Lana Del Rey

lol true

and certainly no one's character has ever been improved by getting famous

the only good rock n roll instagram is patti smith's

I didn't "expect" her to be a philosopher, by the way, she majored in it at school.

New song. Sounds like an LDR song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZ-WHVRbxg

this is much better than the previous single but yeah nothing new. nice vocal production.

the drum outro is a small but specifically lana-ish thing

astrological lyric hilariously on brand

Quite like it despite being ready to hate it. Tbh I think new LDR might be the kind of depressing uk lockdown soundtrack I need.

the plan: make a pop singer out of someone psychologically unsuited for any kind of fame

She seems well-suited for a 1970s kind of fame, where success and adulation reinforce her self-regard and enhance the side of her lyrics that tend to grandiosity, and provide a view of the world that's interestingly bent by removal from regular society / ludicrous levels of self belief. A Barbra Streisand type of white-dwarf-dense, but harmless, narcissism.

Having to interact with people who understand how - regardless of whether it's interesting as poetry or a psychological sketch of a built persona - her worldview is facile & limited is something she's not suited for. Also, having to interact with live humans at all during a pandemic.

"In the future, everyone will be canceled for 15 minutes."

the only good rock n roll instagram is patti smith's

Big Boi’s social media is mostly owls, dogs and cheering for his son playing football IIRC.

(If LDR is rock n roll I’m putting BB in too.)

new song is definitely much better than "let me love you like a woman", pretty good

i do feel optimistic about the new album being her shortest since her last few albums have all been too long for their own good

we can be thankful the closer is Joni's "For Free", not Kendrick's

lmao that would have been something

Update, January 11, 6 p.m.: Lana Del Rey is now defending her defense of her new album cover Speaking to BBC Radio 1’s Annie Mac for the premiere of the title track, she addressed alleged criticisms of the cover photo regarding inclusivity. “My girlfriends come from all over the world, they have children from all different types of people,” she explained. “And I’m mentioning all this, like, to people who are listening because people really wanted even more people of color on my album cover. Which you know is, to a point, a photo just is what it is.” Del Rey further claimed that “actually half the people in this photo are people of color.” She also said the so-called controversy — which seems to have been started and fanned only by her— made her think “back to all my songs and videos and starting with more of a hip-hop sound.” She went on, “I just feel like if that’s really what people are gonna say, I have an answer for them, which is that if you look closer, you will see people of color. It’s a black-and-white image, so zoom in, you know. It’s just weird, you know?” Do we, Lana?

Elsewhere in her conversation with Mac, Del Rey spoke about the pandemic (“I always wondered, with 8 billion people in the world, [why] this did not happen sooner”) and the riot at the Capitol (“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).

“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).

Lana dril Rey

The new song is nice but doesn't feel like a single. More like an album opener.

“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”

lol this is really one of her better quotes

“Watching the people storm the Capitol, everyone gets to go look at that and figure out what Capitols they’ve been storming this year in their own freakin’ lives”).

Lana dril Rey

― Chris L, Tuesday, January 12, 2021 3:51 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

irl lol

honestly don't get what's wrong with the album cover

as i understand it literally no one other than LDR has suggested theres anything wrong with it

^^^^

It's good that she got out ahead of this controversy that she invented herself, shows real foresight

just a nice photo of her and her friends from all over the world enjoying each others company, not storming the capital, thinking about the various rappers theyve dated

otm

as i understand it literally no one other than LDR has suggested theres anything wrong with it

I've seen some comments, and I'm sure they'd have commented all the same, but this pre-emptive strike shit is extremely cringe

lol she did date g-eazy i guess

Misread that as Eazy-E.

tbf if her last bf was a cop he might very well also be a rapper

"Waa "Summertime" done as some kind of companion piece to her "Doin' Time" cover?"

no it was for some tribute album I believe. It was pointless.

I love LDR's music, and at times I"ve been really impressed with how she's spoken about working as a woman in the music industry. But she is really, really defensive these days. If the cover was getting flack I never even saw the flack. Personally I think it's a lame cover but if people were complaining there weren't enough POC in it, or the POC there were tokens, I can see her getting frustrated. It's her friends. Are they all unusually attractive? yeah, well, it's LA, surprise, there are a lot of unusually attractive people there. I don't think she helps herself by getting defensive about everything, she gets incoherent.

song itself is fine.

(again, don't know if that was the root of the criticism, it's what I gleaned from some equally incoherent twitter responses to it)

pic.twitter.com/DyqOcsNEVw

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021

don't know if that was the root of the criticism

how could people have criticised it before her defense

love you lana but absolutely not watching a video of you speaking

surprised this wasn't posted here

It’s fucked up. You know I’m real. You know I voted for Biden. I’m super steady in everything I’ve ever said. You probably listened to my entire interview. So whoever wrote this is a genuine piece of shit. I am the one helping bringing the problem with narcissism to light. Gfys

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021

At least that is coherent

I am the one helping bringing the problem with narcissism to light.

that's one way of phrasing it

no worries queen. I just got my drivers license, so the person who wrote the article better watch both ways before crossing the streets. that’s all I’m gonna say.

— permanently high (@BhadDhad) January 12, 2021

you know what they say, you can take the girl out of upstate new york, but

Log-off Del Rey

I’m actually not tone deaf, I don’t think there’s anything tone deaf about responding to questions about why there are only white women on a album cover when that’s just not the case. I’m not gonna let people say that some thing is what it isn’t. You’re jealous I get it.

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021

The music is great and it is important to talk about inclusivity. Which I don’t have an issue with, I’ve been super open about my issues are and that isn’t one of them. I just think it’s sad that you’re trying to paint one of the only artist who is genuine as otherwise.

— Lana Del Rey (@LanaDelRey) January 12, 2021

spill queen pic.twitter.com/5AfbcVVvPE

— harris (@TrueHarris) January 12, 2021

Even her own stans in those replies are like—“stop wasting yr energy,” “you need a new manager,” etc.

hahaha beginning a statement "I'm actually not tone deaf." you know it's going well

the stans seem to be saying that she needs a manager who would be powerful enough to stop Australian music blogs from making Lana look bad by repeating Lana's own words, not that she should stfu

I read it as they're gently steering her toward more productive avenues of dealing with the "problem" than long-winded replies.

I actually like her more now.

how long until Lana ends up in the Real Housewives franchise

https://i.imgur.com/9Sm6jM7_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

I'm not much of an LDR fan (to put it mildly), but I kinda like this new song... maybe she's worn me down, lol

Her cover of Father John Misty’s “buddy’s rendevous” is great.

lana listening to the silver jews while stuck in hollywood traffic taking selfies on a busted phone pic.twitter.com/okCnyzZmOc

— alana (@slowdaysfast) May 14, 2023