LOVE

its the album we needed in this godawful year

The aesthetic will be 90s grunge/Mazzy Star and I'll accept nothing else. 

we would like to see it

maybe more vintage-camp on top of the grunge though. 

Chemtrails Concept (we call this artistic development)

Norman Fucking Rockwell - 9 
Mariners Apartment Complex - 11 
Venice Bitch - 10
Fuck it I Love You -11
Doin' Time - 10
Love Song - 10
Cinnamon Girl -12
How to Disappear - 10
California - 10
The Next Best American Record - 7 (-)
The Greatest - 11
Bartender - 9 (+)
Happiness is a Butterfly - 10
hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - 10

LITERALLY my first thought! She was reading Slim Aarons and she got to thinking..."fuck off". 

 

Do we know this is the album title and not a song title though? On IG she said "the record" and I never know which she means by that.    Apologies if that's already been covered here somewhere. 

 

I want National Anthem visuals but apocalyptic...I'm picturing that scene at the end of The Virgin Suicides with the debutante party where everyone is wearing gas masks...an image like that as the album cover.  This one:

th--and i cannot emphasize it enough--is

more like post UV bc the untouchable 5 though

unpopular opinion 2 the only song of the untouchable 5 i like is angels forever dont come for me if you see me singing along to the other ones though

I honestly think Lana's original point is REALLY interesting and REALLY complex - where's the line between asking women to be responsible with their output and then asking them to edit their truth? men aren't asked to be responsible. men aren't asked to edit their truth. That is a genuinely complex and nuanced question. But her point became moot when she used those those WOCs names as if to suggest they haven't recieved far worse critisism than Lana has ever or will ever recieve.

 

there could have been a really interseting conversation that came from her post if she hadn't executed it the way she did. the hate she recieved from mostly women at the start of her career WAS notably vicious and i think hurt her immeasurably to not be taken seriously and to be accused of fabricating her authenticity.

this is it for me. i cannot deny lana had a real point to her post, but in the convos ive had with people outside of this forum i feel like i have to pretend that she didnt make a point about internalized misogny (twofold, perhaps). but theres simply no way to convince the whiners on twitter. most of them made up their mind about lana a long time ago anyways. it's a shame to see her lose casual listeners through this debacle though

derailing from the obvious hot topic but the new unreleased leaks we've been getting are subpar compared to the OG leaks. i dont think lana's post-BTD unreleased are all that good except for BAR demo

banned for 2012 lana in 2020

ok i might have to restan

if she fumbles her bag with a title that conjures such a vivid, poignant image then it's truly over

but i have hope (and it's a dangerous thing with this woman........ still a bit bitter about the NFR aesthetic)

i think an album of spoken word >>> poetry book when it comes to lana

idk but her typewriter poems always look so sloppy and read clunky to me. her vocal cadence carries the work so much further than just written word alone

i want violet / iron gates to drop as a double feature

yall have some impressive collections!!! idk what it is but vinyl is so satisfying to the eye and touch. im relaxed looking at pictures/gifs of them

so i noticed there's that one user's welcome thread focusing on their vinyl collection, and i was thinking "huh i wonder if LB has a thread dedicated to vinyl enthusiats" and shockingly....it does not

i've been collecting records for nearly two years now (and i have the complete lana discog + AKA, not counting special edition/picture disk releases). maybe i'll post pictures later but that's a lot of work for right now

feel free to discuss vinyl here, audiophiles to aesthetes, and drop pictures of your setups and/or collections!

**no elitism please. there is enough of that on r/vinyl**

i think the main point that people are trying to get at is that lgbt movies are so often sad or taboo in some way, so Love Simon is very important in reminding the world--hey, our narrative isn't all depressing!! while it's true gay folks throughout history haven't had the most stellar endings, and that shouldn't be ignored in our media, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be allowed a teen romcom with a pure ending.

and honestly, i'm tired of the gay experience being made into an Art House type of genre... lgb kids can't entirely relate to CMBYN (and realistically...probably shouldn't in a couple ways). CMBYN is a beautiful story, but it plays into the Tragic Gay™ trope further.....and as a queer kid whose friends are all queer kids, Love Simon was so much more important in the grand scheme, for our age group especially.

I was in this movie!! I had the most wonderful time shooting it, it’s one of my most favourite movies I’ve done. I actually haven’t had the chance to see it yet (I’m going this weekend with a friend) but I filmed multiple scenes & I know I’m really featured in the Ferris wheel scene towards the end. I was wearing this in that scene if you want to look out for me!

