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"You can be my photon, daddy" is the best lyric Lana's never written

I considered quoting all the disgusting posts in this thread, but there's a quote limit. So I'll focus instead on those defending this behavior:
 

This is a complete strawman. No one's acting as if crimes have been committed. (Although some of you were advocating crimes being committed. I don't think that should even be joked about given the history of this fanbase.) I'm acting as if shitty, childish behavior occurred that made me ashamed to be associated with this fanbase or this forum. Which is what happened.  

What a terrible, dismissive argument: That calling someone out on their bullshit is somehow being a "parent". A friend isn't being a good friend to you if they don't tell you when you have dirt on your face. And I don't think it's being "holier than thou" to expect a very minimal level of decency. 
From the beginning, I doubted whether Aaron LaCrate really intended to post the song. He has a history of toying with Lana fans. But we'll never know. It would be one thing if he had reneged on his promise to post the song after being politely asked by a large number of fans, and if people started giving him shit after a reasonable amount of time, like maybe 24 hours. But that's not what happened here. People were so fucking impatient. They harassed him almost immediately. Frankly, I find it frightening the lengths some of you will go for Lana content. And that's saying something coming from a sleuth like me. As I said in my MotW:

And for what it's worth, I called out Mr. LaCrate on Twitter too lest I be accused of being completely one-sided here. However, to borrow a Biblical metaphor here, I believe in removing the plank in your own eye (and your own community's eyes) before removing specks of dust from others' eyes.

As a wise man once said:
 

Omg explain.

Omg explain.

If Lana's team gets wind of this, we're guaranteed to never get the song, unless we get it from a third party. That's what happened with Gaga and Rob Fusari.

LMFAO when I told him to just leak the stems he said "you're going to make lizzy have a fit". Y'all know how Lana feels about leaks.

Phuck Bip Ling tbh

yayo.
yayo from aka is one of my favourite lana songs, but on paradise it`s suckish asgbhjkl;

It's not my favorite, but I do think it's a pretty good song. The demo is amazing.

srsly. My day was RUINED on Tuesday. I imported it from the UK because I really didn't feel like waiting for Interscope to get it together. All this for Lucky Ones, which I don't even care for. But, like, it's the principle of the matter, so.

Are we forgetting that one important missing track WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME WHEN I'M NO LONGER YOUNG AND F*CKING BEAUTIFUL

Someone at Interscope had one job. ONE JOB.

I'll take a deluxe box set in return for the inconvenience.

Imma kick back and watch this train run out of steam while people project their guilt onto others, assume Lana's motives and intentions, and pretend to know how the music industry works. All, of course, over a tall glass of maple syrup lemonade, a mountain of spaghetti, and a slice of lemon pie cake.
 
NO, but 4 seriously guyz, this is, uh, insane. Pooling money together so that one person can make a trip to DC to hear some old recordings and then report back with a verbal description of them? There's liking an artist's music and then there's being pathologically obsessive. That said, i'm not trying to stop anyone here. Be merry and carry on.
 
To those who moralistically recoil at the mere thought of tracking down these songs, and cite the "personal" nature of her unreleased music as evidence for leaving it be: these songs are registered at the LOC, not sitting on an old hard drive of hers in oblivion. Throughout the years leading up to getting signed to a major, she has distributed her music, whether at shows, giving physical copies to acquaintances and colleagues, or putting them up online. And now she's a major artist. You think a signed artist has the agency to just release whatever music whenever they desire? What do you think record labels, label executives, and distributors are for? She's under contract, of which we don't know the terms--she can't just "release" her music as she pleases, so the argument that because she hasn't done so yet she must not want to, is meaningless. That is flawed logic and a gross oversimplification.
 
Maybe she doesn't care for that old stuff. Maybe she doesn't even think about it anymore. Maybe she's embarrassed by it given the age at which it was recorded. But again, Sirens was given out to people, and these other unknown songs are registered with the LOC. The fact of the matter is that she is now a public recording artist with a back catalogue of registered music. This business about her old songs being "too personal" is hogwash. The idea being discussed in this thread wouldn't even cause material to leak. Now that is another topic altogether--the moral implications of pirating intellectual property. Why don't we discuss THAT rather than making shit up?

As someone said earlier, she needs to get a tampon for her leaks.

I've mentioned this on Twitter and SIN, but I thought I should post this information here. Before the "List of unreleased Lana Del Rey songs" Wikipedia page was recently deleted, it mentioned a 7-track audio recording called either "Rock Me Stable" or "Young Like Me" registered with the US Copyright Office by Elizabeth Woolridge Grant in 2005, which I believe would pre-date "Sirens". The Wikipedia page had also mentioned an unreleased song called "From the End", also registered with the US Copyright Office by Elizabeth Woolridge Grant in 2005. However, the notes in this listing say "Words & music (collection)", so this may also be another album and not just an individual song. Before we get too carried away, it is possible that these songs may all be on "Sirens", or there may be significant overlap, but the possibility of two more early albums is exciting nonetheless.
 
To view the copyright listings, click here. Type "Grant, Elizabeth Woolridge" in the "Search for" field and search by name.
 
I've already made inquiries with the Library of Congress and the US Copyright office as to whether there is any possible way to listen to these recordings. I'm not optimistic, but I should get an answer within a few business days.
 
Also, note that the 2005 listings show her birth year as 1985, not 1986, which indicate that she is really 27 years old, not 26.

Lana's complete absence of hype absolutely destroying Xtina's longevity, love it.