Poor Stacy

Honeymoon is still alive and breathing in my heart

lol, as if lana would do anything that she didn't want to do at this point. she said it herself in the pitchfork interview, she only cares about her own opinion. 

Body Electric is t r a s h

I'm triggered

Born to Die reminds me of being in my last couple years of college & having big dreams for the future. I was yet to fall in love for the first time, so it felt like the beginning of my life, I suppose. I'd recently moved to a big city with no family nearby, & Born To Die felt like a fur-coat-security-blanket. I've always loved the orchestral elements -- the album's always felt very lush, bold, romantic, clean, & driven. There's an energy to this album that takes me back to memories of a new, naive time in my life.

Paradise doesn't leave much of an impact on me anymore. I had just entered my first relationship at the time & was very preoccupied with that. Ride was an important song to me when it was released (& still is, though I don't revisit it as often as I should). Bel Air is the one song I listen to regularly. I swear, sometimes it haunts me. I think of the melody & lyrics all the time. One of my all time favorite Lana songs. This is probably my least favorite Lana release overall, though.
 
Ultraviolence arrived at a time when I was trying to get over my first relationship crumbling. I had graduated college but had to move home because it took me a while to find a job. At the time West Coast was released, I landed a job with a tech company & was sent to California for a month for training. I lived out of a hotel, slowly made a few new friends from my job, & blasted West Coast daily while I drove my rental car on the desert-esque roads. I remember feeling really depressed & isolated at the time, yet faithful that things might just work out. Still, Ultraviolence helped me purge a lot of those dark feelings I was still clinging to. It's not an album I can listen to every day anymore, but it means a lot to me.

Honeymoon is actually a really special album for me. I switched jobs between the release of UV & HM. Before Honeymoon came out, I moved back downtown, in the same city where I'd met my first love. I rented a condo from an older man in a large building. I had a corner unit that was really quiet, overlooking a swimming pool from 7 stories up, with partial views of the city. During that time, I remember feeling really reserved. I was making good money, but I wasn't in the mood to date or talk to many people. I remember sitting on the carpeted floor, looking out the window into the city, just silently listening to Honeymoon. I would go on walks at night or lay out on the building rooftop listening to Honeymoon or having the songs stuck in my head, just living a quiet life -- one that I perhaps was dreaming of during Born To Die, but still feeling very alone, perhaps a little melancholy, but also sort of being content with that.

I listen to Honeymoon regularly still, & it's a mood album for me. Whenever I'm feeling very internal, dreamy, or quiet -- this is always the album I escape to, along with Julia Holter's Have You In My Wilderness.
 
Lust For Life is coming at a strange time in my life. I've become more of a social butterfly -- I have quite a few friends I enjoy, & I'm now familiar with the stability I've built for myself. That said, I can't help but feel a bit dissatisfied. I feel like there's something more out there for me. I'm still single. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want. Like Lana, I can't help but feel a bit mixed up. I'm not exactly sure what Lust For Life means as an album for me yet, either. I just know I love it.

I can't sleep so I just wanna rattle off some of my favorite moments on the album
 
 
 

I'm surprised the gays fall for his shit. Such a fake ass bitch.

Coachella being released when she did, stakes HER as the trendsetter, the one who led the way politically and once again shows how others have followed or will be following her
 
(in the same way "Terence Loves You" was written and released and sung before David Bowie died (and it was not pushed afterwards as single like some others might have profited off of the song.) Lana's was there before.
 
and btw, remember too that Coachella came PRIOR to the Selena Gomez concert and aftermath, but is so apropos of that too
 
as I said, can't think of any song that will top Coachella, I withhold judgement on the album until after the entire album is released to let everyone hear it
 
btw- on a different thread I said-
Groupie Love is in a way the direct companion meaning wise to "High by the beach" and part of the meaning of Groupie Love is telling the kiddies if they see Lana at a concert and Lana is attempting to enjoy it as a private person in a public place, give her space. Of course she is so nice she will pose for the selfies and all, but remember, she is trying to enjoy
the show or atmosphere herself as a regular person would.
 
But placement is always important in all of Lana's albums, all of which are concept albums.
(more after Lust for life is released)
 
@Mr.Meeseeks glad to see another poster who loves concept albums and sees that all of hers are.

(The sweetest melody)
Even when you walk alone with no lights on
You better believe that nobody can make me feel lonely
Because I hear
(The sweetest melody)
Even when you talk that talk, but the light's on my side
So I know that I'll never feel, ever feel lonely
I have no fear
(It's got me thinking)
 
 
is what I hear

A singer is allowed to be sassy and playful in her lyrics and not just constantly depressive, profound, and poignant.

I get your point but not everything has to be a lyrical masterpiece imo. I for one appreciate that on an album like this we have some heavier songs with deeper lyrics and then other songs that are more simple and just easy to listen to. 

