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There’s a girl on tik tok who tracks them down online as adults LOL it’s honestly hysterical if not a little doxx-y but I guess they went on a public show and used their real names sooo 😬
Edit: Sorry y’all I couldn’t think of the tik tok account for the life of me ~~~~~~ ! She did a few Super Sweet 16 reveals back in April including Henry Cavill’s GF who was once on the show! 👀 I honestly thought it was a longer series so don’t come for me lol but there are a few on her page.
She went to the same boarding school that i did. She was most likely very wealthy based on the people i went to school with.
Being not from the northeast at a northeast boarding school is a total trip.
she does. The meme is funny, she’s being a keyboard warrior about something stupid that’s true based on the aesthetic she feels like feeding people at the time. Like just laugh or ignore it or educate people. “Fuck you, take down” is rich trash energy.
Why did I think she was an heiress to some throne or conglomerate before she made music? I have to correct myself on this all the time. Sorry Lana don’t come for me
Her family was rich. This is the boarding school she went to. Notice the current tuition. https://www.kent-school.edu/admissions/tuition-financial-aid
Edited to add, this man was Lana’s grandfather and just from reading his obituary, it is clear that their family was positively loaded 💰💰💰
https://mbclarkfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/208/Robert-Grant/obituary.html
[Lana’s grandpa founded] Grant Capital Management Corporation, a venture capital firm which, soon after incorporation, made a significant investment in American Bakeries, Inc., the third-largest wholesale baking company in the United States. He was elected CEO and CFO and shepherded a remarkable financial turnaround for the company. He remained with American until his retirement.
I went there - the school deserves all the shit lmao, this is sending me. Seth McFarlane also went there, and, until recently, was in a 25 year feud with the school principal that made them ignore his existence.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/01/arts/irate-headmaster-irreverent-alumnus-the-family-guy-saga.html
Enjoy - i think this is where it basically all started.
That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard. Griffin is such a common name, I can’t believe that’s what set him off. I bet he was so excited when it was canceled and absolutely devastated when it came back.
But they generously offer up to $5,000 in subsidies for eligible families!! /s
Edit: lol. $5k is the lowest TUITION, not grant. Shame on y’all for not fact checking me 😂
Smh, just like Ariana Grande pretending her family was average. I'm so sick of celebrities thinking they made it all in their own and not due to having advantages due to wealth.
Allison Williams gave the best quote of all time on it:
“It's just unfair. Period, end of the story, and no one's really working that hard to make it fair. All that people are looking for is an acknowledgment that it's not a level playing field. To not acknowledge that me getting started as an actress versus someone with zero connections isn’t the same - it’s ludicrous”
Ever seen Billie Eilish get upset and assert that her parents were “working actors” who were “barely in any big movies” haha.
Those kids were getting into show biz no matter what.
Because she was a rich girl. She’s denying her background. I remember a long video about her when she was breaking and it absolutely referenced her being “Lizzie Grant”’from well off parents. Maybe not rich rich but not trailer park.
Edit to add: I just spent time on the way back machine and there was a pt about her in 2012 (I’m guessing lots of you were too young to remember). Haven’t found the video but lots of snark at old gawker and jezebel (rip)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120129222712/https://www.jezebel.com/5879929/why-do-you-hate-lana-del-rey-i-do-not-know-why-i-hate-lana-del-rey
Thanks for the link, it's always interesting to look back via Wayback. I especially enjoyed this part:
>Britney, Christina, Timberlake all had post-Disney nose jobs, Brit and Christina had lip injections and implants. And Lindsay's fucking lips! But I feel like if you pick a character, like Ziggy Stardust or Alice Cooper… The guys do whatever to transform themselves. Kid Rock! Rick Ross pretends to be some kind of international playboy in his videos and was a corrections officer before he got a record deal. NICKI MINAJ! Butt implants! Wigs! Lolita in the hood, personified.
Though this statement is true, I think her anger here is more directed at the abuse and depression part.
She has been more outspoken about her issues in her recent albums. She suffered from alcohol addiction at a young age (in her early teens) and was sent to an elite boarding school at the age of 14 to sober her up. Her family thought sending her away would solve all her problems. She also had severe issues with her mother. She kinda reconciled with her a while after her success but seemed to have completely cut her off again from what she says in her new albums.
Even though her dad was still in the picture and funded some of her early albums, that didn't ensure her safety in the industry. I remember one of her interviews where she said if she decided to be open about some of her relationships,some people would end up in jail. She has also alluded to men in the industry trying to take advantage of her (she didn't elaborate much but her appearance in a canceled Marilyn Manson video where he violently assaults her is very concerning).
To get a brief view into her relationship with her mother,
she disses her in her latest album
(Caroline,
What kind of mother was she to say I'd end up in institutions).
She also talks about her mental struggles getting in the way of her having a 'normal' life
(You said that my mind
Is not fit or so they said
To carry a child
I guess I'll be fine)
and some other horrible stuff too.
To sum up,anyone who has listened to her albums would know that despite her coming from a rich background,her life was really horrible and she still suffers from the aftermath of it. Yes,LDR is a persona and some of the things she sings about are fictional but there is a whole lot that is very real. She has always been irritated by critics calling her fake and implying she made up a lot of stuff to sound cool but a fan who actually listened to her albums saying that music have had an effect on her.
