Anthem

There’s a giant chemtrail over LA right now, her promo is starting!!

For real though, it barely feels like a Lana album is coming in two weeks. Maybe I’m just out of the loop but it seems like she’s just gonna drop the album and that’s it. Maybe after the year she’s had that’s for the best

EDIT: there’s a second one, double album confirmed!!

I have been innocently living my life thinking February 26th was an official date for "White Dress" just for @HoneymoonDaddy to inform me that this is, in fact, just a rumored date. At least we for sure get the whole album next month.  

I know Lana has a bad track history with like, telling random fans on the streets dates and random magazines saying shit, but this year is the first I can remember where she has made official announcements on her official channels and not delivered. It does make me a bit frustrated, less so with this project but more with the tinge of potential truth that 1/11 might come and nothing happen.

Can she just release "Happy Loner" already so I have a soundtrack to be depressed to

21 hours ago, godsmonster said:

idk why but the chorus makes more sense with "I just drive" than "I just ride"

I like "just drive" better personally and how it sounds in the song, but I think "just ride" ended up fitting the song/narrative she was getting at more because being along for the ride is more passive/carefree which I think fits the video a lot where she is just a little aimless and taking life as it comes.

2 hours ago, Just Cherry said:

I think the second line is “you think I’ll ever feel any magic again” 

I could *not* figure this out but I hear it now!

"You think I'll ever transform into the man

God meant to make

When he began?"

Really interesting demo lyrics in the context of some of the other lyrics on Paradise!

I refuse to hear Lana pronounce Arkansas like that so in my head its "our Kansas". 

This is one of my favorite of the new unreleased tracks. Its beautiful and sad and so.. real? I also always thought her living in Alabama was some fantasy bullshit but now I just don't know. Not that she couldn't have still made this up, but I feel like this gives the story more credibility. I don't know, I just really really love this. 

Updated OP with new lyrics, could use any input esp on the one part I couldn't make out, marked by the (?) x

i think it might be he said only (read the red)

he said i should rewrite / he said only read the red?

 

it sounds like shes saying two things at once

Perhaps referring to this? 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_letter_edition

 

it kills me.

This would not bother me if they would just order them in a way that makes sense. It should be Born to Die, Born to Die (Deluxe), Paradise, Born to Die: The Paradise Edition, then Born to Die: The Paradise Edition (Special Version). Like the fact that Paradise comes first irritates me because that isn't how they were released. Also not me not knowing "Burning Desire" was on the special version  

Disagree about not packaging the two projects together. The death and ascent idea was extremely fascinating. 

To be fair - at this point anyone knows about it. Why should she post about it if she has nothing to add to the subject?

Because her showing she actively cares about this situation demonstrates to her fans that it is a cause worth caring for in general. Plenty of her fans idolize her, and her speaking up could turn someone who knows what's going on but isn't really paying attention or doing anything about it into another signature on a petition, another dollar donated, and another voice to continue the cycle.

When? I haven't noticed until now.

I literally looked this up over the weekend because I wondered if Marina would unfollow Lana and as of at least a few days ago they were still following each other.

I love how she doubled down that *females are who she takes issue with. Not even touching the rest of it.

And good god, those of you wanting her to livestream to clarify? If its this bad when she has time to think and edit, I would not want to even imagine what she would say being totally candid and in the moment. I think hearing her voice literally saying this shit would be the end for me.

Now ma'am, do you want some ointment? Because that was a stretch.

That line can have multiple meanings and Lana's the only one who can say what it means.

I get what you're saying and that could be it. However, it could also mean that "the woman says no but man think it's a yes" not making it her fault (the woman) but making it his fault. Like, "men hear what they want, even if you say no" making it your fault when it's theirs.

I'm not really following where we disagree here. I agree that it is ultimately the man's fault for being abusive. My point is that some women perceive themselves as being at fault because men have told them, directly or not, "you are [xyz] which is why I abuse you" rather than admit "I am an abusive person". The fact that Lana used the words "women..like me - the kind.." rather than calling out abusive men directly seems to hint that she herself has internalized that her abuse comes from something about who she is rather than a fault with the men who have abused her. 

