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Anyone ever run into the username 'lizzygrantandthelipstickpickups' before? I just found it through the Wayback Machine, connected somehow to her lizzygrant MySpace profile... it's adorable

The way this still sounds just as fresh as the day it leaked Kind of one of my favorite songs ever, not gonna lie... Heavy Hitter's a great song regardless, but she did some alchemy with this one I feel like the haziness of the laptop vocals is so perfect here, and they kind of run together with the instrumental, which has all the extra yells and wails that layer together with Lana's BVs... it's so smoky Florida Dark, it's so drugged-out on a summer highway, it's so surf-noir-Tropicana bliss. Neon palmmm take me AWAY

Omg ur gonna leak sugary sweet tomorrow?

So who’s gonna take one for the team and get permabanned for leaking the original file of The Song Which Shall Not Be Named

Baby we’ve got lyric threads

Just remembered this post, and needed to come back and give gratitude for Greenwich Acid and Star Lux leaking Feeling so lucky that two songs from my MOST-WANTED list surfaced!!!!!! I'll prolly remake this list soon, but bitch u best believe the studio version of LMH is staying Right There

I buy it

I kind of feel like I just had a revelation

Proposing a theory that track 12 could be "Film Roll"? I think the second word is especially distinctive, with the R and double Ls pretty clear to me. If it's 'film,' I think it's a little hard to read because the right side of the 'm' is kind of faint and makes it look like an 'e'... I've attempted to illustrate:

I'm currently catching up on Kali unreleased, and this... last time I updated my collection we only had one version Someone plz I'm so confused lmfao

My vinyl copy of UV survived a house fire, and while it's probably not smart for me to keep playing it... there's something cunty about that album in particular getting covered in soot/smoke #gasleakthoughts

I love doing this kind of stuff, esp. for older artists... totally gonna start researching when I get off work today

Both lyrics are in Bad Boy!

Felt like I was going insane reading this thread bc I LOVED the interview Such a thoughtful and intimate character sketch imo, I didn't mind not getting music tea because this just felt special and personal. I totally get being sick of the authenticity debate, but I think it's still relevant in that LDR *just* seems to be fully shaking that off in the public consciousness -- and as such, I really liked that the interviewer was transparent about what preconceived notions she had before/as she interviewed Lana. I think you'd be hard-pressed as an entertainment journalist to not carry at least some of those claims in the back of your head, given how widespread they've been since the early 2010s, so I found it super refreshing that she was up-front about what lens she was viewing Lana through. I think writing on LDR is owed that kind of clarity and candidness after so many instances of journalists intentionally misrepresenting her in their coverage I'll take a million more interviews like this, from people who seem genuinely and respectfully curious about Lana, and are doing something a little different than a streamlined publicity piece (or mean-spirited takedowns, ofc)

BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALLLLLLL SHE LOOKS SO GOOD Maybe the quintessential latter-day Lana shoot? Grown-up, sexy, and a few referential winks… her mind

Severely underrated, methinks “[My father’s] wife” is even more devastating than “What kind of was she?”

So sad that I’m not there tonight too expensive for my post-college budget so I’m seeing a silent film instead

Pleasantville — it’s about the world inside a 1950s sitcom being revolutionized by a guy who gets sucked into his TV! It’s visually really cool with all the 50s aesthetics, but also really beautiful plot-wise

I guess I can only really speak for myself, but as someone who grew up poor (in a singlewide trailer, baby!!), I feel like the classist critiques that have been leveled at Lana all the way back to her work as Lizzy are so petty Like, maybe this is short-sighted, but I feel like the people incensed about this are probably by-and-large probably not people even affected by the things they’re mad about. I just don’t think actual blue-collar workers actually give a shit that Lana hung out with the Waffle House workers when they have actual real problems

Gonna sob at work brb

It’s hilarious, because her pre-2010 dating history is just as convoluted: Josh, Arthur, Steven, Reeve (?), and Mike all within a five-ish year span

Found it! It seems like this could be the article the tweet was referencing: Interesting that it lists a potential release for AKA in summer 2009, which could suggest that there was a plan B when the February release didn't take place... and yet it still didn't drop until the next year

I feel like there’s a NY newspaper article from 08’-09’ that mentions God Bless America as the album’s prospective title! Bit vague on what the actual source is, but it’s definitely been posted somewhere around

Literally such a dumb thing for ppl to say when she went on record talking about how happy the writing/recording process of AKA was and how inspired she felt