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Get Free is her best. It's such a brilliant song. 

Live lounge on Monday 9th September
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/14CSDLpxPbs1r353t1SglFX/stormzy-mark-ronson-charli-xcx-and-christine-and-the-queens-to-join-taylor-swift-for-live-lounge-month-2019

Worldwide release with the mv tomorrow i guess

no

She’s a Melanie Martinez stan, enough said!

It does on iTunes / Apple Music, so it'll most likely have it on Spotify too.

Do you we think it'll be an NZ premiere or the songs will come out with the MV tomorrow? 

It does on iTunes / Apple Music, so it'll most likely have it on Spotify too.

Do you we think it'll be an NZ premiere or the songs will come out with the MV tomorrow? 

This song is a perfect example of what Honeymoon is all about. The lyrics are meant to be poetic, to paint images on your head and take you on a journey. When I listen to Salvatore I automatically imagine myself in Italy, eating ice cream sitting by the sidewalk on a hot summer day while I watch cute guys walk by. "Pink flamingos always fascinated me" of course that line won't make sense but it paints a image on your head of you surrounded by flamingos and girls on a field (I see you Dua Lipa). It's not meant to be literal, it's poetry it's exquisite it's magical. 

don't you ever again shade the album that has this masterpiece on.
 

I think we can ALL agree Lana has sub par lyrics across her discography!

OT: This Honeymoon slander has to stop! There's no debate that it's an immaculate, timeless piece of work. A career and creative highlight.

10 days until magnum opus arrives. 

I'll try & explain the connections I've made when I hear L4L (even though this is the NFR thread). For me, it's as if 1/2 of the tracks are more geared towards "Lust" & the other 1/2 towards "Life" (well, lusting for life amidst the fear of death). She scatters these 'lust' & 'life' tracks in a pattern. I don't care if this is a reach, but here's my track-by-track breakdown:
 
"Love" -> life-affirming, since she's kinda addressing us (and addresses her self-love, towards the end) "Lust for Life" -> lust, since it's more about her & The Weeknd's chemistry. The music video is also a fantasy. "13 Beaches" -> life, given the beginning dialogue about not being other people & Lana's "dying for something real"  "Cherry" -> lust; just hear that chorus again  "White Mustang" -> This was a trickier song for me to mentally categorize, because it could be that she's looking back on someone she knew. But she also mentions "Armageddon", the man being a killer, & that "Summer's meant for lovin' & leavin'"... I would categorize this as a 'life' song.  "Summer Bummer" -> lust, given the chorus bridge & A$AP Rocky's feature  "Groupie Love" -> This song is like the opposite of ^ that's nonetheless attracted/attractive. I figure this is a 'life' song because it's almost like Lana's celebrating that she's got her man in A$AP Rocky. Plus, the applause at the very end makes it seem such.  "In My Feelings" -> lust, because she's hyping herself up as the bad bitch she is "Coachella - Woodstock in my mind" -> life, because she's calling out for sustaining something greater than her own individual actions "God Bless America" -> In a break with this lust-life pattern I've categorized, I'd consider this a 'life' song. You can just tell from the title that she's celebrating female solidarity, and in the verses, she's affirming her own worth.  "WTWWAWWJKD" -> I'd categorize this as a 'lust' song, but it's certainly slower than the other songs I labeled as 'lust' songs. When she addresses the girls, she knows not all of them can just go 'across the pond' to avoid the Trump administration. When she addresses the boys, she's calling out all their greed.  "Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems" -> A 'life' song, because the lyrics present a more relatable/realistic situation (aside from the rivers running red with blood & walking through fire).  "Tomorrow Never Came" -> A 'lust' song, even though it's another romantic duet, because of the lyrical content tying back to how Lana's hypothetical date didn't grow into a lasting relationship.  "Heroin" -> From here until the album's conclusion, this pattern I made is broken. I'd consider this a 'lust' song because this is perhaps the darkest song on the album. Its placement on the track listing is akin to "The Blackest Day" off of Honeymoon. Not to mention the vibe where she's alluding to the Manson Family. Heroin's lyrics seem to be the (ir)rational outcome of Lana's lusting.  "Change" -> Undoubtedly a 'life' song, and Lana's most personal song off the album. ALL of the lyrics are in the present tense here. The piano keys set up this so(m)ber vibe. (I imagine her sobering up here after letting go of the dark energy in the previous song). It's also the last song on the album to feature her falsetto voice. She also wraps up her 'summer', complete with harmonies, questioning her beauty & stability leading up to the falsetto-fied chorus.  "Get Free" -> Now that Lana has released the dark energies, acknowledged the turmoil in this world (without compromising her values), and grown from her more vain expressions, she much more clearly sees & charts the path she's taking. She releases her negative energy by stating she 'crossed the threshold' & that 'the Crowley way of being' is gone. (Aleister Crowley was a famous practitioner of the occult arts, & was once described as the world's most wicked man). The pre-choruses suggest she won't allow herself to be consumed by society's false perceptions & projections of what an ideal life entails. She also indirectly states that she won't take us for granted, a suggestion made in 'Love'. And the 'out of the black, into the blue' lines feature increasingly contrasting harmonies, along with the keyboard sounds that I personally imagine as lighthouse lights, and along with the beach noises at the very end.  All in all, I hope the Lust For Life album makes more sense for you if you perceive these songs as being complimentary coupled up!

I feel like when you listen to LFL on vinyl, it makes much more sense. It’s almost like it’s split into four little “suites” of songs that way. And the way each side opens works so nicely. And where the first disc ends and the second starts feels like the prefect break of act one and act two. Idk I think it flows nicely, especially since similar styled songs are grouped together and the transition between genres isn’t so jarring.
Sorry, I know this belongs in the LFL thread but it felt like the time to say it.

What still shocks me about this era is that some still think MAC is boring or average.

Stevie Nicks:  *is 71* 
 
Del Rey added: “Stevie's one of the few people I know that says the muse is the most important thing to her. More than anything else, her priority is just following the muse wherever it takes her, whether it’s a 60-date tour or new record or solo endeavour. So she’s inspirational like that.”    Lana LOVES that Stevie is still touring!  I recall her seeing Carole King, who is in her late 70s, in 2015-2016 also!    LOVE IT!!! 

Cher is 73.

This clown 

he strictly only worked on the engineering and beats of HM... and he, as ALL of her co-workers, did what Lana came up with. His work can be excellent (Art Deco, HBTB, Freak, Blackest Day...) as can be a mess (some of the LFL drum work)
 
nowhere, they're still working

he works almost on all of her honeymoon songs and damn that was amazing how did i forget that 

Y'all talking about Rick, Dan and Jack but paying dust to Kieron is home of topic. He literally was the one who encapsulated everything that is Lana Del Rey and translated it in her most brilliant and cohesive album to date.

calling from beyond the grave i just wanna say hi Dan