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    The tracklist couldn't have just "coincidentally" ended up the way it did. Lana truly did plan this out well. I love how the first half has more summery and gritty songs with a contemporary production, while the second half has a more stripped back, lowkey feeling that speaks to the lost era of Woodstock. She truly bridges the gap between the past and the present and is appealing to both the younger and older audiences she has. She truly has outdone herself with this record. I cannot wait to see where we're headed with Lana Del Rey.

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    I originally posted this in the Pre-Release thread, but thought it'd get more attention here. Wanna explain something I happened to notice while checking out the snippets.I honestly think "Love" was meant to set the mood for the album overall. It has the guitar, but it has the "wall of sound" hip-hop to it, as well. And then, from "Lust for Life" to "Coachella", it really is like a stretch of sexy, summer-driven hip-hop tracks and ends on a positive track that is political - and then, we get all the guitars, and the veteran folk singers (or related to them) rather than the contemporary artists that feature in the first half. I think it's very intentional that the last half is going to have a Woodstock-vibe, only through some of the familiar hip-hop additions that modernize classic sounds. "Tomorrow Never Came" sounds very 1967-71 rock. Definitely see where she's connecting the "two generations", and why she probably feels kids looking into vintage music may find it denser if they understand that history is sort of repeating itself through the anxiety of the current political American heat. It's exactly what she said she wanted to do with the album, and her chronology of the tracks seems to really suit that concept. Even at around the half-point of the album, if you count "Love" as just the intro/combination of the two sounds, and "Coachella" the track that moves the hip-hop into its poltical, folk-driven side.

     Lana still doing concept, for sure. 

     A SORT OF CHART (lol):

     INTRODUCTION (folk guitar strings open the album, but blends into spacey, "wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises)01. Love

     SEXY, SUMMER-Y, HIP-HOP (7 "wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises)02. Lust for Life03. 13 Beaches04. Cherry05. White Mustang06. Summer Bummer07. Groupie Love08. In My Feelings

     THE BRIDGE (a more stripped back hip-hop beat, letting the album kind of cool off a bit before getting more poltically-minded)09. Coachella..

     POLITICAL "GANGSTA" FOLKY-Y (7 "wall-to-wall" hip-hop noises, but more laid back, with heavier guitar and folk featured artists)10. God Bless America..11. When the War Was at War...12. Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems13. Tomorrow Never Came14. Heroin15. Change16. Get Free

     It's like she takes us from "Coachella" to "Woodstock" by using that track as a bridge. As I predicted, the song works in concept of the album; but releasing it as a single is bizarre. From what we have in the snippets, this album seems to be very well-thought out. 

     

    Couldn't agree with this more, I don't think the tracklist could just "coincidentally" end up like this. Lana truly did plan this out well. I love how the first half has more summery and gritty songs with a contemporary production, while the second half has a more stripped back, lowkey feeling that speaks to the lost era of Woodstock. She truly bridges the gap between the past and the present and is appealing to both the younger and older audiences she has. She truly has outdone herself with this record.

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    I recall Lana saying that the sound of LFL mixed a "heavier, beatsy sound that's similar to BTD" and an acoustic sound, which really is evident from the snippets.

    Cherry and In My Feelings really sees hard beats - and that classic BTD sound with the hey!" and I believe I heard a faint autotuned loon in Cherry. 

     

    I am really excited for the last 5 tracks of the record, though. 

     

    I feel like Lana wrote some of her more folkier tracks in early 2016 when she went auburn and blonde and was hanging out with that "indie crowd" of her musician friends, like Jonathan Wilson, etc., and like she said, when she started to do more collabs, she started to get into a more contemporary sound.

     

    I remember in November, she and Stella went to I believe A$AP's concert, and some people on LB began speculating if that would have an impact on her sound for LDR5, and it clearly has, with Summer Bummer. 

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    I wonder if "In My Feelings" is about Donald Trump, or a figure similar to him. In the handwritten tracklist she wrote all of the seemingly political songs in blue (clearly democratic), and that song was one of them. In the snippet, she also says "you're taking what's mine with what you're doing" and "talk that talk, well now they all know your name" and Donald Trump is known to be all talk. Just my analysis  :) 

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    I wonder if "In My Feelings" is about Donald Trump, or a figure similar to him. In the handwritten tracklist she wrote all of the seemingly political songs in blue (clearly democratic), and that song was one of them. In the snippet, she also says "you're taking what's mine with what you're doing" and "talk that talk, well now they all know your name" and Donald Trump is known to be all talk. Just my analysis :) 

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  6. Posted

    Groupie Love and Summer Bummer truly are beautifully crafted songs, as are Love, Lust for Life, Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind, and the live version of Cherry (based on the snippets, the studio version sounds just as incredible!) I can't even begin to imagine what the rest of the record is going to sound like.

     

    Which songs are you most excited for? 

    I'm excited to hear every song but God Bless America - And All the Beautiful Women In It, Tomorrow Never Came, Beautiful People Beautiful Problems, When the World Was At War We Kept Dancing, and Change stood out to me in particular. 

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    I haven't usually pre-ordered any other physical records from Lana, I've usually just pre-ordered the digital album and waited for the vinyl to be released at UO or some other vinyl retailer,  and I'd like to pre-order LFL on Amazon, however, I don't see it there yet. When does Amazon usually list the record for pre-order? Thanks in advance :) 

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    I know it's a little premature to already be talking about LDR6, but since Lana said she's not completely at where songs like Yosemite portrayed her to be, maybe while she continues writing for her next record (assuming she's probably already began, knowing her) maybe she'll grow a bit more into that mindset?

     

    She did say that BAR/Architecture, Yosemite, Roses Bloom For You, and another track (maybe SR?) did not fit the aesthetic of LFL, so maybe we'll see them on the next record, since she alluded to the fact that a few of those songs would have their place in the future. Maybe another EP/reissue as Paradise was to BTD will be released. I do hope we'll hear Yosemite one day, though, since she talked so fondly of it. However, I'm just grateful that we have new music from Lana regardless. Stanning Lana truly is a treat and I love everything she's put out during all her eras, so I know she will not disappoint with this record. :)

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