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    I recently finished a Twin Peaks rewatch, and hearing this song shortly after reminded me so much of Laura Palmer :defeated: 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 :crai:

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    15 minutes ago, Creyk said:

    She called herself an american whore for the whole world to hear, compared to that this thread is nothing.


    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  :true:

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    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 :toofunny: 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 :grinds:

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    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 :troll:

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  7. Posted

    Missing this game :whine2: So, both great songs, but I choose Writer in the Dark!

     

    1. Monster Man - Jesse Jo Stark
    2. Last Drink - Daniele Luppi, Greg Gonzales
    3. The Longing - Tamino
    4. Your Best American Girl - Mitski
    5. Phantom - Rina Sawayama
    6. Billie Toppy - Men I Trust
    7. Buddy's Rendezvous - Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty
    8. God Turn Me Into a Flower - Weyes Blood
    9. Would've, Could've, Should've - Taylor Swift
    10. Suite: Jonny - Faye Webster
    11. Watercolor Eyes - Lana Del Rey
    12. Posing for Cars - Japanese Breakfast
    13. Lovesong - beabadoobee
    14. Labyrinth - Taylor Swift
    15. End of a Friendship - Julia Jacklin
    16. Field of Mud - Camille Jansen
    17. Nobody Gets Me - SZA
    18. Paper Bag - Fiona Apple
    19. Writer in the Dark - Lorde

     

    1. Monster Man - Jesse Jo Stark

     

     

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    2. Last Drink - Daniele Luppi, Greg Gonzales

     

     

     

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    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: 

     

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    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 :creep: 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 :crai: 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 :hooker:

     

    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 :oprah7:

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  14. Posted

    On 9/25/2022 at 7:50 PM, honeybadger said:

    Brea: There any uh, romances in the trailer park?
    L: Well, mmm, um, yeah. Well, not, like, from within [?]. But I guess it did enter into the trailer park. And I had some good friends, Bill and Jim, who’d come and pick me up and drive me around and find a new 7/11 to go explore. Um, but yeah. 


    Just earmarking this in light of the new Billy/Alabama lore… :oprah7:

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    Happy birthday AKA, you may never have become the whole world's girl, but you're certainly ours :flutter: 

     

    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

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  19. Posted

    19 hours ago, Lindsay Lohan said:

    I don't believe she hated some songs off the album like Gramma, Yayo, and For K pt 2, but others ... all speculation but I don't think she was too crazy for Smarty or Say Can You See since those are the only songs off the album which she has not sung live (from what we know)

     

    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

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  21. Posted

    The way this still sounds just as fresh as the day it leaked :oprah: 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 :oprah2: 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 

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