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So, do we think she'll do singed CD's later on? Her team obviously want the sales, physical copies coming with a digital copy and the tickets being sold with a CD etc. If I remember here in the UK, the signed LFL CD was announced a few days after the preorder?

Damn, she really got me. Just ordered: LP (green) LP (blue) CD (explicit cover) CD (HMV exclusive with poster) Cassette (green) Cassette (clear)

Wait, surely the UK album doesn't have less tracks? We sure it's not just an upload error

Has an UO version been confirmed?

I can't believe we're this close to her best record yet!

I think the album cover is one of her best and it's so refreshing compared to the past few... Born To Die will always be iconic in all it's americana glory (and is one of the most recognisable covers of the 2010's), Paradise was a nice spin off of the debut. Ultraviolence should be her only black and white album cover... It just captures the album so well and is stunning. Honeymoon, hmmm I love the photo but hate the typography and I think like this new album, without the text, it'd be one of her best. Lust For Life was cute as a full circle, reflection moment but I really didn't dig the forced smile and the imitation of Born To Die. I hope and think the physical copies of this will have "LDR" and "NFR" as stickers... But I really, really love the new album cover. It's new for her and exciting, I don't think I could've had another car and I like that she has somebody else on the cover, that's quite unique for a solo artist?

I'm just so relieved that this isn't a selfie or the MAC photo (as rumoured)… Also proves the insiders claiming it was black and white are full of bs. Do we think this is the reshoot or the original that Ben didn't like? I also can't believe we're getting BAR, was there ever a finalised LFL version? I remember the demo leaking and people saying the studio version was different. Also, I'm no good at time zones, what time in the UK can we preorder?

So if the Shazam titles are true, we pretty much have the final tracklist? 01. California 02. Cinnamon Girl 03. Fuck It, I Love You 04. Happiness Is A Butterfly 05. Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It 06. How To Disappear 07. Love Song 08. Mariners Apartment Complex 09. Norman Fucking Rockwell 10. The Greatest 11. Venice Bitch Bartender or Doin Time could potentially be included. I just wanna see the final thing...

Isn't this just cos she posts in three's? Like maybe she's just spamming so she can start the NFR posts?

I'm so unsure how she'll go about this... I'd like her to just drop the songs alongside a link to preorder. But she did interviews for the premiere of MAC and VB so who knows?

I think the preorder is definitely coming this week, if not today? The link is there and ready... The webpage seems to be getting updated or modified. We know she's got 2 new singles coming! It all feels too good to be true.

But she literally swears on every album... Radio Gods And Monsters Fucked My Way Up To The Top High By The Beach Cherry Like this isn't something new or something she's doing to seem cool...

I genuinely wouldn't mind it being a bonus track or part of the record, it's a great cover and fits the vibe of the record. Blue Velvet was for a H&M ad but still made it on to Paradise.

I still can't get over her man... Like for real, imagine if she serves her best album cover to date, her best record, the double music video (with a budget!), then the Happiness music video and who knows we might even get more visuals. Plus the promo videos for MAC and VB! Ugh, gimme some vinyl variants and I am sold. The wait was still an absolute mess but like imagine if we had gotten all of this but in a reasonable timescale. Imagine this era if it was on this release strategy... 17/05 - Doin' Time single release (do a promotional interview about Sublime and confirm new music is coming this summer) 11/07 - Mariners Apartment Complex single release and promotional music video premiere (Beats 1 premiere and confirm an album is coming) 15/07 - Venice Bitch single release and promotional music video premiere (Annie Mac premiere, interview about the upcoming album and tease an announcement this week) 20/07 - Norman Fucking Rockwell album title and cover art announcement 09/08 - Fuck It, I Love You! and The Greatest double single release alongside Norman Fucking Rockwell pre-order (Beats 1 premiere, talk about the album process and touring) 13/08 - Fuck It, I Love You! and The Greatest double music video premiere 30/08 - Norman Fucking Rockwell album release 16/09 - Happiness... music video premiere (maybe coincide with a magazine interview and talk about the upcoming poetry book) 06/11 - a special fan event, signing records, performing songs from the album and premiering a final music video at a theatre

Yeah, I meant actresses as her friends... I really don't want her insta baddies to star ahah

So, I'm thinking that Fuck It, I Love You! is gonna be the more pop, radio single. I think it's gonna be one of the more surf inspired songs (hence the music video). I also think The Greatest is gonna be similar to the title track in the sense of he's an arrogant man who thinks he's the greatest, and that's the body builder guy... Maybe it's something to do with his ego or how he thinks people see him? I dunno, I just think it would be cool if it was like Lana and her friends (50's beach girls) making fun or mocking this man and he thinks they adore him.

01. Norman Fucking Rockwell 02. The Greatest 03. Happiness 04. 05. Hope Is A Dangerous Thing... 06. You Don't Have To 07. Venice Bitch 08. Fuck It, I Love You! 09. In Your Car 10. 11. Mariners Apartment Complex 12. Cinnamon 13. How To Disappear 14. Doin' Time (Bonus Track) I actually can't wait to see the official tracklist but here's my prediction cos i'm bored

No, but there was a lot of speculation by people on here that it would be a single cos the artwork had been shot... But now it seems like she's shooting photos with all the collaborators. So I do think White Mercedes will be the next and final single of this era.

So if she is shooting images with all the collaborators for the booklet, does that mean 2099 is no longer confirmed a single... White Mercedes could be the 3rd (4th if we count 1999) and final single.

Lol, I wasn't being cocky but I thought it was obvious it was part of the record, it was a buzz single and the artwork was an outtake from the album shoot... It was never confirmed to not be a part of the album... just speculation. Yeah I remember her releasing but like you point out it was hearsay or rumours that it wouldn't be included, so I don't get why people are stating it as fact. That was my only point...

Since when was Coachella not supposed to be on Lust For Life? I'm so confused with all these allegations and assumptions today, something in the water?

I mean it was Lana who gave it that title "my new song happiness is a butterfly", she also referred to it as "happiness" on insta. So I think we can confirm that song title.

Wait, what? I don't remember her ever confirming Bartender being on the album...

Could be Dua Lipa or Ellie Goulding, all of them have albums coming this year, Ben teased it on Lana's insta. Also Ellie was at that meeting with Lana and Interscope, maybe to discuss release schedules? So maybe Lana on August 30th then Ellie on September 6th...

What if she just drops the album on streaming early August and then announces the pre-order for physical copies? It seems stupid that the release date is August 30th (according to retailers) yet she still just teases next month? Like, surely by now you'd just say end of August or August 30th or whatever. She likes lowkey and self-sabotage seems to be a thing this era, so I could see her being like "NFR is out now, thank you for being patient blah blah blah" on the 9th, then launching the pre-order with CD's and LP's coming late August. Miss Del Rey destroying her own chances of #1 or #2.