karaj:

rgr-pop:

karaj:

i was only half-listening to you guys about lana del rey because i only half-listen to everything, it’s my method, and maybe yours, too. and i saw that my ex-boyfriend wrote something about her, because one of you posted it on tumblr; i’m not linking to it because i’m not looking for it, i was serious about not hate reading, i don’t even read the times anymore, ostensibly because he writes for it, but that’s a lie, i actually already didn’t read the times, and now i have a really good excuse not to, because if i say i don’t read the times, who won’t believe i’m just too traumatized? which is all a long way of saying i have no idea what he said, or what any of you have said, except i know that mikki and rgr maybe-approve, even if i don’t know exactly why, but i am sure they are exactly right, because i feel more strongly about this than i felt about early early gaga or ke$ha (who is kinda fucking brilliant but maybe racist i don’t know what the end of that story was). like, this is some actual next level shit, like it’s so smart it’s 3 chapters. plus it reminds me of jenny holzer so it’s like half a dissertation right there. what i’m saying is that this is the epitome of feminist boredom, which is really really real and in our bodies. this is everything about everything and i mean that more than i meant it last time.  

I literally have three reasons why I’m pro-LDR:

1. She had the nerve to only wear one dress on SNL and I can’t even
2. Makeup (really this is a million reasons)
3. People are saying she has no talent or skill, when really I didn’t like her because she has too much talent and skill for my taste, but now I guess I have to be on her team because you know fuck the world

But I still would mostly rather be listening to The Fame. Somehow LDR makes me wish Gaga had better makeup on The Fame and like that’s a big deal.

i have three reasons why i am pro-this-post, actually, no, i’m just going to do a point-by-point response, whatever, i’m hijacking, it’s late: 

1. NO ACTUALLY THAT IS AMAZING. i generally wear the same outfit every day for a month or two even when i’m not depressed. also i want to believe she was referencing feminist boredom in a super-next-level way. 
2. i have no idea because i haven’t looked at her enough but she is definitely beyond fake which i approve of wholeheartedly. 
3. having no talent or skill is really fucking feminist, you guys. like, talent or skill according to who? (whom? what?) also, the way she looks at that dude in the bed or the car in born to die is, like, the most familiar ever, and totally a skill, and we’ve all done it, which doesn’t make it not a skill, and it’s the only thing that keeps things interesting. also she is singing “about” lack of talent or skill oh forget it. ps. i know, the fame, she shouldn’t have dabbled in 80s queer theory when she was already ahead of it. 

It should be noted, though, that I will always prefer this “Born to Die” to that Born to Die. It should be noted.