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The way she was just walking down the street and saw a dress she liked and bought it and now people are coming at her for “supporting child labor.” I don’t blame her for quitting most social media. Must be tiring

I totally forgot about that photo. I remember people saying she was probably editing a selfie and forgot to delete the sample text

sheridan making the "if you know, you know" & diamond emoji instagram stories knowing lanaboards will make 100s of speculative theories about what they could possibly mean

Lana’s hairstylist just posted a photo of Lana in that jacket and he captioned it “If you know, you know” omg I’m so curious what DNC means…

"I only mention it cause it costed 19$..."

I know this gets pretty subjective, but I feel like Lana typically has one song per record that really acts as the album’s mission statement, tying the themes of the record together. In Blue Banisters, I feel like Wildflower Wildfire represents this. Blue Banisters (the album) is a cohesive, diaristic work chronicling her pain, criticisms, and where she’s headed emotionally. It’s both a clarifying response to those criticizing her and an outlet for what acts as a sonic autobiography of sorts. I think WFWF represents this perfectly. She opens the song with, “Here’s the deal/‘Cause I know you want to talk about it.” Immediately, the intention of the track is clearly stated: to confess and set her record straight as she originally claimed the album would do. She does so by recalling events one would deem traumatic in explicit detail with little room for interpretation and then reflects on it: “I’ll do my best never to turn into something that burns…It’s you from whom I learn.” Ranging from the pointed remarks to critics in BBS to the vulnerable admissions Text Book, the themes in WFWF underpin the foundations of virtually every song in the record. Similarly, I’d argue that hope and Get Free are also major contenders as manifestos (pun intended) for their respective albums, and they honestly share stylistic and thematic similarities to WFWF as well. Rant over, sorry lol

Obsessed w the double meaning: diamonds never crack + diamonds, never crack

imagine a reworked fine china produced by mike dean in the same vein as wildflower wildfire, with confessional piano & euphoric strings & synths...

The first track of LDR9 is Shein Dress , a sequel to White Dress.

I don’t think so. Here’s the direct quote: “She’s already got two albums in mind, I think,” says Millett. “And there’s the other poetry book still to come. She's always been super-prolific.” Indeed, earlier this week, Lana confirmed the release of another new album, Rock Candy Sweet, stating that the LP will arrive on June 1. “She’s got her own plan for something,” hinted Millett. “I’m not going to say what it is, but she’s had it for years, and it might actually now [be] something we could pull off.” [Link if anyone cares to read it again] I don’t think it was necessarily the two albums in one year thing… remember, this article came out in March the same day/week COCC came out. We can assume the interview took place before the drop of COCC, so when he said “She’s already got 2 albums in mind, I think” it makes me wonder if he was talking about BB & LDR9, or if he meant COCC and BB. But he said he won’t mention what she’s got planned, and if that was it, they said it right then in the interview and at this point, the article mentions the iconic Rock Candy Sweet / June 1 post. It couldn’t possibly be the two album thing. On another note, what if it’s a full length film for an entire album, rather than only for 3-4 songs like Tropico. Imagine, Tropico - The Extended Version where it’s like 1.5-2 hours long full of songs from one album so I guess what is that, a visual album? That would also go along with her thinking that she’s going to only make the next album digital, because you can’t play video from a vinyl. Maybe it’s re-recording Taylor style AKA and re-releasing it again someday. The 2 albums in mind thing could’ve been the covers album and BB at the time. He could’ve also been meaning her departure from social media and dropping albums randomly. Imagine if she did that, just decided on a random Sunday or Thursday to drop an album without telling us. Like there’s something that could be kept secret, which makes sense why Ben wouldn’t wanna talk about it and why the jacket dude doesn’t wanna talk about it either. That goes along even better with the digital release she mentioned.

it’s 3am and you are calling go fuck yourself don’t say you’re sorry

Manifesting RCS/Loved You Then and Now!

DIAMONDS NEVER CRACK She is the diamond — nobody can break her.

