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Do you buy her albums or just stream them? If you buy them, do you buy them digitally, buy CDs, or buy vinyls? If you buy them, do you buy all of her albums or only select ones? if you buy them, do you buy multiple copies, like limited editions? For me, I sporadically buy her albums. I bought BTD, Ultraviolence, Lust for Life, and NFR, and Violet (digital audiobook if that counts). I always buy physical (CDs) now when I buy, but I originally bought BTD on iTunes. Part of me wants to go back and buy all of her albums so I have them all in a CD collection, but it feels kinda like a waste of money when I’m getting nothing new, and I don’t even use CDs. They’d just sit on a shelf. What are your Lana album buying habits?

I mean this in the best way possible: A lot of the songs from COTCC and BB are perfect background music when I just need something calming that will help me focus.

Change & Yosemite Both have topics of change, references to weather/seasons, and trying to do the right thing. They also sonically remind me of each other. I think they feel like the equivalent song of their respective albums (LFL, COTCC).

Nectar of the Gods is the best song on BB

I wish the original post for this thread was like a wiki-type thread where anyone could edit. There’s legit no where else to stay up-to-date on the album (that I know of) unless you’re constantly keeping up with this thread which just isn’t realistic for me. 💀

The NFR music video (NFR/Bartender/HIAB) is one of her best projects ever.

the way i completely forgot we got music videos this era. I was getting ready to write in the Tunnel thread how I hope we get music videos this era since we didn’t get any for BB. I definitely watched the Arcadia and BB music videos one time each and then forgot they existed.

I get high on hydroponic weed I'm churnin' out novels like beat poetry on Amphetamines

lana really put her whole lanussy in this album

Omg this is like one of the coolest ideas I've seen on LB. I love this!

What is with the slander in this thread? Anyways, @cinnamongirI, you're not alone in being confused by all the versions available, and I appreciate you putting it together into one thread. I still have no idea what my preferred version is even titled. The tagged version, I guess, since it's 3:35? Anyways, it 100% should've been released, though I'm not sure if it would've fit on an any of the released albums. My preferred version is flawless, and I love it so much. I don't want a reworked version to be officially released, though I'm happy to have reworked versions leaked.

I've warmed up to Chemtrails a lot since its release. I wish I could start fresh with the album with the expectations that I have for it now versus that I had when I went into it. I think anything coming after NFR was hard to live up to and to have reasonable expectations for. The 1-2-3 punch of White Dress into Chemtrails into Tulsa Jesus Freak is one of her best three track runs, and I also think it contributed to the rest of the album falling flat for me at first, even though a lot of the rest of the songs are great too. Those first three songs just feel innovative, special, and next-level. Starting with those three songs and then ending with two very forgettable ballads made it feel like the album was on a descent in quality as I continued listening, even though it's mostly pretty good. White Dress through Breaking Up Slowly is a solid album. I think it should've just been those 9 tracks, maybe with it ending on Yosemite instead of Breaking Up Slowly. I definitely have come to prefer Chemtrails over BB. I like that Chemtrails feels more focused, concise, and purposeful compared to BB. And while Chemtrails has grown on me, BB has aged poorly for me. I hope I come to appreciate BB as much as I've come to appreciate this album.

Yosemite, Florida Kilos, Cherry Idk if I like this lyrics are pretty romantic but the feeling is kinda ominous.

The music video is a serve, but the photoshoot and photos of that era just aren’t cohesive. It’s disappointing because the concept had so much potential.

Just going to post these here for help answering. Credit to @LDReyInfo on Twitter.

Here’s to hoping that the album is what brings Ajayll back to YouTube.

I’m a HUGE fan of Billie Eilish’s softer songs in the winter. Her combination of quiet, calm, and melancholy is really my ideal winter vibe. Ngl, I listen to these songs more this time of year than I listen to Christmas music. everything i wanted i love you when the party’s over Six Feet Under Bored come out and play hostage lovely ocean eyes idontwannabeyouanymore Other winter songs for me not by Billie: Unusual You - Britney Spears Roslyn - St. Vincent & Bon Iver Thank You - Lennon Stella Change - Lana Del Rey Yosemite - Lana Del Rey

Tulsa Jesus Freak Breaking Up Slowly Yosemite Chemtrails Over the Country Club White Dress Not All Who Wander Are Lost Dark But Just a Game Wild at Heart Let Me Love You Like a Woman Dance Till We Die For Free

This is my biggest problem with this album and any long album. I always want to listen to the whole thing in order, but I get fatigued, and never end up listening to the second half of the album. It’s hard to know what songs I liked/didn’t like because it’s just so much continuous music to process at once. I’m probably going to try to start listening in chunks instead.

