mermaid motel

"My muse is very fickle. She only comes to me sometimes, which is annoying."
 
*has like 300 known songs*
 

Why is an interview from Jaime included in there?

a few scans
http://www.ebay.com/itm/LANA-DEL-REY-NYLON-MAGAZINE-NOVEMBER-2013-/141094313466?&_trksid=p2056016.l4276

omg is lana pigeon-toed like me?

#fuckyeahpigeontoedpeopleunite

I found a bunch of old Lake Placid News (LPN), Adirondack Daily Express (ADE), Plattsburgh Press-Rebulican (PPR) articles archived as black and white PDF scans that mention Lizzy, some with photos of her:
 
 
 
Here's a rundown of the rest of the references:
 
Involvement in Sports
Skiing. "Lately, the students of St. Agnes School have accomplished a lot out of school. Many SAS students particpated recently in some exciting ski races: NYSEF World Cup race for JV (ages 7-10). Placings are as follows... Elizabeth Grant 20th". January 25, 1995 LPN Sports page box score showing her run time and placing ("8. Elizabeth Grant   44.33") in the Ed Damp Junior V World Cup. March 12, 1996 PPR
"The New York Ski Educational Foundation (NYSEF) held its annual family race and picnic for participants in the.series last Saturday, at which time the final standings were released... Elizabeth Grant (259)... Completed the top 10." March 23, 1996 ADE
Skating. "The following scholarships have been awarded by the Skating Club of Lake Placid to the skaters named below... $50 scholarships for ice or lessons... Elizabeth Grant." March 27, 1997 ADE Softball. She played center fielder for her middle school team. "Elizabeth grant [sic] OF-C". April 10, 1998 LPN Involvement in Other Extra-curricular Activities
Choir. "The Lake Placid High School (LPHS) concert started off with the chorus singing 'Psallite'. They song many traditional Christmas Carols [sic]. The chorus personnel are... Elizabeth Grant". March 7, 2000 LPN "After the Women's Ensemble it was the high school chorus' time to shine... Medley from 'Les Miserables' had many soloists, such as... Elizabeth Grant". June 23, 2000 LPN
What song do you think she sang?
Performed in a variety show (as well as Chuck and Charlie). June 23, 2000 LPN Secretary of the high school Key Club. "On Tuesday May 9, the Key Club members welcomed new leadership... Congratulations also go to the new secretary. Elizabeth Grant". June 23, 2000 LPN Staff of the Blue Times Bomber, the school newspaper which appears to have been an insert in the Lake Placid News. January 28, 2000  March 17, 2000 LPN  June 23, 2000 LPN Confirmation. "On Sunday afternoon. May 21, at 4:30 p.m.. Bishop Gerald Barbarito, bishop of Ogdensburg, came to Lake Placid and confirmed more than 50 people from area Roman Catholic churches, including St Agnes... It was a beautiful and solemn ceremony, with the church's altars and pillars decked in red, the bishop in his red chasuble (robe), wearing his miter on his head and holding his staff in hand. On the altar, dozens of red roses arranged in large vases added to the festive atmosphere. The 17 Lake Placid young people, all dressed in white robes, who received the gifts of the Holy Spirit in the sacrament of confirmation included... Elizabeth Grant". May 26, 2000 LPN Honor Roll
 
There are also many articles that list her on the honor roll:
Grade 7, High Honors. January 9, 1998 LPN  February 13, 1998 LPN  March 27, 1998 LPN  March 27, 1998 ADE  March 30, 1998 PPR  May 29, 1998 ADE  June 9, 1998 ADE  June 19, 1998 LPN  July 31, 1998 PPR Grade 8, Honors. March 5, 1999 LPN  March 8, 1999 ADE  March 12, 1999 LPN  May 7, 1999 LPN Grade 8, High Honors. June 18, 1999 LPN  July 20, 1999  July 23, 1999 LPN Grade 9, Honors. December 24, 1999 LPN  December 31, 1999 LPN  January 28, 2000 LPN This establishes pretty well that she started 9th grade in the fall of 1999. Unless you skip a grade, kids are 14 or 15 when they begin 9th grade (or at least turn 14 shortly after it begins). If Lizzy was really born in 1986 as she claims, she would have just turned 13 the summer before.   
 
Family Members
 
There's also a lot of articles mentioning other members of her family. I didn't spend a ton of time looking at those, but they appear to be mostly about her parents' efforts to organize opposition to a development project (Lake Placid does really remind me of Twin Peaks sometimes) for classic NIMBY reasons, her dad's real estate listings, and Chuck and Charlie's sports exploits (including a huge fish she caught).
 
However, this article describes in greater detail her dad's furniture company mentioned in that Domain Name Journal profile on him and this article gives more background on her family's ownership of "God Bless America" singer Kate Smith's home-- which Lizzy mentioned in this article and was the inspiration for the original title of AKA-- and their attempts to sell it at a large profit rather than an affordable price for the Kate Smith/God Bless America Foundation who wanted to turn it into a museum.
 
