Lana to be awarded the NMPA Songwriter Icon Award - June 12th

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8 minutes ago, Elle said:

Here's a transcription of her speech that I've just completed - 

"Thank you. Okay, okay. Really quickly, I want to say I feel like I've been in the middle of a litigation and also the middle of a new war. Shots fired. And then with this performance for a minute it was like an orchestra was on stage and I was in the middle of a 50s ballroom. I want to say really quickly to David, when you were speaking about Spotify, I had a flashback to when I was very young and I had this idea of what adults were going to be like and how they were going to treat children and take care of them and take care of each other. I don't know if I've ever not met anyone like you. Thank you for reminding me that there are people who still speak in sentences that I understand that resonate with how I feel, say things I don't want to say about things I feel really strongly about that I forget that I feel strongly about. I don't know. It was really, really interesting, so thank you for that. & Jody, Jody, I mean can we get a round of applause for Jody Gerson? To be up here with her obviously is an award in itself. I'm not unaware of that. To have Stephen Huvane sitting with me and my manager Ed Millett of 15 years is a privilege and I don't know. You kind of have to be in this room to know how important and special that is. God, I just felt like Erin Brockovich for a minute in the middle of this. It's perfect. Okay. This is just like the Ivors where I had nothing to say and then I heard all of the information and now I have so much to say. Well, I'm from Lake Placid, New York. It's six hours north of here. If you go through the Cascades, there's really only one way to go. Until I was 16, there was only about 900 people there. Coldest village in the nation other than the city of Duluth by the way. Fucking freezing. I graduated from Rose Hill up in the Bronx with a focus on metaphysics. I don't what's happening up here but we're going to go with it 'cause I was thinking about it down there when everybody was talking and I was okay, I'll paint a really quick picture of what it was like when I was getting into music. I was at Fordham up in the Bronx. I read Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich." Had nothing to do with money. I switched from the business program into becoming a philosophy major because his major point was to burn all bridges except to plan A. Absolutely no plan B. Now at that point I was 18 so the wake of my past had not crashed in. Life hadn't happened, and I was very open to only having a plan A and I was thrilled with it up until about the age of 26 when life was complicated by then after I became a little more well-known, but up until then my only friends really were in the books that I read. Napoleon Hill, things like that, or Esther Hicks "Ask and It Is Given." These wonderful writers encouraging me to have an invisible counsel if I didn't have a real counsel yet, which I do now with the most famous lawyers, managers, publishers in the world, but it took a lot of imagination. I didn't have to fake it 'til I made it. I had to really feel it. That's something that's really hard now as life has gotten more complicated. I've heard that the further along you go down a path, the path gets more narrow and so it's up to me to try and widen that path, so I feel excited, as excited as I did then. I work on it every day. The people I work with certainly make that easier. I guess I'm not often surprised, but I was really surprised by that speech and by everything, so thank you for that and thank you for this. I probably know at least 20% of the audience here which might surprise the rest of everybody, but congratulations to everybody. What a beautiful performance as well, so, thank you."

Thank you very much! It was actually a good speech, I think I got her main points.

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I'm literally in the middle of reading Think and Grow Rich 

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44 minutes ago, lyinginthesand said:

WE NEED THIS AS A NEW GIF https://x.com/i/status/1801014780586528980

I love how she always does this 

 

me trying to look cool and mysterious as a teen when I had a crush

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32 minutes ago, Elle said:

"I read Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich." Had nothing to do with money. I switched from the business program into becoming a philosophy major because his major point was to burn all bridges except to plan A. Absolutely no plan B. Now at that point I was 18 so the wake of my past had not crashed in. Life hadn't happened, and I was very open to only having a plan A and I was thrilled with it up until about the age of 26 when life was complicated by then after I became a little more well-known."

 

This bit of her speech reminds me of this quote she said at the Williamsburg Songwriter's Competition in 2006 - "I've met people who know that music is the only thing that they want to do with their lives, and that's always reassuring to me 'cause I don't have a backup plan."

 

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32 minutes ago, Elle said:

his major point was to burn all bridges except to plan A. Absolutely no plan B.

