Make me your Dream Life

I have yet to hear anything of 8 tracks, but wow, this is a beautiful breakdown. "Retro Futurism" come through afterall Love is truly such a special song production wise and lyrically and I always knew it would be the perfect opener. There's such a theme of looking to the past in order to deal with the present and into the future throughout this era and i can not wait to hear how it manifests lyrically on the latter half of the record. When she talked about anxiety about the future and the state of the world in the Album Trailer, I really didn't get what she was saying - to me maybe she was even downplaying things... but if you consider Lana as being a fan of musicians who wouldve gone to things like Woodstock, of the more classic rock and folk music era of the 20th century... it really makes sense. She's right, its not like the people of that era didn't feel the world was ending too, but they still used music to make the most of things, and advocate and speak out as well as they could, and tbh they inspired a generation. I don't know if any of this is even intentional, but its lovely to think of in such a way and it really does make sense. 
 
I know she said the tracklist made a few changes in the last 3 months, If anything, it feels like Lana's experience at Coachella was actually really impactful and kind of shaped the current tracklist - perhaps the ordering of things and the replacing of a few tracks other than just the inclusion of Coachella. Even if I don't love the song (I just don't feel like the production on it makes much sense compared to the lyrics for Lana, but the last minute is heavenly) I've always defended that the concept --- of being at a music festival, celebrating life and joy and music, but having kind of flash backs to another festival where the focus was on Love & Peace, but in the middle of tensions rising yet again in the world... It didn't make Lana go all hippie "save the world kids, you're the future!" I don't think based on what we know of the track's lyrically, but its certainly quite profound and perhaps even a bit awe-inspiring. Like, "wow, this is happening again, and I don't want to just sit here and do nothing about it, but what can I, as a voice do?" Whether you think the track Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind was successful in conveying this or not, I think it's still really important. (And personally, I love the lyrics).
 
Personally now, I want some kind of video - whether it be homemade, or studio funded, etc. for a track on the latter half of the record
I get the feeling that Lana doesn't feel overly satisfied with how her videos were handled in the UV era and the HM era, but so far (other than the album cover ~) I feel like LFL has been on point aesthetically and so far there seems to be evidence that Lana and her management are on the same wave length in regards to her videos. Love and LFL are imo some of her best videos, especially the former (it just needed one gay couple )

i'm sorry for doubting you roachella. i now renounce you as GODchella. 

Title. (So Far)

Record per record, how does each record elicit any feelings from you?

Like for me, more or less,
Born to Die, makes me want to hustle. It's such a chaotic album for me to listen to through and through. I seldom go through the album without feeling a bit anxious (though in a good way) and just simply wanting more from life.

Paradise is well, paradise. It really helps me just detox away my feelings of sadness, doubts and fears. It's like that moment of clarity after having a good genuine sob. I used to listen to it in bed, and fall asleep with it on replay til morning. It's a good way of flushing out a lot of repressed feelings. 

Ultraviolence, I feel has more rage than her other records, and I don't like listening to it through and through, bc it just makes me feel, low. There are so many amazing tracks on it so I listen to it on shuffle most of the time. It's amazing for night drives when I've got so much in my mind. It guides me towards a better place to making peace with problems that come around me. It disturbs me the most as a record, it's a dark place to easily visit, so I usually don't..

Honeymoon makes me feel at peace. I know there are moments in it with subtle friction of lost loves, and attempts of making amends with it, but it just gives me a sense of warmth. Listening to it in downtown really contrasts with it when I listen to it in the suburbs, and I like the duality of what the album brings to it, and I think it's title track, is one of the most eerie and frightening tracks I've ever heard. It really depends on my mental state, but it's just so easy to be sucked into it's soundscape.


I want to know how Lust for Life makes me feel. Right now, the tracks have a somber kind of hope, a sort of awareness, and present-ness with today's day and age. It makes me worry, not because I'm not necessarily used to its sound yet, but just because of the album's apparent integration with our own society even more so than Lana's songs. Maybe because we all have a sense that the world today is more fucked up than it's earlier years. I just hope that Lust for Life brings a solid stream of hope and strength for obstacles that we might all face. 


So, what does each record evoke out from you? 

