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it's probably my fave LDR fan creation ever missing the king @Lana De Los Reyes -- i mentioned offhandedly that an AKA trailer would've been so cool, and he came out with THAT masterpiece every single frame is so incredible and there's so many lil easter eggs and nods omg... plus THAT SOUND EDIT

Thank you!!!!!!!!! The video section is up now -- I opted to just link to the Early Shows section for live videos because why reinvent the wheel after @evilentity catalogued them all really well, but the interviews, music vids, and fan videos are all here! If anyone can think of anything you'd like to see in the OP, lemme know! (@electra, are you planning on including a section for AKA-era collectibles on your site? If not, I might make one here, and mention the CDs + Keds + Blurt magazine and talk a lil about the vinyl bootlegs)

THE OP IS FINALLY FIXED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I decided to completely overhaul it -- I've done a write-up of AKA's history, included info on demos/outtakes, and inserted helpful links. A videos section is on the way I put quite a bit of time and work into this, so please check it out, and let me know if anything is missing/incorrect! Talking about AKA is one of my passions, so thanks y'all, for indulging me

Right!!! I was so sure Kahne did them, but nope, looks like he just borrowed a lot from Mertens -- it's like he either completely scrapped Mertens' ideas (Mermaid Motel, Brite Lites) or totally built off of them (The Ocean, QOTGS). Still hoping there's more AKA tracks that Mertens tried out in studio sessions And omg yes the New Mexico section makes the song a million times better for me -- QOTGS is my least fave on AKA, but the acoustic and Mertens demos I can vibe with so much more

Relistening to Mertens' demos for AKA, it's honestly pretty crazy how much of his material Kahne ran with production-wise for the final album -- some tracks, like Brite Lites and Mermaid Motel got TOTALLY reworked, but tracks like The Ocean and Queen are so close to the final. It's still pretty hard to believe that The Ocean is Mertens' work because of that, but Also, oh my god, when am I ever going to fix the OP for this thread

haven’t been reading spoilers... except this one <3 amazing

I'm so obsessed with Be My Daddy, Lolita, I Talk to Jesus, and DMD -- they're all serving me Myspace graphics and I mean that as a HUGE compliment bc I'm so in love with that aesthetic I know that could sound like a read in the wrong hands but no I am litcherally obsessed they're so cute

inb4 that makes its way onto the lists of Cry Baby outtakes

I don’t even listen to Melanie but I love reading this thread Y’all always got so much goin on Me, clueless, reading 20 pages worth of posts about an LQ snippet of Cookie Killer (home demo) leaking:

I think there's already a thread for this kinda thing! But here's my ranking from that one: I'm gonna revise my list a little bit, though, now that we have some more info on some songs 1. White Dress 2. Dark But Just a Game 3. Not All Who Wander Are Lost 4. Tulsa Jesus Freak 5. Yosemite 6. Dance Till We Die 7. For Free 8. Wild at Heart 9. Breaking Up Slowly 10. Chemtrails Over the Country Club 11. Let Me Love You Like a Woman

amending this to add on any of Lizzy's modeling work for magazines and such -- has anyone found any of her Hollister ads etc. in the wild?

aside from the Blurt mag and the near-mythical physical copies of aka + kill kill + sirens/ylm, is there anything else to collect pre-2010? omg has anyone ever run across the Keds she designed

omg legend

EXTREMELY jealous of this omfg

Still can't listen to Other Woman (the unreleased) without hearing her alternate in the choruses between "other woman, other woman" and "I don't want another woman," but she sounds hella congested on that track anyway so

i know i know i shouldn’t really be dancing at a time... LIKE THIS

okay why are there only three posts abt Roisin Machine...

I think my HOLY GRAIL these days is Lemonade Motorcycle Heaven If it's totally original, hot, and if it's a studio rework of Dance for Money, then maybe even better

i didn’t think it was aimed at anyone in particular! but we were addressing the same situation

i don't think it's really all that invasive when we're discussing a post someone made publicly i feel like the culture of this forum is generally that it's okay to speculate and talk about LDR's public life, as long as it's not mean-spirited or with ill-will, and i don't think my calling Jen's post odd or bizarre and comparing it to my own friendships crosses that line. if it does, and i'm misreading what's appropriate here, then i'll gladly own my mistake -- but considering the Lananalysis thread, dedicated to snooping on every single romantic relationship the woman has had, is practically a cornerstone of Lanaboards history, I think it's all good it's nice of you to look out for LDR tho bc god knows there's a lot of ppl genuinely tryna be invasive and hateful towards her

i mean, note my disclaimer that everybody might not think it's weird! you're valid! btw, i do have friends! and maybe i'd use a pic of us together at my wallpaper, but something seems weirder about singling in on ONE friend, by themselves, to make your wallpaper -- more bizarre is that it's a childhood pic, and Jen didn't know her at that age... like idk if you don't already think it's strange then i think it'd be hard to explain why it's off-putting to me also wondering if she got the pic from LDR or found it where stans had posted it lmfao

idk if this is the spot for this but @/lizzyology caught this and posted it on their story and i was like wayment... apparently Jen has a childhood pic of Lana as her phone wallpaper??? which like ik it's not my place to judge and maybe everyone doesn't think that's kinda bizarre but well... i do

i was waiting ANXIOUSLY in my dorm for it to drop; immediately watched it with my roommate and was blown away then got all argumentative bc he said FILY was better than TG and even tho he turned out to be actually insane... i ended up agreeing a long ways down the road so where were you when the iconic Lizzy Grant demo CD (with The Ocean, etc.) leaked

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holy shit, SO bizarre that you started this today -- her song Telepathy has been in my head ALL day but YES Lene rocks!!!! Stateless is one of my fav albums ever -- and her cover of I Think We're Alone Now is one of my fav songs ever Too Tender (To Touch) is like runner-up so TASTE