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[Chocolate Eyes 548]

Her face looks fuller and I think it could also be weight related. It's obvious she gained since LFL. Just another guess, especially since I have a similar body type and fat distribution as her. 

[anwdelrey 9,270]

Bruh she lost -11k on Instagram from posting her selfie I’m just-

Edit: -16k

[Dominikx4 25,413]

I know this is the wrong place for this but I didn’t see a section for it, is this new?

 

https://www.urbanoutfitters.com/shop/lana-del-rey-hoodie-sweatshirt?category=SEARCHRESULTS&color=001&searchparams=q%3Dlana%2520del%2520rey%26sayt%3Dtrue&type=REGULAR&quantity=1

that hoodie was sold at a handful dates of the NFR tour and is pretty rare. very happy to be able to buy this now after the EU dates got cancelled, thanks for sharing

[Rorman Nockwell 56,818]

Watch her post a selfie today or tomorrow with freshly-dyed dark hair

 

That one is probably the "before" pic 

[Coney Island King 26,091]

Bruh she lost -11k on Instagram from posting her selfie I’m just-

Edit: -16k

But she still got 12 million lol, who cares boo.

[ilovetati 15,299]

Bruh she lost -11k on Instagram from posting her selfie I’m just-

Edit: -16k

 

Is that even true? She's been steadily gaining over the last few weeks.

[lamms 11,605]

Is that even true? She's been steadily gaining over the last few weeks.

https://socialblade.com/instagram/user/lanadelrey

[ilovetati 15,299]

https://socialblade.com/instagram/user/lanadelrey

 

IG might just be removing spam accounts again.

[Rorman Nockwell 56,818]

But she still got 12 million lol, who cares boo.

 

Huh? I must follow a different Lanz cos mine has 16.5m 

 

Anyway I doubt very much she gives a fuck how many she's got

[99centlips 8,526]

also i know the fact that fillers disintegrate over time is pretty much common sense but like... where does it go

it just gets absorbed by your body. because it’s “foreign” material your body attacks it but slowly i believe.

i'm just confused why her roots are darker despite blonde being her natural colour

also because she said she used lemons and sunlight to lighten her hair. only the top layers of her hair were lightened so her hair underneath is still dark. i wouldn’t say her roots are dark, you can see the top of her head they are blonde. but underneath her hair is still dark.

[Coney Island King 26,091]

Huh? I must follow a different Lanz cos mine has 16.5m

 

Anyway I doubt very much she gives a fuck how many she's got

I mean i didn’t bother to check, i knew it was high.

[bluefiona 8,050]

Thanks for letting me know!! I had no idea. Thats actually pretty scary and concerning... this proves to me I need to do more research before I think about getting any filler done to my cheeks smh. I hope Lana is careful and cautious of what shes getting done!! I see older women in hollywood (wont say names) who were great beauties in their youth but end up having super puffed up botox faces theyre still beautiful and all. I just hope Lana is careful with her body

 

Those fillers have destroyed the natural contour of Lana's face. Pumping chemicals in your face is never good.

 

This is what happens when you move to LA. Everyone has fillers done over there. 

[bluefiona 8,050]

I think it makes her look bloated like a hamster, I think we need to start embracing the ageing process and stop giving in to what our shallow society thinks.

 

Lana is 35. She's still young. What aging process? The aging process doesn't start showing in your face until your in your mid 40's and that's only if you didn't really take care of yourself. Lana is still super young.  

 

What's aged Lana is the vaping, years of smoking, bad food, fillers and sunlight. There are woman I know in my area who are in their late 40's - 50's and they look younger then Lana. They didn't smoke or vape. They ate well. Took care of their skin and protected it from the sun. Exercised daily. So fourth. 

 

I mean, Naomi Campbell is 50 years old and looks younger then Lana. It's all about taking care of yourself. 

Her face looks fuller and I think it could also be weight related. It's obvious she gained since LFL. Just another guess, especially since I have a similar body type and fat distribution as her. 

 

Going by that huge plate of pasta and meat thing she was eating while Sean was driving that one time...everyone remembers that IG story right?

 

I can't fault her. I love pasta and have zero portion control with food. 

 

I gained 15 pounds since quarantine. I loved walking and when you eat a lot and don't walk because you're forced to stay in lock down, you have no choice. Lana probable gained a few since quarantine. 