This was just beautiful, thanks for sharing   
 
Hey btw, do u know where I can listen to her first two albums? 

love this topic
 
sirens: this album makes me feel like a pure white bird flying through gray haze - frantic, not knowing where to land or where to go. it's a journey down a dirt road in the blue april dawn. it reminds me of rainy days and safe feelings of years past. it gives me eerie vibes, but i love the spookiness and bareness of it. listening is clean, honest. nothing to hide. it can be unforgiving, though, and when i listen i'm often forced to go inward and look at myself. i love listening to sirens on foggy mornings, before the earth has come alive.
 
aka: transports me to my own created home in my heart. where the waves crash blue, the nights fade into black velvet, and the lemonade is sweet under the bright sunshine. aka never fails to make me happy or nostalgic. it's her most "american" work for me and it feels really familiar, like i've heard it before through some cosmic pathway. it reminds me of all things kitsch and brings me immense comfort. i listen to it a lot outside on summer evenings. it's just so carefree, makes me sway contently. i actually get really in touch with my femininity with this album, it's nice.
 
 
born to die: for me, this album represents opulence and absolute glamour. i don't connect it to a particular time in my life, but when i listen to it i can feel the solid gold production in my soul. it's such a loaded album, when i listen i feel like the beats are so heavy hitting and i see such vivid rich imagery, it's like a complete sensory experience. it's the album that can make me feel like a bad bitch gangster queen. although it's definitely a vulnerable album, it makes me feel confident just because of how bold it is. it always makes me excited and puts me in a good, high energy mood.
 
paradise: this album is pristine. it's made of crystal and palm, bathed in the ocean. this one evokes the most connection for me. it reminds of cool fall nights where i would listen to this outside and it would be the happiest part of my days, weeks, months. for some reason, it feels like many many years since i was obsessed paradise. it makes me sad sometimes because i yearn to have those times back. it creates such a lush landscape for me. i was absolutely entranced by the sonic quality of the ep when i first heard it. it's a cinematic lynchian dream that pulls me into another stratosphere where i float on the melodies and strings.
 
uv: wow... this one sparks the most raw emotion for me. brings out something primal almost, my inner wild child. when i listen i experience a slow but sure descent into madness. it reminds me of hot summers, which were confusing but ultimately happy. this album is completely personal to me, i listen and i hear lyrics about me, for me. it's not about relationships, alcohol, etc. it's all me and my anger, grief, anguish, bubbling and spilling over the top in 1 hour 8 minutes. i LOVE listening to uv while swimming, it's so perfect. and i remember listening to it on repeat repeat repeat until all the songs were ingrained in me and spoke something different to me. so yes i love uv for it's unhibitedness and rawness. it's perfect for letting your hair down and getting a bit ugly.
 
hm: honeymoon is sooo dreamy. it makes me super happy because i was on vacation in disney world when it dropped so i had my two favorite things with me: lana and disney . the production has an air-like quality and i find that when i listen i feel like i'm gliding on ice.. it's really nice. hm reminds me of a spring filled with yellow flowers and friendly bees and soft grass. i listen to it while sunbathing a lot! the lyrics on this album are really touching to me & her vocals are stellar. there are so many layers and things to appreciate. this is my go to travel album bc it's easy, beautiful listening. it's an incredible record to lose yourself in. there's no fear or judgment when i listen, just peace and calm.
 
i'll let you know about lfl when she drops

I honestly think "Love" was meant to set the mood for the album overall. It has the guitar, but it has the "wall of sound" hip-hop to it, as well. And then, from "Lust for Life" to "Coachella", it really is like a stretch of sexy, summer-driven hip-hop tracks and ends on a positive track that is political - and then, we get all the guitars, and the veteran folk singers (or related to them) rather than the contemporary artists that feature in the first half. I think it's very intentional that the last half is going to have a Woodstock-vibe, only through some of the familiar hip-hop additions that modernize classic sounds. "Tomorrow Never Came" sounds very 1967-71 rock. Definitely see where she's connecting the "two generations", and why she probably feels kids looking into vintage music may find it denser if they understand that history is sort of repeating itself through the anxiety of the current political American heat. It's exactly what she said she wanted to do with the album, and her chronology of the tracks seems to really suit that concept. Even at around the half-point of the album, if you count "Love" as just the intro/combination of the two sounds, and "Coachella" the track that moves the hip-hop into its poltical, folk-driven side.
 
