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Playing LOUDLY all the way through for the first time. Got chills and started crying during "Love Song" and again on "California". The only low point for me is the cracktacular sleigh bells (?) added to HTD. I prefer the original BAR but am treating it as a different song from "Next BAR"...like a 2-parter. My favorites are "Cinnamon Girl" which I expected, and "FIILY", which I didn't. And "California." Definitely. It references one of my favorites ever, "Flipside", so how could I not? 
 
UV is still my favorite Lana album, but this is now in 2nd place for me. 

It would be cool if the vinyl were white but iridescent, sort of shimmery like heat waves if that makes sense? I'm picturing a '60s vibe, a little nod to the Beatles' iconic "White Album" (1968). Lead single: Yosemite. 

It would be cool if the vinyl were white but iridescent, sort of shimmery like heat waves if that makes sense? I'm picturing a '60s vibe, a little nod to the Beatles' iconic "White Album" (1968). Lead single: Yosemite. 

Playing LOUDLY all the way through for the first time. Got chills and started crying during "Love Song" and again on "California". The only low point for me is the cracktacular sleigh bells (?) added to HTD. I prefer the original BAR but am treating it as a different song from "Next BAR"...like a 2-parter. My favorites are "Cinnamon Girl" which I expected, and "FIILY", which I didn't. And "California." Definitely. It references one of my favorites ever, "Flipside", so how could I not? 
 
UV is still my favorite Lana album, but this is now in 2nd place for me. 

Playing LOUDLY all the way through for the first time. Got chills and started crying during "Love Song" and again on "California". The only low point for me is the cracktacular sleigh bells (?) added to HTD. I prefer the original BAR but am treating it as a different song from "Next BAR"...like a 2-parter. My favorites are "Cinnamon Girl" which I expected, and "FIILY", which I didn't. And "California." Definitely. It references one of my favorites ever, "Flipside", so how could I not? 
 
UV is still my favorite Lana album, but this is now in 2nd place for me. 

Playing LOUDLY all the way through for the first time. Got chills and started crying during "Love Song" and again on "California". The only low point for me is the cracktacular sleigh bells (?) added to HTD. I prefer the original BAR but am treating it as a different song from "Next BAR"...like a 2-parter. My favorites are "Cinnamon Girl" which I expected, and "FIILY", which I didn't. And "California." Definitely. It references one of my favorites ever, "Flipside", so how could I not? 
 
UV is still my favorite Lana album, but this is now in 2nd place for me. 

"Another Day in Paradise" 

"Another Day in Paradise" 

Wait, it's about global warming and the apocalypse, isn't it?! Suddenly "lit" means something completely different--war, bombs, etc, the world literally set on fire. The near-miss in Hawaii, the fires in L.A...she's afraid, with so many disasters happening, it could be The End at any time, so if it's the end of the world, this is her signing off. We'll have to move to Mars because we've ruined our planet...at the end, she's listening to it live on the news right before we all die...and then just near-silence for almost a minute, because the world has ended.
 
Mind. Blown. I see why Jack said it was her best: it's about losing our Mother Earth, the greatest loss of all.   

Wait, it's about global warming and the apocalypse, isn't it?! Suddenly "lit" means something completely different--war, bombs, etc, the world literally set on fire. The near-miss in Hawaii, the fires in L.A...she's afraid, with so many disasters happening, it could be The End at any time, so if it's the end of the world, this is her signing off. We'll have to move to Mars because we've ruined our planet...at the end, she's listening to it live on the news right before we all die...and then just near-silence for almost a minute, because the world has ended.
 
Mind. Blown. I see why Jack said it was her best: it's about losing our Mother Earth, the greatest loss of all.   

Wait, it's about global warming and the apocalypse, isn't it?! Suddenly "lit" means something completely different--war, bombs, etc, the world literally set on fire. The near-miss in Hawaii, the fires in L.A...she's afraid, with so many disasters happening, it could be The End at any time, so if it's the end of the world, this is her signing off. We'll have to move to Mars because we've ruined our planet...at the end, she's listening to it live on the news right before we all die...and then just near-silence for almost a minute, because the world has ended.
 
Mind. Blown. I see why Jack said it was her best: it's about losing our Mother Earth, the greatest loss of all.   

Wait, it's about global warming and the apocalypse, isn't it?! Suddenly "lit" means something completely different--war, bombs, etc, the world literally set on fire. The near-miss in Hawaii, the fires in L.A...she's afraid, with so many disasters happening, it could be The End at any time, so if it's the end of the world, this is her signing off. We'll have to move to Mars because we've ruined our planet...at the end, she's listening to it live on the news right before we all die...and then just near-silence for almost a minute, because the world has ended.
 
Mind. Blown. I see why Jack said it was her best: it's about losing our Mother Earth, the greatest loss of all.   

Wait, it's about global warming and the apocalypse, isn't it?! Suddenly "lit" means something completely different--war, bombs, etc, the world literally set on fire. The near-miss in Hawaii, the fires in L.A...she's afraid, with so many disasters happening, it could be The End at any time, so if it's the end of the world, this is her signing off. We'll have to move to Mars because we've ruined our planet...at the end, she's listening to it live on the news right before we all die...and then just near-silence for almost a minute, because the world has ended.
 
