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I personally find it very beautiful when Lana sings about her family. She's not just providing insight into her own world, she's also encouraging us to contemplate those people in our own lives. A lyric like "my grandmother's last smile" is so powerful because how can someone hear it without considering their own grandmother's last smile? "Charlie, stop smoking" doesn't just make me think of Lana's brother, it makes me think of the people I love who are smokers and wish they could cut back too. "Chucky was there for three out of three" makes me think about rushing back to my hometown for my dad's final days. I think people get a lot more out of her lyrics when they find ways to relate them back to their own lives. Lana is a magician and she's very much placing these thoughts in our head for reasons that go beyond her in my opinion, she's just doing it in the way that is most personal and meaningful to her.

@ the Kintusgi haters i just know y’all would eat it up so bad if it was some obscure laptop demo from 2011

so… after sitting with the album for a a few days i have to say… total and utter excellence truly getting better with each listen. not a single song i downright dislike, some i won’t play much sure but no big skips she really did it again i fear i may do a track by track review later later xoxo

Such wasted potential with Taco Truck. The first part is really cool, i literally don't understand why she didn't just continue the lanita song and add a trap beat to that instead. A new album is supposed to be for new songs, im pretty sure someone on soundcloud could have made this if we really wanted to hear a trap beat over VB

After the absolute emotional wringer she puts us through on this album, nothing could be better than to end it with a dark and dirty Venice Bitch remix

I've still been thinking about Candy Necklace... so rockefeller was the richest, but only gives her candy necklaces instead of jewels. candy necklaces would ruin in the rain, so as long as he is there he's her umbrella but when he goes so will his gifts

The way our girl sings "I'm at the Roadrunner café" is simply in my top 3 she has ever done all music included

Wait gerls… so these are his most recent posts: 1. See how the church pic has a double exposure effect with a shoreline behind it? This is the same as three other pics from the album campaign (it’s also pink?): 2. We still don’t know what that stray Lana photo is from, but she’s wearing a headband which she isn’t wearing in any other photos from the campaign. 3. There is a wave pic with every vinyl variant. 🧠 We know Neil took 65 photos for this campaign, and if I’ve counted correctly we’ve only seen 30 of them. And if Kaiman Kazazian is tagged in the church pic 👀 I would have never believed it but maybe there actually is a deluxe edition coming… or a sequel album? Something like…?

I can say with certainty that there is no bad song on this album. If you think a song is bad, it's because you didn't get into the right vibe, but all songs are definitely capable of creating a certain (and quite often intense) vibe .

when we find out this was directed at the fans stuck in 2014

i mean, this is the album that any stans have been craving for a long time, i don't understand what is it about some of these people who still aren't satisfied It has the "piano ballad" and the personal / family lineage go-indepth story telling from BB It has the soft breath of folk country - americana music of COCC It has songs that don't follow regular pop song structure, which she literally sings the poetry à la Violet within the music by that "automatic/impromptu" technique. It has the 70s surf rock influence, endless Californian summer from NFR It has the extra, that glamour "pop" + "trap" sound from L4L It has the heavy & cinematic piano, strings & violins that y'all fell in love in HM It has the dark, the twisted, the sickness, the cruelty of it all from UV It has the trip-hop, vintage hiphop, upbeat and catchy slutty sing-talk that we all obsessed since BTD It even has the "surf noir" "metal glam" the "trailer park" feels with lo-fi electric guitar that resides within Lizzy Grant realm Yet Ocean Blvd still sounds like itself - There's literally nothing to complain You get to cry to it, get emotional to it, contemplate to it, smile to it, get heart-wringing to it, slut drop to it, twerk to it & praying in the church to it.

What 15 year old edited the Genius annotation for Candy Necklace A reference to MARINA’s 2012 song “Teen Idle.” “Feeling super, super (Super!) suicidal”

can y’all stop saying shit like "margaret sounds like a taylor song" cause i actually like the song and y’all are about to ruin it for me

Here’s how I see it: - VB was part of NFR and on this album, the culture « died » with The Greatest. Which sorta mirrors the world we are living in. Before that, there was still hope and dreamy vibes to existence. - VB on Taco Truck feels like strolling on Venice Beach in 2023, in a non-dreamy, almost menacing world. the world has changed, we are now entering a new « stage », with more uncertainties.