[pawn shop blues 2,347]

Okay, I know no one's going to read this, but whatever. 

 

I was thinking more about her post (which I know has been covered a million times already) and I had some thoughts. 

I feel like, in her own very messy and absolutely racially insensitive (though not intentional) way, Lana was really trying to convey her anger for the way that she's been treated by the media, specifically the first couple of years of her career. Yes, NFR was very well received (and LFL to a slightly similar extent) but that’s not counting all of the years of shit she went through at the start. Yes, every artist she mentioned has gone through shit and I don’t want to get into the compare/contrast argument right now. Of course her experiences are not the same as racism and it’s not to say that she is the only one who has gotten criticism by any stretch of the imagination, but I just feel like there was a specific way she was treated that was not the same as any of the other artists she mentioned. People were mean and cruel and kind of merciless about how much they hated her, in a very unapologetic way. This is not only from critics or fans, but a lot of the industry in general. People did not take her seriously. Music publications, people on social media, bloggers, people in the industry like Kim Gordon (who told her to go kill herself)—everyone kind of piled up on her. Both conservatives (who seem to always hate “today’s music”) as well as liberals didn’t like her and weren’t shy about saying exactly why. Every single thing—her looks, her name change, her father’s supposed role in “buying her a career” (not really how it works), her music video monologues, her interview quotes, and especially above all her lyrics—everything was scrutinized. I imagine this was probably doubly hurtful when thinking about how much of her soul she poured into her songs. She wasn’t singing about nice fun pop songs. She was singing about some of the worst moments of her life, horrible abusive relationships, documenting them in songs and she was either made fun of and/or told that she was making it all up. And yes, I realize the fiction/fact element of her work has always been up for debate and I can understand people not fully knowing if what she’s singing about is “real” in that sense, but like even when she told The Guardian about how depressed she was, I vividly remember the vast majority of the comments continuing to make fun of her. And no one was really sticking up for her (besides us fans and actually Kristen Wiig on SNL). No one really called out the obvious misogynistic tone that a lot of the criticisms came from.

 

This brings me to LFL. Or really, right after the Honeymoon era. People were talking about her songs getting slower and slower and more depressed and I think Lana herself probably knew that she needed to switch things up a bit. (Her label might have also suggested or maybe even demanded it, as Ultraviolence and Honeymoon were not selling like BTD/Paradise).

LFL for me is a turning point in her career. For a lot of reasons. For one: Trump and the 2016 election. We already how that changed her live shows (no more American flags), but obviously it changed some of the music too. Listening to the demos for LFL, it’s clear the song (and possibly the entire record) started off in a much darker place. The “lust for life” she had sounded almost ironic or like she was being sarcastic. Cut to the finished product and it’s obviously coming from a more hopeful angle. I imagine some of this comes from her knowing that, in the mist of the 2017 American political scene with Trump’s chaos, it was possibly the wrong time to put out a down/depressing record. I also believe Lana was being genuine in wanting to give her fans more hope.

That being said, looking at the reception LFL got, critics suddenly seemed more on board with her. She was getting more praise in the industry. Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love interviewed her (along with other musicians like Grimes), and it just seemed like in general people were more receptive to her work. But what’s telling is that Lana started to talk during this time period about wanting to fit in more. She wasn’t getting tattoos, she was thinking of getting some of them removed (I think because she mentioned how it would make her stand out or something like that) and she was also vocal about editing her lyrics, both in recordings as well as in live performances (like cutting the “he hit me” line in UV).

This brings me to NFR. It’s her most critically acclaimed work for sure, but in some ways it feels like the least “Lana” record (at least compared to “vintage Born to Die” era Lana). It’s definitely more singer/songwriter. Rereading the Ann Powers article Lana hated, I found it interesting how much the writer compared Lana to Joni Mitchell—which is annoying not just because every female singer/songwriter seems to get compared to her if they have even a trace of the Laurel Canyon sound, but also because they are clearly very different artists.

And, I admit this is maybe farfetched, but maybe the reason Lana got so upset with the article (besides the trauma line she mentioned) was how much she was being compared to an artist she’s never really tried to imitate.

