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I don't know if this is off topic, but i think LA who am i to love u probably got removed b/c the whole audiobook is gonna be put on streaming soon

hurts like hell is cute but hbhg is still unleaked and that hurts even more

y'all keep acting as if your hearts wouldn't lodge in your throats and prevent you from speaking coherently in her presence

i don’t know if y’all know but ...it’s 3:05 i’m parked outside wondering

September 29th, 2020: Lana Del Rey's first hardcover poetry book 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass' has been released worldwide. This is Lana's first hardcover poetry book release with publishing company Simon & Schuster. The entirety of Lana's advance from the book will be donated among three different organizations, including the Navajo Water Project. Hardcover ● Apple eBook ● Kindle eBook “Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which came to me in their entirety, which I dictated and then typed out, and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem. They are eclectic and honest and not trying to be anything other than what they are and for that reason I’m proud of them, especially because the spirit in which they were written was very authentic.” —Lana Del Rey Lana’s breathtaking first book solidifies her further as “the essential writer of her times” (The Atlantic). The collection features more than thirty poems, many exclusive to the book: Never to Heaven, The Land of 1,000 Fires, Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving, LA Who Am I to Love You?, Tessa DiPietro, Happy, Paradise Is Very Fragile, Bare Feet on Linoleum, and many more. This beautiful hardcover edition showcases Lana’s typewritten manuscript pages alongside her original photography. The result is an extraordinary poetic landscape that reflects the unguarded spirit of its creator. Share your thoughts on the new poetry book below! Read the Pre-Release Thread (Those who request a free, illegal download link to the digital version of the book will receive a Warning Point. Those who post illegal direct download links to the digital version of the book will be banned. Please respect Lana & her art!)

About an hour ago, Lana Del Rey stopped to chat with fans at Toast Bakery Cafe in Los Angeles, California.

No money for Violet!

i wonder if she's gonna post about violet today

two gays being useless as ever... ask about cocc ffs

That’s either chaotic good or neutral evil

never was there ever a stan who asked about the album

We need a XCXMass consisting of the following songs : Hey Boy Hey Girl Rare Mona Lisa Next Life Better When You're Gone (HQ) Don't Call Me The Party's Never Over Someone New Let Me Go Mind I Try My Heart 100 (2015) 1000 Times The Middle Toys

Imagine not asking her about new music when you have a chance.

Can't find it on mine either it's over I can't lip-sync Fuck the New York Post ever again

I love that some of the poems have her handwriting and scribbles around them exploring different ideas/words to use and how she's thinking about structuring it. There's also ink blots and coffee stains on some of them lmao

I know no one asked, but I decided to rank my favorite LDR songs while taking into account both my personal opinion as well as how objectively good i think the songs to be. i tried to make it as varied and unbiased as possible, but fair warning there is a LOT of norman here, so be warned! and without further ado, here's my ranking. feel free to leave your own top 25! 25. Cruel World 24. Norman Fucking Rockwell! 23. Love Song 22. Brooklyn Baby 21. Cinnamon Girl 20. California 19. Salvatore 18. Fuck It I Love You 17. Heroin 16. Pretty When You Cry 15. Freak 14. Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It 13. The Blackest Day 12. Born To Die 11. West Coast 10. Video Games 9. Terrence Loves You 8. The Greatest 7. Shades Of Cool 6. Happiness Is A Butterfly 5. Ride 4. Mariners Apartment Complex (Yes, I put this song in my top 5. No, I will not apologise for it.) 3. Honeymoon 2. Off To The Races 1. Venice Bitch (Because, duh.)

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Lana: Hi, you're my favorite user on Lanaboards Me: Thank you

Never was there ever a girl so pretty

I think so too! I’m so excited my Violet’s Ass Bent Backwards Over The Grass just got delivered to my place. Running to the mail room as I type thissss

Time for some K-12/After school appreciation bc im over being ungrateful Detention and Highschool Sweethearts are my favourite dance music videos ever. Yes, she did that. Highschool Sweethearts and Strawberry Shortcake are in her best songs. Maybe i just have this opinion because i think they go so well with Cake, which was one of her most underrated. All the After School EP songs add something unique to her discography. I like all the songs for real and with every listen I like them more. Brain & Heart is now my favourite song from her entire discography. It has already helped me make an important decision in my life. I couldn't ever ask for more from an artist tbh The Bakery might actually help some people who are working in a bakery right now because I also know stories of people who have had the shittest hardest time working in one. I don't know why those places can just be so awful and stressful, putting so much pressure on young workers to get out of their social comfort zone while still acting robotic like??? Despite what some people think, I think her aesthetic has definitely evolved. It's actually quite sophisticated, ethereal and luscious now. Crybaby aesthetic, and especially K-12 aesthetic, seem sort of rigid in comparison to what she has now. Yet she has let those old aesthetics grow, not just thrown them out.

