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After listening to Cherry Flavoured and now Devil's Advocate, I'm really hoping that the "I Want You to Play With Me" collab with Lana will be on their new album! The snippets we've heard so far fit so well, sonically, with those songs. Love that dreamy guitar sound! Since Lana is also releasing her record in September (hopefully) it would make sense from a promotional point of view for their song to be on the album!

She is beautiful, inside and out. And I love Patent Leather Do-Over!

Lana started following @/colbertlateshow, Stephen Colbert’s late night show, on Instagram. Likely that she just followed for his show content, but maybe a performance/interview is on the way? Wouldn’t seem far fetched since the album comes out in 2 weeks! Maybe some promo is slated for the first week of September!

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This frequent posting only usually comes before an album announcement There’s something in the wind!

Beyond 10 because the username matched with that avatar and the content of your posts says it all!

I’m not sure either but she’s definitely posted snippets, archived them and then unarchived them again so there’s hope!

She also deleted the TJF snippet

Anybody catch the post she quickly deleted?

Love this idea! Some of my favourites: A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47660/a-supermarket-in-california Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49004/blackberrying Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46479/not-waving-but-drowning

I agree! But I think her hairstylist only styles the hair, since she has colourists in LA (Tracey Cunningham and Jacob Schwartz) and was planning to return to Tulsa to lighten her hair again. Plus, he tagged her makeup artist Pamela too so I think it's not a hair appointment today, but rather a shoot of some kind!

Wow! This was definitely related to an album photoshoot or music video then! Her hairstylist also posted about seeing Lana tomorrow and tagged her usual makeup artist, Pamela!

You should stay that close to Jesus Keep that bottle out your hand, my man Find your way back to my bed again Sing me like a bible hymn We should go back to Arkansas Drink this body from that can of gin Like a little piece of heaven I’m no candle in the wind You should come back to our place, baby Don’t be afraid of our love

She seems to be committed to keeping the blonde long term then! Maybe it was too much upkeep to be brunette? Love all the hair colours she’s pulled off but I can’t wait to see professional images and her LDR branding as a blonde <3

Same! I was reminded of Candace Hillgoss's iconic monologue from Carnival of Souls that Lana sampled for 13 Beaches! I loved the extra little character her delivery gave the poem.

California vs. Thunder

An album only needs to be finalized 3 months before release for the sake of vinyl. That's why the LFL vinyls didn't come until September 29th. Digital and CD turnaround is a lot quicker, so even though Lana finished the final mixes of the album in early June, we were still able to get it on streaming services and in CD format in time for July 21st!

I heard! I'm glad Lana posted that snippet on her Tik Tok today then!

I totally agree! Never to Heaven is actually my favourite in the audiobook because I love her meditations on pondering the nature of existence and favouring “the magic of the nowness” instead. As someone who has also studied philosophy, I really do think that oftentimes, as fulfilling as existential consideration is, it can ultimately feel like we are leading ourselves nowhere and that’s what I love about Never to Heaven - she kind of examines this domestic bliss as a turn away from always questioning things. She truly is such a brilliant and independent thinker.

I loved Chuck's videos for the songs on NFR so I hope someday we see this! They really captured Lana's essence in its rawest form and their simplicity is quite beautiful. California is one of my favourite songs of all time so it would be cool to have a visual for it!

This looks like it was filmed with by Chuck in early 2018 for the other NFR videos. She's wearing the same white windbreaker in some scenes in the Venice Bitch video and some of the scenes during the Bartender portion of the triple music video.

Aw, thank you so much! <3 and don’t worry about it! What I did was copy Violet from iBooks to my Mac’s desktop and then I changed the file’s extension from m4b to m4a. Then I had to import it into my iTunes library and adjust the starting and stopping timestamps to sync with each poem’s length. However, because it imports as one long 40 min track and not by each poem individually, I had to adjust the track to LA Who Am I to Love You’s length and starting and stopping timestamps and then go back and add the 40 min track again but this time adjust it to The Land of 1,000 Fires’s length and starting and stopping timestamps, and so on with the other poems. Just remember that each timestamp is relative to the poem that came before it! Let me know if you have any issues and hope this helps!

Violet and NFR truly complement each other so beautifully. After listening to them together a few times in the mixed and rearranged tracklist I posted on the last page, I can really see the synergy between the two - how each poem enhances its sister song and makes for a wholistic understanding of Lana’s headspace and perspective from ages 32-34. The little parallels and lyrical/poetical continuities between both projects make me smile. I am so grateful we have this gift of Lana’s writing and I hope she never stops. I can’t wait to listen to Chemtrails in September and develop further insights into that record’s narrative when Behind the Iron Gates is released in March. I hope she continues to release music and poetry that coincide with each other, as I feel we get to see a side of Lana that we don’t with her music. It takes a great deal of vulnerability to reveal all that much more in another medium and I feel like even though we don’t personally know her, we all probably feel a lot closer to her.

So incredibly put. This is so true and you’re absolutely right - I think this is the perfect bridge between Norman and Chemtrails and I’m hoping Bare Feet on Linoleum’s intensity, urgency, and darkness matched with Paradise is Very Fragile’s commentary and disenchantment with “the culture,” so to speak, is reflected in the upcoming record. I very much foresee it being that way and that makes me so much more excited!

Just thought I'd share the tracklist I made that includes all 14 tracks of both Violet and NFR! I kept NFR's original tracklist in order as I felt it flowed better with each poem as an interlude between each song. Each poem I feel at least generally matches a song on NFR all based on mood and tone, if not perfectly. Each poem prefaces its sister song. Hope you enjoy if you use! <3 1. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass 2. Norman Fucking Rockwell 3. SportCruiser 4. Mariners Apartment Complex 5. The Land of 1,000 Fires 6. Venice Bitch 7. Salamander 8. Fuck It I Love You 9. Tessa DiPietro 10. Doin' Time 11. What Happened When I Left You 12. Love Song 13. Never to Heaven 14. Cinnamon Girl 15. Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving 16. How to Disappear 17. LA Who Am I To Love You 18. California 19. My Bedroom is a Sacred Place Now - There Are Children At the Foot of My Bed 20. The Next Best American Record 21. Paradise is Very Fragile 22. The Greatest 23. Quiet Waiter - Blue Forever 24. Bartender 25. Happy 26. Happiness is a Butterfly 27. Bare Feet on Linoleum 28. Hope is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman Like Me to Have - But I Have it