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ugh European 2011/2012 lana was elite 
 

Agreed. I've been saying this for a while but i think it would be smart for Lana and her team to put their focus back on the UK & Europe again. The US has always been very hostile to her. 

safe till another post ladies, lets count our blessings 

safe till another post ladies, lets count our blessings 

im not really sure what the photos means?? not to hate but...
 
the blonde in me is really coming out, like how did i not know mlk's birthday was on the 15th 

i never knew that charli was so popular on lana boards??? anyone else as surprised as me?

im not really sure what the photos means?? not to hate but...
 
the blonde in me is really coming out, like how did i not know mlk's birthday was on the 15th 

i never knew that charli was so popular on lana boards??? anyone else as surprised as me?

My heart drops with every notification
 
QFTC ruined my brain

i never knew that charli was so popular on lana boards??? anyone else as surprised as me?

Hello everyone! In order to keep us entertained until more COCC songs are released, I created a list and analysis of my top ten Lana Outros (basically the last ~1 minute of the song). Lana's outros can be the most emotionally powerful parts of her songs and they are essential to some of the songs in her catalog. I  based my ranking off my gut instinct, everything is subjective and just my interpretation of the song. Do not expect anything coherent below. These are my unhinged LB-emoji-interspersed ramblings.  10. The Blackest Day
9. Yes To Heaven
8. High By The Beach
7. I Talk To Jesus
6. Honeymoon
5. Raise Me Up
4. Mariners Apartment Complex
3. Cola
2. Flipside
1. Pretty When You Cry
  Honorable Mention  So that's my list and reasoning. Rate or hate on my ranking or post your own! I am a UV/HM stan so my list is not very diverse   Maybe if we're really bored we can play survivor with Lana outros or sumthing  
 

lana is saying "Like" this is what i was thinking

shes been hanging out too much with them whack ass la chicks i miss her nyc self

honestly i feel bad for lana.
her mistakes are her own, and she should actually own up to them at some point but i sadly doubt she will have the maturity to do that, in her mind it would probably feel like resignation to the internet trolls- and to an extent it is.
 ik there is no malice when she talks about sensitive topics, but her thoughts are hardly executed correctly.
But in some ways, she is right. Her words get twisted, and she will always be looked down on as inauthentic and frivolous by the industry and the internet. For example, her name dropping of artists of color got branded as “Lana LASHES out at contemporaries of color”, “Lana del rey receives backlash for RACIST DRAG on poc women”, and many people who saw QFTC or her recent comments are already looking and hoping to craft this racist, oblivious white woman narrative before they even read it, their perception of her message warped and they see red before they can truly think on it. So its understandable she is frustrated that people are set to default judge and criticize her, and create their own narratives about who she is.
BUT on the other hand... after all her babbling she can hardly blame anyone else at this point. She is also not in any place to say
1. that she is inclusive (thats not really up to her)
2. that she is blameless in all of this controversy (also, not up to her to decide that)
I cannot listen to the annie mac interview because it will literally give me second hand embarrassment, but from what i gather it was a mess. Her IGTV from today at least was more coherent and the reception was more positive.
above all, i wish her peace. shes been thru a lot this year specifically and shes tarnished her already fragile reputation so i hope shes okay mentally.
i know she hates it when people question her mental state so im not gonna play-doctor diagnose her or anything, just hoping for her to be free of this and hopefully learn from it so we can all move the fuck on.
sorry to anyone who reads this i hope its not offensive or stupid. i also didnt realize it was so long.

she's..... getting her chimney fixed..... which is..... nice????

I find it so bizarre how someone who's so thoughtful + insightful + well-spoken in her songs/poems is so incoherent and unintelligible in her regular conversations/social media posts. It's like songwriting is the only way she knows how to communicate. Her mind is genuinely so perplexing to me  

I just want to add, that her statement about trump was the exact statement Jay-Z made back in 2017/2018 and it is funny af people wanna try to make that a talking point as if she messed up saying what she said when she spilled tea. 
 
 
“One good thing he has done...He’s bringing out an ugly side of America that we wanted to believe was gone and it’s still here. We still gotta deal with it.” - Jay-Z on D*nald Trump https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jay-z-donald-trump-david-letterman_n_5ac70941e4b0337ad1e64898?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL0VVT2h6ck5Ya2U_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALbwg7f50yBuk5ohNWKbMluhFyJfOMiG-bBjTmRlxyuwHq0k7geUFrfUg84hV9uYMeuBjsJXAqG617fNIyFMBEgW0fhMzl7Y5eoR-OwV43SKfx3OiTnlc19zIIn4NPZOM9Zo67B7l-JTPUJWvxDabJUgp3XKmreZjRFSBEI4BNoI

She's ruined the whole era for herself and us fans. Lana, no sorry, her mangers and label desperately need to get a brand new PR team. Tell her to keep her mouth closed on subjects that she has little to no understanding of and to stop posting on her socials for awhile unless its to do with promo.
 
Her behaviour the last few months has been atrocious and coupled with Lana believing in her own hype after the critical success of NFR, has made it seriously hard to stan her these days. 
 
