Monicker

Naw, you guys, DON'T U GET IT, DUDE? Eve is Lana -- the beautiful, flawless, classy Lana in white that we all know and love!!! And stripping = THE LOSS OF INNOCENCE, HELLO? Because stripping is BAD. It is a desecration of our earthly vessels. FUCK STRIPPERS AND FUCK LOWER INCOME LATINOS. I am totally ready to swallow transparent morality from Lana Del Rey. This is her soft resurrection. Elvis is her daddy. TROPICO, MAN!!! 

Remember in one of her interviews, someone asked where the name Lana Del Rey came from and she explained that she was speaking a lot of Spanish with her Cuban friends in Miami? Maybe Tropico is the story of her time spent in Miami and Florida, that would explain all the chola stuff...it seems very plausible to me. Even the title of the video is Spanish. 

If that were the case they'd be chongas, not cholas 

Anyone notice there's a boom mic seen here?

So, there's dialogue in this thing   

Also, i didn't realize until now that Anthony Mandler is the cinematographer? Did he do the cinematography on Ride and NA too? 

5 more days until I own the Blu-ray.

Oooh, let us know how the bonus features are! I really want to see them, but i'm gonna wait until my library gets the DVD. If this "remix" reconstructing of the film entirely from unused footage is really going to happen, i wonder if and how that is going to affect what deleted scenes/outtakes are included in the bonus features. I really, really want to see outtakes from this movie. I know that during filming they attached Harinezumi cameras on top of the cinema cameras but that seems pointless since it's virtually the same shot/angle that was being shot on film, and i am not a fan of the Harinezumi aesthetic. There's a video for James Franco's new band Daddy (with vocals from Smokey Robinson, haa) that is comprised entirely of this footage. I wasn't really into it. I want to see actual unused 35mm footage. And lots of behind the scenes. I live for that shit. 

OMG. And Lana slays me once again! This video will be flawless, I just know it. I'm sure it will be as epic as Ride and National Anthem, it will legit be the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life. Like, OMG, I am dying here. I'm crying so hard right now that I actually can't breathe, can't someone please hold me?! To all of you making mean comments about goddess Lana: she's flawless!!! Sure, she's just a wee bit fat and should probably lose a bit of weight and maybe tone her abs - but she's still perfect regardless! (Oh, btw, does anyone else think the whole stripping / go-go dancing thing could represent the loss of innocence? You know, the angel looking to get fucked hard and all that? Makes sense, right?!)

 

 

Whatever, I'm rich.

 

A job well done. Extra points for your use of legit. You should have also included the non-literal use of literally (“I’m literally dying right now watching this flawless video.”) What about the fragment “I can’t even”? And the puzzling, nonsensical use of though, shortened to tho, which doesn’t actually qualify anything. We will know just how flawless this video and Lana are when we come upon “I can’t even tho.” omg but NO wait like she was so beautiful and glamorous and classy and old hollywood in young & beautiful and now she’s a fat stripper omg i just dgi

Take it a little more seriously, Monicker.

You want this D, don't you? That's what this is about? 

I'm taking you up on this offer. Expect my bank details soon.

For you, provided you adhere to the guidelines, i’m just gonna send you a whole case of assorted nail polish. A value well over $100.     

The internet is not destroying the element of surprise enough, we need more. Where’s the video treatment and the storyboards? Fuck it, can we get some of the dailies? This guessing game is not going to cut it. I need to put my Google glasses on and activate the internet chip underneath my skin.   

Also, just a heads up here. If you want to make some extra cash, listen up, i’m feeling philanthropic. I will be giving out $100 to each and every forum member who, upon this video being released in its final form, refrains from making a post about how:

-The video is flawless.

-The video is epic. 

-The video is the most (anything) you’ve ever seen in your entire life. 

-You are dying.

-You are are crying. 

-You can’t breathe. 

-You have been slayed.

-You need someone to hold you. 

-Lana looks flawless.

-Lana looks perfect.

-Lana looks fat. 

-Lana needs to lose weight.

-Lana needs to tone her abs. 

-Stripping represents the loss of innocence. 

oh no i hope those teardrops dont become a thing

Everything becomes a thing, Lemon, everything. 

But picking option D would help me in picking out the newcomers with good taste  

I remember to register for ldr.fm you had to fill in: "You fit me better than my __________." But that was to thwart spam, not to weed out crazies.  

Does this mean there'll be an influx of overzealous neophytes breaking down the doors to LanaBoards and starting a handful of useless threads within an hour of joining? 

Please God. 

If Cola started to get buzz in America, it would spread like wildfire with teens because of that infamous opening line. 

