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Does anyone think Rick will come back at any point or is she just done with that style of songwriting? I miss his work! 

Does anyone think Rick will come back at any point or is she just done with that style of songwriting? I miss his work! 

They may not be super exciting or dynamic, but they're miles ahead, in terms of production, than most songs we heard on the Jack albums

from reading the mag, i fear this could be the longest pre-release thread in lanaboards existence but i hope i'm proven wrong 
 
anyways, happy pre-release era, besties! 

Well everyone… the time has come.
 
Welcome to the LDR9 Pre-Pre-Release Thread - Annual Discussion & Meltdown!
 
Lana Del Rey has revealed to W Magazine that a new, still untitled album is in the works.
"I’ve been practicing meditative automatic singing, where I don’t filter anything. I’ll just sing whatever comes to mind into my Voice Notes app. It’s not perfect, obviously. There are pauses, and I stumble. But I’ve been sending those really raw-sounding files to a composer, Drew Erickson, and he’ll add an orchestra beneath the words, matching each syllable with music and adding reverb to my voice. For this new music, it’s more just like: I’m angry. The songs are very conversational. For the first song, I pressed record and sang, “When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags, I think I wish I could extrapolate some small intention or maybe get your attention for a minute or two.” It’s a very wordy album."
 
 
What we know so far:
- Lana will make an announcement about the album on December 7th, as stated in an Interview on November 30th, 2022
- Lana is working on an untitled album with a completed opening track, confirmed in her interview with W Magazine in May 2022
- Lana is collaborating with composer Drew Erickson, confirmed in her interview with W Magazine in May 2022
 
 
Speculations
- Neil Krug & Anna Cofone may have involvement with the album photoshoot, as hinted in various Instagram posts, stories, and comments made by the three in December 2022
- Jack Antonoff worked with Lana on a song completed in April 2022 that could be on her record, as stated in his interview with The New Yorker in May 2022
- There is a possible collaboration with Jon Batiste, as Lana shared a video in a studio with him as a song snippet played on @honeymoon in August 2022
- Ian Kirkpatrick may be involved with the production, speculated after Lana shared a picture of a video call with him on her IG stories in September 2022 
- Her father may be involved with the record as he shared photos in Jack Antonoff's studio in March 2022
- The record may be a digital-only release, per her statement during an Instagram Livestream in October 2021
- Lana wore a custom-made jacket by the director of LDR Village with a patch that said "DNC" that may pertain to the record in December 2021
 
 
 

Change is gorgeous and has been hitting hard lately. Piano melody only, Rick served us stronger melodies than Jack, IMO. Drew has also strong piano Melodies (I didn’t mind Beautiful and Violets for Roses)

Not after he butchered Lust For Life,  keep him away lol!

I think bridges were always Rick's composition structure. Jack and the other producers seem to focus more on intros and outros. 

Manifesting amazing bridges for this album 
Even though I loved her last albums alot I'm kinda sad about the lack of bridges

She just had her first magazine cover in a while and started talking about her next project, also her public appearances increased over the last weeks…they’re clearly gearing up to something, there’s no way this won’t come in the next 6 months or so… spring 2023 at the latest, I’d say 

tbh i still get an off vibe from him

Thanks. 

The Interview video is old, but Lana posted a picture with the editor of Interview magazine this week so people think it means they're featuring her again. I'm not so sure though because it looks like he was with her family for Easter and they've been friends for years apparently, so it may have just been a social visit.

okay on one hand i want her to take her time with this album but like......i need a new thread to pop off on this site so i have something to refresh every hour  none of the girlies are doing anything!!!!!!

i hope so 

I'm more of a casual Charli fan--big fan of "True Romance" when it came out but only paid attention to "Sucker" and a few songs here and there after (like "Vroom Vroom," my fav!). She got me interested again with this release, especially since I am a huge fan of Christine & the Queens and Caroline Polachek. (RIP the SNL performance that could have been.)
My favorite song is definitely "Yuck." Wish it had been a single. I also like "Twice" and the title track. "Baby" has grown on me. Not into the slower songs at all.

It would be so iconic if she rerecorded of Video Games for the american standards & classics album. Def not gonna happen but it would be such a full circle moment tbh.

yeah she said to someone that the next album is already better but then she also mentioned on her livestream that she'd already written a few tracks. i think this was like october or november, whenever she livestreamed on honeymoon. so we already know she's got plans for the next album, she could be already closing up with stuff on it or the cover album or the nikki lane album, we just don't know 100% yet. plus there's the DNC jacket that clearly meant something but we have absolutely no news on it. the jacket designed said something along the lines of not wanting to spoil its meaning yet until Lana's ready to talk more about it, so we know it's something we just don't know exactly.... what it is.

i don't visit the pre-pre relase threads in here bc they're messy lmao but what signals have we gotten that LDR9 is even in Lana's mind as of now? [apart from when she told a fan that the next album would be great?]

not entirely i think she's just got so much she's trying to do all at once it's hard to do it all. she's working on another album, in between she's doing the book and probably another spoken word album, this covers album, a possible collab album with Nicki Lane, and then there's other collaboration projects she's apparently been doing. i think she's just trying to manage everything and it's hard to do. 

Do we think this is scrapped or nah?

I’d like to think that bc COCC took too long, she was wanting to give us the covers album but she ended up thinking of another album so she pushed to get blue banisters out as quick as she could (literally within months) before other artists sent in albums last year, like Adele and others who wanted vinyls out for their albums. Like maybe cocc was actually meant for 2020, so because of that big delay we had, she really worked to get blue banisters out in 2021 instead of the covers album, and she’s already working on another album now because she had yet again, another idea. I’m hoping that with her already jumping to a new album which we already know of, she’s just in the flow of writing more material. I think her being busy writing and making new original songs is better in the long run than a cover album, which isn’t to say that i don’t want the covers album, I do, but someday she might lose her muse completely and not want to write her own stuff anymore, so i just wanna ride out this wave of her being creative and actually writing her own stuff before she gets outworked and stops producing like we’re used to.
 
like i’d be happy if this album was shelved because she’s just busy with making another record and trying to finalize her book. We’re in the second peak of LDR, which some artists never get, and I’m happy to be in this era of “LDR can’t stop writing and dropping albums”. Idk how long it’ll last, I don’t know if this is the end of this second peak and once she drops the next album, she’ll take a break, who knows… but i wanna take advantage of all of the new material we’re getting before we stop getting new stuff. 

I'm glad the site is back <3 <3 <3 

I'm glad the site is back <3 <3 <3 

Glad we’re back and everything’s okay! The downtime made me realize how much I appreciate this site, it’s an integral part of my day! <3