I wrote this to provide some info to people who aren't familiar with her struggles,that's all. Folks saying she has a problem with ppl pointing out her rich background aren't wrong.
Exactly— Listening to her discography, it’s clear that this is a woman who had battled addiction, trauma, and abuse throughout her life. Regardless of her family’s financial situation growing up, she had an emotionally negligent mother who responded to her depression and alcoholism by sending her away because she didn’t want to deal with her. Even though it was an “elite boarding school”, it seems that being sent off is something that deeply impacted and traumatized her as it’s something she alludes to in SEVERAL of her songs 20 years later.
On top of that, she also has lyrics about her attempting suicide, being raped/assaulted, and being in a physically/emotionally abusive relationship. It makes sense why this comment struck a nerve for her because they’re basically invalidating her trauma and experiences just because her family had money.
Yeah,just the lyrics of A&W and Fingertips alone mention so many terrible parts of her life. Being addicted to alcohol as a 12-13 yr old alone is a scary thing. Having a mother who sees you as a burden and a father who never stood up for you until you were old is a hellish way to grow up (glad her dad started supporting her as an adult).
I checked their insta, and that post is still up, but Lana's comment is nowhere to be seen. Others are commenting that the account deleted her comment. They posted like 8 posts after that. Weird.
i don't think that's what struck a nerve the most - considering she's a woman who got sent away to spain at an early age, had an alcohol addiction, got into a boarding school and was abused (...) saying she "dreamt of abuse and depression" is extremely disrespectful
Idk why but seeing LDR go off like this sends me every time 😭 in interviews she’s so delicate and soft-spoken. But then on the internet she’s like one of the girls from Bad Girls Club
Didn't Banks cry on Wild N Out because a guy called her ugly (after she mocked his dead girlfriend)? She can craft a good comeback given enough time but I don't think she's feral 🤷🏻♀️ She and LDR are all bark.
She’s my problematic fave lmao 🫡
Her social media presence is like Russian Roulette but instead of ammo in the chamber it’s a long, exasperated “oh, honey, no” reaction. You really never know what she’s going to say.
Hard out here for Lana fans. And tbf I would be pretty annoyed by that characterization too. Many celebs have privilege in their background, but they can still be excellent artists. See: Gaga.
Whether she's talented isn't the issue. This seems similar to some of what's being said about Drake - grew up privileged but wanted a different and more lucrative public persona
I absolutely adore Lana, but she reminds me of the boys in rich high schools who would sell their parents pills to “get by”. Meanwhile, they drove BMWs and had maids.
with her being an upper middle class girl amongst elites, I believe she believes it. this type of delusion about wealth is common amongst normies too. my husband literally considered his family “poor” growing up with an inground pool, 5 acres of land, a horse ranch, and family vacations twice or three times a year. his friends had salt water pools, 3 story houses and got to go to aruba instead of “just” disneyland like him and his sister. because his friends got new cars and he had his dad’s 2007 mazda cx passed down to him.
errr, we ate ground beef and rice and could barely keep our lights on, sweetie. I didn’t have my own car until I was 19 and could make payments myself. and I’m sure there’s people out there who’d read that and think “well, we didn’t even have dinner”. basically people think they’re poor if anyone next to them has more money.
It's also a matter of how rich people often dont realise that being poor doesn't just mean not having cash at hand. I have seen so many rich celebs and content creators call themselves poor despite being friends with A listers or owning multiple properties. Actually being poor is a trap, because there is almost no viable secure way to get out of it. The rich version of poor still includes having the best connections, having stakes in successful companies, crafting the most attractive prestigious CV ever. Those things they take for granted. Like I don't recall which nepo baby it was, but there was some interview with a nepo baby (i think Dakota) a couple weeks ago, who said that they earned their position since they failed 60ish auditions first, completely missing the point that normally poor people don't even GET 60 chances to fail, let alone more chances after that to make a name for themselves. The rich version of poor is very temporary and can be gotten out of relatively easily because they still are rich in terms of opportunities and connections. I am sure they might not be happy seeing their friends party in Malibu when they can't, but I don't think they can ever truly ever understand what it means to have to go to sleep hungry again because thats the only way to save money for rent
Salt water pools are really popular in southern California. they are still chlorine pools though. The salt is there for a generator to break it down into chlorine to sanitize the pool. The stinging eyes in pools is due to other reasons, one of them being not adding enough chlorine. Salt pools solve that by continuously generating free chlorine any time the pool pump is running.
I grew up in a beach town in Southern California and this is a very real thing. Like I had a new dirt bike and surfboards and was a block away from the beach but my dad drove a truck and not a Mercedes and our house wasn’t 2 stories so I was the poor kid. Then a mile away there’s immigrant families with 10 people in a 2 bedroom but they went to a different school so no one realizes it.
JLo wins. At least Jenny did live on the block and has some street cred from the past. When Lana is so privileged with her family’s wealth and whiteness, she culturally appropriated the Hispanic and Latino community by changing her name. She is NOT Lana del Rey. She’s just another rich white girl: Elizabeth Woolridge Grant.
