American Whore

With how dark this album has been and the themes she's touching on, it feels like this album may be a true follow up to UV, the UV 2.0 we've kind of been begging for for years. The sound doesn't match UV exactly, but it seems very fitting that the cover is in black and white, shot by Neil again, and she's back to writing about darker themes. Also, I have to admit, her songwriting seems to be even better here and I'm not trying to say that A&W is her best song ever, but for me, it's up there. It, by miles, surpasses everything she did with BB and COCC for me. I love COCC and like BB enough I guess (I like BB better than LFL) but the writing on this album has been so well done from what we've heard. The title track alone, with her comparing herself to a tunnel that's been designed with beauty in mind but yet, has been closed off and forgotten... It kind of goes hand in hand with what we've heard from here both on this album and other albums too. It's like she's invisible. She says it that way in A&W and almost shows a reflection of what she talks about in Yosemite ("it's not like i'm invisible, not like I was before when i was burning at both ends"), now we're seeing why she feels she was burning at both ends. This is truly shaping up to be a top tier, fan favorite record methinks I've been thinking about this too, actually. I've been listening to it and it's cute and fun, but underneath it all there's bits where it's really dark and twisted. There's that random jarring sound toward the end and she screams in the background and everything is layered so well to make it seem this way. Also, the lyrics "Shimmy shimmy coco bop" remind me of when we were kids and would do the hand slap games, which follows back to the idea of her childhood. This is a stretch too, but thinking about those hand slap games remind me of UV (title track, "he hits me and it felt like a kiss")

Yeah, I know, but isn't that also a known thing? That Jimmy is a nickname for one of them from the other as of recent years? See, this is what's interesting. It makes me wonder if it's self-reflective. Maybe her fun, creative self only loves her when she gets high or whatever that could be a metaphor of. Maybe she doesn't literally mean get high. And it could put into context the "Your mom called, I told her, you're fucking up big time" lyric, as in she's talking to herself? Hmm Idk. I'm just having a late night new song reflection think

Hmm... Is Jimmy Lana's nickname for Jack or Jack's nickname for Lana?

yall think there's any possibility she ends up announcing another album for this fall after this drops? 2021 style? i mean personally i doubt it but i think when this drops, she'll give a magazine interview saying she's got ideas for the next one and then we'll be put into a pre-pre release thread again. but i hope she does decide this is the year to do 2 albums again. ooo or maybe we get an ep called Pearl Watch Me on Ring a Bell Psycho Lifeguard. omg Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd: The Pearl Watch Me on Ring a Bell Psycho Lifeguard Edition

me when idk the words to a new song but wanna vibe with it anyway

she really said "let me tell my goddamn story and make u shake ur ass a lil bit too" this album is going to fuck us all up

the new song button changed from ocean blvd to aw now so they changed that also

i wonder if the vinyl stickers will be different with each variant

White vinyl restocked! Secured mine girlies

link?

twinsies! full range tbh

is that a VW? bc it looks like my dash

maybe another magazine shoot lmao

for the songs with features but no featured vocals, I'll be taking their names off the titles they'll be in the comments section of itunes but not the song

why are posts being moved again that are relative to this???? i didn't post in the AW thread i posted here bc i wanted to post here not there

i bet this is our brooklyn baby for this album... we have yet to hear our shades of cool

is this song the only one like this on the album or are there other collapses? this song is a fucking B O P!

the direction of this album is so wild and different from these two songs, it makes me wonder what the next one could even sound like. i can't fucking wait to hear the rest of this album, holy shit. it's so fucking good so far

actually??? i can hear it too but we love to hear it!

I can't tell if it's something Lana has said to someone else, but it sounds like she's quoting someone else talking to her. So imagine a guy she's dating telling her "Your mom called (on the phone), I told her, you're fucking up big time!" meaning she's messing her life up big time

i can't wait for 100 years to pass and people to see what it was like to collapse to a new lana song

MODS AND ELLE PLEASE DON'T MOVE THESE POSTS THEY ARE DETRIMENTAL TO THE PRE-RELEASE ERA they have to exist here and only here pleasssssseeeee

it's funny, she said she's divisive and even @Xenoblade 2 stans this one. look at the family gathering actually going well this time

i'm afraid her blackout era is upon us, yall. we're getting her angry pissed off revenge era finally

she left it on the hotel floor