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So sorry to hear your mom treated you that way Homophobia is so unacceptable, I can't believe we still have to deal with that kind of mindset. This is a super safe space to share, and I am glad the song is giving you some support <3

The true ranking: Blue Banisters = Text Book = Arcadia = Wildflower Wildfire

It fascinates me when people are so openly willing to admit to such poor taste.

Oh gosh I'm curious to watch Martyrs but I'm also scared to LOL

Why did I read this as Charlie Sheen?

I honestly can't fathom thinking that Blue Banisters isn't a top tier Lana track, it's almost painful how beautiful it is. A simply stunning representation of healing.

Not wanting fall to pass by too quickly, but also wanting Blue Banisters as soon as possible...

But it truly isn't simple as that. There's no reason to assume she used the old songs to fill up the album with bulk. We know that she scrapped several other songs at the last minute, including newer songs, and chose to replace them with these songs, so it's obviously for a reason that makes sense to her. And given everything that we do about the album, the use of these older songs makes a lot of sense so far. Obviously once we hear the full album we'll be able to see the full picture, but for now I don't think there's any reason to assume these songs were just thrown on as filler.

St Tropez is a pop CLASSIC

The trap interlude will a time for us to reflect on the profundity of the first three tracks, and how we've pushed a sweet soul like Lana away to the point that she's left us, bittersweet, thanking us for the hate we gave while she prays for us to be better. It's like the beginning of a rollercoaster when you go up slowly and you know the drop is about to come. And then we dive headfirst into Black Bathing Suit and she starts to hit us even harder than we can imagine with every emotion possible.

I think Text Book is about multiple people. I guess you could call it text book, I was looking for the father I wanted back to me suggests that she was in a pattern of using men to replace her father, rather than just one person. She also at one point says maybe just the way we're different could set me free and then later people say we're too much alike, but maybe that will finally make it right which again suggests that the song is about multiple relationships, and her overall experience through her text book daddy issues. Given that the album is meant to tell her whole story, it makes sense that she'd start with a topic like this one that people have always associated her with, especially earlier in her career when she sang more about toxic relationships and used the word daddy so often. The fact that the album ends with Lana not replacing her father with another man, but actually having him back is so truly beautiful

Remember when we briefly thought the album was officially coming October 8th

Deleting social media before the release is the best form of revenge. She's about to release a very personally revealing album without being easily accessible to the general public for the first time in her career, and that's exactly what we deserve after the way she's been treated. I don't think it's going to harm the album's success, and I also don't agree at all with those who think it was unprofessional. It was incredibly warranted at this point, and will give her a much needed break to minimize the toxic noise of the internet, while also making a pretty pointed statement about the hate she's received.

I personally don't like to use the word even in a joking context, but I'm also never going to tell people not to use it as I understand for a lot of queer people using the word is a way of reclaiming it. If you really want to fight homophobia, I don't think LanaBoards is the place to do it as this is obviously a very queer forum. If anyone were to ever really be homophobic on here, you can bet that we would all jump right on them and defend whoever they were targeting, and they'd quickly be banned. Anyways, there's a picture on the wall...

The way Lana slowly unravels the meaning of the song in Arcadia is so brilliant. It starts off so simple and seems like something cute as she describes her body as different parts of LA, and when she first says America it sounds so patriotic, like the way she used to sing about America. But as the song goes on we start to realize that it's not America she's admiring anymore, it's the peace of Arcadia. It's America that she needs to leave because it's not bringing that peace anymore. By the end we learn how deeply LA has left its imprint on her, hence her describing her body that way, but it's become something toxic too, and America is now associated with the hate she's given, and it needs a miracle to ever be returned to its former glory.

The Greatest vs Yosemite

Omg this just came on my Discover Weekly playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0MeNXiPYx2KgGBXDDLWxma?si=ff87ba41e91f4e54

I don't know if people went as far as saying she didn't write her music but there was definitely a lot of speculation when she first came out that there was no way she had creative control over herself as an artist, and was too fully formed to not be some industry plant.

I saw the new Alanis Morissette documentary last night and her story has a lot in common with Lana's. A major debut that made her an instant star and had a huge impact on the industry, with critics coming at her for being outside the norm of what they expected a female musician to be, or suggesting that it wasn't possible she wrote all her own music because it was too good and fully formed. The media loves to repeat the same mistakes.

For me the connection Lana drew wasn't necessarily about the songs themselves, but about how she wanted us to listen to Arcadia, like back when there weren't pre-conceived notions about her and people fell in love with the simple beauty of the music.

I don't know how it works in the states but at my university 81% was an A-