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I just wanted to share with you all a really formative & impactful moment I had tonight with the title track from this record. My wifey and I went out to our favourite bar that we frequent tonight until it closed at 3am, but we were still trying to keep the night going, so we hit up a friend of ours who works security at clubs to see where he was at tonight to let us in. He ordered us an Uber to meet him at his club for the night, and about 10 minutes into the drive while we were on the highway, there was a terrible accident a few cars ahead of us. We were stuck sitting there behind it as police cars and ambulances piled through, so my girl & I started chatting with the Uber driver about random stuff to pass time. I brought up Lana somehow (as I tend to do in every conversation) and the driver was like “Lana Del Rey? She’s so cool!” So ofc I asked him if he had heard her latest single yet and he said he hadn’t, so naturally, I played it on his aux & sang along to every word. Afterwards he said, “she killed that!” so I played a couple more of my favourite meaningful Lana songs for him such as Hope, California, 13 Beaches, Heroin, etc. The minutes kept passing and we began to sober up, and all of Lana’s lyricism got us in the mood to have some really deep conversations. The three of us ended up being stuck in that same spot on the road for nearly two hours as the accident was being dealt with, and during that time the three of us all talked together about the most intimate details of ourselves - our beliefs in afterlives/reincarnation, hopes & plans for the future, hallucinatory experiences, insecurities, darkest moments in our lives, happiest times, inner passions, family history, etc etc. Finally after almost two hours of no movement on that road, they eventually opened the lanes to get everyone off the road so they could close the entire highway, but by that time it was 4:45am and we decided to just head home instead of going to the club that would be closing in 15 minutes anyway. As we were only a couple minutes from our residence, I was like, “you know what, this calls for a full circle moment” and I played Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd once again. As we drove home in the final moments after all that we had just spoken about together, the three of us all sang along, even our driver to the chorus, us all shouting “DON’T FORGET ME” like it was the most important sentence we would ever say, hands in the air full on gospel-style (with our driver still keeping one hand on the wheel of course), as we reflected and relished in the final moments of the special time the three of us as two lovers and a stranger had just shared together. As the song began to fade out, he pulled into the driveway. We all exchanged hugs, and I told him that I would never forget him - and I meant it. He said he’ll always think of us when he listens to that song now, and I absolutely will always think of him & this moment too. Who knew that a two-hour traffic jam in the middle of the highway on the way to a club on a Saturday night would lead to one of the most meaningful and memorable experiences I had this year, perhaps even in all my years. I’ll never forget this moment - or our driver John, shout-out to him. I can’t wait for other memorable moments that I’m yet to experience with other tracks from the record, as there’s so many songs across Lana’s discography that I have such special ties too. However, this one is marking near the top of my list. Anyway, it’s 7:30am now so I’m getting ready to go off to sleep. See you all tomorrow. Love u xx

me on March 10th with all my vinyl variants

hi i have been lurking for Months even before i made my account here and i am nervous to post this but it feels like a good time to make an appearance… imo the issue with the negative comments isn’t that they don’t like the song because that’s completely fine, it’s that they never rly have anything new to say its obviously okay and always valid to have your own opinion but its really hard not to get annoyed at the repetitiveness of all the “unseasoned boring blue banisters copy blahhh bad song” posts… like nobodys telling you not to share your opinion, but if you share it in the exact same pessimistic way as the past 30 other people, then ofc at some point its gonna get a bit annoying

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Love love love ocean blvd. I listened to it on repeat on my last flight home after a transfer at the chicago airport on wednesday. It was so gloomy and cold in chicago, but it's always sunny above the clouds. It was amazing listening ocean blvd as the plane broke through the rain and dark clouds and the sun was there right before it set. I don't think I've ever had a more beautiful first listen of a lana song, watching the sun set through the storm clouds on my flight back home

THE SONG IS SO GOOD!!! it’s prolific!!! Ethereal! Life changing actually!!!! I still tear up every time I listen to it Blue banisters who?????? Arcadia could never!!!! Everyone in the world needs to hear the damn song!

This is going to be one of her best records, bookmark this post

Not sure if anyone’s posted about this yet as I haven’t seen it, but I think it’s absolutely iconic that there’s a billboard for the new record up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. From announcing the album on Sean’s birthday to displaying this billboard in his city.. she really said “don’t forget me” x

Seriously, i need to know the track lengths. Insiders do your jobs

My mum enjoys the new single. Good that she doesn’t know English, though, because she has no idea there is a line fuck me to death

This song is unbelievably gorgeous and powerful March 10 is so far

Can we bring back moodboards now that we have concrete information about this era?

Finally managed to listen to the song with the lyrics and it’s so beautiful The thought of being forgotten and not appreciated because you’re growing old is definitely something I personally struggle now that I’m older so it makes me appreciate the song even more now

sometimes I wish Lana wouldn't release any singles from her albums until her release date, so the gays would stop whining and crying.

I’ve never related to a tunnel before but here we are!

