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The fact that little cover was the last straw for her is so fucking funny 

IT'S 2016 AND WARSAW FESTIVAL ALL OVER AGAIN PEOPLE 

Fans: all these artist literally COPY Lana 
 
Lana: 

I just finished Wide Sargasso Sea, a post colonial, post modernism feminist response to Jane Eyre. Loved it personally although I can see why it has mixed reactions. 

I also recently read my first James Joyce, A Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man. There were moments of brilliant prose but overall it dragged too much for me. I'll try more Joyce though. 
 
Before that, I read The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin, a great exploration of anarchism, capitalism, etc in a science fiction setting.
 
I Who Have Never Known Men, a dystopian by Jacqueline Harpman, was also excellent. It will probably stay with me for a long time. 
 
The Crying of Lot 49 was my first time reading Pynchon and I thoroughly enjoyed it. What a trip! I'll re-read it later for sure. It's also such fun seeing how many people are inspired by it, including Radiohead, one of my favourite bands! I am now seeing W.A.S.T.E everywhere. 
 
Giovanni's Room was also my first James Baldwin, and I fell in love with his minimalist prose. What a great tragic story and so far ahead of its time. I will absolutely be reading more Baldwin. 
 
I could go on and on but ... 
 
I'm now reading The Word for World is Forest, a short story by Ursula Le Guin, and will then be moving onto The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, my first Mishima, which I bought recently. 

I'm reading Joan Didion for the first time, specifically Slouching Towards Bethlehem which I've almost finished.. her writing is truly exquisite, I keep pausing and wondering how one can even construct sentences like that. I really want to read The White Album and Play It As It Lays next.
 
And the subject matter of the essays in this collection (and as far as I understand Joan Didion's work in general) is sooo interesting as a Lana fan;  California, Los Angeles,  Hollywood, the state of "The American Dream"...
 
I was curious to see if Lana has ever mentioned Joan Didion and it seems like she hasn't but when I searched the forums I found an old post from @Trash Magic about this photoshoot of Joan Didion maybe having inspired the Ultraviolence cover and I can really see it tbh
 

People grow and change overtime, it’s a natural part of everyone’s evolution as they progress through life. You can’t expect everyone to stay the same forever without being altered by their experiences. I think this particular sentiment is about not changing the core of who you are, but little elements of people are bound to to change such as their interests, their priorities, etc.
 
For Lana, I feel like every 3 years there’s a new evolutionary “version” of her that shifts slightly from the previous and they continue to build. For example:
2011-2013
2014-2016
2017-2019
2020-2022
2023-present
I feel that each of those sections have brought a new “version” of Lana, but she’s always been who she is at her core. Certain things about her will change, but who she is in her heart and soul will always stay the same. I also feel that this is very much reflected in her music, fashion, personality, etc.

I feel like I’m the same way and it seems like it’s also about every 3 years that there’s some sort of shift within my own self. This is an interesting thought though, I’m actually going to reach out to my friends about this and see if they relate too x

Saw the Mcdonalds cup and knew immediately the comment section would be like “so disappointing😔”. Jesus christ these people need to go outdoors so many lives were saved because you bitched at a celebrity for drinking a diet coke 

I’m not religious but I used to kinda feel like you do. But the more I thought about it, the more the Satan concept aligned with my strong belief that there always exists a sort of balance in the world. Good and evil, light and dark. I would think that Satan would be as powerful as God, just in a different way. If I actually believed in these things I would be fully convinced that the societal trends are way off-balance and leaning into Satan, with pornography and fuck apps having a grasp on people, causing them to give into fleshly desires, abandoning their morals and darkening their souls. I don’t actually believe in those characters in a literal sense, though. But as a person who practices witchcraft and worships nature, I do think the ultra-Christian people have it all wrong about people like me. Witches aren’t the people you gotta worry about. 

I recognize the house she's walking by and it's like two miles from XIV karats she is not fooling anybody    Her calling the paparazzi era 

I’m sorry but what’s the problem with the outro that everybody’s complaining 😭?? Everyone was describing it as if it was the worst thing ever and it’s a normal outro? Just a bit more psychedelic which I don’t mind at all 
 
btw this has to be my favourite non-album single she has released in the past years, I hope they use it in an episode!!

Watching the alt view of Lana getting trampled on LB’s insta makes me even angrier. The fact that the guy kept jumping and had no concern for Lana is so upsetting. I hope he at least apologized afterwards. I understand being in the heat of the moment but idk how you have no awareness that you’re literally knocking someone down ? She could’ve gotten hurt had there not been a chair to land on.

what the fuck is going on, i'm scared  are they all starting a cult?

her and chuck literally look like two sisters going to a funeral (both of their husbands are in the mob)

bang bang kiss kiss 

Oh god the fanfiction is starting again 

Phoebe Bridgers said Lana deserved a Grammy in a recent interview with billboard . 
 
“Lana [Del Rey] should have won a long time ago,” she said. “Mitski should be acknowledged in any f–king way. There’s countless people. For [Portnow] to say that women aren’t working hard enough to get these awards is the stupidest s–t ever. I was like, ‘Why not say it here where everybody knows who this guy is?'”

I can tell she’s sick of people acting like she’s some weepy little victim. It’s demeaning 

Honestly... In a way I get why Taylor might feel uncomfortable but at the same time that student isn't killing the planet as well as the ears of millions /hj

how long has boygenius existed? i only started hearing about them this past year. the thought that lana got snubbed in an ALT CATEGORY for a band that just popped out of thin air makes me sick 

This is a nice take. Comparing Lana to Stanley Kubrick. 
 

I feel like we need to discuss this much more. Her outfit was so so so Ocean Blvd; to me, she completely captured the essence of the album and made it a look. The moment I saw her, I was like, she looks ready to accept the AOTY. It would've been a beautiful image.

Idk if people have talked about this but she like this post how cute!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0mLvmQrmtP/?igsh=MWZpc2V4cWw2cXFiMg==

2 pac, Queen, Diana Ross, guns n roses, grateful dead. None of them ever won a Grammy. I think nominations are a better marker than *wins*. 

The grateful dead are arguably the greatest and most influential rock band of all time and they never won a Grammy. 
 
"Don't believe the hype." - Flavor Flav