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A&W di really well streaming wise, given its length and darkness. It's her 53rd most streamed song on the platform, and third off of OB. Tough will overcome it for sure (it's doing 5 times the streaming numbers), but only because it's shorter and more radio friendly. Don't think about it much, it doesn't take away from A&Ws' success (one of the most critically acclaimed songs of the year with a Grammy nod to boot).

That was a great little taste of her tour life. Very low key and charming. I actually love that Lana does sth like that with her dad, sister and friends, as opposed to making big Netflix documentaries. I remember when GUTS doc came out, I thought "Really, Olivia? You just appeared out of nowhere and we're already supposed to watch a full Netflix doc about you? Puh-lease." Also, 13 minutes is the perfect length, although I wouldn't mind a few more introspective words from Lana about the fans, what it feels like to be on stage, what songs are her favorite to perform, etc. But for a short doc, it's fantastic.

So, Tough overcomes This is What Makes Us Girls on Spotify, takes the 54th spot on Spotify. A&W next. Gonna be very hard to move upwards from here, given that it's now generating less than 500,000 streams daily. That said, it's still doing better than even Let The Light In, Doin' Time, and Ultraviolence daily, so it'll crack the top 50 eventually. The song did really well overall. * Tough 160,409,922 491,600 This Is What Makes Us Girls 160,182,688 59,863 In My Feelings 152,354,923 91,856 Gods & Monsters 151,068,214 65,881 Freak 149,422,892 86,910 Money Power Glory 147,875,132 63,786 Music To Watch Boys To 142,043,024 145,452 Peppers (feat. Tommy Genesis) 141,843,623 121,290 Paris, Texas (feat. SYML) 139,015,574 189,621 Lolita 137,898,588 59,082 Watercolor Eyes - From “Euphoria” An HBO Original Series 131,558,348 47,246 Black Beauty 130,790,060 124,930 Get Free 129,431,320 64,699 The greatest 128,512,045 55,168

Well, I mean you were (already) complaining about songs getting scrapped, so was just setting you straight. No need to get confrontational. In my previous message, I literally blew you a kiss, but waiving a white flag once more. We're just chattin'. Sheesh.

But she's not 'scrapping it'. She's switching up the style and production. " instead of mostly scrapping it" - source? "'I''m quite sad stuff like henry come on is getting scrapped" - source? I'm honestly not using any tone aside from 'chill, girl' and 'no one is scrapping the songs'. She's not happy with the material yet, but she's working on it. Don't worry about Henry.

She's not ready to put it out and that's that. She doesn't owe us anything - it's a privilege to get it when we get it. doesn't matter how long it's been in the making. Especially when she's already dropped three albums this decade

Strongly disagree. She's put out 9 good albums in her career. That only happens when you see a project through the end. This is merely a bump on the road, kind of what like NFR had along the way - and look how well that turned out. Why you rather NFR was half baked or released an EP midway? What you're suggesting sounds to me like quitting or giving up. Also, you're not gonna have to wait two years, it'll come out next year. So, let's chill.

What makes you think that? If she wanted to wing it, she woulda went with country + unreleased. It's been 2 years since she's wrapped up OB in the studio. Clearly, she truly cares about the project and wants it to work.

All in all, this is great news. The country era of music is kind of on its way out. Beyonce's done it, others have done it, we can all move on. Southern gothic sounds a lot more like Lana's vibe anyway. We'll get another album title for sure, for all ya Lasso haters. On the downside, I can't see this coming out till the summer at least. let's just pray she gives us singles early, like she did with NFR. pray pray pray that she puts out at least one in the next two months. Maybe that's why she's doing more interviews and events (and photo shoots).