I know this has probably already been discussed, but can someone explain to me what does the "the kind of woman who says no but men hear yes" sentence really means? i read a lot of people saying they find it very disturbing, that she's romantizicing r*pe and etc. maybe she was trying to portrait herself (like she said later in the comments) as someone who doesn't always looks strong, or like she's in control? to be honest i don't understand what she meant with that at all neither, but going back to the first statement, can someone explain please? i've been thinking a lot about it and whatever she wanted to say with it i think it sounds a little bit weird and out of touch

I think that sentence was off because she is implying that women being abused has something to do with a quality about themselves rather than an issue with the man doing the abuse. It is a way to internalize misogyny and blame oneself for being the "type" of woman that is abused rather than placing the blame on the man for being the abuser. 

I'm not buying "this was poorly worded, she didn't really mean it like that". The poor way that she worded it actually makes this worse, because it shows just how ingrained her privilege and ignorance is that she can say these things and not even realize how damaging they are, because she doesn't have to care. 

I needed to process the whole thing so I broke it down.. 

I don't know, the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth and I can't even appreciate her announcing a new album. I've considered her side time after time, but if you put this next to the mounting list of problematic things she's done, which is unfortunately happening more and more frequently, it is becoming really hard to want to support her. She is my favorite artist, but I'm starting to want to just listen to the music and not really bother with concerts or staying up to date with what she is doing because its really disappointing.

Throwback to when a random person wrote ake lyrics for the song in under a day right before it released and they were lowkey better even if the meaning is way off

 

[interlude]

And then you left me

Alone in your galaxy, with nothing to console me

But the sound of your voice playing over

And over again, on the radio

 

And every time I hear you strike that chord

Every time I hear a bird sing

Or cross paths with a couple in love

I hope that you're still proud

 

[Verse 1]

You and your sweet harmony

Tell me, is it true?

That you're still out there, baby

Fingers brush across a string

Reminds me of the way you used to sing

That rhythm and blues

 

[Refrain]

Listen to the choir sing

Cause baby, now the whole world's watching out

Was it you? Was it really you?

Are you with me?

Are you still here?

 

[Chorus]

Now I'm dancing at Coachella but

My mind's living in 1969

(Do you remember)?

Got your fingers 'round my fingers

It's your memory that keeps me feeling fine

(Do you remember?)

 

So don't you dare leave Woodstock

Don't wanna know that you're not here

Now I'm dancing at Coachella but

I left my heart with you there

 

[Verse 2]

You and your vintage guitar

Tell me, is it true?

Pretending that you're bigger than you are

Looked at me with your gentle eyes

And told me that you wished upon the stars

 

[Refrain]

Listen to the choir sing

Cause baby, now the whole world's watching out

Was it you? Was it really you?

Are you with me?

Are you still here?

 

[bridge]

Your and your sweet melody

Lies over mine while singing Stevie Nicks

You were the bad boy behind the stage

Went out the door to get your fix

I gave myself to music

And through your music I gave myself to you

But now that you're not here, baby

I don't know what to do

 

[Chorus]

Now I'm dancing at Coachella but

My mind's living in 1969

(Do you remember)?

Got your fingers 'round my fingers

It's your memory that keeps me feeling fine

(Do you remember?)

 

[Finale]

Don't let me forget

Baby, don't let me forget

Your fingers on my lips

And my arms around your hips

Bye, bye (x3)

@godsmonster

well we'd know pretty fast it was fake, because some unwashed twink can't create 3 minutes of good lyrics lol

Girl did you read the fake Coachella lyrics vs the real ones lol

ok I don't have the patience but I need someone to make these. we have so much potential after a new album

for awareness

I used to have a lot more, but now I have the Paradise and Ultraviolence box sets. I also found the white dress she wore in the Ride video in a bulk bin at Goodwill   I also have AKA CDs from a few years ago that trayertrash was talking about. 

oh... she said Ariana deserved. yikes D: