Escapism

Something what grunge Tumblr in 2014 would've died for. But honestly, a yes 

Arctic Monkeys and The Neighbourhood
would fit perfectly

this is so funny for multiple reasons cause like…they had just learned to be potty trained and were probably playing in some little tikes kitchen set with snot running down their nose during lanas debut eras 
 
also actual grunge fashion started in the 1980s if i remember correctly?? and had a much heavier and iconic influence in the 90s that then had a resurgence on tumblr that created its own variation ( being soft grunge) ??? 
like did they just watch one of those nostalgia slide shows of tumblr soft grunge 2014 and assumed that was the creation of grunge? 
even then most people on tumblr at that time who had actual influence on the soft grunge trend were millennials and some at the very very start of gen z... 
but yeah i feel like some of these kids who grew up with social media to such a heavy extent have a certain… arrogance to them and will believe anything they see online 

those sad lana video edits that are about her weight are corny as fuck and weird.

as a gen-z lana del rey fan, i apologize on the behalf of the more recent, annoying fans! although i am an older gen-z and i've been a fan for around 8 years at this point so i'm certainly not new to her, she's definitely settled into my identity, but even at 13 when i was a new fan, i wasn't annoying about her or saw her as just simply an aesthetic like i believe some fans unfortunately do, she's always been associated with aesthetics, which i think makes sense, since her music's very visual and she does incorporate a lot of beautiful visuals in her work, back in the mid-2010s, people associated her with tumblr, tumblr grunge, etc. and now she's primarily associated with the coquette aesthetic (which i do not understand, obviously her music's very glamourous and outwardly feminine energetically, but i just do not think of white, pink, lace, hearts, and bows when i listen to songs like pretty when you cry or body electric, i think more gentle, whimsical songs like video games and sweet sound coquette though) i feel like people just see her as something trendy and aesthetic instead of multi-faceted artist who should be seen for what they actually are and taken seriously, it's the same thing with all of the stupid, tired jokes regarding cocaine, sugar daddies, and roses with cigarettes hanging out of them... they never applied to her before and they never will, her art means so much more, even back when i was a teenager it bothered me and i knew her music was much more than that, i feel i always understood it, and i feel a lot of people just don't and it frustrates me
 
oh, and i also hate it when people joke about how listening to lana del rey at a young age made them a mess or something like that, her music isn't a bad influence, i started listening to her at 13 and it only made my life better because i love the music and it means something to me, it isn't lana's fault that you're a hot mess express

this!! also when people blame their attraction to older people or issues with their parents on her, even jokingly. it's old and it dulls her art to very superficial level, thus creating the stereotypes and the defenses people who don't like her use when they wanna trash talk her music. i always feel like the closing track of honeymoon is her begging against this

I actually really love Lana's "boring", languid, slow songs 

This is going to be VERRYYYY unpopular but I don’t think Lana’s Skins Campaign was THAT great. It was very cunty and gorgeous but I think Skims has had much better campaigns. I don’t think they really did the best they could, the only truly incredible picture from that whole shoot is the blue heart box. I think my big disappointment in hindsight is that it was shot in front of a plan backdrop rather than a set like the Interview Mag shoot.
 
But don’t get me wrong it was still world stopping and one of the coolest things she has done, it really started off 2024 with a BANG

omg i really agree with this one.. its so sad some of lanas best work isn't noticed by her tiktok fans and stuff, just like born to die and ultraviolence

that's actually hilarious  
It was deff millienials that started Tumblr grunge, gen z followed in their footsteps. I was on Tumblr (prob way younger than I should've been) starting in 2011. Only older gen Z were in high school during the prime years of Tumblr 2012-2015. But majority of gen Z were literal children not even online yet  
It's funny being in between generations, because I see both sides and know which is actually true.
 
Arguing with some of those TikTok lana fans is honestly pointless because they always think they're right. It's always the ones who've been fans for 2 years, are rude, and listen to the same 10 songs that circulate the app. OGs have been here for well over a decade  I just ignore them at this point, I see so much misinformation about Lana on there.

Is it just kids in general these days, on tiktok yesterday I had somebody arguing that tumblr grunge fashion was created by gen z.. I chimed in saying I’m a young millennial and it was definitely me and older people dressing like that lol (tumblr was definitely thriving for millennials)
 
they started gaslighting me that I’m not a millennial and I’m gen z.. then I realised they were 15 and just left  I don’t even comment on Lana TikTok’s because it’s always some preteen ready to argue you’re not a fan even though I was listening to her debuts when I was older than them now lol

True, agreed! But when I'm thinking about it more, then in the early 2010s media and the Internet had no filters at all, people just said some of the nastiest stuff ever without thinking and people got away with it without any "cancelling" ("cancelling" became very popular this decade). As you can see it in some of the decade old LanaBoards posts, some of the early users said very mean stuff about Lana.
 
But now, since forums aren't really dominating in this era, LanaBoards has become a cozier place now, not like any of the social media platforms.

those sad lana video edits that are about her weight are corny as fuck and weird.

i am loving her outfits lately wow

From later in the night while backstage at The Beach Boys’ performance with Guy Fieri and Mike Love -

 
She is so stunnnnning she always looks amazing in white. The dress reminds me a bit of the iconic ‘Ride’ dress!! Xx

Prettiest girls in country music 🤠

the entirety of aka lizzy grant would be a dream  

those sad lana video edits that are about her weight are corny as fuck and weird.

That season could’ve been better, leaving all the action to the last episode was a mistake. I wish they would’ve connected the coven witches in this or at least set it up that they were going to fight in a future season. 

those sad lana video edits that are about her weight are corny as fuck and weird.

Unreleased songs on new Lana records sound tacky if she’s not gonna rework them (unless it’s Yosemite on Chemtrails then it works). 

I don't like Lana's fandom in social media, especially in the 2020s. I wasn't there in the early 2010s, so I don't know how the fandom was in social media then but just nowadays it's just full of toxicity. Tbh I've noticed some toxicty in the live shows as well and that was in the 2010s as well.
 
I only love it here, it's like the only safe place I kinda wanna gatekeep...

those sad lana video edits that are about her weight are corny as fuck and weird.

those sad lana video edits that are about her weight are corny as fuck and weird.

those sad lana video edits that are about her weight are corny as fuck and weird.