wilting daisy

Oh, you know I love to talk about HER 
 
 I feel like another factor in AKA getting a bit buried is (maybe obviously) that she’s just released so many more albums. Like, even becoming a fan in the Honeymoon era, there were only 3 studio albums and an EP, as opposed to 5 more since then. New fans have a much larger, readily available back catalogue to explore, and probably aren’t as driven to find every scrap of music (although there are still plenty, as evidenced by this site!!). 
 
Do I think they’re making a huge mistake? Duh! I’ll always believe AKA should’ve been bigger in its own time, and should be way more valued as part of Lana’s artistic legacy now. It’s honestly bizarre that with a producer as well-known as David Kahne involved, it hasn’t had a widespread reappraisal… but we can hope, and until then, I’ll enjoy AKA being our best-kept surf noir secret 

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off topic but damn i need that sweatshirt

bootleg vinyl 

I bet they’ve never listened to it, lol.  That’s what people say when they have no clue  #embarassing. AKA is a top 3 Lana album for me easily

I actually have a theory about this...
 
Everyone has different tastes when it comes to music but I've noticed a lot of newer fans do like AKA or at least some songs from it. I feel like the disdain to AKA comes from the baseless (and just plain wrong) rumor that Lizzy Grant was unhappy during that time, so that turns people off.
 
I also feel like on TikTok, Lana gets the same treatment as Beyonce where people kinda just pretend to be like 'I LOVE HER!!!" even though they only heard the popular singles so they just go off what other people said.
 
In conclusion, TikTok is 24/7 fake news and none of them should be trusted 

tiktok teenager idiots think lana was a drugged out coke whore dragging herself through the slums as she made this album as a cry for help
rumours like her having a meth addiction or an ED spread as if they're fact

if that is the case then they definitely lack taste!
 
 
but also  i know there’s a very stupid amount of people who have convinced themselves through some parasocial relationship where they think they know want lana wants and has gone through personally and get to have a say in spreading the word that people shouldn’t listen to the album cause it was the worst time of lanas life where she was (apparently):
addicted to *insert drug*, had an ED and this and that and definitely would not want you listening to the album because of that. 
 
- which i understand being speculative based off lyrics and/or interviews but like…. they state it as pure fact and then use that to be lanas knight behind a screen and talk down to others who enjoy the album  
 
* which i assume could turn some newer fans away from that material 

I love that album so so much I hope she re-releases it one day

Tik tok stans don’t get it. Let’s just gatekeep 

cinematic kitschy diy trailer park glitter glam thrift store boots the house down yas mama slay masterpiece that makes us travel to another dimension 

Why would anyone hate one of her best albums? 
 
I love AKA so much. It makes me feel like I'm living that "trailer park life". 

I doubt they've even listened to it tbh... they just hear other people hating it and go along with it

lack of taste and/or brain power and/or critical thinking skills 

It's because people on TikTok basically decided to create their own fanfiction around the Lizzy Grant era and Lana's life during the making of AKA, so now they've deemed it "problematic" to listen to  AKA is an excellent album and one of my favorites of all time, and she definitely deserves to be appreciated as the icon she is

well they can choke it's one of my fav albums ever  
 
 
not me doing exactly that

not gonna lie when i first read the title of this thread i was tempted to just reply "because people are fucking tasteless" and just leave it at that   

It's because they think that all of the songs are controversial thematically like Put Me In The Movie (which is a great song but a very sad one) and this TikTok generation tries to be (fake) woke as hell. 
 
Also I think that most newer fans do not know that AKA exists and here's great proof, from the comments, they start panicking when they see the album written as RAY not Rey ⬇️
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CsMKisEgsvx/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 
It's really shocking because when I became a stan, I started reading her whole biography including her Lizzy era and I instantly delved into AKA and other Lizzy songs. I was really young then too, in my early teen years, I came home from school and I instantly learned new things about Lizzy then, it was so interesting. It was something so fascinating, like a part of history that wasn't talked about enough. Lizzy era is still one of my favorites and I think that AKA is one of her best albums. 

there's a lot of people on social media nowadays, mostly young people, who somehow think her lizzy grant days were problematic/traumatic for her for no reason, they claim that she was a prostitute, living in poverty because she was living in a trailer park, being groomed, or addicted to drugs, i'm actually a massive fan of the lizzy grant era and AKA is my #1 favorite album of all time, so clearly i'm very biased towards AKA and the music she made during that time  for what it's worth, a lot of people here really like AKA and it seems like the lizzy grant era in general has become more popular here in the past few years, i honestly don't have any social media really so i really don't know for sure what people feel about AKA, i feel like some people may prefer lana's mainstream major-label albums because they do sound quite different compared to AKA, AKA isn't nearly as cinematic or luscious sonically, it's a completely different feel, people are allowed to like what they like, but my issue is people acting like it's wrong to listen to it because they claim it's problematic
 
i actually was watching a video yesterday of somebody showing off their vinyl collection and all they could really say about AKA was that it was "camp" and i honestly felt a bit offended  because it seems like "camp" is just a code-word for "bad", AKA is genuinely a masterpiece, not ironically, not in a campy way, GENIUNELY, SERIOUSLY a masterpiece

Imagine not liking AKA

I definitely think it's a favorite around here, Tiktok takes are kinda shit 

Hi everyone I haven't been on this site for about 8 years but hello just dropping in.
 
Alright so ten years ago, post BTD and I guess also post UV, AKA was held in very high esteem by fans and a lot of people seemed to prefer it to BTD. It was always included as an option when ranking her albums or best lead track/closer stuff like that. Whereas now I'm seeing a lot of fans, especially on Tiktok, just not counting it as an album or saying that they hate it/only listened to it once. 
 
I have theories on why the tide has turned against it. 10 years ago streaming services were only still gaining popularity and we were either buying albums on iTunes or downloading them illegally (more likely lol) and therefore people were a lot more likely to download AKA and put it on our music apps on our phones back then. Newer fans seem to go to Youtube for Lanas unreleased material now because of this switch to streaming. That brings up two issues for AKA.. People are less likely to listen to an album at all if its only on YT as its inconvenient and secondly the quality of the uploads of the album on Youtube are pretty bad. Most of them have a pitched up version of Gramma which sounds awful and they have the demo version of For K Part 2. There's also parts of the outros clipped off so the songs end abruptly and don't flow well into one another as intended ( Its meant to be a gapless album as some songs are meant to have slight overlaps like For K Part 2 into Jump, Put Me In A Movie into Smarty) So I can understand someone listening to the versions on YT and thinking that its a badly produced messy album.
I guess some of it is just to do with the fact that she has so many albums now and this is one of her oldest and least talked about albums. I can also confess to probably only having listened to Lust for Life a handful of times because its not really my vibe but I don't talk shit about it either or pretend its not an album she released.
 
I hope she eventually rereleases the album in good quality without re-recording it, and gapless too please. (Side note I used to have a gapless version of AKA but Apple Music has a bug that adds gaps into gapless albums  ) Even if she just does it quietly without any physical releases, even though they would be nice. I think there would be a big shift in peoples opinion of the album if she did rerelease it
 
Anyway, I'm interested to hear if others have noticed this and if you have other thoughts on why this shift has happened.
 
Apologies if this has been brought up before, like I said haven't been on here in years.