honeycookie

the met is iconic but honestly i just want to see her in makeup and something other than yoga leggings and sketchers 

we literally just want her to do SOMETHING

this is the biggest version of the guest list that i could find & bitch's def not on it. and i though *i* was lazy ffs, she's truly doing the absolute least in this era.

I found this but im not sure if it's true
https://twitter.com/_jennieternity/status/1124934270483460096
 
I can't see her name tho         

Was this the news we got April 3rd? 

http://instagram.com/p/BvzZMLcjQk-/ 


. . .

bc alright I get it, and props to her for improving her personal life, which must b hard, especially for her, but at the same time, I hope LA hasn't made her complacent. There're great places to see and visit in cali, and i'm just not seeing that kind of hunger from her anymore, I hope she isn't bored

4 more months until MAC’s 1 year anniversary

and his version of a music video featuring riding in cars and his friends was actually well lit and planned and gave a sense of authenticity and genuine love, even if it was more of a slice of life/handheld recorded video; something lana couldn't even do despite practically inventing that type of video 

Kevin Abstract - knowing he doesn't have a promo schedule or major videos planned - announced his Antonoff-produced album in March, released a single in early April, and swiftly released the entire album on April 25th. 
 

Go off Vertimus

I think the classic rock lyric and title references in her songs are getting too obvious. They used to be clever and insightful, but now they often seem redundant and lazy. This is one reason I can’t agree that LDR’s lyrics are always sterling.
 
I mean the “I’m your man / Crimson and clover / Stairway to Heaven / Rosemary and thyme / Hotel California / Ground control to Major Tom” stuff.

Loss of fans

Ok, so fourth walling here. But usually, when life's all great and I'm picking up the pieces of myself, there's something that scared me/propelled so that it never happens again. I wanna know what's happening in those church basement meetings, like not even lewd, but what is happening. She usually releases records with some kind of fear in mind, aside from her social commentary. 

Born to Die, pretty obvious. 
Paradise: loss of youth 
UV, loss of love
HM, loss of self
LFL, loss of zest /vibrance, aka boredom, a kind of death

NFR ?? 

... Soooo anyway. I think the only way to listen to the songs we have rn to keep ourselves at bay while we wait for the album is to first) delete the snippets from our repertoire, overplaying them is just like overindulging on appetizers at a dinner party: you’re going to ruin the main course! second) don’t listen to the live versions of HTD or Hey Blue Baby since they’re technically not canon and, once again, are likely to ruin the real studio versions & third) only listen to MAC, VB, and HIADT at certain times during the day to prevent them from growing stale.
 
MAC, to me, is a morning song (8 AM/ sunrise till about 2 PM) since it is bright, fresh, and optimistic.
 
VB is an afternoon/ early evening song (2 PM at the absolute earliest, sundown/ twilight at the absolute latest) for when your day is starting to wind down and feel less fresh, and you just want a song to lose yourself in and meditate to
 
Finally HIADT, you can’t listen to this until the sun has officially gone down. If there is any lingering sunlight or any blue sky left (even if it is dark blue twilight) listen to VB. Don’t listen to HIADT until the sky has gone black. It is a melancholy and contemplative nighttime anthem.
 
And thats that on that folks! I can’t wait for HIAB so we can have another early afternoon anthem, and Cinnamon and “You Don’t Ever Have To” so we can have more nighttime bangers

right before the outro in 24, “you’re hard to rEACH!..........
 
.........
 
you’re cold to touuuch......” :defeated:

so......
 

-"Lost but now I am found" in Born To Die, I've always really appreciated her voice in that part
-Shades of Cool
-The scatting in her live performances of MDM

the end of the bridge in kill kill 
after "don't trust anyone" and right before "i'm in love with a dying man"
the instruments all come together and they make me feel like im falling. one of my fav moments in any lana song

The opening strings in Honeymoon 

A list of what I think were her best musical moments
Ride's bridge Heroin's instrumental (I know she didn't actually do it but it's still her music) Freak's background vocals in the chorus (and also how she did some of the instrumentals for it) West Coast's tempo slowing down for the chorus Ultraviolence using lyrics from Fucked My Way Up To The Top The high note in Cola! Tropico in general (even though that was all kind of art, not just music) Background vocals in Driving in Cars with Boys The Blackest Day's bridge The intro of She's Not Me / Ride or Die Her Blue Velvet cover Big Bad Wolf (V2) instrumental (again, she didn't do it but still..) Guns and Roses' trippy part of the bridge Shades of Cool's outro Gods and Monsters little piano synth part and the screaming sounds Salvatore's final chorus Yes To Heaven's lyrics

Oh, honey. That Lana Del Rey is dead.

I agree, it's one of her most personal and daring songs and places her in Joni Mitchell/Tori Amos territory, but for me, personally, it's not what I look for when I look to LDR.
 
It's not the rawness and vulnerability that is a slight turn off to me, it's just that musically, I don't find any sort of catharsis in the music or by the end. Objectively, I admire it and can see everything valuable and progressive in it in terms of her songwriting, but subjectively, I don't care for it a great deal.  

About her songwriting, I agree that it's suffered at least a little. I don't we'll ever get anything as pure or personal as 'Yayo' again, though there were some weak songs on BTD, certainly.
 
About the time of 'Paradise,' she wouldn't have used phrasing, I don't think, like "People are powerful be-ins" the way she did on 'Change,' which mars the song for me, or the way she sang, on 'Coachella,' "..and what about all their parents" in the inexplicable hard manner she did, which jumps out at me every time I listen to it, which isn't often. 
 
I wonder where the un-PC LDR has gone, the writer of 'Gods & Monsters,' the more visionary LDR. I like MAC very much, but it does seem 'safe,' 'warm and fuzzy' to me, and at least a slight example of 'virtue signaling.' When we find out how it fits in with the rest of the album, it will probably seem more that way, or less that way.