Liz Taylor Blues

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oh honey that goes without saying!!

I follow Lana on Google News and received this in my feed from New Musical Express in April from a Courtney Love interview: "I haven’t liked Lana since she covered a John Denver song, and I think she should really take seven years off,” said Love. “Up until ‘Take Me Home, Country Roads’ I thought she was great. When I was recording my new album, I had to stop listening to her as she was influencing me too much.”
 
As I've said here before, it's ironic that Lana sang about John Denver's authentic vocal style on The Grants but then released a tepid cover of Country Roads that sounded like little more than a run-through or something like a road trip singalong. What was the point? If it was the first track of hers I ever heard, I wouldn't have bothered exploring her as an artist. 
 
I didn't care for Season of the Witch, which she didn't do anything interesting or fresh with. 
 
I neglected to add You Must Love Me among Lana's covers that I do like. 
 
Thanks. 
 

I agree with all of this though I would just like to point out as the resident CLove Expert  that Courtney was joking when she said she unstanned over that cover. In the original context it was clearly not serious, though she is a huge John Denver stan so it would not surprise me if she didn't care for the cover. She praised Lana not once but three times in Courtney Love's Women her BBC6 podcast which premiered around the same time in April (And is amazing. 10 hours long and worth every second. Even if you can't stand CLove its an excellent history of woman in music and an excellent playlist.)  She said she cut back on listening to Lana bc she finds her too inspiring and she is presently working on the longest album in rock and roll history with Video Games producer  among others. Wants to differentiate from one specific muse. 
 
That said, I FOR ONE DID NOT LIKE COUNTRY ROADS.  Its fine a thing covers should never be. Brilliant or bad. It should always add to, recontextualise, or highlight the quality of the original. Covers are a conversation and the CR cover did not have anything to say IMO

I agree with all of this though I would just like to point out as the resident CLove Expert  that Courtney was joking when she said she unstanned over that cover. In the original context it was clearly not serious, though she is a huge John Denver stan so it would not surprise me if she didn't care for the cover. She praised Lana not once but three times in Courtney Love's Women her BBC6 podcast which premiered around the same time in April (And is amazing. 10 hours long and worth every second. Even if you can't stand CLove its an excellent history of woman in music and an excellent playlist.)  She said she cut back on listening to Lana bc she finds her too inspiring and she is presently working on the longest album in rock and roll history with Video Games producer  among others. Wants to differentiate from one specific muse. 
 
That said, I FOR ONE DID NOT LIKE COUNTRY ROADS.  Its fine a thing covers should never be. Brilliant or bad. It should always add to, recontextualise, or highlight the quality of the original. Covers are a conversation and the CR cover did not have anything to say IMO

I agree with all of this though I would just like to point out as the resident CLove Expert  that Courtney was joking when she said she unstanned over that cover. In the original context it was clearly not serious, though she is a huge John Denver stan so it would not surprise me if she didn't care for the cover. She praised Lana not once but three times in Courtney Love's Women her BBC6 podcast which premiered around the same time in April (And is amazing. 10 hours long and worth every second. Even if you can't stand CLove its an excellent history of woman in music and an excellent playlist.)  She said she cut back on listening to Lana bc she finds her too inspiring and she is presently working on the longest album in rock and roll history with Video Games producer  among others. Wants to differentiate from one specific muse. 
 
That said, I FOR ONE DID NOT LIKE COUNTRY ROADS.  Its fine a thing covers should never be. Brilliant or bad. It should always add to, recontextualise, or highlight the quality of the original. Covers are a conversation and the CR cover did not have anything to say IMO

I'd like to see Lana do covers only when she really feels moved to, and when she puts some passion and deep feeling into them, like The Other Woman. I don't care for most of her others, though Heart-Shaped Box, Summertime, and  Doin' Time are certainly serviceable. Country Roads was ho-hum, dull, and passionless, and I'm not surprised that Courtney Love criticized it. Lana's interpretation of For Free puts a happy spin on the song that isn't in the original and undercuts its poignancy. 
 
On the topic of folk ballads, it's interesting that some old British folk and border ballads address female empowerment (Tam Lin), cross-dressing (The Handsome Sailor Boy, which Kate Bush covered as a b-side, which asks, "Why are all the sailors hot for that new cabin boy?"), and even acknowledgment of same-sex attraction (in Willy O'Winsbury, the king says to his daughter's handsome lover, "And it is no wonder that my daughter's love you did win, for if I was a woman, as I am a man, my bedfellow you would have been"). 
 
 

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that she changed her tour intro to the Tropico score + visuals and opened with Body Electric in Paris.
 
This, along with the “Has Anyone Else Died For You?” sign, points to a strong religious motif that evokes the Southern Gothic subgenre.
 
And I think the song that she debuted at Fenway (“Past, Present, Future”) has a few eerie elements like the descending chord progression, ominous spoken word verse, and banshee-like layered vocals that remind me of the supernatural (hence, it’s the voodoo, Mississippi south).
 
From a purely aesthetic standpoint, as well, her penchant for black veils this year (Skims campaign, Coachella weekend 2, Rock en Seine) fits in. 

When I came up with the title 3 years ago I was referencing what Lana and Sean said about their joint homes in an Instagram caption. It’s a portmanteau of California and Oklahoma. The girls that get it get it… 

and album titled Atchafalaya River Flowing In Louisiana Swamps During October Gothic Night

. Wetlands

One last thing: She references a Lizzie/ May song we don't have produced by Mertens... whether anyone will get that reference is a whole other matter

Okay I was visited by the Ghost of Lana Future in a Dream and she told me this about LASSO:
It is an acronymn tho I am sworn not to spoil it. Its very demure and coquette.
One of the songs is parochial trap jazz.
Many illusions to drugs and sex.
More swamp than desert. This is a change from the earliest versions of this album.
UMG was not fond of this record to say the least. Hence why its been in works for so long.
It has shifted a lot since starting. In 75 percent of timelines this is its final form. I've heard the other timelines. Big Swings meaning big hits and big misses.
You'll either LOVE it or HATE it. Top or bottom of ranking for sure.
She did write a gay cowboy ballad but its unclear as of now if it will be on the album. Think Yosemite and Life Is Beautiful meets Wait For Life and Cherry. I know that is confusing but believe me when it leaks or is released you will know what I mean.
Lana will be doing a huge career shift after this album- thats why everything is in such flux. You will all be shocked.
The guests may surprise you.
This is not her Nikki collab album. thats its own thing. That isn't to say she'll be missing from this era: she will be involved in one way or another.
Theres a song that will absolutely spark controversy like the old days. Personally I'm here for it but some of the newer girlies may jump ship and go stan some pop star whose much safer......
 
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