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I think Lana is the torchbearer of the last vestiges of that truly great songwriting and storytelling of the 70s, and I think she knows it. Beyond the aesthetics, which is what she has always been known for and reduced down to, she really has a spiritual connection to that collective consciousness, to other 'souls of the sea’, to her family and to God. I think from the very beginning to now she has been tapping into that but is just more aware of, and driven by, the connectedness these days. She will never be the tree that falls with nobody there to hear it because to do so would be to remove herself from those connections, and to extinguish the torch she has been passed. She continues to defy the corporate trends in pursuit of this dream and duty, which is what makes her my number 1 role model

Oh you sound just like me I’ve never heard of Ann Wilson but that was GORGEOUS! Imagine if Lana was still compressing like the other pop girlies - we would have never gotten that barely-audible and absolutely brilliant whispered “Texas” in Paris, Texas

I just want to put my 2 cents in about the quietness/muffled sound of the album. This is because Lana has gradually stopped competing in what’s called “the loudness war” in music, which is where pop music is made to be as loud as possible without distorting. This is great for streaming and shopping mall speakers and stuff because any song from any musician can play in sequence and it will all be at the same volume. Here you can see the waveforms of Born To Die, Norman, Candy Necklace and Say So by Doja Cat. See how Say So is just a solid bar of black? If Candy Necklace wanted to explode into a loud outro, it could, but Say So is entirely a loud explosion and can’t go anywhere else. It also means that in the context of an album, if Lana wants one song to get louder than all the rest as part of the emotional trajectory of the album (Grandfather), she is able to do that. In comparison to any given pop music right now, Lana’s will sound quiet and muffled because it hasn’t had the Father, the Son AND the Holy Spirit compressed and EQ’d out of it

@hotshot2am If there was any more merch coming, such as a boob CD/cassette, would you theoretically be able to know? Like you knew that something got added to the US store which ended up being the boob vinyl - and I’m guessing if you don’t see anything get added, that means nothing is coming? Thank you

Omg, it’s cheaper for me to order this vinyl from Canada and pay for it to be put on a cargo ship and delivered all the way to my front door than it is for me to walk into any given record store near me and buy the standard vinyl

Only 60 boobs vinyls have sold on the AU store in the past 24 hours…. this is not how this was supposed to go

The way that merch for this album just keeps coming I think there is a good chance, but I'm also just saying that cuz I really want it to happen Thank you

I would have done the same if I'd have woken up 30 minutes earlier @hotshot2am Out of interest, are you able to see how many are stocked on the AU website?

I can tell I'm going to end up spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars that I don't have on Lana this year

Why is the boobs out kaiman kazazian drawing not on the centre label . ,... it was BORN to be on this vinyl 😭 I woke up in the wrong reality today

My AU store poster finally shipped just now @TayLanaHoe I hope yours did too

Any status updates on this mystery item?

JIMIN YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED

They should have included a tiny poster with the dark pink cassette like the cd and vinyl That would have been so bonita

The shows are gonna be so secret not even she will know about them!

@TayLanaHoe They pushed the shipping date of that AU store poster back yet another day I’ve seen a fair few people receiving cracked CDs and cassettes Morale is low in the world right now, workers don’t really care about doing a great job

I’m feeling like Kintsugi might be the ultimate LDR song. It’s one of those songs like Hallelujah and Take Me Home, Country Roads, like the pinnacle of classic songwriting. That chorus is straight from God and the collective consciousness

Hi Lorde welcome to lanaboards girl!

Does anyone have the store white cd and/or cassette? I want to know what the cd booklet and cassette foldout thing looks like and whether those 4 little photos of her just got shrunken down to fit

I don’t have insta, but it seems that these mystery vinyls are just white vinyls and picture discs anyway

I just looked up the UPC provided and it came up with… the picture disc?

This is a very good point, all the other 2LP vinyls are labelled as such, while this one is not labelled and is half the weight yet double the price. It’s one record but the title is the same

I just emailed them asking how it differs to the standard vinyl, so we will get some kind of answer in about 10 years

What is going on with these mystery vinyls……..Why is the weight 225g when the other vinyls are 450g. This is so

I just realised they’re literally just scalping 😫 They bought the last stock of the variants in Australia and they’re reselling them for a billion dollars each