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Whenever I see, like, a review or whatever, of a LDR album or something, well, these hipsters on youtube seem to give her generally negative reviews, but whatever they don't like about it, I either completely disagree with them or could not give less of a fuck. It's like... Were we listening to the same thing? Like, can they not tell how beautiful the music is or how incredibly versatile and expressive and beautiful her voice is?
 
Another thing is that maybe I just have a thing for melodrama, because I heard a lot of the same criticisms about her lyrics as I did (at least in terms of being melodramatic) with Evanescence, which was my favorite band of the past 10+ years...
 
Look, I know. "haters gonna hate." is it really as simple as that? I feel like there has to be something else going on somewhere...

Madeline Priest and David Kazyk, formerly known as "X priest X", are a synthpop duo from Florida. They sound to me like a mixture of Purity Ring + Kitten + Sky Ferreira. They are now gearing up for their first full length album, set to be released on May 5th, with the release of the gorgeous shimmering lead single "The Game" and & "Broken", which is available for preview & preorder now (https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/broken-single/id973644690) and will be released on 3/31.
 
Here is "The Game":




Also to be noted, under X priest X they released a 4 track EP titled Samurai:

Listen on Soundcloud.com 

The photo used in this MTWBT art is from the book cover of "Brooklyn Boys by Danny Fitzgerald & Les Demi Dieux. When I saw the cover I immediately thought of MTWBT and recreated it in with Lana's style for it.
 


And I figured I'd make the art for Honeymoon a bit satirical. I imagine a long time married husband who does nothing but drink and watch TV.

Hi guys,
 
I'm sure there's some variant of this thread out there, but do you guys think Lana still uses hard drugs? I'm 100% sure she smokes top quality weed, but what about harder stuff?
 
I know she had a meth/coke/heroin trailer park (damn) faze a few years ago, especially around the time of "May Jailer", following her teenage alcoholism. 
 
I assumed she'd stopped hard stuff completely, but I can TOTALLY imagine her still doing the "opulent and glamorous" drugs i.e. coke and heroin. "Yayo" means "coke", even if it may be a metaphor, and someone cooks heroin in the West Coast video.
 
It seems obvious that she does hard drugs, because I know from experience (friends) that ONLY people involved with hard drugs talk about them, feature them in art etc. As in, someone who only smokes weed wouldn't make a song involving any imagery to do with heroin or coke. People who don't take hard drugs tend to find them distasteful and not at all luxurious or fashionable, right?
 
Do you think Lana manages to use class As carefully? She seems to be doing well at the moment and looks great. I just wonder because it's impossible to use something like heroin in a sparing, "glamorous" way without becoming addicted.
 
What do you guys think? If she doesn't let it ruin her life it's fine (i guess), but is it really possible to go on that way, lightly using cocaine?

I thought we could start an extensive list of her upcoming summer tour and have this post pinned. I know tickets already went on sale and most of the venues only have very few left. I imagine she will add more dates in the U.S. as well as other countries and we can add them here. 
 
The following dates were announced on December 1, 2014. The presale for tickets began December 4th with regular sale on December 6th.
 
2015 The Endless Summer Tour Dates:
05/07 The Woodlands, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*

05/09 Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion*
 [Postponed due to weather]
05/12 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre*

05/14 Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Pavilion*

05/16 Chula Vista, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheater*

05/18 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl*

05/20 Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheatre*

05/22 Ridgefield, WA @ Sleep Country Amphitheater*

05/28 Noblesville, IN @ Klipsch Music Center %

05/30 Tinley Park, IL @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre %

05/31 Clarkston, MI @ DTE Energy Music Theatre %

06/03 Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre %

06/04 Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre %

06/11 Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live %

06/13 Charlotte, NC @ PNC Music Pavilion % 

06/14 Atlanta, GA @ Aaron’s Amphitheatre at Lakewood %

06/16 West Palm Beach, FL @ Cruzan Amphitheater %

TBA Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Pavilion
* Courtney Love
% Grimes

Waiting for the meltdowns 

Lana taught me a lot about pop culture but more importantly she taught me about love and how it's okay to feel the way I feel and that sometimes love can be upsetting and that it's totally normal (to some extents in her songs). She taught me that it's natural to feel like nothing without someone.

Chateau Marmont
Bacardi chasers
Fordham Road
Yayo

Lana tought me that I can be a feminist and still perversely enjoy her music (that is mosty about subordination and putting love above everything else).
 
I'm much into BDSM (it might sound strange considering the statement above), but only with a partner I enormously trust and share deep intimacy with, although I tried it in reality only with two of my lovers who I found out were acting out their rage and hatred towards women through that sexual praxis, and they suffered from malady of dividing women into madonnas and whores, where the first was sublime, goddess-like muse whom they loved from the distance, and the latter was just a dirty slut for fulfilling their nastiest fantasies. So they are the past now. But that physical and psychical masochism is still persistent in me, and I feed it with Lana's music. She's my lovely vampire, but also blood infusion. I'm like a hectic bussiness woman that is in charge in her professional life, and then comes home to her lover and dungeon to receive a sassy portion of staged whipping, just because I (sometimes) enjoy the pleasure intertwined with pain.
 
Also, I've managed to vent and sublimate my own melancholy and made it cosy and cathartic.
 
And I learned that I have that girlish, tender, romantic, flowerish, nostalgic and soft side, although I listen mostly post-punk and goth (not cheesy one) music. Nico and Diamanda Galas, those voices from the grave, are no longer my only divas.
 
Lana highlightened all facets of my feminine being, and all the archetypes, from nymph, virgin and lolita, to whore, amazon warrior, vamp, femme fatale, venomous seductress, empress, priestess and Hecate-like magician. I became aware of my own chameleon soul and of all its advantages to create my own works of art, which are very versatile, like I have a multiple personality disorder.
 
