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I'm so happy lmlylaw is getting the attention she deserves 

This album saved my life, it also was released on my birthday 🤍 I love you Lana!!
 

This album saved my life, it also was released on my birthday 🤍 I love you Lana!!
 

I'm so happy lmlylaw is getting the attention she deserves 

I'm so happy lmlylaw is getting the attention she deserves 

This album saved my life, it also was released on my birthday 🤍 I love you Lana!!
 

I'm so happy lmlylaw is getting the attention she deserves 

This album saved my life, it also was released on my birthday 🤍 I love you Lana!!
 

Hear me out on this one:
 
1. White Dress
2. Chemtrails Over the Country Club
3. Tulsa Jesus Freak
4. Let Me Love You Like a Woman
5. You Must Love Me (from Evita)
6. Wild at Heart
7. Not All Who Wander Are Lost
8. Wild One (Version 2)
9. Say Yes to Heaven (Version 5)
10. Angels Forever, Forever Angels
11. Dark But Just a Game
12. Arcadia
13. For Free
14. Cherry Blossom
15. Fine China
 
i know how it looks but just listen to it in this order it totally makes sense loll
 

This is a truly special album to me, and like said above, I just wanted to appreciate it in between the massive adoration I have towards Norman and Blue Banisters. Chemtrails is an album perfect for after a long day of work and you just want to escape. It's almost magical in the way it presents imagery of the West and traveling to places where you can escape all of the noise of a 9 to 5 life. 

in my dreams, there's a tulsa jesus freak (nfr version) thats slaps harder than fuck it i love you and california combined

I love CoCC so much, I think it’s actually one of my favourite Lana albums, I’m shocked tbh
Other than the songs - I love most of the songs tbh
The whole album just reminds me of a cold turning warm time that is lovely to be transported to when I listen to it
Idk think that makes sense ahaha
 
I mean, Lana’s albums kinda sit in a pocket of my life that reminds me of something when I listen to them
and idk if it’s the escapist feeling she’s created on CoCC but this one sits so well in a time for me where everything was feeling chaotic but was also beginning to slow down and I was reaching the light at the end of a tunnel
 
Whenever I listen to it, i get that feeling~
I don’t mean to be so dramatic ahaha
 

Chemtrails (song) hits so much harder when you go from being a messy, wild and alcoholic teen to being a fully fledged adult living a normal 9-5 day to day life . Especially the verse:
”it’s beautiful, how this deep normality settles down over me, I’m not bored or unhappy, im still so strange and wild” as if seeking comfort in finally slowing down in life and getting your shit together but also remembering that there’s still a part of you that is wild, young and capable of going batshit crazy  
 
as a whole the album is pretty average but this song is GOD tier lana.. it’s true

In the wake of Blue Banisters release, I just wanna remind my sweet honey baby Chemtrails how fundamental and important it was to me and to not get lost in between the colossal response towards NFR and my excitement over BB.
 
This album got released at the beginning of the peak of a short but intense relationship that I got myself early on this year and that would eventually come to an end in the dead of summer. It witnessed and documented everything. Let Me Love You Like a Woman was the song that came on the radio in the cab I took home from the very first date we had. Tulsa Jesus Freak was played a lot in this fancy hotel room we both once rented to get a little piece of paradise right in the middle of our city, close to everything but just as away and above. I would frenetically hit the repeat button on Dark But Just a Game on my fifteen minutes walk from my place to his as the sun would set and drench its dying light all over town - which at the time made me strut through the streets in such a confident, poignant way. I remember how Wild at Heart was a huge favorite of both of us and how we would sing along to it alongside our friends. There’s this very specific April morning, when I got to visit his hometown, where I was standing in his front porch and while everyone was inside sleeping, I was alone listening to Not All Who Wander Are Lost and thinking how lucky I was to be that much of in love - I would also cite it everytime he would feel lost or aimless about his life choices, to remind him that sometimes the destination isn’t that important but the journey to get there, can be. Car rides where the Dance Till We Die bridge would be making the speakers tremble. Murmuring Yosemite every time I would take a couple more minutes to fall asleep than him. 
 
And eventually, after the break up, listening to White Dress in my long walks in the parks and thinking how everything that happened over the course of those strange, dizzying, mesmerizing six months made me feel like a god, even if now I’m left wondering if maybe I was better off…
 
It’s a very special album to me - and one that, after revisiting it for the first time in some weeks, welcomed me back with a warm embrace. I’ll always be thankful for it.
 

i honestly think lmlylaw is classic. it's like a ballad from another era, which is perhaps why ppl stomp on it for being boring or whatever

LMLYLAW is the sleeper hit but the more tasteful fans knew from the start 

I have always been one of the few fans who loves Let Me Love You Like a Woman, but this performance was what made me enjoy it as much as I do now. Something about the song's simplicity really, really works for me. LMLYLAW is the heart of Chemtrails over the Country Club, and no one can tell me otherwise. 

Returning to Chemtrails after hammering BB for weeks, and it sounds AMAZING. Warm and gentle and beautiful.
 
One thing I wasn't prepared for was how much Chem now feels like a Covid-era album. The pre-release was a huge emotional crutch throughout 2020, and now I specifically associate the music with that segment of time from October 2020 when LMLYLAW released until the tringle in May. We were still basically locked down, and it was endless hours in my apartment listening to COCC over and over.
 
COCC songs will always remind me of those long days and all the emotions they contained.

i have to say i love how much of the later posts in the thread are positive re-evaluations of this album. i'm def a COCC fangirl, and while i love BB, COCC has had a much bigger emotional, thoughtful impact on me (at least as of now). i agree with many others who've noted that COCC will, like HM, prob gain appreciation over time and so many of these updates prove it's so. NFR was an impossible album to follow up and she really went her own way and made the record she wanted/needed to make instead of treading water. 

I appreciate this album so much more now than I did 6 months ago. It's aging very well.

I really want to live in this album. It’s so beautiful and confident in a quiet way. The production is delicate and graceful, and Lana’s voice just shines. I love it so much, I’m so happy this record was released the way it was because it’s really a gorgeous, cohesive, 11-track piece to just get lost in thought with. 

This whole album has been a masterpiece since day one so it's lovely to see people coming around  The legacy of Chemtrails will continue to grow forever 

Let Me Love You Like a Classic, indeed. 

Anyways, Chemtrails is a wonderful album 

Chemtrails is definitively my favortite album to sing along too 
 
From the whispery white dress vocal to the barritone voice of wild at heart to trying to mimick the duet on breaking up slowly it's just so fun !!! I litterally cannot listen to this record without singing

I do prefer Blue Banisters overall as an album, but Chemtrails does have some of her best songs ever. It really is a winter album, with its highs  becoming more vibrant : White Dress, title track, TJF, Yosemite, Dark But Just a Game. 
If only she had pushed the production a bit more for some tracks (Wild at Heart, Breaking Up Slowly, Let Me Love You Like a Woman), making them more « desert rock », more guitar-driven, it would be a perfect album, one that feels a bit more « finished » IMO.