Mind. Blown. I see why Jack said it was her best: it's about losing our Mother Earth, the greatest loss of all.   

Wait, it's about global warming and the apocalypse, isn't it?! Suddenly "lit" means something completely different--war, bombs, etc, the world literally set on fire. The near-miss in Hawaii, the fires in L.A...she's afraid, with so many disasters happening, it could be The End at any time, so if it's the end of the world, this is her signing off. We'll have to move to Mars because we've ruined our planet...at the end, she's listening to it live on the news right before we all die...and then just near-silence for almost a minute, because the world has ended.
 
Mind. Blown. I see why Jack said it was her best: it's about losing our Mother Earth, the greatest loss of all.   

Wait, it's about global warming and the apocalypse, isn't it?! Suddenly "lit" means something completely different--war, bombs, etc, the world literally set on fire. The near-miss in Hawaii, the fires in L.A...she's afraid, with so many disasters happening, it could be The End at any time, so if it's the end of the world, this is her signing off. We'll have to move to Mars because we've ruined our planet...at the end, she's listening to it live on the news right before we all die...and then just near-silence for almost a minute, because the world has ended.
 
Mind. Blown. I see why Jack said it was her best: it's about losing our Mother Earth, the greatest loss of all.   

OMG. You guys...what if...the REAL violets bent backwards over the grass were the friends we made along the way.   

A Lust patch...a Wrath patch... and a 3000 PAGES PATCH for everyone to sew on their ass! 

Lana has, I think, always been enamored of an idea of retro-Americana that only ever existed as a pop culture fantasy--which she knows and acknowledges ("You make me wanna be like one of those girls / From the 1950s wearing those big pearls / On the color TV," etc), so...she is still looking for that fantasy she was promised ("I heard the streets were paved with gold / That's what my father said.") Real events on the news pop that fantasy bubble, not that she really thinks we should go back to how things literally were in earlier times. Her nostalgia is bittersweet because she knows it's for something not real ("I feel nostalgic and I don't even know what for", she said in an interview). 
 
For me, the best example of Lana!America vs. Real!America in the National Anthem video...when JFK was actually president, there was still racial segregation in the US. In the video, she has an African-American JFK to show she's romanticizing the aesthetics...the American "Camelot" it was called...NOT the racism of the actual time period. I think of "Looking for America" that way too...looking for a dream.
 
So...that's why I don't find that problematic, but I do see and respect why some of you do. 
 
Anyway...almost 3,000 pages! Go team!

Lana has, I think, always been enamored of an idea of retro-Americana that only ever existed as a pop culture fantasy--which she knows and acknowledges ("You make me wanna be like one of those girls / From the 1950s wearing those big pearls / On the color TV," etc), so...she is still looking for that fantasy she was promised ("I heard the streets were paved with gold / That's what my father said.") Real events on the news pop that fantasy bubble, not that she really thinks we should go back to how things literally were in earlier times. Her nostalgia is bittersweet because she knows it's for something not real ("I feel nostalgic and I don't even know what for", she said in an interview). 
 
For me, the best example of Lana!America vs. Real!America in the National Anthem video...when JFK was actually president, there was still racial segregation in the US. In the video, she has an African-American JFK to show she's romanticizing the aesthetics...the American "Camelot" it was called...NOT the racism of the actual time period. I think of "Looking for America" that way too...looking for a dream.
 
So...that's why I don't find that problematic, but I do see and respect why some of you do. 
 
Anyway...almost 3,000 pages! Go team!

Lana has, I think, always been enamored of an idea of retro-Americana that only ever existed as a pop culture fantasy--which she knows and acknowledges ("You make me wanna be like one of those girls / From the 1950s wearing those big pearls / On the color TV," etc), so...she is still looking for that fantasy she was promised ("I heard the streets were paved with gold / That's what my father said.") Real events on the news pop that fantasy bubble, not that she really thinks we should go back to how things literally were in earlier times. Her nostalgia is bittersweet because she knows it's for something not real ("I feel nostalgic and I don't even know what for", she said in an interview). 
 
For me, the best example of Lana!America vs. Real!America in the National Anthem video...when JFK was actually president, there was still racial segregation in the US. In the video, she has an African-American JFK to show she's romanticizing the aesthetics...the American "Camelot" it was called...NOT the racism of the actual time period. I think of "Looking for America" that way too...looking for a dream.
 
So...that's why I don't find that problematic, but I do see and respect why some of you do. 
 
Anyway...almost 3,000 pages! Go team!

OMG. You guys...what if...the REAL violets bent backwards over the grass were the friends we made along the way.   

OMG. You guys...what if...the REAL violets bent backwards over the grass were the friends we made along the way.   

OMG. You guys...what if...the REAL violets bent backwards over the grass were the friends we made along the way.   

OMG. You guys...what if...the REAL violets bent backwards over the grass were the friends we made along the way.   

OMG. You guys...what if...the REAL violets bent backwards over the grass were the friends we made along the way.