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i'm really intrigued by the heroin demo(s). one of my favorites from lust for life and one of her most revealing songs at the time 

i'm really intrigued by the heroin demo(s). one of my favorites from lust for life and one of her most revealing songs at the time 

i'm really intrigued by the heroin demo(s). one of my favorites from lust for life and one of her most revealing songs at the time 

i'm really intrigued by the heroin demo(s). one of my favorites from lust for life and one of her most revealing songs at the time 

i'm really intrigued by the heroin demo(s). one of my favorites from lust for life and one of her most revealing songs at the time 

Imagine Malibu actually sucks after all this

hold on....
 

“dior” ur on lanaboards. everyone here is obsessive and mentally disturbed in some way

No offense but it's not that serious 

I find the timeline between HM and LFL even more interesting than the post BTD stuff (probably cause we already know almost everything about it at this point) so I'll do a little summary about what I remember and think about it. I love an essay sorry 
 
The LFL demo (and some other songs + outtakes), the Neil photoshoot and the album trailer all pointed to a dark and witchy aesthetic and sound. But then the Rich MVs and some details of the songs (like 13 Beaches) had those futuristic and space-y/glitchy tones too, which in my opinion could happily coexist and match (the moon being like the nexus for example)
 
What I also find weird is that she teased the album collabs on the trailer so that aspect of the record was integrated into the original aesthetic, even though the collabs are the songs that are further from the original dark tone 
 
Then there's the political outtakes and the girl group tracks which weren't scrapped entirely since there's some elements of that on the final album.
What's clear is that she had a pretty sudden artistic switch towards the end of the album process cause Coachella and specially Change were in my opinion the songs that marked the transition between pre and post NFR Lana in terms of writing... at that point she didn't have any track as straightforward and with that lyrical style.
 
LFL is truly THE transition album, not only in terms of sound/lyrics but also for her creative process. She had a lot of style and concept switches at the time but instead of scrapping the whole thing (like she did with the post BTD/Tropico/early UV tracks) she kept adding and doing little changes and I feel that's how she works now.
Instead of having a clear concept as a whole she just writes and then tries to put together an album that makes sense in a way with what she has.
 
Chemtrails was a bit of an exception cause it's really cohesive but it started as a collection of simpler songs she knew she wanted to use in the future but didn't match at all the Norman sound so yeah she still has a somewhat clear direction in that aspect but it's not as conceptualized as it used to be (which is not a bad thing tho, all the past 3/4 albums are still great and contain some of her absolute best tracks).

I still can’t comprehend how she could change the Lust For Life demo so much, it was so beautiful.

the lore for this album is so interesting… anyways LEAK THOSE OUTTAKES

Just like "«Tropico» discussion thread", I wanted to create a separate thread for a discussion and systematization of Lana's fifth studio album's sessions, that would later become "Lust for Life". Here's a timeline of sessions' development based on facts we know of (if I'm wrong anywhere let me know):
 

This all gives us an approximate timeline of tracklist's changes:
1. After a political climate change;
2. After the leak of "Best American Record";
3. After Lana axed 3 tracks, making from 18 tracks 15 tracks, to which "Change" will later be added as 16th track.

And here are all sessions from June 2015 - June 2017 that we know of so far:
1. "Serene Queen" (the song was made in one day, is a rough demo that was made on earliest "Lust for Life" sessions and was never come back to again);
2. "Best American Record";
3. "Yosemite";
4. "Sugary Sweet" (acapella 30-seconds idea; snippet leaked);
5. "Cry Kill Die" (snippet leaked);
6. "Roses Bloom for You" (originally planned to be an "intro" to the album; most likely, the one-minute audio that Lana shared via Instagram is the entire track);
7. "Everything I Do" (snippet leaked);
8. "Poetry in Motion" (snippet leaked);
9. Unknown Song (snippet: "When you call...");
10. "Say Yes to Heaven" ("Honeymoon" Version; this version firstly was in consideration for a fifth studio album, but later was reworked);
11. "Say Yes to Heaven" (Fred Gibson 2016 Version);
12. "Fine China" (2016 Version);
13. "Silverlake";
14. "LA Who Am I to Love You";
15. "Malibu";
16-19. 4 political outtakes (Lana shared in an interview);
20-22. 4 songs sent to A$AP Rocky for a collaboration (one of them was "Groupie Love");
23-24. 4 unknown songs "left on the cutting room floor" (2 of the songs are presumably "Yosemite" and "Best American Record");
25-... Other "amazing outtakes from 2016"; songs, meant to be on a follow-up album, that consisted out of outtakes from "Lust for Life" sessions.

Alleged tracks:
1. "California" (A "Honeymoon" outtake, insider reported that Lana loved the song and, allegedly, tried to release it on further albums, tried to even make it a single, but this wasn't confirmed);
2. "Wild One" (In 2015, Justin Parker made minimal changes to the original 2012 track "Mike," renamed it "Wild One" and registered with the original version of "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems." But this was done, supposedly, without any purpose, so the track is not an outtake from either "Honeymoon" or "Lust for Life". However, "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems" was later released on "Lust for Life");

did that show in london...
AND I PASSED OUT AT THE PARTY!!!!!

did that show in london...
AND I PASSED OUT AT THE PARTY!!!!!

This being a lie so people stream the song

did that show in london...
AND I PASSED OUT AT THE PARTY!!!!!

did that show in london...
AND I PASSED OUT AT THE PARTY!!!!!

did that show in london...
AND I PASSED OUT AT THE PARTY!!!!!

did that show in london...
AND I PASSED OUT AT THE PARTY!!!!!

if you don’t shut the fuck up for one time 

Well Sky never released worldwide chart topping smash hit Tears & Tantrums now did she

In the cock, in the cock, in the cockpit i'm your pilot 

Also remember when we had all the snippets and had names for them like In Your Car and In My Arms 
They did and original title is WANDERLUST

And when the album was released, we found out that Chuck's random Insta story from Summer 2018 was playing Bartender 😭