Beautiful Loser

Why I’m not feeling this: - The psychedelic inspiration doesn’t necessarily match with the contents of the albums, to me. The messages in the songs are so wholesome, so personal… The only psych vibes I get are from peppers and taco truck. - I somehow never really fell in love with the drawings, so I wouldn’t want one of them to be on the cover art - No new additions doesn’t motivate me to get another copy of this album (I have two I’m already very happy with) - It honestly feels like a cash grab for Coachella The colors are cute, I don’t hate orange, it’s a pretty color, but who knows if the picture is close to the real thing. The pink turned out to be more purple, remember? I can understand if you want one if you’re a collector though.

I got so confused when all the posts were moved just now.

I’ll pass!

Has anyone seen pictures of the purple logotype-ish playsuit online? I’m curious.

I don’t even own that bow but I’m lowkey worried the print will peel off eventually

I’m so sorry, that looks like someone’s DIY project.

Elvis! Methampheta-mile

I don’t think I’ve even heard this version :0

I don't know why but I love this description of her lol

I’ve been meaning to re-listen to Kali Uchi’s Isolation for a couple of years now. I don’t know why I keep forgetting and remembering that I actually liked what I heard once.

Let’s see what it means to be coquette, a definition, if there is one. According to Merriam-Webster, coquette is a noun (person, place, thing, idea), described as “a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men”. Wikipedia (a wonderful source, I know!) informs us that coquette as an aesthetic has been “characterized as both a way to relive and express creativity through childhood fantasies, and a way to ‘fully escape into...femininity without feeling guilty about it,’ while ultimately being "self-aware and playful”. Wiki also notes that it’s a way for strong women to give in to their feminine side, feel delicate and innocent, and not feel like being an empowered woman makes them more masculine. And, of course, I have to look up what Aesthetics Wiki has to say about coquettes. This page is the first to mention that girls and young women who saw themselves as nymphets eventually evolved into coquettes, because the association with Nabokov’s novel Lolita lead to various websites/social media pages to ban accounts and posts with the word “nymph”. Aesthetics Wiki describes coquette as a “hyper-feminine aesthetic that incorporate elements of youth and teenage girlhood”, and points out that it’s not focused on sexuality in the same way/at all as the nymphet aesthetic. Now, let’s see how much of Lana we can fit into the coquette aesthetic. Lana has a well-known song called Lolita, and I think we can all agree that 1949 took inspiration from the book as well. I can’t think of any of her songs, except for maybe Get drunk and one or two break-up songs, where she does not seem to have at least a little affection towards her romantic partner. She does, however, know that she’s smarter than them, that she sees them through, and is aware that she can and might move on from them, as in Norman Fucking Rockwell, for example. But I do think she still feels something for the guy in that song. However, I guess she does line up with Merriam-Webster’s definition in the lyrics of A&W, because she doesn’t seem genuinely interested in any of the men she mentions in the song, and seem to even be aware that she can easily get another “Jimmy” even if she acts crazy to him. I think Lana enjoys being feminine, as we’ve seen for many years, even before her big breakthrough. Long nails, big hair, flirty lashes, beautiful dresses. I don’t know if she uses that to “escape” into her femininity as Wikipedia describes it though, I think she simply is a glamorous person. She seem interested in womanhood though and embracing her femininity and empowerment, remember her reading Women Who Run with the Wolves? She reminisces her childhood, teenage and young adult years in several of her songs, like Gramma, This is what makes us girls, White Dress etc, so she does incorporate images of youth into her music, and seem to have been for a while, too, perhaps even more in recent years. Lana has always been feminine but I’d say she’s been truly hyper feminine during Born to die and Ocean Blvd eras, with her old Hollywood styled hair and bedroom pictures. When it comes to things associated to the aesthetic, from what I’ve seen online, like the color pink and white, frills, lace, bows… I don’t know, Lana isn’t a stranger to bows or vintage lace, but I haven’t really seen her pick pink or frills when she dresses for herself. I think her classic white dresses for live performances were intentional picks. I think she might like the aesthetic though, with the bow merch, bows printed on merch, plastic cherry cake jewelry boxes etc. So is Lana coquette? Slightly, maybe, there seem to be some elements aligning, but I don’t see her dressing as one or necessarily living by the… can I call them rules? I don’t really like that she’s associated with the aesthetic, I feel like so much of her music and who she is just is ignored, but I guess I can see why she is associated with it. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

It’d be stupid of him to not add photos aside from Lana in the book, he’s so talented and has some really great ones. I’d love to own this but I’ll most likely pass because I don’t think I’ll afford it… and even if I do, I’d rather save that money on a trip to see my brother later this year.

A southern belle

Ooohhh they’re gonna lose some money on this once people start asking for refunds! And people should, they shouldn’t get away with false advertising.

New hair for Coachella, she seems so excited about it all!

I think it’s pure speculation since Renaissance. If the acts truly are Beyoncé’s attempt to “reclaim” black music genres (another speculation), I think that makes sense. Maybe it’d feel a bit cosplay-y and performative but I think she can pull it off, people criticized her for doing dancehall and embracing queerness in Renaissance but I think she pulled everything off perfectly.

Cowboy Carter is like Renaissance to me in the sense that I need a second listen to really like it, but I can tell it’s good. But the album is so damn long, I don’t know if I wanna listen to it all again. This first listen has been very casual though, I’m pretty sure I’ll listen properly with my earbuds and maybe I’ll change my mind then. I liked her rock n roll queen vocals so I’ll look forward to hear more of that if act iii will be rock themed, and the opera-style singing surprised me too.

The longer I wait without any news aside from country roads and Henry come awn snippet, the more worried I become that the album will be just silent with Lana and a guitar and a choir. Although I know I have no reason to worry for that.

@joeeiley You might want to go back and edit your first post before a mod sees it and bans you for not following the guidelines.

Sounds like an album with 2 minute songs then Maybe it'll be like SZA's SOS though.

Does the album really have 27 songs?

I have no idea how viagogo is like or how trustworthy it is, unfortunately. However, maybe there'll be more tickets closer to the show when people can't go because something unexpected comes up. Good luck! --------------------------------- Alsoooo, Unheard EP has released! Four songs that didn't make it to the Unreal Unearth album. Too Sweet seems to have become a hit, and I personally like Empire Now a lot. A merch line has dropped as well. https://store.hozier.com/collections/unheard

Here’s Anne Hathaway posing with A&W playing in the background! https://x.com/ldrcrave/status/1772389083823661259?s=46 so impressed with her posing on the edge of a bathtub in heels like omg I’d trip and fall and break my teeth if I were to try that

Ouhh… that “available for two hours only” sales trick is ugly. That’s not cute at all, I’m honestly surprised they came up with something like that but I guess I shouldn’t be.