Note: Please let me know if any of my links appear wrong. That's a lot of links to copy and paste!

Yes
 
Leaked photo of Billboard #1 selling artist Lorde with our favorites' latest singles
 

Chaotic Sanity & Good Girls Go to Heaven.
 
edit: and now Fucked Up World

Let's start a petition to ban Lorde haters

i hope barrie and lana don't write an album together, i might die from their unique talent, after all, they are the only real musicians left in the world. how will a simple non-musical person like me even begin to understand it? 

I just keep reading Whitmanna Bokov

yall im committed. called hollywood cemetary today as ~tina from associated press~ and the events lady said there is no news/ nothing had been scheduled yet but I should check again later this week..hMMMM

you can watch from your window

Team is absolutely amazing. I made a cover for Pure Heroine the other day! 

 



 

Please like it on Coverlandia if you have an account there: http://coverlandia.net/covers/85336-lorde-pure-heroine <3

I see this comment come up a lot on the boards. We all know this iconic quote from Lizzy herself.
 
You don’t feel you have a group of people in music who you necessarily connect to—a scene, let’s say, or a group of peers? What you talk about publicly and in interviews—say, listening to the The Doors or Dylan—it all seems “normal”. But I think what you do is not normal, actually.
Well, I thought so, too. I thought my tastes and likes were pretty normal, but then I met everyone and I was like, “These people don’t actually care about music and art. They want to be cool.” I never met anyone who cared about music as deeply as me and my boyfriend, or who really cared about poetry—who really lived it and breathed it. I haven’t met anyone so far. I just can’t affiliate with those people.
 
Source: http://www.electronicbeats.net/en/features/interviews/lana-del-rey-interview/sthash.KDMlvbn1.dpuf
 
 
Personally I find this her most arrogant comment, and find it quite offensive.  
 
What are your thoughts?
 
Barrie is just so passionate that he left his band for a girl. 

hey guys...
 
 
         ONE MONTH TILL PURE HEROINE           

Oh thanks! And now I can only wish other fortunate Lorde concertgoers a good time instead of jealousy I would have preferred the size of the Belasco to the Fonda but I'm not in a position to complain too much considering how difficult it's been to see her the last few times I tried.
 
So much to look forward to in September now

Aw, finally. I'm glad! Came to this thread just to see if you got tix.

New emoticons?

 
Courtesy of this tumblr

They announced new expansion packs today.

Songs as a whole:
Carmen Off to the Races Disco Elvis Children of the Bad Revolution  Single lines:
I know a way to make gold, by making our souls to escape reality. There's no remedy for memory, your face is like a melody, it won't leave my head. Your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine. Mon Amour, sweet child of mine, you're divine. Didn't anyone ever tell you it's okay to shine? Buy my purple wig, for my mermaid video. Walk back to where I live in my motel on Neptune Avenue. Overdose and dying, on our drugs, and our love, and our dreams, and our rage. Not really my top 5, too hard to narrow it down to that...but just some I really love.

I have arrived.
 
Lorde is a Lana fan, let's start with that. Even down to the simplest teenage girl habits of captioning her Instagram pictures with her lyrics. Is she a fan like any of us? Obviously not. I'd even call her a "casual listener". Ella (lmao Lorde is hardly an alterego for her I feel uncomfortable carrying on a discussion calling her that) has a very mature personality from what I can tell but at the end of the day she is also an opinionated 16-year-old and she's allowed to have that, whether or not any young people who spend loads of time actually listening to Lana's entire discography are ~super enlightened~
 
I don't see this as an insult at all but I think she's trying to say that this isn't stuff that she's aiming for in her music. Not so much that she's trying to be the antithesis to LDR and I think there's obvious respect. Lana's message is extremely, achingly genuine, and at times it can be a little concerning in that way. Would I want her to stop? No. All I think Ella is doing is saying that she wants to offer a different viewpoint. In other interviews she's said the same about other pop singers, including Selena Gomez, so you can choke if you think this is some kind of vendetta against Lana. She's a fan. She's making a radical statement? No, she was asked about it and has given similar opinions on other parts of pop culture. You mean we, on LanaBoards, are only hearing about the part where she mentions Lana? Shock and awe.
 
Beyond establishing that there's no hatred whatsoever, I can't say I agree with her opinion after listening to Lana for all this time but again it's her opinion. Tbh she's probably just perceived it in a way that Lana didn't intend. Fault her for that but nothing else. I would love her to know a bit more about Lana before discussing her (praise to the bonus track mention, though). Gonna tweet her a bunch to see if she'll listen to AKA
 
to her being called a tumblr fad, though, her success is cummin

Lenny posted this to his instagram earlier.

Congratulation, you've been Lana Del Rey Onlin-ed!
 
 
They don't even care that everyone hates them here, they keep doing their thing and totally ignore our reactions. They need an intervention tbh.
 

Can't we like, ban them from lanaboards  

I AM ASPHYXIATING, LDRONLINE ALREADY STOLE THIS!