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She's such a beautiful person

That post makes me smile and reminds me of why we feel so connected to someone who doesn’t know we exist, but is there in spirit. She is so right — it can be a lonely road when other people express their negative projections onto someone who prioritizes being embodied and striving to meet themselves, but ultimately the way you live your life and how you treat people is a work of art in itself and I believe everyone is an artist.

Lana sharing a random life experience—

Getting ready for the BTD 10th anniversary edition livestream? A music video? To head down to 7/11 for chocolate, coffee- and a banana? I'm so curious

Love the fact that she decided to share this on her instagram, i wish she posted things about her everyday life more frequently

BZ just shared new tea about the album: This makes me even more excited! This seems to be the album tracklist with the final titles: 1. Crash - 2:10 2. New Shapes (feat. Christine and the Queens & Caroline Polachek) - 3:21 3. Good Ones - 2:17 4. Constant Repeat - 3:09 5. Beg For You (feat. Rina Sawayama) - 2:48 6. Move Me - 2:27 7. Baby - 2:40 8. Lightning - 3:57 9. Every Rule - 3:02 10. Yuck - 2:18 11. Lavender - 2:28 12. Twice - 3:14

i'm making this post a day early... happy 10th birthday, amazing, evocative, & world-changing BORN TO DIE! this is the album which brought lana del rey into stardom, notoriety, & catapulted her into the legend status she has worked hard to achieve over the years with other incredible albums such as "ultraviolence" & "honeymoon", this album contains some of her most polarizing & fascinating work, every song is it's own mystery, & every guitar pluck, vibrant lyric, & crooning of lana's sweet & distinct voice is a little hint of what it all means, this album is a deliciously dark mix of 40s/50s opulence & sordid stories of troubled love, despair, & hope, it's a true work of art & it is one of a kind, & i'd say it's aging like the finest wine, mixing together so many sounds & genres from different periods of time, i could easily say that it's timeless, however, many people didn't understand lana when she first arrived into the mainstream, she was faced with so much criticism because people couldn't understand her, they said she was a fake, she couldn't sing, she was weird, people thought she wasn't a good influence, however, i strongly disagree, her music is geniune & real, millions of people can relate to her music, she writes her songs in a way where they can beautifully fit any situation, feeling, or experience, in a way where you can see things in a new way, maybe with a new sense of beauty, even in things that may not appear beautiful at first glance, this album will stand the test of time & will continue to inspire & comfort, this is, the fantastic, notorious, polarizing, show-stopping BORN TO DIE! HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY!

Getting ready for what Lana?

when she posts "hbd btd" on her stories and the photo is of her feet

That was one of the most beautiful thing she has ever shared. The way I can hear her saying “really?!”

The typewriter had me cautiously reading her post, it's kinda sending though.

“Because you take and you take and take and you take, but you taste like the beach and a kiss. Candy for my eyes, in my veins you run citrus.” - Paradise Is Very Fragile “I think that you taste like rock candy Sweet like beaches, leave me all sandy” - Watercolor Eyes

I mean.. this is a music discussion forum, not a circlejerk of positivity. It’s annoying when one person shares the same negative opinion over and over again but the reason why you’re seeing a lot of the same opinions is cause a Lot of people share those same opinions. The “stop complaining, get over it, just enjoy the music” argument is so dumb tbh like why be on a music discussion forum if you only wanna see positivity & praise… You want the people that have criticism to keep it to themselves lol? That kinda fully defeats the purpose of this site.

that was so wholesome! I love how Lana’s the expert of idealizing mundanity in a really simple but pretty way (like in Video Games)

I love her so much. Her mind. Her energy.

i thought it’s QFTC 2.0

"I ran to the 7-11 to grab a hot chocolate mixed with coffee as always" 😭 She's so unintentionally funny

Lana and her lipliner are THE blueprint. Gorgeous queen.

The media Lana consumes/posts often crops up into her own art (Women Who Run With The Wolves, Henry David Thoreau, etc.), so I’m curious if these recent poem posts have any significance. The poem from yesterday (in my interpretation) seems to focus on how losing something/someone you cherish gives your life a sense of mystery or anticipation for what will come next. The excerpt from today seems to touch on learning to treasure both the ideal and the horrible aspects of one’s life. It seems like she’s been reflecting a ton on her own losses (maybe familial, romantic, emotional, etc.) in an accepting way. I know that’s a bit vague, but these are the same sentiments we saw in tracks like HIAB, Venice Bitch, Love, LFL, Blue Banisters, and so on! Just a random observation lol

Lana's been posting a lot of poetry lately. I wonder if she's been writing more poems (I hope so, I love Violet and I'm really looking forward to Behind The Iron Gates)

Her new EP is called Faeries Cum First according to Pitchfork

It would be painful for Lana not to acknowledge the anniversary. I think she will say something, but it would be beyond rude to fans and herself really to say nothing to the album that basically opened the door for her. I think her label should have done a re-release Its a very big mistake not to.