She’s mentioned this before years ago! I don’t remember where, but I know for a fact “burning all my bridges but one” was something she’s said before

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2 minutes ago, NikoGo said:

She’s mentioned this before years ago! I don’t remember where, but I know for a fact “burning all my bridges but one” was something she’s said before

Yes an interview in 2019 I believe 

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1 hour ago, Lanaparadiserey said:

Lana served cunt, spoke gibberish, then left

I feel like this is such an accurate summary that it could be on her tombstone!? But I say that with so much love  

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Didn’t expect to hear authors I’ve been reading on this speech, I was literally surprised? 🥲 Especially since I’ve read a lot of Esther hicks books and think and grow rich is generally a „classic“.  
 

Funny enough, I’ve generally been reading a bunch of „spiritual“, but also financial (success) books and I’ve come to the conclusion that all of them teach the same things as the baseline. 👀

 

[Mer 54,379]

Such a beautiful speech. I really appreciate how she doesn’t have a prepared script to read off of, it’s very genuine, and I love getting the feeling that we’re tapping into where her thoughts are at in the moment 

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i love when she talks about fordham and her beginnings in music  she looks so classy too #lanaforpresindent

[Billie 959]

i love how raw and authentic lana’s speeches are 

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I found this speech to be very thoughtful of Lana. I understood it as Lana saying that she is very grateful for how things have worked out in her favor, but that maintaining the passion is becoming difficult. She gives examples of how keeping a firm mindset in her younger years has helped her stick to her “plan A” but, naturally, with her being in this career path for so long the passion/excitement for it has started to burn less fiercely. She feels this need to revitalize that flame. Perhaps that’s why she wants to go “meet with the people.” She’s said this a few times at other recent events about how she wants to explore places like Louisiana, Alabama, Kentucky, etc.. places with slower & simpler ways of living. Perhaps she sees that as a way to get back to those early days.

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She's so beautiful, it's disgusting, you know what i mean? 

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10 hours ago, Elle said:

To have Stephen Huvane sitting with me and my manager I read Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich." Had nothing to do with money. I switched from the business program into becoming a philosophy major because his major point was to burn all bridges except to plan A. Absolutely no plan B. Now at that point I was 18 so the wake of my past had not crashed in. Life hadn't happened, and I was very open to only having a plan A and I was thrilled with it up until about the age of 26 when life was complicated by then after I became a little more well-known, but up until then my only friends really were in the books that I read. Napoleon Hill, things like that, or Esther Hicks "Ask and It Is Given." These wonderful writers encouraging me to have an invisible counsel if I didn't have a real counsel yet, which I do now with the most famous lawyers, managers, publishers in the world, but it took a lot of imagination. I didn't have to fake it 'til I made it. I had to really feel it. That's something that's really hard now as life has gotten more complicated. I've heard that the further along you go down a path, the path gets more narrow, and so it's up to me to try and widen that path, so I feel excited, as excited as I did then. I work on it every day. The people I work with certainly make that easier. I guess I'm not often surprised, but I was really surprised by that speech and by everything, so thank you for that and thank you for this. I probably know at least 20% of the audience here which might surprise the rest of everybody, but congratulations to everybody. What a beautiful performance as well, so, thank you."

 

Loved her speech and I found this part of her speech was really inspiring, definetly gonna look up these books

[Bill 45]

Does anybody know what this ‘David’ said in his speech about Spotify that really moved/surprised Lana?  Do we know who he is or have any clips of his speech?  

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13 hours ago, honeyslow said:

I liked METAPHYSICS my only friends were in BOOKS I majored in PHILOSOPHY ... ok nerd...

 

She's just like me fr

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3 hours ago, Bill said:

Does anybody know what this ‘David’ said in his speech about Spotify that really moved/surprised Lana?  Do we know who he is or have any clips of his speech?  

 

You can still watch the full stream on youtube 

 

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I love that Stephen Sanchez performed before her speech, doing Summertime Sadness and Margaret , truly beautiful. And his 50s flare is so fitting to her music. and he is absolutely adorable 

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here her acceptance speech only