Pale Bride

The After School EP is still her best work. No odd concepts, just Mel.

I'd literally die from happiness 

I think Unhappy Meal eventually inspired Drama Club

Magnets is so underrated I love it 

Is there a discount code for her store?

something people never comment on is how timothy literally shared an intimate photo of Melanie while she was BLINDFOLDED. She wasn’t naked or anything but that’s still creepy and such an invasion of privacy. I believe she was trying to ruin her career rather than actually come out with a real story

Needle & Thread is one of her best songs, probably didn't made in to the album 

exactly, like, I LOVE that she wants to do more than just release music and expand her artistry, but it's limitating if it's going to take 4/5 years every album release just because of a movie. I would love if she just released music videos with story telling, the budget she got for K-12 would give us way better visuals if she used it for separated music videos

It all feels very… corny idk.

Some of the lyrics remind me of her poem, Bare Feet on Linoleum.
 
A&W:
 
Bare Feet on Linoleum
 
 
My thoughts from the first time I read Bare Feet on Linoleum years ago and how I think it relates to A&W:
 
In BFOL it seemed to me like her mother told everyone she was crazy at the expense of Lana's feelings and dignity. Like her mom chose to protect her family's reputation by lying and throwing her daughter under the bus. Lana seems to corroborate this in A&W with the line "do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it?". With all the references to being a whore, I think Lana's mom could have told the townspeople (as she calls them in BFOL) that her daughter is a slut, a drunk and/or crazy. Maybe her mom did that to protect the reputation of the person who might have raped her. Also, when Lana uses the word "treason" in the stanza 6 line, "it's been a real fight just to stop my mind from committing treason", I thought that the act of treason could be to go against her family. She would "betray" them and be a traitor to her family. I imagine her mom could have used words like that when she was younger to make her keep quiet. Something along the lines of: If you tell you will ruin our family. You are being selfish, only thinking of yourself and not the lives of your parents, grandparents and siblings that you will end up destroying. This may be affirmed by the A&W lyric: "I'm a a princess. I'm divisive". Patty might have told Lana that she's spoiled and dividing the family apart. 
 
Lana has used the word "home" in some of her recent songs and poems. Stanza 9 of BFOL: "Would standing in front of Mount Rushmore feel like the Great American homecoming I never had?". I've always interpreted that as a metaphor for her coming home from boarding school back to Lake Placid. With the rest of the context of the poem, I assumed her mom continued making up lies while Lana was away when she had no way to defend her own truth and dignity. Returning home would have felt like a slap in the face as she learns that the people in her very small town have been whispering rumors about her. Furthermore, at the start of the BFOL audio you can hear android-like voices chatting as if at a dinner party. Some of the conversation I can make out is, "You are a good/fantastic/interesting conversationalist. Your stories are mesmerizing. People love your stories. People love my stories. You have plenty of interesting stories". I think this could be about the stories and rumors her mother told. Or maybe this is Lana's story. "Didn't testify, already fucked up my story," she sings. Patty might have dismissed Lana's allegations by telling her and the whispering townsfolk that she's just making up stories. "Oh, she just makes things up. She is a great storyteller, isn't she!". Now, going back to BFOL. The chattering voices are heard in the background throughout the full audio recording. Towards the end they start getting louder and remain that way even after Lana finishes her poem. At the very end, while the voices continue talking, Lana whispers along with them, "People love my stories. People love my jokes". I also connect the chatter heard in the poem to this line in A&W: "Do you really think I give a damn what I do after years of just hearing them talking?". Additionally, when she sings, "I'm invisible", this could be thought of as her voice being drowned out by all the rumors. Her voice becomes lost in a sea of lies and people no longer hear her or they choose to not listen. 
 
"It's not about having someone to love me anymorе," Lana sings. She follows this with, "This is the experiеnce of being an American whore". Here Lana might be saying that she is no longer looking for the "warm embrace [she's] never known" as she wrote in BFOL. She is no longer looking for the love she was denied. Now she is going to be a whore. Maybe she uses sex to cope. It might also mean something like: "You called me a whore when I was just a girl. You said to everyone in our town that I'm a whore. Fine, you want to call me a whore? I'll show you what it looks like when I'm actually a whore."

Don’t know what to expect next, But since Crybaby through K-12 I lost all interest in her newer stuff, her writting nowadays seems a bit odd too and the new image she is presenting is not that appealing for me
 
Don’t get me wrong, I used to love her old stuff and will keep up with anything she releases, but taking that much between albums doesnt help either! 
 
Hoping for more K-12 outtakes to leak, Papercuts, Gluestick and Eraser have been great so far 

I miss/love lana's bratty rich girl image and persona, where she would sing about owning rivieras and wearing diamonds on skid row but it wasn't enough because she wanted to be with the man she loved...it was theatrical and artistic! that phase of her persona doesn't get the respect it deserves  

This costs a lot of money, honey. 

MAKE @@annedauphine A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE INTERVIEWS SECTION MAKE @@annedauphine A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE INTERVIEWS SECTION More delegation of admin powers to mods. I know @@YUNGATA has more privileges, but I'm not sure if she has enough, or if maybe more mods should have those too. Is there any way to put a time delay on posting from new accounts? Some spam accounts are more sophisticated, but I can't count the number of spammers that have a status update, posts, and have created a thread, but show they've been online for only like 7 seconds. More transparency about the site's financial situation. If donation is necessary to keep the site going, I think more people would be willing to donate if they knew what the site's cost are and how much existing revenue streams are bringing in. Would also be nice to demonstrate you're not pulling a @ on us or something. Not that I would care if you made a profit as long as that was transparent.  
And one more thing,
 
MAKE LANABOARDS GREAT AGAIN
 
MAKE @@annedauphine A CONTRIBUTOR TO THE INTERVIEWS SECTION
 
 
(Also, I'm sure I'll think of more.)
 
@@YUNGATA @@SitarHero @

Lana and other celebrities are not a hazard to the environment nor are they truly contributing to climate change/destruction. the United States military is one of the largest polluters on Earth. look it up. that’s why i have to laugh at people getting angry with celebrities and calling them out. Taylor and Kylie are not a REAL problem.

guys there's a FEMALE rAPPER TOMMY GENESIS on the ALBUM

THERES A SONG WITH TOMMY GENESIS???/ DO YALL KNOW WHAT THIS FUCKING MEANS

well, if that’s your take on it, i guess, but i feel like glamorizing pedophilia is entirely different from glamorizing depression, y’know? if somebody wants to see their depression as something beautiful and artistic, i actually can relate to that, so i can’t even sit around and act like it’s problematic, some people need to do that to be able to cope with it and get through their days, i just feel like it’s entirely different when it comes to pedophilia, and this all feels a bit ironic because we’re all lana fans and i do personally believe she had a romanticized view of that book, or, at least, had the wrong idea about it/only followed along with the sensationalized version of the story and it’s aesthetics, but i don’t really hold it against her because it was a long time ago

i know nothing about this demographic but the title of this post is pure poetry <3

Anyone obsessed with a certain era of a musician just because they were "skinny"/skinnier are not real fans and they're full of hate so we don't claim or accept them <3

it created love for me with some people.

I am shocked and disappointed by the disregard for and trivialization of the inter-generational trauma and cultural loss that many diasporic communities in the west and those still in eastern countries have experienced as a result of colonization. The centring of predominantly white voices in this thread reeks of privilege and shame.