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Yeah, you can't find in on YouTube, it was deleted from Lana's instagram page, but it is still on Ben's

Yeah, you can't find in on YouTube, it was deleted from Lana's instagram page, but it is still on Ben's

I hate going there. ?

Yeah, you can't find in on YouTube, it was deleted from Lana's instagram page, but it is still on Ben's

Yeah, you can't find in on YouTube, it was deleted from Lana's instagram page, but it is still on Ben's

Yeah, you can't find in on YouTube, it was deleted from Lana's instagram page, but it is still on Ben's

Honeymoon vs Venice Bitch

What's up with the waiting 'till the album, watching the music video with sound off stuff? Never hearing the singles before the album is out? Literally I've only seen this kind of behaviour with Lana fans. It's strange.
I much prefer hearing songs one at a time, digesting them on their own and forming connections and memories with them instead of having one giant album to listen to without giving some songs their time to shine. Also if an artist, especially someone like Lana, puts out something before the album then she intends the audience to hear that ahead of the album and I trust her vision. I guess it's okay if you wanna wait to listen to a promo single with the album if it's released like a week before, but making yourself wait 3 more weeks to hear a proper single with a music video? And spoil yourself in the process anyways with everyone hyping it up or being disappointed, so you're already biased before hearing it? Also watching a video WITH THE SOUND OFF? That sounds like insanity, I'm sorry.
This is not directed at anyone specifically, I've seen a lot of people doing this and it's specifically a LanaBoards behaviour that is deemed acceptable. So I wanted to share my two cents.

I kinda miss her posting snippets. At least it created some sort of hype. This era has been a snoozefest sadly. 

I feel like this has been the most emotionally and mentally distant she has been from a record before it's even been released
 
Wonder if it's because it's mostly songs written while she was with Sean
 
Or she really just believes she hasn't gotten it right this time
 
Not complaining, just an observation

only 25 members online lemme create a fake d-word-website snippet to spice this thread up a bit
 
 

I really don’t get the Jack hate here. True, many of his tracks are piano-based, and he is not as good with piano melodies as Rick, but his vocal arrangements and production overall make up for it. 
Besides, I never heard anyone complain that Fine China is piano-driven... (if she chooses to release anything country-ish or whatever her definition of it might be, she should include Fine China; the lyrics are her most « country / conservative / heartbreaking » ever and would fit that aesthetics).

Can't wait for the meltdowns @ the album release when y'all hate on every single song you hyped up since  last month and praise her past albums you are smearing in this thread on a daily basis right now
 
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i'm here for WD being Hope's sister come on now we need a song to cry to 

Ok, so
 In "Dance Til We Die" she sings "I've been covering Joni and dancing with Joan" "Not All Who Wanders Are Lost" has a high thrill and reminds Lana of "Cinderella in the movie, where she's holding the blue bird" "Wild At Heart" has a similar theme about being untameable as the title track has "Breaking Up Slowly" is about the relationship of  Tammy Wynette and George Jones and the "Breaking up slowly is a hard thing to do"-line was made up during a conversation Nikki and Lana had in a hotel room. Nikki and Lana wrote 4 more songs together She talks about a cover album full of country songs (she namedrops Bobby Gentry, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and Wynette, although it's not said whether she actually covered them) and one with folk songs "Dark But Just A Game" is sonically compared to Portishead and Ricky Nelson's"Garden Party". Lyrically, it is supposed to be similar to Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl".
Apart from that, it seems to be inspired by an disillusioning incident at a party she attended with Jack, hosted by Madonna and U2's manager Guy Oseray, where she contemplated about how it's best not to meet your idols and how musicians change in strange ways. The title originates from a conversation between her and Jack.
Jack also describes this song as "so LDR", being about "fly down the rabbit hole and smile in the same breath" On "White Dress" she sings in a rapt, innocent whisper
The song is about being 19, working as a waitress, listening to the White Stripes and Kings Of Leon. Lana describes it as being close to unedited journaling, not being "too afraid about being kind of stupid".
She also says that she's not sounding great during the chorus - it's described as sounding awestruck, trembling, "the voice of someone on the bring of something" and very fitting to the thematic of the song
We also get some lyrics: "Look how I do this, look how I've got this"
Also, there is a reference to the "grass always being greener", which is something Eclipse has referred to within his hints

holy shit the Dark But Just a Game description 
 
PORTISHEAD 

For me, it is Born to Die. I used to love this album so much, it started my love to Lana, but as Lana was changing, so was my music taste I guess (in the same direction fortunately). Now, I find this album very overproduced. But the biggest crime is what they did with Lana's voice. On practically all the other albums, I can feel that Lana is singing with her natural voice, but in Born to Die, both her low and high ranges sound so unnatural, especially in songs like Off To The Races, Blue Jeans, Summertime Sadness, Dark Paradise, Carmen, Lolita... I think it was not only her singing style, but also weird postproduction effects... I am really happy that with Ultraviolence she decided not to continue this "pop" path... And I am really, really curious how Born to Die would sound is she (re)recorded it today.

