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That is a certainly a song that exists and I have now heard, with lyrics, melody and other components that typically make up a piece of music.

Handmade Heaven was actually the song that made me a Marina fan because I saw people in Lana's Insta comments dragging it to hell for some reason, gave it a listen out of curiosity and fell in love with her stuff

I have nothing nice to say about MargarineInsect so instead I will say that my girl Buy The Stars will always be famous, played her in the car for my dad and got that heavy metal man into Marina immediately, her impact cannot be overstated

No thoughts head empty just Suzie Toot I've looped her three songs on Spotify for eight hours a day without breaks for five days straight and will not stop, best queen to come out of this franchise since, well, ever

I do agree that cohesiveness was a problem for this album, so two seperate projects would have been a good idea

I've always gotten the feeling his influence is why the album is so toxic positivity and all the more honest/concerning songs were scrapped, I would not put it past him to try and control the public narrative by making her scrap the songs people could start connecting the dots from. There are still some songs on L+F that tipped me off to the fact that something was wrong but all the more concerning stuff was scrapped (Demons and Angels, Absent Love, Doubt Your Love, If It's Worth It, What I Wanna Do, Holiday to name a few)

She very heavily alluded if not outright confirmed that Jack (Jack Patterson from Clean Bandit, they got together sometime after FROOT) was very emotionally/verbally abusive. (Allegedly of course in case this pathetic man is looking to sue random LB users lmao) Many outtakes from L+F and some of the songs from the album too allude to this and she made social media posts and gave interviews after breaking up with him and moving to LA where she talked about it. I'll post links if I still have them saved but if you scroll her Instagram/Twitter from the time of her LA move or read some interviews from the ADIAML promotion era, you'll probably find what I'm talking about.

Literally the entirety of Salamander plays in my head in the exact way Lana reads it in the audiobook on a daily basis, especially "I love you but you don't understand me, I'm a real poet!" and "yet everywhere I go it seems there you are and there I am" "No one ever touched me without wanting to kill me" is not personally relatable to me but the way she says it stuck with me and will replay in my mind randomly but persistently, what a WAY to start off a poem. The accusatory, chilling way she ends the poem off with "He made no sense." holds so much personal meaning to me and it will loop in my head for days sometimes I have all of her poetry more or less memorized so I'll just say the entirety of Violet, she is SUCH a powerhouse of a poet and was so clearly born for it "God has humbled me down to the ground" and "Stay safe, or fucking don't" have stuck with me as concert quotes, random as they may seem to some Also very random but the whole starting speech and the ending of that recording of "Ben". Every single time I write something about/for someone I'm not pleased with at the moment, the little Lizzy constantly living in my head automatically goes "Ben's song, another try. Not that you deserve it right now, Ben, no faculties to care and all..." Just that stubborn insistence on doing all these things for the people we love and doing them well and putting your whole soul and all your effort into it even when the other person has done nothing to deserve the love and care you pour into them... It just gets me emotional

My goodness some people need to lay off this woman, much as I agree with the points about her losing herself to the bubble of rich LA celebrities. She's been horribly ill for a long time and to our best public understanding, was in an abusive relationship for years and years. I don't enjoy all the directions her newer music takes and some of her art lacks soul, yes, but I really don't think we need to be this harsh on someone who has struggled this much for this long. And as much as L+F was mostly a flop, it is very clear to me that record was born out of a desperation to hide the abuse and illness she was going through and it breaks my heart that instead of seeing that album for the cry for help that it was, people just took to mocking the superficiality and subpar lyricism of it. I don't know how someone could listen to that record without getting chills from how obviously it is coming from a victim of abuse. I'm not saying anyone has to like the music but have a little grace for a suffering woman, goddamn.

Henry I am fucking begging you There's pills for it if coming's hard for you

Actually y'all are kinda mean I gave Portals another chance and apart from a couple of duds this shit is actually so good Obviously some of the lyricism is.... yeah and the visuals are a joke but the production here is fucking magical and there's so much emotion here even if the messages are sometimes far from perfectly presented Spider Web, The Contortionist and Leeches are pure magic, Faerie Soree makes me feel so much nostalgia and Evil, Battle of the Larynx, Nymphology and Void are FUN + not a single one of the deluxe songs missed Are there far better demos and scrapped songs for this era? For sure. But the finished product is not half bad either. Or maybe I'm just easier to please. Either way, I firmly believe she's still got it, she just needs refinement.

28 June 2017 Sitting in the living room of the house we'd just moved into having a very intense delusion that the silver bust of Lenin on the previous owner's bookshelf was staring back at me and plotting my murder while my grandpa was cutting the overgrown grass on the lawn with a scythe

In Swan Song, I always heard the "with just one wave, it goes away" as "there's just one way, the causeway" and thought she was just saying causeway weird and referencing Giant's Causeway in Ireland lmao Felt like an idiot after finally actually reading the lyrics after years

29th of December 2022 At my mom's spending the holidays, in active psychosis, annoying the fuck out of my then-fiance lmao

The impulse control of this woman has truly never evolved from her teenage years, god bless

I love COCC and BB with all my heart, they are stunning, heartbreaking and so, so, so Lana, I don't really get how someone could not see it but to each their own. Still, my most controversial opinion is that apart from Love, Heroin and Cherry, LFL has nothing else I listen to on even a remotely regular basis. None of the other songs click for me at all. I adore the demos of the title track but the album version just loses me. I think Change and Get Free are beautiful as poems but I don't really vibe with them while listening. To be completely honest, I'm not sure I could name any more songs from the album off the top of my head. I don't hate LFL by any means, it's just really not for me and while I understand what some people might get out of it, I struggle to understand loving the album.

Mike and Meet Me In The Pale Moonlight are fighting for top spot today though my bf also woke me up like three times last night and told me to stop singing Blue Jeans which I'd apparently just belted in my sleep repeatedly so could be that too (I've also had Ben on the brain for weeks now, "darkness assumes the room" literally every time it gets dark out and "You don't know what you do, do ya? I am on fire for you" every time I see a friend who said that lyric reminds her of me)

Probably nothing interesting but I downloaded something titled Talking Like An Answering Machine from god knows where ages ago and just looked it up in my music library again and this is just The Forbidden Baby Song Not sure at all if this is the right thread for this but seeing Answering Machine in the list reminded me

I accept my fate of getting crucified by the EH stans but let's face it... TFJ was pure gold and after that Marina just lost her passion

It is yet another beautiful day to be a lesbian

Whatever tf that was, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't care how nonsensical that was, I was having the time of my life watching

With all due love, from a fellow at-times-questionable poet... I hope she sticks to music.

YOU ARE SO RIGHT Used to play this on repeat for MONTHS last year, literally so beautiful and fun

This is so true, majority of irl fans I know are autistic middle-aged women and boy howdy do they LOVE her (I introduced them all to Lana)

Yeah, that's the one! So yeah, Nikki Lane did not do that