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the damn tarot telling us more than fake insiders I can’t

Lana please release the album we're literally resorting to tarot cards

i second this, also how do we know that Ocean Blvd is better without Zodiac if don't have it in HQ. I fear the people need it for research purposes

If someone were to share “Love On The Golf Course”, I could tell you whether I think LFL is better with or without it

2011 2024

The most useful information we've received so far thanks

A newspaper post of her dad Rob!

Happy Lasso day everybody! What's your ranking of the album?

this insinuates she was out with Sofia Coppola within the last few months right? possibly to collaborate on new movie as way to make amends for the alleged Priscilla snub? cause why tf would she be all dressed up to see her daughter who's like half her age ya know

Does it really gonna end up like Rock Candy Sweet

https://x.com/SeasonOfLana/status/1836940984074051905

To me, HM is the best album when it comes to the final cut/song selection. Out of all the songs made before and during the album sessions, she really picked not the best but the ones that both actually worked for the album's concept, were individually great and added something to the narrative/flow/worldbuilding. So every scrap was worth it. Also, replacing Zodiac with Candy Necklace was the right choice. I love Zodiac but Candy Necklace showed a new side of the album and even if she kept both, Zodiac would've ended up as a filler.

SOPHIE’s siblings Ben and Emily Long for The New York Times Think this is the first time I’ve ever seen an image of her sister… Kim Petras and BC Kingdom interviewed and photographed for The New York Times

One year ago today! (It's 20th where I live). I still remember that moment when I saw this thread, I was so happy for you @Elle!

I’m listening. I have no self control

honeymouns spilled that Lana recorded and finished an original track but Sofia shafted her and wanted it only used in the trailers, Lana pulled because of the blatant disrespect

Aww they’re both so beautiful and I absolutely adore their outfits I wonder if Lana met up with Sofia as well

Here is my 2 cents about the cards regarding to "Lasso"

I haven't ever done a Lasso tarot reading and these other readings are making me want to do it so I guess I'll pull my cards out

the cards never lie, unlike Lana

If Henry isn’t on the Lasso final track list, which would be a first for her (to tease a song with a snippet and not include it on the album), I wish she releases it as a standalone single. @disguttodeath said she had to rework the album because it was too « boring », so it could be the perfect way to have her song the way she likes it and not « compromise » the album (although I find that part a bit hard to believe tbh: her management said numerous times she was in full control of what she released… )

I would listen to it. I mean, nothing's happening and there might be several months until the album so I don't think it would ruin the album listening

I’m intrigued to see if the Fenway park song was just a portion of a new song that she chopped & looped & added some beats to or if it’s straight from the song. I think an insider said it was looped?

To be honest, if I am very very honest. I'm 100% satisfied with all the tracklist decisions on every one of Lana's album because since she's the mastermind of her works and she's must have released songs she loved the most and they curate a story of the album and the time period of her life. If anything, her outtakes and demos deserve a separate b-sides or a compilation album.

“Completing the album became a family project for Benny and his sister Emily Long. She studied music law to work with Sophie, and she passed the bar exam two weeks before her sibling’s death. Once Benny resolved to finish Sophie’s album, Emily joined him in making decisions. “Every single day we talk about Sophie and what she loved and the things that would make her happy,” Emily said via a video call from Los Angeles. “We all know why we’re here. We’re all here for her.”

Waist deep in icy waves

The full magazine is avaliable on ebay is anyone is interested @lizzyology https://www.ebay.com/itm/313790926766

Adirondack life Magazine-1987 December issue

I would definitely listen... we don't even have any confirmed snippet from the album yet

I wish I was Romy Mars wtf

love it your OB reading is pretty on point and this seems to match up what we know. the eevee plush holding AKA is so cute

I fear that you ate

Omg What a day. Still feels like a dream

DNC you were always my favorite title/project

She should drop the Fenway intro song just to create some buzz

I’m litro gonna throw hands if it’s under an hour! lana idc how long this album takes the number 1 thing I DONT want is a short album like Chemtrails again 💀💀💀

I jumped from the Instagram notification today thinking the September 20th rumors were true.. Well I guess we have a few hours left…

Lasso is not coming this year. We'll be lucky to even hear a peak of it before summer 2025. Time to go outside ladies

just to clarify I dm’d signe asking if the version sophie played was like a remix or something and she said this: ‘Fuck Reality is my song. It stemmed from some of my poetry, which I ad libbed over a SOPHIE beat during our live show— but it isn’t a song with her (although she loved the demos). My songs with her are Do U Wanna Be Alive & Give It To Me.’ I then asked for confirmation that fuck reality and give it to me are two different songs and she confirmed that’s the case - at least we know now!