Lana Del Rey and the Vogue Italia Interview: "I felt like a car accident, with people who couldn’t help but stop to look and see what happened" After a series of successful albums and a career that has turned her into an icon, Lana Del Rey is ready to enter a new era. She discusses this in her interview, reflecting on a forthcoming album, the mystical winds of the West Coast, and love as a symbol of hope. At a certain point in her youth, Elizabeth Grant watched the lights of Lake Placid in Essex County flicker and fade for the last time. She would later see them again after moving to New York, then to London, before returning and becoming known as Lana Del Rey. “I have a video from a long time ago, filmed by a guy I was dating. It’s nighttime, and we’re talking in the car, pretending I’m doing an interview after I’ve become famous. He asked me what I would do if I wasn’t a singer. That’s how I’d start a movie about my life.” In recent years, however, she’s hoped that no one would ever think of directing it. “There are many reasons why. There’s so much people don’t know, because there’s so much I don’t want to say.” I’m speaking with Elizabeth – “Lizzy” to her father, “Lana” to the world – while she’s at LAX airport, in a gray tank top, her hair blonde from the August sun and salt air, though she’s thinking of going back to brunette by the end of the year. “I just caught up with Charlie (her brother, Charles) and his wife. It’s a good time for me, for him, and for Chuck (her sister, Caroline). When the family is well, everything works.” A few days later, Lana would fly to Paris and then to the Reading & Leeds Festival in England, delivering one of the most intense performances of her new tour, even when the mic cut out, and she stood on stage quietly watching the fireworks. Acclaimed artist, icon, “cinnamon girl,” “sad girl,” muse of Alessandro Michele for Gucci, and pioneer of alternative pop with an “Old Hollywood” aesthetic since her debut in 2012 with Born to Die. Lana Del Rey has grown up close to stories that have become our stories because, in a way, she shaped them for others. In putting herself at the heart of her own experiences, she found inspiration to transform them into harmony, becoming the voice of a generation. She’s trying to do it again with Lasso, a new album that began during a stay between Mississippi and Arkansas. However, as we speak, the album is still evolving, and might even end up with a different title. “There was a lot of ‘American flair,’ too much of that very American aesthetic. I stopped because I didn’t recognize myself in it. I want this album to be a reflection of the person I am today. I might turn it into something more ‘Southern Gothic,’ like it was supposed to be from the beginning, and less country.” Recently, when she listens to singles like Ride and Video Games, songs that have given fans inspiration to shape entire personalities around, she feels a sense of separation. “I’m entering a new era. It’s also about living in Oklahoma and feeling different. My eyes have seen so many open spaces, I’ve felt the wind, and that’s the kind of energy I want to talk about now.”

Well put. It's same old, same old, isn't it? "But on October 7.... ." As step into into the *SECOND CALENDAR YEAR* of genocide, destruction, and mass starvation. One day vs. 2 years. Ummmm, really hard to make out who's the good guy, and who's the bad guy.

Nobody's worried about getting challenged. It's just that there are 400 victims on the one side, and more than 40,000 dead on the other with another 1 million waiting to starve do death. What are we supposed to get out of watching that documentary? Some understanding? A justification? An excuse? Puh-lease.

This made me laugh. The way The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and many others frame their news daily is all the proof I need for my "conspiracy theory." Is one a conspiracy theorist if they have a pair of eyes in their head and are literally spotting the evidence of something left and right? I'm not saying it's the Jews who are running that narrative, t's the US and their allies, with the Israelis and Jews. So, please spare me the anti-semitism card. In November 2023, over 750 journalists signed an open letter alleging bias in U.S. newsrooms against Palestinians in the reporting of the ongoing fighting in the Gaza strip. There are leaked memos proving that the New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel's war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing.” There's tonnes of analysis and research proving the editorial whitewash, and social media has been having a global laughing fit at some of these arciles where essentially "Israel fights back" and "Palestinians are tripping over on pebble, falling down and dying - oopsy, nothing to do with Israel." You've got literally puppets like Julia Hartley-Brewer, who basically mentally abuses her pro-Palestinian guests on live TV. I mean, there are tens of thousands of examples of biased journalism. All you need to do is open Instagram. Not only are they all obvious, in terms of being on Israel's and US payroll, but they've become a laughing stock. "There goes X US media outlet, calling a 7 year old Palestinian girl "a young woman". Etc. Etc. I'm not being an anti-semite. But if the US is happy to funnel billions of dollars for the ethnic cleansing, then yeah, another few billions to fuel propaganda doesn't seem all that unlikely, does it? Lastly, nothing I said here is anti-semitic. I'm anti-Israeli government and the massive money and political machine that supports its APPARENT and wildly proven genocide. Thanks.

