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Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

She looks gorgeous in the video and I love the TFJ-esque sound...but the lyrics do not do it for me at all. I wish she'd step away from the cringey mid-2010s pop feminism in her lyrics, especially since I know she's capable of much more poignant and powerful writing, even in her satiric songs. Like she could've done so much more with this witchy anti-patriarchal theme without being so basic about it lyrically tbh. I'll just go listen to Buy the Stars and Numb  . I'm not hating as I've loved her for a literal decade...just disappointed.

She looks gorgeous in the video and I love the TFJ-esque sound...but the lyrics do not do it for me at all. I wish she'd step away from the cringey mid-2010s pop feminism in her lyrics, especially since I know she's capable of much more poignant and powerful writing, even in her satiric songs. Like she could've done so much more with this witchy anti-patriarchal theme without being so basic about it lyrically tbh. I'll just go listen to Buy the Stars and Numb  . I'm not hating as I've loved her for a literal decade...just disappointed.

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

She looks gorgeous in the video and I love the TFJ-esque sound...but the lyrics do not do it for me at all. I wish she'd step away from the cringey mid-2010s pop feminism in her lyrics, especially since I know she's capable of much more poignant and powerful writing, even in her satiric songs. Like she could've done so much more with this witchy anti-patriarchal theme without being so basic about it lyrically tbh. I'll just go listen to Buy the Stars and Numb  . I'm not hating as I've loved her for a literal decade...just disappointed.

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

i like the sonic direction shes going but the lyrics  i wish shed stop releasing these political/social commentary songs, most of them are pure cringe, lyricwise...

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

She looks gorgeous in the video and I love the TFJ-esque sound...but the lyrics do not do it for me at all. I wish she'd step away from the cringey mid-2010s pop feminism in her lyrics, especially since I know she's capable of much more poignant and powerful writing, even in her satiric songs. Like she could've done so much more with this witchy anti-patriarchal theme without being so basic about it lyrically tbh. I'll just go listen to Buy the Stars and Numb  . I'm not hating as I've loved her for a literal decade...just disappointed.

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

Mike Dean worked with Selena Quintanilla back in the day...Lana's techno-cumbia album incoming! Latina Del Rey <3

The production is cool but the lyrics are so tacky I can't take it seriously
It looks like excerpts from a teenager twitter rant after their first ever politics class like..................

Day 2 of manifesting Mazzy Star energy:
 
 
Even though I know that Lana will never produce a dreamy album 

I wonder if this album will contain any of the songs that Lana sang the lead for from her band sessions with the guys from The Last Shadow Puppets. Especially if Zach is producing, I wonder if there were any songs left over that she wanted to rework (like how California ended up on NFR with different verses from the demo and additional production from Jack). 

I finally figured out my own interpretation of the title song. I think the verses and the chorus are describing different time periods — the chorus describes the past, her childhood, and a desire to escape “normality”. The verses are addressed to a lover, one in the present with whom she has learned to embrace the beauty of the ordinary. The themes of lazily watching the apocalypse from “The greatest” are continued.
 
The climax of the song comes as the chorus is repeated a final time, this time with an expression of longing for a restoration of the world she once escaped from (“I want only
Like when we were kids under chemtrails and country clubs”).
 
When the song first premiered, I was taken aback because the title is so aggressive that I was expecting something more brash and satirical, but I think the resulting song is more subtle and thoughtful. Chemtrails [metaphorically] are a silent killer, and Lana is suggesting that the only way to live in a world of Kafkaesque terror is to settle into the deep normality.
 
Chemtrails are suburbia, native genocide, police, everything silent and threatening about America. But the cancerous sun is still beautiful, and since we’re stuck under the chemtrails in the meantime… we can contemplate God.

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Is it cool if I share here a new cover I did for the album? I still don't like the original, but this pic felt like a better (unused) choice: