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Fuck it I love you

Fuck it I love you

Fuck it I love you

Love it I fuck you

The California Lana persona started around the UV time.  She took the the coast.  She's as local as any celebrity, to which if there's actually any Malibu natives left or anything wouldn't call her a local. I actually like that she addresses New York a lot in this album fairly directly about being another place and time, so to her, she is a local.  The NY past is foreign and she grapples with that.

Personally I don't get the appeal of insisting albums are her magnum opus. BTD was her establishing LDR. UV was her working exploring the LDR identity. HM was working through the fame that comes with that identity. LfL was her changing her perception on fame, fans, her place in the world. NFR seems to be her working through more personal things. All of the albums have a distinct sound and personality and overall motivation behind them. I don't think one album will ever be her magnum opus, I think that as a whole they form it. That's why when people start vigorously comparing albums they fall apart- there are weak links in each album. Including NFR.

The song's called 'hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it', her most iconic song title, so people should refer to it as 'hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it' or 'hiadtfawlmth-bihi'. What is "hope" idk what that is, I only know 'hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it' or 'hiadtfawlmth-bihi' for short.

Lana’s management to Lana

the greatest makes me wanna retire and go live in a shack near the beach with my fisherman husband where we will dance every morning and dance every night and dance until the inevitable downfall of humanity

I just know the title track is gonna send my wig to Saturn x_X...the strings..man

Listening to The Greatest with top notch head phones is making me cry 

I have literally listened to nothing but The Greatest on repeat since it dropped yesterday when the leaks came out, I thought I was gonna be a die-hard FIILY stan, but jesus christ this song is ruining my life.

It turns out California's more than just a state of mind
I met you on the boulevard wind through my hair you blew my mind
And if I wasn't so fucked up, I think I'd fuck you all the time
It's killing me slowly
 

the greatest really is just that... the greatest
 

Yes but no 

title track cos it's first
then MAC
then whatever the fuck comes on next

Bartender makes me feel like a rich white woman who only wears white and gold and lives in beverly hills

Omg Azealia....

poppy is used to make heroin
a coincidence
i think not

i kinda laugh now when the thought originally was that the imagery was gonna be super stripped down and catering to a more 'indie' 'male audience' simply because of that mariner's cover photo and some of the awkward selfies. more than anything i'd say she's kept her brand visually with some progression, however the most progression is in the sound. credit where it's due, we do still have so much of the old lana in there it's just more grown up even than honeymoon was
 
still would've loved to have heard it without the snippets, not gonna lie

Did anyone notice the scenes in the video where she’s in pigtails and she keeps smiling but her eyes are so glossy as if she’s crying/ is about to cry/ or been crying? Shit like that speaks volumes to me.. is anybody really truly happy in America these days ? especially California or even New York for that matter .. it seems Lana can say she is or pretends all she wants but that’s really not the case. A pure genuine soul stuck in the past is not compatible with today’s world.. you can hear it in this album so raw.. ‘Lust for life’ was concealing her true feelings while speaking out on the worlds current state but it was a forced facade more than anything which is why it didn’t age very well, forced collaborations for clout. In NFR she’s blatantly speaking her mind, the lyrics are a little flat but they are honest and she isn’t holding back.. I mean hell the ALBUM title is called NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL.. which is quite risky but she doesn’t give a fuck because that was her choice.. explains the selfie single covers and lack of effort this era and that’s why I love it.

Wait, what's up with the poppies? Her merch is not flower themed at all or am I wrong? I'm a little behind

BEST NEW TRACK Lana Del Rey  
“The Greatest” 
The stakes have never been higher. In Lana Del Rey’s latest song “The Greatest,” an entire generation is burned out. The world is getting hotter. Hope is a dwindling resource. We don’t have much time left. Worst of all, the old highs aren’t hitting quite the same. “I want shit to feel just like it used to,” she sings with a quiver as a sad piano motif descends behind her. Lana’s songs have always sounded like lonely missives from the end of the world with a beachside view; the difference is now we’re watching the clock tick down alongside her. “If this is it,” she sings, “I had a ball.”
 
Like everything we’ve heard from upcoming album Norman Fucking Rockwell!, “The Greatest” is a kaleidoscope of classic-rock radio transmitted through Lana’s hushed, psychedelic lens. The drums roll in slow motion, the guitar solos are fuzzy, the piano is recorded so that you can feel the shag carpet beneath it. Instead of luxuriating in vintage textures, Lana is restless, eulogizing her listless youth while repeatedly incorporating the words “the culture is lit,” as if attempting to dance through the tears. Her new video pairs the ballad with “Fuck It I Love You,” an ode to California and self-destruction. The juxtaposition of the songs seems inevitable; her dreams of escape always lead to the same place.
 
Like a long, dramatic shot of a drifter leaving the scene, “The Greatest” fades with a list of rhyming epitaphs that build to a stunner of a coda: “L.A.’s in flames, it’s getting hot/Kanye West is blonde and gone/‘Life on Mars’ ain’t just a song,” she sings before snapping back to the current moment: “Oh, the live stream’s almost on.” It’s a playful, graceful way to voice a common feeling of helplessness and overstimulation. And if she sounds more at peace than the rest of us, it’s because she’s been here a while, waiting for us to catch up before it’s too late.
  https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/the-greatest/
 
The acclaim is starting to pour in. And this is just the beginning,
 

 
 

Where can I find HQ pics of the LA coast with the oil rigs? I love the industrial aesthetic of the video and want to add the northern lights for a desktop background.