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We will know if it’s the Nikki collab project soon enough because Nikki will def post about it on her own Insta Awaiting Ben & Ed to repost this announcement though

hmm..it could be the filter she puts on that highlights the shadows differently because her original RCS announcement has similar “bruising” https://www.instagram.com/p/CMqBcHah785/?igshid=1u6fjww0oqnjm

It’s an old photo...might be around the time she was healing her broken arm

She’s just AB testing which picsart take is better received THIS WOMAN

The Lana-Madonna connection was so strong before Mike Dean (who I see as a red herring). Rick Nowels, Madonna posting that video of her college dance classes with hope in the background.

Exiting the BB 200 after 4 weeks. It’s a strategy, a choice to play dead (no promo, lowest in public perception) to test the depth of your fan base’s loyalty although I’m sure that wasn’t the intention. Onto the next era I suppose

I don’t think RCS is gonna come out this year. Too many of Lana’s “competitors” are slated to release. No way will Interscope let Billie carry out her new era and Lana release at the same time. Let’s pray for that digital-only covers album or Behind the Iron Gates

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

Why is Lana so frugal? Seriously...random selphies for singles now leaking into EU magazine covers

I gave some thought to the track listing. What if For Free and White Dress switched positions? For Free opening with its instrumentals would be like an curtain opening, transitioning the album slowly out of NFR’s Laurel Canyon. I also think HIADT should’ve been saved for COCC to give it an extra emotional weight/beef up the album a bit and it would appear somewhere after Dark But Just a Game.

I don’t want to resurface a traumatic thread so I’ll put it here- Annie Mac is retiring in July

Remember when Lana made references to 2 songs from The National in The Greatest MV then followed up with “I wanna collaborate with them” https://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-says-wants-collaborate-national-2544533 But they didn’t bite at all and went to work with other female artists instead (Taylor being the biggest name). To think what we could have had. The lyrics, the vocal harmonies, the sadness, the atmosphere /late night feelings

Any signs of her going country? I was listening to Southbound by Carrie Underwood. Lyrically, it’s a little Lizzy. Sonically, it’s a little too power pop. But what if RCS is like country rock

I hear Fantano framed Lana as an industry plant in one of his recent videos Mhm yeah, White Dress, one of Lana’s best songs, is about the time when she was plotting with the men in music business to become a star. Part of me wants Lana to not address her critics especially about her origins. White Dress already said a lot. And as much as White Dress is nostalgic or regretful, I think it would be good for Lana should cherish those memories for herself and only herself, instead of constantly hashing it out cryptically in public. On top of that—music critics continually act as gatekeepers of culture but their influence has considerably waned with social media & streaming.

I thought Nikki gave Lana the BUS demo for her to build the recording off of but at least lyrically and maybe the overall song structure, the both wrote it together. That Gucci lipstick has been released for a while though (~1 year or so)

I can see that if Rob timed things correctly, he could’ve made some good money before the dot com boom collapsed (which was around 2002), but a lot of the domains he still owns are ones have peak dot com bubble vibes (tropical fish dot com sounds like the infamous pets dot com) It’s possible that Lana felt “poor” even if she went to an expensive boarding school because that money wasn’t exactly spent on what she wanted.

When Lana said “they say I came from money but I didn’t” I believe her. How the hell is investing in internet domains a million-dollar venture, especially by the time Lana was in college. Rob does list some of the domains he gave away as gifts but there is no standardized basis to evaluate their worth so it’s inflated.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNqqwCorvXF/ This caption from Chuck makes it seem like she will be due soon, much sooner than the late June estimate

What was the difference between their stories? I remembered them to be about the same

I’m still streaming this album a lot <3. I haven’t listened to the album from beginning to end as much because I think the track listing is a bit weak. I’m coming around to this idea that Lana *had* to release this album even if it wasn’t fully baked, mostly because this album is such a rejection of fame. Kind of like a continuation of the artist she skewers in Norman but it’s reflected upon herself

Daddy Rick appears in a YouTube comment section to give a little more background on the guitar in Yosemite https://www.youtube.com/post/UgwshAL_8BBA136oCp94AaABCQ

The piano tracks on Melodrama were the only ones Jack sole produced fwiw. The other songs’ more interesting production styles came from like Flume or Malay. I liked this TikTok about the “Jack Antonoff Cinematic Universe” https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMemgT8e4/

wait omg I don’t think it’s likely but the reflection in the window is like the same landscape as that video

Blue Banisters fits so much better thematically with Behind the Iron Gates but rarely is Lana that on the nose with titles Is there a way we can look ahead into book publication progress like we do with Shazam, ASCAP

This felt Sylvia Plath-y to me because of like..throwing yourself off a banister?