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"You're already thinking about the next one?"
"I'm always thinking about the next one."
 

"You're already thinking about the next one?"
"I'm always thinking about the next one."
 

"You're already thinking about the next one?"
"I'm always thinking about the next one."
 

"You're already thinking about the next one?"
"I'm always thinking about the next one."
 

At least he's staying on topic and he doesn't need to set fire to his vagina.

I am working on my lead single now and it's a collab with the one and only @@VisKip
Debut album coming soon
 

Foxes has officially said that "Better Love" will be the next single, and it'll be out this Friday!

OH GOD

shut the fuck up
shut the fuck up (part II)

(pls don't yell @ me for double-posting-- just thought I'd drop this here.)
 
I posted another version of this in a status a few days ago, but this is a slightly clearer image. 

 
I'm still too scared to start on the background, but I'm working myself up to it. I'm gonna try to color the whole circle like space. 
Looking back on it, I sort of wish I hadn't done the Froot-inspired thing with her hair, since I don't think I'll be able to tie it into the background in a way that won't look gross. Oh well. Still have to reposition her ear and color it as well. 
 
But srsly, thank you all for being so rad and supportive. 

Don't ask me why, but I too have a weird feeling that something will be released on September 18th...   

I think I would be a great mod, personally.
 
I'd ban all the Gaga stans and bring back the Mariah stan
 
(don't tell ur mother) 
 

Well every fucking time she disappears and we talk about her being lazy she does something and we end up praising ha again so we'll have to
 

Vague rumours:
 
"24 is a song about something time-related because this is the most obvious conclusion from the number. Not so much to write about in case I get this wrong, let's just say something that will become a self-fulfilling prophecy."

I don't get the dislike for the studio version of DMD. I love it so much (especially the 7-Eleven / white pontiac heaven part)

I thought a Halsey track sounded kinda Lana-ish before Halsey even sang it or was even a thing. #HipsterAlert

No seriously.

Following my own advice to "Keep an Eye on the 'Industry Players'", I follow a lot of music industry accounts on Soundcloud, including one for TaP mgmt, Lana's manager Ben Mawson's company that manages Lana as well as OTTR, TIWMUG, and G&M co-writer Tim Larcombe. So a couple years ago a set labeled "Tim Larcombe" popped up on there which included two instrumental tracks labeled "BT I" and "BT II", "BT" presumably standing for "backing track", which sounded vaguely Lana-esque so I saved them in case they ended up being used on an album. (I'm not exactly sure when they appeared. This archive.org snapshot indicates they were uploaded in October 2012, but I'm not sure they were public that early. I saved them in September 2013, but I know I found them awhile before I got around to ripping them.) Anyway, fast forward to this morning when I was listening to Halsey in order to defend her detractors from a more educated position when I listened to "Strange Love" and experienced some major déjà vu. I recognized the backing track instantly as "BT I". Sure enough, Tim Larcombe is indeed the producer of "Strange Love":


Listen to a copy of "BT I" (click on the Soundcloud link below it if the embedded stream doesn't work) that I uploaded as a private track in April 2014 to show to @@Monicker, who deemed it "pretty uninspired":





I don't think Halsey is a complete ripoff of Lana; she's extremely derivative of her contemporaries in general, one of them being Lana. Her voice doesn't sound at all like Lana. Only a couple songs sound like Lana ripoffs ("New Americana" being the most blatant well-documented example). But she occupies a lyrical universe that overlaps a lot with Lana's. However, being a documented fan of Lana with a song title the same as one of Lana's with a backing track possibly even written for Lana by a producer that worked with Lana and has the same management as Lana... I know some of that's probably coincidence, but it's all just a little too much. And it's easy to imagine her going, "OMG, you worked with Lana? OMG, Can I work with you? OMG, you've got a backing track you wrote for Lana that she didn't use? OMG, can I use it? Great! I'll name it after one of her unreleased tracks!" 

So I was listening to more of Halsey's songs in order to defend her detractors in status posts when I had a sudden sense of déjà vu and made an interesting connection to something that turned up years ago in my Lana sleuthing. I'll post about it soon, but to make proper sense of it I need to know a couple things that maybe some of you can help me with:
 
1. Have any "Badlands" instrumentals leaked? If so, could someone PM them to me? (And if not, but if someone has them, can you still PM them to me? I won't do anything with them, I'm only interested in them for comparison purposes, and can delete them when I'm done.)
2. Is there a complete and accurate list of co-writer/producer credits for "Badlands"? Wikipedia is definitely missing some information.
3. When was Halsey signed?
4. What is her relationship to TaP mgmt (Ben's company) and when did it start?

#HeavyHitler 

I'm just waiting to wake up to a thread called "HONEYMOON LEAKED IN 320 kbps"

I do prefer the dark hair! Honestly I loved UV's hair but that's just me lol.

lizzy's blonde hair is a tragedy

https://scontent-vie1-1.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t50.2886-16/11890462_1605813299683975_1399325617_n.mp4

TIWMUG album version is amazing and better than the demos

but thanks to the elvis presley and michael jackson of our generation (melanie martinez and Ashley, respectively) the phrase has come up so much it's become meaningless

Taylor's 22 and IKYWT videos are fairly similar to Lana's NA and Ride vids respectively, though that's probably the director's fault (since all of the videos were directed by the same person, lol). Then again I think there are more/other reasons behind FMWUTTT, but y'know, we'll probably never find out.
she ain't slick with Wildest Dreams and Style tho
 
on topic: I really hope Rick Nowels and that other guy aren't the only producers on the album. What happened with Mark Ronson and Emile working on it