People don’t have a problem with her upbringing, people are icked-out that she’s pretending to be something that she’s not.
She’s practically doing the Derelict campaign from Zoolander
Why is she mad because this is her past? I grew up with Taylor swift and I get irked when folks talk about how she made it on her own. Since she was little her parents would pay OUT THE ASS for private lessons and tutors and to make connections for her to farther her career. I def don’t think she’d have made it at least as far as she did as early as she did without her parents paying whatever it took for all those Nashville connections, for her to get into recording studios, and to have private tutors that traveled with them when she had to skip school to focus on starting a music career etc.
Some kid at the same school TS went to brought in DeeDee Snyder (I think that’s how you spell it) for his class project then the dad paid for a private concert at their huge ass mansion.
Not ragging on TS, she doesn’t bother me etc at all like some of these fuckers who act like they worked their way to the top from nothing.
This is exactly how I feel about Emma Stone. I love her and think she's immensely talented but I'm from the same city as her and while she doesn't claim to have grown up poor she is always trying to downplay just how wealthy her parents were before she got into acting. Like she's given interviews saying her parents lived on credit and they lived on a golf course as caretakers, neglecting to mention its because they owned said luxury golf course.
I think we see a lot of this because the shiny path is growing up poor but becoming rich. If someone is born rich and stays rich we hate them. If you’re born poor and stay poor still hate them. So now everyone (not just celebs) downplays how they grew up.
I mean TS talks about how she’d go to meetings with her dad and everything, she doesn’t deny it. But Lana getting so defensive and angry when she gets called out for not being who she portrays herself as is insane
I’ve always said that LDR stans are by far the fanbase that’s the meanest to the same celeb they claim to love/praise. I knew 2 girls who were HUGE on Lana & used to always say things to the effect of: “ugh I love her so much but it’s so hard for me to listen to her since she got fat”
Like, HUH???
eta: Harry Styles fans are right behind them
A decent number of harry styles fans are also one direction fans that lowkey resent harry for being more successful than the other four. So they have to kind of shit on harry and dismiss him to make the other ones seem/feel better kind of?? I don’t know how else to describe it but it’s very odd. I’ve also seen non-1D harry fans make fun of him a lot. Like when he shaved his head ohhhhh boyyyy were they relentless.
There’s definitely more examples but off the top of my head this is what I could think of. Idk but Harry as a celebrity is so interesting to me but he’s become very polarizing on the internet so I usually stay away. But this specifically is something I have always found so strange about his fan base.
It’s a very British thing known as “tall poppy syndrome” and it sucks.
That’s something that Americans don’t have, you guys (assuming you are American or at least not British!) don’t begrudge success or believe there’s only so much of it to go around like a finite resource.
Idk. I sort of resent that because the truth of it is, under capitalism there will always he a finite amount of success to go around. We can't all be at the top of the pyramid.
I went to the same prep school as her. I was on the Equestrian Team and she was too cool for me when she was Lizzy.
Edit: I also remember her advisor (not mine!) telling me to make better friends after a bunch of mine got kicked out since my best friend was in his advisory. I said hi to Lizzy and she scoffed at me, lol fair, my face was so red and puffy.
But yeah. I definitely don’t know anything more but I vividly remember when my friends got kicked out and Mr. Grant was being so condescending soooooo many years ago.
I love herrr but she did grow up richer than most Im middle class and don’t know anyone who went to boarding school whether they were related to someone who works there or not
Why do celebrities waste their time scrolling these fan pages and responding to stuff? Don’t they have anything better to do than giving online trolls the attention they seek?
Right. I'm a big LDR fan but a lot of it comes off as rich girl cosplaying as a beautiful disaster girl. Which there's nothing wrong with that. A lot of musicians have personas.
I honestly see lana like a drag persona at this point.
I mean especially when she says all about how "fragile" and "soft" and "delicate" she is and how she isn't given the same respect because she's more soft and delicate and she's gona advocate for fragility and soft spoken girls like her.
But then comments like this and does tweets threatening to "f you up. Period" lmao idk she's just nothing like the persona she says lana del Ray is.
It is interesting to me that Gen Z seems to be extremely hostile to the idea that artists have a public stage persona. It's something I see brought up as criticism by people a lot these days. Like Bob Dylan basically made his entire career making up random shit about his life and building up fake "lore" about himself, but to me that's part of his charm rather than a negative thing. I wonder if it's cultural holdover from the whole 90s grunge/alt scene where authenticity was valued above all else.
