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A new single could be a good idea if it’s a mid-tempo boppish one, at the moment: BTD, UV and Norman have hit new records in the last weeks (BTD had its highest numbers since 2012, Same for UV and its 2014 numbers)… Summertime Sadness had its biggest streams for a day this week or last week, BTD will soon hit 4B streams… Lana is on fire 🔥 A new single could be a very good strategy at the moment.

Agree 💯! I really like the two “reflective” last albums, but even though physical sales were great, it’s the steaming numbers that also matter. COCC and BB will hit the magical 1 Billion stream mark on Spotify in a long long time… another milestone is a song hitting 100M streams… and the only one, out of these two albums that did was COCC title track… and I don’t think another one is nowhere near achieving this

It’s true we learned way before they posted about the it… but when they did, two days later, we had the cover… What if it’s the case this time again, that a single is coming in the next weeks? (They also posted about a collab that was in the works but could be scrapped…) I’m not saying we have to trust that account 💯, but I keep in my mind it’s a possibility.

Time to put our clown makeup again That account posted about new music soon… Could be just because Ben posted about it, but I wouldn’t rule out that post completely: last time, they said “Lana Del Rey -magazine cover” and we got the W magazine cover two days later… so maybe it is coming soon (soonish)…

Well they’re more reliable than hers

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeY1ZRLsvY7/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Haha you beat me to it! I really think that the lead will be out sometime this summer.

I can’t remember a time so many of you were dreaming of a new album in pretty much the same period of time. I want to believe it means something so bad

The 13th Beach would be such an incredible concept I also love how long ans vivid that dream was!!! It’s got to mean something

We have no idea where she is the process of this album, it’s still unclear when it will be released but… her Spotify numbers have been really higher for the last couple of weeks. If the trend continues, releasing a song or even perhaps a whole album digitally first (so we can have it earlier ) could do better than her past releases, if the song is interesting (mid-tempo summer jam, anyone?)

NFR, COCC and BB eras did it for me The only news I’m craving are from insiders and not from her I know, it’s bad, but teasing that leads to nothing has run its course, same with selfie cover art with false release dates. Magazine covers, at least, offer us great pictures

I tell myself that we just got two albums and two new non-album songs as well. And the music industry is having a hard time keeping up a schedule, with the damn vinyl delays. I prefer radio silence that leads to an organized pre-release, on the span of Max 5 months, instead of teasing, radio silence, a lead, nothing and an album 8 months after because they couldn’t get a proper planning of the rollout. And this far, this era is nice, with its almost nothing News (can’t believe I’m saying this)

Yeah but we’re ungrateful bitches when it comes to Lana, I’m like:

We’re entering June… and my birthday is very near… Passed eras, I got the UV title track released on my birthday and she teased the NFR title track with a snippet. Manifesting something as iconic this year

Aren’t we all happy Lana is still with Interscope and didn’t switch to Capitol when we thought she might have?

It’s been way too quiet on her part…

The last three songs are some of her best. Change is almost prophetic of the pandemic and the pandemic fatigue (“it’s bitter, I’m coughing and now it’s in my blood” / “who am I to sympathize when no one gave a damn” / “there’s a change gonna come, I don’t know where or when” ). Norman also felt prophetic, at moments. Now I’m really curious about t he topics of this album, her post-pandemic state of mind. (By the way, i really love talking to you and reading your POV on different topics )

I really love it too. Some songs are weaker or I don’t connect as much with them, but they all are very enjoyable to listen to. I get why it was considered a bit “all over the place” by some (HM being her most cohesive album, just released before her least cohesive sure didn’t help), but my life was a bit messy as well, so I connected with the vast majority of the songs on it. I really hope LDR9 is going into a bigger sound and production, with a couple of good singles. She needs to have a “hit”.

Stans here aren’t loving LFL for sure (many of us at least), but it did very well outside of LB: it’s the second album, after BTD, to have reached 1B streams, it went number 1. Many didn’t mind that it was “incohesive”… Which makes me remember that LB is not the whole Lana fandom and some of our opinions might not be shared by a vast majority of her fans.

Serene Queen, which was made at the very beginning of the album, is a bit witchy to me, but I don’t know if it was considered to be on the tracklist (can’t believe she never found a home for that one, plus it was really finished and not just a demo; Hope we get to hear an HQ version of it on album where it fits).

Not sure about the trilogy thing either (I see more of a loose pattern each two albums), but there is a continuity, theme-wise, on BTD-PD-UV-HM: moving from Ny to establish yourself on the West Coast as a singer. In her relationships, she is not often portrayed as the one in charge and her string of dangerous men often seem to have “the upper hand” in the relationship. But since Norman, yes her men are still terrible, but there’s a feeling that she is there by choice and won’t crumble to the ground if the dude leaves her. LFL being for the fans is not totally stupid though that it is not the total picture either. Love is a tribute to her younger fans, but there’s more on LFL to please fans: Emile worked on Love, Tim Larcombe was brought back for Cherry, many fans wanted a collab with the Weeknd and ASAP, Justin Parker is a producer and writer on BPBP, there are sadcore songs on this album as well (13B, Heroin). The “political” songs are her choice, Change also, but it’s true that the initial Concept changed (spacey - witchy-new Agey- folkyish quest to happiness… As for Yosemite, it could also be seen as a love letter to her fans and her lover (we all did it for the right reasons, whether it’s her career or her love life)… but LFL didn’t find the happy ending she wished she’d find by the time she finished it (the world was still a mess, she did have another breakup, and well, her fans were her fans, leaking demos lol).

I’ll probably make a thread soon about my profile pic (it’s from an app; i uploaded Lana selfies and it turns her into a “Disney princess”). I thought it was time to switch things up a bit.

Can’t remember if it was BoZ or Eclipse, but I think it was BoZ, on ATRL, who said that Rock Candy Sweet was just a single line on LYTAN (like you said, shadesofyosemite). RCS is the new “candle in the wind”, apparently, but I wonder if the line is featured in another song apart from LYTAN and WCE, possibly a scrapped track on BB? I mean, she was going to name the album after that line, so to hear it only once on the album (and not be a title track) would have been a first for sure for her.

Eclipse made that assumption on ATRL. He said BTD - UV - HM form a trilogy; LFL was made for the fans so it doesn’t count in a trilogy; NFR-COCC -BB form another (the singer-songwriter trilogy). Before WCE was out, he said she had made new songs that could open up to a “new trilogy”… I read into that that it was something different from the last albums, whether or not if there really is something planned that much ahead (but I don’t think so). The real question is: How much did he hear actually? Honeymounz, on IG, said there were three other songs submitted for Euphoria but only WCE got picked up. So, I think he heard those songs and maybe DNC if it was finished back then?

If he hadn’t say he made it for her, plus the Polaroid like you said, it could have meant anything. But I doubt he made it for her “randomly”… and there is nothing her discography that have the DNC initials, I think… unless he misspelled Deadly Night Shade that would that would be underwhelming

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