Norman Fucking Rockwell - Pre-Release Thread

[LanaFlowers 8,751]

Even Graham is done with Lana's shit

and he's her dad

[Rorman Nockwell 53,513]

Yup, her merch is ugly and basic af, like when she was showing off the lust For Life merch like the shirts and windbreakers as if they were some ground breaking beautiful stuff, I was like sis wyd.

I found Lana's super secret Instagram-poetry-inspired NFR shirt design

[WildMustang 14,725]

Can't believe after all these I'm still hyped for the album

[bored 7,829]

It's still so strange to me that she had such a burning desire to be a star, the reincarnations of her persona and image and finally Lana Del Rey clicked. She has one of the most anticipated albums of the year just sitting there. She's dropped 3 singles in the last 8 months and all of them have had amazing responses and acclaim from fans and critics. Yet now she seems hellbent on killing the momentum. Like is this a form of self-destruction? Either way, we can't win, we just have to wait this out. People saying they'll boycot the album so she does more promotion next time... That won't happen. She'll throw it in our faces and be like "the last album was my favourite and people didn't like it, look at the numbers. I'm just gonna retire and make music for myself."

[Flowerbomb 65,555]

It's still so strange to me that she had such a burning desire to be a star, the reincarnations of her persona and image and finally Lana Del Rey clicked. She has one of the most anticipated albums of the year just sitting there. She's dropped 3 singles in the last 8 months and all of them have had amazing responses and acclaim from fans and critics. Yet now she seems hellbent on killing the momentum. Like is this a form of self-destruction? Either way, we can't win, we just have to wait this out. People saying they'll boycot the album so she does more promotion next time... That won't happen. She'll throw it in our faces and be like "the last album was my favourite and people didn't like it, look at the numbers. I'm just gonna retire and make music for myself."

 

Idk I think that might be for the best. Not permanently, but she definitely needs to take a break. It kinda reminds me of how My Chemical Romance broke up instead of pushing out half assed albums (which I'm glad they never did). They knew they didn't have the same passion anymore to carry on with the band so they departed, and tbh I think that was a very good decision.

[bored 7,829]

Idk I think that might be for the best. Not permanently, but she definitely needs to take a break. It kinda reminds me of how My Chemical Romance broke up instead of pushing out half assed albums (which I'm glad they never did). They knew they didn't have the same passion anymore to carry on with the band so they departed, and tbh I think that was a very good decision.

 

I think she definitely needs time to ask to herself whether she wants this anymore, but there hasn't been a decline in material. Like she's only getting better and for me this could be one her best albums. Yes, Lust For Life had it's flaws but that was her attempt at recreating Born To Die and it was intended to be more accessible. I don't think her album will be half-arsed but I do think she either needs to decide whether she's an artist who puts their all into a campaign or just does a lowkey single, album release in a month.

[Fantasy 14]

The Gildan sweatshirt with a cherry on it for $100 though

[violets 11,893]

i find it so funny how till this era ben and ed are still pushing lana to be a basic ass bitch that appeals to the majority. i was shocked when i reheard the venice bitch interview how she said they said "why cant you just release a 3 minute pop song" after deciding to release venice bitch... lana was making light of it in the interview but we all know they were serious. every single era they push a *barely* radio friendly song on her like give it up please.

also let me add at how fucking dumb they are. like first of all they see the want for cinnamon, they know already its going to get more attraction, yet we all know thats not gonna be the next single. like manage her in a fucking way where it will work towards your and lana's favour (being a song she clearly likes) and lana stop being stubborn. 

[Masochism 15,400]

i want to see the album cover so bad : ( 

[LanaFlowers 8,751]

It's still so strange to me that she had such a burning desire to be a star, the reincarnations of her persona and image and finally Lana Del Rey clicked. She has one of the most anticipated albums of the year just sitting there. She's dropped 3 singles in the last 8 months and all of them have had amazing responses and acclaim from fans and critics. Yet now she seems hellbent on killing the momentum. Like is this a form of self-destruction? Either way, we can't win, we just have to wait this out. People saying they'll boycot the album so she does more promotion next time... That won't happen. She'll throw it in our faces and be like "the last album was my favourite and people didn't like it, look at the numbers. I'm just gonna retire and make music for myself."