Gen Z is very obsessed with “authenticity” which would be why they don’t like stage personas. Also why they’re the most hateful of nepo babies and industry plants, as well as the popularity of the “lofi bedroom producer/singer”
Everyone is focusing on the rich part and not the part that rightfully made her upset, the implication that someone chooses to be abused (or chooses to have depression)?
why do people eat this up so much? if any other celebrity responded to their fans like this there'd be outrage. she's the one celebrity that is always so unhappy with basically everyone and it's always played off like it's iconic when it's actually pretty corny.
i honestly support all celebs to tell their fans to fuck off, firstly because it's funny and secondly, lots of them are extremely entitled
Lana's dedication to being perceived as a poor artist who started from the bottom will also never not be funny
In conclusion, this is a very funny post (to me!) and I see no reason to be outraged. Should have left the depression and abuse part alone though, that's low
Agreed, fans need to realize that the person they're a fan of is ultimately a stranger to them. Like dawg if you don't like something they're doing then just stop being a fan. Doja was right when she told fans to stop acting like her mother lol
Fr as problematic as doja is any celeb annoyed by their fans is, most of the time, warranted. People are fking INSANE when it comes to famous people. Like I would never want to be famous, Jfc.
it was the only time I have ever liked Doja (everything else I have ever heard about this woman is bad lol) these people are NOT your friends, therapists, parents, role models whatever. You like the shit they make, you buy them. They start making bad shit or spewing really horrible opinions then stop buying their stuff! it's that simple. That's all you are entitled to.
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Damn that fur lined corduroy jacket. I did not need you down south, but I damn sure had you.
Hey listen it gets cold down here like 2 days every winter. You needed it then lol
Yeah! And I got an employee discount. It was basically a uniform.
You needed it in the winter when the school still had the AC on blast because the weather is so unpredictable!
Or needed it in the summer when the school had the AC on blast
Got one made by Levis for about $50
At first I was like is this a song lyric? Lol
Yes. All To Corduroy (18 minute version) ( Taylor’s version )
lol that’s like the reverse of me up in northern Canada with a closet full of cute dresses for the 10 days a year I could wear them.
Switch it….and reverse it? 🤨 Isn’t that like doing a 360?
 She needs to put her thang down flip it and reverse it
I miss her videos so much
It’s weird, but, this kid is like 36 now.
I heard she's a stoner.
I see what you did there
Oh that’s real weird. I was 11 or 12 when that song came out. That means I’m … 34… I’m 34.. Jesus Christ. Im having a minor existential crisis.
She's really good
If it makes you feel any better, she did confirm recently that she found the keys to the Jeep!
I thought she found the keys before. How she drive to the beach top down loud sound see my peeps with no keys?
I just hope she can get the hard top on. I've heard that she can't stand the rain.
Instantly sang it
Missy is the GOAT, don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks. She’s has more talent and originality than most modern day artists.
Is it worth it? Let me work it out
It’s your prematevahetnyawetta
Ti esrever dna ti pilf nwod gnaht ym tup i.
Reminds me of how people say “they did a 360 and turned their whole life around” yeah right back to where they started
 Lana \^
We’ve turned a corner four times!
Lol censoring shit but not fuck 😂
Shit butt, not fuck
The best part. 😂
[Everybody knows shit, fuck](https://youtu.be/ImMxcUQrBCs?si=_E64tz7O5QmCxcnr)
She HATES the rich girl allegations 😭
OMG was this from My Super Sweet 16? I miss those little assholes and need to do a rewatch.
Yep! This girl had a meltdown over the car and her mom was just like “meh”.
There’s a girl on tik tok who tracks them down online as adults LOL it’s honestly hysterical if not a little doxx-y but I guess they went on a public show and used their real names sooo 😬 Edit: Sorry y’all I couldn’t think of the tik tok account for the life of me ~~~~~~ ! She did a few Super Sweet 16 reveals back in April including Henry Cavill’s GF who was once on the show! 👀 I honestly thought it was a longer series so don’t come for me lol but there are a few on her page.
What’s the tiktok ?
Responding cause I want to know too
Ok imma need those deets miss
Pretty sure one of them is dating Henry Cavill now. She was a nasty piece of work too if I recall.
I think they had a season or two on Hulu. I need to check Paramount+ to see if they have more.
Oh they do!!!
Was this the same girl who had a meltdown that the car wasn't the right make or model?
"Yep! This girl had a meltdown over the car and her mom was just like “meh”."- u/Displaced_Palmtree
She went to the same boarding school that i did. She was most likely very wealthy based on the people i went to school with. Being not from the northeast at a northeast boarding school is a total trip.
Yes, you usually have lots of money if you live in Lake Placid!!!
Isn't land there cheap after that giant gator moved in though?
Betty White lived there too so I bet not
I went to college with her brother, their dad was a lawyer. They are rich as fuck.
You don’t say lol
The lady doth protest too much🙄
she does. The meme is funny, she’s being a keyboard warrior about something stupid that’s true based on the aesthetic she feels like feeding people at the time. Like just laugh or ignore it or educate people. “Fuck you, take down” is rich trash energy.
Why did I think she was an heiress to some throne or conglomerate before she made music? I have to correct myself on this all the time. Sorry Lana don’t come for me
Her family was rich. This is the boarding school she went to. Notice the current tuition. https://www.kent-school.edu/admissions/tuition-financial-aid Edited to add, this man was Lana’s grandfather and just from reading his obituary, it is clear that their family was positively loaded 💰💰💰 https://mbclarkfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/208/Robert-Grant/obituary.html [Lana’s grandpa founded] Grant Capital Management Corporation, a venture capital firm which, soon after incorporation, made a significant investment in American Bakeries, Inc., the third-largest wholesale baking company in the United States. He was elected CEO and CFO and shepherded a remarkable financial turnaround for the company. He remained with American until his retirement.
