Angel Fire

I am so thirsty I keep trying to imagine how the beginning of the album will sound like. She has a way of making the beginnings sound SO FUCKING misterious (the heavenly strings in Born to Die, the creepy violins in Honeymoon, the heavy guitar chords of the entrance of Cruel World...). I lie down on my bed at night and just keep trying to imagine how will be the opening of the new record. Please, Lana, save us!

I really think that we'll have the single until the end of the year. The time is passing and we still have nothing, so the album won't probably be released this year, 'cause it'd be a big rush to announce, release a lead single, promote a little bit... There's simply no time to release the album this year (unless she announced the single, like, tomorrow or something). But the single... I bet it's sooner than we think. The shit is we know the bitch reads everything we comment, so she knows how DESPERATE we are to have some info about it. She must laugh a lot at us. I know I would.

The thing is we know by now how sellings and charts are simply based on how an artist is known and how he/she promotes their work with big budgets (just like the elections). Some big pop music stars don't even write their own music, but they have built a name that's so solid, that the name ALONE is enough so that their album reaches #1. It doesn't mean quality at all. People don't even know the songs sometimes. For example, I remember when Lemonade was realeased, all my straight friends (who don't listen to pop music at all) knew about it, even though they didn't like Beyoncé or knew nothing about her music, but the media was so explosive about it that everyone knew about its releasing. BTD being in the charts years for now shows that the promotion that was done by the label worked. But with the fame came a lot of suffering and Lana saw herself in a position she really didn't enjoy. I feel like her music was always somewhat intimate for her and, although she wanted to share her creations with the world, all the harassment put her in a very sad and depressing place. That's why I would prefer if she continued to stay hidden, I feel it's healthly for her, it's the way she found to keep composing and being true to herself and to the songs. Going back to exposure, big budgets and her name all over the place must be really frightening and uncomfortable after all she went through. Besides, even though UV and HM sales are very low compared to BTD, it's undeniable how richer the last two are when compared to her debut. But, as she doesn't promote and people don't know about it, it just doesn't sell. It may be even better, 'cause the fans who truly get her mind and love her sound will keep following her work and praising her, while those that just came for the beats and the bling will be gone.

I really feel like this is LDR6 hahaha Like, Paradise was an EP for marketing strategies, to mantain BTD in the top charts for a longer time and help Lana build a solid name after all the media bullshit, but the album has a vision on itself that completely differs from BTD. It tells a complete story, and I feel like Lana said herself somewhere that she felt it was a stand-alone album. Besides, it has 9 songs (if you count Burning Desire), it's barely long enough to be a stand-alone. I'm pretty sure Lana even had more songs around the time (we heard some demos that were taken out, and maybe there's even more that didn't leak) but if she put them on, the EP would have turned into an album and it wouldn't fit with the maketing purpose of the time. I wrote an analysis about Paradise to a fansite I admin a few years ago, but it's in portuguese, so I think most of you wouldn't understand, that's why I don't share it here (if anyone wants it either way, I can send you )

I just think that Eminem and Gaga don't share the same public, so it really wouldn't mind if they released albums approximately at the same time. Lana and Gaga, though, have similar public, so it would fit to release the albums a little bit apart. She might be working on it making some last-minute mixing, but I really feel it's been done for, like, two months now.

Am I the only one who thinks the album has been finished (or almost) for some time now, but Intercospe delayed it because of Lady Gaga's Joanne? Like, Lana and Gaga are two of the biggest artists they have, so it wouldn't help the sales if both of them lauched new products on the market around the same time (I say this because West Coast was released in april 2014 and Honeymoon song in july 2015, so if Lana's scheduled mindset has been mantained, the single should have seen the light of day around october 2016, the same month Joanne was released). Due to the anxiety towards Lady Gaga's comeback, I believe they intentionally posponed LDR5 so that the albums would not compete in sales and charts. It's probably sitting on a table right now laughing at us.

Sometimes people are crazy here and I have come to believe that respect to someone else's opinion in the internet is kinda rare (I'm really enjoying sharing my thoughts with you and reading yours, though). It's easy when you can just dismiss someone else 'cause they're far away and unreachable. You got me curious about this album. I'll look it up and share my feelings with you later. I wish she would cover Nina SImone's "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" to end the next album if she wants to keep this tradition. I believe this one would fit her perfectly (voice and lyrics). It just is something she would compose and I have dreams imagining the album ending with these chords.

But I'm an unusual person for what I read around here, 'cause I don't really attach to upbeat songs. The slower ones are those which I can connect deeply (I am passionate about Bel Air, for example. It's so underrated I just want to kill myself), so I can understand why I love Honeymoon so much and also why you guys wish the new album is more upbeat.

