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I actually love "Sweet". And if it was an unreleased track from 2015 everyone would be eating it up and creating YouTube fan edits to it Do you wanna marry me? Do you wanna run marathons in Long Beach by the sea?

check them lana

when i look back tracing fingertips over plastic bags

they're saying she's glamorizing abuse again omg we won

i genuinely feel sorry for anybody who can't hear the excellence and beauty of candy necklace

Basically, Lana isn’t glamorizing Black Dahlia’s murder. She’s paying homage to her because they started out the same. Black Dahlia had dreams of becoming an actress while Lana had dreams of becoming a singer. Early in their career, they both didn’t have a stable home. Rather than Black Dahlia being known as the girl who was gruesomely murdered, Lana wants to show that she had this dream every since she was little of becoming a Hollywood star. Her comment also implies that what happened to Black Dahlia could’ve happened to her and other women as well, but it didn’t. Since it didn’t happen, she’s going to continue living out her dreams and creating her legacy.

I think in Lana's comment she's saying that she (or any woman really) could have ended up just like the Black Dahlia Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia) moved to Hollywood and was an aspiring actress, so I think Lana feels she relates to her in some ways. In fact, some of the rumors about Elizabeth Short said she was basically living on peoples couches, with no real home (much like Lana once did when she was a struggling musician) There's a lot of parallels between them like that, the most obvious one being that both their names are Elizabeth lol

I think that your dislike towards the song mainly stems from the fact that this masterpiece of a song wasn’t produced by jack

me when that first OH comes in during Jon Batiste interlude

her best second day omg did somebody say.. slay?

I didn’t expect to read “dilated anus” this early in the morning.

I will defend Sweet to the grave I think it ties into the first two tracks socially very well. They are a great trio. Sweet is a sassy little track, and talks about her worries but also shows her as confident in who she is. Basically, “I’m a catch!”. I love the high vocal parts too. One of my favorites on the album.

Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he’s deep-sea fishing - staggering! The stuff is happening! The kite is flying high on the melodies and poetry! The [Outro] Three white butterflies to know you're near is like a child how we would pray . . . That's it for today for me. I began by relistening to Fingertips, and bawled again to the verses, now that I know what they mean. Enjoyed the pleasant, Paris, Texas, and I just needed one more. Is this the track everyone said is tour de force?

The whistle part in Kintsugi why didn't it last longer, it's so effective

i hope lana and jon batiste keep working together, candy necklace is most definitely a new all-time favorite of mine, i hope the next album sounds like that, haunting, meditative, sardonic, harrowing, introspective, abstract, yet bright

Soooo my alt cover cds and cassettes came, and the t-shirt box and.... um.... the "box" is a joke I thought it was going to be a sturdy cardboard with a glossy finish that would swing open from the top and clasp down, or be a box with a lid... it's literally just very thin paperboard, no glossy finish, and it doesnt even open like a keepsake, it's like packaging you would throw away. I thought I was getting a special keepsake box and THIS AINT IT

this fake leak is such a classic, these song titles are honestly so bad

If Lana submits in the right categories she will 100% get a Grammy for this album.

Don’t know if someone shared this but this analysis is amazing and truly shines a light on this record as a concept record: https://mobile.twitter.com/M0TH3RCR33P/status/1639410172002009089?t=dz3Z2TlgYbPNuWMYW11Kcw&s=19 I’m also really happy to see so many people online loving this record. My instagram feed is full of people stanning different songs, I haven’t seen that since NFR.

Sweet is great and it’s one of the songs that gets stuck in my head the most frequently. It really captures a different kind of retro sound, like an old musical or a classic folk song.

