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Hmm I don't think it has anything to do with Taylor, I think Lana just naturally enjoys writing and making a lot of music and dropping it whenever/casually, like how she's talked a lot about her desire to do surprise releases. I'm happy she has enough creativity to keep making art, and hope she doesn't slow down 

I'm shook. I remember not liking the early poems very much but lately, they've floored me. Whew.

Hmm I don't think it has anything to do with Taylor, I think Lana just naturally enjoys writing and making a lot of music and dropping it whenever/casually, like how she's talked a lot about her desire to do surprise releases. I'm happy she has enough creativity to keep making art, and hope she doesn't slow down 

Official LA Who Am I To Love You preview, but a lot longer + snippet of the second poem

Holy shit. Here are he lyrics to Salamander 
 
Get out of my blood, salamander!
I can’t seem to blow off enough steam to get you out of my head.
Soul cycle you to death, run you out of my blood to San Pedro.
And yet, everywhere I go, it seems there you are,
And there I am.
 
I don’t want to sell my stories anymore, stop pushing me.
Some stories aren’t meant to be sold.
Some words aren’t meant to be told.
 
I want to leave them underneath the nightstand to be forgotten
or remembered should my thoughts come upon them in the middle of the night after a long beach day.
Or by you, some afternoon, to thumb through by your warm after-work hands.
 
I love you, but you don’t understand me.
I’m a real poet!
My life is my poetry, my love making is my legacy!
My thoughts are about nothing, and beautiful, and for free.
 
You see, the things that can’t be bought can’t be evaluated, and that makes them beyond human reach.
Untouchable, safe, otherworldy.
Unable to be deciphered or metabolised.
 
Something metaphysical,
Like a view of the sea on a summer day,
on the most perfect winding road taken in from the car window.
A thing perfect, and ready to become a part
of the texture of the fabric of something more ethereal
 
Like Mount Olympus, where Zeus sent Athena and the rest of the immortals plague.

I think it will be out on iTunes too. Just saw this on kworb
 
LA Who Am I to Love You
iTunes:
#63 New Zealand

Yeah but she reads so fast that they're still going to have a long enough written length imo!

Just saw on Instagram that apparently the entire audiobook is out in AUS NZ on Apple Books
 
See @itsvenicebitch

I look forward to it! Especially the photography, whatever it'll consist of

I feel you. This feels like a whole ass album, and the quality... 

This is surprisingly extremely sad and beautiful. Not expecting this level of quality poetry and delivery. If this is how the whole audiobook is going to be, quality wise, I won't even care if she does not release COCC for the next couple of months

WOOOOOOOOOOW holy shit. I dont think Im prepared for the rest of the poetry now, that was so fucking good 

“You see, I have no mother
And you do
A continental shelf
A larger piece of land from where you came
And I?
I'm an orphan”
 
Not to start spilling my own shit, but I know what this feels like. I had so many problems growing up and I felt emotionally neglected. My issues were never taken seriously. So I totally know where Lana is coming from.

it'll be interesting to see how she uses white space on the page for her poems– like if she uses more then even a relatively short poem (1-2 pages) could end up being quite long what with line breaks and formatting etc

OH RIGHT I messed that up rn, but originally I felt surprised with the amount of pages for the amount of poems (30). I still am. It's a lot...   I just didn't expect this. It's a much bigger work than I imagined.

Here's a preview I ripped off of apple music: https://dbree.org/v/060385
And here's a longer preview from the itunes store but shittier quality: https://dbree.org/v/7695f1

"Plus I love Zac, so why did I..." not sax, I'm pretty sure.

IM SCREAMING AT THE LENGTH OF THESE WRITTEN POEMS AHHHH 

To me, Lana’s version of feminism is telling her own story, being able to live the life you want, and she feels that there’s no voice that tells her story except her own. And that’s her « jab » at feminism. She tells stories where she is sometimes « more passive » in her relationships and she wants to claim the possibility to tell those stories without being called an «antifeminist » I think.

The poems are just so long (in a great way!) it's almost like it's too much content for me to take in at once, so if possible, I'll probably dive into the poems early 

This is so personal and raw and up-front and confident and vulnerable and emotional and good  at the same time wtf 

Since it will be available in full as an audiobook on Audible and Google Play Store on July 28th, that alone makes it eligible, it doesn't necessarily have to be released on Spotify/Apple Music etc. before August 31st.

Hmm so then the time really was location-based, though I'm wondering why it was on Apple and not all the other platforms like Audible. And then just one "single" on Spotify so far. Not another messy release... WHY 

So do do guys heard only LA who I am or the full poetry book?
 
I'll try to stay strong and not listen to LA who I am to love you before tomorrow bc I want to listen to the whole thing while I'm taking a walk ,looking at the sky and feeling a soft breeze on my skin
 
Or maybe I'll listen to LA who I am today aaah is it good?

WOW