rightofjupiter

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

fuck everything

baby if you wanna leave, come to california, be a freak, like me too screw your anonymity, loving me is all you need to feel like i do vs. There are violets in your eyes There are guns that blaze around you There are roses in between my thighs And a fire that surrounds you

Heroin vs Terrence Loves You

this, the melancholy permeating this bop is so bittersweet and lovely

!!! my fav song on the album and i can't wait to see it

Money Power Glory vs. Cruel World

it definitely has way more open space, sonically, than anything else on UV– and i love all the stillness in the song, it helps hold the tension imo. but yeah i def hear u re: not fitting in with the UV sound.

i love guns and roses and dont get the hate for it– to me its so atmospheric and moody, and is just such a vibe overall.