necessary sacrifice

I’m gonna be enjoying White Dress nonstop once it drops idc I have no self control

Wild At Heart, Not All Who Wander Are Lost, & Dance Till We Die knowing they’re gonna be the best songs on the album

Lana needs to sing about her cats more

& “I don’t have to talk taste for you, mama”

oh dear

You say this as if Joni Mitchell wasn’t the glamorous Hollywood sad girl music maker before Lana came around

So we know in Tulsa Jesus Freak she says “White Hot Forever” in the chorus, but I wonder if she says “Tulsa Jesus Freak” at all

Chemtrails will be Lana’s best album tied with all her other albums (tbh my favourites probably change daily. Every album has its moment.)

Honestly the fact that Lana apparently sings in a high Cinderella voice in Not All Who Wander Are Lost makes me wonder even more if it was influenced by LOTR because that’s so elvish of her??????

I’m so excited for it!

I actually just made a Joni playlist for someone else on here the other day based on their fave Lana songs, which I’ll link right now. https://open.spotify.com/user/21njlel3i7bjkgipi3snahz4y/playlist/34rwvs44aCECTMKSqruAJg?si=ufUiFZsQT1-K157G5aRT1A There’s quite a few songs I’d recommend that are very Lana that didn’t make it onto the playlist though. But I guess it’s a good place to start. If you give me some of your fave Lana songs though, I can add more Joni songs that might be similar.

Then today is a good day to introduce yourself to her. Her influence has been so deeply woven into Lana’s music since the beginning, so discovering her for the first time will probably be a real treat. I’d recommend starting with the album Blue since it’s the most well-known. Hit me up if you want some more suggestions.

Especially since if Lana did the final note herself, it’d probably be really breathy like the end of hiadtfawlmthbihi and everyone would complain about how it’s such a waste since Weyes could’ve easily done it better.

Also Weyes Blood is probably only closing the album because she could hold that final note in For Free better than Lana or Zella could.

I was just listening to Melanie’s 1971 record Gather Me and I was thinking it kind of has the vibe I imagine Chemtrails will have. Folky with a slight country tinge and lyrics referencing astrology and roller skates and farming lol.

This. This is how I’ve always felt about Lana. It’s always been clear folk (and country) were at the heart of her music since the very beginning. When BTD came out, even with the big production, I saw Lana as more of a folk singer than a pop star, just not limited to standard acoustic “folk” instrumentals. She was just freshening it up a bit, making it hers. Even when she first got signed by 5 Points, she was primarily a “folk singer” but as she expanded her pallet artistically, AKA grew into something nowhere close to folk anymore. And I truly do believe that each change in her artistry since the very beginning was her own growth, not people pushing certain sounds or ideas on her. Just like how the folk influence has been apparent since the beginning, the pop & hip hop & rock & jazz influences, etc. she’s displayed over the years is still there too and is part of her. She’s never been solely folk, but its like she’s always blended folk with other genres into something uniquely hers. (Sorry I got carried away lol)

Damn it’s really gonna be that album isn’t it?

I think the album will be nice

You’re in the wind I’m in the water

I can’t believe in a few days we’ll be 4 weeks away from the album coming out... that’s so close!!! Remember back in August when we were dying for any update and wondering when it would come out? And now somehow it’s almost here! All the confusion and drama we lived through together to make it here... it almost feels unreal. In just over a month, we’ll really be discussing which songs are our favourites and which lyrics or instrumentals changed our lives!!

I had a dream last night where I was wearing a sweatshirt with the Chemtrails cover on it (yes I know there isn’t one irl) and some people were laughing at me and asking me why I was wearing a Christmas sweater and I said it wasn’t a Christmas sweater, that it was an image of Lana Del Rey’s new album. Then they asked me why Santa was on it and I looked down and right behind Val was Santa Claus and I was like “huh I never noticed that before.” Weird since Santa really isn’t on the album cover. Not sure if it means anything. Anyways.... so excited for the album

Hobbits usually drink ale! but Elvish wine is supposed to be pretty powerful....

They do have that Americana vibe though and if the instrumentation was different, I think they’d actually sound very country. It’s like how I used to always get confused when Joni Mitchell referred to For Free as a country song because I was blinded by the piano and strings and flutes, but I then eventually realized without all that it did sound like a country song. I actually feel like lots of Lana’s songs on Born to Die and Paradise are like that, and stripped back a lot of them probably would be quite country, especially with the vocal inflections she uses on those albums.

I’ve seen this theory come up a few times now but I honestly don’t think the astrology stuff was inspired by Little Green. Both songs do reference astrology, but the context is completely different and Joni references astrology quite often anyways. Although I do believe the verses could possibly be inspired by both Morning Morgantown and For Free, so there is still some Joni in there.

What are the chances we get this interview today? I’m just really impatient and I hope we get it soon. If I wasn’t already hyped to no end, these new pics definitely did it.