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You totally hit the nail on the head — this is exactly how I’ve felt listening to specifically her unreleased songs from 2010 and early 2011, right before Video Games blew up. She was really stepping into who she’d become, and I love looking back on periods where success is imminent and you’re totally on the brink of it. <3

Cover concept for the new single

For me, the songs have always been thoughtful in a very deep, poetic, beautiful way — and perhaps contemplation lends itself to existentialism, often related to dread and melancholy. That said, I think the song of hers that best encapsulates the beauty of a genuinely sad state of being would have to be Black Beauty.

Honeymoon

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Wow, that’s cool to hear! I feel like it has to be something that is more left-of-centre, then. The last three records have been gorgeously classic in terms of instrumentation, so I wonder if there will be a more synthetic element in terms of production this time around. Based on what she’s been doing lately in terms of personal style, I’d say something a little more explosive is on the way. I’m into hearing some fatter beats!

I was a heavy lurker for years before I joined and these screenshots hit me with the nostalgia <3

Well, all the roses are red, and Jupiter too, so… What is your favourite item of clothing you own?

Hawaiian Tropic 🌺

Terrence Loves You vs. Arcadia

I’m endorsing @Surf Noir @Super Movie @Alison by Slowdive @PatentLeatherDoOver @rightofjupiter @prettywhenimhigh @Elle @DCooper @Thunder @scarlettohara @YourGirl666 @Niko Dealergo @plastiscguy @Trash Magic (and probably more) for all the positive categories

Hey, welcome to LanaBoards! I saw your figurine all over social media - it looks amazing, you have a talent! <3 Your birthday party looked really cool, too. That cake is creativity and skill to the nth degree. Happy belated birthday and we look forward to seeing you around!!

I am feeling a bit of a beachier LFL vibe for this next record, especially in terms of tracklist order! I imagine there will be more introspective tracks (following the levels and layers of Text Book, Blue Banisters, and Wildflower Wildfire) towards the end, but I also think there will be at least a few fun, summery tracks in terms of production. Maybe something along the lines of Doin Time, Freak, or Florida Kilos, but with a slightly more muted soundscape particular to the new album. I think the lyrics BoZ teased could be one of those tracks.

Just submitted my nominations! Can't wait to see all of my friends and faves sweep the awards next month!

I have been thinking about how intelligent the Honeymoon cover + photoshoot is lately, and I just wanted to reshare something I wrote about it 4 years ago. This record is just so amazing and continues to amaze me –

Man…I’m excited. Something about her more colourful and bold fashion lately — paired with these lyrics — suggests something a bit more mid-tempo. These lyrics remind me a lot of the beach motif on LFL tracks (13 Beaches, Cherry, Summer Bummer) so I wonder if we’re in for something hot and summery like that

Thank you so much! <3 Right back at ya - you bring so much of the fun to this site and it wouldn’t be the same without you! I second the other users you mentioned as well.

So excited! And I have to echo the queen@annedauphine, these Blue Banisters title-cards are my fave <3 I wouldn’t mind a LB theme in the vein of these… Thank you for organizing all of this, @Elle!

I’ve been thinking about this record so much lately, and how its entire composition would be so important in the years to come. Lyrically, God Knows I Tried and Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood are, in a way, alternative responses of some of the tracks on Blue Banisters that address public relations. That sentiment is portrayed so implicitly but powerfully on Honeymoon. It’s truly her in album form and is very much a portrait that is diaristic as it is stylized. Forever my favourite <3

What I said applies to a very specific group of people and refers to a larger cultural problem, rather than a couple witty jokes here and there like you seem to think I am taking an issue with. I myself as an OG fan know exactly the overblowing on Tumblr you're talking about and I had a disdain for it then, too, so it's not exclusive to just new fans –– it is a type of fan that is just more visible now. I, too, didn't relate to the extremities on their part in terms of trivializing or blaming Lana for their deep-seated issues, but I never thought something was wrong with me for not relating to that. I knew then and I know now how a large portion of listeners (of any artist) instinctively project their issues onto the artist with whom they resonate. I agree that music taste indicates parts of your personality, but let me be clear that I was referring to the generalizations people make based on said music taste, the rampage of which only continues to stigmatize topics at the risk of marginalizing mostly women. People poking fun at women for having 'daddy issues' because they listen to Lana points to a bigger cultural problem where we blame women for psychological distress caused by their emotionally or physically absent fathers. Lana is not to blame for someone's psychological issues. The reality is that those issues were already there and, perhaps, Lana is being used as a scapegoat. And that's not to fully vilify the fans, either – I can recognize where those behaviours come from and feel sympathetic that they have to manipulate the music like that. But I don't have to excuse it. Perhaps that sounds like 'gatekeeping' – but to that, I would encourage you to see the nuance in which I initially made that post.

AW LOL! You are so funny (and sweet!!!) — it’s a topic I think about so much, I feel like enough of us can put our heads together and shift the discourse

Whenever I encounter something online — usually a Tik Tok video, or an Instagram post — that kind of makes fun of Lana, or oftentimes, a post where a fan will say something about a track/album and attach it to some cringeworthy archetype or an experience they’ve had, I can’t help but feel some sense of shame — almost like the way they go about talking about Lana’s catalogue bastardizes the music. I feel there’s a new wave of fans that don’t really get the music, (which out of context, may sound kind of pretentious), but the reality is that people are severely adding to the negative discourse surrounding Lana’s music, often latently creating hierarchies or suggestions about what kind of person you are based on your favourite album — and not in a fun personality quiz way, but in a weird way that cheapens what each record’s themes are. And that feeds journalists’ uninformed “critiques” and interpretive-portrayals of Lana’s records. They’re getting these opinions from the culture (the fans who participate in the platforms that enable said culture). I take particular notice to fans who say that AKA is a record about “grooming” or “glamorizes trauma”, deeming it unlistenable. Or those who attach Ultraviolence to a wave of Tumblr content that is superficial and vapid, compared to the record, which is anything but. I get that it’s not done in bad faith, but it’s just so…careless. But it’s also these same fans that make blatant statements about Lana’s appearance over 10+ years because she’s — according to them — overcome habits related to her health (when in reality, Lana has never commented on any such thing). It’s this kind of rhetoric that contributes to misinformation, too. We’re in an age where the boundaries between celebrities and followers are so undefined, that it’s easy to say something so absentminded about someone and have it spread like a wildfire. Luckily, I don’t see this on LanaBoards at all — and the rare times it has happened, everyone is quick to shut it down lol. Just some thoughts this evening 💭 I can’t help but feel the need to defend the integrity of the music when I see content like this online. I’m not saying I absolutely know the complete backstory to Lana’s music or have complete insight into her thoughts - but I also know that it’s never as vulgar or flippant as some make it out to be.

So true. Breaking Up Slowly is the vibe — I am convinced that people would love it if it were a solo track, which is sad because Nikki sounds gorgeous on it.

She did say that she thought NFR was going to end up in one of two directions in an interview with 107.7 The End in Seattle on October 2, 2019 — it was either going to be “hip-hop girl-group” or “singer-songwriter-ish” but “in the end, there were just more songs like [the latter]”. And she compared the “hip-hop girl-group” sound to the title track of LFL, so, I wonder if this next record, including Loved You Then and Now/Rock Candy Sweet, is in that vein.

Totally appalled at how you managed to misgender @Super Movie when their pronouns are right there AND drag Barrie like that