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Does anyone else think she's being sarcastic in this song?

I've been hearing a lot about this. No, it's not going to end well. Worst case scenario is that the jury sides with him since she is just now coming forward after 10 long years. What people never seem to understand is that it takes a lot of courage to talk about sexual assault, and Kesha was probably afraid what would happen to her career if she came forward. I'm glad she finally did come forward, though, because this guy deserves to go to jail for the brutality he put her through.

I'm surprised to find myself quoting cliché Pussycat Dolls lyrics, but it's a classic case of "Be careful what you wish for 'cause you just might get it. [imitation Lil Jon voice 'Hey!']"
 
Lana clearly desperately wanted to be famous, but isn't so sure about it now that she is. Her statements to the contrary-- that she never wanted to be famous-- are frankly revisionist bullshit belied by her past statements and actions. They instead reflect her newfound realization that fame isn't all it's cracked up to be and her projection of that feeling onto her past rather than an accurate representation of her disposition towards fame in the past.
 
There was a good discussion about Lana's love/hate relationship with fame (loving the positive aspects of fame, hating the negative aspects) in another thread beginning around this post.
 

I've been hearing a lot about this. No, it's not going to end well. Worst case scenario is that the jury sides with him since she is just now coming forward after 10 long years. What people never seem to understand is that it takes a lot of courage to talk about sexual assault, and Kesha was probably afraid what would happen to her career if she came forward. I'm glad she finally did come forward, though, because this guy deserves to go to jail for the brutality he put her through.

I've been hearing a lot about this. No, it's not going to end well. Worst case scenario is that the jury sides with him since she is just now coming forward after 10 long years. What people never seem to understand is that it takes a lot of courage to talk about sexual assault, and Kesha was probably afraid what would happen to her career if she came forward. I'm glad she finally did come forward, though, because this guy deserves to go to jail for the brutality he put her through.

I've been hearing a lot about this. No, it's not going to end well. Worst case scenario is that the jury sides with him since she is just now coming forward after 10 long years. What people never seem to understand is that it takes a lot of courage to talk about sexual assault, and Kesha was probably afraid what would happen to her career if she came forward. I'm glad she finally did come forward, though, because this guy deserves to go to jail for the brutality he put her through.

I've been hearing a lot about this. No, it's not going to end well. Worst case scenario is that the jury sides with him since she is just now coming forward after 10 long years. What people never seem to understand is that it takes a lot of courage to talk about sexual assault, and Kesha was probably afraid what would happen to her career if she came forward. I'm glad she finally did come forward, though, because this guy deserves to go to jail for the brutality he put her through.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xGx7raw7Q
 
The shouting at 3:03
The way she pronounces the "I'll follow you anywhere, anywhere" at 2:38  is just amazing, that was stuck in my head for a while
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZgYtJDm5pk
 
Also, even though most of us probably saw this performance plenty of times,
it's just so cool. That moment at  2:06, the way she pronounces the words ("I was so confused as a little child, trying to take what I could get, scared that I'll never find"), her voice is so soft and amazing.
It's a segment I went back to over and over again for a long time.

If we're talking about Lana era only, I agree with a lot of yours. Here are some that were important for me.
 
1) The iTunes festival 
 

 
I'm sure everyone here has seen this, but this was the first proper live performance of hers that I ever saw. I had not seen the Ride film clip, so I didn't understand her clothes at all - it seemed to me that she'd grabbed some clothes from two decades ago on the way out of the house and put them on just before getting on stage. I also had in mind that comment a certain person made about her SNL appearance - that she looked like a teenage singer in her bedroom. I got that feeling from this performance as well, but not in a bad way - it looked as though she was out of place and unsure of herself, but that she had these amazing songs that she was singing completely un-selfconsciously, which is such a rare thing. It genuinely got me excited about following her.
 
2) Ride on Langs de Leeuw
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLttDsZjRvg
 
Not only is this one of her best vocal performances, and a beautiful song (of course), but the look on Sharon Den Adel's face is priceless, not to mention that the crowd seems stunned into silence. If someone asked me to show them a video of LDR that proved she could sing with the best of them, this is the one I'd bring up.
 
3) Ultraviolence at Vancouver
 

 
Not only was this the first time any of us had heard the song, it felt like a special moment from afar. We got some snippets, then a bad recording, then this quite good recording. Some of the lyrics are a little different, too, and I generally prefer them here to the album.
 
4) Off To The Races first performance
 

 
A strange one. She seems very excited here ... but it's a rarely performed song, and recorded before the madness truly began. 
 
5) National Anthem LA Night 3, 2012
 

 
The strangest of them all. Instead of going into the crowd and taking selfies (which blew my mind the first time I saw her doing it on the iTunes show), she leans forward and kisses a few fans in the front rows. Both disturbing and amazing, it's a side of Lana that we see again and again in her dealings with fans, but here it's taken to the next level. It feels transgressive to be observing it, and it's very hard to figure out what she's thinking. I find this video as compelling as the film clip, and, come to think of it, it's a nice companion to the monologue at the end of the clip.

you start trying to draw similarities between your life and Lana's and think "OMG WE ARE EXACTLY THE SAME even if its just because you both know someone named Bob You don't even have to say the name of the artist you are talking about with your friends, they just know its Lana You think gross older guys are really hot and want to call them daddy (ok..maybe not the daddy part) you're lying in bed and thinking "OMG I BET LANA IS SLEEPING NOW TOO," you see a bottle of coke or cola and immediately think of Cola whenever you see Mountain Dew, you think of DMD and hum it you wish you had someone to share all the cute Lizzy photos with you start thinking your hair is inadequate being a go-go dancer sounds really cool you used to think long fake nails were tacky but now they're super cool you suddenly listen to really old songs and watch old movies while Lana plays you look out the car window and imagine its a music video ferrari jackets are the coolest thing ever you suddenly reconsider baseball hats you realize your clothing is fugly and know you're so basic compared to Lana smoking is a lot cooler and doesn't matter if it killed your grandma blue jeans white shirt you think you hear someone humming Lana songs and whip around your head to see if they really are you really really want a nose job and lip injections

Money Power Glory.
 
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