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i mean she's been a tad dry on insta and she doesn't promo her own stuff muc.. but rly? she did the album trailer,phone interviews, she's been scheduling shows, doing photoshoots, and magazine interviews... not a ton but still.. better than the hm era lmao

i mean she's been a tad dry on insta and she doesn't promo her own stuff muc.. but rly? she did the album trailer,phone interviews, she's been scheduling shows, doing photoshoots, and magazine interviews... not a ton but still.. better than the hm era lmao

i mean she's been a tad dry on insta and she doesn't promo her own stuff muc.. but rly? she did the album trailer,phone interviews, she's been scheduling shows, doing photoshoots, and magazine interviews... not a ton but still.. better than the hm era lmao

The question of our generation

The question of our generation

where's the fucking Paris Match magazine

imagine being in college
paying lots of money
spending many years
to graduate and write this..............

Posted this in the other thread but I'll post it here too.
 
If anyone of you are wondering what the Seven Wonders is, it's this:
 
So basically there are many seven wonders in the world, ranging from 7 wonders of magic (which I will explain below), 7 wonders of the ancient world, 7 wonders of the modern world etc. I chose to explain the 7 wonders of magic because it's pretty obvious, especially in the LFL trailer.
 
The Seven Wonders of Magic
 
Telekinesis - To move objects with ones mind (In the beginning of the trailer we see the goblet, hourglass and hologram of the world move in front of Lana)
Comcilium - Control and reading of the mind (Lana looks into the hologram of the world and cheekily looks up at the camera, as if she's knows what we're thinking)
Teleportation - To move through space without aid (Lana's hologram moves from the desk to the window)
Divination - To foresee all things accurately (Lana looks out of the window, foreseeing Hollywood)
Vitalum Vitalis - The balancing of scales between two life forces (Lana compares our generation to the 60s/70s)
Descensum - Prjoect oneself through the various planes (Lana talk about sending her love to us all through the ether)
Pyrokinesis - The starting and control of fire (Lana says "Or shall I take the day off and turn down the fire". Then as she gathers the ingredients in her hands, a poof of fire/spark ignites)
 
Then she draws the seven planets in front herself.
 
Manifestation of all powers indicates the next supreme witch.

Here are a few images I found online taken from the documents linked in the OP:









I'll post a few more when I get a chance to screenshot some.

that is such a cool story. I feel like so many these things just gravitate around Lana without necessarily being the sole inspiration.
 
Like her not having heard the line hit me and it felt like a kiss...
The Old Money melody
her having not seen A Clockwork Orange and having the title Ultraviolence (I don't remember her exact comment)
The Peg Entwissle Hollywood sign story

When the title Tropico first surfaced, there was a lot of speculation about where the name came from. People wondered if it had anything to do with a video game of the same name. Or if it was a reference to the Pat Benatar album.

I just assumed it was a word Lana came up with independently, or perhaps that she forgot Pat Benatar's album was where the word first entered her mind. (After all, she does often reference others' lyrics and album titles seemingly unconsciously. See: Lust for Life.) At any rate, I never gave it much thought after the release of the film, which I watched a grand total of two times (three if you count searching through it for screenshots for this thread).

But recently I've developed a possible theory about where the name may have come from that I don't recall seeing discussed on the forum before (though maybe I just missed it):

Tropico is/was the name of a real place in California. Now just a neighborhood in Glendale, CA and Los Angeles' Atwater Village, it was once incorporated as an independent city from 1911 until 1918 when the upper half merged with Glendale and the lower half merged with Los Angeles.

Today, there seem to be only a few references to the name of the city that once was: a post office, a seedy motel, a new apartment project, an old folks' home.

Here are links to several pages about "the lost city of Tropico":
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-city-of-tropico-california
http://atwater-village.blogspot.com/2007/02/sunday-drive-through-lost-city-of.html
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120717082459/http://www.glendalehistorical.org/tropico.html
http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Glendale.html
https://calisphere.org/search/?q=tropico (There's probably some great cover/fan art material in some of the PDFs here.)

Tropico was also home to Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where Walt Disney and many old Hollywood celebrities are buried or have their ashes interred.

I have no idea if Lana is aware of any of this history-- given her proximity to it I suspect it may have inspired the name either way-- but it is certainly in keeping with themes in her work of old Hollywood and lost Americana.

Feel free to post anything else interesting you find about the city of Tropico.

how can you go on tirades about lana being commercial and having commercial success.......when her shoots with chuck have been some of the most kitschy, bland, basic shoots in existence ....dont get me wrong.. chuck has done some great work with lana.... i absolutely love the hbtb photoshoot especially... but god....so many iconic shoots that brought lana so much attention would cease to exist. the whole H&M campaign would've flopped  i know so many people who's first exposure to lana was actually through pictures.. think of all the exposure her fashion campaigns got her in 2012-13... i honestly think if chuck did all her photoshoots... she would've flopped long ago
 
also she needs to stop working with Neil Krug.. i love a lot of his stuff.. but recently his stuff with lana has been so..... and its probably her fault lmao

Lol you do know Rick Nowels is a very famous producer? He's prodcued songs for Adele, Nelly Furtado, John Legend, Madonna.. in my opinion Lana working with Rick is about as big as Lana working with Stevie. fight me

GUYS
 
Rick Nowels produced Stevie Nicks album 'Trouble In Shangri-La'
 

how can a person see " we've never heard that story, I've never seen a ghost" and read it as " heard that story, I'm a ghost"

how can a person see " we've never heard that story, I've never seen a ghost" and read it as " heard that story, I'm a ghost"

where did u get this actual footage of me waiting for miss lana del rey to do ANYTHING? lmao

where did u get this actual footage of me waiting for miss lana del rey to do ANYTHING? lmao

how can a person see " we've never heard that story, I've never seen a ghost" and read it as " heard that story, I'm a ghost"

where did u get this actual footage of me waiting for miss lana del rey to do ANYTHING? lmao

how can a person see " we've never heard that story, I've never seen a ghost" and read it as " heard that story, I'm a ghost"

how can a person see " we've never heard that story, I've never seen a ghost" and read it as " heard that story, I'm a ghost"

where did u get this actual footage of me waiting for miss lana del rey to do ANYTHING? lmao

how can a person see " we've never heard that story, I've never seen a ghost" and read it as " heard that story, I'm a ghost"