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I wonder if this era will come with a random track like Looking For America or if the album will sound anything like LFA
 
also just realized the sky is painted on both the LFA cover and on the NFR cover. i mean i knew before but didn’t put that connection together before

The way I see it is I fell in love with Lana Del Rey originally because her music was so abrasive while she remained mysterious and cryptic.
 
Now her music is just too up close and intimate sounding for it to be considered the same level of grandeur, and the mystery built up behind the stage name has been somewhat demolished.

I think Born to Die is her best album lyrically, partially because she’s so flawless at crafting a persona that flows through the entire album, which is not easy, trust me I’ve tried

We don’t have new info on that, except the codes on her website that were saying that we should be able to preorder COCC who knows when. Somewhere in August, maybe? The rest of July will probably be for Violet.

Did they just say that LFL was her strongest lyrically.. eye... the repetitive choruses...the in general incomplete stories...

i found this one
 

found this while putting the album into my end of year list- can't find any higher quality versions though
update: a quick google search finds one that's heavily cropped but might be slightly higher quality?  it doesn't look that much better tho (link)

Spotify actually tags most of the albums which are audiobooks (on the actual app)! It's just above the title. For example:
 

https://open.spotify.com/album/47TjPJHrNcFZi8G8uBuClE?si=j47KwX-fT9yYOwniUeyPDg
 
Just search 'Audio books' and more will pop up (although technically they appear under 'Albums').

This actually got me thinking, I wonder if it’ll be sorted on Spotify as a regular album or as a podcast like most audiobooks....

the artistic and professional growth from Ride to now is just amazing

The fact that this is one of the bestselling books on Amazon right now (and that it's #2 on Barnes and Noble) is pretty phenomenal, especially in view of how they haven't promoted it to anyone aside from those who follow her. This thing is really on track to sell a ton of copies.

Spotify has lots of other audiobooks too and I also didn't think she'd release it on vinyl, but she seems to want to make this into a pretty big project, so I don't think it's that unlikely.

I’d be surprised if it was there since it’s an audiobook. The links from her store are all fucked up.

i really hope so, i want to give it those streams 

We don’t know yet but her website keeps redirecting us to Spotify if we try to preorder stuff so I expect it it to be there eventually? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

it should be separate tracks

do we know if it's gonna be on spotify?

not Lana's competition being a Yorkshire legend sjkflskdjflksd

Remember in the Ride monologue she said “I had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet.” It’s all happening for her and I’m so excited for her. :)

omg yes. we've heard several albums, but never an audiobook from her. how will it flow? so exciting
 
 
 
also does anyone know if you can skip the tracks? or is it one long recording?

I’m very curious to hear the instrumentals that play along with every poem. Which ones will sound sad, happy, excited, angry if any. Its gonna be such a fresh, new experience to hear an entirely different project from lana like this and i’m glad she decided to take it up!

just gonna wait for someone who gets the book to illegally scan it and upload it as a pdf online x 

also i'm kinda scared cause idk what to expect. her poetry that she uploaded recently is good IMO, and in general her poetry is better than her lyrics. but then again you have some like " my life is my poetry my love making is my legacy"

terrence loves you, get free, music to watch boys to, old money

It's an absolutely beautiful track and I'd agree with this too, because I love when the title of the album is said on the album, but she did say "norman rockwell" on venice bitch. not the album title with "norman fucking rockwell" but still it was at least somewhere on the album. I still wanna hear the full version of the bird world version of nfr

About the « safe » lyrics of NFR...
each one of her albums is a chapter in her life. BTD is end of teenage, UV is early 20, HM is end of 20 to 30, LFL is her 30’s life crisis and NFR is mid-30. She always sang about what she was living at the moment and each of her records feels personal on that matter. You can’t expect her to sing about being a cocained Lolita who wants a daddy anymore because that’s not who she is anymore: she is in her 30s and made it, and she is coming closer in age being a mother than to act like a teenage. The themes she explored on UV and BTD are probably gone. On NFR, she is the same person she was on BTD, only grown up. She is still unapologetic, but maybe not that auto destructive anymore (and about her being a « good girl », go back and listen to Gramma on AKA: you have the essence of LDR: a good girl who feels too much and who is tempted to give in her to her demons: on NFR, she kinda remembers that and is back at that place). NFR is the album that screams: take me as I am and fuck off if you don’t like it, maybe more so than the ones that came before it. The album feels extremely sincere and I don’t think she toned down anything to please the crowd. The only album that don’t feel 100% « authentic » is LFL: Some songs are heartfelt (13 Beaches, In My Feelings, Heroin, Change, Get Free), while some others are written from « other perspectives » and don’t feel as « sincere », in a way (BPBP, GBA...). Also, she stated that NFR was inspired by singer-songwriter vibes from Laurel Canyon, and it’s exactly that: sincere, emotional, minimal production, incredible storytelling. You couldn’t have UV lyrics on that kind of production and call it « Laurel Canyon inspired ». I don’t know if that inspiration was intentional form day one or if it came along the way.
I’m not sure what some here expect from her lyrics. To me, as long as the songs feel sincere and have beautiful imagery in the lyrics, they will be incredible LDR songs. I’m curious to hear what the last months brought to her lyricism, if we will feel her in a « raw » state of mind or not, especially knowing that the album was completed on a short period of time.