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she's managed to do the impossible - seemingly telling us everything while also telling us kinda nothing! she's maintained this mystery but also said things to the entire world that you wouldn't even catch yourself saying to your besties at a dinner party. i think lana's greatest skill is this kind of self-mythologising; she somehow has a whole canon of things (K, double homicide, her parents, boarding school, drugs, alcohol, cult leaders) we're all so intrigued by

oooh yes! i took it more literally like she'd just been found wandering the beach (reminds me of The Ocean - "the ocean makes me cry" / "i'm in love with a dying man, i'm in love laying in the sand") and that's where she'd been found before being rushed to the hospital, although i like your interpretation better! though if we were to take the literal interpretation and do some hashtag Lanalysis, maybe a lot of things link back to this day for her? she's clearly a woman predisposed to mental health issues or depression, but maybe a breaking point for her was the day that she describes in Kill Kill / The Ocean, when she finds out she's gonna lose her lover and that she's "in love with a dying man", so she's laid in the sand until - as she describes in Wildflower Wildfire - she's taken into the hospital, sand still on her feet.

when they said prolific, they weren't kidding, we thought that she was just a calendar kitten

as much as im excited to hear BB..... bring me LDR9 expeditiously pls miss lana

thanks babes! i listen to neither so that would explain why i didn't recognise it

wait i’m a fake stan which song is this from

ON REPEAT TODAYYYYYY so good

Kill Kill vs Sad Girl

you're very much correct! aww... back when we thought ARTPOP was gonna be called Private In Public or Element Of Crime

as much as i think that tracklist is 100% fake, i do think that someday there's a chance we'll get Yes To Heaven on an album. this album? maybe! im not sure. but lana clearly has quite an attachment and interest in that song, given that there were so many versions and it was even considered for the Honeymoon tracklist! who knows we'll see!

Off To The Races vs Doin Time

unpopular opinion but i love this - i know a lot of people aren't used to bounce music so this is probably super weird to them lmao but personally that's my kinda scene so i get it and enjoy it, plus Big Freedia is a LEGEND! its kinda sad seeing people be so ignorant towards this genre and Big Freedia since both are such hugely important staple parts of gay culture, but each to their own i guesssssss. can't wait to hear the rest of the reworked album!

okay so idk if this is just me, but on this part: i actually hear:

hoping this doesn't come across harsh and/or selfish but.... stage fright, slightly uncomfortable, deer in the headlights, worried about how she sounds and performs Lana >>>> literally not giving a fuck, doing the bare minimum, forgetting she's even on stage Lana i don't wish anxiety on her whatsoever so this isn't 100% serious of course, but i miss when she actually cared about her performances even if it occasionally made her voice a little shaky it was still captivating to watch!

very this!! i also feel like there's a level of thrill in knowing what familiar melodic structure is coming, but not knowing how it's gonna be filled. the second verse of I Can Fly Is really gorgeous for this reason: that final line is always such a gut punch to me, because even though those lyrics don't look like much written down, you just don't see it coming in the sweet and familiar melody that you're used to. you can excuse the simplicity because it had to fit into a certain structure - in fact the simplicity is what makes it so impactful! i hope she doesn't abandon this style entirely on Blue Banisters!

amazing point! i really wonder if this was intentional, and maybe even lana's way of subtly acknowledging that how she's romanticised america in the past doesn't necessarily align with her current views

I absolutely love the three singles we got, but I do hope that rest of the album doesn't take such a loose, freeform approach when it comes to melodies - in some parts of the singles it feels almost like Lana is lagging behind or jumping ahead in the lyrics, the vocal melodies aren't so tight, it reminds me in parts of when Lana falls behind in the Lust For Life Demo and she has to kinda 'catch up' with the instrumental lmao. (idk if that makes sense bc i am high on opiates right now but hopefully it does!) idk, the lack of vocal melodic structure is nice sometimes - real poetic songwriter vibes - but i do hope its not gone for good!! sometimes it just comes across sloppy

this is such a sweet sentiment aw

been listening to Text Book all day today!! the chorus is so fun, gives me slight Wild One vibes

Lust For Life (Demo 1 Reworked) ok maybe im cheating a little using a demo i just think it'd be such a great into to an album like this Paradise Come When You Call Me America Yes To Heaven Trash Magic Motel 6 Pin Up Galore Disco Heavy Hitter I Want It All Us Against The World You & Me Roses Bloom For You Life Is Beautiful

god YES. im almost certain it won't happen on this album, but the eerie atmospheric synths and noises in Blue Banisters make me think that mayyyybe...... juuuuust mayyyyybeeeee..... it could be a slight possibility on a couple songs on this record something like the LFL demo or Stargirl Interlude or Heroin would make me COLLAPSE!

YES! something fun with a good beat

im hoping Blue Banisters will give us another "sing along with a bunch of strangers while ur totally drunk anthem" like The Greatest something anthemic, fairly upbeat, lots of guitar and drums, a big bombastic chorus to give you that real "this bar's about to close so let's just go sing on the street with a cigarette and what's left of this beer in my hand" vibe

oh how i wish the drums in WW didn't sound like THAT

i mean yeah but people can still have opinions hahah i love all the songs tho personally!!