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stupid twinks

Lowkey and maliciously curious to see what will happen on here if it doesn’t get released Tuesday

I’m honestly gonna listen to Ron’s album as a companion album, this is great.

I am honestly PUMPED, go off Rob

song and indeed general titles have been stylised in numerous ways for ever lol but Lana does love ariana

It more accurately reflects the contemporary vernacular. Imagine getting a random text from your best friend: ”Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd” This generally contextualises her more stream of consciousness style of writing in recent albums (which is a modernist style of writing, modernist as in the first half of the 20th century and the end of the 19th century) with more contemporary imagery (a quite post-modern M.O.) and sensibilities, which is what she’s been doing all along really, she’s just making it more and more her own. Grammatically, if not rhetorically, it can also function more as a statement than a question. You ask a question, but you also pose a question, as in, sometimes it’s not a literal inquiry, but rather a sort of stance (quite literally a rhetorical question). I text someone I miss a random question about something, not because I actually want to know, but I want an excuse to talk to them, or Hell, confront them. I’m a language nerd lol

What I don’t understand is pushing a release date back because a handful of people guaranteed to swamp to its release anyway find out about it (not that we know for sure that this is the case, buuut). Are these things not at least conceivably strategised ahead of time with a lowest common denomination of expected performance? Should these not be conservative so as to reflect that performance? And if so, again, why fuck with that? again, maybe this is not the case, my question is just as much doubt about it being pushed back as much as me being confused if it is pushed back. low-key, I’m mad I stumbled across the A&W spoilers, I’m not as excited now that I know it’s structure. I could still love it, but I won’t be surprised. Weh.

Thinking about this God is real

Elle, Please Stand on the Shoulders of Lanaboards Posters While They’re Deep-thread Fighting

@Kintsugi is there at least one song with tempo changes? Literally all I need to know to tithe me over. 🥹

I was reading LanaBoards and I got to thinking that I thought Maybe I’d get less stressed if I was tested less like all of these thirsty fägs Whining about billboard only just to get the thread locked

JESUS, we can just never win with the details of her album covers 😂 SOMEONE WAS PAID WELL TO DO THIS -bangs freelancing head against the desk-

French Restaurant is her best unreleased song. Unidentified Flying Bill isn’t far off.

And here… we… *go*!

I daresay someone on Lana’s team owed someone they know at EOL’s a favour and just provided them with the licensing for Neil Krug’s images, and/or Lana wanted a verrrrry low-key promotional run.

I feel like I know less now 😂 What kind of Wikipedia article was that

On release I’m gonna roll a joint, hopefully have my place to myself if not get an AirBnB, put my phone on Do Not Disturb, and just bask. Maybe sit back with a notebook to write in upon third or fourth listen.

Interestingly though, I listened to TUOB both in and out of Dolby Atmos, and I actually prefer it without - the tinkling piano in the second verse is virtually absent from the DA mix! 🥲

Compositionally it taps into the history of jazz, which antagonised (and revolutionised) the structuralism of what we refer to as classical music. Furthermore, conceptually, the rhythm, as in, the foundation of the song, is bursting at its seams, the lattice of the clothing’s fabric breaking, unravelling, which invokes the image of the black bathing suit being the only thing that fits her, her weight fluctuating just like the time signature of the song multiple times throughout, before totally melting away by the end. It’s just chaos. I hope that didn’t sound like mansplaining, I adore this song, it’s among my favourites of hers, but I can totally understand why people wouldn’t enjoy it - our brains are pattern-making machines, hence why we find music enjoyable because it’s a self-resolving sonic pattern. The change in the pattern is inherently uncomfortable - but not without reason. On a separate note - I actually love Beautiful. It can be argued that it is trite, and if I’m in the wrong mood listening I can actually agree. But the run-on sentence and melody is, singing-wise, from a technical point of view I think, genuinely impressive. My one critique is, in line with the following song Violets For Roses, I wish she sang “Beautiful like me” as opposed to “beautiful like you”, as it would drive home that her sadness is part of her, part of the package of her experience and is part of her process, and whilst painful, has its narrative place. love u bb, you’re messy, but it’s cause you’re cooking up the ongoing push in lana’s songwriting craft

might avoid the forum till release, too many spoilers I can’t trust myself to ignore long-term 😭

On the corner with the neighbourhood kids, I’ll have a De Cabezo please

Tried it actually, it was, perfectly pleasant? 😂

Here’s hoping! I like VB, I just have to be in a specific mood for it.

the instrumental just isn’t comprehensive enough to warrant its length. Six minutes I could see.