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Honeymouns, on Insta, in June, posted a black and white photo of her, with that title underneath it, and it looked pretty darn real, like a real single and all (he even made false captures of links to Spotify and iTunes and all). But then again, he also made a false screenshot of yosemite being leaked to Youtube on April 1

Nan, nothing at all, not even a selfie in studio or a trip or anything. The next thing planned for her is the show on August 10... You must be refering to the rumours stating that she would release a single either called "Dear Sylvia" (supposedly produced by Jack Antonoff), "She Just Died" (that one was a joke), or the "confirmation" of the collab with Marina... Nothing has been confirmed by anyone, as you can see. Again, the HIaB snippet was posted waaayyyy too soon (it was at least 4 months ago, if I count right)... In the meantime, I will be listening to Robyn's new song I have always been intrigued by Wild One (i mean, a Justin parker song is always welcome), and RBFY was magnificient, as well as BAR. But am I the only one who doesn't care about Malibu? Get Free is perfect as it is... Ok, it's intriguing to guess what Malibu was about, but I am afraid that it was too personal and that no one beside her would connect to the song, maybe?

300?!?? That’s quite a lot ... and hard to believe! Concerning Lana, it depends I guess. She had a ton of songs for Uv that didn’t make the record. LFL has a least 7 or 8 that we know or are rumoured. The only one I believe that doesn’t have that much leftovers if any is Hm; the project stayed pretty much the same from start to finish and was so short to execute (15 months). The longer Lana takes between albums, the more outtakes that record has, it seems.

Surely not LDR6 since it is probably very much done and has a sort of release date (or I wish it has). But maybe the following ones, depending on the future sales and who will preside over Interscope from there on?

Who knows? Maybe she is remastering some of her leaked stuff to deliver a double album made of new songs and a collection of her 25 best leaked ones? Not super realistic, I know, but the news drought has me hallucinating a Lana mirage

You have a very interesting point of view on this. I agree that LFL was a gate, and I am very curious about what's on the other end of that gate. It looks as though as if we have finally arrived at the «present tense» of her story, the era she currently lives in, and I don't know what the themes of her music will be, especially since she gave us little to none informations of her whereabouts and how she spends her days (not that I am complaining: I prefer silence over endless teasing of selfies in the studio that make me all on the edge of hoping something is about to come out very soon).

Interesting point of view. I always felt she was in the present, though. She reflects on her past, told that story with vintage elements, in order to move on? A way of not regretting past moments of your life is to own them, I believe? She always had that bittersweetness in her, that melancholy, but I don't feel that it cripples her in the past. She lives in the present very much, enjoys her life, lives it to the fullest, so she doesn't regret it. All of her work is a big reflection on happiness, on how to grasp it. She loves to intensely feel everything, whether it is love, or fame, or drugs and alcohol, or even work. The urge for happiness and life itself is there, in her, all the time, at every moment of her life (LFL, the song, is a reflection of that). But as she gets older, she realizes she has a darker side that cannot «win» all the time, and she realizes that life is fragile, that happiness can come calm from a softer place. The snippet of HIaB perfectly embodies that. and maybe this is getting older and «wiser». Even the way she told love stories on LFL changed: she reflects on love itself, on what she wants (I've been dying for something real / my cherries and wine, rosemary and thyme and all fo my black beaches are ruined) I don't know if I make any sense, and I am not sure at all that LDR6 will go in that direction.

About the deluxe editions of her albums, hasn’t she said in the last that she didn’t like those, that she felt that they were more of a marketing thing for the record company? LFL is a very long record, making it harder to listen to it from cover to cover (you have to have a lot of time lol). But it is an album where she reflects on her past and where she realizes that change is happening in her present. It is very diverse indeed (she took everything we loved about her and put it in one album), while still offering new perspectives. I love that record. Maybe not as much as UV and HM, but it is a solid one. And I will repeat it once more: you have to let it sink in, and listen to it from cover to cover in order to “get the story” she tells on it.

The other problem we had with LFL was that she thought she was done a couple of times, but went back at it. Her stategy to reveal a track's title over each interview she gave for that record was a good one (I mean, it kept us on the edge of reading everything), but while still recording? Not such a good idea (though I understand she thought she would be done by the time she began the interviews and photo shoots probably). She mentioned fucking Yosemite at least in two interviews, the one for Les InRocks being the worst since she spoke a great deal of praise for the track.

A couple of you guys mentioned that it would be cool to have documentaries about the creative process of her albums... It sure would bring us much info about how she works. Two things are for sure: she has to have an idea of the concept and the «story» she wants to tell right from the beginning and the songs included tend to change a lot. Other than that, it is speculation, I believe. even the recording sessions over time for each record are a bit blurry.

My bad, I will specify a bit more about Heroin and 13 Beaches being written just after HM... And I have no facts from an insider or whatsoever, I just took Lana's words over interviews and drew my conclusions. When Hm came out, she was still recording the following weeks, and that those songs could be on the next record (I 'd have to check which interview that was though). In December, in her Billboard interview, she said that she began writing LFL with the darker songs (Heroin, 13 Beaches and Get Free). My possible mistake must have been to think that those songs were the ones recorded just after HM was out, but it could also be other songs we don't know about. But Heroin, to me, has the kind of minimal production from HM.