Lana still doing concept, for sure. 
 
A SORT OF CHART (lol):
 
INTRODUCTION (folk guitar strings open the album, but blends into spacey, "wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises)
01. Love
 
SEXY, SUMMER-Y, HIP-HOP ("wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises)
02. Lust for Life
03. 13 Beaches
04. Cherry
05. White Mustang
06. Summer Bummer
07. Groupie Love
08. In My Feelings
 
THE BRIDGE (a more stripped back hip-hop beat, letting the album kind of cool off a bit before getting more poltically-minded)
09. Coachella..
 
POLITICAL "GANGSTA" FOLKY-Y ("wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises, but more laid back, with heavier guitar and folk featured artists)
10. God Bless America..
11. When the War Was at War...
12. Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems
13. Tomorrow Never Came
14. Heroin
15. Change
16. Get Free
 
It's like she takes us from "Coachella" to "Woodstock" by using that track as a bridge. As I predicted, the song works in concept of the album; but releasing it as a single is bizarre. From what we have in the snippets, this album seems to be very well-thought out. 

I'm an ungrateful kunt. I purchased the autographed vinyl in time and then realized I needed to spend my money better so I tried to cancel it but it didn't work and now I'm so thankful.

On a much brighter note,

Don't b a bummer babe, / B my undercover lover babe (cu)hmm 



I think LFL mkes me aspire to be a sexy Lobbyist, yes.

I've been thinking the same too yeah @

All these songs sound either dark/melancholy besides Love and Lust For Life . Don't get me wrong I love it all ,but I do wonder what she meant by a more happier album

ok but why is LFL the dumb blonde girl lol

another political alignment picture

each record brings back different memories for me--
 
BTD reminds me of high school and my friends early in college. I remember hearing National Anthem in the back of my best friends car and that song always reminds me of her. This Is What Makes Us Girls reminds me of an awful fight I had with my friends freshman year of college. 
 
Paradise reminds me of this awful twink I knew who would get drunk and be like "lets watch Tropico!!!!!" like all the time. 
 
UV/HM remind me of being hopelessly in love with people who are bad for me. 
 
LFL reminds me of my parents b/c they would think the hippie aesthetic is interesting lol

Title. (So Far)

Record per record, how does each record elicit any feelings from you?

Like for me, more or less,
Born to Die, makes me want to hustle. It's such a chaotic album for me to listen to through and through. I seldom go through the album without feeling a bit anxious (though in a good way) and just simply wanting more from life.

Paradise is well, paradise. It really helps me just detox away my feelings of sadness, doubts and fears. It's like that moment of clarity after having a good genuine sob. I used to listen to it in bed, and fall asleep with it on replay til morning. It's a good way of flushing out a lot of repressed feelings. 

Ultraviolence, I feel has more rage than her other records, and I don't like listening to it through and through, bc it just makes me feel, low. There are so many amazing tracks on it so I listen to it on shuffle most of the time. It's amazing for night drives when I've got so much in my mind. It guides me towards a better place to making peace with problems that come around me. It disturbs me the most as a record, it's a dark place to easily visit, so I usually don't..

Honeymoon makes me feel at peace. I know there are moments in it with subtle friction of lost loves, and attempts of making amends with it, but it just gives me a sense of warmth. Listening to it in downtown really contrasts with it when I listen to it in the suburbs, and I like the duality of what the album brings to it, and I think it's title track, is one of the most eerie and frightening tracks I've ever heard. It really depends on my mental state, but it's just so easy to be sucked into it's soundscape.


I want to know how Lust for Life makes me feel. Right now, the tracks have a somber kind of hope, a sort of awareness, and present-ness with today's day and age. It makes me worry, not because I'm not necessarily used to its sound yet, but just because of the album's apparent integration with our own society even more so than Lana's songs. Maybe because we all have a sense that the world today is more fucked up than it's earlier years. I just hope that Lust for Life brings a solid stream of hope and strength for obstacles that we might all face. 


So, what does each record evoke out from you? 

Yaaaaaaaas    

that's right! 

