Vertimus

Yes! Exactly!

Spooky and beautiful.

Crack. You're in for a real treat. And CN may leak at any moment. Personally, I'm not getting too hyped about CN alone, lest it be a bud. Everything we heard last night was a very pleasant surprise, and, in my opinion, a creative success sure to win her a lot of critical applause.

Many here say they love it!

Nor do I, though I like the VB ending. But I don’t understand the point.

I think, after COCC and BB and the often muted reactions from fans, Stans, and critics, Lana knew it was time to break the mold, something we had already seen signs of on VB, ‘White Dress,’ and a very few others.

My Aunt Rita, a Franciscan nun for all of her adult life, just passed away suddenly, so this album, in both its beauty and its family themes, is coming to me at exactly the right time.

I like Fishtails. Hopefully the other party meant it in a good way.

Sorry, I‘ve got poppers on my mind. Will correct.

I’d like a few traditional pop songs like BBS on the new album. Having heard ‘Peppers,’ and the ‘Jon Baptiste Interlude,’ I don’t think these are going to manifest. One can hope.

Yeah, unfortunately, 'manifesting' doesn't work. It is a delusion.

Right. Because I'm not giving in? Block me.

I understand that. Members have raised this issue before. In today's world, it's not a joke for some, which amounts to tens of thousands of people who declare 'ownership' without thinking it all through. If they did, they'd realize they're just as guilty, unless every piece of clothing on their body and in their closet came from their ethnicity and its culture, and everything they own, buy, prepare, and use.

People with that kind of cultural sensitivity, sincere or otherwise, are never going to succeed in the end in the 21st century, which really is a global village. There's not a nation in existence that cannot claim 'ownership' or 'origin' of some aspect of culture, even if it's a hairstyle, hem style, way of preparing fish or fowl, manner of binding a book, or a bead design. If we all decided to claim rights and ownerships of what we decide we want to claim as belonging to 'us,' there's be literally no time to do anything else or hear about the din. Lana can use the term kintsugi; it's obviously not a word in her first language of English, and I don't think she's pretending or suggesting that it is. On the contrary, like Joni Mitchell using the word 'Hejira' for the title of her 1976 album, it's a kind of way of honoring another culture and its conceptualizations.