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Hi! Me too! It’s so surreal that we’re only 2 weeks away!

The Grant siblings’ friend, Sveta Matiunina (@sveta_mat) posted these polaroids to her Instagram stories celebrating her and Charlie’s birthday. In the bottom Polaroid photo, we can see Lana on the right holding Charlie’s cake!

I was just thinking this too! The party that inspired Lana to write Dark But Just a Game was on February 9, 2020, so I feel like that song and Dealer - both being songs done in 2020 - convey a sort of frustration with the music industry and these archetypes in the entertainment world that are mercilessly slated/subject to double standards.

I don’t think it’s coming tonight, but rather on the 12th OR the video will just come out on the 19th as the album is released!

Ahh, so true! I’m excited to develop that relationship with the record as I begin another phase of my life! I’m really gonna miss the pre-release camaraderie with all our friends, though, when everything about the album is kind of shrouded in mystery. But I feel you on uni work being so much bearable with the music, omg

I can’t even tell you how excited I am for that song in particular. I will gladly accept those vids

The funny thing is, I’m literally graduating law school in 2 months and I feel sentimental about having nothing left to look forward to But it’s this camaraderie aspect of the pre-release that I’ll really miss! I never really leaned too heavily into that with other eras and I had so much fun this time around with all of you <3

I actually don’t know what I’m going to do with myself after March 19th. My first of day of being in the lockdown was March 15th 2020, the day Lana posted that IG photo dump with Grenadine Quarantine and If This is the End I Want a Boyfriend (back when we thought those were songs) and for most of this pandemic, since May, we’ve been looking forward to Chemtrails. Of course, life moves on and I’m sure we all have developments in our careers and school and lives in general after this, but it just feels so weird since Chemtrails was kind of like an absolute thing to look forward to during these times of stagnancy and now that it’s actually here, it’s surreal! We did it!

LOL I hope so too! We know she was compiling Violet from April-June 2020 and released it in September, and she started that process with Behind the Iron Gates in January, so hopefully by this summer it’ll be out!

Sorry! Behind the Iron Gates in just a few months!

Yes, I agree! I think she completed the initially-promised American Standards & Classics record but maybe is waiting to release it with the country cover album that she discussed in the Mojo interview (as it said that she has not one, but two cover albums waiting to be put out)? Especially since the delay with Chemtrails kind of ended up being sorted out! I think Chemtrails will come out, and then it’ll be maybe 6/7 months before the two cover albums, and then Behind the Iron Gates in early to mid-2022, and then the Zach-produced LDR8 in 2023? She kind of confirmed Zach is involved with LDR8 when she said to Annie Mac, “Like, I said to my friend, Zach Dawes...I was like, ‘I’m so tired, like, I think we need to just do a, you know, like a country...like a full-on country...uh...just cover album.’ Just for fun and see...see if it sparks anything” I took that as meaning she and Zach would do that project together to see if it led to another project they’d do together. And, like @Contemplating God said, Dealer being one of those tracks alongside the country album that would shape LDR8. Anyways, this has gone off-topic so apologies for that, but it’s really cool to see how all of Lana’s projects grow into each other!

I also thought it was done in 2017 alongside the other TLSP sessions at first, but someone here (I forgot who) confirmed that it was actually done in 2020! And I feel like it makes sense that it would be done after Jack had already gone back to New Jersey, especially since Zach lives in LA, and Lana and Zach did/have been doing two cover albums since 2020! I also think Dealer will be on the next album if she does end up doing it fully with Zach!

