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[FredRed 4,836]

Everything is still up. Is she just going to stop posting or will IG and Twitter just go away.

How to disappear. 

[menslayer 18,827]

What if she’s only deleting the apps and keeping her socials up but ghostly? 

[Super Movie 51,663]

Part of me feels like she's gonna forget that she posted that and end up keeping everything up 

 

That part of me being the delusional part of me 

[BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou 8,831]

Listening to Text Book this morning and reading this thread and I have some thoughts. Just a note, this might be a COMPLETE REACH but 

First, the lyrics "I guess this is really the end I've never felt jealous before this year but I'm jealous now" really hit me differently after her announcement last night. Maybe she's referencing the experience of watching her friends live a normal, fame-less life on Instagram. We know she wants privacy more than ever and is probably sick to death of the trolls commenting on her posts. Her thoughts, body, music are all open to be critiqued in the comments of her posts and I'm sure she has read some hateful things. I don't see this announcement as spur of the moment.  @lustforlife said BB is "the end of Lana Del Rey". Maybe de-activating her socials is just the first step down a road of seclusion and letting the music speak for itself. 

 

Secondly, we know Text Book starts the album. Lana said BB is about "what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now".  The lyrics "and then there was the issue of her I didn't even like myself or love the life I had"  stuck out to me. I see these lyrics as young Lizzie speaking about not liking herself or the emotionally unstable home she lived in as a young girl / teen. In some ways, the creation of the Lana Del Rey persona saved her from that life (or maybe it felt this way to her in the beginning): it brought money,  instant adoration and freedom to build a new life for herself. Years later, though, the "Lana Del Rey" name has also brought a ton of baggage: think pieces, 0 freedom or privacy, twitter hate, etc. Maybe deactivating is just a way for her to begin tearing down this image of Lana Del Rey and only letting the music shine through. I could see her being very reclusive (like Fiona Apple) and popping out for interviews once every few years. 

 

I don't think she will ever retire from music but this record is definitely a turning point for her. I'm excited to see the story she paints in BB and hoping it all comes together. 

And maybe this is just me dwelling too much on the fact that I won't get a "Lana Del Rey posted" push notification for the foreseeable future 

[gatadelrey 4,617]

Still depressed over here. Might not ever recover. I miss you Lana. 

[Lentilus 25,719]

[ModernBohemian 176]

16 minutes ago, JFKs Fine China said:

Listening to Text Book this morning and reading this thread and I have some thoughts. Just a note, this might be a COMPLETE REACH but 

First, the lyrics "I guess this is really the end I've never felt jealous before this year but I'm jealous now" really hit me differently after her announcement last night. Maybe she's referencing the experience of watching her friends live a normal, fame-less life on Instagram. We know she wants privacy more than ever and is probably sick to death of the trolls commenting on her posts. Her thoughts, body, music are all open to be critiqued in the comments of her posts and I'm sure she has read some hateful things. I don't see this announcement as spur of the moment.  @lustforlife said BB is "the end of Lana Del Rey". Maybe de-activating her socials is just the first step down a road of seclusion and letting the music speak for itself. 

 

Secondly, we know Text Book starts the album. Lana said BB is about "what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now".  The lyrics "and then there was the issue of her I didn't even like myself or love the life I had"  stuck out to me. I see these lyrics as young Lizzie speaking about not liking herself or the emotionally unstable home she lived in as a young girl / teen. In some ways, the creation of the Lana Del Rey persona saved her from that life (or maybe it felt this way to her in the beginning): it brought money,  instant adoration and freedom to build a new life for herself. Years later, though, the "Lana Del Rey" name has also brought a ton of baggage: think pieces, 0 freedom or privacy, twitter hate, etc. Maybe deactivating is just a way for her to begin tearing down this image of Lana Del Rey and only letting the music shine through. I could see her being very reclusive (like Fiona Apple) and popping out for interviews once every few years. 

 

I don't think she will ever retire from music but this record is definitely a turning point for her. I'm excited to see the story she paints in BB and hoping it all comes together. 

And maybe this is just me dwelling too much on the fact that I won't get a "Lana Del Rey posted" push notification for the foreseeable future 

Love this. Adding to what you've shared, since she said Arcadia is about "what happened" the lyrics "They built me up three hundred feet tall just to tear me down, So I'm leavin' with nothing but laughter, and this town" make me feel like leaving social media is part of that story. So we've got two parts of the story... I'm interested in the "what it's like now" part i.e the end of the album. Perhaps when the album comes out, the final songs will be her way of telling us where she is at and her leaving social will be clearer. 

[BethDufreneOnTheBayouByYou 8,831]

22 minutes ago, ModernBohemian said:

Love this. Adding to what you've shared, since she said Arcadia is about "what happened" the lyrics "They built me up three hundred feet tall just to tear me down, So I'm leavin' with nothing but laughter, and this town" make me feel like leaving social media is part of that story. So we've got two parts of the story... I'm interested in the "what it's like now" part i.e the end of the album. Perhaps when the album comes out, the final songs will be her way of telling us where she is at and her leaving social will be clearer. 

