LennyDelRye

Let's make it a surprise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqxE-zppu30

She'll do well. Because of Covid, there won't be a live studio audience. Also, I bet she'll do a standard from the supposed album she was to have out for Christmas. Probably Summertime.

Yup. Still only heard MAC, VB and Doin Time. Ah, the satisfaction of knowing there's almost a whole album of new material to listen to.

The Beatles are iconic and Lana's most likely going to be iconic. You have to let some time pass for the iconic to kick in, like red wine aging in a wine cellar. And also, if the Beatles had not existed would you ever have been able to have the recent movie Yesterday, which is about a world where the Beatles never existed.

I always considered the slowdown in the middle of West Coast with the guitar and Lana singing "Oh Baby Oh" as a unique bridge.

Ah the good old days; a lead single a couple of months before the new album and then a whole cd of new songs. And now you have so many songs and snippets released ahead of time that to call an album "highly anticipated sounds almost absurd. I'm sure a time will come when the only song that hasn't been heard when the album is released is the bonus track.

Cycles of life seem to follow the all important number 7. In the Bible it was seven good years followed by the seven lean years. Every approximately 7 years in someone's life or even a groups life there is a change into another direction. One example is the Beatles first single charted in October 1962. They released Abbey Road at the end of September 1969 and broke up. Time line of about 7 years. Lana's breakthrough Born To Die came out in January of 2012. Well we're in 2019. 7 years. There's going to be some kind of change.

I predict that the Collab will either be a dud or such pure genius that the three of them will form a band and go on tour.

She can now make a documentary about the recording and delay drama for NFR. Of course the documentary would need a soundtrack of new songs. There, now we have a way to get around this mess.

Bet you the issue has been the album title all along. Label probably said to change the title as some will view it as a diss of an artist from the past. She might then have said "No I don't want to " or " I can't, it will look as if I caved to a label".

There's always the danger that if too much time passes before it's time to release the album, Lana may come out and say that she's changed and isn't quite the same person when she made the album and then shelf it and start over again.

I'm not 100% sure but saw somewhere that White Mustang was on the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood soundtrack.

Is it true that Lana has just released a new porn? mod note: user has been warned for this post

This is what I believe is happening. Record companies are in the business of making money. More sales more money. To get more sales you need promotion. You can have the greatest set of songs imaginable, but if people don't know about it then so what. To promote you go on the talk show circuit, you make great music videos, you get some of your music on a TV show or movie soundtrack and yes a couple of radio friendly songs on the CD that the record company can use promote the artist and the CD. At this point in her career it doesn't look like Lana is willing to do any of the above. Post the occasional snippet every few months is treating the fans like a dog. Throw the dog an occasional crumb and he'll hang around a few more months. A sad state of affairs for an artist who I considered my all time favorite female singer until just recently.

I've been a big fan since almost the beginning but am getting fed up with a career arc that consists of news items every few months that say "Lana Del Rey posts an instagram snippet of a somber new song.", with of course a photo that looks like she just got out of bed to post the somber snippet. There, I've vented.