Lana to present Jack Antonoff with "Producer of the Decade" award at the 8th annual Variety Hitmakers event - December 7th, 2024

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I LOVE EVERY PICTURE AND I LOVED THE SPEECH OMG 

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22 minutes ago, Elle said:

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1 hour ago, Elle said:

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I’ve been listening to raye pretty much everyday since I saw her live, she’s amazing. They look perfect 😍😍😍😍

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Was she ever with Quavo tonight?

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2 hours ago, somber said:

Lowk her speech just confirms that Lana and Jack aren't going anywhere  Jack is probably going to be here for another 10 years, unless something big happens... so we better get used to the dull sounding music

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3 hours ago, somber said:

Lowk her speech just confirms that Lana and Jack aren't going anywhere  Jack is probably going to be here for another 10 years, unless something big happens... so we better get used to the dull sounding music

She pretty much said "thank you for giving me my critical reassessment". She came across as insecure to me, sorry, as if she's clinging to him and that he must have a hand on her current and future endeavours. 

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Btw, I added a photo gallery to the OP with 135 HQ photos as well as the transcript for her speech for those will be catching up on what they missed the next day or want a lil replay recap 

 

On 12/3/2024 at 8:57 PM, Elle said:

 

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"Hello. So happy to be here. Congratulations to everybody. Jack, you're such a big reason for why I'm friends with so many of the people I know in this room. I knew nobody when I started. That's why the first time I was ever nominated for any Grammy, I just didn't go. I didn't know how to do it. I really didn't. I didn't know a person. Then when I met Jack in 2018, he dragged me from the Clive Davis party, which is like one of the few things I actually love to do, to people watch, and he brought me to a diner and he was like, "if you just come to my home studio, I think we could write something really amazing." And I was not convinced. He is the most persistent, convincing person. I needed that. There are things, there are so many things I would not have done if he hadn't made me. After his wedding, he told me to stay at the Seaside Motel last year for five days because there was only one slot left on the Zoom session to submit to the Grammys. I at the time didn't even know that you personally had to submit. I thought that if your song was good, people just put it on a ballot, and if people voted for it the most, you won. So I waited for five days. I did a Zoom session with, you know, I started seeing like anonymous people enter the Zoom room with no names and thousands and thousands of them. We had taken an hour to practice a song that wasn't even the song that was being submitted because I didn't know how to do like, "Jimmy Jimmy Cocoa Puff, Jimmy, Jimmy, ride," so I just did my favourite song. We ended up being nominated for, was it maybe five nominations last year? So, you know, I mean, there's so many things that I learn every year. I'm so happy for everybody who has won an award. I'm hearing words tonight like innocence, is the most important thing to hold on to. Truth prevails above all. Follow your heart. This is a way different climate than 15 years ago. I'm just, you know, I have so many thoughts in my head, and I'm hoping that everyone who is here tonight who received an award will just fly with the confidence that getting it has instilled in you, if it means anything to you. Because, you know, if you have momentum, keep it up. Don't ever let it stop. Jack is a big reason why part of my story and the perception of me turned around. If it did at all, it is in part because of the music that he helped bring out in me. I love to sing. I love to write. It kind of diminished a little bit over those 10 years before I met him. Most of all, I'm grateful for him, for his example that he gave me in his marriage to Margaret. I saw the way he looked at her when he met her. He's a big reason why I waited so long to get married and why I met my amazing husband. I really feel like there's kind of a singer's curse around meeting an honest partner who has no skin in the game, no dog in the race. It's super nerve-racking to have to kind of hold on to an innocent perception of how things could go when you're in an industry where maybe your values and your morals don't quite match up with what's going on, especially when people think that you probably don't have any morals or values. So it can get all twisted up. So, Jack, thank you so much for maybe helping other people look at me in a way that is a little bit closer to how I percieve myself. Freud would say that that's very important, considering 30% of how you feel about yourself is what you hear other people say about you. Regardless of whether you care or not, that's just true. So, other than my managers who really have turned my life around in the way that I still think making music is fun, you have so many friends. You've just really made it feel like Hollywood can be glamourous still, and you can still have a very rich home life even when you get rich. I was talking about me, not you! You'll be richer than all of us with your 50% on everything! Jack has more marble in his house, more herringbone-patterend wood floors, more shiplap, more farmhouse sinks, and car elevator lifts in Brooklyn than I could ever imagine he'd be interested in. Congratulations!"