Personally I'm at a point where I'm like bitch go ahead and do that. I mean, unless this is some weird fucked up phase she's going through, she's basically "dead", isn't she? Lana Del Rey. Everything that made her her. The whole persona, from Born to Die through Paradise, Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and even up to Lust for Life. National Anthem Lana is gone. Ride Lana, Shades of Cool Lana, Music To Watch Boys To Lana, Love Lana....they're gone. And what we're left with is this

 

I said I loved her new music and I still stand by that, I've liked everything so far (yes, even Venice Bitch, it's the undeserved hype that bothers me so much, not the song itself). And I also really liked her last two poems, surprisingly. I still feel a connection to her. But the artist I fell in love with is gone. I don't feel like Lana Del Rey exists anymore.

 

But she'll always exist in a way. We'll always have her, our memories of her, the beautiful music she made, the aesthetic, everything. We can hold onto that. I will. I still care about that. As for the girl behind the Lana Del Rey persona, well, she can go on to live her life, whatever life it is she wants to live, however she wants to live it. She can be as childish, careless, messy and lazy as she wants to be in her little LA bubble, making music exclusively for herself and her insta baddie posse. Does Hillsong have a choir? Lol.

 

She can retire, never brush her hair again, and spend the rest of her life fucking waiters & writing shitty poems about emotionally unstable lobsters. It's her life, and her right to waste it.

 

Alexa, play Swan Song

[bored 7,829]

How this era really should've went...

 

12.09 - Mariners Apartment Complex (buzz single with visual - introduction to new era)

18.09 - Venice Bitch (buzz single with visual - announce the album title and confirm the lead single is coming soon, confirm poetry book)

26.10 - Happiness Is A Butterfly (lead single with music video - announce album release date as March 29th)

09.01 - Hope Is A Dangerous Thing... (buzz single with album pre-order and tracklist reveal)

 

(between January and March tease poems etc.)

 

16.03 - Cinnamon (second single with music video)

29.03 - NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL (album release)

April - Violets Bent Over... (poetry book release)

 

Festival Tour

[Kommander 3,260]

I feel like she's in this process of peeling back all the layers of who she is to give way to the core of her being, her artistry ; I also feel like it's this phase of being more laid back, a normie tbh, in her artistic life. + it is an aesthetic in itself, just as the lavish tumbr Btd visuals were an aesthetic, just as the film noir 70s shtick with UV was an aesthetic ; now it's the "2010s bourgeois vegan cool unaffected indie artist" period.

[violets 11,893]

if she is going to wait a few months until the poem is released then bitch i dont want no album roll out. release that damn poem in june and the friday after that release the album period. because a roll out is just going to be another 1-3 months on-top of that. id like to assume thats her plan already. 

[Kommander 3,260]

lmao mam I'm sorry I've been away for a few months but is she now a hillsong girl ? BITCH I-

[Zetterberg 1,862]

My dreams

[cognaclilac 1,525]

Personally I'm at a point where I'm like bitch go ahead and do that. I mean, unless this is some weird fucked up phase she's going through, she's basically "dead", isn't she? Lana Del Rey. Everything that made her her. The whole persona, from Born to Die through Paradise, Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and even up to Lust for Life. National Anthem Lana is gone. Ride Lana, Shades of Cool Lana, Music To Watch Boys To Lana, Love Lana....they're gone. And what we're left with is this

 

I said I loved her new music and I still stand by that, I've liked everything so far (yes, even Venice Bitch, it's the undeserved hype that bothers me so much, not the song itself). And I also really liked her last two poems, surprisingly. I still feel a connection to her. But the artist I fell in love with is gone. I don't feel like Lana Del Rey exists anymore.

 

But she'll always exist in a way. We'll always have her, our memories of her, the beautiful music she made, the aesthetic, everything. We can hold onto that. I will. I still care about that. As for the girl behind the Lana Del Rey persona, well, she can go on to live her life, whatever life it is she wants to live, however she wants to live it. She can be as childish, careless, messy and lazy as she wants to be in her little LA bubble, making music exclusively for herself and her insta baddie posse. Does Hillsong have a choir? Lol.

 

She can retire, never brush her hair again, and spend the rest of her life fucking waiters & writing shitty poems about emotionally unstable lobsters. It's her life, and her right to waste it.

 

Alexa, play Swan Song

 

[baddisease 15,852]

y'all are being hella dramatic

[Kommander 3,260]

y'all are being hella dramatic

 

it's a gay themed pop starlette fansite 

[LanaFlowers 8,751]

y'all are being hella dramatic

you're a melanie martinez stan

[Masochism 15,400]

what if...