LanaBoi

I totally agree with you that NFR marks a new debut, a new cycle. First of all, the cover doesn’t have a car on it. And she is not alone on that boat. Get Free marked the end of the cycle, the threshold. And now, we are in the bittersweet blue. Plus NFR echoes BTD: BTD was legendary but GoT tanked By critics; NFR is incensed. My BF asked me if I had just one Lana album to have, which one would it be: it would be NFR. HM and UV are close seconds, but they’re very specific with their mood. NFR is really « day-to-day » and reflects who I am at the moment.

California boring and uninspired? Wow, that hurt my heart

As much as I love Lana’s music, I was never able to find myself much in it before NFR, except for some songs I’ve always cherished. Maybe because I never was one of these people who have an extravagant life, who "live fast die young". But with NFR, it’s different. This album is about simple things in life (dancing, going to the beach, crying late at night, daydreaming), simple love affairs, simple issues... It’s a down to earth album. To me, there’s nothing more beautiful but also more painful than simple things.
Not everyone can like this album, because I feel like it’s about Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, not Lana Del Rey, however, no sensible person should say the album is not good.

Yawn. NFR haters are boring.

lmao nfr haters really mad af
 
this publication has been praising her since the beginning
 
UV 4.3/5 - superb -  https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/62846/Lana-Del-Rey-Ultraviolence/
Paradise 3.5/5 - great - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/54172/Lana-Del-Rey-Paradise/
LFL - 4/5 - excellent - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/74333/Lana-Del-Rey-Lust-For-Life/
BTD - 4/5 - excellent - https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/47721/Lana-Del-Rey-Born-to-Die/
 
damn, their BTD review says:
 
 
keep your vision going 

Dua’s Physical is so much better than the Olivia Newton John one  

YAAASSSSSS IT HAS MUSIC BY JACK <3 

YAAASSSSSS IT HAS MUSIC BY JACK <3 

YAAASSSSSS IT HAS MUSIC BY JACK <3 

I'm still desperate for Honeymoon 2.0  
 
Cinematic, Orchestral, thoughtful things (like the song fade between Freak & Art Deco) <3 

I'm still desperate for Honeymoon 2.0  
 
Cinematic, Orchestral, thoughtful things (like the song fade between Freak & Art Deco) <3 

I'm still desperate for Honeymoon 2.0  
 
Cinematic, Orchestral, thoughtful things (like the song fade between Freak & Art Deco) <3 

I'm still desperate for Honeymoon 2.0  
 
Cinematic, Orchestral, thoughtful things (like the song fade between Freak & Art Deco) <3 

I'm still desperate for Honeymoon 2.0  
 
Cinematic, Orchestral, thoughtful things (like the song fade between Freak & Art Deco) <3 

I'm still desperate for Honeymoon 2.0  
 
Cinematic, Orchestral, thoughtful things (like the song fade between Freak & Art Deco) <3 

I'm still desperate for Honeymoon 2.0  
 
Cinematic, Orchestral, thoughtful things (like the song fade between Freak & Art Deco) <3 

YESSSS THIS IS MY THOUGHTSSSSS ON SO MANY LEVELS 
 
She thought she couldn't write again after BTD, then Dan Auerbach inspired her to do UV, and then she did Honeymoon so soon after.
 
She wasn't writing after LFL, then Jack Antonoff inspired her to do NFR, and then she will do this so soon after.
 
I want another Honeymoon so fricking badly. 

ALL RISE FOR THE PRE-RELEASE THREAD ANTHEM
 
Climb up the D, of the desperation sign, ( yeah)
In these psychotic moments
The fandom is mine, (doo woop doo woop)
There's nobody here, just us stans together (shadoop shadoop)
Keepin' us shook, white hot forever 
 

I think it was just because she played it in her car and because of the phone quality tbh. I agree the bass sounded louder in the snippets but I don’t think it really was louder in reality

Thank you so much! I will add those into the OP
I take the 3 songs she had prior to working with Jack to be The Next Best American Record, California, and Bartender 

OMG I LOVE THIS! 
 
Also to add
 
- September 2018 - Lana says the album is finished with 11 Tracks.
 
- January/Febuary 2018 - Lana later says she had 3 songs when she started working with Jack. ( I take Hope NOT to be one of these songs, as it was lyrics/ journaling before she turned it into a song with Jack) 

I still have a theory that Yosemite was reworked into Mariner’s apartment complex.... though I’m probably wrong!! 

I still have a theory that Yosemite was reworked into Mariner’s apartment complex.... though I’m probably wrong!! 

I can imagine that she wanted to put TNBAR, Yosemite and Roses bloom for you on an album- She said at Amoeba LA in Summer 2017 that she will put out those two songs (i know she said as a standalone but TNBAR made into the album and TNBAR and Yosemite are sister tracks-the ying to the yang and she said that loves those tracks ). In December 2017 she posted again a video in which you could hear Roses bloom for you. She also had a writers' block in fall 2017. During the making of NFR! she decided to put Yosemite & Roses bloom not on the album because it wouldn't really fit or for whatever reason. Maybe she was thinking that California would fit into the album and decided to put it on NFR!.  I think she felt so comfortable with Jack that she showed him  Hope as PARADIXO said... but I think she wasn't planning to put it on an album before she meets Jack and felt so comfortable with him. Maybe she had parts of HIAB and decided to put in on NFR! as well and finished that song with Jack. But it is just speculation
And don't judge me...I have too much time to think about those things because of the quarantine

She also had California.