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I just consulted her recent IG captions for title clues and it's going to be called Happy Birthday Jenny

Omg! It's from BlackoutZone on ATRL: "We might avoid the delay, but expect album title change AGAIN :dies: I'm glad I didn't say too much earlier, cause she removed most of the originally planned songs"

BoZ: "I won't judge as I haven't heard new stuff yet, but she did remove something I really hoped would make it...I will post some fun facts sometime once the album is out"

leak the beat-driven venice bitch demo

Why did she remove most of the originally planned songs? TO MAKE ROOM FOR THE MASTERPIECES SHE'S RECORDED WITH MIKE IN THE LAST COUPLES OF WEEKS

Tbh this kinda gives me hope that she’s had a huge flare of inspiration and has now figured she has a solid direction for the album

She's literally just wishing happy birthday to her family and friends tho

BOZ once again: "She won't change it to Rock Candy Sweet, cause the Loved You Then got ditched too"

I'm fine with a title change but "she removed most of the originally planned songs" is deeply confusing.

‘I’m writing my story. Actually I’m rewriting my story. Wait - I’m scrapping my story. Okay Ive decided I’m writing Nikki Lane’s story. And no one can tell it but me.’ - Lana Del Rey

"The 3 released singles are still on don't worry" -- BlackoutZone again.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same! Ultraviolence before Dan was a completely different album and maybe Mike inspired her too.

Prior to West Coast's release we knew (at least to my knowledge) very little about the process so it wasn't worrying. Only later during promo did we learn that execs actually wanted her to work with Adele producers and hated the Auerbach stuff, told her to stick to the Paradise sound etc. I guarantee that if we did know what was going on, everybody would be freaking out during UV pre-release as well. UV pre-release was also unprecedented so it's hard to compare the two. I guess they trust her process now more than ever so she's running free and does whatever she wants. Nonetheless we're still here

Don't worry. UV has totally different direction at the beginning, more stripped down and more cinematic.She met Dan and they totally changed album concept, sound and make raw, emotional and dark excellence in really short time.

I think July 4th is still possible - regardless of what she does and how little or largely she broadcasts it, she always manages to make some noise about it and her career is beyond stable. The 3 singles were released without any promotion, were still picked up on by major publications, and were met with a considerable amount of fanfare. I think she will just release the album like the singles, especially since she’s proven that she can top charts, sell extremely well, and break records without publicizing her work too much (Chemtrails - prime example). I could also see her not wanting to exploit her most personal and albeit, darkest thoughts derived from her home life for the sake of commercialism. I can’t speak for everyone, but I wouldn’t necessarily want to add a lot of gloss over my own familial strains (the difference being that it involves other people who are easily identifiable and in general, family is super personal, rather than discussing my troubles in romantic love - which is a more universal and accepted sentiment in music). I know some people will read that and think “well, why would she release the songs, then?!” - and to that I’d say: telling your own story through your music gives you that autonomy and freedom to sort out your own thoughts. Putting it out there is one thing - but to be unapologetically promotional about it is another. So I understand if that’s part of the reason why she’s being very hush about everything. Hell, I would be too if I had the year she did in the public eye throughout 2020.

If RCS and BB are not the titles anymore that means... we get a brand new selfie cover

i bet shes changed the album title cuz she realized BB is not a good opening track and she wants the album to open w/ the title track again but ill believe its not delayed when i see it

I really really see a greater contribution of Mike Dean on the album, with that BoZ post. Go Wild on the production, Mike!!!

JULY 4TH MIKE DEAN PROD. TRIP HOP ALBUM CALLED ROCK CANDYS REVENGE MANIFESTING

just to recap: this era started a day after cocc's release the album has been retitled twice instead of one single we got three and we were graced with the picsart covers it's so fucking funny thinking about it

This is really her fucking happy birthday era huh how many times is she gonna wish someone happy birthday!

i'm so happy that she's changing the album title, in no way blue banisters compares with some masterpiece names like Ultraviolence and Norman Fucking Rockwell!

Eclipse where are you.

