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ok i've always loved this song but i just had a nice big beautiful cry to it
 
 
this is a MASSIVE overshare but my grandma passed away in june 2022. she was the glue of the family and the second oldest / first to pass of her nine siblings - we have a really huge family and we were all really close! annoyingly my grandma didn't have a will written but my mum did know her wishes, so it was up to my mum, the eldest of her other siblings, to be in charge of my grandma's money, her belongings, her house, etc. she wanted to do right by my grandma - her mum - and fulfil my grandma's last wishes. in the process of this, it was revealed that someone in our family (i won't say who, just in case  ) had been manipulating, scheming and taking money unethically from my grandma while she was still alive - money that was meant to be left for members of her family as a goodbye gift. they had also stolen things from her and acted wrongfully after her passing. when my mum confronted this person about this, they retaliated by spreading vicious lies and essentially tearing our family apart, leading everybody to turn on my mum and myself. we've had nobody else for a long time. we were pushed out. the thing is, though, all my mum and i ever wanted to do was do right by my grandma and fulfil her wishes. we lost her and then we lost everybody else, all because we wanted to do the right thing. but this other family member is extremely convincing and believable - it's not hard to see why people would believe them over us.
 
i promise this does relate to the song, let me explain! sometimes i wondered - and i still do - if we were doing the right thing at all, if we should both have just sucked it up and been complacent in order to keep our family since we lost someone we loved so much. when lana sings "three white butterflies to know you're near", it's like a gut punch every single time - when my grandma died, i just kept seeing white butterflies, like, more than i have ever seen in my life before. it always felt like a symbol or a hello from her. when we left her house for the very last time, after all of the stress and the fighting and the isolation, i stood in her old bedroom asking for a sign, a goodbye, something - lo and behold, a white butterfly came and landed right on the window! it stayed there until i left! "god if you're near me give me [...] a map to know your vision, impart on me your wisdom" sounds like a plea i've made so many times, asking some higher power to just give me guidance, to let me know if we're doing the right thing, to give me some strength or knowledge to help me thru.
 
"i have good intentions even if i'm one of the last ones" is so pertinent to the situation too. i almost want to scream it to all of my family that don't understand. our intentions are good and pure and honest - even if we are some of the last people of her family line to have those intentions. people seem to think that my mum is forcing my hand and making me 'side' with her - they think "it took somebody else" to make me honest, noble, genuine, caring. but they're wrong! i'm doing the right thing because it's the right thing, not because of any petty family drama or rivalries. there's no greed involved, no desire to have anything, no care about anything material, and it's certainly not taken anybody else to make me want to honour my grandmother's wishes. the earnestness and hopefulness combined with the feeling of being misunderstood and ostracised is reflected in both this song and my life.
 
the way lana begs for her grandfather to watch over her dad while he's deep sea fishing takes me back to such a beautiful memory i have. it was just after my grandma had passed but before any of the fighting began. my family were doing what they could to support each other. my uncle took his rickety old boat and took my grieving nephew out fishing in the sea. my nephew was struggling so much - i think he may have been only 14 at the time, and he was extremely close to my grandma so, naturally, devastated by her passing - and i remember worrying that he'd be okay on this fishing trip. then he came back, sunburnt as all hell, smiling the most beaming, beautiful grin. my uncle showed me pictures he'd taken - my nephew had stripped off, jumped out the boat and gone swimming in the ocean with all the boys, they had an incredible time, he was happy, the weight of the loss was lifted from him for a moment. i remember thinking how beautiful it was. how gorgeous to see him with his family and in nature, having fun and living life. how happy my grandma must have been watching them from above. that was the sort of stuff she loved - the family getting together and embracing the more carefree, naturalistic parts of life.
 
this song takes me back to that memory. it makes me sad how things have changed, but i still smile when i think about it. this song reflects exactly how i feel - confused, misunderstood, but adamant that i have good intentions. the way this song sounds hopeful while dealing with its subject matter is something i carry with me; i really hope that one day they'll understand and my family will have me and my mother back.
 
anyway, that was super long, but it felt nice to pay tribute to this song and get off my chest exactly why i love it so much!! thanks for giving me the space to let that all out, lanaboards  <3 xx

Expect one song to have a beat of something reminiscent of trap, hip hop or trip hop even if it’s very muted in the background too- this is a definite on every project except UV.

I can buy that theory, but I don't subscribe to the theory, mentioned many times here, that the last song on every Lana album predicts the thematic, lyrical, and musical direction of the next album. 
 
