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No matter whether or not this album flops, just a reminder that Halsey's three collabs are:
 
Quavo
Lauren Jauregui
Cashmere Cat
 
And Lana's three collabs are:
 
The Weeknd
Sean Ono Lennon
Stevie fucking Nicks
 
So idk if it only sells two copies it's pretty fucking iconic either way. Only. Fucking. Legends.

idc what anyone says about this song but tbd is the best song on hm. it scalped me the first time i listened to it and i'm still recovering from it.

I've always loved Honeymoon but lately I've been caught on admiring how fucking beautiful the production and overall aesthetic is. From the subdued percussion, breezy synths, sparse and scattered piano chords, to the angelic vocal layering and adrenaline-inducing arrangements on some tracks. It's both a pity and a blessing that the production takes the backseat... as gorgeous as it is, nothing compares to Lana's delicate vocals and I'm really glad the producers gave that the spotlight.
 

she's been "flopping" as what some of u describing it since 2014 and you're acting like wow this is something so new
other than that lana sales albums not singles so

For me it's the other way round. I love L4L more since BA is out.

You're all literally so impatient. You have so much coming up and you've already gotten so much.
 
Literally a day after LFL you guys are all like SOOOOO DO SOMETHING?? Doesn't matter how much she does, if she isn't doing five things a day you're all ungrateful brats.

I went to the bakery with my Lana sweater today and the vendor deadass asked me when I was paying for my fougasse "oh my GOd you ARE A LANA STAN?? Have you listened to her new single LOVE I LOVE IT SO MUCH" and she's so fucking gorgeous I didn't had the strength to tell her the new single is LFL :') Thanks Lanaaaaa I go there all the time as well so now we're always going to have this complicity I'm so happy

ehh she doesnt need your type of support anyways, bye

Lana working with people like Stevie Nicks, Courtney Love, and Sean Lennon, shows you how legendary she is 

Lana is quite legendary in her own right, she'd probably only collaborate with people with more status. Not generic.
 
Could you imagine her vocals on a Katy perry track? Dua? Melanie? Rihanna? Of course not.
 
Could you imagine her vocals on a stevie track? On a Jim Morrison track? On a Beatles track? Yes, no matter the quantity.

When the title Tropico first surfaced, there was a lot of speculation about where the name came from. People wondered if it had anything to do with a video game of the same name. Or if it was a reference to the Pat Benatar album.

I just assumed it was a word Lana came up with independently, or perhaps that she forgot Pat Benatar's album was where the word first entered her mind. (After all, she does often reference others' lyrics and album titles seemingly unconsciously. See: Lust for Life.) At any rate, I never gave it much thought after the release of the film, which I watched a grand total of two times (three if you count searching through it for screenshots for this thread).

But recently I've developed a possible theory about where the name may have come from that I don't recall seeing discussed on the forum before (though maybe I just missed it):

Tropico is/was the name of a real place in California. Now just a neighborhood in Glendale, CA and Los Angeles' Atwater Village, it was once incorporated as an independent city from 1911 until 1918 when the upper half merged with Glendale and the lower half merged with Los Angeles.

Today, there seem to be only a few references to the name of the city that once was: a post office, a seedy motel, a new apartment project, an old folks' home.

Here are links to several pages about "the lost city of Tropico":
https://www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/the-lost-city-of-tropico-california
http://atwater-village.blogspot.com/2007/02/sunday-drive-through-lost-city-of.html
https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120717082459/http://www.glendalehistorical.org/tropico.html
http://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_Views_of_Glendale.html
https://calisphere.org/search/?q=tropico (There's probably some great cover/fan art material in some of the PDFs here.)

Tropico was also home to Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park, where Walt Disney and many old Hollywood celebrities are buried or have their ashes interred.

I have no idea if Lana is aware of any of this history-- given her proximity to it I suspect it may have inspired the name either way-- but it is certainly in keeping with themes in her work of old Hollywood and lost Americana.

Feel free to post anything else interesting you find about the city of Tropico.

I'm gonna post this in the other thread but I'll post it here too.
 
If anyone of you are wondering what the Seven Wonders is, it's this:
 
So basically there are many seven wonders in the world, ranging from 7 wonders of magic (which I will explain below), 7 wonders of the ancient world, 7 wonders of the modern world etc. I chose to explain the 7 wonders of magic because it's pretty obvious, especially in the LFL trailer.
 
The Seven Wonders of Magic
 
Telekinesis - To move objects with ones mind (In the beginning of the trailer we see the goblet, hourglass and hologram of the world move in front of Lana)
Comcilium - Control and reading of the mind (Lana looks into the hologram of the world and cheekily looks up at the camera, as if she's knows what we're thinking)
Teleportation - To move through space without aid (Lana's hologram moves from the desk to the window)
Divination - To foresee all things accurately (Lana looks out of the window, foreseeing Hollywood)
Vitalum Vitalis - The balancing of scales between two life forces (Lana compares our generation to the 60s/70s)
Descensum - Prjoect oneself through the various planes (Lana talk about sending her love to us all through the ether)
Pyrokinesis - The starting and control of fire (Lana says "Or shall I take the day off and turn down the fire". Then as she gathers the ingredients in her hands, a poof of fire/spark ignites)
 
Then she draws the seven planets in front herself.
 
Manifestation of all powers indicates the next supreme witch.

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

This collab really sounds exciting! But 3 collabs on one album is a lot... So the album will be quite different to Lana's former work...

She said it's a spring release so May 26th still sounds accurate. If that's true, they need to start releasing more stuff asap (tracklist, pre-order, LFL video or another song?).
 
I'm excited for Stevie Nicks if that's true, but I hope that's the end of the features on the album.

No more featuring artists pls

They hit the nail on the head with this one. People didn't hate Lana herself, but they hated what she represented, which was a culture change. I have to admit that I was a big ass Lana hater when I first discovered her for the same reasons other people hated her. When I listened to her other songs I am became a changed man. Unfortunately that didn't happen for all haters 

actually i've loved both tracks we've gotten so much that i don't feel that thirsty for new info, i am patiently waiting for her to announce everything, this era is rolling out smoothly for me

"Birds are flying out of my mouth
Spirits creeping in my yard
 
Hold my head, it's tilting back
Something dancing me around"
 
(Raise me up)