Happy soon to be over Lasso month everyone!

I believe this

I was having a thought yesterday, as I was driving back home Correct me if I’m wrong, but neither Ben nor Ed reposted the Henry snippet, did they? So, for future releases or announcements, if no one on her team is reposting, I will consider its a « Lana wishful thinking » kinda moment

She’s marketing herself how she did 15 years ago at her peak, the problem is…..as always, the music landscape has changed and i don’t think people care about her style of brand anymore. It hasn’t evolved. Even someone like Gaga who isn’t as popular as she was during her peak BTW days has evolved with the times, changed things up, broadened her scope, really made the effort to showcase a level of artistry even outside of music and keep a level of interest from the public. I don’t think Katy is interested in doing anything else.

I will ask the Clow cards to give us info/hints for 5 songs today.

what ritual has she performed to reverse the clock. She looks unbelievable. Also, obsessed with her outfit.

Cute mindless bops. Exactly like all of her 5 albums before this one. I don't care about all of the pop star dramas so I'll give it a spin or two.

I don't care if he's innocent or guilty, he doesn't deserve to die. And neither does anyone else. There's something really wrong that capital punishment is still a thing in 2024.

You could be onto something here. Pretty much all of the fan favourite songs that didn't make the tracklist made heavy use of sampling: New York's Burning Down interpolates Burning Down by Tiga Take Me To Dubai interpolates Love To Love You Baby by Donna Summer Europe For The Summer samples Dame Tu Cosita Transnation interpolates House Nation It's probably just a coincidence, but who knows.

The Guardian interviewed Ben, their two sisters, Jeffrey Sfire, Marcella Dusi, Andrew Thomson, Banoffee, Cecile Believe, Hannah Diamond, etc https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/20/sophie-posthumous-album-interview “Sophie, the album, was completed after her death by Ben Long, Sophie’s brother and longtime studio engineer. Speaking from Los Angeles, Ben says that he and his siblings, Emily Long and Katy Grimston, did not take lightly the task of completing their sister’s final record. Present in nearly all of Sophie’s studio sessions in the final few years of her life, Ben already knew intimately how the album would look when his sister died. The 16-song tracklist, which traverses pop, ambient music and techno, had been roughly sketched out by Sophie, and for many of the songs “everything was there – the arrangement, the production”. According to Ben, some songs only needed a little bit of mixing and mastering; others were between sketches and demos, but he and Sophie had discussed them at length, meaning he knew in which direction they needed to be taken. The resulting album features longtime Sophie collaborators such as Cecile Believe, Hannah Diamond, Juliana Huxtable and Doss, and showcases the late musician’s interest in supremely challenging electronic music and euphoric pop. Intro (The Full Horror) is a soundscape built from ominous synth drones; The Dome’s Protection, featuring techno DJ Nina Kraviz, is an ambient, spoken-word song that feels clammy and alienating. In true Sophie fashion, the album is dense and unpredictable, never settling into the easy rhythms of a post-death tribute.” - “Hence the album Sophie, which flows through and was designed to work in tandem with a live show she had been working on. Many of the record sessions sprang, without plan, from social events. One such song was Love Me Off Earth, the album’s final track and a collaboration with New York producer Doss, writer Thora Siemsen and artist M Zavos-Costales. Sophie and Ben were two of the last to arrive at Siemsen’s birthday party in 2018, and Sophie bonded with Zavos-Costales through discussions about poetry and art. Sophie invited the pair to the studio the next day, where she “gave us some time to free-associate” lyrics, says Siemsen. “That play element was a big part of it,” says Zavos-Costales. “It’s easy to get caught up on a line or a verse, and if there was any moment where we felt a bit stuck, it was like: ‘This isn’t working right now, let’s focus on something else and come back to it.’” Love Me Off Earth, like Immaterial, is one of Sophie’s most transcendent pop tracks: loud, invigorating and skyward-soaring, in the way much of her best music is. “I want anyone listening to it to think about the sources of love they do have on this planet,” says Siemsen. “My main hope is that people dance to it at the club, that they listen to it in the car. I think it’s cathartic.” Other songs, such as the Diamond collaboration Always and Forever, and My Forever, a song with Believe, prioritise sweetness and more classically pop melodies than Sophie often played with. “She’d messaged me and was like: ‘I’ve been really missing you and I was thinking about how one day it’d be really cool to write a song kind of like Electric Dreams,’” says Diamond. My Forever also harks back to Sophie’s 80s obsession, specifically her love of Pet Shop Boys. “We were in the studio till the sun came up, basically,” says Believe. “We made it and then spent three or four hours just listening to it on loop – we knew we had made something that was such an emotional sweet spot.””

I’m his dream, i’m his drug