rightofjupiter

based on her glam in the announcement i would guess she's going to make at least a short appearance? jealous of all u LA ppl!

ahhh so jealous los angeles! wonder how the event will be organized (where, how it'll be covid safe etc). anyone from LB going?

love "wipe your tears"!

my picture disc just shipped! i love a picture disc so am excited, though wish i came with a sleeve. anyone who got the other editions of Violet, would be able to upload images of the track credits?

i think we could still get it in march– she was still working on Violet in late June

i love how much lana singles out those sort of mundane moments of pleasure– reading a magazine in a walmart parking lot– as inspirational to her

for sure– one of her moodiest, most evocative songs, it just transports me every single time i hear it. lana is so good at conjuring rich emotional textures in general, but this song is one of the best examples of how fully she can conjure a world through sound. wish she'd perform it live more often– i love the way the string arrangement get translated through the guitar.

lol i love benito's lana drag

i whole heartedly agree w the Vice conversation about her poetry. i read a lot of contemporary poetry and lana's poem definitely call on the whitman/beat/confessional influences while also using lots of lana's idiosyncratic phrasings. it def fits in with a vein of current poetry that plays a lot with voice, affect, and emoji/text speak. if i were an editor i'd def cut some some lines but i think it's overall very cohesive, warm, and earnest, and her unique voice as a writer comes through really well.

my top 25 at the moment, in no particular order: Honeymoon TLY Art Deco Freak The Blackest Day Heroin Brooklyn Baby Sad Girl Money Power Glory Shades of Cool West Coast Old Money Hope is a Dangerous Thing... NFR FIILY The greatest Bartender HIAB Is This Happiness Angels Forever, Forever Angels LFL (demo) BPBP (demo) Wild on You I Talk to Jesus Bel Air

just picked up my copy! though i read the whole book yesterday (bought the ebook from an australian site). "thanks to the locals" is def my fav of the "new" (ie ones we hadn't heard or seen before) poems, really resonated with me. i love that they scanned in her typewritten manuscript, it's beautifully done book design-wise. and while we already knew most of the poems it was really nice to read them in her own formatting/line breaks– though i couldn't help but hear her voice in my head while reading the ones on the audiobook version! i love this project a lot– even the "cringey" lines (ie the end of "sugarfish") feel honest and sweet and very lana. can't wait for behind the iron gates and am so happy to finally have Violet...really hope there will be at least one more interview about it like the recent Vogue one. Would also be so cool if she did a reading/q & a online for the release (somehow i doubt this, esp bc she's prob getting ready to release chemtrails) and agree with what another user said about raffling off the hand-bound copies to raise $ for a charity.

Happiness is a Butterfly vs. Old Money

this is something my parents always say to me lol. "thanks to the locals" is heartbreaking! also that word we thought might be "sax" or "zack's" in LA.. is Saks (as in the dept store i think)

Cherry v. Freak

are there a lot of longer poems (amongst the new ones not on the album version) or are most of the new ones shorter?

y'all i am so excited i feel like tomorrow is xmas morning (lol i'm jewish but anyways)

Honeymoon v. NFR

this would be a cool song to cover tho

Bartender vs. Heroin

darn! you could order the ebook version too if you want to read ASAP?

same! we've been waiting on the book for soooo long (since she announced it as a hand-bound project) and i can't believe it's almost hereeee

2 more days!! ordered it from my local indie bookstore who open for order pick-ups 11am that day– hope it's beautiful out so i can lay in my hammock and read it

ah so glad to get an interview about the book! i hope there will be some more next week when the book officially releases. also love that it looks like she managed to re-produce the format of the hand-bound version for the book.

Shades of Cool vs. The greatest