Because to me, her entire story is rooted in misogyny and this feels like a continuation of that. The media treated her like a dumb bimbo slutty popstar who'd gone crazy when the worst she did is hit a paparazzi's car with an umbrella when they wouldn't leave her alone after Kfed wouldn't let her see her kids. People actually believed the "gone crazy" story enough to think that her dad had to save her life because she wasn't capable of it herself. I don't think she ever would've had her life taken over if she were a man. There is a whole history of women being treated as hysterical, irrational, overemotional, or going crazy. When I see Britney just dancing in her living room, posting nudes, and expressing her emotions and trauma, sometimes misdirected, and people immediately jump to "she needs help, she's unwell, she's unstable, do we need to call the police" etc., it immediately brings me back to that history of women being patronized and diminished with being called hysterical, irrational, etc. Why is she seen as a person that needs saved by someone else instead of letting her be an adult and make her own decisions? Why does everyone else know what's best for Britney, but she doesn't? Why is she not allowed to make mistakes and be emotional without her immediately needing psychiatric help? This is what feels infantalizing to me. I don't see people having this same mindset towards men. Men post nudes and it gets praised, and no one ever equates it to them being unstable because of it. When women post nudes and it's professional shots, it's praised, but when Britney does it in a much more amateur fashion, she gets called unstable or a bad mother for it. Why was it okay for her to do Toxic and Womanizer music videos naked, but it's not okay for her to be naked now? Because she's not doing it in the way that's most attractive, that doesn't fit your expectation of how a woman should show her own body? Btw, I'm not directing this at you but to the people that have been responding to her posts this way.

THANK YOU. I'm so frustrated because Britney never was or has been "crazy." The media and the conservatorship portrayed her that way because it made them money. Everything that she has done that appears "crazy" is understandable with context, and I think many people wouldn't have fared any better or even survived what she has. The conservatorship had NO medical reason to justify it. So when I see people immediately jumping to "she's unwell" and "she needs help" just because she's dancing in her living room, I get so angry. She just lost 15 years of her life to abuse. I expected her to make mistakes and to be upset and to be emotional because she's been through hell and back and hasn't had the freedom to make these mistakes before. And all these people claimed that they learned from how Britney was treated in the 2000s and that we're better now as a society. Yet, here people are, immediately jumping to the misogynistic and patronizing "she's unwell" because she shares her emotion and her trauma and dances in her living room. She’s an adult woman who is making her own decisions. Just because it’s not what you like and what you deem is appropriate does not mean you have any right to assess her well-being, her mental state, intervene in her life, or tell her what to do. She’s not your Barbie doll popstar to play with and care for. It seems like a lot of “fans” didn’t actually want to #FreeBritney, they just thought if they helped her, she’d be the perfect popstar and source of entertainment for them again. They aren’t actually interested in who she really is as a person or what’s actually best for her, just the image of her that they had in their minds. And when she doesn't fit that image, it's a conspiracy. And I'm not saying that Britney can do no wrong. There are posts of hers I don't like or agree with. But the point is I understand where she's coming from and I view her posts with empathy for what she's been through and who she is. Again, I expected her to make mistakes because who wouldn't in her situation? I'm just happy that she's been so willing to share things with us after YEARS of silence and communication controls from her conservatorship. I agree that Britney isn't doing well in the sense of the trauma that she's experienced and having to process right now, but again, I think anyone would in her situation and would even fare worse. What I hate is the armchair psychologists, the conspiracy theorists, and the fake fans who immediately just start calling her crazy because she doesn't fit the perfect image they had of her in their brains. And she even told us that she wants to be feared because being too nice got her hurt, that she wants to upset people and basically give a big "fuck you" to all the expectations set on her, and yet, y'all still aren't listening.

Thank you so much!

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BBS reminds me of 13 Beaches in that they both feel like songs that both stick out (almost feel out of place??) on their albums and sound like what I think a really advanced AI would spit out if you asked it to make a Lana Del Rey song. Like I don’t want to say they sound like a parody of Lana Del Rey because that’s extremely overcritical and more harsh than I mean it to sound, but they kinda sound like imitations of Lana songs? Or like Lana trying to imitate the sound of BTD/Paradise but make it sound slightly newer? Even though BBS isn’t the same style as BTD… Am I making any sense?