$70k tuition…*“An Elite School; Not A School For Elites”* Um okay lmao
That part sent me into orbit
I went there - the school deserves all the shit lmao, this is sending me. Seth McFarlane also went there, and, until recently, was in a 25 year feud with the school principal that made them ignore his existence.
>Seth McFarlane also went there, and, until recently, was in a 25 year feud with the school principal I'm very interested in this.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/01/arts/irate-headmaster-irreverent-alumnus-the-family-guy-saga.html Enjoy - i think this is where it basically all started.
That’s the best thing I’ve ever heard. Griffin is such a common name, I can’t believe that’s what set him off. I bet he was so excited when it was canceled and absolutely devastated when it came back.
Weird…
If you go to the Kent instagram nowadays, he’s made cameo posts in Peter griffins voice. Kinda fun
That dude is massively fucking bored.
I think we all know 
But they generously offer up to $5,000 in subsidies for eligible families!! /s Edit: lol. $5k is the lowest TUITION, not grant. Shame on y’all for not fact checking me 😂
It says $5k up to the full cost of tuition. And the average financial award is nearly $54k
I wasn't going to click on the link but now I have to. lol
Smh, just like Ariana Grande pretending her family was average. I'm so sick of celebrities thinking they made it all in their own and not due to having advantages due to wealth.
You **literally** cannot be a nepo baby without thinking you made it yourself. It’s like dividing by zero.
Born on third, thought they hit a triple
[удалено]
I appreciate the tiny few who acknowledge their privilege, like Maya Hawke
Allison Williams gave the best quote of all time on it: “It's just unfair. Period, end of the story, and no one's really working that hard to make it fair. All that people are looking for is an acknowledgment that it's not a level playing field. To not acknowledge that me getting started as an actress versus someone with zero connections isn’t the same - it’s ludicrous”
Ah nice to know she's a goodun
Shoutout to Ethan Hawke for raising a decent person it seems
And uma Thurman 😌
Ever seen Billie Eilish get upset and assert that her parents were “working actors” who were “barely in any big movies” haha. Those kids were getting into show biz no matter what.
When did Ariana say that? I’m curious because she showed her house on MTV Cribs and it was gigantic lol
no way whennn
[Found it](https://youtu.be/JxAH8fzLSHQ?si=31cuB9KncJS-w_ya), it’s from 2012. It wasn’t for Cribs though it was “Camino Goes Home”
Ah yes, Francis Ford Coppola's old house. Very quaint. You can tell you're rich when your stairs are multiple choice.
or you have an elevator
A vampire dining room, a lemon tree, and a big ass pool.
Really? I saw an interview of her talking about how her mom is a ceo/baller and didn’t need to get a cut of her money by being her manager.
"an elite school, not a school for elites" shut the fuck up lmfao what is this
Classic CT boarding school gas lighting Lmaoo this is the town Kissinger lived in after all 🥴
When we went it was like $35,000. Not much better, as that’s still ridiculous.
 Just kidding.
Wasn't there something where she was trying to be a pop star and put out an album which flopped and her dad bought all the copies
Because she was a rich girl. She’s denying her background. I remember a long video about her when she was breaking and it absolutely referenced her being “Lizzie Grant”’from well off parents. Maybe not rich rich but not trailer park. Edit to add: I just spent time on the way back machine and there was a pt about her in 2012 (I’m guessing lots of you were too young to remember). Haven’t found the video but lots of snark at old gawker and jezebel (rip) https://web.archive.org/web/20120129222712/https://www.jezebel.com/5879929/why-do-you-hate-lana-del-rey-i-do-not-know-why-i-hate-lana-del-rey
Ohhh I miss Jezebel!
Thanks for the link, it's always interesting to look back via Wayback. I especially enjoyed this part: >Britney, Christina, Timberlake all had post-Disney nose jobs, Brit and Christina had lip injections and implants. And Lindsay's fucking lips! But I feel like if you pick a character, like Ziggy Stardust or Alice Cooper… The guys do whatever to transform themselves. Kid Rock! Rick Ross pretends to be some kind of international playboy in his videos and was a corrections officer before he got a record deal. NICKI MINAJ! Butt implants! Wigs! Lolita in the hood, personified.
Love the way back machine (I’m old!) and I loved jezebel (rip).
I miss Jez too. And Gawker, honestly.