I think I understand what you feel, even though I feel different, almost opposite things to the "slowness" of the album. It's weird for me because, even though Born to Die was the album that made me fall in love with Lana back in 2012, now that he have its follow-ups, I look back and think that Born to Die is the one which lacked diversity (please, don't throw rocks at me). Like, besides Video Games, Carmen and Million Dollar Man, I feel like all the songs have similar beats. Like, you can seriously put the lyrics of Summertime Sadness, for example, in the instrumental of Dark Paradise and it fits incredibly perfect ('cause it's almost the same instrumental). The same beats all over the album seem like they just took her previous songs and gave them a style that was unique so they could make them similar to fit and build an album (which, let's be honest, is what happened). I say this looking back, but for years Born to Die was the album of my life and I thought Lana could never create something more perfect than that. But with Ultraviolence I saw her ability to create intense and complex melodies with a variety of instruments, which was really impressive to me. With Honeymoon that was only enabled forward, in my opinion. I feel like the songs in HM are just flawless, it's the album where we can see (and feel) how much she's grown in the past few years, with all the bullshit whe went through with the media and how that didn't change at all her urge to create and express herself throughout her songs. I wish I could express my thoughts better, I'm dying here hahaha. I guess HM will be my favourite album in a few years, the title-track just makes me wanna cry every single time I listen to it, it's so damn sensible and divine. After all, her albums are just getting better. And that's what makes me desperately for this new one (hope it's really soon, at least the lead single).

The flute session in the beggining with the crying man before the cellos start with the melody ALWAYS makes me feel amazed by its perfection.

I think it's so enriching to see how people feel the albums in different ways. After the Interlude I feel like the atmosphere changes a lot. 24 is probably the song I like the least (Sometimes I catch myself skipping it), but when Religion is almost ending and the beats start to slow down so that the Salvatore intro can begin I literally almost cry everytime. After Salvatore I really feel like the album is coming towards its end, like, she is starting to close the story she opened back there. Swan Song is a really strong song for me, I feel there is a spiritual meaning behind the lyrics, something like the arterlife, I don't know. The production helps a lot to build that, like, the violins are so languid, give me cloudy feelings, I don't know how to express that well. When the album ends I feel an incredible urge to play it out all over again (which happens often) just to have all those emotions again. It's like I listen to it for the first time everytime I play it.

I am so fascinated with Honeymoon, I have a really hard time understanding why you guys feel like it's slow and boring. The whole album makes me feel so many different things, I think "dreamy" is the word that mostly comes to describe it, in my opinion. From the very first moments, when the violins start until the last verses of DLMBM I feel goosebumps. I feel it's so cohesive, the songs are so well-done, the production really makes me impressed, even a whole year after it's releasing. I feel like it's the album (from the ones we heard up to now) where the production was most flawless. I will forever be in love with Ultraviolence (which is, right now, my favourite), but I think that, a few years in the future, HM will be the album I will listen to feel the summer, the wind and the energy around me. PS: Please, I really would like to talk about it, but don't be rude. I've been here in Lanaboards for over 3 years, but the opinions are so unrespected sometimes that I have never (until now) decided to put my thoughts out.

So, basically this is what happened the past few days (just to update new readers): 1) A song called "Wild Side" was registered on ASCAP and mentioned Lana as a co-writer. The main composer was a singer called Greg Banks. We don't have reliable information concerning it. 2) A lot of people went to Lana's Instagram account and started commenting "Wild Side". She responded to it with a heart emoji, so people believed the song actually existed and that Lana had plans with it. Lana herself went later to her Twitter account and posted a heart emoji there (yes. only this. a FUCKING heart emoji). 3) Eclipse was DM'd by Lana yesterday after he @'d her on Twitter with a lyric from a song supposed to be in LDR5 ("look at your kids with your vintage music"). All we know is from some screenshots of the conversation he posted and somethings that he himself told here (so these are just rumous). He didn't tell us much because he doesn't want to trouble her work/the album release, but what we got was: * The song "Wild Side" does not exist and Lana doesn't know anything about Greg Banks. * There is already a schedule planned for the realase of the lead single and the album (although Eclipse didn't tell us the dates) * He asked her about LIB but she ignored it and didn't answer. * She asked him not to leak anything from the new album he might have. * She told him there is a title-track song like the albums before (except AKA and Paradise). That's what we got. Everything else you may read out there is untrustable or a lie (I don't know if I forgot to put any other fact on the above list, though)