I just feel Ajay is going to come through with her reaction anytime now 🎀👩🏿‍🦱🎀

the craziest thing to me about this album is how all of the controversy of the last few years/controversial lines on this album just... didnt matter hardly any negative comments in any of the reviews about them, no mega-viral cancellation tweets and if anything most of the lines have been called funny on tiktok we really made it out of the trenches

Weirdly enough, I tend to relate the most to Lana’s most personal work. Even though she’s singing about her own family and friends, and thus it’s not really that wide and general of a theme, I find it much more down to earth. When she sings stuff like “Charlie stop smoking, Caroline will you be with me”, I can see myself asking the same things to people I hold close to my heart. I love how raw and vulnerable she has become without the world building she used to do

When the rest of Taco Truck opens the second surprise album

when the strings come in on the last chorus of let the light in followed by the dreamy outro

This part of Judah Smith Interlude completely defines the concept of the album.

didnt @Kintsugi say he was going to come back? yet he disappeared the exact same time as BOZ

When Lana sings: "I'm not that smart," I can relate! Your comments and observations make me think about listening in a different way, or understanding better what Lana went through. Your comments really enhance my enjoyment! The album is too much for me. I don't know if my emotions spill because of what I bring to the listening experience, or because Lana, Melodye Perry, Pattie Howard, Shikena Jones, Jack Antonoff, and Father John MIsty . . . mine the gorgeousness out of the melodies and lyrics, which touch another brain space that releases sadness . . . You know, having something in the past the lyrics you can relate. One more reason I cry is tears of joy over Lana's triumph over this original work - the album, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd? It speaks to the fans! Which Taylor Swift is one - I cried over Taylor's remarks on Lana in her intro to Snow in her Vegas show! Catching up on the comments here, I thought I'll listen to the final tracks starting with Fishtails, because they were reviewed as being, "light." Fishtails did me in. I'm spent. With two more track to go, but I am switching up to relive the opening tracks with Aaron (ForWhateverReason on youtube).

Now it’s 82 on metacritic! Let’s gooo! 🚀

Kintsugi, God really sent her three white butterflies that day cus she crafted one of her best songs

lana stans when they realize that motherhood is an important subject in the life of a 30yo woman

Sittin on the sofa feelin super suicidal

x VB having a different vocal take with different background vocals, so many hidden vocals too, and different production makes it new and special to me .. definitely an unconventional way to end an album but i love it and this! she’s almost saying she’s woken up from the dream she had in venice bitch, it was nice to imagine but now it’s over, and she’s gotten rid of the “give me hallmark one dream one life one lover” “we make it work” dream (literally, by not including it) and the production being rougher and darker mirrors the impossibility of this dream … or something like that 💀 anyways … get high drop acid

I'm at the Roadrunner cafe, i'm probably running away JUST ANOTHER FOLK SONG HEEY, I TRY SO HARD BUT ITS OKAY

the way lana sings "honey" in jon batiste interlude

A&W should win SOTY at the Grammys, that's the best song released so far by anyone

Pearl Watch Me On Ring A Bell Psycho Lifeguard

She is occasionally at her best here. “Ocean Blvd” is Del Rey's strongest and boldest album since 'NFR - New York Times

like hollywood AND ME that diamond in your ring the soul that you bring to the table the one that makes me sing in a minor key

Just a post to really appreciate "sweet" and all the beautiful melodies in the song

candy necklace has been stuck in my head ALL FUCKING DAY

"that fuck ass baby" that is very nasty and disrespectful, and the fact that 25 people upvoted that...

i give myself two seconds to breathe and go back to being a serene queen

Jon Batiste Interlude is so euphoric

I don’t think the reason for Tack Truck leading into VB is that deep, she was probably just feeling quirky and silly I have a feeling that there is no more to TT regardless

when u know, you know, know you know

Because of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

I love the album and I do connect with it, it's just that it's taking a toll on me emotionally speaking. It's way too dark and twisted, and I'm not in my best days lately. It's really such a bad timing. Maybe it'll become my go-to sad album, just like Ultraviolence was for me when I was a teen. Can't stop listening though.

