GeminiLanaFan

I love her selfies these days. It’s the most natural she looked in a long time and she is gorgeous. And it reflects how we all are at the moment: au naturel.

If « If This is The End I want a boyfriend » made it to the album, it would be wise to get that song out « fast », in the next months. Not sure if « quarantine songs » would be à propos in 2021, if the world doesn’t live a second wave of the pandemic. I was skeptical too of an album in 2020, but when she announces a precise release date, I’m inclined to believe it’s happening (I know, I got clown makeup all over my face).

Three months. Until then, it’s the leaking game, false Twitter accounts and info. Can’t wait.

I love that the three songs on NFR there were the « trippiest » were the ones about drugs. Maybe if there are a couple of them on COCC, we’ll get that kind of production?

I agree with 100%. The « political songs » from LFL were more peace-oriented than really politic. And you can pretty much always see them in another (and more personal) light. The same could be true with COCC if there are any songs mentioning the current state of the world. LFA wasn’t that precise either.

It’s 90 days to allow physical releases as well. Could she release it digitally first, then have physical copies made a couple of weeks after, like Beyoncé did with her last albums? If so, she could rework COCC a bit (not sure it’s a good thing though) with the recent events. If she chose to have physical copies released later on, the leaks sure would be harder to get this time lol.

I don’t even think that the social media storm surrounding her is that big, honestly. In the national media, artists in general don’t weigh that much at the moment, and we’re talking about one celebrity who is being unfairly « torn down » on Twitter (told y’a: no matter what she posts, they tear her down). The fandoms will calm down. And honestly, this speaks tons: to focus on one celebrity when the picture is clearly bigger is a fucking waste of time and speaks tons about those people’s motivations on the matter. (Not talking about any of us here, but of the other fandoms that attack her).

I agree with you. She’s « ignorant » (as I am, honestly) probably because the POC around her are mainly musicians (from what we see in her socials) and « made it ». It’s easy to think that the world is exactly the same as your entourage, we all fall into that trap.

Hey, no problem, I am very much «wordy» myself

That is a very thought-out answer, thank you!

Well, she is vocal when it comes to what matters to her (her version of feminism, mass shooting involving children). I'm not saying that the racial persecution doesn't touch her, but she is responding the way most white folks are: I didnt think it was that bad. Bobby, from Queer Eye, made a terrific post about what is White privilege (https://www.instagram.com/p/CA1dAI2pWgE/). It was enlightening for me, and the situation in the States these days must have been for her too, especially since the POC around her must be singers and persons that have succeeded and do not represent the vast majority of that community. As for the criticism she is receiving with her recent posts, this is down right BS and wanting to tear her down. The looting video first posted was probably to film how things are going down, that her city is shaken up. She removed it after thinking what message it was sending. The rest has the right tone.

I had this discussion with my BF this morning, as what could be done, after the protests and donations. The leadership in the US must make a stand, but what could they promise that would not only calm down the protesters, but also not seem like total BS to calm down the troops and do nothing afterwards? What would be the next step in repairing 400 years of injustice? What would be the first step towards change?? One step sure is to prosecute after having suspended shady cops, but what could be the next step after that? And with that dumb president in office, responding with force, not understanding anything about anything, representing the white establishment that can get away with anything, I surely don't know what will happen next.

Don’t worry, sweetie, you did no harm It’s a very accurate portait of 2020, sadly. But with everything going on, art can bring a bit of solace in these hard times. I honestly had no hopes for LDR7 before 2021, until the two posts that confirmed it. Unless she completely changes the direction of the album, I think it should be out in September. As for her « sales » and such, NFR was #3 it’s first week, but it’s doing fine on streaming platforms. NFR didn’t win the AOTY Grammy, so maybe her company is letting her handle it as she pleases?

WoW that was depressing to read. True, but depressing. I think the Sept 5 release will pull through. If she does a song named Quarantine Grenadine, you don’t release that very long after the quarantine. And it’s in September : a lot of things can happen until then. And Gaga just released Chromatica, I didn’t check her numbers, but people are talking about this record (mostly out of the US) even if the US are torn apart.

I might be connecting things that don’t need to be, but Ed mentioning she was from a liberal family / upbringing, and both siblings and father posting has me saying she posted “through them”. Trolls would come back at her no what she would post at the moment.

Both Charlie and Chuck posted about it on their IG stories.

I think she references the idea of “America” in the 60s, when everyone thought the American dream was possible, and when they were the most influential country in the world, growing and becoming richer. We know it was far from perfect and that there were a lot of issues even back then and that it came at a price (by exploiting other countries), but the general feeling was it was a great time, a great period if you were privileged enough to profit from that expansion.

I really think this is a stretch if you don’t mean it as a joke.

This is a very sensitive subject for everyone and the situation is touchy for her these days, to say the least. Yes, she could say something. Maybe she doesn’t comment because she doesn’t have all the facts? Let’s remember she did that on the whole Middle Eastern situation and she got a lot of backlash. Plus if she does have all the facts, and is enraged by the situation, imagine the comments she would receive even if her post was spot-on (“look who’s talking? The same bich who called out black women a week ago! The same woman who dated a fucking cop!”). I don’t know if not saying anything is a good strategy, I really don’t. And yes, it is a tragedy that modern country still has had racial persecution for more than 400 years. But I really think her recent antics and the reactions received stop her from doing anything: to be her, I wouldn’t want to return to the lion’s den.

I don’t comment much about her when it’s not her art involved because I feel it’s her own life. On the recent events, do American artists comment much on it / take a stand? I don’t follow any other artist than Lana, to be honest. It might have been mentioned earlier, but Sean is a cop and he said they were still friends... Can she take a stand without shading him? And it’s true that her shitty week with that now infamous post kinda was fucking bad timing.

Didn't she describe the «Norman's little sister» thing in January, when she was still with Sean? So, I read that Let Me Love You Like a Woman and WHF will probably have a NFR feeling to them, but maybe not for the songs she worked later on?

I wonder if the Grammy « regret » not giving AOTY to NFR (probably not, but still), with the whole pandemic situation happening at the moment. Fuck It I love You and The Greatest kinda feel prophetic in a way: FIILY expresses how our modern way of living wanted more and that we were going to hit a wall, and TG expresses the loss of things passed, of the good things we used to have and that are now on hold. Not that I dislike Billie’s album, but in these times, NFR sure seems more profound than her record.

Hahaha! I love folksy Lana, but I think we got the most of it on NFR.I even was surprised that there was that much production on so many tracks of NFR based on the snippets we had hear before.

Probably. She did the same, with the NFR pre-era. Only this time around, we still have NFR to listen to (I still love that album almost a year after its release) and we already have solid info about COCC.

I honestly don’t get what was the hype about the whole Larina thing or the whole « upsetting thing » about Marina unfollowing her. Sure, their early records have complementary themes, sure they were cute together, but I really don’t care who she hangs out with. I’d be curious to « spy » on her when she hangs out with Father John Misty, to hear what they have to say about anything, but it’s a distant curiosity. I never got that curiosity with Larina, nor do I get it with her « LA mom » friends like you like to call them.