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The way my heart is beating out of my chest rn

BABY IM A GANGSTA TOOOOOOO

IM FREAKING OUTTTTT

What’s HAPPENINGGG the billboard… the soundchecks… she is such an artist We are not worthy of her MIND

Ashamed to admit I finished a full rewatch of the series with my bf recently I was obsessed as a preteen, kept notebooks with my own callout order + commentary as I watched the cycles (which I bet would be hilarious to read now!!!). It’s definitely a show that declined the longer it went on, but cycles 1-8 or so are must-see, imo, even with their share of problems. Tyra is so much more self-obsessed and insane than I remembered, which stays entertaining even when the show’s at its worst lmfao Also, can’t recommend the recap/discussion podcast Pod Ledom enough! They embrace ANTM’s insanity and are hilarious but also unpack a lot of the dated/downright awful aspects of the show. It’s become kind of an essential companion piece for me!

80’s Baby Reefer

Resistance Juleps

Is It Wrong? Lithium

I recently finished a Twin Peaks rewatch, and hearing this song shortly after reminded me so much of Laura Palmer For anyone who's seen Fire Walk with Me, it brings to mind the scene with James on the night she dies -- this pained dismissal of someone she loves, because she knows already that she won't survive

Easily P for me: Put Me in a Movie, Pin Up Galore, Peppers, Pawn Shop Blues, Pink Champagne, Puppy Love, Poetry in Motion, Party Girl and Platinum Greenwich Those alt titles come in handy

Last Girl on Earth vs. Born to Die

I think it just reads differently because that’s Lana discussing her past & sexuality on her own terms, versus a bunch of strangers debating it on a public forum. Not saying this conversation absolutely shouldn’t happen, especially because we’re people who consider ourselves fans and allies, but it’s complicated! I think it’s healthy to have some boundaries and maybe even a certain level of discomfort when digging into intimate parts of LDR or any other celebrities’ lives, esp. when it continues to be normalized to a scary extent on the internet. That she’s willing to tackle it in her music certainly opens up the conversation, but shouldn’t equal full reign to turn her story into total fan gossip fodder. The lines can be crazy blurry, but luckily I feel like most people on LB try hard to walk the line of curiosity as opposed to invasion of privacy

Yeah, I'm definitely not trying to deny the possibility of LDR doing some variety of stripping etc. out of some sort of moral judgement lol I doubt that's anyone's motivation here! Lana's just a special case of an artist who self-mythologizes a lot, seemingly both with intention and without. She has a long history of fudging details even when going on the factual record, so while it's interesting to speculate about what secrets her songs might reveal, I think all us naysayers are just trying to gently point towards their fallibility. And, of course, while we've all made it clear that we'd pass no judgement on Lana if this was a real part of her past, discussions about a person's history with sex work and drugs are invariably going to get kind of thorny, so I think it's necessary to approach speculative discussion like this with a good degree of sensitivity and tact. Anyway, cash comes quick when looks can kill

I think, like so much else in her early career, it was just a fantasy she liked working into her art. The only traces of a secret, salacious go-go dancer past are in the music and her videos, in which case she was also secretly Jackie Kennedy and the Black Dahlia

Missing this game So, both great songs, but I choose Writer in the Dark! Monster Man - Jesse Jo Stark Last Drink - Daniele Luppi, Greg Gonzales The Longing - Tamino Your Best American Girl - Mitski Phantom - Rina Sawayama Billie Toppy - Men I Trust Buddy's Rendezvous - Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty God Turn Me Into a Flower - Weyes Blood Would've, Could've, Should've - Taylor Swift Suite: Jonny - Faye Webster Watercolor Eyes - Lana Del Rey Posing for Cars - Japanese Breakfast Lovesong - beabadoobee Labyrinth - Taylor Swift End of a Friendship - Julia Jacklin Field of Mud - Camille Jansen Nobody Gets Me - SZA Paper Bag - Fiona Apple Writer in the Dark - Lorde 1. Monster Man - Jesse Jo Stark vs. 2. Last Drink - Daniele Luppi, Greg Gonzales

Jean Paul Gaultier, lingerie and A. Stone

Okay, this is about to be kind of a ramble about the above photos, but I guess the sleuthing thread is the place for it! I started looking into these photos earlier, because I thought I remembered them being connected to the Studio 356 sessions (makes sense, given the recording equipment + violin + Lizzy's hair). However, the weird part is that the poster on the back of the door matches this pic taken in 2007 in Lizzy and Chuck's apartment, where the violin is also barely visible: Given that I've never been able to track down any concrete evidence on Studio 356, is it possible that there's no such thing and the recordings were made at Lizzy's? If this is the case, I'm assuming that name was some sort of joke or invention of the band. In fact, I even have a sneaking suspicion that 356 could've been the apartment/street number This may have been noticed before, but it was kind of a revelation to me, after years of wishing I could crack whatever the hell Studio 356 is So, if anyone can shed any light on this, pls chime in -- if you're an ultra Lizzy stalker who knows her apartment/street number at this time... I need you Of course, there's also a chance that these photos are actually completely unrelated to those sessions, but in that case... what was she recording here

I’m sorry but “God’s a charlatan” is as silly a misreading as “I’m so me, Corinthians” from Fine China and both of them haunt me

I also have to remind myself every time that it’s not dog, but I do like the image of her and her dog taking midnight drives

Just earmarking this in light of the new Billy/Alabama lore…

Is there any possibility of these pics existing in higher quality, maybe from the photographer? The way even a tiny quality increase would cause SHOCKWAVES

Just voted some excruciatingly hard choices this year…

AKA's birthday is always a wonderful time to repost this beautiful creation by @Lana De Los Reyes I think it's truly a perfect trailer for AKA, and maybe one of the best things I've laid my eyes on in general <333

Happy birthday AKA, you may never have become the whole world's girl, but you're certainly ours One day, maybe I can articulate everything this album means to me, but wow... hearing AKA for the first time felt like coming home, and it's been that and so much more to me over the years. A comfort (a book of hymns?), an escape (my personal motel party!!), and the closest I'll probably ever hear to my own heart and mind being poured out into an album. For someone who grew up in that "dark trailer park life," and dreamt then and now of a bigger, more beautiful existence waiting somewhere out there, AKA says it all. Wild child, starry-eyed junkie, Coney Island Madonna, sick chanteuse and philosopher femme fatale... Lizzy Grant, ur everything

I've absolutely forgotten where I read this, but I recall a piece of email correspondence to a friend or something to that effect where Lizzy said OSCYS was a deeply personal song for her, that she often sang it to herself as a kind of comforting mantra. So, that one may have just been too close to her heart for her to give it a lot of public attention, and I can still see her cutting it from a later tracklist for that reason