GeminiLanaFan

I don’t why, but I keep thinking that the line « chemtrails over the country club » will only be mentioned once in the song by the same name (à la Mariners Apartment Complex). Something in the vein of the outro of The greatest or something else totally unexpected, like on a heartbreak song : « On the day you left me, there were chemtrails over the country club ».

HM often has a a blue or purple flower as its symbol, so the lilacs kinda makes sense, or a Violet or even a blue hydrangea (I know, it’s usually for UV, but it’s a shame that deadly nightshade has such a meh flower: it would have been perfect for the whole UV atmosphere). It’s paradise I can’t quite put my finger on which flower to represent it. A cactus? A sunflower? A bird of paradise?

Violets

The Love song video lies somewhere in limbo with Cherry, PWYC, and so on hahahahaha ha! To be fair, I don’t really mind for the abandoned MV projects because it means that she is writing -recording the new era and new album. Sure, I love her big budget videos, but mostly at the beginning of the era, to have visuals to match the music. But in the end, it’s all about the music and MV are bonuses.

With the chemtrails, there’s the evident plane reference that could end up on the cover. I always keep in mind the old car she was apparently seen being photographed on that ended up on Charlie’s Story (if it was even her). So maybe she’ll return to cars?!? Hey, who knows, maybe she’ll be on a train

I think it could have to do with the editing differences. In the US, page 1 is the first page with text; in Canada, the blank pages at the behind of the book count in the total of pages and the first page with text is often page 8 or 9. So maybe it’s the same in the UK?

Summer vacation is not as busy for me, plus the whole pandemic situation cancelled any chance of a trip. Plus it’s fucking pre-release time!!!!! (Both the most wonderful and stressful time of year haha) And thanks hun!

I was just thinking about this era and how it will be tough to get info outside of her, honestly : we don’t know if there’ll be single, if it will get airplay (this is where we learned about Doin’Time, when it got scheduled to play in the following days), if there’ll be a video (which we learn a couple days prior because of Eclipse). The tracklist for NFR and cover art were posted by her (thank God, her team finally learned how to secure her shit), so no obscure European site to leak it...

It was. And I can’t wait to see the tracklist, to see how much of WHF can still be found in COCC, or if it completely changed sonically. If White Hot Forever and Let Me Love You like a Woman are nowhere to be found on COCC, renamed or not, then she changed the project completely (and spoke too soon once more).

Imagine if she releases Grenadine Quarantine while being on lockdown, how prophetic it would be. Imagine if she releases Grenadine Quarantine while being on lockdown, how prophetic it would be.

I was wondering the same, if an audiobook and an album being too close would confuse people... Then again, if they look up on Spotify and Apple Music, Violet will be nowhere to be found (that I know of).Your timeline seems logical. I think she kinda has to let Violet be released before anything COCC related, if only not to confuse the casual fan. And with three projects she talked about, even in here, people kinda had a hard time figuring out what was released when and where (I.e. patent leather on Behind the iron gates and not on Violet).

Poppies were on the NFR marchandise but I don’t think it fits?!? I like the idea of Violet as it’s flower. But since it’s a “Maritime” album, maybe it’s seaweed

Agree. Hey Blue Baby is cute, but fits nowhere in the album that we know of. And stupid for being so happy, I never was that thrilled about that one to be honest, probably because it was a bad audio with no production. The two country songs should be released as singles between eras, same with RBFY paired with another track (Yosemite maybe?)

The audiobook has 14 poems while the written book has at least 30. So, yeah, I preordered it. Plus there’ll be pictures in it too.

At the beginning of August for a August 30 release.

It's true that the way she describes an album or her music is never really what it sound like, and for the new albums, it's always the tracks she is working on at the moment that she says are the «sound» of it. LFL's 60s girl groups can be heard on the harmonies of Get Free and the title track, but not much elsewhere. She also said LFL would sound like HM, which it does a bit on 13 beaches and Heroin, which were written in first. With NFR, she said it would sound like Change, which was kinda true for the first tracks (Hope, Love Song, HIaB...), but she also said it would have Chili Peppers and surfy vibes, which is not completely false but not completely true either. I didn't know she qualified her music as Hawaiian Glam Metal though. And honestly, I don't get that one...

When I read that, I imagined they would sound a bit like Season of the Witch, which I’m all for, but not on Chemtrails?!

When I read that, I imagined they would sound a bit like Season of the Witch, which I’m all for, but not on Chemtrails?!

I’m torn between loving and hating deluxe editions. She hates them because it kinda changes the narrative of the album and she is one of the few artists nowadays whose albums always tell a story. BTD and UV’s stories do end with the last track of the standard edition; the only project where the bonus track doesn’t change the narrative is Paradise with Burning Desire. So I prefer no deluxe editions to her albums. However, we also got stellar tracks from Deluxe editions, like Lucky Ones, Black Beauty, Flipside and Is This Happiness... I’m not sure about the rejects from NFR and LFL though. She could keep them for an Unreleased collection for the next years, especially if they don’t fit the narrative of COCC.

A single along with the preorder + art cover + tracklist reveals would be nice. She usually does have a preorder with a single along with it, except for NFR (but nothing made sense with the release : we had three “fan tracks”, the preorder and then a double release before the album). Usually, the lead is a already out and the preorder comes with a promo single, but I don’t see two singles before the album’s release.

I honestly don’t know what would be the best strategy for this album, single or not I mean. I don’t follow other artists as carefully, but I wonder how the whole pandemic situation is changing promotion and releases of new records these days.

I see the audiobook coming early in July only for Grammy noms. To me, Violet’s real release is Sept 28. So COCC’s release being Sept 5 makes more sense. And maybe this is why the audio forms of Violet will only be out in October, so the preorders for COCC will be out along with the release of the album on steaming?

I’m one of her posts, there were a lot of pictures of her quarantine, one being a printscreen of her voice notes on her phone. One of them was called If This Is The End - I want a boyfriend and it was a 5 min plus voice note. It could turnout to be a new song.

As soon as I saw those two posts, I got excited for the new album if some of that ends up on COCC. Plus I’m keeping in mind her breakup, her voice note for IF this is the end - I want a boyfriend... Breakup Lana is always the best one.

If she goes for simple ballads on some songs, I’d prefer acoustic guitar to piano-only, tbh.