daphnedinkley

here's a fun game, press shuffle on your lana playlist and the first five unreleased songs you get will be the songs she's reworking for this album (this is very similar to another thread in the games section lol)
 
1. caught you boy
2. afraid
3. come when you call me america
4. i was in a bad way 
5. bad boy
 
well... this is interesting  

Video Games is my fav song of all time, Bel Air is one of my fave Lana tracks, I'm a Hope Is A Dangerous Thing stan and I'm a fan of the stripped back May Jailer stuff, so it's not that I can't handle piano or stripped back production but.... idk, I feel like sometimes these slower more ballad-y tracks get lost and lose their value if they're in an album full of them. Making good music is a talent and a skill, but you know what else is a talent and a skill? Arranging and pacing an album well.
 
I also wanna point out that although some fan faves are technically piano ballads (Old Money, Video Games, Black Beauty, etc etc) those songs usually have additional instruments (harps and strings in VG, drums in BB, etc) and strong melodies. There's a fullness to them. The apprehension regarding lots of piano on this album, for me, comes from the fear that there might not be that same fullness on these new tracks and that the album won't be paced or arranged very well and the amount of slow piano tracks could be overkill so I won't care to go back to it v much.
 
That being said - personally I like Blue Banisters and Text Book but I absolutely ADORE WFWF, and that's because there's a strong vocal melody in the performance, those synths/organs and some cool drums in the track, as well as an overall empowering message that just ticks all the right boxes for me!!

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

*presses play at the start of the album*
 
oooOOOOOoooOOOOoooohhh...
 
i like 'em over fifty (ahh really!?)
 
 

the insider living in the corner of the mind just hinted that the album opens with the words: twenty of 'em wrapped up tight in silk 

Noir and Baby Blue Love walking on Lana's subconscious tonight, so they can be added to the tracklist tomorrow:

OKAY BUT THE GAG THAT IT WOULD BE IF BARRIE IS AMONG US! 
 
Inb4 he's Jared

unidentified flying bill is a hoax, created by @plastiscguy, the insiders are all in on it, the vocals are actually from a laptop demo she recorded in 2006

hear me out...For K Part 2 but with Summertime and Thunder's backup singers, make it jazzy 

I mean it’s always nice to get *official* releases, it’s our fault for listening to illegal leaks anyway lmao. plus, who knows if they’ve been reworked/re-recorded 
also we already got a completely new album this year so like 

how is having 5 outtakes we've most likely already heard on a new album a good thing this is very annoying

I swear to fucking god if the target vinyl is red imma pull some joker shit 

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

I used to shoot up my veins in neon
And shit's even brighter, you're gone
 
vs
 
Think I'll miss you forever
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

Solar Power came on the radio and at the part where Lorde repeats "he's taking picturesssss" in her high pitched voice my mum thought she was actually saying "you stinky bitchessss" in a really smug voice and now I can't unhear it

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

Barrie credited on a song !?!?!?!!!??!!! get @Rorman Nockwell in here NOW

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

wait.... okay so the way BOZ worded the info regarding "outtakes" being on the album, i assumed they were mostly unheard outtakes that hadn't been leaked.... but this last post made me not so sure?? now i feel like there's a higher chance there'll be 6 previously leaked songs on the record 

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!

Pawn Shop Blues would never end up on this album but the lyric and sentiment "in the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go" does feel very fitting to the theme of the record!