ByDayAnother

I saw the best stans of my generation destroyed by madness

DYKTTATUOB fascinates me in that it so clearly would fit as a closing track. Screams it in fact, to the point where I’m almost sad it isn’t, the last lyrics being “don’t forget me” would flow perfectly. Then I ponder what musical savagery she’s going to commit with the actual closing track 😭 ugh the hYPE

Same. I’ve never done that with a Lana record before - technically still haven’t given that I’ve listen to OB, but I think I’m convinced to this time.

Grrrr, spoiler tags should carry through to subsequent quotes. 🥲 excited to hear the nature of the interludes though.

There are guns blazing around them 😬

NOTG and low-key Arcadia didn’t need to be on it, maybe Cherry Blossom too (though it is my favourite of these three mentioned), and whilst I love Dealer, it needed a bridge or even just an alternate vocal in the second chorus cause it’s very repetitive and has no replay value. I only ever play Dealer to other people to demonstrate her growing experimentalism as of the past few years. Living Legend has grown on me, but it didn’t need to be there, I could take it or leave it. That said, I treat BB as an experimental career interlude if not a mixtape, and I believe it has some of her highest highs - Text Book and Black Bathing Suit still inspire my own songwriting to this day, and I hope (and apparently hope rightly) that she will keep pushing this new direction.

I can understand her pettiness, having been that petty myself. I’ve been the crazy one more than my fair share of times. I would perhaps challenge her on that pettiness all the same, out of simple concern - but then, who knows what went down? I don’t condone it, but I can’t quite judge it with the limited knowledge that I have, having been there myself.

Random recollection - remember she was recording with Mark Ronson pre-Honeymoon? I wonder if anything ever came of that/those session/s.

I remember after releasing Paradise she said something along the lines of “I don’t really know if I have anything else to say”. LOL

Going down memory lane listening to Born to Die - National Anthem’s chorus melodically reminds me of DYKTTATUOB a lot. I like it, this musical intersexuality between her works. I like the idea that, in some ways, artists are making the same work over and over again, ever perfecting their vision.

(‘cause I’m bored, didn’t bother with features beyond Judah Smith - the title references a passage in the bible where God collects one’s tears in a bottle) 1. The Grants 2. Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard? 3. Sweet 4. A&W 5. Tears in a Bottle (feat. Judah Smith) 6. Where God Put A Rainbow 7. Candy Necklace 8. Glass Beach 9. Fingertips 10. Between the Redwoods 11. There But For the Grace 12. Going Places - Somewhere Over The Sea, Over Me, For Whoever Has Disappeared, San Francisco 13. Westward, Wayward 14. In the Cool of the Evening 15. Dance Like Everyone is Watching 16. The Captain (Elizabeth’s Story)

legend behaviour, they say he can be found in Camarillo running past silver mirrors down the corridor

thinking about former poster graham4anything during this time

omg the tempo-changing songs are always at least four minutes long, my heart, my heart.

I would love confirmation of at least one song that changes tempo. 🥹

The way she sings “but I can’t”, gently, exhausted, almost with a forced half-smile. Like she knows better, deeper, than the man who is telling her she can thrive - and maybe she does. Her gift is thriving though.

Guys

One thing I’ve discovered in my own life is that the push-pull of one’s behaviour never quite goes away. As in, I’m generally better in self-image and how I’m trying to approach love now than I used to be, but I still can be brought down by it in that it is still there to be resisted, often on an ongoing basis. Sometimes you have to briefly backpedal and acknowledge that part of you in an earnest and honest manner.

Amen

I think the time to let go of charts and streams and figures was some time ago now.

Okay, so. I listened to it just there, just once. Sitting in silence now, processing. I listened, and as it went on, I began to openly weep. I just… this is lyrical and melodic poetry. Beautiful seems like such a vulgar word to use. Powerful is perhaps a little bit closer to what I mean. I have not been that so deeply moved by a song like that in some time, and music often deeply moves me. It felt like the hand of the man I’ve been in love with for five years now laying his hand on my chest, softly - he has never touched me, and never will. I felt like I could finally admit to myself just how in love I have been with him, and always will, even though it will never, ever happen, and for better or worse, that I will always have to be okay with that, live with that, and just how badly I’d treated someone who could have easily just been an amazing friend, Hell, an acquaintance. It felt like she was singing what I had always wanted to say to him through my mind. Fuck. Thanks Lana.

NO YOU GET IT

So here for never ending diaristic sentences that somehow work rhythmically and rhymingly and multiple changes in time signature and poetic realness UGH give it to me

So down for yellow. I used to detest yellow - now that I’m older, I understand it as a colour.