It's you, it's you, it's all for you Everything I do I tell you all the time Heaven is a place on earth with you Tell me all the things you wanna do I heard that you like the bad girls Honey, is that true? Ten years ago, this was the poetry that made me enamored with LDR and her music. The echoes of 50's Hollywood glamour, unrequited love, living on the edge between heaven and hell, and the stars aligning in perfect unity to create this record that would bring me so much comfort through some of the most challenging moments in my life. I'm currently listening to Video Games now, a decade later, and it still feels timeless as ever, and that feeling of timelessness shines through this sublime and life changing record. A true cultural reset, and i'm so proud of how expansive her catalog has become, and how she still presents unique perspectives through music. Here's to another ten.

I was so scared

The typewriter post is so sweet I love the way that Lana writes, it's so personal and simple, but so beautiful at the same time. I hope she posts more things like this in future. But I'm not gonna lie, the typewriter format was kind of a jumpscare lol.

, and a banana.

WHEW- i got scared for a second

I got scared seeing the typewriter

account is open again! i wonder if she's waiting to have 1m followers to announce something because she's leaving the account open too many times for her to not have a greater goal

The power that opening line holds oh god...

just innocently reviving this thread since she’s posted two poems in two days I am ready for BTIG and she seems in a ~ poetry mOod ~

i love that basically all of us are on honeymoon now

It’s pretty 50/50, but whenever her typewritten posts look like this, she’s using the Hanx Writer app for iOS! Some of the pages in Violet are direct scans of linen cardstock on which she wrote with an actual typewriter (a Royal Scriptor II to be precise!)

it's intriguing that both poems seem to talk about embracing uncomfortable feelings & uncertainty, as they could be guiding you towards something better for you, it makes you wonder what is happening in her life that could've inspired her to share these two poems with similar meanings

i wonder if she's been rescheduled for snl and wants to perform with rina hence the single swap

The album is still doing pretty good too. Also Honeymoon is finally out streaming something.

But it's different cause it's a cover of a FJM track I loved the past 3 albums and they sound different enough to me to not consider them as NFR 1 2 and 3 so I'm satisfied enough with the variety but I miss her really jumping from genre to genre. The BTD - UV - HM shift is unmatched

i once went to the store to buy a single apple which i then ate

Yeah, anyways even with the horrid ME, that doesn't take away from the fact that FN is a MONSTER of an era, album, and most of the sessions are 10/10s, if that's being a sell out so be it, I just wishef she managed the ME another way

now how do YOU know that

I have typed this like every 2 year here but i have to for the a day early 10th anniversary! I still remember renting the BTD CD when I was volunteering at a local library in the middle of 11th grade (Spring 2013), and the week after renting the Paradise EP that had came out like 2 months prior. I'm glad I decided to burn all of those songs on my computer and keep listening to them. The first time I listened to this album top to bottom (I was starting to listen to full albums at this point) I found the songs all sound the same, but something told me to just bun the CD in my iTunes and listen to it again on my iPod for a second chance. And one by one I fell in love with all of the songs. The last two to like were National Anthem and the title track because of the rather "heavy/melancholic" chord progression. But one morning on the bus ride to school national anthem made sense, and I fell in love with it. Like a month later, I'm going through SoundCloud and these "unreleased" songs pop up, likely the first being Puppy Love (I would have made Lana a millionaire with the amount of times i played that song) and the demo for Dark Paradise; this is where i started to learn what demos, instrumentals, a capellas and stems were. This album opened the doors of music for me. It got me to dive into discographies of other artists in pop, hip hop, RnB, electronic, alternative and indie music. And because I fell in love with music I now listen to Brazilian folk, French pop, Scandinavian rap, and whatever crazy music is out there. I write lyrics, I'm making music in garage band, i have a collection of ~300 CDs and vinyl's. Born To Die did all of that. Thank u Lana Edit: Video Games is the #1 best written, best sung, best produced song ever in history. It is a capsule for what and who Lana is. It capsulates songwriting and musical emotion at its core.

more like will come out on a certain website

i’m so happy my baby is starting to get her flowers

even tho she will probably never write an album in the tier of The Family Jewels again its okay with me Dante never wrote something as good as the divine comedy again but that didn't make Dante a flop it just meant he completed his masterpiece.

also when it comes to the opinions in this thread, i mean, it’s a forum, that’s kinda the point, everyone’s gonna share + discuss their opinions whether they be negative or positive and what else do you expect when the negatives have been outweighing the positives lately