That's interesting; she feels entirely like a brand to me, a brand I would have gobbled up when I was 16: love is suffering, early death is glamorous, being beautiful means you're Chosen, real love can only end in tragedy, etc. It seems very well calculated to me.

I have a visceral negative reaction to her persona because it's so obviously calculated to appeal to gloomy 14-year-olds with an unwavering belief that their prettiness is basically a Seal of Fate that has destined them for Beautiful yet Tragic things, and yet I keep seeing fully grown people fall for that shtick.…

No one's spamming comments you idiot. Go troll somewhere else.

You know that she's not real, right?

I think the problem is that her image kind of overshadows her music. Most musicians cultivate an image and persona, yes, but a lot of them have talent or showmanship to back it up. If LDR wore a t shirt and jeans I don't think anyone would know who she is right now. Also, LDR tries to do the whole soulful, intense,…

Do you know her so well that you can say this isn't a "persona"?

I think you should look up the word "emo." That's what we called feel-bad-for-me-I'm-sad behavior from successful musicians when I was a kid.

Wow, you must be the president of the fanclub.

Chill.

She's playing at the role of tortured artist. She wants fame and sympathy.

Her personality is beige.

Not in a goddamned interview to hawk an album which you've recorded as a persona that you adopted after your first try at a music career failed miserably.

She turns me off. So much. I feel like her movements and speech and voice are all just a show. Which is not bad because that's what she does, she's a performer, but she seems to be performing something she thinks everyone will like, not something that she truly is or likes.

Me too Lana... me too.

But when you do feel that way, do you just blurt it out to any- and everyone?

Calculated? You mean like her affectation?

I assumed she meant just everything. I don't know, when my depression is really bad I feel like that - like i just want to not exist and it's just life in general and I don't have the desire to participate in any of it. I do agree though that if she is really struggling and it is a factor in her depression that she'd…

Stop asking her leading questions or I am going to have to assume that your ambitions are nothing short of sinister.

I don't usually go for those "cutest ever" videos but I can't lie with this one. This just might be the cutest ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or he was drunk, and wanted to get away before someone with a breathalyzer showed up. "Fleeing the scene of an accident" is a much more minor ticket than "DUI".