And this leads to the Instagram post, which I think is a long time coming. People have been upset with Lana seeming to say she paved the way for songs about abuse (which I don’t think she ever said she did, at least not directly) but I think it’s fairly obvious her music played, at least, a big part in the sort of shift in popular music—the more downtempo music, the more downcast lyrics. It would have honestly I think been better if Lana had maybe mentioned soundclound rappers/singers or songs like that 1-800 Who Can Relate (whoo!) song. But even pop has gotten darker as a whole. When Lana came on the scene, it was all about I don’t need a man/I’m fine on my own (I’m talking specifically about female pop singers). Now Ariana Grande can have a song about cheating (Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored) and there doesn’t seem to be controversy at all. Even if that song’s more playful, it’s also kind of hints at the bad thoughts you shouldn’t have but you have anyway. (I'm not saying Lana is solely responsible for a song like this, but I think her music contributed for allowing that sort of mood, again in comparison to the 2011 pop music scene.) 

I think Lana’s anger has come from feeling she has had a major influence on today’s music without ever really getting the true acknowledgement (as well as the apology) she deserves. I also think she is perhaps frustrated with feeling like she has had to edit her lyrics and music content in order to fit in a little more/be more accepted and less hated. And I think this is where the “women like me in feminism” comes into play. Instead of the awkward pole dance comparison to FKA Twigs, she could have asked how come FKA can write an album documenting an abusive relationship and get acclaim from critics, but when she does it in UV (or really a lot of her songs pre-LFL) she gets told she’s bad for feminism? And maybe it actually was an attempt at a genuine question. Like, what’s the difference? How come that 1-800 song can be a big hit and it gets taken seriously, but Lana discussing her own depression (in song or interviews) gets seen as something to get made fun of?

To me, the post(s) were her stating that she is going to start writing in a less restrained/more free way again—or maybe already has in Chemtrails. I think she wants to get back to songs about relationships and life that are more nuanced. It’s clear from LFL that the way she specifically has talked about relationships has changed (she’s now more fed up, the men are more losers than before). And obviously it’s good that she’s evolved just like most artists do, but I think she has maybe been feeling artistically restrained and wants to get back to a more uninhibited place without having to deal with all the bullshit again.  

Sorry this is long but I wanted to write it.

[mkultraviolence 5,832]

@@pawn shop blues i 100% agree. very well thought out and makes a lot of sense. the ending made me realize that her songs about being blindly devoted to her lover have become less and less. It's interesting. I really do hope she comes from a more unrestrained place. Artistic censoring is really stressful for the artist so hopefully being more open and unapologetic will be healing for her.

[ilovetati 15,299]

Did Cardi ever acknowledge her comment?

[Amadeus 11,334]

i'm just confused why her roots are darker despite blonde being her natural colour 

 

i know a lot of natural blondes that have ashy, brown and dark roots.

 

and we have plenty of pics of her between aka and all throughout the btd era with her having darker roots when her hair was a lighter colour and then her roots looking blonde when she has darker colours, especially the darker auburn shades, because her colour is like in between those if that makes sense.

[ChaoticLipster 24,641]

Lana is 35. She's still young. What aging process? The aging process doesn't start showing in your face until your in your mid 40's and that's only if you didn't really take care of yourself. Lana is still super young.  

 

What's aged Lana is the vaping, years of smoking, bad food, fillers and sunlight. There are woman I know in my area who are in their late 40's - 50's and they look younger then Lana. They didn't smoke or vape. They ate well. Took care of their skin and protected it from the sun. Exercised daily. So fourth. 

 

I mean, Naomi Campbell is 50 years old and looks younger then Lana. It's all about taking care of yourself. 

 

 

 

Going by that huge plate of pasta and meat thing she was eating while Sean was driving that one time...everyone remembers that IG story right?

 

I can't fault her. I love pasta and have zero portion control with food. 

 

I gained 15 pounds since quarantine. I loved walking and when you eat a lot and don't walk because you're forced to stay in lock down, you have no choice. Lana probable gained a few since quarantine.

 

Exactly, definitely lifestyle choices and 35 is not really that old. I think the point was she looks fine without the fillers.

[ThisIsRusko 1,521]

the blonde hair is everything <3

[evalionisameme 13,889]

I wouldn’t say it’s a flattering photo but she can choose how she wants to look.i always thought BTD was her beauty peak and wish she never did the face fillers which distorted her beautiful bone structure to me,I’m fine with the falsies going as her eyelashes have finally healed.

As long as she’s happy,healthy is all that matters.

Her face is def; different to how it used to be though.