I think this is definitely possible, and I hope that’s not just my wishful thinking—I love the idea of a surprise drop. Before deactivating, Lana herself said that her other jobs/interests required privacy, so this could make sense! Lana wanting to do this for years may imply that her label wasn’t allowing it—maybe at the time they thought she wouldn’t be able to successfully pull off a surprise drop with zero promo It’s hard to say whether this would apply to a more typical album or the covers record, but I personally find it odd that they’d be so secretive over something (the covers album) that Lana’s given prior announcement dates for and alluded to in other instances.. If she does surprise drop LDR9, that might explain Mike Dean’s intentional vagueness about his future work with Lana…and why nothing was mentioned at the Variety event my grasping at straws era

hope is a dangerous thing for a lanaboards user to have - but we have it

Diamonds Never Crack I wore diamonds for the birth of your baby… Fine China being scrapped from Blue Banisters ——> appearing on DNC! (As scrapped songs seem to appear on subsequent albums…) And on the last two albums, there have been lyrical motifs (“blue”, “candle in the wind”) DNC’s will be “diamonds”

omg i think this might be it...

I only mention it cause it was such a shein, it was only 19

surprise release

i hope she just tells us in a random post á la...

Everyone who thinks the crows are annoying, annoys me. No BBS slander on my watch

I like to call this phase of pre-release the headcanon phase Hopefully we're lucky enough this time around to have our headcanon be confirmed when we get an official album announcement. I'm team Diamonds Never Crack (and still a bit of Del Norte County)

I almost forgot how exciting pre-release speculation is. We have an acronym, a few possible producers and a dream Color wise, I'm getting a glittery silver, pale purple and baby blue vibe from this upcoming era (based on the limited info we have)

Imagine she re-records Gramma

sorry for making y’all suffer through my ugly ass edits bc I’m constantly bored, but I’m waiting for laundry to finish & need something to do lol

So the hype machine is starting… they’re definitely teasing

let's not forget about channeling our synesthesia for potential songs we don't even know anything about, just based off of who might be producing... our minds are so powerful...

I love how all we know is that DNC might be LDR9-related & we’ve managed to conjure up titles, lyrical motifs, unreleased tracks to be included, the producer, overarching themes of the record, possible music video/album art involvement by Sheridan, etc. I love pre-release

It's not. There's an unleaked Dan Auerbach version, and there's a possibility of a Blue Banisters version as well

I feel like we’re in August 2020 again My LB friends remember how fun every single day was — theorizing literally everything under the sun and posting cover concepts and Sheridan is teasing things to no avail again — love that feeling from my favourite LB era lol

we're finally cracking the code lana's friends will slowly reveal the acronym like it's a lanaboards advent calender

possibly, i don't know if she's going to announce the album quite yet, since she probably needs the time to grieve her grandmother, which is totally understandable, but at the same time, music could be a way she copes & grieves so it's possible that she'll still focus on recorded/writing music, but i don't know when she'll announce or publicly talk about ldr9 because i'm sure her main focus right now is her grandmother & taking the time to mourn her loss

it's DEFINITELY related to the album/a song title/some other project

I’m a little bit scared about a possible Migos collab on LDR9… I hope she just said the first thing that passed through her mind in that moment, I don’t want them homophobes… She should collab with Kevin Abstract instead

Tbh what i thought on her dress + jacket on variety award People keep saying that its a cheap dress and she wore it bc it symbolises how humble she is. I agree but i definitly think it wasnt on purpose, Lana has always been that way. We all know that. You can see by the her street style, some events and even concerts. I´m not saying she does not wear expensive shit but i dont think its really her lifestyle.

Her entrance on Dealer is a career highlight I check it I wreck it I turn it around

Sheridan is carrying this pre-release era on his back and I hope that he knows that

If Lana quits social media entirely, I don’t think it would bother me at all; she deserves some peace, especially while grieving over someone. I can’t imagine losing one of the few people I’m close to and seeing others argue under a post expressing that I miss that person

i don't really get that, they were probably saying "i love you" to show support for her, it's a lot better than dragging her for buying a dress from shein or whatever, & i wouldn't be surprised if people were doing that, it seems like people have lost a sense of empathy & respect these days, people care way too much about being woke

Pre announcement is always the best part of an era. Nothing like pre title when everything is possible

also... by the way... i just got a youtube ad for tiffany & co. while i'm currently watching lana live performances... i'll take this as a sign that it's "diamonds"

diamonds 'n curls... a born to die-esque electric guitar, drums, & strings banger produced by mike dean & emile haynie

i agree, while Gramma is about her gramma is her soulmate that she trusts, who gives her protection, sheltered Lana with her arms during Lana's teenage phase. If there will be Gramma part 2, it can be about how she's a grown woman now, after gained her wise & life experience through the years. She'll probably reflect it all back to what Gramma had taught her when she was young.