This is why I hate and love about knowing unreleased songs: now I want to hear them all so so bad :/

on the rushed UV and HM thing... UV was not rushed at all. She changed the direction of it when meeting Dan Auerbach, but the record was almost completed, only the arrangement kinda changed and songs were left on the cutting room floor, explaining why there are so many songs that got leaked form the UV sessions. UV and LFL both share something in common: the direction of them changed when one of their biggest song leaked (Black Beauty and BAR). LFL was intended to have more stripped-down and acoustic songs, songs about being more peaceful (BAR, Yosemite). But the leaks and personal events in her life made her decide not to put those on the record because she was not in that state of mind anymore. So that's when she decided to write more songs, have more collabs and all. So, in a way, LFL was kinda «rushed» too, when it comes to its last songs. Lana loves to change things and she composes a lot. She will always put out songs that are true to her and that she will be able to feel after they are out. The only project that stayed pretty much the same from beginning to end is HM. She put it out very quickly and the songs that were left out of it were included on LFL (EDIT: Possibly Heroin and 13 Beaches??? Since she wrote those songs first for LFL?).

No official news on the supposed marina collab, no.

Madonna teased a new song title on Insta produced by Mirwais. Ariana will release Sweetener in August. Robyn is set to release a new song on August 1 (plus she hasn't released a new album for 7 years now, so something is coming soon, if a single drops) Rolling Stone has confirmed the dancehall album Rihanna is working on, which album is rumored to be done and will drop at the right time (surely before the end of the year). Don't know about Gaga, but it is rumored in the coming weeks / months. And these are the ones we know of. All major female singers. Knowing that December is never a super good month for releases to reach number one, this limits the releases to a couple of months.

2018 has a shit-ton of huge female artists releasing new stuff: Ariana, Madonna, Robyn, to name a few. Probably Rihanna also. It’s going to be difficult for Lana and her team to release something in 2018 and not have it go totally unnoticed. Interscope would probably love to repeat last year’s LFL and have a number 1 record.

She’ll perform live in August... maybe something after?

Yeah BAR deserves better, and it is our fault in parts

LFL is an album that hits you if you listen to it with headphones and in a quiet environment. You will hear all the layers in all the songs and the emotional impact Is very different. When the chorus kicks in on 13 Beaches, when the second chorus hits on Cherry, the lyrics of change, the first verse of Heroin, the piano on LFL and Summer Bummer, the strings on Groupie Live, the pissed off message of In My Feelings, the chorus on Tomorrow Never Came, the high notes on WTWWAW (doubled with that music), the background vocals in the last chorus of GBA: these are all WOW moments. I will say it again: this album will probably better understood and appreciated when we get its place in Lana’s discography as a whole. I expect the first song on LDR6 to kinda bridge Get Free’s “out of the black into the blue”.

LDR6 will probably be a longer record than I expected. In January, two sources stated that LDR6 would be made of new songs and of unleaked ones from previous records, so I thought it would be released by summer, since she didn’t have so much to come up with (she could have made five new songs and throw at least 6 or 7 unreleased ones). But we’ll see. She can take all the time she wants. We are lucky stans at this point; she releases an album pretty much every year and each one of them is superior to everything I hear on the radio these days. Listen closely to the piano on Summer Bummer: it is spooky-ish and dark as hell.

It’s a bit too early to jump to any conclusions here. The track is called Woman and that’s it. Maybe it is a feminist anthem, or maybe something else, like “I wish I was your woman”. We’ll see.

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/cat_power_returns_with_wanderer_lp Can also be preordered on iTunes and the track listing is posted there as well.

So, with the new Cat Power collab, it seems that 2018 is the year Lana is only doing stuff with friends and such

Nobody knows. I bet her management told her to be real quiet this time, to not tease so much. A single in August? Or September? Or???? In spring, I was sure that by now, we would have something already from LDR6, but it ain't the case. I am curious for things to come, but I must say that I have been relistening a lot to LFL lately and I got back the feelings I had when I first discovered it. It really is a summery record, like she said last year.

Lol LFL hasn’t aged well?!? It is not a year old yet! Honestly, the “political songs” on LFL are more peace-oriented ones rather than political ones, I think. GBA could have been on any of her albums ; WTWWAW is a beautiful hopeful song in times of despair (whether these despairs are personal or worldwide - America could be a symbol of just happiness, and you wonder if you still can be happy). Coachella is the most precise one when it comes to the times we live in, though that song is not super descriptive either when it comes to politics. Change is the song that embodies LFL the most: something is coming, in her, in the world, something is happening. What exactly? Who knows. LFL is that album in her career expressing when things are shifting. Change’s minimal production makes easy to want to skip it, but when you let it sink in, you can’t help but love it.