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I just listened.

I don't recall if this has been said anywhere, but can anybody verify if the piano and/or vocal melody of HIADT are similar to the opening strings of Mariners Apartment Complex? That's one thing I noticed when she first shared the snippet of Sylvia. Like, it sounded like a slowed down version of that opening. I ask because I'm wondering if this consistency will mean the album is bookended by those two tracks - or regardless. Just proves there'll be consistences across the tracklist.

The lyrics remind me of singer/songwriters of the past. Like Mitchell and Cohen, etc. And I don't doubt the melody being beautiful based on the snippet. God, I can't wait for this.

I stan how "but I have it" is in the title, but doesn't appear until the very end. Kinda like you hope she'll feel that way, and then she does. Certainly justifies a reason for the long ass title. I haven't heard the song yet, but like - the lyrics and the single cover have me all kinds of swimming in the heart and stuff.

I get ya. I don't find it that off when the song is self-reflective lyrically like a selfie can be. She's smiling, which is in context to the chorus' use of happiness with sadness. Then, of course, mentioning an iPad and her attention as a social media presence. Exactly. Preach sis.

The same can be said of the 8mm filters on the majority of her music videos.

I still don't understand how this has anything to do with the quality and thematic sustenance of it compared to the music she's putting out with it. Plus, if she were truly lazy, it wouldn't have been a creative decision to shape the image on the single cover like a selfie photo rather than making it cover the whole space of the x by x shape. It's a creative choice to emphasize it's a selfie.

It's so Lana to have a selfie as a cover, though. She's always been fascinated by multimedia (as her videos prove), so it's just another form of it - only it's still otherwise quite a contemporary concept. Give it a few decades and it'll be vintage or something.

I understand Ben here, but I also understand Lana. For an introspective album like this is turning out to be, why not be barebones? I don't think it's lazy to wanna be low-key and non-existent visually. How would she really be able to do such an era without being called lazy? If that makes any sense what I'm trying to ask.

I'm telling you. This could be her Grammy contender. It's certainly gonna get rave reviews.

JESUS HOLY JESUS THESE LYRICS

I personally like it quite a lot, tbh

This isn't necessarily true. It's been unverified that the snippets she mostly shared hasn't just been piano demos that haven't had their production fleshed out (or she's keeping away from ears until release.) How to Disappear is an example of this. HIADT will probably be a piano ballad, but it'll probably also feature some surprising instrumentation that'll give it that same surf rock vibe of the first two singles (think of the synths used in both.) I'm sure she'll have a couple ballads, and this one might be one of them, but Cinnamon and, again, HtD seem to prove that there's some Lana fingerprints on this tracklist even with the rock and jazz sensibilities. Basically, I don't think we're gonna get more than one - if any - song like Change this time around.

Writing in blood on my walls 'cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad... Are the additions after "Sylvia Plath" on Genius with any receipts?

Holding out for surprises. A selfie of Lana vaping + Valencia filter.

I wonder if HIADT will get Lana another Best New Track on Pitchfork?

Still fights for Bjork's best album in my eyes, and this has always been one of my favorites on the album. 8.5/10

lol of course she did

The title basically explains the rules. The song above you gets a listen/watch, and then you give it a grade (of your choosing), with one sentence where you give your thoughts on it and why you give it said rating. As an example, if somebody posts "Black Beauty", the next person would say "10/10. One of her most depressing and moving songs, for sure." or something way better than that. lol -- and then you post a song for the next person to do. Thought this would be a cool way to both share stuff you would like to get more earballs ( ) , and possibly even find new stuff yourself. I'll of course give it the start, and I'm gonna share one of my favorite 80s pop hits that I think has aged like fine wine (in an 80s sense, if possible.)

Hollywood (Tobias Jesso Jr.) Once Upon a December (Liz Calloway) Misbehaving (Labrinth) Wake Up (Arcade Fire) Pale Blue Eyes (The Velvet Underground) No Eyes (Baths) We Belong (Pat Benatar) The Blower's Daughter (Damien Rice) After the Gold Rush (Neil Young) I Blame Myself (Sky Ferreira)

Oooh. I'ma do this. I'm predicting 12 tracks, with another song - somewhere in the middle (like track 5 or 6) - being about 7-8 minutes long. With that in mind, swap that unknown prediction with VB's placement at the end. 01. Mariners Apartment Complex 02. Norman Fucking Rockwell 03. Cinnamon 04. In Your Car 05. 06. 07. Happiness is a Butterfly 08. 09. 10. Hope is a Dangerous Thing-- (is it Sylvia? Idfk, I'm gonna assume it is.) 11. How to Disappear 12. Venice Bitch I can imagine it being Lana-ish to have a ballad like Sylvia - then work back up into a more laidback wall-of-sound beat like HtD (which is still melancholic), and then finish on a note of "lightness" that she started the album with by finishing on VB. Or not. Goddamn, this is the first era where I'm getting desperate.

Right? It's fun to speculate, though! I agree that Mariners Apartment Complex would make for a killer opener, and I didn't think about it, but How to Disappear would be a very emotional way to finish the album. Never gave that thought before, but that's if it were a stripped back ballad. Jack's production in that behind the scenes vid let us hear some of its production and that made it sound less like a note to end on, especially with the more "euphoric"(?) possibilities that include Venice Bitch. What would shock the hell out of me is if she'd open with Venice Bitch. I mean, she opened UV with Cruel World, which was about 7 mins long, so I wouldn't put it past her tacking the longest at the start. It would be a ballsy move. I'm most curious how the surfer rock vibes of MAC and VB are going to tie in with other tracks and click with the more "hip-hop" flavored (for lack of a better term) vibes of Cinnamon and How to Disappear. They still have surf rock undertones, so I don't expect them to clash, but it may give us a clue as to how the tracklist is going to be laid out. It's definitely her most critically lauded single since Video Games, that's for sure.

I'm still trying to figure out if Venice Bitch'll be center or at the end of the album. It doesn't seem like a finale, but if she halfway it with a 10 minute track like that, there's bound to be something similar at the end, no?

The song is coming on the 9th. For sure. She's skipped before, but she ain't gonna Yandhi it.

Can verify. There were cotton candy skies tonight. Three hours ago, in fact. She and I are in the same time zone. Nothing's coming, sweeties. Not even answers to all of our questions. I love this woman.