped to meet fans while out in Nashville, Tennessee. 


 

your favourite sky hater had announced downhill flop was coming 2 weeks prior
 
 

"For me to be able to touch you....."
 
 
 
"...with my music"
 

He read Lana Boards real quick 

love wins…. okayyy

which vape is that? i don't recognise it, even as a certified professional high level vape master most respected in my field 

I’m forever OBSESSED with Our Boyfriend, such a good fucken track

idk if any of y'all are new york city angels, but i am hosting and djing a full night of all charli in brooklyn this thursday night! stop on by, it's going to be incredible! all eras/unreleased/features... the whole 9 yards!!!

 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxD9r1JutHu/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Nevermind. Got one on seat geek.
But, vip front row a 90,000$ ?!?!?!?! 
90. 1000. Dollars... 90. 1000. Dollars...
 

If its legit then it’s quite tragic that new material is already leaking and at this point is not that her gmail password got “leaked” again lol. Someone from her friendship circle is leaking this judging that she moved from Atlantic and we can’t assume some insider from there did that…
en ee waays stop being boring for once and let this woman have a proper release without severe leaks and instead leak 10+ years old material challenge

pls the “i wish to not be perceived” shirt is sooo tacky  

Crying at the fact that she did this
 

this is honestly a half-truth  i don't think money can fix everything or replace certain aspects of life, like personal connections or mental health, but being wealthy would make life so much easier, which in turn means you have a lot less to worry about

douche juice 

@Alison by Slowdive This is your place to shine

“We been everywhere”

her tendency to post same video on her stories too is so😭😭😭