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    1 minute ago, TheCultureIsLit said:

    Veryyyyy curious as to whether fans will get to interact with her at the event or if it will just be that there are signed copies available for purchase...I really want to go. I'm in LA. Just hope she's actually there and can meet people or talk/read a bit (as long as it's socially distanced.)

     

    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!

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    On 9/4/2020 at 1:51 AM, IanadeIrey said:

    The title track of Honeymoon!
     

    I feel like people don’t really talk about it that much nowadays and when it came out I remember people dismissed it as “boring” because it was “slow” and “sparse”  but I think it’s a song where her vocals shine and her extra-layered harmonies in the chorus paired with the sweeping strings and plucked guitar chords are so atmospheric! Musical heaven and masterful lyricism at its finest. I think it’s definitely one of her top 5 best songs of all time and that whole record is a career highlight! 

     

    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.

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    59 minutes ago, QueenofAlchemy said:

    I'm not seeing great reviews from newspapers, except this one from Vice where they got 2 poets to review it (not sure if it was discussed on the pre-release thread). The 2 poets analysed the text and took note of her Whitman and Ginsberg influences, overall rating her better. 

     

    Are there any intellectuals (well read in Poetry) that agree/disagree with the Vice article? 

     

    I admit i thought some of the poems were a bit cringe before i read that article. 

     

    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.

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    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

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    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.

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