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Whilst I enjoy Venice Bitch, I hope the interpolation is a melodic or instrumental one and not a lyrical one, as I consider VB’s lyrics to be relatively weak for her.

The Lanadel Ray, an endangered species protected in captivity in the Mariners sealife reserve.

KING BEHAVIOUR I want to live in this timeline

But I can’t 🥲

I wake up at 3am to catch a bus to the airport to… Taco Truck?? …TACO TRUCK?! 😂😂😂😂😂

I get it, I just think they’re too clean-looking next to the rough and readiness of both the theme (being diaristic, messy [in a good way]) and the aesthetic of the photographs. it’s her album 🤷🏻‍♂️ 😂

I won’t lie, I don’t live for the illustrations 🥹 they’re gorgeous, but I don’t see how they fit the rest of the album artwork aesthetically or thematically

genius 😂😂😂

Can’t wait for the “Mike Will made iiiit” tag on A&W

Yeah, I think it’s part of why people are so agitated, because they’re still operating on the patchy terms of promotion and communication of previous eras despite her undeniable prolificism - it’s a contradictory dynamic to be sure. This straightforward schedule is relatively unknown to us. I also low-key think this might be about it. Maybe we’ll get a music video. Maybe a magazine interview, but realistically what else could she reveal to us through an article that she won’t (or hasn’t already) musically? All I care about at this point is that she’s well, and listening to this album on repeat for the year.

Fingertips: Revelator of the Acronyms; Diviner of Titles - it is said they plucked straight from the collective unconscious induced by Lana

a spontaneous emergence, even better! You’re a poet and don’t even know it.

never in my life did I imagine a memetic cross-pollination of Lana Del Rey with Sonic X: Director’s Cut, but here we are

That last one, I soooo hope it’s that one. Maybe replace grandfather with god, maybe stand with sit.

-rocks back and forth in the corner- dear John, grant us multiple tracks with tempo changes, dear John, (the) grant(s) us multiple tracks with tempo changes

Perfect Timing

Whoa, just woke up after having my first Lama album dream in which the whole album leaked, crazy.

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.