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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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

If they did, an overwhelming majority of this forum would be okay with it      

I don't have time to respond to this entire post right now, but I couldn't not respond quickly to this part:
 

You could, you know, respond to what I've actually written or ask me to clarify what I've written rather than putting words in my mouth and making straw arguments. I never said all the media criticism was valid nor did I endorse any of the accusations you listed. What I did say is that she accused the media of slander against her and her family about things she continues to lie about in the same breath, and that she falsely claimed that she doesn't have money and that her family never had any money. In the same response that she mentions media slander, she says, "Everything they wrote was fucking crazy. Like about my dad, about me, like having millions of dollars, and all this shit." While I don't doubt that there were lean periods for her family financially, or that her father may have sustained large losses in the market during the bursting of various bubbles, or that much of his net worth was merely on paper, or whatever caveats you'd like to add, I'm quite confident in concluding that her father did have at least a million dollars (if not millions), and what you yourself wrote supports that conclusion. Later in the interview she says, "Saying I came from billions of dollars is crazy. We never had any money." I think it's telling that she moves the goalposts from millions to billions mid-interview, because I think she knows her dad probably is worth a couple million. No one ever said she came from billions of dollars, although she certainly did rub elbows with her dad's business contacts who were billionaires. At any rate, even if I am somehow wrong about her dad having millions of dollars, her claim that her family "never had any money" is just patently false. One need not even consider her father's business assets to determine this. It is obvious considering the property her father owns and the cost of tuition at Kent. Again, I never said anywhere, and do not necessarily believe, that her dad significantly funded her career (though I also don't think he was completely uninvolved in her career either). If Lana defended herself against this accusation by saying "My dad didn't fund my career" I would simply leave it at that. But that's not what she says. She says, "We never had any money" when the opposite is true. And if lying about coming from privilege weren't shitty enough, she has the gall to accuse the media of slander for saying so.

And it gets worse. Later in the interview she says, "Before I had no money. And now everything I make, I lose. So I don’t have money again, because I lose half." Perhaps she's referring to all the other people she has to pay, but presumably she's referring to taxes. It's one thing when rich people bitch about how much they have to pay in taxes. (And I confess, most of you would probably consider me rich, and I've been known to express sticker shock about how much I've had to pay at one time, but not that it was unfair. In fact, I think I should have to pay more.) But it's a whole 'nother thing for the rich to not only claim that they're not rich after taxes, but that they don't have any money afterwards. Boo fucking hoo. Tell it to your topiary pony, Lana.

On a final note, I really take issue with this:
Frankly, this is an incredibly presumptuous and rude remark, especially considering this was your first post made mere hours after joining the forum. You might take some time to familiarize yourself with members' views and contributions to the forum before making insulting comments like that toward them. If you're going to wing in here and question other fans' presence on a discussion forum for expressing their honest criticism, then, I may ask, why are you here?

Welcome to LanaBoards!

though tho
 
   

I was just listening to this song while making a sandwich. Gosh, it’s such a good song. It’s so tender and heartbreaking. It’s an especially great song for nighttime. I love the loose quality it has, how it sounds like it was just a quick and spontaneous thing, recorded one night in a sudden flash of inspiration, like it just needed to come out. I love how understated but unique the backing track is with that incongruous drum machine and the little weird noises. I wouldn’t change a thing about it. 
 
These lyrics, i think, are some of her most heartfelt. It’s just chock-full of such simple yet powerful and poignant lines that i think a lot of people can relate to. I especially love the line “the panic and the fear.” Anyone who suffers from panic attacks knows that it’s one of the worst feelings in the world. 
 
Doesn’t the chorus sound like something you’ve heard before in another life? That melody seems to perfectly capture the song’s sentiments, that sense of feeling trapped and that realization that you have to do something, make some sort of change in your life. Your dead-end relationship has sort of become your comfort zone. You think you can change the relationship or even the other person, but you know you’re just lying to yourself. 
 
Her falsetto in this song has a strange quality to it, it’s almost hysterical. And at the end when she abruptly comes out of it back into her lower register (as she’s repeating that she’s done being afraid), it makes me think of, like, when you’ve been crying for hours and you just suddenly snap out of it because you just physically cannot cry anymore.  
 
What a fucking song.

Dude...what the hell happened to Elizabeth's lyrical skills? She was so good and it seems after she peaked she just went gradually downhill, but in such a short amount of time. Why did the quality of her writing drop so much? ¿Que paso con esta chica, coño?

Just realized a way to test this out. Go to youtube and start typing Lana Del Rey with any of the Elizabeth C. Grant titles that are commonly mistaken as Lana titles (Epiphany, Little Angel, Break The Cycle, Jonah, Lullabye) and you will see that auto complete will come on for all of them. So i think it also happens for common searches. What are the chances that someone has fake videos for all of the ECG song titles, set on private, ready for when these songs never leak?

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.
 
 
 
 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. 

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.
 
 
 
 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. 

Black Beauty 
 

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.  

Transcribers, get ready to interject [sic] a lot 

Transcribers, get ready to interject [sic] a lot 

Transcribers, get ready to interject [sic] a lot 

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

 
Totally unintentional.