GeminiLanaFan

I'm afraid we will never get another UV. It was a really peculiar time of her life: she was super depressed that so many songs had been leaked, she wasn't sure she wanted to do music anymore. She said, months following the release of UV, that she had "gone too far", that she would not dwelve so much into those dark lyrics. Maybe this is why she might be telling Sylvia Plath's story on the Sylvia song, in order to give us a super sad song but that is not so much personal.I would take a retro-guitar driven album made of sexy songs about desire and such, though... This could be a nice "follow-up" to UV.

I really enjoy her work with Rick Nowels. She is happy with him and it shows. But i must say that the Dan Heath ones are really much more cinematic and I love all of them. So here's hoping for something with Dan

I am not crazy about Carmen. Maybe I have not given it enough chances, i don't know. Not super fan of the original version of Florida Kilos either (Tep No did an incredible tropical remix of the song that slays though). I know I will get stones thrown at me for saying this

I get that. I don't mind the snippets so much, but I just hate it when she teases us with stuff that doesn't end up on the record (Yosemite and RBFY, anyone?). And I hate it when the teasing begins a zillion months before the actual release of the album. That was my main problem with the LFL promo: don't do interviews talking about songs when your track listing is not complete, Lana!!! Hoping that Happiness is a Butterfly won't be released in November lol.

Each album had one song that grew on me. BTD: National Anthem. It is now one of my faves. I never took the time to listen to it closely but when I did: WOAH! Paradise: American. Maybe because all the other songs are so much «In your face» and that one is more subtle... I just love that one now so much. UV: Guns and Roses. Still not one of my faves, but I don't skip it. I skipped The Other Woman for a long time, although it is the perfect closer to UV. HM: Swan Song. That song hit me after a super tough day, when she sang that she would never sing again and he would not work another day lol. LFL: (please don't hate me...) Heroin. I loved the chorus but the drugs part was a bit too much «Sad teenager wanting to end her life». Then i got to listen to the lyrics... I usually love a Lana song when I can relate to it on some level and it happened with this song this fall. I was just in a weird phase, and I was dreaming about something to get me out of my misery, my «heroin». I just love that one so so much.

Totally agree!

I agree. West Coast and Cruel World are really «Dan Auerbach-esque». Both songs are incredible. I really love UV, but I think it was a «One-shot deal». I wouldn't mind at all if she went back to those retro-guitar sounds, but she seems in a different state of mind.

I did not mind most of the collaborations: I believe they added an extra layer to songs that should have sounded maybe a little too simple without them (BPBP and TNC come to mind). I was skeptical when it came to her socially aware songs, but I liked them overall, because i could relate to them on other levels, not necessarily on its first intention (WTWWAW is, to me, a song of hope when my world is at war and I feel paralyzed and hopeless by it all; i just remember to keep dancing in a way, to keep what i am doing). She did not put too much rap into the album IMO. But i Know i am one of the few that really loves LFL. I am not sure though that the next album will be the direct continuation of LFL, maybe just the answers to the questions raised on the previous record.

I agree. Someone, on Lana del Rey Addiction, made a playlist called Ultraviolence: The Rick Nowels Cut. The guy included all the songs that Rick Nowels and Lana did together and there were a lot of the ones that are already on UV (Shades of Cool, West Coast, Black Beauty, Is This Happiness, Sad Girl...), plus Your Girl, Yes to Heaven and Fine China. He and Lana came up with a lot of the songs and sounds of UV. Dan Auerbach punched it a little more. If Lana had stuck to her initial idea, I believe we would have had an album closer to HM in its sound but in a darker tone. When i saw this, I remembered thinking that maybe this is why Honeymoon is so hated : the gap between UV and HM is so large. Without Dan's contribution, the gap would not have been so big between the two. But I would not change anything to these two albums: to me, they are perfect because they sound so different and yet, you have the feeling they are somewhat similar.

if I connecting two and two together correctly, here's what i think the new album could sound like... BUT keep in mind that this is Lana, she has been known to have a change of heart when it comes to her albums, and i changes the direction completely... PLUS this is very early in the process or pre-release. Fact: Interscope expects her to release something this year. Fact: in January, two sources said that a new album was coming, made of new songs and unreleased and unleaked material (this would explain why she can come up with a new LP: she can record a couple of new songs and be on tour in the same year, since she doesn't have to come up with everything). Rumor: Life is Beautiful could have been included on LFL in the early stages of its development (the source i saw was on Instagram, and anonymous of course, but the other posts she made were pretty much accurate). Fact: Yosemite was scrapped because it was too happy, and Lana was not in the peaceful happy state of mind she had intended to be when she finished LFL. Fact: Happiness is a Butterfly sounds very much nature-y, very peaceful. Opinion: have you seen her recently on stage?!? Vibrant, energetic, happy... So... I thing this new album will be the continuation of LFL. LFL was her quest for happiness, which is a messy and winding road... The new LP could be that place where she gets after all the drama of her past, her happy future. Something that sounds softer, more peaceful in its tone. Yosemite, RBFY and even LIB could all be on that same project (if Lana's team could buy back the rights to the latter song from Lionsgate). Maybe the collaboration with Jack Antonoff will be for something later in 2018 (like what she did with BORNS and Jonathan Wilson: the songs were not on LFL but ended up in the guys' albums). I am not thrilled by this collaboration, to be honest, but i trust her. Whatever she releases sounds like her. She is one of the few artists that can achieve that: she can do almost all genres.

