Jaeden xx

I’ve always known Lana wasn’t lying about not coming from money because she’s so honest about things that a lot of people would be ashamed to admit. It’s not like she just popped on the scene out of the blue like an industry plant or a Billie Eilish type character. She was always there, and she met the right people. People just didn’t understand how this beautiful vintage starlet singer could come out of the blue with what seemed like instant success. And now that we have a whole new flood of internet raised children becoming fans it’s like 2012 all over again. At least she’s found her voice now to defend herself 

Good for her for standing up for herself. I remember she said a couple of years ago that she was never going to let anyone try to rewrite her story for her, and I love that sentiment. I think it's something important everyone should stand by x
 
I also wrote out a full transcript of her video for anyone who wants to read it - 
 
"I wanna make this video really short and sweet just ‘cause the conversation keeps coming up about me coming from money, and my family having money, and this whole thing. I just want to say, like, coming from the most rural spot inarguably in one of the most rural spots of America that was not a wealthy town and having gone to a boarding school where I didn’t even know I was going or didn’t have any concept of and got financial aid for because my uncle worked in the administrative building and also being completely alienated from all the kids who already knew each other from New York City. I had such a tough time there because everyone knew how much money everyone had. So, unfortunately, my experience every day was having people call me WT from LP - White Trash from Lake Placid. So, I’m just saying this constant narrative when my parents were arguing about money every single day, and my dad working as a woodworker and in real estate and my mom working in education. Like, although he bought domain names later on, it doesn’t mean that they were worth anything until more recently. So, he was eccentric and amazing and ahead of his time in terms of what he was doing, but it doesn’t mean there was any money for us or to be made at the time. So, I didn’t even have any experience having anything until I was 26 and made my own money. I was living in a hostel on 17th St when I played Saturday Night Live, and how I played Saturday Night Live was because I’d gotten a publishing deal in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the guest territories. So, it’s just very challenging because I think had we had money I would have had a completely different experience and not fought so hard to be a singer probably to my detriment because I didn’t want me or my family to struggle financially. Like, the music that comes from me comes from a place at that time of concern that we would not have money. That’s the experience that I know. I didn’t know anyone who had money until I went to a private school where I couldn’t even make any friends except my roommate Christina and a couple girls - Annie and Jen who accepted me and were cool. But, you know, you can’t even find anyone from those schools who knew me because they wouldn’t talk to me. So, to say that, you know, this is the narrative, it’s just important that you know it’s not. It’s not like it was fun living in the trailer park necessarily. I signed my life away, ten records for $10,000 to 5 Points Records that Ben got me out of and I made that stretch for a year and one month by getting to stay at the Manhattan RV Mobile Home in North Bergen. It’s not a shtick. It’s not like it was some glamourous getaway. Like, I really didn’t know what to do and depended on the boyfriends that I had to let me stay with them all that while up until 26. You can ask Steven Mertens. You can ask Josh Kemp. Like, I didn’t have a chance hardly. All of the cards were stacked against me other than my voice, and my parents didn’t even know I was singing until I was on Saturday Night Live. So, why this is important is just because it’s not my truth. I would have no idea what it felt like to grow up with anything other than hearing fighting about money, and even on our monthly, like, spring break vacation every year we drove to Daytona, not flew ‘cause it was too expensive. So, I had a challenging experience all the way through, and to make it even more challenging, now I don’t even get to have my authentic story told so that the music can be listened to and interpreted in a clear manner. So, that’s my spiel. You know, it’s been going on for 13 years now. It’s just it’s so sad that I can’t own coming from, like, this beautiful rural mountain town where the character of people is completely different from anywhere I went afterwards. It’s actually disrespectful to me and to my town where we worked so hard and where I myself worked four jobs. I had a time just to even be like — if you wanna know, why don’t you go to my local town? Why don’t you ask them? Like, they knew I got sent away. They knew it was on financial aid. There’s no fact that checks out, like, that it wasn’t. So, it just sucks to have to explain myself over and over again, because if that was the story I knew, I would love to tell it. I wish it was honestly. Things would have been so much better."

To add to this, him buying domain names in the mid 90s was simply a smart investment as he bought domains that he thought were likely to be valuable later... He had to wait until the 00s until any of them were actually worth anything, some are probably still not worth much
 
Edit: oh she literally said this in her post, thanks Elle for the transcription x

She's particularly mesmerising in this clip. Her way of speaking is so evocative. And what she's revealed hits a little bit too close to home. But she also looks so stunning holy shit? Love this woman to death and will always defend her. I'd actually die if we were ever to get a memoir from her. 

