GeminiLanaFan

At this point, in order not to lose our sanity, we better believe NFR will be out at the end of summer, and enjoy the rest of our lives. If it's sooner, I will be more than enchanted. But I don't expect real big news for the album in April. The lead will probably drop in June if it's en end-of-summer release. She probably wants the poetry book released first. Right now, the singles being released from upcoming albums are all records coming in April or May. And we have yet to see the lead of NFR. June is really the soonest we will get the damn thing, though that record is really not summery at all to me.

I’m not even sure she even tried normal publishing lol. Her idea seemed to always be self-published from what she said. Maybe she didn’t want to go through the hassle of the whole normal process? Or she didn’t want to be judged on something so personal? Or didn’t want to have to change too much of it if she had an editor?

The «Don't be a jerk» part of HIaB could be about him? Cinnamon maybe? In Your Car? What if he's the one she took a stroll on the beach late at night and he said they were together because they were both messed up (MAC)? Right now, I looooovvvvve his influence on her if all of those are true hahahaha.

Honestly, I love that you spiced up the thread with Chase. When we finally hear NFR, we HAVE to try to find which songs are about him!!! Rumors have it that they are on and off for a couple of months, that he is a bad boy (pure Lana aesthetics when it comes to men lol), that her friends don't think he is the one, that she keeps coming back to him. Plus he has a hot body (go check his Insta).

Not entirely true, though. From what I read, a name can be trademarked if it is deeply associated with art, a style, etc. Norman Rockwell has his name trademarked. BUT... the rumors of the legal problems with the Norman Rockwell estate aren't confirmed officially by anyone. What I find odd with this «plausible» legal problem is that she said in her first interview for the record, in September, that she had the idea in March last year. And yet, no one in her team tried to do something about it before that? Plus in January, when Hope was released, the name of the record was on an official press release by Universal. So... it's most probable that there never was a problem in the first place or it was settled very early in the process.

Well it’s honestly well written and believable in this dry as grandma’s vadgaydgay era.

I hate this fucking day.

Were they ever on?

We'll see with time if Billie stays. Is she talented? Yes. But part of the "appeal" is that she is so young and so talented. Lorde was the same. But she will go older. She will be able to stay if her fanbase grows with her and if she is able to have appeal for the next generation as well.

Does anyone remember if the press release by Universal in January for Hope Is a Dangerous Thing was mentioning the album title? Can’t find it anywhere... if NFR is mentioned, I think the rumours about the delay because of the trademark/ NR estate would be inaccurate. ÉDIT: http://www.umusic.ca/press-releases/84263/ Found it. And the album is named. So maybe they found an agreement.

Like you said, she used the title a couple of times on social medias: Interscope didn't tell her to stop until an arrangement was made? We know she can be stubborn, but to that point?

I love Norman Fucking Rockwell as an album title, but if it is what is holding it back, she could change it. Just hope, though, that the song still exists though if she changes the album's name.

It might have been a piano ballad when it was played, like a demo or something. But I doubt the song stayed the same. Even How to Disappear, which I believe is amazing with piano only, might have had some work done to it. So, something she played in what? May? must have changed since then.

I’ve never been able to make out the words to it.

Well, it was an acapella snippet. I don't know how many of her songs would be «amazing» from a 10-second snippet. But imagine the same lyrics she sang with a soft, acoustic guitar melody, where she sounds so serene and in peace...It could indeed be a very special song.

It was rumoured to be the title of LFL before the leak happened. Nobody knows for sure, but it’s very plausible.

I hope the title stays: it’s fucking iconic. BAR as an album title would have been, but NFR is just « in your face » legendary.

There's always been, honestly. And a lot of misconception that always tend to flip to fan fiction lol. But the silent treatment makes it perfect ground for theories and conspiracies hehe

I was thinking about him too when I read that. But the guy who heard the record said it was a career killer...and there has been so many accusations against Weinstein already... If it's true she calls out a guy on the record, could it be about someone else? Lana didn't say anything directly about Weinstein, but took the victim's side at some point of the trials, I think...

Whenever she describes an album, the description always fits the the last 2 or 3 songs she just finished at the moment of the interview. The description she gives is accurate... to a certain point. - HM sure has jazz influences on the title track (with the «Dreaming away your life part»), Terrence Loves You and God Knows I Tried (very Nina Simone in the lyrics). - UV sure is «unlistenable» with its extreme irony and the last songs of the album (PWYC, MPG, FMWUTTT) that sound a bit the same the first time you listen to them.And the most «single» song is West Coast, which is not really radio-friendly. - LFL does have the Sangri-la-esque elements on the title track and Get Free, and a bit of acoustic is on Tomorrow Never Came and When The World... (though it would have had more if she had kept BAR and Yosemite). NFR will probably have those sur elements on a couple of songs: the end of MAC and VB have those, and Cinnamon also. But it won't end up on all the tracks though.

We don't know what is going on. Maybe she does want to release it and her company doesn't right now for whatever reason. Maybe she does want to release it a bit further, just after her poetry book because the two complement each other. Or maybe it's something else entirely.

«The computer crashed on the floor and we took it to the Apple store» The fucker who wrote this is probably 14 and described what happened to his-her school project and must think that music is recorded the same way we work on a computer.

I don't think she is burned out. To me, the Vanity Fair interview back in January (or February?) is very revealing of her strategy for this era: I will put out music, but the way I want it. I feel like she wants to take a break from the things she did with the LFL era that were demanding and that she wants to do to a minimum of (less shows, less interviews where she has to justify every lyric, less make-up, less dress-up, less visuals, less engagements...). And she might be in a position where she doesn't have to prove anything to anyone anymore (the 3 singles so far are critically acclaimed and she did pretty much zero promo for them; she let the music speak for itself). As for her friends, I think we blame them too much for what is happening (I don't get why everyone is on their back and nobody blames some of the fuck boys she seems to be collecting for a couple of years; is it simply because she shows her friends on social medias and not her dates?). And as for the delays, who the fuck knows? If it is indeed a situation where Interscope wants a more catchy song to release as a single, she sure as hell can't talk to us about it ; if it is entirely in her power to release NFR, she must have a reason that we ignore yet (I trust her judgement on the matter, it's just her time management for each project that she sucks at, honestly).

Lana paved the way for mainstream artists putting out «sad or dark» music like Billie, in a way. I get why BTD got thrashed : it was very unusual, very honest and really not what female artists were putting out (strings? lyrics where she is so madly in love that any guy could really do anything to her?). Nobody knew who she was, and many speculated she was the talentless and voiceless puppet of big-ass male executives. She contrasted so much with the music of these years, where female singers were singing mostly about about false empowerment (meaning they were sex maniacs) with their dance moves.

That's an interesting and thorough analysis of the situation. Even in the «dead months» , she gave us something. I realize that my expectations are always for music stuff and my own personal timeline of NFR's release sure wasn't hers. Friday was rough for all of us, even if I didn't expect anything to be released. I distanced myself this weekend from her and it was actually a good thing. Billie's new album is actually not bad and there is amazing music being out these days; I'll concentrate on that until her lead single. And anyways, she won't drop anything before at least another 2 weeks: Interscope will probably let Billie's release breathe before releasing anyone else.