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I think she had prepared something, but it may not have seemed as important to her, as that was a tough week for her, with spending a lot of time with her grandmother who was very ill then (and who passed away quite soon after).

Off topic: Do you know where this gif is from?

It cracks me up that the two people in my life who use a typewriter exclusively are my mother-in-law and Lana.

People going back and tagging a new lana account for publicity is EXACTLY the sort of thing I would expect to see. Also, I haven't seen anybody mention that they were suddenly following a random LDR related page without clicking on 'follow'. I think the number of people who missed out on following Honeymoon when it went private means there might be a bit of a panic to follow immediately so as not to miss out here.

Edit: nevermind

75K followers in a couple of hours. Even if Interscope initially wanted it to be a soft launch/secret, they're going to have to be happy with how it's turned out.

I'm all for having one cake for each of my personas.

This is the most accurate the Daily Mail has ever been.

I'm not sure how I'm dragging you when I didn't mention your name, and didn't even have you in mind. As for fake woke ... well, whatever. I'm hardly woke by most people's standards at all, but the fact you're using the phrase at all means a lot.

As much fun as it is to dunk on reddit for its sexism and all around grossness (and believe me, that is fun), there are numerous posts in the lyric thread here, for the latest single, speculating on which body parts Lana is writing about wanting to be 'opened up', that are even more gross.

Can anyone confirm this? There might have been a different master used without making it obvious on the packaging. I just want someone who has bought the CD in the past year to let us know if it has the more bare bones first version or the 'surf drums' version that's on the video.

I've been lazy the last few months and have only listened to this on streaming, but yesterday I went for a drive and put the actual CD on, and the sound quality is just stunning. Little details I'd forgotten about just jumped out. I think I'm going to have to upgrade NFR in my ratings.

AI generated lyrics are going to be the death of beauty and art.

Super excited for all our Brazilian fans!

I don't care if Lana announces a record and then drops out of sight. I don't need regular serotonin hits from something new every day - just knowing a record is around the corner is enough.

I just pulled up a random video of it, but anything from the Would I Lie To You BBC show

I've bought every CD on the day of release with the exception of BTD-PE, which I bought the day after I first heard it (24/11/13), and Blue Banisters, which I got a day late due to wanting to use a gift voucher that wouldn't activate on the day. I used to buy a tonne of CDs, but I think the last four CDs I bought were Lana ones, as I said, on day of release. As for listening, I both stream and listen to the HQ rips I make. I have multiples of UV because I got the Australian one straight away, the German one for the alternate WC, and the Target edition for Flipside. I got multiples of the Paradise Edition because for a long time here they were cheap ($10 Australian = about $7 US), and I was giving them away to friends. I think I still have a spare. I got the Honeymoon CD box set because it was cheap online briefly. I also have a few of the CDs with exclusive tracks - the Emile album; Mando Diao; Great Gatsby OST; and a few others. I plan on getting Ocean Blvd on day of release on CD.

It's hilarious to find out what will make the Guardian write approvingly of the fact you moved to Florida because you wanted to be ruled by Ron DeSantis.

I'm on board with all the lovers of Unidentified Flying Bill - a great title that's also hilarious. And I'm wondering if the NFR haters just haven't heard of the phrase.

Honestly some of these alternative suggestions are 1,000 times worse than the actual titles.

The Suburban Studs were a punk band from the late 1970s who just happened to have a song called 'Resistor', which had nothing to do with Lana, Resistance, or anything else of interest, and obviously turned up on the Songfile because someone made a mistake somewhere.

Even though I hate it, I do the same. I spent ages trying to divide the songs by 'quality' (in theory from acapella laptop demo through to fully produced track that just didn't make it to record), but so many songs slipped between the cracks that I had to give up. I'm also not interested in categorising things by recording date, again because there are too many songs that we don't have specifics for. I do have a playlist of the top tier 60 or so tracks that I enjoy the most, but there's no real pattern to how they're chosen or sequenced.

I think the differentiation between things like 'demos', 'outtakes', 'alt mixes', 'alt takes' and so on, that used to be the way different recordings that weren't on a final record were labelled, is all outdated now, because of two things - 1) the fact that the cost of the actual physical device that is used to store the music and recordings is basically negligible (you can buy a Hard drive that can store 10,000 CDs worth of lossless music for about $100 - back in the day, studio tape would cost more than that for an hour), and 2) the type of digital recording you can do with computers gives you access to mixing and mastering technology that the biggest record company in the world in the 1970s couldn't have even dreamed of, as a free app on your phone. Because there's no difference between the medium used to record off somebody's laptop, or in a major recording studio, tracks can be interchanged without the listener to a record ever having any idea what sort of room a part or whole of song were made in, unless the artist wants them to. In the 1980s, when studio bootlegs and box sets full out 'outtakes', 'alternative mixes' and 'demos' started to appear, you really had to think hard as an artist if you wanted to spend the money on studio time to properly mix down a song, then once it was down, whether to keep it or tape over it again to save money. Now, your producer can generate those 700 mixes on his laptop while watching the latest season of Stranger Things, for no cost at all beyond his time. tl;dr nowadays, you can call non-released versions/songs whatever you want, because there's no reason anybody aside from the artist/producers would even know their exact recording lineage.

I voted. Boy, there were some tough ones .

I always find it strange that it's only women in music who are expected to be writing about their own experience only, and if they're not, they're 'inauthentic'. I mean, Metallica fans are insufferable and will use any excuse to criticise the band, but I've never heard any of them bitch about the fact that their lead singer was not actually blown up by a bomb and left in a bed without arms and legs.