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Can we actually move the pseudo-politics to the LFA page please

She didn’t mean it to be a great political song lol she wrote it in like a day and literally said “I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion.” She’s not trying to write the next To Pimp A Butterfly, just a cathartic impulse to get a more emotional, not analytical response.

Can we actually move the pseudo-politics to the LFA page please

No one’s arguing otherwise lol. We’re not saying she’s woke, we’re just appreciating the sentiment.

I lost a friend at the Thousand Oaks Borderline shooting. Is it bad that I’m happy that she made this song? I’m really getting tired of the fake wokeness of some of y’all and as a leftist I think that’s saying something). We had 3 mass shootings in a week, like let the sis breathe.

Lana has, I think, always been enamored of an idea of retro-Americana that only ever existed as a pop culture fantasy--which she knows and acknowledges ("You make me wanna be like one of those girls / From the 1950s wearing those big pearls / On the color TV," etc), so...she is still looking for that fantasy she was promised ("I heard the streets were paved with gold / That's what my father said.") Real events on the news pop that fantasy bubble, not that she really thinks we should go back to how things literally were in earlier times. Her nostalgia is bittersweet because she knows it's for something not real ("I feel nostalgic and I don't even know what for", she said in an interview). 
 
For me, the best example of Lana!America vs. Real!America in the National Anthem video...when JFK was actually president, there was still racial segregation in the US. In the video, she has an African-American JFK to show she's romanticizing the aesthetics...the American "Camelot" it was called...NOT the racism of the actual time period. I think of "Looking for America" that way too...looking for a dream.
 
So...that's why I don't find that problematic, but I do see and respect why some of you do. 
 
Anyway...almost 3,000 pages! Go team!

I lost a friend at the Thousand Oaks Borderline shooting. Is it bad that I’m happy that she made this song? I’m really getting tired of the fake wokeness of some of y’all and as a leftist I think that’s saying something). We had 3 mass shootings in a week, like let the sis breathe.

Bruh we have users on here complaining that she didn’t sing about Wounded Knee I’m-

I hate Lana Del Rey and white women because she didn’t include mental health issues of women in the Philippines!

Bruh we have users on here complaining that she didn’t sing about Wounded Knee I’m-

Can’t wait for Lana to sing about the Taliban and people will complain how the people in Sudan have it worse

I lost a friend at the Thousand Oaks Borderline shooting. Is it bad that I’m happy that she made this song? I’m really getting tired of the fake wokeness of some of y’all and as a leftist I think that’s saying something). We had 3 mass shootings in a week, like let the sis breathe.

I hate Lana Del Rey and white women because she didn’t include mental health issues of women in the Philippines!

Lana: releases a simple song written within hours, sharing her thoughts about the past few mass shootings but excluding the subjects of the state of Israel, the origins of racism, the civil war in Somalia or the current state of how the Japanese government treats the Comfort Women issue
 
Lanaboards: 

I lost a friend at the Thousand Oaks Borderline shooting. Is it bad that I’m happy that she made this song? I’m really getting tired of the fake wokeness of some of y’all and as a leftist I think that’s saying something). We had 3 mass shootings in a week, like let the sis breathe.

This thread is visual diarrhea for me and I vote we close this until August 30th, 2019

She didn’t mean it to be a great political song lol she wrote it in like a day and literally said “I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion.” She’s not trying to write the next To Pimp A Butterfly, just a cathartic impulse to get a more emotional, not analytical response.

She didn’t mean it to be a great political song lol she wrote it in like a day and literally said “I know I’m not a politician and I’m not trying to be so excuse me for having an opinion.” She’s not trying to write the next To Pimp A Butterfly, just a cathartic impulse to get a more emotional, not analytical response.

This thread is visual diarrhea for me and I vote we close this until August 30th, 2019

This thread is visual diarrhea for me and I vote we close this until August 30th, 2019

Agreed. Also, ranting on a Lana Del Rey forum isn't being "politically active." Political activism requires actual protest. Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct, or intervene in social,political, economic, or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society.
 
What exactly will ranting on a Lana Del Rey forum do to enact change?

Can this conversation change please? This same boring shit is being said over and over
 
WHO GIVES A FUCK we’re all gonna stay talking about her here. Nothing will change. You’ll all say “oh she needs to be more woke” and then you complain when she tries to be. I don’t get it... get a hobby already fuck
 
Anyways, anyone else been listening to Season Of The Witch? I love it

I'm not American but it's pretty clear to me why she wasn't worried about children's safety in the daytime beforehand and didn't have to think twice before she did things before but does now 

No one’s arguing otherwise lol. We’re not saying she’s woke, we’re just appreciating the sentiment.

I lost a friend at the Thousand Oaks Borderline shooting. Is it bad that I’m happy that she made this song? I’m really getting tired of the fake wokeness of some of y’all and as a leftist I think that’s saying something). We had 3 mass shootings in a week, like let the sis breathe.