Oh Ooh, I'm feelin' somethin' right now I didn't know I was gon' feel it so early I feel it early, I feel it I feel it early Woo, woohoo I feel it early and I feel it late Oh, my goodness Yeah, I feel it I feel it I didn't know I was gonna feel it heavy I feel it heavy I am your honey You're the sun dancing to the moon Ah, ooh I feel it heavy I feel it, oh, my god Oh Yeah Oh, wow Yeah Woo, you mean when—, oh This is amazing Oh, my god It's good, it's definitely Your honey Like that Ooh, oh Yeah Your honey Ooh, Lord Yeah Honey Honey Ooh, oh Oh Oh, I feel it in my soul I feel it in my soul Oh, my goodness I didn't know I was gonna feel it in my soul, like, this early Early in the morning Early in the morning Hey, ooh Early in the morning Oh Hold on, that's pretty cute, how about that? Early in the morning Yeah That's some Early in the morning Oh, sweet Sweet honey, oh

No actually I’m perching again because: 1. Kintsugi said new music 2. We've only seen half the photos from the album campaign 3. The pink double exposure church fits with the other pink double exposure pics from the variants????? Hello>? 4. There is a surprise so huge that BOZ got deleted for teasing it 5. #That'sWhyTheyCallMeLanita

I couldn’t handle it I was in Monaco I couldn’t hear what they said on the telephone I had to sing for the prince in two hours Sat in the shower Gave myself two seconds to cry It’s a shame that we die in shambles

yessssss A&W is climbing for its' crown! It's now Lana's third most listened track on Spotify

when rob samples tommy genesis too then what

good morning it's one of her best albums

i started listening to this record with more intention/ less distractedly, and oh my god. BAWLING. I think, what this album tackles is kinda like a very unique perspective of a woman, that can translate to, many changes in life that one has little control over, to being hurt so much but still choosing to still keep the course and being a good natured person (despite the many things) and doing so in a way that the popular opinion might not understand and even hurl scorn for, but in a smart, classy and matter of factly kind of sense. she sings about family, themes of time, character, and identity. she comes out steadfastly, and shining. like idk about ur guys' cycles of life etc. but this album sounds like the dreadful backstory of the sweetest person you've ever met, and in plainer language, the person that you sort of write off all the time's perspective. she sings of it quietly, and does it with care. and it's heartbreaking, cus if you've ever been in a position of getting a lot of undeserved flack after doing your best to be a person w integrity/ good character, you can hear the wisdom, the healthily accepted not so cheery facts of life, and the silent faith and confidence that a more quiet, and less boisterous person has. in my own life, i think because people see me as sweet, and unassuming, they think i'm naive, or stupid bc of how happy and cheerful i can be, and for the most part, i am, I learned to allow myself that, but, very few people really know the amount of more, let's say negative things that i've gone through. i think they'd be surprised at how I can still keep smiling, and because of things i've gone thru, really emphasized the need to be a positive force. I won't scream it off the mountaintops cus that's my life, and I'm not gonna tell anyone, but this is online so I feel like it's ok to mention, it'll get lost in the thread, but I earned my happiness. and going thru harder times, I feel really appreciative of passing those tests of character. this album, resonates w me in that way, and I think, it's a beautifully hopeful record, of how dare I say, people trying to be good, can still be seen, if even silently trying, and having that confidence of being who you are, without having anyone having to applaud/ praise you for it/ give you benefits for it. it's like an answer from the kind of people you might deem forgettable, the chance and comfort to being understood, and that's extremely powerful in our world, cus societally, majority of people are too quick to judge and have even less time and focus to really try to understand something, let alone step outside of themselves to really make space to connect (unless it was a peer/ group etc.) I'm really happy for her. she's so real for this, and I love how we're celebrating it, if even just in fragments more thru music and sound.