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Because seriously whenever the server goes down, I experience an intense existential crisis as I am reminded of how much of my time is invested into connecting with my disciples/followers favorite community and I then devote my evening refreshing the page, looking at cat gifs, listening to Lana, having an existential crisis, fawning over Morrissey, and refreshing some more, praying to see the beautiful homepage once again.

I LOVE YOU SO FUCKING MUCH, LANABOARDS SERVER, AND IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW THAT BEFORE,
NOW YOU DO,
NOW YOU DO,
NOW. YOU. DO.


 

Just in time before my birthday, I am really hoping this is 100% definite, because it would be an awesome early birthday gift.
 
I would like to maybe get another single/UV track released around May, even if it's a live acoustic version, but I don't mind if we get brief, brief teasers, or if we're kept in suspense until UV comes out.
 
I hope there's pre-orders soon, maybe hidden tracks, maybe a whole b-side. I don't fucking know, it's just going to be awesome, so in any case...

these photographers are little fucks

Summer starts June 21st

Yeah that's what I thought lmao she moves the same which I guess makes sense but it makes everything look like the same video

We seriously need a @@Monicker analysis of the production.

You summoned me?   
 
I can't speak for anyone else, but yes, I am. I never cared much for the hip hop beats or overused samples on BTD, and at times even the felt the orchestral arrangements sounded overproduced. I really felt they over-egged the pudding as the Brits would say. Worst of all, I felt like the whole album was confined in a straightjacket, as if there was some BTD filter applied to each song, whether it fit the song or not. But I've often mentioned my affinity for the more jazzy, bluesy, or alterna-rock oriented songs in Lana's oeuvre—"Pin-up Galore", "The Man I Love", "Tired of Singing the Blues", the live rock versions of "Yayo" & "Brite Lites"— so it should surprise absolutely no one that I love this and the direction it augurs for her sound on Ultraviolence. The drums fills, that groovy syncopated guitar riff, those tempo changes—all great stuff.
 
Some more specific thoughts as I listen for the bajillionth time:
 
I love the creakiness/croakiness in her harmony on the first "then you're not playing" and later on the first "your love". As others have noted, it has a lot of resonances with other songs, um, lyrically and sonically. "You've got the music in you" is a lyric from the New Radicals song "You Get What You Give" (which Rick Nowels co-wrote). It also reminds me of the line "we have the music" in "Chelsea Hotel #2". The "don't you" even reminds me a little bit of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain". The line "it all could happen" makes me think of the lyric "it's all happening" from "My Best Days". Those high harmonies in the pre-chorus sound a lot like "Burning Desire". Then there's the "And I Love Her" riff, slowing things way the fuck down, with a guitar chord reverberating in the background like something out of the intro to "She's Not Me". The high harmonies during this slow chorus are absolutely gorgeous. "Parliament's on fire": although almost certainly a reference to the cigarette brand, I don't think the double meaning evoking an image of revolution isn't deliberate, especially taken with the line "his hands are up". Taken with "on the balcony" it reminds me of the line from "Butterflies", "We're sippin' cocktails lookin' down upon the riot" (if that is indeed the lyric and not "Rhine"). "Ooh baby, ooh baby" borrows the rhythm and melody of those same words in Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen". The high "Oooo-oooh" after swaying is so haunting. It reminds me of similar harmonies in a couple songs by my other current fave Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, "Young Dumb & Drunk" & "Shadow Boy". "Golden god" is possibly a reference to Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's claim about himself (or the line from "Almost Famous" based on that). I love the whispered "ah, ah, ah, ah" over "ooh baby, ooh baby" the second time through the chorus. And that synth tone that comes in over "move baby, move baby" reminds me of the synth in Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" or some, uh, west coast G-funk era rap.
 
I did this exact same thing before I even read this. Great minds.

I'm hoping they meant to put "Ultraviolence - May 18th" but fucked up
 
Anyway not reading 70 pages tell me if you hate it so I can drag ya

Wonderful song, and I think Lana's performance of it at Coachella has permanently buried SNL.  Now she is going to be a rock goddess, and I hope we don't lose her with all of the heightened expectations - not to mention temptations -  that come with being a superstar.

*leaves thread open to kiii at the flagrance*
 

What is the bbc radio 1 livestream link?

Oh. My. God. Marijuana is not some addiction free drug, I know dozens of people who are addicted to it, though, they'll never admit to it because addicts never want to admit it. Seriously, if it's not addictive, then why are there pot heads? Why are there people who feel the needs to constantly smoke it? Why do people get suddenly the urge to be high? Smokers & drinkers all feel the same urges as weed smokers do. It's more of a mental addiction than physical, but it's still an addiction. You can't just deny the facts because you enjoy doing it. While high, you can experience a distorted sense of time, paranoia, anxiety & depression, the same as with every other drug on this damn planet. Withdrawing can cause panic attacks, depression, anxiety & aggression, again, same as with every other drug on this damn planet. I can tell you from experience with my own withdraws that it's a hell out of a lot easier to deal with a physical addiction than mental. You can distract yourself from the shakes & shit you get from quitting other drugs, you can't get away from the voice in your head that tell you you need to get high.

I stone women to the tune of "Maha Maha"

I do not partake in the devil's lettuce because it is illegal, immoral & turns people into homosexual Satan worshipers.. 

I actually listened to that whole song though. Lizzy McGuire movie, oh childhood. 

She's a prophet!   Trick knew what I was gonna do before I did it

NEW REGISTERED TITLE! 
 
"SAY FUCK IT"
Done with Style of Eye and Patrik Berger.

Watch her call out people for leaking her shit

Hundred Dollar Bill:

I like your ultra-violent swing

There is a swing in the playground that is really aggressive and hurts everyone.

Lana seems to like him tho.

I came up with this, don't be too harsh please
 
Radio
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
God, I need serious help 
 

Video Games:
 
"Swinging in the backyard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistling my name"
 
She's imagining when she used to be a little girl, playing in the backyard, while to her surprise, her father Rob got home and started to say Lana's name in a sing song voice.
 
 
"Open up a beer
And you say, Get over here
And play your video game."
 
Rob has a terrible drinking problem. He wants Lana to play with his "Joy Stick" aka her Video Games.
 
 
"I'm in his favorite sun dress
Watching me get undressed
Take that body downtown"
 
Now is time for Rob and Lana to experience the body electric together.
 
 
The whole song is about Lana's addiction to imagining how it could have been with her mother out of the picture and her daddy all to herself. The video games are her father's skin flute.

This isn't a re-interpretation thread, this is a Freudian diagnosis thread! First she has daddy issues and now pica, of all things. Poor girl.

:eartha:

Is nobody going to mention how tragic that ugly dress is?

Is nobody going to mention how tragic that ugly dress is?