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"Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass" Spoken Word Poetry Album - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass  

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  1. 1. What are your favourite poems from "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass?"

    • LA Who am I to Love You
      124
    • The Land of 1000 Fires
      53
    • Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
      35
    • Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving
      43
    • Salamander
      76
    • Never to Heaven
      38
    • Sportcruiser
      172
    • Tessa DiPietro
      29
    • Quiet Waiter Blue Forever
      43
    • What Happened When I Left You
      21
    • Happy
      45
    • My Bedroom is a Sacred Place Now - There are Children at the Foot of My Bed
      56
    • Paradise is Very Fragile
      70
    • Bare Feet on Linoleum
      92


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Have you found anything relatively similar? No audiobooks I’ve listened to have been anything like it and I wanna find something similar to listen to.

Ah sorry no. I’ve started listening to fictional books, no more poetry. Those don’t have an accompanying score. Sometimes in reviews they mention other artists, but the ones I checked out were without background music as well.

Just found this playlist, not sure if this is what you’re looking for

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX9E5OapyoHNL?si=Eg8Onh51T-ekmBoY1bnCiA

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My Bedroom is a Sacred Place Now - There are Children at the Foot of My Bed

 

My favorite so far. Cant stop listening to it. Already craving more spoken poetry of hers. I remember replaying her dialogue in ride over and over when I was younger... something about her voice speaking about her emotions and experiences is very comforting for me. I get so lost in it. I think it makes me feel less alone.

 

I hope to see more in the future

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Does anyone else listen to this every night before bed

 

I try but the words are so strong I pay too much attention to them

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‘I was horrified

Feeling as though I’d somehow been found out

Like he knew me,

How weak I was’

 

The way she says "How weak I was" omg... You can literally hear how she looks downwards in that part.

 

Also, I wanted to say that my least favorite from the audiobook is Happy. I've always loved the poem, but the music doesn't reflect the feeling of it? Of course, that's how Lana wanted it, but it doesn't sound right to me. Also, The Land of 1000 Fires. Love the poem, like the music, but the LQ of the recording is jarring :rip:

 

No skips at all though. I'm loving this project with my whole heart.

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The way she says "How weak I was" omg... You can literally hear how she looks downwards in that part.

 

Also, I wanted to say that my least favorite from the audiobook is Happy. I've always loved the poem, but the music doesn't reflect the feeling of it? Of course, that's how Lana wanted it, but it doesn't sound right to me. Also, The Land of 1000 Fires. Love the poem, like the music, but the LQ of the recording is jarring :rip:

 

No skips at all though. I'm loving this project with my whole heart.

Yes! I can really feel it, the way she conveys everything in her spoken voice is a amazing. I did think Happy was disjointed so I agree with you. As for the quality, the LQ poems sounds worse then an Iphone recording...more like a phonograph lol It’s a bit much.


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obsessed w land of 1000 fires rn, esp this part:

 

"There are seven worlds in my eyes

 
I'm accessing of all them once
 
One to draw my words from and my muses
Another one i try and harness late at night that lies somewhere
Off of the right of Jupiter
And then of course there's this one i live in
The land of 1000 fires"
 
and then 
 
"That's my why no matter what world i'm in
I'm accessible by only one satellite"
 
i love this poem so much but can't help of thinking of zoolander re: "blue steel eyes"

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I haven't read anything yet except the insta posts she made back then and just listened to a fraction of Salamander. saving it for a mood I guess but. appreciation post I love how dreamy her work is w/o it having to be pretentious. so so good /


what's everyone's experience w the audio though? no context spoilers tho pls 


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I bought the audiobook, but only have listened to the first poem before I bought the audiobook to figure out if I'd buy it or not. I keep waiting for the right moment to listen to the book (when I'm feeling emotional and am ready to sit down for 40 min and focus solely on the book), but I haven't found the right time yet.

 

I can't believe her next album is going to be released in a month already. That's such a quick turnaround from an audiobook that I haven't listened to yet. We haven't got this much Lana content in one year since BTD/Paradise. Even then, we will have gotten 2 albums and an audiobook all within a span of about a year. Wild.


  It’s not about having someone to love me anymore

This is the experience of being an American whore

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The reviewer from The Guardian is a self-identifies socialist. She calls herself a socialist on her Twitter page.

 

(I’m a liberal democrat but I do not agree with socialism)

 

But I have to ask, why is The Guardian employing someone with a clear political bias and letting them review art? Her politics is anti-creativity as creativity is censured under socialism.

 

See I can’t take that review seriously as there is a clear bias. It’s not the media’s job to infuse their politics into reporting. That’s up to the viewer to decide. Granted bias is all over. FOX News is very bias and repeats whatever Trump says! lol

 

Having said this, most people are not so good at understanding poetry.

Worms for brains


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Hate to say it, but I think this may be the first project by Lana I don’t like. I liked parts of it, but overall, I kinda regret buying it except for supporting Lana and the Native American charity.


  It’s not about having someone to love me anymore

This is the experience of being an American whore

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Having heard violet, I caught myself thinking. These poems are written some time either one year or two or I don’t know when. We’re left waiting the next project, that is behind iron gates. And now, I’m thinking, does really this enlightenment or spiritual path she’s following, really affected who she really is? Or she just wants to evolve this persona she’s following in her career goal? I’m waiting - impatiently, tbh- for COCC so I can understand more about what’s going on her mind right now.

 

 

Edit: left waiting the physical hard copy that has more poems and then the behind iron gates


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i don't think the poems would impress me when reading them, but her reciting them over the instrumentals is really exciting.

 

"Never To Heaven" and "Past The Bushes Cypress Thriving" are a bit lame but the rest is charming.

 

"Sportcruiser" is a really nice story, "LA who am I to Love You" is EXTREMELY powerful and I hope we will get a song with a production like "My Bedroom Is A Sacred Place Now".

 

"The Land of 1,000 Fires", "Quiet Waiter - Blue Forever", "What Happened Whrn I Left You" and "Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass" are extremely on point - mainly sonically.

 

"Salamander", "Happy" and "Tessa DiPietro" appear bland at first but then turn out pretty meaningful and smart.

 

"Bare Feet On Linolium" is really leaving you devastated. The production, the way she reads it ... It's super expressive. I hope COCC will have some of that impact. I'm not too happy about the way she left out words tho


Just do it. Just do it - don't wait!

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It's already dark here. Lights off, a silent room, broken heart. And then Violet plays, starting from Salamander till the madness of Bare Feet on Linoleum. Tears in my eyes, heavy thoughts all over, she has done it.

I know I am feeling quite emotional lately, but once again Lana is perfectly fitting in the timeline of my life. Now that I need her, she is here, helping me carry the weight of my grief.

 

People love my stories.

People love visions.

 

And now, Alexa, play The Greatest ‘cause I f*cking need wine and bitter tears tonight :crying4:


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