For me, it is Born to Die. I used to love this album so much, it started my love to Lana, but as Lana was changing, so was my music taste I guess (in the same direction fortunately). Now, I find this album very overproduced. But the biggest crime is what they did with Lana's voice. On practically all the other albums, I can feel that Lana is singing with her natural voice, but in Born to Die, both her low and high ranges sound so unnatural, especially in songs like Off To The Races, Blue Jeans, Summertime Sadness, Dark Paradise, Carmen, Lolita... I think it was not only her singing style, but also weird postproduction effects... I am really happy that with Ultraviolence she decided not to continue this "pop" path... And I am really, really curious how Born to Die would sound is she (re)recorded it today.

I find BTD much easier to listen to than Paradise, but I have the same exact sentiment about both. I aged 

Both BTD & Paradise have aged badly IMO (paradise slightly less so bc I think the production is so much better than BTD, but still has some things that feel v specifically early ‘10s to me). but I know there’s plenty of ppl who feel differently. Everything else remains perfection. LFL places itself really specifically time-wise w some of the lyrics (Coachella etc) but I don’t think its actual sound is dated.

For me, it is Born to Die. I used to love this album so much, it started my love to Lana, but as Lana was changing, so was my music taste I guess (in the same direction fortunately). Now, I find this album very overproduced. But the biggest crime is what they did with Lana's voice. On practically all the other albums, I can feel that Lana is singing with her natural voice, but in Born to Die, both her low and high ranges sound so unnatural, especially in songs like Off To The Races, Blue Jeans, Summertime Sadness, Dark Paradise, Carmen, Lolita... I think it was not only her singing style, but also weird postproduction effects... I am really happy that with Ultraviolence she decided not to continue this "pop" path... And I am really, really curious how Born to Die would sound is she (re)recorded it today.

My prediction:
1. Let Me Love You Like a Woman 3:21
2. Chemtrails over the Country Club 4:14
3. Tulsa Jesus Freak 3:49
4. White Dress 4:40
5. Wild at Heart 3:25
6. Dance Till We Die 4:05
7. Breaking Up Slowly 3:01
8. Dark But Just a Game 3:55
9. Yosemite 5:05
10. For Free 4:02
11. Not All Who Wonder Are Lost 5:45
12. Looking for America 2:42

My prediction:
1. Let Me Love You Like a Woman 3:21
2. Chemtrails over the Country Club 4:14
3. Tulsa Jesus Freak 3:49
4. White Dress 4:40
5. Wild at Heart 3:25
6. Dance Till We Die 4:05
7. Breaking Up Slowly 3:01
8. Dark But Just a Game 3:55
9. Yosemite 5:05
10. For Free 4:02
11. Not All Who Wonder Are Lost 5:45
12. Looking for America 2:42

That was surprisingly difficult! Still fun though
 
Rank Character 1 West Coast 2 Happiness is a Butterfly 3 Fuck It I Love You 4 Venice Bitch 5 Lust For Life 6 High By The Beach 7 Love 8 Video Games 9 Norman Fucking Rockwell 10 Young & Beautiful 11 The Greatest 12 hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it 13 Ultraviolence 14 How to Disappear 15 Love Song 16 Ride 17 Sad Girl 18 Money Power Glory 19 Mariners Apartment Complex 20 Let Me Love You Like a Woman 21 Looking for America 22 Cruel World 23 The Other Woman 24 Cola 25 Beautiful People Beautiful Problems 26 Cinnamon Girl 27 Music To Watch Boys To 28 Radio 29 Without You 30 Old Money 31 Blue Velvet 32 Swan Song 33 Summer Bummer 34 Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind 35 Black Beauty 36 You Must Love Me 37 California 38 Doin' Time 39 Lucky Ones 40 Get Free 41 Fucked My Way Up To The Top 42 This Is What Makes Us Girls 43 Million Dollar Man 44 I Can Fly 45 National Anthem 46 Yayo (Paradise) 47 God Bless America - and All the Beautiful Women in It 48 Season of the Witch 49 Cherry 50 Change 51 Is This Happiness 52 Summertime Sadness 53 Big Eyes 54 Once Upon a Dream 55 Gods & Monsters 56 Bartender 57 Burning Desire 58 Flipside 59 Shades of Cool 60 Honeymoon 61 Brooklyn Baby 62 Religion 63 Diet Mountain Dew 64 Off to the Races 65 White Mustang 66 Art Deco 67 24 68 Tomorrow Never Came 69 Heroin 70 Pretty When You Cry 71 Born to Die 72 The Next Best American Record 73 God Knows I Tried 74 Freak 75 Groupie Love 76 Terrence Loves You 77 Wait For Life 78 When the World was at War We Kept Dancing 79 American 80 Bel Air 81 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 82 Lolita 83 The Blackest Day 84 Blue Jeans 85 13 Beaches 86 Body Electric 87 Chelsea Hotel No. 2 88 Some Things Last a Long Time 89 Guns and Roses 90 In My Feelings 91 Salvatore 92 Dark Paradise 93 Florida Kilos 94 Carmen