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Exactly. Her audience is used to listening before buying an album, we're not in the 90's anymore. They will torrent her shit and in the end if her music is good enough to resonate with them they will buy it. That's how BTD still at BB 200 every week since 2012. 

The PWYC bridge 

I don't quite get how everybody claims that with UV she finally managed to find her own artistical signature and freedom to express her real self and the BTD is supposedly a  dirty sell-out. Like, desert and psychedelic rock and more raw sound is more authentical than hip-hop and upbeat, poppy, cheerful music. Even I, who am deep into alternative, indie and underground, will deny that and maybe too bravely conclude that BTD was also her true self, only different facet, maybe because she was, as some member accentuated on the theme about Honeymoon, happier then, at least she seemed to be. (Btw. I love both albums equally.)
 
And if UV was her holy grail of authenticity and she got critical acclaim for it, how come she was so dispirited at that time, not willing to promote it, and seemingly depressed and ill? Maybe it is the dark and moody chambers of the soul that derived that gem piece in the first place (obviously), but I'm playing with the thought that in BTD era she was still excited about ascending , she was in a state of sweet anticipation of success but when she somehow reached the top with approval of UV, she realized that the top is a lonely place, as they say for all kingdoms and thrones.
 
But on the other side, it is inherent to almost every artist to reveal him/herself to the audience and be loved, worshipped, adored or respected, to receive feedback and to share their most profound, hidden and troubling thoughts, feelings and wounds with the universe.
 
I mean, artists are all to some degree exhibitionists and even the most timid yearn for attention, but  she shuts herself so firmly in her shell, like unreachable pearl, or some deity, almost Buddha that escaped to the mountain. That is why she is so contradictory, controversial and enigmatic, and why I'm so ardently ambivalent towards her, despite the amount of affection I nourish for her precious art. Maybe it's Kurt Cobain's curse (not literally) – he was disgusted by the fact Nirvana headed on feverishly towards mainstream. He commited suicide, and Lana isolates herself and freezes. I know I'm exaggerating; I should just let her alone with her creative juices flow freely and ferment in her hermetically sealed castle of mind. I hope this is just standstill before new storm.
 
Edit - I just realized I talk gibberish - she progresses the opposite way than Nirvana did, but still...Maybe with introverts it is about paralyzing fear when others expect too much of you - all the stars, meteors and milky ways.

I thought she said that it was more stripped back, spiritual like Black Beauty.

I have this feeling, that Honeymoon is going to sound sort of like what pre Auerbach UV sounded like.

I hope she is getting back to the way she was during the BTD era, in that she cared about everything, especially her looks. So far, it looks like its going that way with her Honeymoon instagram account, so lets hope she keeps it up. I'm just hoping for some high budget videos like the BTD videos and some promo too.

Yeah. They could function if she was younger, to give her that cute, popsicle Lolita look, but she definitely radiates most powerfully as a sultry vamp with Veronica Lake locks flipped on one side. Tousled, windy, rock look of UV is also delicious, but I cultivate nostalgia for that long, lush, seductive waves reminiscent of Hollywood glamour, even when combined with ferrari jackets and massive golden hip hop chains. And bangs cover her monumental forehead, which adds to the beauty of her long, melancholic, sensual oval face - now it is somehow deformed, and all accent goes to the nose, lips, cheeks and chin, at least two of them been reconstructed and plastic.
 

For me, the issue of Honeymoon is just not an interesting concept. I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. Whenever people bring up Honeymoon, I'm like, god. I'm just not really that interested

The thirst is unreal on here atm... 
 
Anyway I'm glad Lana's moving on from the beauty queen/grunge rocker looks of the past and moving on with the softer more mature and (What we all expected) tropical-esque theme.
 
This era really feels planned out/well thought through this time round and I wonder if the HM IG is the front door/prelude to this coming era.I don't understand how some of you think its messy already.I really can't but nvm.
 
Jake Nava is a great choice for the the first singles MV as he's produce some of the most iconic MV of the twenty-first century and SOC was a fantastic MV.So I have full faith that he'll pull through 
 
​although i really like another Anthony Madler video this era but nvm

Old Money is boring as hell and should have been replaced any song that isn't boring as hell

I love her look in Tropico.

I hope that the reason why we haven't heard much about her new album is because it's a visual one, like Beyonce's previous release. It would be awesome because she will have shot all the videos the way she envisioned them originally. 

tbh be honest to be tbh she looks to be honest TBH like she's bring the iconic fringe look back tbh honest. Tbh I honestly like it to be honest tbh a lot

Please let Honeymoon be the album that should have been, the one that all of those songs were supposed to be on.  I think about what could have been with those songs all the time. 

The uncertainty regarding Mark Ronson's involvement worries me. I need a picture of her sitting on Mark's lap and cheesy interviews about him "bringing the fire back into her life" already. 

kind of a bummer that this show easily had a better setlist than all the others. iunno something about the lack of consistency, people wanna know what they're paying for.

oh wow lo-fi exotica jungle princess 

love everything even her new polyester lips

Do you think this will be a happy album? She just seems to be in such a good place, I can't imagine it to have a UV vibe.

How come you still haven't unstanned Marina? 

Hot guys in a lana vid.....Music to Watch Boys To ??????

No pics of the new hair?
No new info about the abloom?
 

i want her to DITCH the themes of before ("im in love with a bad guy" / "love sucks" / "i got hurt but i love you still") and give us some NEW themes. even if you disregard her unreleased stuff, the themes of her released material (BTD, P & UV) is sadly not very diverse thematically. there are moments where she diverges from this (NA, Radio, FMWUTTT, MPG, FK), but i want her to completely leave the themes of previous behind, or at least write about them in a new way. that's why i love WC so much - she touches on similar stuff as before, but in a new way; the "Queen of Saigon" reference is still there, for example, but she sings about it differently.

Steve Buscemi and David Lynch should produce the album tbh.

no