No, I also don’t think she changed it! I think it’s understood that Dealer was the last song done after April 2020 with Zach Dawes, so that would have been the only “last-minute addition”, since we know 8 out of the 11 tracks were done before the end of 2019, and one (Yosemite) was done in 2016, and the other (Dark But Just a Game) was done after February 9, 2020. Not All Who Wander Are Lost is the only song we don’t really have any information to guess when it was written/recorded, but yes, it seems that she didn’t adjust anything too much from her initial vision! I’m also so excited to hear it in full <3

I feel like this pandemic really threw all of us for a loop and kind of stunted the creative process that Lana had already been on with Chemtrails. Since the whole album was written and probably recorded before Jack went back to New Jersey (which was in April 2020) I feel like the aftermath of QFTC and her personal life not lining up with what she had written about in Chemtrails (her time in the Midwest and being with Sean) made her feel like there needed to be songs that were still true to her at the present moment (hence, the uncertainty of Dealer being on the album, which we know she did with Zach Dawes, who is based in LA, unlike Jack). Since this album has shaped up to be so much about being grounded with the people you love and is idealistic in tone, the pandemic probably really shook that up because we’re all experiencing the opposite of that. It probably had her thinking about things that she’s hinted at exploring in Behind the Iron Gates. We know Lana truly is “lived-in” of all the words she writes so I think she just wanted to reconcile not fully being in the place she’s singing about in Chemtrails.

I believe they’re just reiterating what she briefly mentioned in the MOJO magazine interview?

LITERALLY us folk-fans are in for SUCH a treat! <3

I feel like this is the record Lana has been waiting to make her entire career. Knowing that it sonically lends itself to her roots (folk, country, instruments in their most organic form), I can tell this album is going to be similar to Honeymoon in that she truly made it for herself - a vanity project of sorts! Of course, all her records are uncompromisingly her own but with the narrative of some of the songs that we know of (the title track craving normalcy and detailing her wishes for that, White Dress having that strong autobiographical edge, Dance Till We Die paying homage to her relationships with her personal icons like Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Nicks, and Courtney Love) - it seems like this album is Lana catapulting herself forward both career-wise (in that she’s really embracing it being all about the music and her words) and in her personal life. I think after having done 6 albums with so much life experience written into them, this seventh album kind of feels like a personal reprieve for Lana where she’s truly found her group of people and is further establishing herself as one of the best singer-songwriters of our time. I cannot wait! Can’t believe it’s only 15 days!

The album is literally coming out in 366 hours and 49 minutes. We have lived through over 5760 hours since she announced the title - we got this! No need to stress or panic!

Oh, okay! Thanks for letting me know! I haven’t seen these lyrics anywhere myself so hopefully they don’t travel too far?

Hey! Can someone explain what's going on? I'm catching up on the pages of this thread but every post I read feels like it was taken out of context from a random thread and smushed together in this thread

Are we sure Lana actually has vocals on the song? I listened to the snippets Haley teased but I personally don’t think it sounds like Lana. Maybe she tagged her because Lana helped fund the rework, or encouraged Haley to rework it? Edit: I see that we have found out that Lana is not on it

Are you referring to the one I referenced in my post? If so, then yes, it came from the Mojo interview!

I just wanted to point out that I think I Talk to Jesus and White Dress seem to be somewhat linked thematically! “We had a deal and I fucked it up when I made the decision to become someone” (ITTJ) and “Look how I do this, look how I’ve got this, it kind of makes me feel like maybe I was better off” (WD) These lyrics in particular both see Lana implicitly longing for a life before “ma[king] the decision to become someone” and upon making that decision, realizing that “maybe [she] was better off.” I Talk to Jesus seems to explore this sentiment through a slightly grainier and super-specific lens (with references to romantic relationships, biblical themes, and motifs from her earlier catalogue) and White Dress - while we haven’t heard it yet, so I’m solely making this comment based on what she’s said about it in interviews - seems to discuss it more holistically, and takes a more bird’s eye view of her life at the time? I can’t wait to hear it!

I feel the same way about the Honeymoon video! And I think she included that little clip from the 2008 Index Mag interview because it’s from the time she’s singing about in White Dress, so for symbolic/sentimental reasons! Plus, in the video teaser, we can see that the roller-blading actress has a similar hairstyle to Lana in that 2008 clip, and we can see a trailer park, with a trailer park being where the 2008 interview took place!