 

normalise saying "im not really sure how to word my point right now given the time constraints or the restrictions of my on-the-spot articulation abilities" so that people like lana don't show their asses like this constantly ?
 
what i think lana might have been trying to say:
"Climate change is a really big issue, just like capitalism - but having Trump in office really brought to the forefront of the public consciousness the ways that narcissism and sociopathy allow these issues to continue and develop. We should pay attention to the ills of climate change and the effects of a capitalistic society, but when we are giving massive amounts of power to individuals we should also inspect those individuals for displays of narcissism and sociopathy - how can we expect someone to heal communities or an entire country if they are narcissists that only think of themselves, or sociopaths that have no remorse for their actions?"
 
what lana came across as saying to someone who is not a fan:
"As a privileged rich white woman who has shown time and time again that she is ignorant and certainly that she cannot take constructive criticism - hence the fact that I spent half of this interview trying to prove how totally not racist I am - I am dismissing the issue of climate change and pinning the terrifyingly catastrophic state of the world on some abstract strain of ~narcissism~ because I care more about making a fake deep point and providing an enticing pseudo-philiosphical headline and soundbite than being responsible with my platform. This will likely cause uproar and I know it. I do not care to find out why this will upset people."
 
what i think lana might have been trying to say, part two:
"The madness of Trump really emboldened a lot of very bad people. As bad as his presidency was, the one thing we can take away from it is that it exposed a lot of people for who they really are - some famous people, some acquaintances, some people we may even have been close to. Having Trump in office made these people feel free to be as racist, homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic and xenophobic as they wanted to be, because he did the same. This isn't good, but it proves that we still have a very long way to go and a very hard battle to fight. I'm glad we had more of a spotlight on social justice, but it's a shame it came around because of someone as evil as Trump taking office."
 
what lana came across as saying to someone who is not a fan, part two:
"Trump's presidency was terrible. He is responsible for thousands of deaths - some due to his poor handling of COVID, some due to hate crimes that he emboldened his followers and supporters to carry out, some due to police brutality that he did absolutely nothing to tackle and in many cases encouraged, some due to the absolute poverty many Americans are living in, some due to stress-related organ failures as many American citizens work themselves quite literally to death. He is a fascist. He is an alleged rapist. He is awful. He has inspired hatred in thousands, if not millions, of Americans. However, literally none of this will ever affect me as I live in my bubble of LA millionaire privilege. Because of this, I will say that his presidency 'had to happen'. How else would my rich valley girl eyes have been opened if not for a literal fascist becoming President leading to the deaths of thousands of people? It means nothing to me that marginalised people have been living this reality since before he even ran for President. Thank goodness he came into power so that I and my matcha tea IG baddie friends could learn just a little bit about the real world. Yep, it totally had to happen!!! "
 
Now, let me be very very clear - I'm not saying this is entirely how her words came across to me. I'm just trying to put across extreme examples of how her words might seem to people that don't know her better - especially given the current social climate, where things are so hard for everybody and Trump has a hell of a lot to answer for. It is extremely fair for people to be mad over what she said, whether they are fans, non-fans, members of the general public, or even haters tbh. Lana is an extremely privileged woman who has had the luxury of ignorance (something she's displayed a lot of recently) while people are really really suffering. People are angry and are turning on the idea of celebrities in general tbh - so naturally many people are going to react to the absolutely ignorant words of a millionaire white lady with some level of hostility because people are going through hell, and hearing the words "it had to happen" regarding Trump's presidency - something that has destroyed the lives of a ridiculous number of people, as well as enabled hate crime and violence in the streets and in the Capitol - is going to trigger something in a lot of people.
 
Nobody has to be perfect. Hell, I don't think anyone can be! But there is a lot to be said for sensitivity and solidarity. No matter how deep and profound your potentially-controversial thought might be in your brain, if you're someone in Lana's position and you're on a huge platform on live radio with thousands listening and you can't word it without it coming across as insulting to the average working class person while on the spot..... maybe save it for when you can really articulate it and give it the nuance it deserves. That way, you're less likely to hurt people and more likely to be understood and potentially put a really necessary perspective out there! Who knows.
 
Also, about that "out of context" headline - the context really doesn't make it much better. Please don't harass the writer of the article. She said those words, they didn't lie about her. Clickbait is a given in journalism now sadly. Context or no context, people are gonna be furious with what Lana said. The headline isn't a good look but again, it's a direct quote from her so... yknow.

she truly set herself up with this one. i still can't believe she disregarded the entire point of the interview, questions about the album, to make a political statement that nobody needed. on one hand trump's presidency did open the eyes of many people of the younger generation on social issues in the world but on a wider scale dismissing everything else wrong going on in america is not the way to go about that especially considering the current political climate doesn't affect her in the slightest as she has no idea of the harsh reality capitalism and climate change truly affect the working and lower class. her new "woke" personality that she now has in retaliation to the criticism at "question for the culture", i assume, is just embarrassing and she should really collect herself before she ends up saying something she'll never be able to bounce back from.