necessary sacrifice

Idk if this is relevant, but when it comes to vinyl copies, I find Honeymoon is insanely quiet compared to most other albums. Disappointing too because it means it’s also her album with the most surface noise. I haven’t really noticed it with NFR yet. Also, Ultraviolence was always a strangely loud record, always have to turn my speakers down when putting it on. I’ll have to start paying closer attention to how loud NFR is compared to other albums so I have some useful feedback. Idk maybe also compare to other albums Jack has produced. Didn’t he get some flack for TS albums being mixed too loud or something? Maybe he actively tries to make albums quieter now, idk.

I’m mostly confused why she announced when the second poetry book is coming out before announcing when the first is coming out. Maybe closer to her album in the fall? Either way, I’m still looking forward to both.

I like that her books will be with Simon & Schuster, that’s Carly Simon’s family. It’s good to know the physical book is still coming and that a second one is coming too! Since she’s with a real publisher, the books will have to materialize eventually, so that’s also good news. I’m so glad I couldn’t sleep and checked my phone haha.

Heroin vs Happiness is a Butterfly

Kill Kill vs Music to Watch Boys To

The vulnerable echoey voice Lana sings HIADTFAWLMTH-BIHI in, combined with the faint piano creates this perfect “bottom of the well“ type atmosphere. And the lyrics are the obvious highlight, very blunt, yet very cryptic at the same time. Personally I love this song and I’ve always been a little surprised it’s not more popular. Maybe some people are too happy to connect to it lol.

I swear Lana has to know about this thread and first posted the truck of oranges and then mentioned lemons to fuck with our heads. It’s what I’d wanna do if I were her. Maybe she doesn’t want us to be positive one way or the other lol. She’ll be asked to confirm and say something like “they’re strawberries” to confuse us more.

I honestly thought they were peaches the first time she posted it lol. One of her poems has a line like “Georgia peaches, Georgia O’Keefe” or something and since Georgia O’Keefe is a painter I thought having a painting of peaches was a reference to that line of that poem. But I like oranges better anyway, they’re great for anxiety and prosperity. Lemons would’ve been nice too though, it could be a whole fruit salad lol.

Personally I think some albums lately having song titles in lowercase is just a symptom of the streaming age. There’s lots of albums from even up to the 00s that have song titles or album titles in lowercase on the physical albums, but once they were added to these digital services, everything was properly capitalized. I’m thinking that albums created now, the way the songs are capitalized on the physical copy will be how they’re capitalized digitally because they’re doing it all at once. Whereas there’s lots of pre-streaming albums that have everything in lowercase on the physical copy and you wouldn’t know by looking online because I guess no one saw the lowercase as more than just album design. Imagine all the 00s albums that would have random uppercase letters in the middle of words if they copied the capitalization patterns from albums before now. I guess now artists have to be very specific with how they want songs capitalized. Makes me almost wonder if Lana didn’t know that and just wrote the song names that way thinking they’d clean it up lol. Just kidding about that last part, it was most likely intentional. But yeah it seems like the capitalization (or lack thereof) on albums only started carrying over to online probably within the past decade. Idk, I honestly don’t pay enough attention so I could be wrong.

No it’s before the part that sounds vaguely like that Bleachers song. It’s from about 4:00 to 4:20, and it sounds like three increments of saying “cinnamon girl” three times in a distorted red room voice. But I’ve been through this on here already months ago and no one else heard it so I’ve accepted it’s probably something only I can hear. Maybe it is from the red room then haha.

During the outro of Cinnamon Girl, I always hear a distorted voice repeating the phrase “cinnamon girl” 3 times kind of like it was recorded backwards then reversed like the red room style talking in Twin Peaks. I hear it as clear as day, but I haven’t heard anyone else mention it so maybe it’s just my subconscious hearing it or something lol.

This is LDR8. AKA was literally released (once it’s out, you can’t go back) and Paradise was even nominated for best pop album (plus it’s longer than lots of “actual” albums lol) so both are albums. Albums go out of print sometimes. Albums get grouped with other albums sometimes. It’s been happening for like 60 something years and it’s messy and stupid but oh well. Debating whether albums get removed from the canon or if some shouldn’t count to begin with is a waste of time. It’s just easier to count everything and call this upcoming one LDR8. Whenever the poetry album comes out, I’m counting it as another proper album too. That’s just my two cents and it’s just an opinion, not a definitive answer.

The UV era always kinda reminded me of Twilight. Lana’s whole look that era always made me think of Bella Swan, and the whole hazy washed out aesthetic of the photoshoots and videos always reminded me of the aesthetic the Twilight films had. Even the album’s themes itself itself kinda reminded me of Twilight. Sorry if this is controversial, I know Twilight is kinda polarizing.

Venice Bitch vs Honeymoon

West Coast vs Mermaid Motel

West Coast vs Fuck it I Love You

Motel 6 vs Off to the Races

Heroin vs Cruel World

Swan Song vs Heroin

Tomorrow Never Came vs The Next Best American Record

West Coast vs Diet Mountain Dew

Love Song vs Honeymoon

Even if Rick has no involvement in this album, I don’t think it’s the end for him. I feel like they work too well together to not work together again. I can imagine her going a couple albums without any of his involvement at most. I can also see them maybe doing one song per album together like Carly Simon and Jacob Brackman did after she started regularly writing with other people.

Venice Bitch vs Video Games

Probably 3 because I probably would already be high af when I ordered pizza. Plus pizza grease wouldn’t show up as much? Idk. Alternately, 7 would work too.