I think it's trying to bridge how each albums can be, if they were like individuals, or systems of government groups?
 
Like BTD and LFL are more instructive and commanding, less interpretation for the listeners, but more reflective in and of itself, while UV and HM are more interpretive for the listeners. Economic wise, on the horizontal lines, it imo, tries to contrast how conservative HM sounds, while UV is more based off freedoms, being a bit more loose. 
 
OP is that right?

I think it's trying to bridge how each albums can be, if they were like individuals, or systems of government groups?
 
Like BTD and LFL are more instructive and commanding, less interpretation for the listeners, but more reflective in and of itself, while UV and HM are more interpretive for the listeners. Economic wise, on the horizontal lines, it imo, tries to contrast how conservative HM sounds, while UV is more based off freedoms, being a bit more loose. 
 
OP is that right?

Title. (So Far)

Record per record, how does each record elicit any feelings from you?

Like for me, more or less,
Born to Die, makes me want to hustle. It's such a chaotic album for me to listen to through and through. I seldom go through the album without feeling a bit anxious (though in a good way) and just simply wanting more from life.

Paradise is well, paradise. It really helps me just detox away my feelings of sadness, doubts and fears. It's like that moment of clarity after having a good genuine sob. I used to listen to it in bed, and fall asleep with it on replay til morning. It's a good way of flushing out a lot of repressed feelings. 

Ultraviolence, I feel has more rage than her other records, and I don't like listening to it through and through, bc it just makes me feel, low. There are so many amazing tracks on it so I listen to it on shuffle most of the time. It's amazing for night drives when I've got so much in my mind. It guides me towards a better place to making peace with problems that come around me. It disturbs me the most as a record, it's a dark place to easily visit, so I usually don't..

Honeymoon makes me feel at peace. I know there are moments in it with subtle friction of lost loves, and attempts of making amends with it, but it just gives me a sense of warmth. Listening to it in downtown really contrasts with it when I listen to it in the suburbs, and I like the duality of what the album brings to it, and I think it's title track, is one of the most eerie and frightening tracks I've ever heard. It really depends on my mental state, but it's just so easy to be sucked into it's soundscape.


I want to know how Lust for Life makes me feel. Right now, the tracks have a somber kind of hope, a sort of awareness, and present-ness with today's day and age. It makes me worry, not because I'm not necessarily used to its sound yet, but just because of the album's apparent integration with our own society even more so than Lana's songs. Maybe because we all have a sense that the world today is more fucked up than it's earlier years. I just hope that Lust for Life brings a solid stream of hope and strength for obstacles that we might all face. 


So, what does each record evoke out from you? 

It's best to acknowledge the eargasms that are Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems, and TNC. 

This is LUST FOR LIFE BEACHES 


 

I actually think it flows real well, Love the track, just makes me feel lonely for the track itself. I can easily suss out the tracks that are politically charged, the social commentary, and then the lustful tracks too, it just begins with more of "to be young, and in loveeee" to Get Free. 
 
I just hope the record ends more on a hopeful tone similar to the way it began. We'll see 

I actually like the single choices she chose, and I know it's too soon to truly say, but that's my opinion right now. 

I do think that Love was gonna be more indicative of what the record was going to sound like, and dare I say this, but the track actually sort of brings a kind of disconnect, being more of a happy song than the rest of the snippets we've heard so far. 

I want to be proven wrong somehow though, but seeing as to how Yosemite, considered a happy track, isn't on the record, I want to know more of what Lana's Lust for Life truly is. 

Guess the other gays who wanted somber Lana got more of their wish. 

I actually like the single choices she chose, and I know it's too soon to truly say, but that's my opinion right now. 

I do think that Love was gonna be more indicative of what the record was going to sound like, and dare I say this, but the track actually sort of brings a kind of disconnect, being more of a happy song than the rest of the snippets we've heard so far. 

I want to be proven wrong somehow though, but seeing as to how Yosemite, considered a happy track, isn't on the record, I want to know more of what Lana's Lust for Life truly is. 

Guess the other gays who wanted somber Lana got more of their wish. 

It's best to acknowledge the eargasms that are Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems, and TNC. 

This is LUST FOR LIFE BEACHES