I was just listening to ‘Kintsugi’ and ‘Sweet,’ and I’m very surprised Lana has not written music for broadway before. With ‘Fingertips,’ with how it almost sounds spoken word – it gives off those half-singing/half-spoken word vibes of dialogue in the musical “Evita.” I mean, even listening to ‘Arcadia’; the song literally sounds like a triumphant theater piece as well.

also, all of this discussion is reminding me of when people thought she was going to recreate slyvia plath's suicide in a potential HIADTFAWLMTH-BIHI music video during the NFR pre-release

i do but i sense she's becoming the Beautiful/LMLYLAW scapegoat of this album on here... GIRLS GET BEHIND ME NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s too late I am lana.

boy shut up

I love this interlude, so organic and it is just about pure joy of music.

I had the most beautiful weekend with this album. Two of my closest friends who have moved away were both in town and Friday night I listened fully with one of them, and then Saturday all 3 of us listened together and they were both so deeply floored. It sparked so many interesting conversations about life and death and family and everything in between and I am so grateful for those 2 listening experiences

There is such catharsis in having VB at the end of the record. Like slipping into an end credits layer of reality, a mindless haze after the hero’s arc of the rest of the album. It feels like an altered state, which the album plays with a lot - at the end of A&W and peppers with the sort of drugged up transitions, Candy necklaces as the bad trip, both interludes. And that notion of the altered state hits harder when you consider the last words spoken in the transition from Taco Truck to VB are Lana trying and failing to recount a dream… and then she just gives way to it. It’s either an ultimate escape or something more sinister (the same way the second half of A&W could be)

When the next Lana album is called Recreation Area 32 then what

The way we wouldn't be shutting up about A&W rn if it was released with the rest of the album instead of on feb 14th

Ocean Boulevard, NFR!, HM and UV the holy trinity of Lana albums yep

skippin rope in the bayou bayou slip softly in terrain not that smart but I’ve got things to say

oh… paris texas the hit you are

Everyone called Sweet a "filler song" when it is one of the best songs on the album. The production is impeccable... for me the best of the first three.

Oh. My. God. 😭 screamingcryingthrowinguphelp x

i think it’s insane and hilarious people are already criticising lana for the black dahlia comment when the mv isn’t even out yet. like if you’re gonna judge, how about you actually wait for the music video and see what there is to judge? ‘cause imagine she puts it out and the only black dahlia reference is the flower in her hair

Wait until they find out about the National Anthem video lmao

CHUCKY WAS THERE FOR THREE OUT OF THREE

Can’t wait to force my bestie to listen to the album tomorrow when I go visit her

& then.. there's Donoghue

Sweet is giving classic fairytale vibes, honestly a moment, I adore it

That “signed copy” sticker looks like it’s 30 years old and has a ton of wear on it, look how the black is rubbed off. They slapped that sticker on there from something else

I just kinda wish Jon Batiste was the main producer of this album rather than Jack. Lana wanted this album to be piano-driven and Jon could have done wonders if he was on other tracks too. I think like that because of his production and piano skills on Candy Necklace and Interlude. He put so much depth and richness to these songs than Jack did. I want to see him on the producer seat of at least half of the LDRX songs so bad

Tbh, any backlash she gets for using Black Dahlia should just stop before it ages as poorly as nearly all of her controversies do. The album was very frankly about the feminine body in many moments. I'm surprised people can praise A&W without realizing how integral that is to that song, and how that song kinda exists as the thesis to the record as a whole thematically (and even in how it is produced.) I love how Brian De Palma/American Horror Story can basically make an entire movie/season of TV about the murder, but the second a woman decides to do her own perspective of the way it affected pop culture and American anxieties, it's suddenly so controversial for reasons that the men who approach it never face. Edit: I'm also not surprised that murder is going to be part of the music video for Candy Necklace. The song itself really reminded me of songs on Nick Cave's Murder Ballads album. And it's genius that she released the 'screen test', considering that's mainly how Elizabeth Short is presented in the Brian De Palma film.

What are they mad about? Glamorizing a murder (hello, there's an entire genre of film devoted to that)? It's been almost 100 years.

Let The Light In gives me major L4L vibes