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i honestly feel like she thrived doing this! She was in quarantine like we all were, with a man she obliviously feels very deeply about..I’m sure her creative juices are just pumping and she’s loving releasing albums!!
 
And it’s not hard to believe she has 3 albums worth of songs, before the streaming age artists solely relied on making albums for profit and would release 2 albums a year! A seasoned artist like Taylor writing this many songs feels very genuine to me. She’s always been about the art and the era surrounding it 
 
i think most stans expect her to drop the trilogy, the re-recordings, and then take a semi long hiatus (at least I do)

I also think we need to ban fan art off the pre release form 
 
I have personally felt victimized by the trauma of having PERFECT concept arts for Chemtrails, and getting smacked in the face with the cover she chose. 
 
The cover is cute. But if I hadn’t seen the countless beautiful (and sometimes comical (her airplane pose, but literally dressed like a plane)) ideas, maybe the final wouldn’t have been so cruel. 
 
I already see an ABUNDANCE of beautiful Rock Candy Sweet concept artwork, and I’m not going to mentally be okay when the OG reveal picture ends up being the actual album cover. 

i honestly feel like she thrived doing this! She was in quarantine like we all were, with a man she obliviously feels very deeply about..I’m sure her creative juices are just pumping and she’s loving releasing albums!!
 
And it’s not hard to believe she has 3 albums worth of songs, before the streaming age artists solely relied on making albums for profit and would release 2 albums a year! A seasoned artist like Taylor writing this many songs feels very genuine to me. She’s always been about the art and the era surrounding it 
 
i think most stans expect her to drop the trilogy, the re-recordings, and then take a semi long hiatus (at least I do)

not me thinking some of that was coming out from her ears

If this ends up coming to fruition, I’ll only have the maddest of respect for her.  I enjoyed both folklore and evermore equally, and I agree while folklore might feel more like a “full listen” album, evermore has more songs I go back to and listen to on their own. I’d be very intrigued to hear one more Taylor Swift album in this cottage core vein before she goes off and makes something totally different I might not connect with as much. 

People want it because they don’t believe she’s burning out? Not sure why you think we have the worst intention. I think she’s putting out the best work of her career. Of course fans want new music that’s how it works

I really chose the best time ever to become a die hard stan huh

the trilogy rumours seem so real with all the hints taylor's given. but it would just feel so weird in the midst of her releasing the re-recordings. but i'd take a third and final album from the folklore trilogy as i love both folklore and evermore so much
 
i don't wanna get my hopes up though

Stop... these are TOO beautiful oh my god. The fact that we will not get this exact concept....... how can I go on? These are so stunning
 
 
edit: random thought but.... we deserve Dolphin Flower on this album 

Manifesting two picture disc vinyl variants like the ones from the Ultraviolence boxset - 

what if she sold pot- lil puff puff here a lil puff puff there the lil baddie that could 

If Rock Candy Sweet means actually candy, then I think a cute little pop up where she sells merch and rock candy sticks would be cool 
 
If Rock Candy Sweet is a metaphor for jewelry however, I'll be expecting my diamond necklace on June 1st, Ms. Del Rey 
 

I have refused to believe the trilogy theory but at this point I think it’s all but confirmed. Tik Tok stans have been going into soooo much detail (all of which @The Greatesthas said) that makes me fully believe 

 
I hope she does, Folklore and Evermore were both defining albums of 2020 (even if evermore came out in December)

This prerelease feels extra tortuous because nothing is happening. There is no tour for us to follow Lana around. Lana isn’t spotted anywhere. Magazine covers are lo-fi repeats. All because of the pandemic

I’m still not sure how to rank this prerelease era (instead of ranking albums, we should def rank her prereleases ) but I’m with you that it’s getting tiring. The White Dress teaser made bearable because we had a release date at least for the album. But her shitty track record when it comes to dates and her cryptic posts followed by weeks / months of silence make it hard to be excited. 
One or two items of merch with Candy, I am fine with. Just not the whole bubblegum candy land shit. 

I am probably in the minority but I hope this album's aesthetic is not candy themed. It's been done to death, most notably by Katy Perry and Lana isn't one to follow trends created by other artists and I'd be really disappointed if she did. The aesthetic is pretty much never based on the literal meaning of her album title so I'm not too concerned that she will, but ..

I’m not a huge smoker but Lana selling vape juice, pens, grinders, rolling papers, etc would be so on brand.

With LDR Village, I feel like she could make some really cool merch for Rock Candy Sweet!
 
1. I would love if she made crystal-themed merch for each song on the album, since actual rock candy bears a striking resemblance to crystals. Maybe a necklace with a crystal pendant using an amethyst or something like that, or the actual crystals themselves. 
 
2. And I don’t vape or smoke or anything like that, but I feel like it would totally be up her alley if she sold crystallized/bejewelled vapes in collaboration with Mi-Pod (since she owns so many of their chunky square vapes) and each variant came with a different flavoured pod, all with candied flavours (like cotton candy, for example). 

3. Since there’s a beauty salon at LDR Village, I would love if her rumoured collaboration with Gucci Beauty also led to a full line of makeup sold exclusively online at LDR Village and select retailers like Sephora or Ulta. She could do an eyeshadow palette and name each shade after a song on the album, and make lipsticks named after various lyrical motifs from the album. It’s about time we have false-eyelashes and lip-liner sold by Lana. I also feel like she could sell a really cool highlighter using very on-the-nose/meta imagery for Rock Candy Sweet.
 
so many ideas! I might have to do some mock-ups just for fun lol <3
 
 

I’m getting tired of pretending to be patient. When are we allowed to start complaining that this is the most torturous prerelease? 
 
The theories that Taylor Swift is about to drop another meticulously planned and crafted surprise album is making whatever you call this lana era seem sadder 

Manifesting RCS lighters, lyric books, and coke necklaces

It’s super weird her Twitter pic is still the DT single and the pinned tweet is the first White Dress announcement 

As the days go by I’m thinking less and less that jack is going to be the sole producer of this record. He used to like all of her chemtrails related posts but didnt like anything of rcs despite being very active on ig.Also in the november igtv where she said she was recording american standards and classics w Zach Dawes she said “and bunch of other little things”. I think in the session when she did Dealer they came up with other songs that were similar to it that she would make into rcs. And I kind of feel like mike dean produced blue banisters. I wouldn’t be surprised if the new sound is very different from chemtrails I mean this is the same woman who went from UV to HM

I have refused to believe the trilogy theory but at this point I think it’s all but confirmed. Tik Tok stans have been going into soooo much detail (all of which @The Greatesthas said) that makes me fully believe 

 
I hope she does, Folklore and Evermore were both defining albums of 2020 (even if evermore came out in December)

that also gives fans the chance to save up money after dropping hundreds of dollars on COTCC vinyls 

I’m so ready  
bluuuuuuuuuue banisters (sung to the tune of NFR title track)
 

not freaking out as much as getting antsy/annoyed. I know we’ve experienced worse (NFR was literally hell) but still doesn’t make it okay this time