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Why are y’all so dramatic? Just wait until Sep 5 and see if anything comes or not. I’m excited for the album and still trust it will be coming the 5th, but I won’t be upset if it doesn’t. It seems like NFR just came out and that already blew away my expectations. Not to mention, we had to wait a year after MAC was released to get NFR. 
 
Chill out and enjoy Lana’s hundreds of songs that have already been released or leaked or her new audiobook. There’s too many stressful things already going on in the world for y’all to be basing your happiness on an album.

The era hasn’t even begun yet, unless you count the snippet as the start of the era. And I know there are people like me who haven’t even listened to the snippet, so we literally know nothing. We should be waiting patiently instead of complaining every single day. Let’s first wait until September, or until we get news before saying anything or being mad. Keep the positivity alive! 

NFR Honeymoon Ultraviolence AKA BTD LFL Paradise Ultraviolence and Honeymoon are likely to switch back and forth, but for now, this is my rating.

Gorgeous 
A perfect summer theme

Guys, a lot of people collect Lana outfits, plus a Lana Del Rey forum would be a nice place to start in my opinion, no need to be so bitchy about it

What a lovely way to greet a new member! You guys rock!

she really missed doing nothing most of all huh 

I think the new forum software is great except that scrolling in Safari on MacOS is very laggy. I noticed this doesn't happen in Firefox. Is there anyway this can be fixed? 

I think the new forum software is great except that scrolling in Safari on MacOS is very laggy. I noticed this doesn't happen in Firefox. Is there anyway this can be fixed? 

Well 6 years later, I'm finally appreciating Is This Happiness. I never disliked it. It just was always forgettable for me. Now I heard it once a few days ago and can't get it out of my head. 

As someone who didn't even notice the lyric/production changes when NFR came out () and had BAR as my least favorite song on NFR, you have now made me care about the song. Just listened to the original, and the lyrics are definitely more powerful. I'm now angry about the lyric decision, but you made me care about the song more which I appreciate. 
I guess your point is also strengthened, because I do feel that I would connect more with the song if it had been released on NFR with the original lyrics. Instead, it just became a kinda boring song to me. I didn't dislike it, but I wasn't necessarily drawn to it either. Had the OG lyrics been on the album, I would've noticed over time and would've understood the appeal of the song more.

dk if this is unpopular but I think lana's "poppier" unreleased songs are some of her best unreleased ones 
I love the carefree energy of songs like "BBM Baby" and "Back To The Basics"
 

As someone who didn't even notice the lyric/production changes when NFR came out () and had BAR as my least favorite song on NFR, you have now made me care about the song. Just listened to the original, and the lyrics are definitely more powerful. I'm now angry about the lyric decision, but you made me care about the song more which I appreciate. 
I guess your point is also strengthened, because I do feel that I would connect more with the song if it had been released on NFR with the original lyrics. Instead, it just became a kinda boring song to me. I didn't dislike it, but I wasn't necessarily drawn to it either. Had the OG lyrics been on the album, I would've noticed over time and would've understood the appeal of the song more.

As someone who didn't even notice the lyric/production changes when NFR came out () and had BAR as my least favorite song on NFR, you have now made me care about the song. Just listened to the original, and the lyrics are definitely more powerful. I'm now angry about the lyric decision, but you made me care about the song more which I appreciate. 
I guess your point is also strengthened, because I do feel that I would connect more with the song if it had been released on NFR with the original lyrics. Instead, it just became a kinda boring song to me. I didn't dislike it, but I wasn't necessarily drawn to it either. Had the OG lyrics been on the album, I would've noticed over time and would've understood the appeal of the song more.

Well 6 years later, I'm finally appreciating Is This Happiness. I never disliked it. It just was always forgettable for me. Now I heard it once a few days ago and can't get it out of my head. 