 

Part of the scene I’m speaking about has a group shot in the trailer you can see me in at 2:06, all the way towards the left with my hands over my heart -

 

 

 

I’m so happy to see so much love for this movie as not only did I have the most incredible time filming it, but I think the story is sooooo important to be shown x

oh my god!!! that's crazy elle, the gay stars really aligned the night i saw this movie. that's so incredible.

kjdffhskhg okay so i saw love simon yesterday with my best friend, and we ran into our other two friends who were on a date-- so they sat in the row behind us

and i havent seen a romcom in a while so it was really refreshing to not see a "serious" "artsy" movie in theaters and just laugh, and this movie has some really golden funny moments.

the plot was really solid too, it warmed my heart to watch an lgbt movie that had a happy ending with no taboos in it (sorry CMBYN)

definitely made me think at the end "this is one of those teen movies i'll show my kids someday"

and i was at peace with that

have any of you gays seen it yet?? it's worth it tbh, i'd say it lived up to the hype

based on the novel Simon vs. The Homosapiens Agenda

i dont want LIB or Yosemite. give me marilyn or give me death (or steven mertens' AKA)

Mine was "Dum Dum"

 

Once you've had something

Something so beautiful

You’ll never be the same

Once you've had a taste of heaven my way

You’ll be forever changed

 

It's basically Lana foreshadowing the fact that once you listen to her songs you'll get so addicted to her special flavour of heaven that you won't be the same person you were before you heard her.

 

ONCE YOU GO LANA, YOU ARE BOUND TO GO BANANAS

 

I remember listening to this song thinking how blessed I was to listen to this angel singing!!

Oh and her vocals in the chorus are soooo heavenly

dum dum is iconic and beautiful. i heard it for the first time in february but its been on my top 10 unreleased ever since

I MAY BE COMPLETELY WRONG HERE AND A BIT DELULU but I'm 99% sure that the Swedish radio stations played Queen of Disaster a whole summer on repeat all days long, and I liked it - a cute song about love with a fun beat. The radio stations almost made me sick of it though, they played it so often.

I had no idea that it was Lana back then, I wasn't interested in her songs yet (I bet I hadn't even heard her name yet) and can you imagine how surprised I was when I found out some time later that my favorite artist Lana Del Rey was that singer they played all summer??

And I suppose the radio stations found out that it's unreleased because they haven't played it since. I guess someone just found it online and then played it on the radio one summer, lol. Ah, the royalties she could've gotten..!

 

Is there someone else who's Swedish and can confirm this? Because... I'm pretty sure I heard Queen of Disaster that summer! Or am I having made up memories??

this shook me to my core

Queen of Disaster. I was watching SoC (which was also my first Lana song I think) and it came up on the recommendations <3

damn you jumped right into the lana spiral quick

Diet Mountain Dew because when it leaked it the album hadn't been released yet (the first demo we got actually made me like Lana)

og king/queen!

what was the first unreleased Lana song you ever heard?

mine was 1949, back in early 2015. i came across it on youtube and was SHOOK that it was lana. keep in mind i didn't know lizzy grant or may jailer even existed yet. i sent it to my then lana-guru friend who said "it's cute. sounds like lizzy grant" and mentally i went "whomst'd've?". to not look like an idiot i googled her and i was SHOOK x2 and replied nonchalantly "yeah, but i'd love if she rerecorded it" (note: this was before i even knew paradise yayo was a revamped AKA yayo. so at least it seemed realistic to said friend)

right after that i listened to axl rose husband, and i think serial killer. axl rose husband is still in my top 10 unreleased, but 1949 holds fond memories of that summer for me, depsite it being knocked past #10 by other unreleased tracks

i'm so grateful for it though, i would've never gotten as into lana had i not found it! at that point i was still just casual BTD scum with some UV faves, and i probably would have forgotten about lana if i didn't discover her massive unreleased discography. it keeps things very interesting, and i'm also so grateful that it all led me to this community 

honestly most of the HM instrumentals. (maybe not The Blackest Day. the instrumental is kinda bland imo)

i could listen to the West Coast and SOC instrumentals all day tho

from BTD, i adore the instrumentals for Carmen, BTD, and Lolita 

UV's instrumentals are so lush with the full band   

hi i make cover edits of miss lana del rey because i love design and i love ha