necessary sacrifice

She’s so cute here and I love her dress so much omg. It looks like something I’d wear.

Tbh I wouldn’t mind gospel. Elvis did gospel, Lana loves Elvis.

Seriously though “catholic psychedelic synth folk” seems like it would be amazing and I want that now

Maybe Lana’s gonna be freestyling over the sounds of tap-dancing and pipe organs that would be new

Is there a chance this is the Nikki Lane duet album? Maybe that’s why BOZ called it a project and he can’t believe she’s doing this because he never expected it to be released? Hmm idk I don’t really think so but did anyone suggest that yet as a possibility?

I really like the theories of the album being like a musical about her own life but that would be too good to be true

It’s gonna be jazz isn’t it

Pushback from fans and pushback from critics are generally different too so I wonder which he means. Both somehow?

Fiona Apple teas

Idk if it’s just me but the Blue Banisters “cover” Lana posted actually reminds me a little of the cover of Tammy Wynette’s We Sure Can Love Each Other, but more DIY. I wonder if that’s kinda what she was going for.

Tbh I truly don’t mind which direction this album goes in. Any genre, any themes, any aesthetics. Lana always kills it.

While I think it’s unlikely Rock Candy Sweet and Blue Banisters are different albums, it’d honestly be so fitting for them to have the two different edits of the same selfie as their album covers if they were different albums. Idk I think that’d be perfect. Like showing two different sides of herself.

Imagine Lana gave us something with this whole vibe (sonically, aesthetically, everything)

Hate to go off topic but Mary Hopkin was never in Peter, Paul & Mary. That was Mary Travers. Sorry

I know we don’t even know yet if Zach Dawes is involved with this album at all, but based on when the music video for Blue Banisters was filmed, I’m really hoping the back-up singers appear on this album somewhere because I loved them on Summertime and the tv performance of Let Me Love You Like a Woman. Imagine the warm vintage touch they’d add.

I really really really feel like it would be a missed opportunity if Lana doesn’t include a cover of Big Rock Candy Mountain on this album. I can almost hear Lana singing it in her own way, a little slowed down, deeper in the verses, higher and twinkly in the chorus, maybe a mellotron in the background. The lyrics are even Lana-esque enough that people would probably even think it was a quirky original. Cigarette trees? Lemonade streams? Bluebirds singing? Lana was meant to sing this song.

Rock Candy Sweet as an album title overall gives me such strong Mae West energy. I’d love that too, y’know, like some over the top glamorous sensual vaudeville rock n roll type stuff. Plus that’s the perfect energy for a “revenge” album.

I would like this kind of vibe:

Blue Banisters vibes

I’m pro- keeping the ads, but I’m very anti- users shaming other users for having technical problems due to the ads.

Honestly most of the ads are bigger than my screen so I can’t exit them. And often when they are small enough to exit, the page crashes. I have been coming here less, but that’s probably better for my overall mental health anyway lol. If the ads help you afford the site, obviously keep them. I’d rather the site be here and be frustrating to use than not be here at all.

Joni Mitchell has announced her second volume of archive releases, which just seems to be a boxset of her first four albums (Song to a Seagull, Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, & Blue). If anyone has been recently getting into Joni and is looking to start a collection, this would be a great way to start. It comes out June 25th. The first volume came out last fall and was a collection of early rare performances and demos, if anyone missed that.

I still listen to this everyday. It’s pretty much a part of me now. I just can’t get over how special this is and I’m still frustrated that even other spoken word albums are nothing like it. I remember watching the Ride music video years ago and thinking that I’d love a whole album from her of dramatic Valley of the Dolls style monologues, but it never seemed like a realistic possibility. It still feels like a dream having, like I’m gonna wake up and realize I imagined this project. Part of why I’m so excited for Iron Gates is because of how much I adore Violet. I’m so grateful Lana decided to do spoken word accompaniments for her poetry books.

June Christy’s debut album Something Cool. It’s so melancholy and jazzy. I think a lot of you would like it too.

This album is so good omg. I don’t have anything groundbreaking to say, I just love this album so much.