Since TRPWS was put together over some four years, I don't see how OB's colorings could influence it in a major way. Since I'm not an OB fan for the most part, I hope it doesn't. 

The way she’s releasing this on my daughters birthday is such a slay 

The fact that the pic is blurred😭

I know it’s lana but why is the pic 144p

what a killer title. and 13 tracks is perfect. I fear a masterpiece is upon us. the shit covers seem to bring her best music 

“May 29th” 
“Jack and Drew” 
Whatever this title and cover is… 
Im sorry I can’t even bother to be excited for this. For one it just doesn’t even seem real at all because why are you announcing it  7 months in advance? And also if it is real it sounds like another BB  I am excited to hear Henry though.

she gone hold this album hostage through another trump presidential cycle

This random serve omg 

"I'm entering a new era. It has to do with living in Oklahoma and feeling different. My eyes have seen so much open space, I've felt the wind, and that's the kind of energy I want to talk about now." It’s refreshing to hear her say this after months of hinting at a major shift. It feels almost like she's leaving Hollywood behind—not retiring or leaving LA entirely, but that her music might start reflecting a different, even more grounded perspective. There was a clear leap between LFL and NFR—a new chapter of self-possessed lyrics, at times a more positive outlook and deeply introspective lyrics that carried through COCC, BB and Tunnel. Now, as she says she's done with the ultra-personal, I can’t wait to see where this new direction takes her.

This is actually one of my favorite interviews from her recently. I really enjoy the fact that they talked about her artistry and her journey as a whole rather than just focusing on how the industry has wronged her like many of her interviews since 2020 have. This makes me really excited for whatever ldr12 turns out to be. She seems very interested in the "southern gothic" idea which is veryyyyy exciting as I feel like she's definitely explored that sound before but not to the fullest degree that she could. Also love the fact she said she's entering a new era it makes me think we are finally going to get something really different from the past few albums.  It does make me sad that she feels a distance from her older music as that's probably my favorite style of hers, but at the same time it makes sense to feel a distance from music you made 10 years ago so I'm just happy she didn't absolutely drag it like some artists do lol. I also am obsessed with the photoshoot! I love Steven Meisel's work and love the kind of french wintery aesthetic she has here, especially that black coat! Of course, she looks absolutely stunning, I'm happy they chose that picture for the cover because it's def my favorite out of them and i really want to put it in my magazine rack. 

I put this in the other thread but realise it's a lot more appropriate here:
This is heavily reminding me of her W magazine interview from 2023, when there was a "as yet untitled album" and she just gave a vibe update, talking about her process with the automatic singing. And we thought it would be a whole album of voice notes but it turned into a whole grand opus. So im really excited about this vibe update, the fact that it's unfolding as we speak is very exciting. I don't mind waiting if it means we'll get an album that she can stand behind, cuz you know she'll put in the effort for us in return with visuals and stuff

https://www.vogue.it/article/lana-del-rey-intervista-foto-vogue-italia
 
Lana Del Rey and the Vogue Italia interview
“ I felt like a car crash, with people who couldn't help but stop to spy on what had happened”
After a series of perfectly successful albums and a career that has consecrated her as an icon of these years, Lana Del Rey is ready to enter a new era. She talks about it in this interview, between an upcoming album, the mystical winds of the West Coast and love as a symbol of hope.
 
