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got my first picture in 6 years!

@Dominikx4 So real babes x
 

I didn't just start supporting Palestine. The Pro-Palestine crowd has been well aware of what Israel does for a long time. The characterization that all these protestors just woke up one day and started being pro-Palestine because it was trendy is nothing more than demeaning propaganda. You could've asked me ten years ago and I would've told you how revolting Israels treatment of Palestinians was and the insane blind eye the world gives to their illegal settlements. The vast majority of people supporting Palestinians have been aware of what's going on for a long time. My cousins are half-Armenian and their family was from Jerusalem. They were living there in 1948 when Israel was created. They, like hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, lost their homes when the land was ethnically cleansed to create the Jewish state. Because they refused to have Israeli citizenship forced on them. Do you think when the British "gave away" Palestine that the land was empty?
I'm also gay and I am so sick and tired of the pro-Israel crowd manipulating and weaponizing LGBT rights in their effort to guilt people into siding with Israel. It's revolting and offensive. Is that seriously how you justify all this? Your soul is rotten through and through
I literally do not care that Israel is a better to society to live in for gay people. I do not care if the vast majority of Muslim countries are not very tolerant of gay people. That will NEVER justify what Israel does to Palestinians at large. That will never justify taking people's homes and bulldozing them, that will never justify forcing people to go through all sorts of checkpoints, that will never justify jailing children for throwing rocks. That will never justify the killing of thousands of Palestinians over the years. There are literally streets in the West Bank that Palestinians aren't even allowed to walk on. It's an apartheid state. The language used by the average Israeli to talk about Palestinians is absolutely sickening.
The fact that you think Israel being more tolerant of gay people compared to a Palestinian state somehow justifies all this is absolutely deplorable and twisted. I'm sure all the gay Palestinians are just sitting around thinking, well it's too bad my grandmother's house was stolen and torn down to make room for more Israeli houses, and my little sister is in jail, and my father was shot and killed by the IDF on his way to work five years ago because he was mistaken as someone else, and all my cousins in Gaza have had their houses blown to smithereens and half of them are dead... but hey!!! Israel is LGBT friendly!! Go Israel!!

(Maybe this thread can be hot for better reasons)
I just donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund!
 
Here are some other reputable donation links and resources:
Palestine Red Crescent Society
Women's Peace and Humanitarian Fund
Women for Women International
Medical Aid for Palestinians
 

i genuinely cannot believe people think this all started in 2023…like what? where have y’all been? 

I fixed your typos for you

To be honest, this conflict did not start on Oct 7th, 2023. This goes all the way to 1948. Generations of Palestinians have been suffering ever since. Every decade there has been a conflict that became bigger and bigger whether it was in 1973 or now. But the thing is that Palestinians are still oppressed, for over 70 fucking years. 

i was in the office today... a 5 minute walk away from where she was...  don’t talk to me
 

I genuinely would be a different person without Lana. I started listening to her when I was 16, she impacted so much of how I see life and how I see beauty and art in the world. Her music has been the soundtrack for so many car rides, day dreams, wishes, experiences and whatever in my life. She wrote the script for how I wanted to look and how I wanted to be and what relationships I wanted. 
 
Im also about 10 years younger than lana, so its been neat kinda growing up along side her in a way, and looking internally at how the music she wrote when she was my age affects me now. As I get older, I feel closer to her music. Especially with ocean blvd, I have a deeply tumultuous and difficult relationship with my mother so hearing that subject repetitively come up in her songs but especially in that album was really healing for me. She’s helped me put a lot of my feelings in to away that feels tangible to describe them. 
 

I genuinely would be a different person without Lana. I started listening to her when I was 16, she impacted so much of how I see life and how I see beauty and art in the world. Her music has been the soundtrack for so many car rides, day dreams, wishes, experiences and whatever in my life. She wrote the script for how I wanted to look and how I wanted to be and what relationships I wanted. 
 
Im also about 10 years younger than lana, so its been neat kinda growing up along side her in a way, and looking internally at how the music she wrote when she was my age affects me now. As I get older, I feel closer to her music. Especially with ocean blvd, I have a deeply tumultuous and difficult relationship with my mother so hearing that subject repetitively come up in her songs but especially in that album was really healing for me. She’s helped me put a lot of my feelings in to away that feels tangible to describe them. 
 

I've struggled with depression my entire life, and recently I've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. I always felt weird, like I didn't belong, and I would punish myself for feeling that way. I hated feeling sad because people would always tell me I had no reason to. 
 
But then, I met Lana and her music literally changed my life. Like she described herself in WW, she's awkward but sweet, and so am I... 
And then in Beautiful, when she said "sadness can turn into happiness, I can turn blue into something beautiful" I felt that! Because whenever I feel sad, or nostalgic, it's when I feel like myself the most. I feel inspired by sadness. 
 
