Blue Ink

And she really doesn't. Someone already mentioned that the younger fans have no idea about Lana's impact from 2011-15/16. She was so enigmatic and the albums and Tropico really sent you into a completely different world. It was so exciting.
To me, all of that is gone. NFR onwards aren't that exciting anymore. I listen to BTD, P, UV, HM to dive into different worlds. If I need some pleasant noise in the background while studying I might listen to the rest.
I'm not attacking Lana. I hope she is happy where she and with what she is doing is right now. But a big part of her music and lyrics nowadays just don't hold a candle to her earlier stuff. Which is also the reason why songs like TNBAR (demo though), Bartender, Yosemite, Nectar of the Gods, Living Legend and Thunder (demo though) are album peaks - they weren't written recently.

If u know u know & if you don't get it then forget it 

Tbh I always thought Lust For Life sounded a little too on the nose, or too "flat", whatever. It's the sister of live laugh love. White Hot Forever would have really fit Lana I think. Other than that all album titles are iconic.  

If u know u know & if you don't get it then forget it 

If u know u know & if you don't get it then forget it 

If u know u know & if you don't get it then forget it 

Leather jacket Ultra era layout with jeans & plain white shirt yep its the vibe if u get it u get it

what on earth...

we would be freaking out if that was Lana cmon

I want sultry vibes without hiphop beats🙏🏻

istg y'all need to stop manifesting a ten-track album, why on Earth u want less music from Lana? 😭🙏
 
Give me a 15+ songs SERVE
 
 

Well yes 

Stevie Nicks is an absolute legend but I hope she never does another collab with Lana. Lana has such a unique voice and style but it just does not jive with Stevie's at all.

Fuck, and I cannot emphasize that enough, the Grammy’s. 

We do this every year and every year she doesn't win because the Grammys are a rigged institution which is skewed towards rewarding predominantly white men who capitalise on other people's talent
A prime example of this is Jack Antonoff who basically won a Grammy because of all the talented women he works with
Yet some of those talented women themselves have not won Grammys
And this is why the Grammys deserves to be stabbed in its face and die and never be spoken about again

Earlier tonight, Lana Del Rey met some fans while out in Chicago, Illinois.
She is set to perform at Lollapalooza in the area tomorrow night.
 

I wouldn’t mind collabs, but I wouldn’t miss them. I feel like some of her most “iconic” and lana-Del-Rey-classic albums have been with only her: Born To Die, Paradise, Ultraviolence, Honeymoon, and Norman Fucking Rockwell.
 
Anyways I want a real witchy album, perhaps even medieval like Dragonslayer 

this is literally the most iconic photo of her I’ve ever seen. If you told me Neil Krug shot this I would believe you like the composition, the colors, everything it’s literally perfection 

This pic would've taken over Tumblr 2012-2014

I feel crazy for saying this, but to me ocean blvd feels in some ways like she is circling back to her pre 2011 era of acoustic sound...

Also, I dont mean this in a bad way, but objectively Blue Bannisters is not a real album... LISTEN... There is pretty much zero conceptual reason for her to dump 7 or so of her unreleased tracks in the context of that album. What I think happened is that Lana for some reason felt the need to drop a new album right after COCC, and at that point in time she had a clear direction in mind, which was to cover her own family relations and to diss some of her family members... - thus she ended up with 4 new songs (Textbook, Wildflower Wildfire, Blue Bannisters, Sweet Carolina) that cover those exact themes and which are the only "true" BB songs, because they were clearly meant for the album in the context of the announced themes. From that point, I speculate that for some reason she either did not have enough material that covers these topics to arrange it into a full LP, or she decided not to continue in that direction for personal reasons. The issue with the latter is that ultimately she did continue writing in this direction for Ocean Blvd, so I honestly think she probably just wasnt sure back during the BB era of writing or just needed more time. Anyway, to make up for this lack of material and time, she decided to drop some random unreleased songs just because she liked them and because she probably was still liking the idea of releasing an album comprised of unreleased songs, which she mentioned back in 2017. Because even the relatively recent songs like Black Bathing Suit and Beautiful (?) were outtakes. And now, in the Ocean Blvd era, the rest of her Blue Bannisters era/style writing was finally completed and thus she dropped Fingertips, which definitely sounds like a BB outtake and other songs about her family. Maybe she had a writing block on the topic of her family, which resolved after she started writing her memoirs or smth. Pure speculation. 

ANYWAY, the point is that I do not think it is fair to call BB an album, when it is essentially a mixtape. And because 70 percent of BB is random outtakes from 3+ eras, most of which were left musically unchanged, I do not think we should use BB era as any sort of reference for her future musical direction or as part of her evolution, because it isn't. It is actually what sets Ocean Blvd apart, which is that unlike Blue Bannisters, some of her songs from Ocean Blvd, which are thematically identical to the themes of the core BB songs, were actually adapted to suit the record and not just dropped as is.
 

The footage in itself was cute, and she looked stunning, but her "vision" made it hard to watch honestly. Would've been infinitely better with a full "film noir" aesthetic from start to finish and the BTS sequence at the end. It just did not flow well storytelling wise. Also the "people have a short attention span" argument is a bit exaggerated, "Ride" is 10 minutes long, has an intro and an outro, but it has 150+ million views (and I understand that it was released 10 years ago), but that video is cohesive--Candy Necklace, while beautiful, is not.
 
She also dropped the video at the most random time without any promotion whatsoever... I understand that promotion wise she's into the "less is more mindset", but her feeling upset, while valid, seems a bit misplaced. I guess this post is her idea of promoting.

When Lana goes broke because of candy necklace music video so ldr10 is born to die/uv/ honeymoon 2.0 with Rick, Emilie, Justin, and both Dans producing and we get 15 magazine covers, 20 TV appearances, a full tour, 10 vinyl variants, and actually good merch

Agreed. And I feel kinda bad because I still really appreciate that video.
 
It's more like it's missing something. It's not the length of the video - I watched Ride, Freak and Tropico a thousand times. I also love Candy Necklace and the idea behind the mv but tbh it turned out a little boring. 

recency bias lol, when blue banisters was first released people were calling it her best album, people tend to really hype up something that's new