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She served, it’s just not up for debate

Good thing we have to wear masks on this bus because I’m between grinning ear to ear and crying behind it and probably look like a freak HER BEST, HOW

Oh, the scat gif’s almost on…

The back cover maybe?

“Outside”?? Is that an unleaked song??

Can’t wait for the next QFTC

Am partially regretting listening to the tringles now that the album is imminent and largely heard (had a similar experience with NFR and whilst I recognised the album’s brilliance it undoubtedly affected my initial listens), but Text Book literally had a creatively formative impact on my own artistic practice, so could-shoulda-woulda I guess. Such a ballsy move it being the opener, jealous for y’all that haven’t listened!

Wearing a white dress, down at the fags-on-Lanaboards-conference ??‍♀️

(Still looking forward to the album but genuinely gonna miss the Antonoff era of writing and production)

I record music myself, if people knew how long it takes to write record produce a single throwaway song, she’s unbelievably prolific!

the songs she scrapped will eventually resurface as well, whether they leak or she uses them on future albums…

That’s fair! Bur honestly I do think so - she’s at a civil rights march crying for freedom from oppression. A freedom that she couldn’t wish for her father, because as per WW’s lyrics, he is trapped in a relationship with a narcissist “his wife would rage at me”. The three singles were very intentionally released alongside one another, so I couldn’t help but look for connections between the lyrics though so I might be wrong!

I dunno, I assumed the “them” she screams for are “all the things [plural ]I couldn’t want for him”, as “I screamed for them” comes right after. The things she couldn’t want for him (her father) are the things she screams for.

Wish there was a cassette with the blue-tinged side profile ?

UV’s highs are incredible and it used to be my favourite Lana album, but now it’s among my least: CW is far too long; the title track is a beautiful melody overwhelmed by an overcrowded production and inconsistent lyrics; BB is lyrically embarrassing, as with FMWUTTT and PWIC - overall the lyrics on this album are her weakest, which is a pity because I want to love this album, it’s sonically among her best.

CoCC’s production is more intimately mixed than her other work - less reverb, and walls of sound, it ends up sounding compressed, earthy and bare, so I can understand how it sounds “ugly” in comparison to her other work (UV was aggressive sounding but drenched in reverb), but, that’s what I love about it ?

As a fan from day one, COCC is possibly my favourite Lana album - dark, neurotic, and eccentric. My favourite moment in the record is probably the second verse of Wild At Heart, where she breaks the melody into a monorhythm with one of her darkest lyrics ever, talking about the possibility of undoing all her sobriety, and thus all of the work she has ever been able to make since committing to it - in essence, a world without Lana Del Rey, which is a theme she has been hinting at since Swan Song on each of her albums, that reflex of self-destruction. Ugh, COCC is great.

I mean she said it herself, LFL was for the fans, and I love many of the songs on it, but it’s a crowd pleaser, and reads as such - pleasing, but not her best work. 13 Beaches is phenomenal though!