Some might say I romanticize it, but I disagree. I think, thanks to Lana, I learned how to exploit certain things I can't control for my own benefit, and now I don't feel alone, nor so misunderstood

All 9 professional pictures in HD quality, uncropped -
 

Transcription of her speech that I just completed:
 
"Thank you, and I'm honoured to be given my award by Jody Gerson, the chairman of Universal Publishing. Wow. I brought this up because I wanted to show you, I don't know if you can see. It says this was a 500-quid ad from my managers. I'm so proud of you and grateful for our 15-year friendship and journey together. That's 15 years of friendship from the same two managers. Ben Mawson, right there, and Ed Millett, will you stand up please? Music is hard but my managers have made it very easy. I love them. I love Jody. I have never had one glitch in my career in terms of my friendship. I've been with Polydor for 12 years and Interscope for just as long. Ben Mortimer and Steven Hallowes, thank you for being just like Ben and Ed, my dearest friends. It's amazing. I have so many things to say. Let's see. I mean, I was here 12 years ago. That's amazing. 12 years, still kicking. Not everybody is born with a passion. Not everyone is 3 years old and says, 'I want to be on Broadway!' Passion is fleeting. I don't always wake up and think 'it's so amazing that I'm still in music.' The muse is very fleeting and when those years happen it can be years. I just think to myself when I don't feel passion, what I'm going to focus on is doing a job well done and if that's not enough I do other jobs and then I come back to music and I just think that's really important because not every day is the same and one of the mottos that I go by is 'I can start my day over any time I want.' If I'm having a bad day, I start it over at 11:55pm. If it didn't go well then, I'd gotten an article written that I don't like, I think I can take a walk in the park and remember that I can start my day over at any time I want. Also, is Paloma Faith still in the room? I think I might have seen her leave, but I just wanted to say Paloma, sweetheart, that was such a good speech. I'm so happy you're here. When I had my first video out, you already had videos out, and I think it's so cool that she took a moment to say that and also, okay, a couple of things. So, when I came, when I started, I think a lot of things were written about how the songs were sort of navel-gazing and just about me and my experience with challenging relationships and now I think what we've seen is that those songs were not written about a small microcosm of people and women. We're seeing a huge amount of things written about difficult relationships and even when COVID began, the second epidemic in the United States was interpersonal relationship violence. It increased by 300%, so I just think it's amazing that female singer-songwriters have the freedom to write about absolutely whatever they want. It was always a little nerve-racking to think that writing about the relationships or maybe something that could be seen as self-gratuitous or feigning vulnerability. I heard that a lot. I mean, it is a very vulnerable thing not just for women but for men. I've learned so much in the past few years from my peers about having a challenging time in music, and like someone said my friends are doctors too, so it's not just limited to music. Okay. Yeah. There's one really important thing. So, 15 years ago when I met Ben and Ed I had already been singing in the United States for 8 years. They let me come live with them. I was up and down Kingsland Road for two years here. I didn't know anybody and I don't drink so I had absolutely no friends. It was really, really, really hard except for knowing them. I literally just flew from headlining a show in Alabama where my sister's children are from and to Louisiana where my brother lives with his wife. So, because of a lot of people in this room you gave me a career here which also allowed me to go back home where I had been trying to sing for at least 8 years. So, thank you for letting me be able to sing at the Opera House in Paris and also to go back to Alabama. It's amazing I get to go wherever I want whenever I want. I decided not to do a stadium tour this year because I want to go McCreary Country in Kentucky. I want to go meet the people. I want to say hi and have breakfast with them. It's not always about just going north and going to every island straightforward and picking up money at the stadiums. It's like I said to Ben, you know, after Coachella everyone kind of treated me like a brand new artist, you know? Like, 'oh, she's back!' I said it's like being in a new ship, but I don't just want to go forward and do a stadium tour. I want to figure out how to turn into like a glass ship that can fly, and I don't even know what that means yet, but I'm going to find out, and sometimes that means just stopping and listening to my heart and it's not always about music. It's about thinking about whether what I'm saying is actually matching up with what I'm doing. I could say I want to go on a long stadium tour, but in my heart what I really want to do is be with my family in Alabama and be with my managers in London and the people that I've worked with have given me the freedom every single year with every record. No deadlines, no pressure, so I that I have enough time to listen to my heart and be available to the people around me so I get to make music, and I know it's long winded, but anyways, thank you! Thank you so much!"

cutest

chuck's daughter is from alabama? charlie lives in louisiana with his wife? 

just watched apocalypse now. on this random thursday night after work 

Trying to get this guy I'm seeing to understand why he needs to be quiet while I watch some 70 year old man try and livestream a concert in Alabama  I'm this close to breaking up with him over this 

Lana's 2024 moodboard was really this and we are all so happy 
 

me trying to lip read what’s she’s saying. 

The Greatest is the greatest, one of her best, and the vocal passages on the refrain—I'm waaayyysted—are brilliant, stunning but not too too much. 

some of you are the ones who need to log out wtf 

love how yall still expect a setlist change 

JUMPSCARE 

I would love a Kacey collab tbh the lyrics would be awesome