Lana Del Rey opens up about herself in an interview with Vogue Italia: “People used to think my lyrics were a problem, but now all singers “peel” their hearts like they were an apple” At a certain point in her youth, Elizabeth Grant watched the lights of Lake Placid in Essex County flicker and fade through shimmering streamers for the last time. She would see them again, after moving to New York and then London, before returning to become known to everyone as Lana Del Rey. “I have this old video of a boyfriend talking to me in the car, from a long time ago. He was just pretending I’m doing an interview after I’ve become famous. I remember I was very myself in that moment, not defensive. He asks me what I would have done if I hadn’t become a singer. This is the way I’d ever open a movie about my life.” But in recent years, she’s been hoping no one would ever get the idea to make it. “There are so many reasons why. I feel like those movies are made for people that want they’re made. And there’s so much people don’t know, because there’s so much of my life I don’t want to say. Maybe I’ll make it on my own”.
I’m talking to Elizabeth – Lizzy to her father, Lana to the world that worships her like a saint – while she’s at LAX in a gray tank top, her hair blonde from the August sun and salt air, though she’s thinking of going “back to dark” again by the end of the year. “I just caught up with Charlie (her brother, Charles) and his wife. It’s a good time for me, he’s good, and my sister’s good too. It’s easier to be positive when the family's doing well”. A few days later, Lana would fly out to Paris and the Reading & Leeds Festival in England, delivering one of the most intense performances of the new tour, including the part when her mic cut out and she stayed on stage, quietly watching the fireworks.
Celebrated artist, icon, cinnamon girl, sad girl, Alessandro Michele’s muse for Gucci, trailblazer of alternative pop, and creator of a distinct “Old Hollywood” aesthetic that has surrounded her since her debut in 2012 at the age of 27 with Born to Die. Lana Del Rey has grown up with stories that have become our stories because, in a sense, she’s shaped them for us. By putting herself at the heart of her own experiences, she found the inspiration to turn them into harmony, becoming the voice of a generation. She’s aiming to do it again with Lasso, her new album born from the time she spent between Mississippi and Arkansas, although, as we speak, it’s still in the making and might even end up with a different name. “It had too much ‘American storytelling flair’. I put it on hold because I didn’t recognize myself in it. Originally, me and the label were excited because the energy of the music of the album was meant to reflect my new life. Now, I’m not so sure, but I’m usually pretty good with my own timing. I might turn it into something more ‘Southern gothic,’ like it was meant to be from the start, and less country.” Recently, when she listens to singles like Ride and Video Games, tracks that gave her fans enough to build entire personalities around, she feels a certain disconnect. “I’m entering a new era. It happened also with Chemtrails Ovet the Country Club and Blue Banisters, I made these albums by myself. It has a lot to do with living in Oklahoma and feeling different. My eyes have seen so many open spaces, I’ve felt the wind, and that’s the kind of energy I want to talk about now.”
“Beautiful, mysterious, haunting, invariably fatal. Just like life.” That was the tagline for The Virgin Suicides, released in 1999 by Sofia Coppola, one of Del Rey’s favorite films. She seems to have always shared the same lens through which Coppola portrays young women trying to stay alive. “We met one summer through Gia Coppola, her cousin. Gia’s good friends with my friends, they all have kids who play together. Sofia asked me to write a couple of songs for a film she was directing, Priscilla. I was thrilled, but like always, when I’ve got a deadline, I waited until the last minute.” She couldn’t make the deadline, but watching the film about Mrs. Presley, who has been a source of inspiration for Del Rey since the beginning – her hair and makeup at the 2013 Echo Music Awards, her languid and dreamy approach to life – she saw a parallel with her own work. “I think of my songs as if they were films. Flashbacks, cuts, memories, with a monologue that’s running. Cinema was always a family thing. I think back to childhood, all these people with giant cameras filming me, my sister and my brother. They captured all my every single Christmas. And my sister became a talented photographer. She’s the one behind most of the images you see of me.”
The images in this spread, though, were shot by Steven Meisel in New York and inspired by a shoot he did with Sofia Coppola for Vogue Italia in 2014. It’s safe to say this represents a personal milestone for Del Rey, because ever since she was a teenager, she’d find any way to get to the biggest city beyond Lake Placid just to buy a copy of our magazine: “My friends and I used to call it Vogue Italy, and we’d pin the photos up on our bedroom walls. I remember thinking: if something happened and I ever became somebody, I’d want to be photographed by Meisel, because he follows his intuition like I do, when he’s ready you need to be ready too. And I waited, and waited and waited. On set, we listened to Giorgio Moroder’s soundtrack for Paul Schrader’s Cat People.”
This is her second Vogue cover, following her first shot by Steven Klein in 2019. “Back then, I wondered if those photos would have been approved by Franca Sozzani and Francesco (Carrozzini, whom she dated from 2014 to 2015, ed.).” She smiles.
