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honestly? I hope this doesn’t come off wrong, but, that’s getting older. Being young is about having that seemingly inexhaustible urgency - as I get older though, time and thereby my sense of self begin to stretch in ways they didn’t before, and thereby emotions begin to blur, even seeming to flatten and muddy. Not a bad thing, just, genuinely different. I’m 30 next year and can’t even begin to imagine how my experience may yet change towards this trend even further as hers must have in her later thirties now.

Not Lana describing the album I’ve always wanted from her 😭 we did it

Oh my goodness, this is so very beautiful. Rock on, Lana, and amazing fucking lyrics by FJM.

I loved Violets For Roses Early on, but it just keeps getting better for me. It’s so simple yet defiant and meandering at the same time. There have been times I’ve been so sad and directionless and the line ‘And still the shadows haunt the Avenue; the silence is deafening’ just hits me like a tonne of bricks, which is strange given how delicate the song is. It’s happy and mournful at the same time, and that’s the tonal ambivalence I’ve really come to love about her strongest lyrical moments among her last three albums.

Also, the chorus of Black Bathing Suit makes me feel like sauntering and bopping my entire body in slow motion down the street and winking at a “real cute” stranger. I feel such a burst of confidence listening to this song, which is a rare feeling and one I really value.

You are right on the money with that final statement. I was 18 when I first discovered Lana, now I’m 28, and it has been so special as someone becoming an adult in that time to listen to her grow through her lyrics and sound over time to this more self-assured place that she’s in. It gives me hope for myself, even if I often don’t feel like I’m growing up fast enough. (some unsolicited advice for those in their teens/early twenties: part of becoming an adult is recognising that that NEVER happens, you never feel like an adult, you simply do more adult things, and maybe make less of the same mistakes whilst constantly making new ones).

Imagine a world where sometimes as many as three tempo changes and off-tempo percussion in multiple songs and lyrics written in a stream of consciousness manner that reference the beat and jazz movements in both delivery and theme in a relatively mainstream contemporary release isn’t experimenting 😂

Not my favourite Lana album having the worst cover art - what can I say, never let me get too comfortable queen. This album helped me get through one of the worst flare-ups I’ve had health-wise as I have a chronic illness. It amazes me that NATWWAL isn’t that loved, it’s campfire magic.

I’m definitely thinking the same, both NFR and BB hit me a little less off the bat for me purely because I’d already developed a relationship with a good chunk of the songs (I say that whilst also recognising they both contain some of her best work). Man will it be hard though - though I guess hopefully at this rate I won’t have to wait too long 😂

There is something specifically tragic about this album’s story. On one hand, she’s developed an independence and strength supported by her family and friends - Chuck not least of all, who appears on the title song to save Lana from heartache as well as in this album’s conclusion. But we also hear of Lana’s long-standing desire to have children “give me children, take away my pain”. Upon having not only the strength to leave one doomed relationship after the other, she has also each time forfeited another hope she had of having children, but has still done so for the sake of her happiness, which she then finds in her family and friends. Just as she approaches this point however, Chuck, her sister and closest to her and instrumental in her healing discovers she is pregnant. Lana sings to her future daughter in Cherry Blossom, which is strangely mournful for a lullaby. Even still, she dedicates and sings a song right after in which she chooses to be happy for her sister, who is having understandable concerns despite been blessed with motherhood, and dedicates a song to her. this all contextualised with her relationship with her own mother as explicitly explored across the album? Damn Lana.

Serendipity! I’ve had that song on repeat for the past day 😎

Random question but is your username a reference to Tori Amos’ 1000 Oceans? 🤓

Oh shit! My mistake. Maybe he’s an ex of Chuck’s then?

Kevin is Chuck’s stupid boyfriend, the “fuck you Kevin” is a playful joke upon making fun of his unironic bro-like obsession with crypto, not an actual attack!

I remember him more than any other account back years from being a lurker!

Anyone have a link to see the booklet?

omg just heard the strings mix of beautiful it pisses all over the other mix, hope and pray it’s on Apple music

If Beautiful is 3.35 on streaming services but also on the physical leaks then where did the 3.55 strings mix come from?

HOW was this not the album cover 😭 don’t get me wrong I’ll take the original cover but this is just magical

She must have sampled the sound of the smashing in the outro of bbs HER MIND 😭

I am so guilty of this ?