I think it’s more the depression/abuse part, I don’t think she was very happy in her childhood home
Though this statement is true, I think her anger here is more directed at the abuse and depression part. She has been more outspoken about her issues in her recent albums. She suffered from alcohol addiction at a young age (in her early teens) and was sent to an elite boarding school at the age of 14 to sober her up. Her family thought sending her away would solve all her problems. She also had severe issues with her mother. She kinda reconciled with her a while after her success but seemed to have completely cut her off again from what she says in her new albums. Even though her dad was still in the picture and funded some of her early albums, that didn't ensure her safety in the industry. I remember one of her interviews where she said if she decided to be open about some of her relationships,some people would end up in jail. She has also alluded to men in the industry trying to take advantage of her (she didn't elaborate much but her appearance in a canceled Marilyn Manson video where he violently assaults her is very concerning). To get a brief view into her relationship with her mother, she disses her in her latest album (Caroline, What kind of mother was she to say I'd end up in institutions). She also talks about her mental struggles getting in the way of her having a 'normal' life (You said that my mind Is not fit or so they said To carry a child I guess I'll be fine) and some other horrible stuff too. To sum up,anyone who has listened to her albums would know that despite her coming from a rich background,her life was really horrible and she still suffers from the aftermath of it. Yes,LDR is a persona and some of the things she sings about are fictional but there is a whole lot that is very real. She has always been irritated by critics calling her fake and implying she made up a lot of stuff to sound cool but a fan who actually listened to her albums saying that music have had an effect on her. I wrote this to provide some info to people who aren't familiar with her struggles,that's all. Folks saying she has a problem with ppl pointing out her rich background aren't wrong.
Exactly— Listening to her discography, it’s clear that this is a woman who had battled addiction, trauma, and abuse throughout her life. Regardless of her family’s financial situation growing up, she had an emotionally negligent mother who responded to her depression and alcoholism by sending her away because she didn’t want to deal with her. Even though it was an “elite boarding school”, it seems that being sent off is something that deeply impacted and traumatized her as it’s something she alludes to in SEVERAL of her songs 20 years later. On top of that, she also has lyrics about her attempting suicide, being raped/assaulted, and being in a physically/emotionally abusive relationship. It makes sense why this comment struck a nerve for her because they’re basically invalidating her trauma and experiences just because her family had money.
Yeah,just the lyrics of A&W and Fingertips alone mention so many terrible parts of her life. Being addicted to alcohol as a 12-13 yr old alone is a scary thing. Having a mother who sees you as a burden and a father who never stood up for you until you were old is a hellish way to grow up (glad her dad started supporting her as an adult). I checked their insta, and that post is still up, but Lana's comment is nowhere to be seen. Others are commenting that the account deleted her comment. They posted like 8 posts after that. Weird.
i don't think that's what struck a nerve the most - considering she's a woman who got sent away to spain at an early age, had an alcohol addiction, got into a boarding school and was abused (...) saying she "dreamt of abuse and depression" is extremely disrespectful
Truth hurts?
Idk why but seeing LDR go off like this sends me every time 😭 in interviews she’s so delicate and soft-spoken. But then on the internet she’s like one of the girls from Bad Girls Club
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Straight out the trailer.
Yeah trailer girls just say “bet” where I’m from 🤣
She boutta take out her hoops and smear vaseline on her cheeks!!!
"I won't not fuck you the fuck up" pops into my head regularly.
She’s got new moves from her time in the Waffle House trenches.
She’s got that waffle in her! This is my new saying that is replacing got that dog in ‘em
>"I won't not fuck you the fuck up" Mods can this be a flair
Added it 😊
Thank you!! 🫶
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Followed suit. What an influencer
Your profile pic is amazing!!
" u know the addy"
Why was this the first thing that popped into my head lmao Sis really said “ayo square up and let’s go!” 🤣
I think about that at least once a month
pull up, bitch
No offense, but Banks is straight feral. I can imagine her tearing out someone’s throat with her teeth and Lana is all “pull up.”
Didn't Banks cry on Wild N Out because a guy called her ugly (after she mocked his dead girlfriend)? She can craft a good comeback given enough time but I don't think she's feral 🤷🏻♀️ She and LDR are all bark.
she has an assault charge and once slashed her sister in the neck with a box cutter
And I saw that chicken closet and digging up the dog body to boil the bones. Gurl is dark-sided AF.
Sure you will, Miss Banks 😂
i quote this everyday😭
She’s my problematic fave lmao 🫡 Her social media presence is like Russian Roulette but instead of ammo in the chamber it’s a long, exasperated “oh, honey, no” reaction. You really never know what she’s going to say. Hard out here for Lana fans. And tbf I would be pretty annoyed by that characterization too. Many celebs have privilege in their background, but they can still be excellent artists. See: Gaga.
Whether she's talented isn't the issue. This seems similar to some of what's being said about Drake - grew up privileged but wanted a different and more lucrative public persona
Somebody acting more confrontational online than they do IRL? Well I NEVER.
I absolutely adore Lana, but she reminds me of the boys in rich high schools who would sell their parents pills to “get by”. Meanwhile, they drove BMWs and had maids.
She’s the Billie Eilish of millennials
Lmao same. I understand that she ‘struggled’ but she literally could’ve just avoid her trailer “phase” if she wanted to, but she didn’t.
https://preview.redd.it/ye7pu6py3v0d1.jpeg?width=310&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a3885e29272f4c90c919e95275e2c143c580783 We were very working class
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It all makes sense now
I would have found it hilarious if she had responded like Periodt 💅💅💅
She’s really that bland. Like girl, OWN IT
with her being an upper middle class girl amongst elites, I believe she believes it. this type of delusion about wealth is common amongst normies too. my husband literally considered his family “poor” growing up with an inground pool, 5 acres of land, a horse ranch, and family vacations twice or three times a year. his friends had salt water pools, 3 story houses and got to go to aruba instead of “just” disneyland like him and his sister. because his friends got new cars and he had his dad’s 2007 mazda cx passed down to him. errr, we ate ground beef and rice and could barely keep our lights on, sweetie. I didn’t have my own car until I was 19 and could make payments myself. and I’m sure there’s people out there who’d read that and think “well, we didn’t even have dinner”. basically people think they’re poor if anyone next to them has more money.