That would be the very worst. 

The thing about feminism/anti-feminism coming up in her interviews is that, from all indications in past interviews, she seems to really grossly oversimplify the issue and think of it only as an active, participatory thing, like: you’re only feminist if you say you are and actively talk about politicized women’s issues, or you’re only anti-feminist because you have come out in opposition to the movement. It reminds me of some of the comments some people were making about the Ride headdress issue, saying that there was nothing problematic about it because she wasn’t actually *saying* anything negative about native Americans...This line of thinking is absurdly reductive. I mean, you’d think, based on some of these arguments, that, say, racism only comes in the form of something as flagrant as a hooded klan member standing underneath a burning cross, or neo-nazi lyrics from a skinhead band. When one merely speaks or tells a story or presents an image, there are ideas imbedded within that content that can be extracted and examined from a myriad of different sociopolitical lenses. Any specialized analysis, if relevant, can be applied to lyrics, a novel, a film, etc. regardless of the speaker’s/writer’s/creator’s intent, and regardless of whether or not there is a transparent ideology being represented. You don’t have to explicitly say “I hate women” to be expressing anti-feminist views, or explicitly state feminist principles to be regarded as expressing feminist views (“Hey, i’m NOT a feminist, but...” Thanks Katy Perry!) To draw such simplistic connections is misinformed and dismissive.

Andrea Dworkin

 Would suddenly love to take a little trip to a parallel universe to see THAT version of Lana Del Rey and her non-existent fans. 

I went to see Schindler's List in the theater today (which i had never seen before; turns out it's as if Disney made a movie about the holocaust, or, you know, Steven Spielberg...) and in the previews portion they played the Taylor Swift Coke or Pepsi or whatever it is commercial. I started crying. Incidentally, that is the same reaction i had when i heard her cover God Only Knows. Why did she have to do that? Who told her to do that? 

Transcribers, get ready to interject [sic] a lot 

The charisma 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4TgNNDhWnU

I'm pretty sure there was a second interview he did with her but i can't find it. Do not ask me how i got into this because i absolutely do not remember. Sometimes i really confound myself. 

Do you have snoop dogg / lion in your library of heads

What a fabulous question. I think this is my favorite question ever asked on this forum. 

Do you...

have...

Snoop Dogg/Lion...

in your library...

of heads...

?

I want to go up to people on the street and pull them aside and ask them that. Or ask the bagger at the grocery store while s/he is bagging my groceries.

"Is plastic okay?"

"Actually, here, i brought my own bag. But i wanted to ask you...Do you have Snoop Dogg slash Lion in your library of heads?"

"I'm sorry?" 

"I'll take a paper bag if it all doesn't fit in my bag, thanks." 

It would also be great to to write it on those flags that planes drag across the sky: DO YOU HAVE SNOOP DOGG/LION IN YOUR LIBRARY OF HEADS? Imagine people sunbathing at a park, lying on their picnic blankets, looking up at the clouds and then seeing a plane fly by with that message. 

Wait, i'll be damned, i just found this.  

Totally unintentional.

I think I have screencaps of her sharing it on Facebook that pre-date that, but those are on another computer. I'll check when I get a chance.

Evil's porn stash computer? 

 

 

I suspect this was a clever ruse to see what hip hop head I would reply with and for this, I side-eye you.  

I really want to find or make one of 50 smiling because he has the most adorable smile. :3

 

 

 

 

 

I love 50 Cent. He is so funny and sweet and charismatic. His interviews with Chelsea Handler are the best. And, you know, i hate his music! See what i was saying earlier! 

Me too. (Also, I can't find the appropriate hip hop head to use in this situation so I'm really sad)

Yo dawg, i heard you like appropriate hip hop heads so i put all the appropriate hip hop heads in your butt so you couldn't find them and then get really sad about how you couldn't find the appropriate hip hop head. 

Man, not even one question about the electronic beats in her music! What's up with THAT? 