It's trash magic

Born to Die reminds me of being in my last couple years of college & having big dreams for the future. I was yet to fall in love for the first time, so it felt like the beginning of my life, I suppose. I'd recently moved to a big city with no family nearby, & Born To Die felt like a fur-coat-security-blanket. I've always loved the orchestral elements -- the album's always felt very lush, bold, romantic, clean, & driven. There's an energy to this album that takes me back to memories of a new, naive time in my life.

Paradise doesn't leave much of an impact on me anymore. I had just entered my first relationship at the time & was very preoccupied with that. Ride was an important song to me when it was released (& still is, though I don't revisit it as often as I should). Bel Air is the one song I listen to regularly. I swear, sometimes it haunts me. I think of the melody & lyrics all the time. One of my all time favorite Lana songs. This is probably my least favorite Lana release overall, though.
 
Ultraviolence arrived at a time when I was trying to get over my first relationship crumbling. I had graduated college but had to move home because it took me a while to find a job. At the time West Coast was released, I landed a job with a tech company & was sent to California for a month for training. I lived out of a hotel, slowly made a few new friends from my job, & blasted West Coast daily while I drove my rental car on the desert-esque roads. I remember feeling really depressed & isolated at the time, yet faithful that things might just work out. Still, Ultraviolence helped me purge a lot of those dark feelings I was still clinging to. It's not an album I can listen to every day anymore, but it means a lot to me.

Honeymoon is actually a really special album for me. I switched jobs between the release of UV & HM. Before Honeymoon came out, I moved back downtown, in the same city where I'd met my first love. I rented a condo from an older man in a large building. I had a corner unit that was really quiet, overlooking a swimming pool from 7 stories up, with partial views of the city. During that time, I remember feeling really reserved. I was making good money, but I wasn't in the mood to date or talk to many people. I remember sitting on the carpeted floor, looking out the window into the city, just silently listening to Honeymoon. I would go on walks at night or lay out on the building rooftop listening to Honeymoon or having the songs stuck in my head, just living a quiet life -- one that I perhaps was dreaming of during Born To Die, but still feeling very alone, perhaps a little melancholy, but also sort of being content with that.

I listen to Honeymoon regularly still, & it's a mood album for me. Whenever I'm feeling very internal, dreamy, or quiet -- this is always the album I escape to, along with Julia Holter's Have You In My Wilderness.
 
Lust For Life is coming at a strange time in my life. I've become more of a social butterfly -- I have quite a few friends I enjoy, & I'm now familiar with the stability I've built for myself. That said, I can't help but feel a bit dissatisfied. I feel like there's something more out there for me. I'm still single. I'm still trying to figure out exactly what I want. Like Lana, I can't help but feel a bit mixed up. I'm not exactly sure what Lust For Life means as an album for me yet, either. I just know I love it.

And who cares about this Fanta guy, why do people even mention him?

Well but in the end who cares - this guy is a joke.

White Mustang is the only one I am not too keen on, but it's okay cause it's only 2:45

bye

Is that your final answer, sis?

All in order
Songs I adore:
Get Free
God Bless America
Love
 
Songs I love:
Tomorrow Never Came
Heroin
Summer Bummer
Beautiful People
 
Songs I like:
Groupie Love
War
In My Feelings
White Mustang
Lust for Life
Coachella
Cherry
Change
 
Songs I don't like: 
NONE. such a perfect album

When every opinion someone has is wrong

Why? I thought it was tastefully done. 

First listen thoughts:
 
- 13 Beaches is Lust For Life's Terrence Loves You. 
- White Mustang reminds me of Britney's Shattered Glass in that it's very short & sort of nothing-y.
- Heroin is Lust For Life's The Blackest Day (& will be criminally underrated).
- God Bless America - And All The Beautiful Women In It is probably the most BTD-esque song of the album. It's beautiful.
- When The World Was at War We Kept Dancing is also beautiful & oddly sexy  -- it feels like GBA's sister.
- Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems... Why are Lana's vocals recorded in 5 paper bags compared to Stevie's? 
- Tomorrow Never Came might be my favorite song, it's gorgeous. Ready for her Laurel Canyon album. 
- Get Free is a gorgeous, mysterious, celebratory, almost psychedelic way of ending the album. 

Overall, it's a fascinating body of work that only an artist like Lana could release. She's such a singular, unique artist. I can sense a lot of growth & stretching within this album. It's going to take a few listens to sink in, but it's already growing.

13 Beaches - Love
In My Feelings - Love (Anger)
God Bless America - Love/Politics
WTWAWWKD - Politics
BPBP - Universal
Tomorrow Never Came - Love
Heroin - Personal/Vaguely political
Get Free - Personal

Why? I thought it was tastefully done.