rightofjupiter

would love if she'd do a live where she read some more poems, or even a virtual reading for a bookstore...maybe even with jack's accompaniment?

love how some of the vocals are LQ like a voice message 

i wonder if she recorded them before jack was involved and bc they are so strong (emotionally) she didn't want to re-record

one of the things i'm most impressed by is lana's reading of her poems– her pacing, pauses, intonations. makes sense to me that she'd be good at reading her work aloud bc of her musicianship, but she really managed to squeeze every drop of feeling from these readings. 

I don't know if it's already been mentioned, but I didn't know she mentioned chemtrails in 'Past The Bushes Cypress Thriving'

yeah i noticed this a few days ago when i was re-reading some of the poems– really makes it feel like a bridge into the cocc era

first review that i've found (not very substantial though, imo): https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-violet-bent-backwards-over-the-grass-review

really really hope an interview w her about this drops tomorrow/this week!

"Back home to the Tudor house that borned a thousand murder plots" could she be talking about manson again?

i think this is a reference to her old house (one she lived in w barrie)

OH RIGHT I messed that up rn, but originally I felt surprised with the amount of pages for the amount of poems (30). I still am. It's a lot...   I just didn't expect this. It's a much bigger work than I imagined.

it'll be interesting to see how she uses white space on the page for her poems– like if she uses more then even a relatively short poem (1-2 pages) could end up being quite long what with line breaks and formatting etc

 

Even with the added photography, I was originally surprised at the thickness of the book considering the amount of poetry - 128 pages(!!!) over 14 poems. But after reading LA Who I Am To Love You today, with its incredible length, it all makes sense and I'm even more so impressed and happy with how much work she's put into this project. And judging by the length of the audio and the speed she read it at, it's easier to tell that most of these poems, if not all, have so much to say. I love it.

the book is 30 poems (only 14 on the audiobook)

i'll pm u the link, it's from a chinese website

thank u!! 

just heard the whole thing chile lemme sob

where'd u find it?

this is my first LDR release on lanaboards and i know i'm gonna just be here refreshing for the next 24hrs looool

i think it's sax but why sax...

sax bc of jazz?

ahhh i can't wait to listen to the whole audiobook

would love a a dowload too plz!! when i try to play it (in U.S.) it just plays cinnamon girl instead

I have the feeling that her plans for Violet weren't as big in January as they are now. If she wanted to release it in January or even a month later the books/vinyl records would have had to be ready for delivery in the first half of the year. But now in September they still aren't ready. That makes me think she initially didn't plan for it to be such a big project with 5 vinyl editions etc. If my theory is true I'm happy she waited to release it. I also hope Behind the Iron Gates will be connected to Violet like Born to Die & Paradise.

agree, and i'm also interested to see how much revision has gone into the poems we've seen (n IG, in Vogue Italia etc). part of signing a book is doing revisions with an editor, so she may have also made significant changes to the manuscript since selling it to s&s. i do hope she'll do an in-depth interview for it's release.

the witches of eastwick (bc i'm listening to the new season of you must remember this, which if you're an old hollywood fan you'll love). it was fun (cher, michelle pfeiffer, susan sarandon) but not as good as i'd hoped..also don't care for jack nicholson.

lemme just give my 2 cents on this cuz reading this is giving me a stroke

 

1) does anyone really believe an actual publisher would sell the book for $1 when the production cost of a hardcover book are extremly expensive? we all knew this was out of the picture once the rights were sold to a real publisher and not lana's handbinding workshop

2) "she ist just donating her advance" like, our girl can be lucky if she manages to make more profit than her advance with this book

agree that her advance was prob pretty big (bc it's poetry it makes it harder to guess but i'd say def $1 million-ish, possibly more)

Yee, I went back and popped in the source of some of these claims too. I just can't remember where I read the donation being the advance/author fee and not the profits of the hundred variants of this album.

info re: the advance is from her most recent video where she announced violet's official release date (the one filmed in a parking lot)

which poems are u most curious to hear based on title? i can't wait to hear tessa dipietro (a poem about a psychic? yes plz) and my bedroom is a sacred place now... (title is v evocative).

edit: also quiet waiter blue forever bc it's one of my fav poems she's posted.

moonstruck, which was very charming and '80s (cher's brooklyn italian accent is  )

glamorous country club world lol

Blue Neon Bitch

this song would be iconic i just know it

not the men on this thread using their opinion of whether they'd hook up w her or not to comment on her looks...

Does anyone know what happened to Eclipse? I just wanted to look at his ultrasubversive twitter page, but it's gone.

he started his own discord server if i remember correctly (was advertising it on twitter shortly before the account disappeared)

i assume they are just doing all of this to help her reach the donation goal. and i feel like cocc might not have a lot of different versions/ bundles ... but who knows

she said she's donating her advance though, not a percentage of sales sales

Just a heads up: There are now FIVE vinyls available for Violet (Black, Picture Disc, Lana Store Cream, Indie Store Green, UO Sky Blue), plus the Cream Cassette and CD.

 

If there's a similar merch line-up for Chemtrails, you better start saving up cause it's looking like this will be an expensive era.

with no touring for awhile makes sense that artists will put out tons of merch, aren't touring and merch the biggest money-makers for musicians?