Evergreen

Not on my watch

The festival begins, Lana takes the stage and starts to sing... Let's keep it simple, babe, don't make it complic- The audience immediately:

People talk about the lack of visuals, but DYK has the best album photoshoot and concept since Honeymoon... Relax. Taylor announced Midnights in August and the only thing she was doing before the album release in late October was revealing the song titles on Tiktok. It's not March yet and we may have something by then.

I mean, yeah, look at Kate Bush - her career is over 40 years old, but she's only had one tour... Some artists don't like to perform in front of a lot of people and prefer to just write songs from time to time. I think Lana is one of those.

The timing... Is it true?

I ask her why she was crying. “I’d been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn’t figure out,” she says, to my surprise. “That’s a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can’t figure out why. I’d gotten these shots in Russia, where we’d just been. It was just heavy. It’s just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don’t really care that much about yourself sometimes. I thought it was sad. I thought my position was sad. I thought it was sad to be in Ireland singing for people who really cared when I wasn’t sure if I did.” Lana said this back in 2014. She hates touring, it's not healthy and I don't blame her.

We're eating literal crumbs but at least we're not starving.

Sounds realistic!

Top 3 albums of 2023 (so far) according to BOZ: Kali Uchis > Caroline Polachek > Lana Both albums will be released before DYKTTATUO so it will be interesting to compare them.

I'm not emotionally ready for the second part of the album.

When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags I think I wish I could extrapolate some small intention Or maybe get your attention for a minute or two The power that this has alone. Beautiful who?

We have the lyrics of the title track and Kintsugi (partly), and it's already better than Blue Banisters, so...

Me when I see the album credits and every song has a piano in it:

Gays are the worst (and I'm gay myself). I hope whoever sent the links will get banned.

Candy Necklace needs a tempo change or something. Manifesting it won't stay the same for 5 minutes.

Maybe she will do something closer to the release date like in the NFR! era.

Luke's 2022 album did 74k in the US (less than COTCC), so I guess we're fine. Who we should be worried about is Fall Out Boy (also on the 24th). Their 2018 album sold 130k in its first week.

Candy Necklace you will never be famous.

The way insiders don't talk about this song at all is... concerning.

At least he's not skipping any of the songs on the album. This is a great sign.

Jack Antonoff's piano!

Upcoming albums you can listen to while you wait for Lana.

I'll accept another video like Let Me Love You Like a Woman at this point. Just give us the visuals.

My guess is that Antonoff produced all the songs that Lana wrote with Hermosa. On the bright side, the title track is produced by 5 people including Jack so he can't be the only producer on the other tracks.