I just know she'll have a song dedicated to her Gramma for the next album. Since now she's more about exploring her family / lineage stuff. We might get Gramma 2.0

Del Norte County surprise drop on January 1–the top of the year release we needed

I just need to say (cos some people seem to be going down that road in here) I am not a fan of "well, you do/use [harmful thing] so you have no right to call out [harmful thing]" because it's about lessening the impact, not eliminating. It's impossible to live without doing some things that aren't ideal. I'm vegan and people just love being all, "oh well you're VEGAN and you don't eat animals but did you know [this thing] you use contains [thing]?" And it's like I try to use animal-free products (makeup, clothes, etc) but it isn't always possible. It's about making the best possible choices whilst still living your life. Anyway I agree that it's bullshit that people are coming for her. Certainly Lana should be aware of where her clothing is being sourced from but there's a time and a place to address that, and that time and place is not right after her nanna died in her IG comments.

what a time. i remember ppl saying that it was going to be UV inspired bc she's wearing a similar shirt to one she wore during the era i love that nothing was ever made of this particular image, though. she rlly just said let me tease the kids today

Comment left on her father’s post. This is so heartbreaking sending all my love to her & her family x

Slant Magazine put Blue Banisters at #3 on their 50 best albums of the year list, and Chemtrails at #4, and chose Lana as the image for the whole article From their article intro: Even major label darlings like Lana Del Rey, who have built loyal fanbases but don’t fit easily into mainstream radio playlists, have thrown out the rulebook: The already-prolific singer-songwriter dropped two new albums this year and, to be perfectly honest, we had trouble agreeing on which one was better. What they said about Blue Banisters: “Let’s keep it simple, babe/Don’t make it complicated,” Lana Del Rey purrs at the start of “Beautiful,” a track from her eighth studio album, Blue Banisters. The lyric serves as a statement of purpose, reflecting the album’s pared-down arrangements. The decision to keep the music sparse draws focus to the lyrical content, which is some of the most razor-sharp and bitingly funny of Del Rey’s career. A fascination with color, a recurring thread that’s ever-shifting in its meaning, is weaved throughout Blue Banisters. When, on “Beautiful,” Del Rey quips, “What if someone had asked/Picasso not to be sad…there would be no blue period,” we understand “blue” to represent not just a state of depression, but one that yields inspiration. Del Rey’s vocals are as cherubic and distant as ever, stuck in a daydream but exactingly so. Sure, there’s an odd bit at the end of “Living Legend” where Del Rey’s trilling is processed through a wah-wah pedal, and there are several, perhaps inevitable, instances of thematic retreads from past albums. But by stripping back the sonic density of her previous work and taking its sweet time to unfold, Blue Banisters further fleshes out Del Rey’s increasingly vivid personal world. What they said about Chemtrails: The way Lana Del Rey connects different songs to one another, even across different albums (like Lust for Life’s “Cherry” and Norman Fucking Rockwell’s “Venice Bitch”), is peerless—perhaps rivaled only by Taylor Swift—and partly what makes her work so enveloping. On Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Del Rey delights in dropping breadcrumbs: Her discussions of jewels on the title track links with mentions of the same on a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “For Free,” and she sings fondly of her ranch near Coldwater Canyon, which “sometimes…feels like [her] only friend,” on “Tulsa Jesus Freak” and “Dance Till We Die.” These thoughtfully connected threads make the album feel as if it’s in dialogue with itself and the rest of Del Rey’s catalog. And while it doesn’t engage with our current moment or hot-button issues as urgently as Norman Fucking Rockwell does, it’s also part of a larger pop-cultural conversation—or at least, it has some hilarious and apt references to astrology, Kings of Leon, and How Green Was My Valley.