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She went AWF on Dealer ???

14 minutes ago, Frangipani said:

she's only been teasing the verses

she wants to surprise us with the chorus 

She knows exactly what she’s doing and I’m spellbound and what’s new tbh ?

4 minutes ago, Thunder Corpse said:

Well  - you are free to just delete them then

That’s… what I inferred! ?

Honestly, I’d have preferred a shorter album sans the unreleased tracks, particularly if they haven’t been reworked, never much cared for LL, Thunder or Nectar - I’ll still have a great 12 track album tho ☺️

I heard

, not

The shade in these snippet titles ? I *am* that skinny bottom with a high f*ggy voice (who also cannot resist themselves she’s going awf in these)

The candy necklace…

T-t-two.. t-two al… album.. t-t…

I low-key wish I hadn’t listened to the snippet of Arcadia, it’s too gorgeous to have remained in my mind this long for me to feel the full impact of a full first listen, though at least the chorus remains unknown. I can never resist though.

YAY!

Oh Lana, never change ?

Hmm. The main issue for me with her doing an album of mostly unreleased work is that it’s a years’-old writing style for her. I was excited to hear her push the stream of consciousness style that had been emerging as opposed to the sing-song verse-chorus fare, though she is of course brilliant at that. I’m just not sure how they’ll quite fit next to the recent singles. Hopefully they’ll be reworked around that, and if not, hey, there’ll be another album. I make music myself, and it’s amazing how one day you love what you make and hate it the next, I just hope she doesn’t lose confidence in her craft.

Just now, plastiscguy said:

Why November? 

there’s a screenshot a couple pages back that suggests November 2nd, but it’s just a rumour at this point, it simply coincides with the Arcadia discovery in the same screenshot.

I adore that name. Arcadia. Officially hyped again. November though, fuck.

Sadly the wait for this album and the bulk of it being spoiled by Lana herself affected how I enjoyed this record, however…

Mariners Apartment Complex was released around the same time my dad was dying. The song would guide me on repeat back and forth to the hospital. I hold it very dear, down the subversion of her singing “I’m your man”.

The title track is beautiful. The Greatest will come to be one of just that, among her greatest songs, the lyrics at the end like a list of headlines bowing the album out. I feel like TNBAR and maybe LS could have been cut quite easily.

I honestly think the blue bannisters are literal - it obviously can conceptually extend to metaphor, but she’s pretty specific in her visual language setting a scene. Painting her bannisters was probably a thing that her man offered to do, and just never got around to it in time.

40 minutes ago, rhubysyrup said:

 

WHy this kinda good

This slaps???

Fuck.

That snippet, FLOORED me.

Every album since LFL has been delayed, (despite still releasing almost an album per year), with consistent lack of clear communication and projects falling through since the Honeymoon era (arguably UV - remember there was a PWIC video?). To quote Dark But Just A Game: “I’m not gonna change, I’ll stay the same”. There’s nothing to figure out here people. Until there’s a pre-order, nothing is real. The album will come when it comes - maybe this year, and probably not next week. Save your energy, enjoy COTCC and a mini EP’s worth of new songs that together are but a few months old!

Pre-release Lana gonna Pre-release Lana, and we will stan when it’s released. Simple!

(i will say though, I would like the recent tracks to be left off if it’s being released later rather than sooner…)

Born songwriter, not only does the work never stop flowing, she gradually begins to play with and deconstruct her own writing practice starting with West Coast and now even more embodied with recent work like Textbook. She truly has a loyal muse when it comes to musical composition.

I think it’s delayed and she drops approximate dates to keep buzz going, she relies on an invested and dedicated fan base, not mainstream sales. Manipulative, but smart from a point of view of longevity by keeping those who they know will buy the music anyway wanting more. In that sense, Lana becomes invested in long-term by a consistent audience, not facilitated by the ever changing zeitgeist. I have a feeling she and her management prefer (and I think in the long-term, rightly so) to lean into her status as a Great American Songwriter instead of conventional promotional strategies. She’s an album artist, and thereby she is marketed on her (rightful and long overdue) critical acclaim and, I’ll just say it, prestige. It would be ridiculous at this point for her brand to be marketed any other (more thirst-quenching) way. Not to mention that she very clearly runs the show, almost always has, and I think she should be trusted (except ironically with more objective things like dates ?) with her vision, and her management knows that. They’re thinking a decade or two down the line, not just next year career-wise. Sorry to the hopeful. ?

I just hope she hasn’t backtracked direction-wise in terms of recently evolving compositional style lyrically and musically and reverts to more conventional writing, that’s my main concern, Chemtrails is only getting better with time and repeated listening and it hasn’t been long. But I will be very happy to be wrong.

Text Book still on repeat daily since its release for me. The controversy confuses me - lyrically she’s been writing in a very modernist style since NFR (itself lending well to her consistently visual lyrical style), which includes stream-of-consciousness descriptions of a moment’s experience whether abstract or physical. She mentions the protest simply to paint a picture, as well as locating the song in time. She might as well be describing the light falling on a building at that same moment, though naturally all these separate images act as conceptual dynamos that can branch off into their own associations.

I hope the entire album is this stream of consciousness structureless oeuvre, so refreshing honestly 

Having worked with a producer for my own music who nevertheless had a massive input creatively, they followed my directions and I had a final say. Knowing Lana, down to how she personally labours with the mixing, she’ll have a similar creative control. We get and hear what she wants, whether it comes from her or the producer comes up with something she responds well to. It’s so weird how people think the producer is the be all and end all.