past the bushes

hahahahahahahahaha vaaaaamp yessss 

I just want this, for witchy purposes (@vodkaa made the gif)

(Just gonna make this thread to keep things separated from my traditional art thread even though I doubt I'll update it often)
A digital doodle of Lana for Vogue Italia, 2012

https://inhaler.band/home
Inhaler is an Irish rock band that debuted at 2017 with "I Want You" and consists of band members Robert Keating (bass), Ryan McMahon (drums), Josh Jenkinson (lead guitar) and Elijah Hewson (vocals, rhythm, guitar). That's right, Hewson as in legendary rock band U2's frontman Bono's son. Elijah has said in an interview that his dad won't help with the band though, which I think is good.
I personally didn't know the group existed until yesterday afternoon when I was listening to the radio and the radio producer said they had just played their song (which was wrong and they corrected it later; it was some band called Idle, or Idol). I'm listening to them now and if you like rock music and songs that sound like they were made in the 80's, this band might be for you. They latest single, "When It Breaks", sounds less 80's though. (And I'm really liking it!)
Since Elijah is Bono's son, they voices sound very similar, just like how Bono could sound like in the early years of U2. I don't mind though, I love U2 and think Bono has one of the best vocals out there, but I think Inhaler need to find their own path and create something different to not become a copy. Kind of like how Greta van Fleet needs to steer away from sounding too much like Led Zeppelin. It'll be interesting to see if they'll succeed with that, and I think they might have a chance.

 
 

Born To Die:
Jesus's last words: "this is the last time
'cause you and I, we were born to die"
 
 made sense to me

On her story - 
 

this is my absolute dream --- plus it's perfect for the spooky season 
also at like 2:35 ish can u imagine Lana's wailing vocals there 
 
 

She held me spellbound in the night
Dancing shadows and firelight
Crazy laughter in another room
And she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon 

They are all coming, huh? 

They are all coming, huh? 

Zella Day will be releasing something on October 30th! She previously was pictured in this studio with Weyes Blood recording something! Let’s hope the previously-teased Lana collab is also on the way, or a studio version of “For Free” with all three singers!
 

Zella Day working with Weyes Blood ❤️️ 

I still haven't fixed all the broken links in this thread because lazy, but here's the one I did the other day

BRTHR has confirmed the video is wrapping up post production - 

I, for one, love the lyrics and the story-telling format they follow, kinda reminds me to a lot of 60s and 70s artists and their lyrical structure (Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Simon and Garfunkel...) 

we should lowkey make a discord group and play together omggg my mind 

I was highkey going to suggest doing just that omg 

Sorry but Joni never gave up her child to stay in the music business. She didn’t even start performing or writing music til she was pregnant and it was to make extra money for food because she was— wait for it— pregnant. She had no choice but to give up her child because she had no money or husband and in those days public shaming was a thing. Originally she married Chuck Mitchell so they could adopt her child but then he changed his mind and said he didn’t want to raise another man’s baby, so they got divorced and she started her career. She even said about it “if you make a good marriage, God bless you. If you make a bad marriage, become a philosopher.” That’s what she did, not the other way around. And she said it killed her when she made her fortune because she could finally afford her daughter and it was too late, she had a family. She even said not having her child was the big hole in her life that she tried to fill with songwriting and after she finally reunited with her daughter, her muse went away. She admitted she lost all her inspiration because it was just to fill a void. Yes her art is beautiful and I wouldn’t have wanted an alternate reality without it, but it’s just plain false to claim she chose her career over her child. 

just wanna preface this by saying: absolutely no shade towards you here, just sharing my 2 cents on this subject
 
i kinda hate the notion that kids slow artists down bc of how that almost exclusively applies to female artists; i mean, it never crossed anyone's mind that, idk, hemingway's or, like, mick jagger's careers would be slowed down due to having kids. i'm aware that that does sometimes happen when it comes to women -- some reevaluate their choices & start paying more attention to family than career, others are unable/unwilling to travel as much as before, etc. -- but i also think a big part of it is how motherhood changes our (public AND critics) perception of said women, and how themes associated with their new, more stereotypically "feminine", "softer" lives aren't deemed as interesting or worthy of being explored in art, and that really speaks to how patriarchally-driven all forms of art still are. lana has dealt with this issue all her career -- after all there's a reason why most of her fans are women and/or not straight -- but she managed to carve a niche for herself with a sort of bad/sad girl persona. a much more relevant "question for the culture" would have been why women are so limited re: what they can sing about once they reach a certain age without alienating 90% of their audience OR turning to MOR ~adult contemporary~ adèle-like music in order to keep selling. it's clear that she's struggling with something like this already (a lot of people complain that her music's too slow & contemplative now, with nearly no "bops", & even her die-hard fans complain that she doesn't pay as much attention to aesthetics/looks, don't like her more family&friends-oriented lifestyle, her move to the midwest (cop mistake notwithstanding), etc.) so it's something that must be on her mind to some extent. imo lana's "muse" has always been her personal life (both the real one & the one that goes on inside her head) and idk that she can just put it aside if she does eventually get married / have kids, so it'll be interesting to see how she'll reinvent herself then.
 
sorry for the tl;dr lol
 

"I won't not fuck you the fuck up" & "I'm not not a feminist" vibes

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