Lana Del Rey

as with the ann powers thing my reaction to this is mainly: whut

having ppl comb thru yr every thought and sound with dismissiveness/derision (and yes a ton of sexism) makes some ppl extremely defensive. It's not rocket science

i gotta be real i do not think this statement makes enough sense to defend, and that opening line is horrendous, and once again i am like "wow it's even more incredible that this seemingly profoundly un-self-aware person is credited with creating a deeply layered persona that refracts america back at itself or whatever"

once again i am like "wow it's even more incredible that this seemingly profoundly un-self-aware person is credited with creating a deeply layered persona that refracts america back at itself or whatever"

But what's more American than a total lack of self-awareness?

lol otm

shhh i hear thinkpieces brewing xp

Thinkpiece blueprint no. 1: said lack may in fact be imputable to excess.

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