Was just trying to complete the titles of the possibles tracks together... Don't go looking too far for that one, this is just what popped in my mind. Thanks for the welcome

... sitting on a cactus, in Yosemite, listening to the next best american record? While roses bloom for you? i think we might have something here...

I doubt You Must Love Me will be part of the new album. Like Young and Beautiful was not part of Paradise. I think it was just meant to be released for the compilation. Her albums never have included any to the tracks she released earlier on other projets.

Destiny

That show was just incredible...

According to two sources, LDR6 would be made of new songs and scrapped songs from her previous records that did not leak. Happiness is a Butterfly would indeed fit on a record next to Yosemite or RBFY or even LIB... But then again, I keep in mind that this is Lana: she is very creative and her vision of the projects tends to shift all the time... Maybe she will just put out new songs on an EP and that's it. I am not super hopeful to see the light of her 25 unreleased and leaked songs, to be honest. Lana is a perfectionist: she would not release an imperfect old song just for the sake of releasing it if she did not believe in it anymore or felt that the melodies or lyrics were bit blah. My dream project of her would be a double album called Best American Record: the first disc would be made of a couple of new songs and of unleaked ones; the second disc would contain remastered leaked songs, including BAR, Your Girl, Yes to Heaven, Fine China, Backfire, Serial Killer, Paradise, etc. But then again, a gay can dream

This album came out at an important time for me (my mom passed away a couple of months later), and it has helped me grieve. It is a masterpiece, one that needs to be listened to when you are in a quiet place. I love that she recently called that album her «vanity project». There are so many subtleties and layers to the melodies, and so many powerful moments as well (The Blackest Day, 24, God Knows I Tried, Religion, to name a few). I loved the stormy feeling of UV, but I must admit that UV can get me down a bit, as opposed to HM, which I can listen to no matter what I do or how I feel. This album channels so much the Old Hollywood and California vibes. It is her most underrated gem. And I love that some stans don't get it lol.

I am new here but have followed all the drama from afar when LFL was about to come out... Now that we have heard it for a couple of months, I will put my own two cents on the album. First of all, i really loved it. True, it did not contain RBFY or Yosemite or BAR, but it was an incredible one. I will specify that I am the same age as Lana and that witchy goddess has a way of putting in words and music what I am going though in my life, as if we are aging together, going in the same direction... I see LFL as her quest for happiness. She wants to be happy, she was heading in that direction I believe, but shit happened (G-Eazy, anyone? and Trump lol), and she realized that happiness is hard to find, very evasive. So the album is the reflexion of a woman growing out of her 20's drama, heading into the future. Many of the songs feel like the memories of her past drama (Heroin), or her past perspective on things (the song LFL has been criticized for its blend lyrics, but I felt she was writing as if she was a teenager; same as White Mustang). Even when she sings about her past relationships, we feel the insight of a maturing woman (she reflects on love itself, what her ideal is and how she did not obtain it, like on Cherry and 13 Beaches). And we finally see her present perspective emerge with songs like GBA, BPBP, WTWWAT, Coachella. I have never been one to follow the news on TV or newspaper, but as I get older, i realize I cannot ignore the world anymore. And I got scared too, like Lana I believe. So she had to acknowledge the state of the world at some point. WTWWAW is such a hopeful song, the first one from her to bring me tears. Her vocals are sublime on that one. The last three songs form The Holy Trinity of the album and summarize it: something for her past (the kind of self-destruction she had on BTD and UV), her present (the will to Change), and her future (Get Free; isn't it the perfect Lana song?). When the instrumentals of the album came out, I felt surprised to hear such depths to songs that I thought were not so incredible at first (the piano at the and of BPBP: . Coachella is really more layered than I thought). Each of her albums tells a story and each song is important. And I always keep in mind that she has a way of making me fall in love with songs I thought were not so great at first, but that resonated with me at some point, and I would not pull them away from the record. Lana is one of the few artists that make albums that you have to listen from cover to cover to get the big picture.

It feels like the upcoming album could be the sequel to LFL... If what we heard so far is any indication and if the rumors are true, this could be the answer to her new found blue, out of the black... And I know people might throw stones at me, but i think that LFL might be better understood when we hear this new album... I always felt that LFL was her quest for happiness, something somehow much more difficult to attain then expected.

i really like it! She has a way of just putting in words how i feel at the moment. This is my exact vision of happiness. I also got a little «Religion» (the song from HM) vibes in the melody. I am excited to hear this new project