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when fingertips is in my top 3 from the album but lana says it’s not good …. 😐

y’all omg my spotify exclusive vinyl just shipped 100k+ debut coming 

i feel like to an extent its a defensive thing. just like when she said most of her unreleased are objectively bad or that she didn't want anyone to hear blue banisters. like it seems like she's more outwardly critical about her music that's very personal. almost like it would hurt more for people to drag her music the more personal it is so she beats them to the punchline so if someone says fingertips is a bad song or that blue banisters isn't worth listening to or that her unreleased songs are unreleased bc they suck, she can be like "well i already said that first so i don't care!" almost like her "the reviews aren't aupposed to be good" from the other day

Agreed! She is so wise and has such a beautiful way of explaining her perspective.

She dgaf if she puts out 'bad' songs so we're getting more of them 
 
And her opinions on her own songs are often...eh, so another win for piano hags

Lana:
 
I think the biggest lesson that I’ve learned is that there is no lesson in these hard lessons, you just have to let it go. Not everything is going to be revealed as to why weird things happen. However, I do have a theory that if you’re trying your best and you’re willing to let go of things that you feel don’t serve the greater good of your value system, then I think you’ll always be in the right place at the right time. If you’re teetering on the edge of doing something that’s against your value system, it’s like, be careful of where angels fear to tread, they might not be able to reach you.
 

I could spend hours asking her questions about life and her personal philosophy — in some ways, those are the best parts of every good and interesting interview she gets to do when the interviewer asks the right questions. I don’t know about everyone else, but I love hearing about her day-to-day, her mentality, what she’s reading, etc. It is so inspiring. I agree so much with what she about the goal being to meet yourself.
 
Edit: I’ve been reading an incredible book called Art in the Age of Artifice by J.F. Martel (recommended reading from Donna Tartt after The Secret History), and it‘s about how true art is often messy and contains symbols and is open to interpretation—it brings weirdness, otherworldliness to the real/things we know to be true; while artifice is manufactured “art” that tells you exactly what it means, what the message is, and how to feel about it (i.e. blockbuster good vs bad movies). It always makes me think who is doing it like Lana???? Literally no one. Recording automatic singing sessions to put on your major label album in the name of self-understanding and personal growth. She pushes boundaries like no other, and it’s so refreshing in the age of edited/smoothed, digital perfection on the radio. Here’s a quote from that book that reminds me of that:
 
”The greatness of all great art lies in its capacity to convey the Real in all its mysterious richness, not in the communication of an opinion as to what is true and false, right or wrong, possible or impossible. For a filmmaker, conveying the Real may well mean using the best take even though it contains a camera jerk or a mysterious detail that does not fit the scheme yet simply feels right. It definitely means letting chance and chaos play a part in the process so that unforeseen connections are allowed to enter into the work and augment its breadth and power. It also means letting the leaps, breakages, and interruptions that were part of the original vision make it all the way to the finished product.”

when fingertips is in my top 3 from the album but lana says it’s not good …. 😐

y’all omg my spotify exclusive vinyl just shipped 100k+ debut coming 

y’all omg my spotify exclusive vinyl just shipped 100k+ debut coming 

when fingertips is in my top 3 from the album but lana says it’s not good …. 😐

when fingertips is in my top 3 from the album but lana says it’s not good …. 😐

when fingertips is in my top 3 from the album but lana says it’s not good …. 😐

y’all omg my spotify exclusive vinyl just shipped 100k+ debut coming 

y’all omg my spotify exclusive vinyl just shipped 100k+ debut coming 

y’all omg my spotify exclusive vinyl just shipped 100k+ debut coming 

y’all omg my spotify exclusive vinyl just shipped 100k+ debut coming 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record 

need lana to ditch jack for ldr10 and work with jon batiste again on a dark and eerie sounding jazz record