Ocean Boulevard

i was thinking about this today, kinda. in my view the israel thing was infinitely worse & didn't get anywhere near the backlash this did. personally, it was the closest i ever got to unstanning her (and by this i mean downright stop listening to her music) - and tbh if she hadn't canceled the show, even if she did so with a lame ass excuse, i probably would've.
 
not to say she didn't do/say anything wrong this time, but ultimately the victims/targets of her ignorance and tone deafness here are rich, famous, successful women. in the israel debacle she showed a total disregard for the lives of oppressed, colonized, poor civilians & an unwillingness to listen to those who tried to explain to her why it was wrong to perform there.
 
this is not an invitation to discuss the israel-palestine conflict, btw. i've learned my lesson re: discussing politics on lb. my point is that this goes to show how hypocritical and performative a lot of these concerned responses are, how people care so very much when it's a pop culture matter & someone they idolize is being targeted, but not when it affects regular brown people dying in another continent.

The Israel thing was why I joined this website to come on moaning but I didnt get allowed on for like a week or something and by then she wasn't doing it any more so I had nothing to say and then just stuck around since lol

Sylvia - 
I knew what you meant when you talked about swimming in the ocean and leaving your patent leather black shoes pointed towards it while you swam
It tickled you to leave them there
It was the thought of a young child or of a lost fairy
It reminded me of who I am
That's why I'm now at this facility by the ocean
& why I go barefoot and why I go calmly
Why I leave my shoes up by the stairway
I do it for you, and I do it for me
Because having learned from others and from you,
I learned there was a missing piece to finding existential calmness and domestic bliss to lead to peace
 
You see, you cant fall in love with a man like Ted or a musician who sings about being free
A woodworker doesn't a good man make if he wants his work to be on TV
You have to separate the wheat from the chaff
You have to be discerning
It takes diligence, consequence, and other things to keep that sea from churning
& to keep yourself from longing to let those painted waves take you under
It isn't just the water black that makes the body plunder from high sea cliffs
I know, my dear, I wish that I had been here or there
I wish that you were here now if you're not now because who knows how these things work?
 
Sylvia, Marilyn, Violet, Diana
All of my kind women who came before me, blonde
I dyed my hair black for you
I turned my back on that black pond
I swear I wont stop 'til I'm dead
& here I am at 34, and what for?
 
To bring my pair of baby patent leather shoes to turn them the other way
Towards the sea cliff stairs, not at the ocean
To bring them back up safe to the facility instead
& I think of you as I walk to the 280 wooden steps dynamited into the cliffs 100 years before
I let myself into room 2 and got undressed
 
I was sunburnt
Contemplative and sore
& as I fell asleep by Gabapentin
I lay my head on the pillow
& stretched my hand out on the cool white linen and sang you a lemon melody
I kept the shoes on the sill by the window seat in case you got restless and wanted to leave
& I hugged you with my baby's breath and sang your spirit to bed
The way I would have if you were my child or if I had children
My Queen Anne's lace heart weightless on your little head
 
 
 

y'all remember when Charlie put on his story of him driving past what appeared to be a girl like Lana in a convertible old car and getting photographed???
what if that was the album cover for the September 5 album???????

Yes Queen give us surf noir/surf rock influenced songs on this album and Yo fucking semite!!! That would be all I ever wanted..I'm not not ready

Don't get me wrong I love NFR! and its "acoustic feel"/Day in a life feeling but it would be cool if Jack & Lana would surprise us soundwise or try sth different for this record. Nevertheless I'm excited!!

Yes Queen give us surf noir/surf rock influenced songs on this album and Yo fucking semite!!! That would be all I ever wanted..I'm not not ready

Yes Queen give us surf noir/surf rock influenced songs on this album and Yo fucking semite!!! That would be all I ever wanted..I'm not not ready

For a few seconds I thought that it is a new snippet and I was like these strings and old Hollywood vibes but then I realized it is not and like aah what is happening like uaah the last few days were wild

Wow, it took me a lot of time and determination to catch up with this thread and read the 60 pages I've missed. My eyes are literally non-existent at this point. But that was probably the most interesting novel I've read (don't want a sequel tho)

Imagine we would get a song that is amazing and breathtaking as West Coast...dk why but I'm loosing my mind right now but yeah this era started already with a DRAMA

I will say, though, very few people from the socioeconomic class she was raised in would ever live in a trailer voluntarily. This isn’t a dig at trailers in any way, I just doubt she would do it by choice, since she was accustomed to large houses, etc.

Imagine we would get a song that is amazing and breathtaking as West Coast...dk why but I'm loosing my mind right now but yeah this era started already with a DRAMA

Imagine we would get a song that is amazing and breathtaking as West Coast...dk why but I'm loosing my mind right now but yeah this era started already with a DRAMA

Yes Queen give us surf noir/surf rock influenced songs on this album and Yo fucking semite!!! That would be all I ever wanted..I'm not not ready

Yes Queen give us surf noir/surf rock influenced songs on this album and Yo fucking semite!!! That would be all I ever wanted..I'm not not ready

did ya'll see her latest instagram post... i manifested this

It's just a clip from an oldies omg I hate this part of the pre-release when we don't know shit and everybody goes batshit crazy over the smallest thing she does ☠️☠️

the clip she posted was beautiful and surf noir... maybe yosemite will make it into this album... but let's not get ahead of ourselves...

she betta give us 13 beaches tea. The dialogue in the begin is so so a good move from her.

For a few seconds I thought that it is a new snippet and I was like these strings and old Hollywood vibes but then I realized it is not and like aah what is happening like uaah the last few days were wild

she's never this active I'm so excited for this album

She finally learnt how to give us some quality content we deserve

WHF era already serving

i really do love this fandom for the most part. some of u are really annoying but most of u are so cool and i love getting to experience these ups and downs together