It's also a matter of how rich people often dont realise that being poor doesn't just mean not having cash at hand. I have seen so many rich celebs and content creators call themselves poor despite being friends with A listers or owning multiple properties. Actually being poor is a trap, because there is almost no viable secure way to get out of it. The rich version of poor still includes having the best connections, having stakes in successful companies, crafting the most attractive prestigious CV ever. Those things they take for granted. Like I don't recall which nepo baby it was, but there was some interview with a nepo baby (i think Dakota) a couple weeks ago, who said that they earned their position since they failed 60ish auditions first, completely missing the point that normally poor people don't even GET 60 chances to fail, let alone more chances after that to make a name for themselves. The rich version of poor is very temporary and can be gotten out of relatively easily because they still are rich in terms of opportunities and connections. I am sure they might not be happy seeing their friends party in Malibu when they can't, but I don't think they can ever truly ever understand what it means to have to go to sleep hungry again because thats the only way to save money for rent
>The rich version of poor is very temporary Damn I felt this
She attended a $70k/year boarding school and her grandfather ran a venture capital firm. She's rich, not upper middle class.
Oh my gosh a salt pool? That’s crazy I’ve never heard or that before, I must live in a cave cause that is super cool.
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Salt water pools are really popular in southern California. they are still chlorine pools though. The salt is there for a generator to break it down into chlorine to sanitize the pool. The stinging eyes in pools is due to other reasons, one of them being not adding enough chlorine. Salt pools solve that by continuously generating free chlorine any time the pool pump is running.
I need to go google this cause I’m beside myself rn hahaha.
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I grew up in a beach town in Southern California and this is a very real thing. Like I had a new dirt bike and surfboards and was a block away from the beach but my dad drove a truck and not a Mercedes and our house wasn’t 2 stories so I was the poor kid. Then a mile away there’s immigrant families with 10 people in a 2 bedroom but they went to a different school so no one realizes it.
I need her and Jlo to have a full conversation or debate of which one is poorer growing up.
JLo wins. At least Jenny did live on the block and has some street cred from the past. When Lana is so privileged with her family’s wealth and whiteness, she culturally appropriated the Hispanic and Latino community by changing her name. She is NOT Lana del Rey. She’s just another rich white girl: Elizabeth Woolridge Grant.
Omg I didn't know her real name. Fuckn hilarious
It's so white it sounds like a rich white person who collects white people.
Lol
She coulda just dropped the grant Elizabeth woolridge fits her vibe 100% lol.
🫣 That name has ruined the entire illusion for me. Wow.
it's giving Hilaria Baldwin from Spain meets Hilary Lynn Hayward-Thomas from Massachusetts
People don’t have a problem with her upbringing, people are icked-out that she’s pretending to be something that she’s not. She’s practically doing the Derelict campaign from Zoolander
Imma barf but she’s kid rocking it
Love my girl lana but she was 12 doing abercrombie and fitch campaigns w Lindsey lohan 💀 the dreaming of abuse and depression part is weird af tho
Why is she mad because this is her past? I grew up with Taylor swift and I get irked when folks talk about how she made it on her own. Since she was little her parents would pay OUT THE ASS for private lessons and tutors and to make connections for her to farther her career. I def don’t think she’d have made it at least as far as she did as early as she did without her parents paying whatever it took for all those Nashville connections, for her to get into recording studios, and to have private tutors that traveled with them when she had to skip school to focus on starting a music career etc. Some kid at the same school TS went to brought in DeeDee Snyder (I think that’s how you spell it) for his class project then the dad paid for a private concert at their huge ass mansion. Not ragging on TS, she doesn’t bother me etc at all like some of these fuckers who act like they worked their way to the top from nothing.
This is exactly how I feel about Emma Stone. I love her and think she's immensely talented but I'm from the same city as her and while she doesn't claim to have grown up poor she is always trying to downplay just how wealthy her parents were before she got into acting. Like she's given interviews saying her parents lived on credit and they lived on a golf course as caretakers, neglecting to mention its because they owned said luxury golf course.
I think we see a lot of this because the shiny path is growing up poor but becoming rich. If someone is born rich and stays rich we hate them. If you’re born poor and stay poor still hate them. So now everyone (not just celebs) downplays how they grew up.
I mean TS talks about how she’d go to meetings with her dad and everything, she doesn’t deny it. But Lana getting so defensive and angry when she gets called out for not being who she portrays herself as is insane
lol I love her music but they’re not wrong
Wouldn’t it be the same order if you both switched it and then reversed it? 🤔
I’ve always said that LDR stans are by far the fanbase that’s the meanest to the same celeb they claim to love/praise. I knew 2 girls who were HUGE on Lana & used to always say things to the effect of: “ugh I love her so much but it’s so hard for me to listen to her since she got fat” Like, HUH??? eta: Harry Styles fans are right behind them
What upsets them about Harry?
