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The lyrics for Hope are pretty damn visionary if you ask me, and some of the most complicated and heartbreaking she's ever written.

Gotta disagree here, her lyrics on Hope and MAC are easily some of the best she's ever written. And people can say that Venice Bitch has bad lyrics all they want, but the song evokes a mood unlike any other and the repetitive lyrics add to the hazy trip down memory lane. I think it's probably the best song she's ever done.
 
As desperately as I want the album, Wild One (or whatever it's called) is extremely beautiful and I can't stop listening to it so that will appease me for a little bit lol.

Gotta disagree here, her lyrics on Hope and MAC are easily some of the best she's ever written. And people can say that Venice Bitch has bad lyrics all they want, but the song evokes a mood unlike any other and the repetitive lyrics add to the hazy trip down memory lane. I think it's probably the best song she's ever done.
 
As desperately as I want the album, Wild One (or whatever it's called) is extremely beautiful and I can't stop listening to it so that will appease me for a little bit lol.

Gotta disagree here, her lyrics on Hope and MAC are easily some of the best she's ever written. And people can say that Venice Bitch has bad lyrics all they want, but the song evokes a mood unlike any other and the repetitive lyrics add to the hazy trip down memory lane. I think it's probably the best song she's ever done.
 
As desperately as I want the album, Wild One (or whatever it's called) is extremely beautiful and I can't stop listening to it so that will appease me for a little bit lol.

Gotta disagree here, her lyrics on Hope and MAC are easily some of the best she's ever written. And people can say that Venice Bitch has bad lyrics all they want, but the song evokes a mood unlike any other and the repetitive lyrics add to the hazy trip down memory lane. I think it's probably the best song she's ever done.
 
As desperately as I want the album, Wild One (or whatever it's called) is extremely beautiful and I can't stop listening to it so that will appease me for a little bit lol.

Gotta disagree here, her lyrics on Hope and MAC are easily some of the best she's ever written. And people can say that Venice Bitch has bad lyrics all they want, but the song evokes a mood unlike any other and the repetitive lyrics add to the hazy trip down memory lane. I think it's probably the best song she's ever done.
 
As desperately as I want the album, Wild One (or whatever it's called) is extremely beautiful and I can't stop listening to it so that will appease me for a little bit lol.

Gotta disagree here, her lyrics on Hope and MAC are easily some of the best she's ever written. And people can say that Venice Bitch has bad lyrics all they want, but the song evokes a mood unlike any other and the repetitive lyrics add to the hazy trip down memory lane. I think it's probably the best song she's ever done.
 
As desperately as I want the album, Wild One (or whatever it's called) is extremely beautiful and I can't stop listening to it so that will appease me for a little bit lol.

Gotta disagree here, her lyrics on Hope and MAC are easily some of the best she's ever written. And people can say that Venice Bitch has bad lyrics all they want, but the song evokes a mood unlike any other and the repetitive lyrics add to the hazy trip down memory lane. I think it's probably the best song she's ever done.
 
As desperately as I want the album, Wild One (or whatever it's called) is extremely beautiful and I can't stop listening to it so that will appease me for a little bit lol.

Good luck tonight everybody.

Good luck tonight everybody.

Good luck tonight everybody.

I still think that the main reason she doesn't wanna make big releases and such is because of how people made fun of her for her SNL performance and not just because she is "lazy". I know people hate what ifs but I'm almost sure if that hadn't happend the story would be different and she would be motivated and even still go to TV to promote her stuff like she did in the beginning. She did want to be recognized for her artistry but she was basically bullyied and it affected her. Even her father said it depressed her how people from her own country which she loved disrespected her like that. We tend to think think celebrities should be thick skinned but let's face it, it must have been really hard. Not trying to victimise her because Lana is a strong woman in spite of that.

Another way to approach the NFR delay is right in the 'Hope' lyrics. These are the lyrics of a professed very troubled person, and I think it's safe to assume that the narrator is LDR to some unverifiable degree. And we've seen admissions that she, or the personages in her songs, are mentally troubled in other lyrics, on 'Ride,' on ''Cruel World,' among others, and on some of her unreleased songs. Mental illness is as common as physical illness in my experience, and just as varied, and no more to be shunned or feared than a broken leg or psoriasis.
 
A lot of those homely selfies she posted during the LFL era, where she was wearing no makeup and the camera angles grossly distorted her lips and nose, didn't seem to suggest mental health either, not if she was the one making the decision to post them (which I believe she was). 
 
I have no problem accepting that she may be experiencing some mental distress, even significant mental distress, and there's her teenage alcoholism and frequent mention of hard drugs in her lyrics to potentially factor in as well. Who knows what she's been experiencing? One of the things I've always liked about LDR is that she's able to tackle the darkness as well as the light. I don't think there's barely a darker song extant that the unreleased original version 'Live or Die.' 
 
As disappointing as this era has been, and as much as we want NFR to have dropped yesterday or in February, I think we have to try to wish her the best and hope any technical, production, aesthetic, record company, or legal issues go away soon, and any deep personal matters too. 
 
It certainly appears, via her Insta Baddies and other posts and photos, that she's trying to live her life in a completely different way at present.

Perhaps she's 'gotten free' or is still trying to 'get free,' or perhaps she's found that she's as 'stuck' as ever, which is a very human place to find one's self. 

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/real-life-rock-top-10-826793/
 
Hey Blue Baby getting press months later from Rolling Stone.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/real-life-rock-top-10-826793/
 
Hey Blue Baby getting press months later from Rolling Stone.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/real-life-rock-top-10-826793/
 
Hey Blue Baby getting press months later from Rolling Stone.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/real-life-rock-top-10-826793/
 
Hey Blue Baby getting press months later from Rolling Stone.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/real-life-rock-top-10-826793/
 
Hey Blue Baby getting press months later from Rolling Stone.

vb is a solid stab at prog rock through a lana lens, along with a prog-rock-esque run time
 
(and it really is such a goddamn perfect song to drive around and lose yourself in, to paraphrase miss del rey at its release)

VB inspired Kevin Abstract’s album so uhh I don’t think the length is a problem with that one, it made its impact already 
Edit: I just saw a reply from you above mine sorry lol if it were up to me tho I’d have Lana on a full on 70s psychedelic rock sounding record, one with long ass 7-10m tracks. Ugh one can only dream

Venice Bitch is still one of the best songs she's ever made

I am so curious to hear Cinnamon based on everyone here, I haven't listened to the snippet yet. I really don't want to, but I may have to give up and listen    I have overplayed the HIAB snippets.

I am so curious to hear Cinnamon based on everyone here, I haven't listened to the snippet yet. I really don't want to, but I may have to give up and listen    I have overplayed the HIAB snippets.

a classic a fucking classic

Maybe Lana will drop the album this week on Good Friday. She does love a good religious theme.
 
(Disclaimer: I don't actually expect this to happen    )