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Does it make sense to release 2 more songs with music videos this week when there's still almost one month to get the album?
 
I think it's been quite absurd even to release the cover, tracklist and trailer in such a big advance -not so big as the one between the first two singles and the album release, of course-. Not complaining that we finally got a decent rollout for the record, but the timing has zero sense...

Does it make sense to release 2 more songs with music videos this week when there's still almost one month to get the album?
 
I think it's been quite absurd even to release the cover, tracklist and trailer in such a big advance -not so big as the one between the first two singles and the album release, of course-. Not complaining that we finally got a decent rollout for the record, but the timing has zero sense...

Even if Honeymoon is my favourite album by Lana -and one of my favourite albums from any artist-, I think I kind of understand the way you feel about it. I felt the same way -or a similar one- about it when I first listened it by 2015. But, luckily, I gave it another chance last year and fell crazily in love with it. I learned to see it not as a repetitive project, but as some kind of artistic -and musical, specifically- microclima, a very big, ambicious and quite hermetic atmosphere where all of the songs belong to a certain aesthetic (her languid, overexposed and tragically romantic view of the world -taken in the album to it's maximum expression, what makes it quite oppressive sometimes-), but all of the songs still achieve to not be fillers, but a necessary step on the path that the album came to be for me. Even HBTB and Freak ended up fitting in it, when I couldn't stand any of them at first listens. I have learned to listen to the album as I was attending to some kind of interior movie where some of the songs are inflection points (mostly the ones you've chosen as the ones you think should be on the album, and I'd add The Blackest Day, Religion and Salvatore) and the other ones just help the narrative to develop itself. If it may help you, listening to the instrumental allowed me to have a wider perspective on the album itself and to understand it as a deeper, broader opus than I thought it was on first instances.

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

We haven't listened to NFR yet so who knows but from the snippets I tried to add a few songs I think I would like to see live
 
13 Beaches Mariners Apartment Complex Cinnamon Girl West Coast Body Electric Blue Jeans Shades Of Cool Norman Fucking Rockwell The Next Best American Record Music To Watch Boys To Salvatore Born To Die Ride Video Games Heroin The Blackest Day Ultraviolence Get Free Venice Bitch

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

That's it! I'm sure you'll enjoy it a lot. I'll highlight on the possibility of listening also the instrumental version, as it makes the production bright even more. The album is so reflective, sensorial and erotic, or those are my feelings on it, at least. And I haven't had the chance to listen to the vinyl, so I'm sure your experience will be even better.

I appreciate that interpretation! I can see where you’re coming from, too - taking it in as a single sweeping, impressionistic soundtrack. There is a certain self-aware, tongue-in-cheek/popart bent to her output, and this very much exemplifies that. 
And it’s been so long since I’ve listened to it in its entirety. Perhaps one rainy day I’ll open a bottle of wine and put on my Honeymoon record (I admit this album really blooms on vinyl, as all her music does) and just let myself feel it ~

Even if Honeymoon is my favourite album by Lana -and one of my favourite albums from any artist-, I think I kind of understand the way you feel about it. I felt the same way -or a similar one- about it when I first listened it by 2015. But, luckily, I gave it another chance last year and fell crazily in love with it. I learned to see it not as a repetitive project, but as some kind of artistic -and musical, specifically- microclima, a very big, ambicious and quite hermetic atmosphere where all of the songs belong to a certain aesthetic (her languid, overexposed and tragically romantic view of the world -taken in the album to it's maximum expression, what makes it quite oppressive sometimes-), but all of the songs still achieve to not be fillers, but a necessary step on the path that the album came to be for me. Even HBTB and Freak ended up fitting in it, when I couldn't stand any of them at first listens. I have learned to listen to the album as I was attending to some kind of interior movie where some of the songs are inflection points (mostly the ones you've chosen as the ones you think should be on the album, and I'd add The Blackest Day, Religion and Salvatore) and the other ones just help the narrative to develop itself. If it may help you, listening to the instrumental allowed me to have a wider perspective on the album itself and to understand it as a deeper, broader opus than I thought it was on first instances.

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

thank god, one was enough

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been amazing. But even more if she still had her two arms on her body hahahaha

This would've been so much better than what we got 
 

Damn I am prepared to rename my track to this.
Now It's just called Sylvia Plath