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Yes, I would think so! We know it’s definitely in the works or is finished and she said the release date is June 1st so hopefully that ends up being true! Now that an actual font was commissioned for it, it seems more likely that the date will be honoured!

I think Kathleen Heffernan did the LMLYLAW font/red Chemtrails logo in the same style and Ellie did the VBBOTG and COTCC album cover fonts, so that’s why, but yes! Confirmation!!

Just linking this for people who want to see her post - https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxNTJUhn55/ Thanks for the find! <3 she thanked Lana and her team so I guess it is a somewhat-planned thing at least!

I’m not really sure how insiders even accessed Chemtrails in the summer, but I don’t remember any insiders knowing about NFR before it came out and I think that has to do with Jack being in New Jersey and Lana being in LA, so this time, files were being sent around via email and that was somehow intercepted? I’m not sure. But my guess is that since Jack was able to fly out to LA to work on the music with Lana in 2018/2019, there was a more secure process of getting the music from the studio to the mastering site? And I guess since Zach or Rick or whoever she did this album with IS in LA, there was/is no interception?

And Chemtrails! It just came out and I know there are so many layers to it that I have yet to unravel - I’m totally not in need of yet another album, especially when we just got a GORGEOUS one

So much to believe in, call me Cher Same - even though I do try to look forward to a date, I am hyper-aware of the fact that there is totally a chance it won’t be happening but I do think my points are valid enough to at least try and rationalize what Lana’s process could be! LOL September 5th really was our Judgement Day

Aw, thanks! I hope so too, I would love that! I think you’re right about it being pre-meditated. To us, it feels super fast but Lana works very quickly and had recorded her vocals/written all the songs that ended up on Chemtrails by February 2020. A whole year passed between that and the album’s release, and we know she’s always writing, so it totally makes sense that she has had content for this record as early as the beginning of the pandemic. Plus, Dealer being a song done with Zach before July 2020 leads me to believe that other songs were born out of those sessions, as well as alongside the cover albums she did with him. I think the majority of Chemtrails was done in a 6-7 month-span in 2019, so she totally could have done a whole album over the last 12 months! Me too!

I think Ariana Grande released two albums within six months of each other, right? If Chemtrails didn’t have any vinyl delays and she knew right off the bat that Dealer would be saved for the next album, then it would have come out in September, and then she would have naturally continued this process of making Rock Candy Sweet in time for its alleged June release, leaving a nice 9 months between them - so I guess the less-than-3 month difference between COTCC and RCS is somewhat justified in that things with COTCC just didn’t align with the original plan?

That’s the thing - we’re less than 90 days away and that’s how long it allegedly is between vinyl production and release day. Surely if June 1st is indeed happening, then the album has already started being pressed to vinyl. It’s possible that she coordinated things ahead of time with the same vinyl plant she took Chemtrails to, since she knew at that point that another album was on its way (per her tweet on November 17th 2020) but it’s so up in the air right now. Oh well, LOL! Time will tell!

Since we know this album has been in the works since at least ~late spring/summer 2020, I feel like we can kind of speculate the sound based on what Lana was doing. I remember her listening to a lot of the artists she brought as guests on the NFR tour, and that obviously informed the Midwestern feel of Chemtrails. Of course, the Joni references on the album came from her covering For Free on tour and her just being a fan in general. Knowing that Dealer is a “screamer”, I remember in August 2020 she posted to her IG stories a video of her listening to “Dazed and Confused” by Led Zeppelin in her car. That video was actually taken in early July of 2020 (based on her lash extensions/nails/hairstyle) so I wonder if that was when she started actively working on this record, as we know she had finished Chemtrails that summer anyways. I think we may be getting an album with lots of electric guitar and classic country-rock elements. When I first heard Lana’s description of Dealer I actually thought of that video she posted of her listening to Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin! I would love a guitar-driven album with lots of cool riffs and looser, twangier vocals. Maybe the “louder” songs resembling Dazed and Confused and the “softer” songs being like Stairway to Heaven, Tangerine, or Going to California by Led Zeppelin? All with a really sultry, bluesy output in the vein of Bobbie Gentry - who Lana mentioned as an inspiration to Music Week this month. excited!

White Dress is definitely up there with Venice Bitch, West Coast, and Honeymoon as my top-tier Lana tracks/favourite tracks of all time. Wow

I think that's a Georgia O'Keeffe quote (who Lana referenced in Past the Bushes - Cypress Thriving) but it's possible she referenced it/quoted it in an upcoming song or poem!

I wonder if these are lyrics/a variation of lyrics from RCS?

I agree! I love the red so much but I think the NK cover would have gone so nicely with a muted blue or green colour! All the different vinyl variants and the merch this album cycle are so cool, but there’s so much! I love it!

Those titles are so interesting! I mean, I think they are quite fitting for the last 18 months of Lana’s life and the teased themes of RCS - fame and authenticity are definitely the subject matter of some of those titles, and the fact that there’s one called “Something Borrowed” ties into her recent engagement. I wouldn’t be surprised if these are new titles!

I think it’s just the flash because the centre label seems to have been washed out by it

Same! It reminds me of the coke bottle clear vinyl they did for LFL

Not sure...it looks a bit translucent but maybe if someone posts a picture of it when backlit, we’ll be able to tell if it’s marbled or not! Every other variant seems to be marbled so I’d hope this one is too

First look at the UO green vinyl! Looks stunning:

I think the signatures are definitely real then - to be fair, there were so many to sign and she probably signed each batch quickly, so no two signatures are bound to look the same

This is why I think “Breaking Up Slowly” was a precursor to this album - it’s the most “country-rock” song on COTCC and is dark while still being subdued and calm, which is very much in Lana’s wheelhouse.

It’s her friend, Annie! it’s from release day, when the LDR chemtrails went up into the sky!

I don’t necessarily think Cherry Blossom is on RCS, but I do wonder if her quoting those particular lyrics about her hypothetical child, “Angelina” means that RCS will contain even more of an autobiographical edge and will explore her childhood and family-of-origin trauma that she said BTIG will delve into.

I’m thinking the same. I think we can pretty much conclude that there will be some sort of country/western influence in there somewhere, as she said to Music Week that she’s really inspired by bluesy, outlaw music and that she has spent a lot of time with her country music friends. Based on the “revenge” she wants with this album, I think country-rock is totally on the table! Excited!