Okay so I already have it. I'm not gonna post all of the new poems because I don't feel OK doing that, but I am gonna post some excerpts and discussion points about one of the new poems in the spoiler below

Lana: are you okay, you seem super nervous about seeing me?! Me: *throwing up* why do you say that?

I wish someone who meets her would ask about when the new album is coming

Her hair looks similar to the COCC video hair brushed out and put in a ponytail...

c'mon and flip it dip it baby boy I know you're spruuuunnnng...... we can do it all night looonnnngggg.....

Received my copy I'm going to take some more time to pore over it, but it's so Lana. Love it!

We are getting it tonight AND I WOULN'T MIND

idk if anyone else noticed but lana removed “LA Who Am I To Love You” from apple music and spotify .

She really lost her ability to write good melodies. Cry Baby had amazing melodies that would be stuck in my mind 24/7. Her vocals on the new ep are amazing, but the melodies just sound basic. Did she make any effort matching the lyrics with the melody?

i love this project so much, Quiet Waiter - Blue Forever remains my favorite poem from this book i hate that theres not more discussion going on here, Violet deserves so much love ?

Re: Thanks to the Locals

pack it, box it, flip it, top it...

I think Biden did his best...only so much you can do with a compulsive liar whom is mentally unstable and a narcissist. People like trump are impossible to have a conversation with. It’s like playing chess with a pigeon who keeps knocking over the pieces.

still baffled how trump thinks racial sensitivity training is "radical" and "racist"???? my siblings and i are texting each other back and forth and we're so annoyed

not at trump thinking biden has support from "radical leftists"

Biden just told trump to shut up. Dopamine hit for me lol

Honestly, if I met Lana I wouldn't ask for the release date either

Just found this thread and I wanted to post my tracklist idea somewhere so we should revive this, think it could be fun to discuss song expectations here: 1. Let Me Love You Like A Woman 2. Tulsa Jesus Freak 3. White Hot Forever 4. Chemtrails Over The Country Club 5. Grenadine Quarantine 6. If This Is The End - I Want A Boyfriend 7. White Dress / Waitress 8. Diana 9. Bodega Bae - Interlude 10. Bird World 11. Dealer 12. My Facility tracklist is messy af but I have my creative reasons so feel free to ask

i think she always does that, she removed mac n venice bitch when the album came out

Just received my copy of Violet, promptly cancelled my dentist appointment to spend time w her - cannot wait to immerse myself in the new poems!

I think you need to save some coins and buy the book

just picked up my copy! though i read the whole book yesterday (bought the ebook from an australian site). "thanks to the locals" is def my fav of the "new" (ie ones we hadn't heard or seen before) poems, really resonated with me. i love that they scanned in her typewritten manuscript, it's beautifully done book design-wise. and while we already knew most of the poems it was really nice to read them in her own formatting/line breaks– though i couldn't help but hear her voice in my head while reading the ones on the audiobook version! i love this project a lot– even the "cringey" lines (ie the end of "sugarfish") feel honest and sweet and very lana. can't wait for behind the iron gates and am so happy to finally have Violet...really hope there will be at least one more interview about it like the recent Vogue one. Would also be so cool if she did a reading/q & a online for the release (somehow i doubt this, esp bc she's prob getting ready to release chemtrails) and agree with what another user said about raffling off the hand-bound copies to raise $ for a charity.

bel air...ahh that's history

the haikus in general are all sad af

your desktop apparently

Tbf she really thought it was coming on Monday and didn’t even post then

how is this possible to step on a bird?

It's like NFR in that she strung it out for way too long and shared far too much. I really hope she refrains from doing the same thing with Iron Gates; it's much more exciting when you get a book and you haven't already read most of it. I would like to see original art and more handwritten content than there is in this one, in the next one. Also, I would absolutely love if she put some lyrics from COCC in Iron Gates, complete with handwritten corrections, etc. That'd be really interesting and give an insight into her songwriting process. As you say, it is what it is and it's nice to put on my shelf next to Florence's ETA: Also because I know she reads here, if she really does have any hand-bound copies from before she decided to use a publisher, she should have a raffle. Make everyone make a $10 donation to a cause to enter, and you can win a signed, hand-bound copy. I say raffle and not auction because we all know certain rich af stans would bid thousands of dollars and leave the rest of us out of the running.