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Based on the subreddit agreeing with us, I’d like to think that there’s a silent majority of (normal) users over there, and it’s just the wild and unkempt ones who post...which still happen to be a lot.  

I am a huge fan of Alice in Chains too, and totally see where you’re coming from (because I think posthumous collabs are distasteful as well) — but I think when people ask these questions, it’s more like a hypothetical/dream/fantasy thing. Like Lana has expressed in some early interviews that she would have loved to collaborate with Elvis, but I think that just means in an alternate reality where they did actually overlap and saying that is rather a stand-in for how much she admires him. Of course, it seems futile to ask this question when it’s not even possible, but I guess people just like to consider these very distant abstractions lol. 

“Lana is back and she’s cooler than ever 😍😍😍” — it was clever for like, 2 seconds on April 19, 2017, but then never again. 

“Lana is back and she’s cooler than ever 😍😍😍” — it was clever for like, 2 seconds on April 19, 2017, but then never again. 

I have a feeling that if she ever has a daughter, she'll name her Violet after her great grandmother. Even in VBBOTG, the titular line is followed by "seven years old with dandelions grasped tightly in her hands".

I think what’s so upsetting about this to me is that the people who say that period of her career is “problematic” are people who haven’t experienced any ounce of real life 💀 Which is not their fault but they can’t think critically about what Lana produces and what we consume as fans—which doesn’t require having lived a particular kind of life. And in thinking critically about the material, there are deeper sociopolitical conversations that could be had about some songs like Put Me in a Movie but instead it becomes an opportunity to denounce an entire period of Lana’s artistic expression because it contains some of her most serious, thought-provoking, and culturally-important subject matter. And it concerns the very true realities of our world and more generally, the darker underbelly of developed economies (in both the west and east!), which we certainly cannot ignore. These uninformed critiques of her pre-BTD work are, therefore, also the kinds of dismissal she talked about in QFTC. It’s so dismissive to her and the art! Sorry to get deep about this in a light-hearted thread but it must be said ❤️

July 20, 2023 - Lana “announces” upcoming tenth album while working a shift at a Waffle House in Florence, Alabama. 
 
Can’t think of a better way to start this era! 

The last 90 seconds of Black Bathing Suit: 

 
 

Still not over Nectar of the Gods the way I was when I first heard it on May 1, 2019. That song is just gorgeous, I can’t believe it’s real — it sounds straight out of 1970. 

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I've been raised from the dead – this cover story is everything to me. So much insight and pure gold in her answers and she looks beautiful as ever. And I'm really excited for more Americana vibes. She has yet to lean into it fully and I hope this tour (country covers + the cowboy boots) is an indication that she will.

I’m more intrigued about the topics on this record than the producers, to be honest. With the last two records, she gave us so many context clues about her lyrical headspace before we even heard the music. She said on the Billboard Women in Music red carpet that she’s “worked [her thoughts on family karma] all out through the writing” and she’s excited to see where she goes next - but I feel that we don’t have any idea of where she’s going next, which is so exciting.