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Whenever I watch other people's reaction to her music, I get choked up and almost cry lol. It's like hearing it for the first time. I loved this video! Thanks for sharing it. It almost made me forget that I DON'T hate this bitch.

When Fine Bros give Lana more promo than her management
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu90ULRKgck

People complaining because the song wasn't released on a date that Lana hasn't even mentioned yet? Again? And they blamed her again? Nothing personal.   Be patient and don't be carried away by the gullibility of others who take their own conclusions as real facts.   I know that all the opinions here are valid ... but it's very tiring to see many questioning the way in which Lana decides to release her music ... If she really didn't care she wouldn't continue to release music. She doesn't need to be talking about her album every 5 minutes 24/7.  

I swear sometimes I wish I would've never found this site. I'd be patiently waiting and wouldn't know shit until official confirmations 

Here's a really good master post with all her stuff 
 
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8-jP2Y13WOhc1p3WVBTVURWMXM

I have a feeling her writing will come out saccharine on this record, too bright and positive and "everything will be ok" when everything won't be ok for so many. I don't see why she feels the need to alter her writing to present this needlessly bright, optimistic image of where we should be.
 
It's also somewhat patronising, when she omits darker songs and lyrics just because she thinks it'll have a negative impact on listeners (????). Curating her albums will take away from the authenticity of the raw emotion she is so famed for.
 
Other users above have perfectly summarised what I feel, but I'm just so frustrated by this. Happy writing is fine, but let it come naturally. Sad writing isn't detrimental to happiness. Happy songs dont make you happy.

She looks beautiful and there are some really nice shots in this. Liked the interview with Stevie--or at least, interesting to hear what they had to say, even though it felt a little stilted (Stevie: I think this about this thing...Lana: I agree, me too).
Really can't say I agree, like at all, about the whole self-editing thing so that every single piece you put out is 100% positive vibes only. Especially if she wants to make a socially aware album, this idea of "everything's gonna be okay you guys" thing, in this current age, feels very risky. It's just very easy, when you are rich and white and have access to multiple homes and millions of dollars and a group of high-profile, rich friends and can spend your days having fun at clubs and lavish birthday parties, to write something that comes across as "things are gonna be okay...for ME--so good luck to the rest of y'all." 
Negativity isn't an inherently bad thing. It can help bring out problems, address issues, be a motivation for change. It can also be a really powerful way to unite people who are in pain and want to know they aren't alone in their struggles. Positively culture is just completely one-dimensional, as well as horribly alienating to anyone who doesn't have a natural "go get em!" type attitude, and/or to those with mental health struggles or just really large struggles in general that need to be processed. 
I'm not advocating for artists to make really dark, hopeless pieces of art (though they can if they wish), but if you are artificially altering your responses to your own experiences ("self-editing") you are gonna be hard pressed to find people who can genuinely connect with that. 

To prepare myself for this thursday I thought I should give a second try to Ridin.. well I just listened to it and I can't help myself I don't like it at all

In this very good interview/article Poppy said the album will be released October 6th:
https://www.wired.com/2017/06/shes-poppy/

I preferred her hippie band musician friends tbh. 

I'm sorry but some of you have questionable mindsets..
All of her albums, Eras, ideas etc. Are very much so innovative. I have been waiting a while to rant and I feel like now is the time.
 
I find it silly to compare every album and say oh "this ones better because of this" etc. Her music progression had developed over time. Which I love about her. If she was like a typical pop star singing in the same tune about the same thing with the same theme then at what point would her fans, and Lana herself say "Okay I THINK this is boring now" ? The negative judgment over this album is far more severe than the last two albums. And that's the funny part about it. Her last two are her most critically acclaimed, and her most well developed. If you can't grow as an artist, a person, and you keep yourself in a box and never dare to cross boundaries then are you even an artist? 
 
 
Each of her albums (including her AKA album, her fandmade sirens, all her pre ldr eps, and all her unreleased) tell parts of her artistic history at different times, different moods, and feelings. 
 
I myself can (like im sure most of us here) pinpoint all the great attributes of each of her albums and why.
 
Sirens (fanmade)
I remember the day i came across this playlist on youtube in 2012. At first I didn't even believe it was lana. Gosh what a sweet voice she had. This album spoke to me so much. Her honey vocals over that acoustic guitar blended so well. I was still a kid at the time. Only 12 and it was like a lullaby to me. I played it every night for three months straight. With may jailer's music, i didnt feel alone.
 
AKA Lizzy Grant
Oh where do i begin with this one. This is a very New York Late Night riding the bus, the subway record. The instrumentals her lyrics, the voice progression, still sweet yet the slight pain to it. She opens with "Bound up the stairs, im in the shower. Do you know, I am going to leave you?" Which she softly coos. I remember when I first discovered this "lost record" and played it all the time riding the bus. 
 