Looking back at her initial "Welcome Nashville, Hollywood," interview, it was clear as day that she just didn't want to jump on the country bandwagon. She basically said "Yeah, I announced I was gonna do it, and everyone when silent. Then suddenly, everyone started announcing the same thing. So, fuck me if I'm gonna do what everyone else is doing. I'm not a sheep." In hindsight, we were dumb to be confused, it was clear as day. She's clearly changed directions mid-way, which explains needing more time to figure it all out.

Dreadful, incomprehensible film. The Witch is his best one yet. All others went off the rails script wise. Fingers crossed for Nosferatu.

Whoever didn't like Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has no taste. I saw it twice. It's an instant classic. I just saw The Substance. It's really good. It thought the finale would have been better off at a Jimmy Fallon Talk Shaw or Jimmy Kimmel (a mayor talk show anyway) as it would have gotten even more tense. The New Year's event was meh and didn't really get that creative like Late Night with the Devil's third act act did. But still great. 9/10.

I mean, I asked it what's LDR's worst album and it literally said BB. Case closed.

Asked ChatGPT to roast the song and it matches my sentiments to a tee: “Violet for Roses” feels like Lana went full hallmark, but not in a heartfelt way — more like she tripped and fell into a garden of saccharine nonsense. The whole thing is so syrupy sweet you’d think she’s starring in her own rom-com, except she’s the only one who thinks it's romantic. It’s like she’s trying to say, “Look at me, I’m finally happy!” but with all the depth of a sugar packet. The lyrics seem convinced that swapping “violets for roses” is some big metaphor for her epic transformation, but all it really says is that Lana might’ve spent a little too much time around florists who think changing blooms is a personality shift.

edit: sob, then grab the hanging rope.

she's kinda been doing the same set for years tho. Pretty when i cry on the floor, bartender next to the piano, summertime sadness with those tanning props, etc. i wouldn't bet on major reinventions. Just be happy if she doesn't do 10 piano ballads back to back lol

Well , hold on. She did say for Vogue she'll drop two more songs. Who knows, maybe after the election drama is over, she might feel more light and decide to drop a little taste. Or maybe she'll drop another random single/collabs. I totally get why many are disappointed. But then, OB did only come out last year. Better a good record with a bit of a wait, then a mediocre one like BB (sorry, BB fans)

That is true. Paradise coulda been an album, and BB coulda been an EP (or even two). With all the recycled material on it, it's kinda annoying that it was packaged as a full album when only half of it was new material. She could have also released several EPs with her popular unreleased tracks, like Serial Killer. No doubt another SYTH situation streaming wise. But, then, she's the artist, it's her vision, and if she wants to call it an album, or EP or whatever - it really is her choice alone.

totally disagree with that. Artists are super productive in the era of streaming (adele and others aside). For instance, Ldr dropped 9 records (with aka), an ep, an audio book, a book of poems; and countless, collabs, soundtracks and remixes in just over 10 years. If she started dropping records every 6-9 months instead of 2 years on average, the quality would go down. If you don't believe me, try writing a good song, see how long it takes you. i used to do some work as a lyricist, my job was to write lyrics to piano lines, which would get turned into songs with proper production, etc. Matching the exact number of syllables to a melody, and then have it all makes sense in the end (as a story), without being cliched or seen before, is actually outright excruciating. People don't realize. It takes days sometimes just to get the lyrics right. And that's just the lyrics. lana's work on Blue Jeans, for example, must have taken a lot of time and energy. And she's one of the ones that work really fast. So for others, it's natural that it will take longer or they'll have to have multiple, sometimes up to 11 writers on one track. Writing music takes time. Writing good music takes takes even more. We should celebrate Lana's talent and productivity and, for once, cut her some slack.

Dude, the US probably orchestrated the whole thing. Let's get real.

"“even if it’s super stripped back I want it to be like what it was supposed to be” translation: Even with songs that have simple, minimalist production (like my song Henry, Come on) without a big orchestra or beats, I want it to be just right. Even if it's just me and an acoustic guitar, I want to get to the place where I'm super happy with it and ready to put it out there. I hear wandering, perfectionism, not conforming. Whatever it is, we can give Lasso a good, long-ass rest. Yeehaw? More like yeenaw