Well 6 years later, I'm finally appreciating Is This Happiness. I never disliked it. It just was always forgettable for me. Now I heard it once a few days ago and can't get it out of my head. 

it's like meeting a beautiful baby everyone loves and then punching it. I guess it's audacious but everyone else will see it as horrifying. 
As a quick overview, the main problem with the song is that we all heard the original, thus it's impossible to remove that positionality for some people (myself included). The original BAR told a brilliant story of schadenfreude - it was full of vitriol, Lana having the last laugh over someone who put her last and neglected her by obsessing over something else constantly, which ultimately wasn't worth it since they lost everything. She is literally one of the world's biggest alternative stars singing to (probably Barrie) 'you got bored of me trying to write music, now you're obscure, dumped and forgotten - how does that feel now you've lost everything including me?'. Anyone that says they don't understand the problem with the new one either didn't hear the original first or is just being absurd, because even Lana butchers the lyrics by moving between past and present tense, and the bridge makes no fucking sense. 
"I see you for who you really are - why the thousands of girls of girls love the way Bill plays guitar" as she realises she's under the same spell and is not different to his thousands of other disposable fans. I see you for who you really are and TOPANGA'S HOT TONIGHT!? or I see you for who you really are and I JUST WANNA PARTY WITH YOU? Could this chorus be any more fucking disparate. We've now disregarded everything before, thrown away a message people feel strongly yet so ephemerally (especially scorning your ex - hellooooooo romantic culture), and replaced it with OOOO BABY I WANNA PARTY and I wanna SEX SEX SEX you TEE HEE TAKIN' OFF MY BATHING SUIT im so cheeky and in LOVE!.
And another thing - the new one literally relegates The Next Best American Record to a red herring. In the original, it was an unobtainable goal that demanded sacrifices that ultimately destroyed a relationship. The fame that is being chased is what consumes them, in a brilliant self-referential way as she records what was to be her leading single and the original title of the work. In this new version, it's apparently just another exhausting aspect of the relationship but doesn't matter because 'we were just that good' and then the verse + bridge makes no references to how it impacts on their relationship. 
As we discussed in the Queer Affinity for Lana thread, I think a lot of people really loved the original since for her audience it was a lot more demure, and there is a quiet regret but also scathing taunt and victory in the final lines "How does that taste now / Now that you've lost the game / Baby how're you feeling now? / I told you". It's awesome. Empowering. Like walking slowly away from a building that just blew up as the villain delivers one last scream. We have gone on a journey from the intial adoration, to a problem being presented, to the bridge showing the villain, and then the vindication. The song is genius.
The new one disregards the entire original message and replaces it with something really, really vapid. We didn't need to hear another song about how cool it is to be in love - we had that with Love Song. I don't wanna sing along to "I'm taking off my bathing suit" - it sounds cheap and tacky. And a few other factors - it sonically does not fit with NFR, and it literally goes against what she claimed the record was about and the title song about the guy thinking he's top shit but in reality, he just actually is shit.
I've no doubt Lana just at the last minute went 'hmmm maybe it's too mean' but to shoot an entire music video for it and then reworked it? Plus can't even bother performing it in the right pitch live . . . or remember the lyrics. Ugh. It could've actually been her best song.
I will now take rebuttals and people saying "THAT'S JUST YOUR OPINION". 

Gorgeous 
A perfect summer theme

i just wish text was underlaid with some uniform color cuz this makes it really hard to read, especially the bread crumbs on top  otherwise i love it
 

Gorgeous 
A perfect summer theme

cause its a book and not music why is this concept so hard to grasp

I just realized I’m not ready for COTCC at all. I’m still not over NFR and I don’t know how COTCC is going to live up to it for me. 

I just realized I’m not ready for COTCC at all. I’m still not over NFR and I don’t know how COTCC is going to live up to it for me. 

I just realized I’m not ready for COTCC at all. I’m still not over NFR and I don’t know how COTCC is going to live up to it for me. 

I refuse to listen to anything until the album is released in full. HOWEVER, I came all the way here just to say that I think this post made me straight: https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkGB5ypaTH/
 
Not even kidding