And although I've read Lolita a long time ago (I also highly recommend Nabokov's Ada), she pushed me into investigating Whitman and Ginsberg and beatnik culture.
 
And I was always into europian elegance, chic, history, culture and tradition (because I'm from Europe), but Lana's Americana learned me about validity of pop-culture and mixing high and low, elitist and populist, so to say. The american dream and devoted ambition is a rush of fresh air for melancholic old world.

Hello! a long time I wanted to start this topic to know how many more people have learned so many things with Lana like me.
Searching for the meaning of their songs, I first met a lot of magnificent books and movies, like Scarface, Summer of Sam, Gods and Monsters. Also been interested in the biography of Marylin and Elvis, just like Bonnie and Clyde's. I had never heard about Jim Morrison and James Dean, and after listening to her songs they began to appear in several other cases and bc of her I already knew them. 
I didnt knew what a groupie was, or Parliament, Chateau Marmont, Coney Island, well as much of the American presidents, and the expression "match made in heaven".
Anyway, I'd like to know how many of you non-americans learned things about American culture because of Lana, and the americans who met books and movies bc of her.
Thank you! ♥

soc:
 

Thanks!

Well said. I also think the co-writer thing is talked up a bit too much. Everyone who has worked with her has said that she has full artistic control and knows exactly she wants. They just supply the instrumental notes to the lyrics, soundscape ideas, and melodies that she provides.

Everyone(the hipster music press) thought back around spring 2012 that she's a "flash in the pan" and will be irrelevant by 2013. Now she's bigger than ever.
 
From "Video Games" to "Big Eyes", Lana has never put out a song that I thought cringe-worthy or bad in any way. I know she is not the sole songwriter for many of her songs, but that doesn't change the fact that she knows how to partner up with quality songwriters too. That's a skill in itself. She has a tremendous visual arts flair that IMHO is indelible. From the videos of "Video Games", "Blue Jeans", "Summertime Sadness" with their super-8 type quality to the epic "Ride" to "Tropico" I think she's a female David Lynch.
 
On top of all that, a new album coming at the end of the year. She's literally the only woman in the pop industry(other than Sia) that I can celebrate.
 
There is a way she invokes nostalgia and sadness that is indelible. Some people have a problem with that, but someone has to carry that torch. She is fucking crazy, but she is free.
 
Keep on sad-corin' Lana.

Ok, I'm not a graphic designer (elegance, minimalism, sleek use of fonts, proportions etc.), and these won't be perfect imagined covers for Lana's singles that will suit everyone's taste, but my own interpretations based on my views on her art and feelings and visions she stirrs up in me. My style is a bit kitschy, baroque, psychedelic and sometimes over the top with colors or gore elements (some of the works are even morose, diabolic and macabric).
First covers are made with wrong font, because I couldn't download the propriate one, but now I got it.
 
If you got any suggestions for improvement, please do tell.
 

 

 



 



 

 
 

     





 

 
 



 




 
 

 

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Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me

A-M-E-R-I-C-A, all i wanna do is play
See the city every day, pretty party nation

Tell me that you think I'm good
Happy that I make you glad
'Cause I don't wanna think I'm bad, Gramma
I don't wanna think I'm bad
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
"Don't you know, you don't need a thing?"
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me

T-R-O-U-B-L-E, trouble's what feels good to me
Crazy ass since I was three, now I'm out to getcha

But I been better lately, Mom
And I'm in love with everyone
And I don't wanna think I'm wrong
Just for feeling pretty
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
(x2)

I wanna be the whole world's girl, Gramma
I wanna be the whole world's girl
I wanna be the whole world's girl, Gramma
Tell me do you think that's wrong?

"Don't cry, bunny, crazy girl
Don't you know you are the world?
Every time you feel unsure
Try, remember what you are."
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
"Honey, don't you know, you have everything?"
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
 
(Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me)
(x2)

A painting of two Tahitian girls by the French artist Paul Gauguin has been sold for $300m (£197m), making it the most expensive work of art ever sold.
Nafea Faa Ipoipo, or When Will You Marry?, was painted in 1892 and had been owned by a Swiss collector.
Unconfirmed reports suggest it was sold to a museum in Qatar.
The small oil-rich state paid the previous highest price for a painting, a work by Paul Cezanne which sold for a reported £158m.
Before its sale, the Gauguin artwork had been owned by Rudolf Staechelin, a collector from Basel. 
For decades it had been on loan to the Kunstmuseum Basel but Mr Staechelin decided to sell the painting after a disagreement with the museum, US media report.
 

None of them. But I've kinda been a Blake shipper for a long time now. If I can't have him, she can - that would be cute seeing them perform together, plus they'd never have a long time apart because they'd be together when she tours too. 
 
 
 
I mean, come ON? 

I don't really care for any of them.

none of them bc it would've stopped lots of songs from being written

K

bradley

I hope she takes the time that she needs to develop a new sound and to write smart lyrics, to find the right people to collab and record with and I also hope that she knows the music industry well enough by now to figure out which effect her music is going to have on people.
 
I'm also not a huge fan of the idea that her new album is released right after or in the middle of a tour again. It just messes up everything and everybody is torn between the old and the new era.
 
As much as I strive for more Lana songs, it is more important to me that they are different, nicely-composed and well-produced.
In my opinion it is almost impossible to find new themes when you're still singing BTD & Paradise songs every night and also have to deal with the UV sound. Since she hasn't performed since October I'm pretty sure that she has enough time to find these new themes. However, it'd be nice if she sat down in the studio after she has experienced the Endless Summer Tour and listens to her new songs again. Maybe she'll also be able to add some influences to the album. 
 
Also the last album was released only 6 months ago, we shouldn't be so thirsty yes we should