This thread is starting to move away from the topic of the interview and all of the interesting subtopics of discussion that sprang from it, and more toward petty personal stuff. So, here's a picture of a baby pig in red rain boots:

Yeah, this thread illustrates why i’m more interested in reading this forum than a Lana Del Rey interview 

I’m here for the artist Lana Del Rey, her music and artistry. I don’t think there’s anything she can say in an interview that is going to change my appreciation for her music. Not because i think she's perfect, but because i always separate the artist from their art. If i'm going to stop liking her music and her as an artist it's because either she starts making music that i don't find worthwhile, or my views on music change dramatically. To make a few extreme examples here, one of my favorite composers is Wagner, known widely for his anti-semitic views and remarks. Doesn’t change a single note of the absolutely amazing music he wrote. Over the last few weeks i’ve been watching some Roman Polanski movies, and you know, my opinion of those movies isn’t in any part formed by the disturbing fact that he drugged and raped a 13 year old. That one of my favorite producers, Phil Spector, was convicted for the murder of Lana Clarkson, never mind that he’s a pompous, delusional asshole (who, by the way, continually dismisses and belittles my greatest musical hero) doesn’t change my love for all those great songs, or the fact that he remains one of the most groundbreaking producers in the history of pop music. Yeah, these are extreme examples (meaning that i'm in no way relating Lana in this interview to any of the horrific views, acts, and behavior of the people cited in these examples), but my point is that i’d be in pretty bad shape if i discarded artists that i like simply based on one interview. Again, i don’t think anyone here is doing that. I think there’s actually more histrionics coming from people who, it seems, are taking the criticism a bit personally. 

I think it’s time for another classic LanaBoards criticism of the criticism of the criticism   

And to help, here is a little chart i’ve drawn up...

An artist’s harshest critic(s), in order from most critical to least critical:

1. Her/Himself

2. Her/His biggest fans/followers

3. Critics 

4. Her/His casual fans 

I just want to clarify something about my first post in this thread. When i said that i’ve wondered if she has a personalty disorder, that’s where it ends--i’ve only wondered. There’s a big difference between thinking that she does and wondering if she does. It’s only a vague possibility that i’ve entertained based on personal experience, but it would be unfounded, spurious even, to conclude such a thing about someone i don’t even know, a celebrity no less. 

Sarcasm aside, I actually don't think the two things are mutually exclusive. I think we're confusing musical elitism with actual passion for music, to be honest. Sure, I'm a full album type of person who thinks that listening to The Dark Side Of The Moon in any way other than in its entirety and in the right order should be punishable by imprisonment, but who am I to say that my passion and appreciation for music is bigger than that of someone who only listens to singles, or deletes the tracks they don't like, or listens to Pink Floyd albums on shuffle?

 

She's been making music for a living for years now; I think it's safe to assume she loves and appreciates it, even if it is in her own particular and unorthodox way.

What’s this have to do with elitism? If anything, she's the one who could be accused of elitism here. The point of my joke wasn’t to ridicule her limited musical scope, but rather to highlight the ridiculous claim that no one appreciates music at the level she does. 

For instance, I love wine; do I love it any less than a wine taster, even if I know much less about it?

Well, now imagine you claiming that no one really appreciates wine like you. 

I'm not her to go all CAPITAL LETTERS DENOUNCE THE BITCH like a few people around here. 

I really don't think anyone here is doing that. 

Hey, so, i'm going to spend two years telling people that i'm more of a singles person and that my favorite songs are Hotel California and Wicked Game (which i will continually refer to as Wicked Games) and all the hits by the masters of every genre, like, uhm, Bob Dylan and Kurt Cobain and Eminem, and then lament the fact that i just can't meet anyone with such a deep passion and appreciation for music like my boyfriend and i have. You know, people who really live and breath music? Never mind, no one understands.  

I am in agreement with those who think this is an annoying, defensive, evasive, whiny interview. What bothers me though is not so much her “attitude” but how juvenile she can be.  

Also, she seems to not really understand a lot of concepts and things that she’s asked about. For example, i don’t think she really knows what it means to be anti-feminist. I have never read anything from her about art, politics, or philosophy that gave me the impression she had anything to say on the matter. I wonder if she is as much of a simpleton/anti-intellectual/philistine, etc. as she comes across in interviews or if it’s an act. That’s not something i hold against her, i’m just making an observation (through my biased lens obviously). I still wonder if she has some sort of “personality disorder” (which i've wondered pretty much since day 1, so that is not something i'm drawing up because she was a bit erratic in this interview) or if she’s on a lot of antidepressants.

At any rate, i have a hard time finding anything engaging or interesting in her interviews. The more of them that i read/watch, the more i see her fitting into this pattern i’ve noticed in my life where the people whose music i really love are the ones who i’m least interested in as people (do any of you experience this too?), which is one reason why i have no interest in meeting any artists whose music i follow. BUT...this is also, i think, another testament to the potency of music, that it can allow me to take an interest in the lives of people who i’d otherwise have little to no interest in. 

While we're discussing Sirens--is 128 the best quality it leaked in? I remember ldr.fm was on download lockdown so I had to get a less reliable link from tumblr and I've never questioned it.

Yes sir, it is only circulating in true 128 kbps.