In the car, when that guy asked her in that short video she still keeps, she replied that she couldn’t imagine doing anything other than singing. “I was the leader of my church choir from the time I was 12. I lived in this tiny town with 700 people. We moved there when I was a year old, and I went to school with the same people. At 15, I had the craziest and most wonderful time. It was the first time I was allowed to go out alone, to make mistakes, to dream. I started taking on those jobs you do when you’re still a kid, waitressing, hostessing. I was so excited that I could even see my whole life in Lake Placid. But I wanted a life as a singer.” Then she ended up at a new private school in Duluth, Minnesota, “the coldest city in America”. Elizabeth Grant didn’t know anyone, and it was the worst time of her life. So she escaped to New York, where the indie rock of Phosphorescent and Edward Sharpe, The Strokes, and Tv on the Radio ruled the club scene that she was also performing in, without anyone paying attention. From age 19 to 25, she lived in the Bronx and Brooklyn, “one of my darkest periods”, until, after a series of managers – “two more young and two more famous and old” – she met Ben Mawson and moved to London. “My aesthetic, my desider, nothing of that had changed from the years in New York. I was still calling myself Lizzy Grant, but I could feel something different was happening.” Because Lana Del Rey wasn’t born as a defense mechanism against the world. She emerged instead from a love of the atmospheres of New Orleans and the West Coast, where she now drives for hours, surrendering to the same Western skies captured by Wim Wenders, singing about her body like it’s a map of the Sierra Madre (Arcadia, 2021). “When I was a kid, I didn’t know much about music, but I knew a lot about actresses. And I wanted the name of an actress.” Ergo, Lana, as in Lana Turner. And Del Rey, as in Delray Beach, Florida. “It was as if the ocean were already built into my name.”
After nine incredible albums, a poetry collection, and a definitive consecration on TikTok by a new generation of fans who have devoured her latest release (Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd), at 39 Lana Del Rey no longer feels any pressure. She speaks in a calm, assured voice, fully aware that everything that has led her this far has led her back to herself. “People used to think my lyrics were problematic, but now every singer is spilling away their hearts. I think that’s a good thing. Maybe if I’d started now instead of 12 years ago, I’d be a real poet of pain and wouldn’t have suffered so much.” There’s always been an air of mystery around her and, in others, a dark need to dig for its source. “It’s awful when someone wants to see in your shadows trying to find something. Most people must know I’m connecting with my shadows, and it’s ok, but for some people it’s almost like an obsession. And I got caught up in it. A bit like Ophelia or Juliet. It’s like a car crash that people couldn’t help but stop and stare at. Maybe it was Freud who said that 30 percent of what you think about yourself is really just what you’ve heard others say about you. That’s why I’ve been very careful, and mindful especially in recent years. I didn’t want to end up like that car. I didn’t want to become Ophelia. All I ever wanted from her were the flowers.”
Lana Del Rey, Elizabeth Grant, has changed day by day, shedding parts of herself like petals. The same ones her fans bring to concerts and then scatter on the streets outside the arenas and suburban venues like spells of enchantment. It’s a phenomenon of extreme devotion and magic, much like what happened with artists like Stevie Nicks, for those who sought a mystical experience through them. “The spelling of a word, breaking it down into letters, comes from the same root as ‘spell’.” She tells me she thinks about it often. “It’s like casting a spell, instilling a sort of magic in others. I want my whole life, and everything I sing, to be the positive result of something. I believe in magic because, to me, it means being optimistic, having hope, and being able to share it.” Hope Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have, but I Have It, says one of her most famous song titles. “Hope is power. Anyone who’s ever been religious has done what we now call ‘manifesting’ because they had faith. They saw heaven where there was none.” That’s what love is, like the scene from Cat People in which the actress says something like it’s just you and me, and as long as we’re here, there’s hope. “Most of the people I met wanted Hollywood to be the third part in our relationship. When I get married, it’ll be to someone who, like me, believes that love is enough. I’ll be enough for him, and he’ll be enough for me. Someone to have children with if that happens, or just friends. I want it to be simple, I need to be with someone who wants to plan to stay home with me. Love is to be saved and that’s magic.”
One month after this conversation, Lana Del Rey married nature guide Jeremy Dufrene. It took place on a quiet Thursday in September, on the banks of a Louisiana swamp, with only a few close friends present. On social media, we saw the footage, stolen from yet another camera, and read the comments from her fans: “Lana has always been this. She’s so real.”
Lana Del Rey and her interview for Vogue Italia can be found in the November issue on newsstands from October 31st.

Aaaaaaaah first page

Demon motherfucker.

time to ban! 

What the fuck  one of the most disgusting things I’ve read on this site

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

tri-annual sky ferreira song release is coming 

I came in here to dunk on Beautiful, but i have to say OP's suggestions are horrible 

Why do you want to f up her best song ever 

My FYP fed her videos to me and I like Summer Song but I can't help but feel like she's just TOO inspired by Lana/Lizzy to really feel like she's her own thing? Right now it's too much like a tribute act