Anyone who doesn't want this is crazy! We neeeeeed it... Followed by her 30 hour mini series documentary on her life 

Lana... if you're reading this.... I know one way you can tell your story the way it truly happened....
WRITE THAT MEMOIR BABYYYYYYYYY WE BEEN WAITING 

I neeeeed Lana to write a memoir 

I think she wants to tell this because she’s tired of people taking the narrative from her. Just listen to Grandfather… “it took somebody else to make me beautiful, as they intended me to be”… It gets tiring and this is her try to be heard.

the bigger question is when did he start all these ventures and how well he's doing all these juggling..... it just sounds like he had a luck for being an early adaptor to the internet era and turned some domain names into some money in the mid 90s where she's already a teen 
 
plus, it's always the disposable income and liquid cash that make one feel financially secure, which their household dont see BIG money flowing around back in the days

Literally insane that 10+ years later shes still having to explain herself…
 
On a side note about the 5 points records thing where she says she signed her life away - they wanted her to make 10 albums for $10,000 before Ben got her out of it??
 
I remember someone here also pointing out how that photoshoot chuck did of her with the american flag after she got out of that deal was basically a freedom statement  I never realized how bad it was

i guess the rumours were partly due to how lush and polished of her queen bee flower clown persona was back in the BTD days... but at the end of the day, being rich or poor is just a relative concept if you're not at the extreme end of the spectrum like Elon Musk rich or homeless shelter type of poor

i never understood why people acted like they know her story better than she does 

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1084856613342543902/1164632127850151976/bleedIGDkrrOG8Kr9K76.mp4?ex=6543eb31&is=65317631&hm=42100aec55913b17cdf93d885be62213d00e0b4577885f25852b08b120989f42&
 
here is the video
 
she should really right an autobiography i'd love to listen

big day for Lizzyologists

STEVEN MERTENS MENTION  neways she better STEP. ON. THEM. the whole nepo baby/ rich parents thing around her has always been so weird and some of the shit she says in the vid is kinda crazy like how she was in a hostel during SNL?? crazyyy also her talking voice recently is so low she sound so hot 

people need to leave this woman alone. AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT I HAD SAID TO PEOPLE ON INSTAGRAM.....Rob made money off of his domains later in life. Lana, as a child, and her family did not have money. As a teenager she was traumatically sent away to boarding school and then was on HER OWN. I'm so sick of it! IT shouldn't even matter but the fact that we're over a decade into her career and people are still saying she bought it and that she was just a spoiled brat growing up.....IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON! 

i’m kinda okay that she addressed it bc shes had the money narrative about her for her entire career and i would want to tell my own story if i read that kind of stuff about me 
 
though strange to address it 13 years on
 
interesting to know nonetheless 

I prefer collabs with unknown artists who have a good voice more than with artists who just have a big name.

Thisssss. I think the internet has a very black and white way of thinking. It’s either someone is evil or someone is an angel and nothing in between. When in reality, most people fall in between which sucks I’m sure for famous people. no one is perfect. I personally don’t know anyone irl who is 100% perfect. Obviously there’s some boundaries but it just doesn’t seem realistic to put those standards on everyone. That’s part of the beauty of being human, you live and you learn. People are always gonna be mad at something unfortunately.
At the end of the day, her family’s wealth literally means nothing either way  

They don't want the song because Holly is not a popular artist. 
 
btw, those collaborations with pop artists suck. Yes, I'm talking about Don't Call Me Angel and Snow On The Beach. 

Crosspost with the 'cringe' thread at the Lana fans wondering how Holly got to collab with Lana when she has 'only 9k followers'
Edit: clocked by Lana

I can't like this post cos of the bug but you're not alone
Idk why people here hate on Stevie; she is literally one of the most iconic female artists ever
I mean if you want meaningful lyrics and melodies look no further than Fleetwood Mac and her solo work
The fanbase needs to stop sleeping on this legendary woman 
ETA and if you explore her work you will discover many instances where she has very obviously influenced Lana's work 

I know I’m alone on this but I’d do anything for a new Lana x Stevie Nicks collab 

The fact that she dedicates a whole enthusiastic post to a collab with a quite unknown artist but refused to say anything else about SOTB than "Hope you like the ❄️ song" or whatever she said on that comment makes me love her infinitely for some reason

Well she was 17000 in credit card debt. That's much worse than no money. That's like you have already ruined your credit history for the rest of your life, plus you don't have any money.