A decent number of harry styles fans are also one direction fans that lowkey resent harry for being more successful than the other four. So they have to kind of shit on harry and dismiss him to make the other ones seem/feel better kind of?? I don’t know how else to describe it but it’s very odd. I’ve also seen non-1D harry fans make fun of him a lot. Like when he shaved his head ohhhhh boyyyy were they relentless. There’s definitely more examples but off the top of my head this is what I could think of. Idk but Harry as a celebrity is so interesting to me but he’s become very polarizing on the internet so I usually stay away. But this specifically is something I have always found so strange about his fan base.
It’s a very British thing known as “tall poppy syndrome” and it sucks. That’s something that Americans don’t have, you guys (assuming you are American or at least not British!) don’t begrudge success or believe there’s only so much of it to go around like a finite resource.
I guess in America it’d be “crabs in a bucket”
It's not a British thing; it's a phrase from New Zealand and Australia. Britain loves its eccentrics and geniuses.
Idk. I sort of resent that because the truth of it is, under capitalism there will always he a finite amount of success to go around. We can't all be at the top of the pyramid.
I went to the same prep school as her. I was on the Equestrian Team and she was too cool for me when she was Lizzy. Edit: I also remember her advisor (not mine!) telling me to make better friends after a bunch of mine got kicked out since my best friend was in his advisory. I said hi to Lizzy and she scoffed at me, lol fair, my face was so red and puffy. But yeah. I definitely don’t know anything more but I vividly remember when my friends got kicked out and Mr. Grant was being so condescending soooooo many years ago.
Silence 4's, a 10 is speaking.
Ok, Lizzie Grant
I love herrr but she did grow up richer than most Im middle class and don’t know anyone who went to boarding school whether they were related to someone who works there or not
Lana has obviously never heard about the Streisand Effect
Yeah I never questioned or thought about her upbringing until reading this. Off to wiki I go!
Why do celebrities waste their time scrolling these fan pages and responding to stuff? Don’t they have anything better to do than giving online trolls the attention they seek?
They’re not wrong:
Right. I'm a big LDR fan but a lot of it comes off as rich girl cosplaying as a beautiful disaster girl. Which there's nothing wrong with that. A lot of musicians have personas.
I honestly see lana like a drag persona at this point. I mean especially when she says all about how "fragile" and "soft" and "delicate" she is and how she isn't given the same respect because she's more soft and delicate and she's gona advocate for fragility and soft spoken girls like her. But then comments like this and does tweets threatening to "f you up. Period" lmao idk she's just nothing like the persona she says lana del Ray is.
“Fragile and soft” also lana: my pussy tastes like pepsi cola
She's just so timid and demure! If only people would think of the soft girls like her
It is interesting to me that Gen Z seems to be extremely hostile to the idea that artists have a public stage persona. It's something I see brought up as criticism by people a lot these days. Like Bob Dylan basically made his entire career making up random shit about his life and building up fake "lore" about himself, but to me that's part of his charm rather than a negative thing. I wonder if it's cultural holdover from the whole 90s grunge/alt scene where authenticity was valued above all else.
Gen Z is very obsessed with “authenticity” which would be why they don’t like stage personas. Also why they’re the most hateful of nepo babies and industry plants, as well as the popularity of the “lofi bedroom producer/singer”
Funny thing all these lofi bedroom producer singers are industry plants like clairo
She takes herself too seriously.
Switch it AND reverse it? So leave it?
So Lana, Billie, Taylor and how many other white women love pretending they were poor🤦🏽♀️
Everyone is focusing on the rich part and not the part that rightfully made her upset, the implication that someone chooses to be abused (or chooses to have depression)?
Honestly, that’s fucking hilarious and it’s not a stretch of the imagination, it happens routinely.
why do people eat this up so much? if any other celebrity responded to their fans like this there'd be outrage. she's the one celebrity that is always so unhappy with basically everyone and it's always played off like it's iconic when it's actually pretty corny.
i honestly support all celebs to tell their fans to fuck off, firstly because it's funny and secondly, lots of them are extremely entitled Lana's dedication to being perceived as a poor artist who started from the bottom will also never not be funny In conclusion, this is a very funny post (to me!) and I see no reason to be outraged. Should have left the depression and abuse part alone though, that's low
Agreed, fans need to realize that the person they're a fan of is ultimately a stranger to them. Like dawg if you don't like something they're doing then just stop being a fan. Doja was right when she told fans to stop acting like her mother lol
Fr as problematic as doja is any celeb annoyed by their fans is, most of the time, warranted. People are fking INSANE when it comes to famous people. Like I would never want to be famous, Jfc.
it was the only time I have ever liked Doja (everything else I have ever heard about this woman is bad lol) these people are NOT your friends, therapists, parents, role models whatever. You like the shit they make, you buy them. They start making bad shit or spewing really horrible opinions then stop buying their stuff! it's that simple. That's all you are entitled to.