Born To Die
Was the first entire record I ever heard of hers. Fell in love with blue jeans. I recall the lush and baroque/feminine siren sound with the hip hop influence was a dream come true. I fell in love. 
 
 
Utlraviolence
My officially summer record. I only play it during the three months. The emotion, the angst, the pain of a lost love, love in the height of despair. I know it all too well. This is my soul album. And forget about her bonus/unreleased uv tracks. Those are killer.
 
Honeymoon
Honeymoon was something that didn't take long to fall hopelessly in love with. What I consider her end chapter on her long and undying love affair(affairs) and relationships, with men, soulmates, true loves, strangers, places, and things. It was sweet but tarte, like lemonade. A few weeks after honeymoons release I wondered what the heck she was going to sing about now. (and boy was i in for a good surprise) 
 
Generally speaking, one of the many things I love about her is the evolution of her music. Her past four albums have been her story, whats shes been through, love, life, lost and found. And like she said herself shes making this album for us. With us in mind. I think that's the sweetest things ever. 
 
All I see is complaints about collabs, covers, fonts, pictures. 
Which varied opinions are valid, but we get the point, it isn't aesthetically pleasing for you. Get over it. 
Shes doing this for us. You don't have to love it, but respect her as a human, and an artist. 

Every time I read this thread I admire Lana a few less bc your commentaries are so negative that causes this effect
Sometimes I'm just ok with something, then I enter here and it's "THATS AWFUL" "OMG THIS IS A MESS" and I get "wow... maybe..."

if Heroin is truly on the record; I am kind of excited... because I think this may take a darker turn than the media and fans believed with Love. and the records name. I mean, Lana surely isn't going to make a "HAPPY" record for us. We fans got enticed by the darker side and her original stuff, so I am hopping the smile has some symbolism

What makes an album rock vs pop then?
To me, Ultraviolence is Dream Pop. According to wikipedia, Dream pop is "a subgenre of alternative rock and neo-psychedelia that developed in the 1980s The style is typified by a preoccupation with atmosphere and texture as much as melody" Common characteristics are breathy vocals and use of guitar effects, often producing a "wall of noise". To me this perfectly describes songs like West Coast, Cruel World, Shades of Cool, Sad Girl, Pretty When You Cry, and others. There's sometimes pretty heavy layering, and there's also a tinge of Psychedelia in Ultraviolence to me. It's more rock than "pop" if you define pop as being hook oriented, or intentionally appealing to a wide audience. If anything, Ultraviolence is the opposite. I remember when it came out and most Lana stans were so DONE because there were no "bops" and the choruses were "just the title repeated 3x" etc. Nothing on Ultraviolence is even as poppy as "Love" or "Lust for Life" by far. To me, its a very anti-pop album, which is surely why the record label was opposed to her releasing it.
 
I don't think Ultraviolence is necessarily "innovative", but for Lana, it was totally left field. Lana's approach to music and lyrics in the music industry right now is just not something that is well represented. People like to say Halsey and Melanie and the "Tumblr" girls are Lana rip offs, but they really aren't. They are very decisively pop, or indie-pop, but I see Lana as being more decisively alternative and venturing in and out of pop.
 
This is also just my opinion though.

might not have been innovative to the music world, but was innovative to lana music, which in the end is what is important. i don't give a fuck if lana invents a new genre, as long as she herself evolves and innovates for herself then i call that innovation

All that i wish is another black dark album.. But i think its hard..     

What are all of your hopes for this record sonically? Let's talk something positive lol.
 
Personally, I want these tracks to be mostly be 4 + minutes long again, and I want a decent number of the tracks to have interesting bridges, like in Honeymoon. The bridges of Honeymoon, Freak, Salvatore, Blackest Day, and Terence Loves You are some of the most beautiful moments in Lana's official discography for me.

I hate the title and from the snippet she posted it sounds like I won't like it. That is not the style of music I like at all. I'm still interested to hear it and I'm gna give it a shot though. We should all at least wait to hear it.
 
But I do agree with what my boyfriend said: There are already tons of artists that make that genre of music who do it very well and she probably doesn't need to be making it when her fans aren't waiting for that type of music. But ofc it is her career and her life and she can experiment so I will wait until she releases it

no.

Just a reminder that Lana shines best when emulating the greats like Kurdt Cocaine.
 

But it will still be a 9/10 overall

Actually I'm not afraid because of the title but because the song will have a lot of hip hop in it...

Actually I hope that, if they include Coachella in the album, the song/production will be more polished than the one we already have (which sounded very rushed to me)...

this would make a really pretty album cover, prettier than the summer bummer cover even

I hope they polished up Coachella some. I don't hate the song as much as some but it needed help