 

 

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42 minutes ago, Elle said:

LanaBoards legends! x

 

 

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1 hour ago, Elle said:

LanaBoards legends! x

 

OMG THESE TWO DIVAS.

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4 hours ago, Lanaparadiserey said:

Was she ever with Quavo tonight?

Wondered this too!! feel like it would have been real easy for Variety to add ‘Tough’ as one of their hit songs of the year since Lana & Quavo were both present & would have been a good press moment— it felt off/strangewhen Lana deleted all the Tough/Quavo photos from her feed

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So, no news on the record/first single?

 

Nice to see her with Charlie etc, but I wish she'd taken the opportunity to promote the album/give u some info/a date.

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Her speech makes me sad.. I know it’s meant to be about Jack and celebrating him.. but it reads like “I was nothing until you started working with me” and kinda makes it sound like she believes her work wasn’t good prior to meeting him and nobody liked or cared for her 

 

You made masterpiece albums before him! And she kinda dismisses that her songs are based off many other things than production…

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9 hours ago, Thats why they call me Dita said:

This is the first time I’ve properly seen her engagement ring! Wowza! 

Ahahah noticed she was really shielding that left hand on the carpet, I also was looking for it. Obviously could see it kind of in her speech but she also kept posing with her hands behind her back. 
 

The speech was so so cute. Love how much she yaps and then is like you are rich congratulations 

 

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4 hours ago, West Coast said:

She pretty much said "thank you for giving me my critical reassessment". She came across as insecure to me, sorry, as if she's clinging to him and that he must have a hand on her current and future endeavours. 

 

19 minutes ago, Thats why they call me Dita said:

Her speech makes me sad.. I know it’s meant to be about Jack and celebrating him.. but it reads like “I was nothing until you started working with me” and kinda makes it sound like she believes her work wasn’t good prior to meeting him and nobody liked or cared for her 

 

You made masterpiece albums before him! And she kinda dismisses that her songs are based off many other things than production…

I don’t think that was the point here. She only said that her desire of making music was diminishing when she met Jack and he made her realize she could still do it. Plus she talked about how he really inserted her in the industry and we all know how the industry hated (and sometimes still hate) Lana and her music, and you can’t deny that after she met Jack he really gave her a confident boost and showed her how the music industry really works. Come on, Lana herself said that she didn’t knew you had to submit your own songs to the Grammy until Jack helped her out with that, she was really lost.

 

I think we all should be grateful for him, liking his production or not. If he didn’t come across Lana’s path we would probably see her giving up on her own career much earlier than expected. She’s happy working with him, they make great music together. If you are worried about the kind of sound she’s releasing don’t blame Jack, blame Lana. She’s working with other producers and the sound is even more stripped back when she works with them. That’s all xx

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Charli looks like she's been outed for having a lanaboards account or something in that pic, and Lana looks like she knows 

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2 hours ago, Elle said:

LanaBoards legends! x

 

 

4 minutes ago, Make me your Dream Life said:

Charli looks like she's been outed for having a lanaboards account or something in that pic, and Lana looks like she knows 

The fact that one of the two women in this picture has publicly mentioned LanaBoards.com… and it’s not Lana skfndksk x

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OMG raye mentioned lizzy grant in her speech?????? i’m sorry my worlds are colliding 

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27 minutes ago, honeymoon is alive said:

 

I don’t think that was the point here. She only said that her desire of making music was diminishing when she met Jack and he made her realize she could still do it. Plus she talked about how he really inserted her in the industry and we all know how the industry hated (and sometimes still hate) Lana and her music, and you can’t deny that after she met Jack he really gave her a confident boost and showed her how the music industry really works. Come on, Lana herself said that she didn’t knew you had to submit your own songs to the Grammy until Jack helped her out with that, she was really lost.

 

I think we all should be grateful for him, liking his production or not. If he didn’t come across Lana’s path we would probably see her giving up on her own career much earlier than expected. She’s happy working with him, they make great music together. If you are worried about the kind of sound she’s releasing don’t blame Jack, blame Lana. She’s working with other producers and the sound is even more stripped back when she works with them. That’s all xx

I definitely don’t discount his work as a producer- NFR is my favourite record of hers.. and actually COCC ranks highly after that, but her albums prior are top rank albums! I wish she could’ve celebrated him without discounting herself- and it read like she genuinely felt that, her music wasn’t worthy until having him around. BTD literally has broken records, she can’t think that Jack is what made her