necessary sacrifice

Sales aren’t the part that matters about a leak. I’m sure Lana’s not too concerned with any drops in sales either. She knows people begging for leaks and listening to them are also buying a bunch of copies. It’s about respect and consent. She deserves to release her art on her own terms, especially with her clearly trying to avoid leaks at all costs this round.

After all the effort Lana put in to keep the album under lock and key for the year, I really hope the album doesn’t leak. Imagine making sure your album is safe for the first time ever and it still getting out. I can’t imagine the toll it takes on Lana with each album cycle knowing your fans don’t even respect you enough to let you have a proper album release on your own terms. I’m actually really proud of her for being able to avoid leaks this round and imagine how happy she’d be if this time it really doesn’t leak. I just can’t imagine wanting to ruin someone’s hard work like that, even out of impatience or spite or anything. I just really hope she’s able to have a regular album cycle without leaks this one time.

You need all kinds of permissions to reissue an album or even to put it up on streaming services because other people were involved. Even if she wanted to (don’t know whether she’d want to or not), she can’t just make the choice on her own. It’s illegal. For example, Stevie Nicks’ first album, Buckingham Nicks, hasn’t been reissued since 1975 and isn’t on streaming services despite her loving the album. Stevie Nicks and Keith Olson (their producer) have been interested in rereleasing it for decades but not everyone involved does, thus it’s been in limbo. So I imagine Lana could be in a similar situation.

That urban dictionary entry was added after Lana released Venice Bitch so it was probably added by some stan as a dig at Lana for “being lazy” and “not doing her job”

I don’t think we’ve seen the last of the poetry book. She clearly finished the book and has even promoted it in Vogue Italia, so I don’t think it’s abandoned. It’s probably just taking way longer to publish than she expected. If it comes out this year, it’ll probably come out closer to Christmastime. Or maybe she’s just waiting to release it as part of her merch (maybe also some copies of her paintings because those would be great merch items for this album). But this seems like one of the more important side projects to her, so I don’t think she’s tossing this out.

This is exactly how I’ve been thinking! I’m glad I’m not the only one. Also I think she also said the title track of LFL she started the day she handed in the HM record to the label so it seems like yeah she always works in advance.

Ok I know Lana always spends tons of time recording and it doesn’t always mean anything, but with her recording SOTW with Jack, then now calling him in to record another new song just days ago, do you think it possible she and Jack have already started working on her next album? I mean it doesn’t necessarily mean another album soon, but seriously imagine if throughout this whole year while everyone’s been calling her lazy if she’s also been in the studio already working on a follow up. If so, once the reviews come in for NFR, they’ll know what to do different (if they’re even looking for critical acclaim that is). Anyway, I don’t wanna sound too delusional or make people think I’m predicting another album will be out soon, but I do think it’s a possibility that she could already be working on it, even if it takes a long time to create and perfect. She just seems to be very pleased with the work she and Jack have been doing together and I think that’s a good sign.

I can’t believe tomorrow I’ll have both Looking for America and Season of the Witch to add to my non-album Lana playlist. This really is a pleasant surprise and a most special treat. Those should keep me fulfilled for the next few weeks. This month really is a great month to be a Lana fan. And this is some of her best music ever. I wonder what she’ll do next.

I really love Lana’s version of Season of the Witch. I can’t decide though if I like it better than Donovan’s. I found it was very different, especially during the latter half so it’s difficult to compare. Lana’s is softer and has a bit of a yé-yé flair and is exactly the type of song I’ve always wanted from her but at the same time, I love the reverby guitars of the original. But Lana’s soft girlish vocals and those cute backing vocals made the song sound like it was coming from a high priestess with her coven behind her. Now I’m ready for autumn to begin.

In Fuck It I Love You, the only word that sounds mispronounced/slurred to me is “love” and I felt like it was almost a throwback to the title track (“you fucked me so good I almost said I love you”) as if she was still hesitant and testing the waters a bit and she still wasn’t sure if she was ready to say I love you.

Tbh the part from the clip with the new lyrics has been stuck in my head all day and now I just need to hear the rest. I’m excited because it’s like a whole different mood than the other so we’ll have two different perspectives of the same song.

The more I listen to the song clips, the more the album is giving me Pet Sounds vibes. I can’t believe in like 3 weeks I’ll finally get to listen to it in whole.

Thank you so much!

Do you know where I can find it? I haven’t been able to find it anywhere.

nvm I’m dumb

https://youtu.be/OIGfyK5Gz7s

I really can’t wait to hear the album in full. Bartender, The Greatest, and California are the ones I’m most excited for now but idk if any will top Venice Bitch. We’ll have to wait and see. This album already seems to be everything I hoped it would be. Also a little random, but the dress Lana wore today is like the same colour and pattern as the dress I was wearing today and it’s kind of a spooky coincidence haha.

If the vinyl is high quality, black sounds best. Coloured vinyl can have much more surface noise and sometimes sounds kind of tinny. But if it’s low quality already, the colour makes little to no difference. For example, the black Honeymoon sounds way more dynamic than the red, but the black Born to Die sounds pretty much the same as the blue. Unless you have really good speakers/headphones, it’s not that noticeable though unless you have both colours and compare them back to back.

It’s been used in almost every franchise with witches, so I wouldn’t hold my breath.....

I’m super excited about the cover because it’s a great song. It’s perfect for her and it seems like her version is gonna give us mad UV vibes. Plus I’d prefer to get a song now that’s not on the album since we’re getting the album at the end of the month anyway. My biggest concern is it’ll be so good that I’ll wish it was on the album.

There’s still 12 left over herehttps://store.universalmusic.com/lanadelreyCA/*/*/Norman-Fucking-Rockwell-Lime-Green-Double-Vinyl/67SD0000000

The lime green isn’t sold out completely yet. It seems to be sold out only in the UK store. If anyone is still looking for it, go to her Canadian webstore. It’s still in stock, I just double checked. Idk about the US store though since it automatically redirects to the Canadian store for me.

I can’t wait to see the back cover of the UO version. Tbh the back covers of the UO ones are always better than the standard and they’re the part I love most about the UO versions of UV and HM.

Or....

I love how the lime green vinyl on her site has the tiled cover because it makes it slightly different than the standard and you see more of the picture too. And the lime matches the cover so nicely. I also really like that the UO version has an alternate cover, making it like a trio with UV and HM. Plus I love the witchy vibes and paired with the pink vinyl, it gives me Wild Heart vibes. And it’s nice that we’ve never had a green or pink vinyl from Lana before. We’ve had blue, so I’m glad it wasn’t the only colour option. I ordered the standard black and the popart lime and the UO pink. The last time I ordered that many copies was UV so I’m pretty pumped. I’m glad each copy I got has different covers as well as colours though. It makes them more interesting. The standard cover is her best yet and her UO cover is also her best alternate cover yet. Everything about this album seems to be the best yet! I’m just so excited!