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Yes! I think you really got at the heart of what’s appealing about Lana. I haven’t thought of her as a tragic artist for a long time and I think people who still see her as the artist for “sad girls” are just scraping the surface of what she’s doing in her work.

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Wrote this comment at the witching hour, btw 🫶🏻

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Jun 19Liked by roro <3

of course, your comeback touches on the generational canon.

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what else could possibly be worth it <3

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loved this, so real. ambiguity over authenticity forever

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SOOOOOO FUCKING GOOD RORO!!! another banger

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OMG subbed immediately. my first lana album was ultraviolence at 14 too, and i too have not shut up about this since. you put all those emotions down so perfectly

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Jun 19Liked by roro <3

your pen is unbeatable, you are so precise... what a beautiful read <3

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'but rather about the desire to do these things, and it is this same desire she plucks within her listeners. I’d never been heartbroken at 14, but I wanted to be. I wanted the glamour and the romance and the drama of that cinematic life, to be the kind of person who met with such monumental emotions and experiences. That longing to be the tragic protagonist of your own cinema'

i've been perceived in a way so objectively correct🙃

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An unmatched precision, frankly not unlike Didion… loved this :)

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your pen is a sword, truly. as words cascade off your tongue, you wield a blade of fiery glory through the telling of an at times teary story. bravo. came from being a secret admirer on twitter, stayed to take communion and unite myself with you here as a loyal follower.

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