Welcome! You spilled!

just because a song isn't marked explicit doesn't mean it's not explicit

HELLLLOOOO

American Whore - the second single, coming January, 2023. You heard it here from team WHORE

I just noticed Sweet is marked as explicit

Track 4 (A&W) - 12:32 Track 5 (Pastor Interlude) - 0:01 Her mind.

BoZ's description of the first single was spot on in my opinion

for me its those strings at (3:12) after the "but I cant" she seems so upset but something in the background keeps pushing her, I really wasnt expecting this song to hit me this hard I cant stop listening to it!!!

The last time she sings " Open me up , tell me you like it, fuck me to death, love me until I love myself " (3:27-3:37) with those harmonies, I could listen to that forever and ever and ever This really became one of my fave Lana songs in such a short time The intro feels like standing at the sea, you can feel a soft breeze on your skin & hair and you take a deep breath. The outro is like a big wave pulling you into ocean. Amazing

His actual quote: "FJM is SnowOnTheBeach'd on their song, I guess since he doesn't have any writing credit they just "exchanged" their vocals for each other songs They sound so beautiful together though!"

It's good to know that something great and exciting is waiting for us at the beginning of next year. We are slowly rolling toward it and still have plenty of time to prepare. It's like a vacation trip planned in advance that you can hardly wait to start.

Since there'll be some really long songs, I wish there would be one Venice Bitch long track and a few Cruel World long. Maybe it'll be Lana's longest album yet?

The whole Harry Nilsson part destroys me

If you spill edit backwards , it says tide. So maybe it's called Tide 🌊

I love it! But it's #7 on the album for me. There's so many amazing songs on this album it's hard to put into words. Why is why I've said multiple times that u'll all pass out.

The album release is too far away.

are we aware of we are back again in a Black&White era It must be a superior album!!!!

when tracklist debuts i'm gonna make cartoonish parodic covers in paint to all songs mark my words

the choice to keep the tracklist secret is defiitely deliberate. makes me wonder if there are some very special titles hidden in it

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The way she sings “but I can’t”, gently, exhausted, almost with a forced half-smile. Like she knows better, deeper, than the man who is telling her she can thrive - and maybe she does. Her gift is thriving though.

Miss 111 your time to strike is now

Wow oh wow. 80 minutes is such a sexy length. With two interludes those 14 songs are gonna be PACKED. Tunnel is one of the shorter songs at under 5 minutes then we’re really getting Lana’s best album

This album is gonna sound like an invite, i just feel it

For me Ocean sounds like a song that was worked on much longer than Arcadia. There’s something very full and finalized about it. It’s a story and a completed concept. It introduces you to the tunnel, what it looks like, is used as a metaphor to Lana herself and then ends by repeating “don’t forget me, at the tunnel under ocean Blvd” referring to herself as a soon to be forgotten relic of the past. Her songwriting is extremely confident and the production is considerate to every note and word. The song is like a finished painting, a painting is complete when all of its layers have been built up around an ideal composition. Arcadia is a beautiful song but it’s quite hollow and flat. The melody isn’t very catchy and the chorus feels quite cold. To me, Arcadia is a rough draft of Lana’s feelings and it’s almost like she wasn’t able to get out exactly what she wanted to in the way she needed to. Ocean is that moment. It’s where she’s finally able to put her true feelings into words by using this metaphor. And to me it’s more relatable for the listener than “my body is a map of LA Hilton hotel cross on a hill” compared to “When’s it gunna be my turn, love me until I love myself” or even the idea of having your moment in life, and being afraid you’ll be forgotten.

streams and impact say otherwise babe

this is the best song lana has put out in a hot minute #real

the parallel between ”i thrive because i say i do…” & ”’come on baby, you can thrive’ but i cant…”

Not a bother, especially since you don't throw hate my way like others here. I do not think this album is anything like LFL. Not sure where that thought comes from to be honest. Like I've said before (even before the title track was released), expect lots of strings to the ode of Honeymoon, and nautical Northern California vibes. Lust for Life is not like that. It's Honeymoon meets Ultraviolence in lyricism and sound.

I think all the “features” on this album are going to be more like background contributions. If FJM is just backing vocals, SYML is just a piano sample, and part of Judah Smith’s sermon appears at the end of a song, then I’m guessing (1) Jack does backing vocals on one of the songs he produced (like Seth Kauffman’s vocals on Brooklyn Baby); (2) Jon Batiste’s contribution is co-writing + backing vocals (or maybe a verse, but it seems unlikely given FJM’s minimal airtime); and (3) Tommy Genesis contributes something small, as BoZ referred to it as a “collab” with quotation marks, suggesting it’s not exactly a traditional feature (maybe a sample).

GET AWAY FROM HER GET A JOB

Did you know that there is a horrible silence after the release of the first single from an album that doesn't come out until March

no because Lana’s next post will be a music video tease for the next single

I can recommend to listen to If You Lie Down With Me - Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd - Terrence Loves You