But will she post the same selfie with the new album name, tho?

knowing her she prob scrapped the bops and recorded 10 new flops about Nikki and her dogs

Hi, hi! Feel free to move this, but I am dropping some Lana mentions from the new Rolling Stone interview w/ Jack below... What have you learned from working with Lana Del Rey? She seems like a very different artist than some of your other collaborators. Very different. It’s a tough one to answer because I see her and my work as just, like, in a different zone or something. I don’t even remember sometimes how a lot of those things happen because everyone has a different process of getting somewhere. And when we’re together, I feel like we just, like, fuck around, just play some stuff. But I did learn not to do anything with her that I’m not prepared to put out before we leave the studio. Because if she’s feeling it, that door’s gonna close. She’s very vibe-driven. How did “Venice Bitch,” which is almost 10 minutes long, happen? There was a more beat-driven three-minute version. My process with her is not super precious. It isn’t, until it is. I remember her being like, “What if you just go play drums on it?” I was like, “OK, well, I’ll play, and what if there’s a long outro?” The way I play drums is very much as a fan of music. I spend a lot of time in headphones playing along to records. So I was playing and having a really good time. And I was like, “This part’s quiet, this part’s loud, this part’s crazy, this part’s kind of like acid-y.” Lana’s fun because she’ll call a sound “beautiful,” or “disgusting.” On a Bleachers Track What song came first? It was “Don’t Go Dark,” which was a literal account of the end of a relationship. I love that song. Lana [Del Rey] helped on that. Because I was just singing “Run, run, run, run with the wild,” and then she was like, [singing] “Do what you want.” And I was like, “Just don’t go dark on me.” It was one of those moments where you know, if someone was filming it, it would have been really special. And I was like, “Damn, that is a dynamite chorus.” So she’s a writer on that. On Feedback for His Work Who else is in your feedback group? The best records are made with a small group of people that really believe in something. My group is like me, my manager, my A&R person who doesn’t even work on my label anymore — he’s just a really close person to me. Then my family, and some artists like Lana. I always play some for Ella [Lorde]. Taylor, of course. On His Artistic Direction It feels like your production both for yourself and your collaborators has gotten more organic lately. Yeah, for sure. It’s just different phases, different things. Five years ago, I loved nothing more than cutting up samples and playing them on my MPC. That thing has been in the closet for two years now. I think one of the reasons why there’s a group of people I can do good work with is because we’re all feeling a similar thing. When you make something, you’re at your most valuable if you want something to be out there and you’re not finding it. And what’s not out there is this sort of, like, band-on-fire kind of New Jersey sound mixed with the way I write. I felt that way. Lana felt that way. Taylor felt that way. And the Lana record and Folklore are very different kinds of organic than this Bleachers rec-ord. But it is on a similar tip of like, “Let’s start to do the thing not everyone can do. Let’s play in a room.”

she scrapped songs so this album can finally be the witchy album we deserve

But we also got UV that way so...

We can't even rename this thread

I have to imagine she isn’t simultaneously releasing with vinyl if there is a chance she is changing things while still not delaying it. Maybe the thing Ed (or Ben) mentioned finally being able to do was a fully surprise release that involves a delayed physical release. Maybe the record label finally said she could release without absolutely having to have a vinyl for week 1 sales?? I love that our first nugget of info in weeks does nothing but confuse the situation even more. To be fair the confusion is the one thing you can truly rely on in this fandom, and when you make peace with that it becomes much less stressful to be a lana stan.

omg so its not even delayed yet (july 4th is happening ) im glad she is changing the hideous album title though

Idk how but Nikki Lane’s to blame for this mess of an era.

Mike Dean did say there was at least one song on the album but « more work to come in the future ». I really think the new songs done together are good enough for release and change of album name (the 7 min song he posted a pic of is living rent-free in my head )

"Happy birthday Roberto" - title of the album, with all of the songs being about her dad Track 2 is gonna be "Rob's Floral Button Up"

I love how it gets more and more confusing with every little chunk of info we get

And added the country songs she made with Nicki Lame

Okay but I hope it's called something unhinged now

I hope Lana has a clear vision for this record now, because changing the title again and removing most of the originally planned songs is not a great sign.

I hope Lana let Mike go wild with the synths on a few tracks

Me walking into this thread today after the Great Lana Drought of 2021 edit: so happy to have some news from Lana!

this is just nasty

Mike is going to give us an even harder hitting FMWUTTT for her ultimate revenge album It‘ll start very intimate with the three singles but take a turn in the middle and end iin a huge crescendo, where she curses the media and her fans and vocals serve Serene Queen - literally ending with the mic dropping

so she either made the album worse or made the album better

I do trust her process but this news is chaotic

i'm scared, but also excited

this is so dramatic if the album is good and hopefully we get a professional cover, who cares about first week sales? no one is gonna remember that 10 years later

Thank God for the silence on the process and songs. Never thought I’d say that though!!!

Thanks God that BB isn't title. It doesn't sound Lana-ish. Crossing fingers for Dealer on tracklist.

Tired.