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the melody sounds nice, but the lyrics are a complete cringefest. nothing about those verses is salvageable to me, from the 'happiness is a butterfly' cliché to the random 'like' in the middle of the 2nd verse, to "my babies" to "tourlyfe". i know i'm being harsh, but i reaaally don't like any of it. edit: oh wait, and i forgot yet another moonlight reference + rhyming butterfly with lullaby. just kill me.

i pray it gets scrapped and it's no song, tbh.

i also think she loves it and is especially proud of it when compared to the rest of her discog. as for not playing it live, since the songs are so personal & meaningful to her, maybe she just doesn't want to ruin them for her by overplaying them (something that happens to p much all musicians) so she saves them for special occasions? idk.

i LOVE Neil, but i don't think their voices would be a good fit together. he mostly sings in his distinctive falsetto & imo it would sound really odd next to Lana's voice. i wish she'd cover Sad Movies tho - the queen of unreleased music covering the OG king of unreleased music, what a dream.

couldn't agree more. i think it's not a coincidence that she's dabbled with personas since the beginning of career, it both adds to the mystery & ends up protecting her 'real identity' and privacy. so she's def one of those artists who'd lose a lot of her mystique by oversharing personal info.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL0X2GMhnr4

i can see both arguments tbh. i tend to think of it as an EP simply bc it's listed as one on her wiki page & i never gave it a lot of thought beyond that, but unless she specifically states it's one or the other it can be either.

bless your taste. my dream album is one whose moodboard/insp. is a mix of Catch & Release, Us Against The World, You Can Be The Boss, Motel 6 & Daytona Meth + Heroin, Cruel World & The Blackest Day. i would d i e.

THANK YOU. and i say that as an agnostic. like you, i also dgaf about other people's religion or lack thereof, but this particular brand of holier-than-thou atheism is incredibly annoying & more than a little bit ironic - they can be just as proselytizing (or more) as those they deride & are supposedly superior to.

i was never convinced about the Terry Burns theory re: who is Terrence, and lately it occurred to me - could the Terrence in the title refer to Terence McKenna? he was the guy who did the most to popularize hallucinogens in mainstream culture, only 2nd to Timothy Leary, and described as "an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants". he had several theories/thoughts about psychedelics ofc, artists & creativity, but also about time and frequently cited TS Eliot in his lectures (cue Burnt Norton). other topics included: several of those themes match Lana's self-professed interests. he frequented Grateful Dead type circles and was kind of a guru-like figure, revered by the west coast psychedelic music crowd, so there's some overlap there too. and this "Terrence" mention happens in a pretty psych drugs-influenced phase of Lana's career, right after UV & in an album that also features a song called High By The Beach and a pretty literal video for Freak. also, some of his more popular quotes are: Lana in TLY: i have no idea if this is anywhere near what she was thinking when she wrote the song, but given her interest in metaphysics & psychedelics it's certain that she knows him. there's also the misspelling of the name to account for - tho Terry Burns was also Terence, not Terrence, so. but anyway, it's just a thought. (where is @@evilentity when you need him!)

LANA, IF YOU'RE READING THIS...

i will keep giving my money to the artists i wanna support via buying their music, merch & concert tickets, but i sure as fuck won't be blackmailed into giving it away to billion dollar companies to able to listen to said music on their terms. where i live 'piracy' is completely legal if it's for private use, so... *kanye shrug*.

i don't buy this tbh. LFL is still chockful of americana, both in song titles and lyrics (not to mention the album cover itself). and "best american record" was used almost as a criticism & borderline sarcastically in those lyrics, unlike, say, "god bless america" where the lyrics seem to be unironic, so i honestly don't think that was a factor at all.

i see what you mean. she does seem to be putting comfort over aesthetics more and more nowadays. the white trash-y vibes are always there bc it's something that genuinely appeals to her, but it's less... spectacular & effect-oriented, i guess. i do think we're prob blowing this truck thing out of proportion tho, but if lana stans can't be drama queens who can tbh. as for blending in, maybe her growing fame & all the incidents with crazy fans made her want to be more inconspicuous and discreet in her private life / outside the stage ? idk. but removing her tats tho... WHY.

she's always liked her glamour with a side of trash so this fits imo.

this person doesn't know what sampling is lol, the only one that fits that term is 13 beaches (which genuinely surprised me, i thought it was lana speaking). the heroin/princess chelsea "sample" is a huge reach bc unlike get free/radiohead it doesn't even use the same 4 chords (tho i def think both songs have a similar vibe).

i just saw her pickup truck. i cannot. she's buying a ranch next, i'm calling it now.

i think Lana truly likes Chuck's photos and how she captures her. i don't remember in which interview/occasion it was, but Lana did say that she's lucky to have someone who completely understands her vision and is able to translate it into photography unlike any other person she's worked with. Chuck's work is often hit and miss for me too, but i don't think her sticking around has anything to do with guilt or inability to say no on Lana's part. i think Lana trusts her and genuinely likes what she does, and i'm p sure she's also more at ease to say 'i hate this/this is not what i want, let's do it again' a 100x at Chuck than at any other photographer, so in the end she prob gets the exact result she wants with her rather than an approximation with someone else. tl;dr i don't think Lana is a vulnerable little thing at all and always does exactly whatever tf she wants, and that also goes re: Chuck

@@graham4anything i was gonna say that Get Free literally is Ride with current insight & experience, but that makes quite a bit of sense too.

lmao i know the feeling, in this page alone people have bashed Heroin AND Cruel World, if someone does the same to The Blackest Day they'll have insulted my 3 fave songs and i'll be needing some smelling salts asap.

this, tbh. she seems over a lot of the themes she used to sing about and has become a lot more socially conscious than she used to be (like retiring Cola or her reaction to the 'if i get a little prettier' line p much prove). her lyrics have always reflected her interests/obsessions and she's definitely growing out of and/or starting to think critically about a lot of what she used to be into, so i don't think she's gonna go back either. the imagery will stay, as will the fascination with everything dark & seedy and a certain willingness to transgress, but imo the lyrics will keep going LFL forward rather than BTD back, so a lot of ppl will just have to deal.

i don't hate it by any means, but i also don't get the hype around Get Free. it wouldn't even make it to the top half of a LFL ranking for me.

i totally agree. one of the few remixes that work with her songs imo, bc even though it's sped up it doesn't sound cheery/upbeat at all since he made it sound dark and dangerous. gesaffelstein is a genius tbh.

that's interesting! Markus Bagå, the designer responsible for the cover art, is very inspired/influenced by old album covers so who knows if that one was a direct inspo! tho personally i think it's prob just a coincidence, since a lot of covers back in the 70s had a similar design and that album is p obscure. i still think the typography they chose for LFL was directly inspired by Neil Young's Harvest Moon (especially since both Lana & Markus are obv fans).

lol THANK YOU! this 'Lana is actually a cancer' myth is spreading for some reason & it's fucking annoying. take a look at her birth chart ffs.