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I was worried I wouldn’t like the subdued version of FIILY but luckily I love it just the same as the single version

Whew the day NFR demos start surfacing will be wild.

Full disclosure: I am a full-blown Barrie shipper so feel free to take this post with however many grains of salt you deem necessary.
 

I'd actually kinda forgotten I'd written these thoughts out. But re-reading them and then comparing the "demo" lyrics side-by-side with the album is both striking and eerie. Gone are all the lyrics that I said I thought sounded harsh or unfair, replaced by more complimentary lyrics expressing regret, acknowledgment of her own role in things, and wanting him back. (Incidentally, I agree with the consensus that the new lyrics are inferior despite probably being more fair and true to how she feels now.)

Now consider the first verse, pre-chorus, and chorus of the very next track, "The Greatest":

H/t to @@annedauphine for helping me remember the name of a bar a profile/interview talked about her going to with Barrie. From Nylon in 2013:

Now I haven't been able to confirm that Neptune's Net was specifically a "bar where the Beach Boys would go" (where's @@Monicker when we need him!), but it's a bar popular with surfers next to Ventura County Line Beach, a location referenced in the Beach Boys hit "Surfin' USA" so this seems the likely referent, which would make this a Barrie song.

If so, it's pretty significant that she's effectively describing the loss of Barrie in apocalyptic terms, placing it on the same scale as the civilizational decay of this shitty timeline we're all living through right now in which the world is on fire literally and metaphorically. The greatest loss of them all. This conflation is reminiscent of her cover of Skeeter Davis' "The End of the World":

Taken together, "California", as unsubtle of a let's-get-back-together-at-least-to-hook-up-if-nothing-else song as it gets, followed by "The Next Best American Record" and "The Greatest", this three-song block of Barrie songs on NFR (and there may be others) is quite a statement some five years after their break-up.

Two points in conclusion:
Between the Barrie songs and possible FJM references I wouldn't sleep easy if I was that Chase Stogel guy. Barrie, shoot your shot. Even if only for a booty call.

It’s a Very Serious prison sentence as opposed to a casual one

this might be the first Lana album with no skips for me.
 
with BTD i skip Without you and Lucky ones. in Paradise i skip Cola. In UV i skip TOW, Florida Kilos, and Guns and Roses. With HM i skip Burnt norton and DLMBM. with LFL i skip every song.
 
but i don't skip any song on this album, theyre all amazing       

Solid!

Doing Time looks so odd as a title omg that 'g' makes it feel like a whole new title

Why did I think it was gonna be translucent pink lol I love this! It’s like perfect bubblegum/hot pink
Is the green solid or translucent?

Why did I think it was gonna be translucent pink lol I love this! It’s like perfect bubblegum/hot pink
Is the green solid or translucent?

Why did I think it was gonna be translucent pink lol I love this! It’s like perfect bubblegum/hot pink
Is the green solid or translucent?

https://twitter.com/ohmnog/status/1169671141130153984?s=21 CTFUUUU

My uo vinyl is arriving today and this whole time I thought it wasn’t even gonna dispatch til today I’m sooooo excited to finally hear it on vinyl. My official lime green is coming Saturday while I’m at work, I’m gonna kms if it gets stolen off my porch

My 300th post here I would like to dedicate to the STUNNING beauty of the title track. This is definately her best title track. The production, the vocals, the piano chords, the every-fucking-thing! I'm shook every time I listen to this. A magnificent opener to a magnificent album! 
NFR joining the ranks of Lana title tracks knowing very well that she is THAT bitch  
(this gif btw is the embodiment of NFR-era on LB now for me, the excellence, the multiple usage, the perfect appliance to everything. If I'm not mistaken it was a legend named @@Cacciatore who introduced us to this iconicness)
Thanks for coming to my TED talk xxx

Lana is probs currently googling “white hot forever” wondering why so many people were spamming it

I spoke facts too in my previous post. She barely says loser one time in one live version of a 10 minute song. The studio version is clearly 'beautiful' repeated three times
 
 
 
I agree.
 
Also, on Genius, the lyrics on The Greatest are "I hope the livestream's almost on" ??? It's clear as water she's saying "Oh, the livestream's..." There's literally no time for her to sing "I hope"

Lana & Jack's instagram live stream performance for those who missed it 
 

I uploaded the NFR live if you couldn't watch the livestream
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWV9-oLVfDQ&feature=youtu.be 

Hating on Jack Antonoff is a mental illness!

Jack Antonoff is a GOD!

Is there a known reason why Lana never tours Asia? I've been a fan of her for 6 years and I've never seen her live Is it dangerous to hope that the NFR tour might have an Asian leg...

"I got my lovely sister, she's gonna film us singing a little bit of Norman.. I thought that would be so fun since it's the title track"
 

Who cares about what happened in Budapest? We want to know what happened in Boston 

Norman and Norman Alternate Version with new lyrics 

Oh my god I completely forgot about the livestream and only tuned in at 6:49, I hope someone recorded it

how did you get an emoji to work on LB...

i did not cry to this song almost everyday in January for this slander