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[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,050]

1 minute ago, redsangrias said:

I stopped reading your post when you said you didn’t listen to the Annie Mac interview 

 

that's fair lmao! maybe some of the content of that interview would sway my stance but I'm not convinced that it's going to erase every issue I had coming out of this video

 

 

[Dark Angel 202,174]

i really hope she can take the time to stay off of social media but i also understand that she's probably paranoid and very frustrated right now  i hope she's okay

[Be Free 6,634]

1 minute ago, whitelungswhitepalms said:

Wasnt it about her tho? She was criticized literally about what SHE said and stuff ABOUT her,

 

sheesh 

 

she addressed it, and if it’s not more clear now then idk try to hit her up in the comments

 

well, you're right, ignore what i said!

[sparklrtrailrheaven 9,050]

Just now, whitelungswhitepalms said:

Wasnt it about her tho? She was criticized literally about what SHE said and stuff ABOUT her,

 

sheesh 

 

she addressed it, and if it’s not more clear now then idk try to hit her up in the comments

 

it'd be one thing if she were just defending herself and refuting false accusations, but it always turns into her making it seem like the world's against her and nobody is getting criticized like she is. it never sounds like she's striving for clarity, it sounds like she's striving for some kinda vengeance against anyone who tries to disagree with her or even genuinely misunderstands her

 

in 2012? maybe yeah the press was pretty stacked against her. but it's 2021 and most of what gets levelled at her isn't coming out of nowhere, it's usually pretty rooted in her own comments and actions

[landofGodsandMonsters 1,723]

The fact that she said she already knows where she is going with her next record and is never going anywhere... YASSSSS 

[whitelungswhitepalms 10,090]

1 minute ago, sparklrtrailrheaven said:

 

it'd be one thing if she were just defending herself and refuting false accusations, but it always turns into her making it seem like the world's against her and nobody is getting criticized like she is. it never sounds like she's striving for clarity, it sounds like she's striving for some kinda vengeance against anyone who tries to disagree with her or even genuinely misunderstands her

 

in 2012? maybe yeah the press was pretty stacked against her. but it's 2021 and most of what gets levelled at her isn't coming out of nowhere, it's usually pretty rooted in her own comments and actions

I agree, she was called out for her comments that were misinterpreted and she really didn’t communicate well with her posts,

 

 

but I think she addressed it pretty well in the video since she was commenting about herself as well as the trump comments etc

 

I think she cleared up her comments AND the things people we saying about her

 

 

[Foxglove 2,266]

L ana, honey, clean your room.  Wash your hair.  Do the laundry.  Declutter your life.

[Liz Taylor Blues 18,738]

I for one am glad she's sticking up for herself. You have to call out bad faith actors or they will control the narrative about you. It's about time a celebrity stood up to click bait libel that passes as celebrity news nowadays.

[the blackest day demo 755]

Criticism is hard to take. I wish she would focus more on what she can control versus what she can't, but it must feel very exhausting and alienating to constantly feel under attack. I don't agree with what she said or how she said it and I don't like how there always seems to be deflection in her follow-up explanations. I do feel for her though. She looked very upset. 

[Ultra Violet 18,960]

She's only ever addressing the worst of the criticism, and I get it, the extremes are always the loudest, but the majority are not calling her a republican or Trump supporter. The majority want her to stop giving others a reason to think that when we know it's not true.

Most people don't listen to every interview or hear all of her songs, so when they don't follow her every move like we do, how are they supposed to take the words that she has actually said? 

[Dark Angel 202,174]

yesterday's interview: "i don't know where i'm going for my next record"

 

today, on instagram: "i know where i'm going for my next record"

 

[Be Free 6,634]

Just now, LemonadeHeavens said:

yesterday's interview: "i don't know where i'm going for my next record"

 

today, on instagram: "i know where i'm going for my next record"

 

manifesting UV mixed with AKA 

[daphnedinkley 13,475]

1 minute ago, Ultra Violet said:

She's only ever addressing the worst of the criticism, and I get it, the extremes are always the loudest, but the majority are not calling her a republican or Trump supporter. The majority want her to stop giving others a reason to think that when we know it's not true.

Most people don't listen to every interview or hear all of her songs, so when they don't follow her every move like we dodo, how are they supposed to take the words that she has actually said? 