I am so excited to see "what it's like now", too! I think the closing track "Sweet Carolina" will answer some questions especially because it was co-written with her father and sister. Another user pointed out the album starts out with "I was looking for the father I wanted back" and ends with a song written with her father. A full circle moment

[menslayer 18,827]

I’m so fucking nervous about this 

When is she deactivating? 

[trash can 119]

Hope she forgot her Honeymoon account exists because I love revisiting those posts

[bluechemtrails 26,724]

She starts with "...we're deactivating our social media accounts...". So they were not managed by Lana only and it was maybe not only her decision.

[HeadBitch 6,682]

1 hour ago, lanasgirl said:

don't know if this has been done already but i took a walk down memory lane, and thought it'd be cute to look back at all her insta profile pics over the years 

May 2013 - February 2015

 

 

August 2015 - January 2017

 

January 2017 - September 2021

 

 

Omg... to think that Lana used both my edit (Blonde pic from 2009) and @Trash Magic's edit (Video Games picture, the third one of the first row) for her profile pictures, both that came from our old but gold Tumblr blog is  c r a z y. The fact that my .psd edit somehow ended up on her own personal phone/computer to end up as a profile picture warms my heart up and I'm so happy to have witnessed her whole legacy for the past 9-10 years. It was all worth it. 

 

[Flowerbomb 65,593]

I can't believe the Hillsong church cult convinced her to delete her socials

Spoiler

I'm just joking pls don't crucify me omg

 

But if anything, I think Azealia's words had something to do with this. Obviously she's not the sole reason, but her words towards Lana and her body have been absolutely vile. I wouldn't be surprised if this has caused Lana to gain some insecurities and then there's the pressure on Instagram to look perfect all the time etc like I can see how it would be a combination of all these things that resulted in her decision to leave

[LanaBoi 1,810]

1 hour ago, Deadly Cruel Girl said:

If she's willing to do energetic shows like she use to do back in 2012-2016. But if it's the same boring lip syncing shows, BTD song list, with the out of place sexy backup dancers, screaming for her vape and running to the front row to take pictures with Win Edwards again -  then she can stay home.

Her shows aren't worth what she charges $200 - $500. It's obvious she hates touring. To tour the same messy way she did for the NFR tour, it's better that she doesn't tour again.

Kate Bush and Enya have never toured any of their records and they are legends. Lana will be fine.

 

Wow this is unnecessarily harsh, and we wonder why she's deleting SM! 

 

If you don't like her concerts then don't go. I don't get this "its better than she doesn't tour again" mentality. Not having them at all would be a loss to fans who've never seen her or not been able to see her in a long time. 

 

Honesty what do the backup dancers do to take away from the concert? They're there to give Lana emotional support on stage due to her nerves/anxiety. 

 

She doesn't 'Lip Sync' she has backing tracks to help create recreate the sound of her songs, most of which have multiple layers of her voice which is impossible to recreate live without backing tracks. I think she would sound great without the backing tracks, but chalking her use of backing tracks down to laziness is wrong. 

 

And yeah I'd love if she changed the setlist up, but I think a) she feels that the audience knows the BTD songs best and she likes when they sing along b) I think she doesn't realise how much her fans love her newer music even though it might not have had the same commercial success and c) it might be tied to anxiety/nerves where its easier on her nerves to sing stuff she's very used to singing. 

 

 

 

[WhiteHot4ever 636]

First of all she gave us daddy issues and now she want give mommies issues ok girl 

[baddisease 17,924]

1 hour ago, Deadly Cruel Girl said:

If she's willing to do energetic shows like she use to do back in 2012-2016. But if it's the same boring lip syncing shows, BTD song list, with the out of place sexy backup dancers, screaming for her vape and running to the front row to take pictures with Win Edwards again -  then she can stay home.

Her shows aren't worth what she charges $200 - $500. It's obvious she hates touring. To tour the same messy way she did for the NFR tour, it's better that she doesn't tour again.

Kate Bush and Enya have never toured any of their records and they are legends. Lana will be fine.

 

leave lana alone. my first tour of hers was the tour for NFR and I loved it.

[menslayer 18,827]

On 5/18/2013 at 1:38 PM, LDRO said:

Lana Del Rey has finally got Instagram, and her first photo was a picture of her father, Rob Grant!

 

LANA'S INSTAGRAM

 

https://twitter.com/LanaDelRey/status/335735047204257792

And just like that, she’s gone 

[The Stargirl Pinky 71,658]

Damn I was just watching her “fuck you” reel where she goes:

 

“It’s fun to, like, tear people down but it really discourages them from, you know, moving onto their next project but thank God I already know what I’m doing. I’m not going anywhere”

 

And then shifting to her newest video where she talks about shutting down her Insta to focus on other interests, skills, and endeavors. I really hope you’re okay babe. Take all the time you need 

[LanaBoi 1,810]

2 minutes ago, baddisease said:

 

leave lana alone. my first tour of hers was the tour for NFR and I loved it.

Exactly! My first tour was the LA to the Moon tour and its my favourite concert I've ever been to. I was 16 when she was first in Australia and my Mum said that if I was going to go she'd have to go with me and I was like... yeah noooooo 

[yayoop 4,601]

18 minutes ago, gsnlp said:

And just like that, she’s gone 

 

8 years in the making, so sudden