Lana Del Rey

can't publish thinkpieces with no more media

Equating her with Kanye as some have is super unfair imo. Her thoughts are messy and sometimes poorly formed but she's very far from some kind of MAGA shithead nor does she seem to be on that trajectory.

this thinkpiece must of course incorporate her titles and lyrics for that perfect DON'T YOU SEE effect

Let's all fight the real enemy, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

Hope is a Dangerous Thing for a Lana Del Rey Fan to Have

by ALFRED SOTO

Go on.

Her thoughts are messy and sometimes poorly formed but she's very far from some kind of MAGA shithead nor does she seem to be on that trajectory.

There's no good way to articulate how her "I intend to give reparations... to the Navajo" felt like a specific, intentional dig after that opening salvo without making it seem like I don't think native Nations deserve reparations (I do not agree with that position; everyone fucked over by the Europeans that colonized this continent deserves reparations) but that is how that felt to me.

what did Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith do?

anti-vax

haha when I saw this thread had 75 new answers next to KAS’s 62, I immediately thought ‘oh, not another one’

shit....new agey yoga shit is a risk factor for anti vax... bummer

There's no good way to articulate how her "I intend to give reparations... to the Navajo" felt like a specific, intentional dig after that opening salvo without making it seem like I don't think native Nations deserve reparations (I do not agree with that position; everyone fucked over by the Europeans that colonized this continent deserves reparations) but that is how that felt to me.

I think you and LDR might be closer to kindred spirits than you think

I’m not actively disdainful of black people so I find that doubtful

Hark! More wisdom from the sage. (It apparently can be summed up as 'why are my haters so foolish and stupid'.)

Lana commented on & clarified her most recent posts. pic.twitter.com/ApIybO1KRL

— Lana Del Rey Online (@LanaDReyOnline) May 21, 2020

i'd like to point out that Ariana Grande is not a POC despite what lots of people think or thought (I assumed she was hispanic until last year).

i believe that LDR gives money to NA groups in response to having worn a headress in the Ride video which didn't create much controversy at the time but did more recently when it became more taboo to do such things.

head dress that is.

Cat Power is anti-vax too. crazy lady! i still like her music.

akm with the friday evening data dump, lol

;)

why are my haters so foolish and stupid

the stars: they're just like us!!

I’m sorry that the folks who I can only assume are super trump/pence supporters or hyper liberals or flip-flopping headline grabbing critics can’t read and want to make it a race war, when in fact the issue was with *female critics and *female alternative artists who are dissociated from their own fragility and sexuality and berate more sexually liberated artists like myself and the women I mentioned.

did lorde go after her?

Apparently she said critical things about her in 2013, and they’ve had low-grade drama ever since (from what I’ve seen in passing online, I’m not an expert here).

Supposedly "Fucked My Way Up To The Top" was a diss track directed at Lorde.

that's the first time I've heard that and it doesn't make much sense to me

Chemtrails Over the Country Club is a way better title than the previous one she was throwing around

that said I don't see a future where I listen to any part of that spoken word album

I think it's a second book of poetry, the first one is Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass which is actually an amazing title. I think she already released this as spoken word, or is going to, which I'm not interested in. I don't know what happened to the print version. At some point she said she actually had it self-published and had copies then nothing happened.

oh xposts

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwG7HzODf2U/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAnfKexFkQ7/?igshid=5h2ghcg04u35

who's gonna break it to the memesters that they're pals and are almost certainly going to collab properly at some point

Chemtrails Over the Country Club lmao

I can’t believe how much I dislike this woman

“I like minorities when I can help them” is never a good look

this is cool

https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-donates-350000-to-provide-navajo-nation-with-clean-water-2808918

yeah wow

that's awesome.

I'd missed that there's a new song too. Like it but don't love it yet.

I continue to insist that LDR is principally a good egg

it would be hard to conclude otherwise given this

https://www.vulture.com/2020/11/lana-del-rey-election-night-chemtrails-delay-stan-twitter-fight.html

antonoff + folkier direction + tedious ongoing stan drama, seems familiar somehow

if someone baselessly assumed I was a trump voter and I was drunk at denny's on election night I might very well have done the same tbh

also an extremely weird assumption to make in the first place given the kanye "loss for the culture" remarks

Being mean to Twitter stans and donating all that money? Nice

And now the party is in the Phil Jackson Knicks phase

Chemtrails Over the Country Club:

01 “White Dress”
02 “Chemtrails Over The Country Club”
03 “Tulsa Jesus Freak”
04 “Let Me Love You Like A Woman”
05 “Wild At Heart”
06 “Dark But Just A Game”
07 “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”
08 “Yosemite”
09 “Breaking Up Slowly”
10 “Dance Till We Die”
11 “For Free”

I also want to say that with everything going on this year! And no this was not intended-these are my best friends, since you are asking today. And damn! As it happens when it comes to my amazing friends and this cover yes there are people of color on this records picture and that’s all I’ll say about that
but thank you.
My beautiful friend Valerie from Del Rio Mexico, my dearest friend Alex and my gorgeous friend Dakota Rain as well as my sweetheart Tatiana.
these are my friends this is my life. We are all a beautiful mix of everything- some more than others which is visible and celebrated in everything I do. In 11 years working I have always been extremely inclusive without even trying to. My best friends are rappers my boyfriends have been rappers. My dearest friends have been from all over the place, so before you make comments again about a WOC/POC issue, I’m not the one storming the capital, I’m literally changing the world by putting my life and thoughts and love out there on the table 24 seven. Respect it.

jesus christ lana

lmao why did i even try to read that

taking the good news where I can get it: 11 tracks

not gonna speak for every racialized person out there, but as an Asian, I would have been thrilled to be represented on something called "Chemtrails over the Country Club"