harveyswife

I really really really miss when she was fully committed to her persona. It made her so fascinating and enigmatic and meshed so well with the music and visuals :'( . It really was like she was living art each era.

she came to fuck it up YESSS

No shade to them (I'm a fan of both), but Lana is an artist and they are entertainers. It's different. It's easier for artists to burn out because they need to be really inspired/obsessed to create great art. If you listen to BTD, Paradise, and UV it's clear Lana is fascinated by similar themes in all of them that she kept returning to and examining from different angles. Fame, drugs, money, success, pain, loneliness, shallowness, degradation, beauty... But I think after making these albums, she kind of said all she had to say on those subjects and lost her 'spark' as a result. Or maybe she stopped believing in whatever she believed in her early years that inspired her. I think now she is just creating music because she likes to, rather than serving any real artistic vision that drives her anymore.

If the next album is all folk/political ballads I am legitimately unstanning. She needs to get it together and actually get inspired, not keep writing shallow basic protest songs. Her lyrics and melodies used to be amazing, and now we get Coachella & BPBP.... some of the most shallow, basic, and childish lyrics I've ever heard. She's barely even trying. Yet some of y'all have the audacity to push for more of that.

can the next mentally unstable twink that breaks into her house PLEASE take some time to burn these ugly ass stretchy pants she keeps wearing???

Don't even know how I could begin to narrow down her best lyrics. Old Money, Bel Air, Heroin, Get Free, Honeymoon, Video Games, Brooklyn Baby, National Anthem, Gods and Monsters, Cruel World... She is hands down the best lyricist of this generation.

I for one am excited that Lana has remembered there are producers besides Rick Nowels in the world. She has never let her sound be overrun by a producer, everything she has put out with different producers sounds different but still Lana. I think it's probably good for her to branch out though, some of honeymoon and lust for life kind of sound like she is stuck in a sonic comfort zone and probably could use a good push to try and consider different things.

she's so fucking talented that even after all this time i still lowkey root for her to get herself together and slay. but, i dont think at this point it's ever happening.

yesss hunny is feeling inspired as fuck right now and i love to see it

I am happy she is speaking out politically, but I wish she wouldn't make her albums about politics. It just isn't what she does best, and it is not nearly as beautiful or artistic as her other work. I don't think she is great at writing songs with a 'message' really. I think her best songwriting is when she channels her feelings and experiences and explores fantasy and vision rather than the real world.

I would kill for an ultraviolence inspired musical

we do NOT deserve lana del rey.... we must cherish her and protect her at all cost

there will never be a better album, bottom line cut and dry

At this point I would rather her just focus on new music and save the budget for a *quality* music video there tbh.

I said what I said

She isn't letting me breathe and I love it. Suffocate me, queen

Lana is hands down the best look on that red carpet tn.... literally she has no competition out there

trump did this

this is literally giving her more promo than the honeymoon era and l4l release combined ... queen of not doing her own promo and selling albums off controversy

I actually really like the chorus.... it's like a better version of the L4L chorus to me. But I guess everyone else hates it lol

Her whole persona and her lyrics and aesthetics were deeply steeped in fantasy and her persona inhabited a fantasy world, so her becoming "political" and paying attention to the real world is really jarring and that's why it feels awkward I think. Like Lana and her art just weren't made for the real world tbh, even James Franco thought that.

"like the 405 I drive through, every night and every daaaaay..."

Okay.... I could get it poppin' for a homemade cherry video tbh.

This era really lacked a driving vision like she had in her previous eras. LFL ended up being a strange mix of vaguely political songs, attempts at being upbeat and positive, trap music, weird folksy songs, and even a random piano ballad. Like it's just all over the place and I think that's because she wasn't sure what she wanted to do and ended up never committing to anything. Adding half-baked songs randomly at the end with awful production, removing songs when she already filmed a video.... One thing she always did in all of her previous albums was commit to a vision and pursue that - it's what made her albums and visuals so cohesive and all of her eras distinct. She used to do an amazing job of crafting the music, the visuals, the lyrics, everything into a really cohesive album/era experience. I think one of the reason this era comes off as bland is because she never quite made up her mind what she wanted this album to be, and by never committing the work becomes sort of underwhelming. All this to say.... "promo" would really not have made this era better, except for increasing her sales. The problem isn't promo, it's that she didn't have a coherent vision for L4L.

I miss when lana didn't feel like she needed to explain her music or videos. When she made music and videos for herself alone she didn't give a fuck what anybody thought about it. I miss that. "If you don't get it then forget it, 'cause I don't have to fuckin explain it ~~~"