THIS X100000

[WilshireBoulevard 5,420]

Publicity stunt baby

[Lentilus 25,719]

Just now, LemonadeHeavens said:

yesterday's interview: "i don't know where i'm going for my next record"

 

today, on instagram: "i know where i'm going for my next record"

 

I mean tbh, I dont think she said in the interview that she didn't know where she was going for the next record. Didnt she just say that for the first time she has not left over songs?

[daphnedinkley 13,475]

19 minutes ago, sparklrtrailrheaven said:

I normally try to "focus on the music" (to quote Lana herself) when it comes to LDR and not get embroiled in the weird, personal drama that's cropped up with her in the past couple years, especially, but... I think she's spouting bullshit here to some degree, and it made me angry.

 

Putting this under a spoiler bc there's a lot lmao 

 

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There's so much here that just feels tone-deaf (oops, did I just quote Complex!)... I haven't listened to the Annie Mac interview, but what she said here, alone, was troubling -- avoiding calling out Trump for what he is and instead attributing the unrest in the country to a nebulous "lack of empathy" seems like such a fucking cop-out that I don't understand why she feels the need to bring it up, anyway. There's been this odd skirting around politics that she's done largely in the past year -- so at odds with the woman who tried to rally a hex on the president -- so it's frustrating that instead of staying out of it entirely (like she claims she wants to do!) she tries to paint this weird, broad, philosophical picture that doesn't put responsibility on the parties responsible. She can say she's calling Trump out, but trying to still make him out to be unaware of how badly he's fucking people over is insensitive and isn't the active stance she thinks it is. I know she so avidly hates when her privilege is called out, but not everyone has the luxury of being able to say that the REAL problem is "sociopathy and narcissism in America". For some people, the problem is so much more concrete, and a powerful agent of that problem is sitting in the White House. Obviously, in her position, the problems the country is facing are far less life-and-death than for some, and it shows in the way she reduces them down to self-help book phrases.

 

And on the topic of privilege, her circling back to the story of her poor upbringing is cheap and also really, really insensitive. I'm not going to claim to know everything about her life (although I know more than I probably should), but even a cursory look into her background reveals that she definitely didn't come from reduced means. She took a poverty vacation to a trailer park for a little while, but I have a very hard time believing that she ever struggled the way so many people in America really do struggle. And growing up in extreme poverty myself, those comments stung -- she may have a story of struggle and hardship to tell, but I really don't think that one is hers. I don't think someone who glamorized "white trash" culture and built an aesthetic off the way poor people in America live is someone who really lived it. That's not to say I haven't garnered so much enjoyment out of that phase in her career, but it's one thing to use it artistically and another to use it as a point of self-pity. 

 

It really seems like this is about HER more than it's about the issues that she's claiming to stand up for, and it was the same way with QFTC and the fallout after that. She feels victimized by those who call out her privilege and occasional insensitivity, and instead of taking those comments and trying to do something productive about them, she keeps running to the typewriter and Twitter feed to talk about how pitiful and attacked she is. It's not about her and who she is, and I'm tired of her taking every piece of criticism as an attack. There are people who attack her, sure, but genuinely-leveled criticism doesn't always need to be spun into a story about how persecuted she is a rich, able white woman who is suffering so much less than so many others in America. 

 

 

I'm sorry if this sounds extreme or if I'm being too harsh on Lana, but this video really rubbed me the wrong way. I don't like discussing this kind of thing, especially here, but God, it's all just a little much. 

im invoicing you for all this T you spilled all over my macbook screen!!! you're so right!!!!

[Dark Angel 202,174]

1 minute ago, Lentilus said:

I mean tbh, I dont think she said in the interview that she didn't know where she was going for the next record. Didnt she just say that for the first time she has not left over songs?

 

i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure she said something that implied that she didn't know what her next album would be like?

[Liz Taylor Blues 18,738]

3 minutes ago, LemonadeHeavens said:

yesterday's interview: "i don't know where i'm going for my next record"

 

today, on instagram: "i know where i'm going for my next record"

 

Based on her southern accent in the video IT'S COUNTRY

[littleredpartydress 49,871]

Can she clean her bedroom

 

i promise it will make your mind feel clearer girl trust me we’ve all been there!

[Dark Angel 202,174]

am i the only one who didn't notice a southern accent?