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  1. Posted

    quick and messy acapella cover of MAC, maybe I'll do a proper one soon but idk

    https://picosong.com/wLizR

     

     

    You know I adore you already, but I mean this completely serious - best voice I've heard cover anything on this site, and probably the most fitting voice to cover Lana that I've heard. You have that delicate but kind of dark/sadness that she has. You're voice almost cuts in and out with your volume, which works because its almost like an old radio (in a good way!). I'm curious to hear how you'd sound if you sang more strong/confident, with your tone. 

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  2. Posted

    @@PinUpCartoonBaby done and yeah I've had thoughts about whether I should nuke this whole thread or not. It was a fun guide to make but I just.. well I don't want to be disrespectful to Lana. I know she supposedly has been given one of these booklets but I don't know how she felt about it.

     

    Sorry for the monologue, just now that I'm trying to be an artist myself I guess I just think about these things a bit differently. 

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  5. Posted

    Here is my alternate interpretation of the lyrics. I believe that this song is talking about letting go of the past and embracing the future, through the lens of a lost relationship (Barrie if I had to guess) and some of the Manson references we've already talked about a lot. Hear me out! I think the storyline here is she is up awake at night in her home, restlessly thinking about the past and looking to the future. This is SO long - sorry!

     


    “Topanga’s hot tonight.” We all know the connection here to Manson, but I don’t know if anyone has brought up the fact that Lana’s Malibu home (HBTB one) is pretty much where Topanga meets PCH (promise I’m not a stalker, I live in LA and you can’t miss her house when you've seen it once!). If you loosely interpret the area that is considered Topanga, Lana may be making this observation from inside her very own home.

    “Rumbling of distant shores sends me to sleep/but the facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream.” She is trying to sleep but can’t, because she’s thinking about how “life rocked [her]”, and everything in the lines leading to the chorus. Rumbling of distant shores makes me think she’s near the water, aka her house.

    “Flying to the moon again/dreaming..” she’s caught up in her memories about heroin and the man she lost. The lines about an airplane to a foreign land make me think Barrie, since it sounds like she sent this person away rather than them leaving her. Her calling heroin out specifically in the chorus and how it ruined someone’s life makes me think this is not some metaphor for her own use, or else she would keep it vague like the rest.

    “Manson’s in the air.” This isn’t explicit, but I take the purpose of this line (and all of the Manson references) to talk about how sinister parts of history can sometimes linger in a place, much like the memories of her lost love linger in her thoughts. I think this explains the whole second verse. Side note: when she says “they still feel him here”, I think “him” refers to the man she was in a relationship with. Think of it as: “all my friends have gone because they can sense that this man’s absence is still affecting me when I’m here”.

    The second prechorus vaguely mentions something bad happened at the beginning of the year (or possibly last year). The fact that the very next line mentions heavy metal, makes me think the event is connected to a musician, of which she has had many relationships with.

    “Its fucking hot”, I see her getting frustrated with not being able to shake her thoughts. Like being up at night when its hot and you don’t have AC. In comes the Manson reference, and again the parallel with history giving a place a bad feeling. I also feel like there's some duality here about how, even though Topanga does have this dark history attached to it, like Lana, that she still feels like the future is in her hands and that she can "change her evil ways and shit" even after "writing in blood on the walls". It seems like symbolism for reclaiming her life from the negative things that the past has attached to it. 

     

    I think the “marzipan” line is some inside hint to whomever she’s singing about – she mentioned there were references only she knew in an interview. There’s a million other words she could have used there, so this feels like something is hidden beneath but we’ll never know. Finally the “taking all my medicine/to take my thoughts away” leads back into her being immersed in her thoughts about the past, since presumably all of the song before this has been her inner mind’s dialogue. I’m still thinking about the significance of “leaving my old man again/I hope that I’ll come back one day” – but I do think these lines in this part of the song make the best moment on the album, and one of the best of her career.

    The rest has already been covered, but the lines “I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t sick of it” to me say that she’d tired of thinking about the past and these people that don’t belong in her future. This ties in with the desire to change and to move on with her life.

    This was really long but I love this song so much and I actually think the lyrics are pretty straightforward for what the song is about.

    As for a video: I would love love love to see a video of her walking around the Malibu home at night, cut in some dream sequences and shots of the ocean at night, and transition into full on dreaming in a triple feature with Change and Get Free. She wakes up and its morning as the ocean sounds from Get Free start. I had a whole thing fleshed out for a triple feature video but this is enough for now lol.

     

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  6. Posted

    Interesting she said Hollywood was "released" with the wrong production... 

     

    I was shocked at how pointedly she called out some of the unreleased tracks - she always acts like nothing exists and there are SO many it seems possible that she might have actually forgotten some. Its really cool to know she has so many songs and thinks fondly of so many of them.

     

    I wouldn't be counting on all of the tracks mentioned being on the supposed "unreleased album", this is the same person that changed her mind very late in the game about Yosemite. Not to poke a tired meme further, just know that she can be fickle sometimes so I wouldn't hang on to every mention as a confirmed spot on the tracklist. For speculation, I'd imagine Serial Killer and Us Against the World as givens since she sang them live on tour. Hollywood seems likely, although I wonder how she feels about that song since it almost feels like.. longing for fame? She called it out on her own and sang it so who knows. I wouldn't want AKA tracks, they are all fine and perfect as is, and I wouldn't want recent outtakes we already have that already sound high quality (Fine China, Your Girl, etc). I'd rather have rougher stuff repolished, like Daytona Meth/On Our Way, or totally new songs we don't actually know about or early versions of final songs, like Melancholia. 

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  7. Posted

    Ok, super long post-first-listen messy analysnot.

    I just got done with my first full listen and its great! So much variety in the songs and she really experimented a lot in ways that were really neat. This sounds like a natural progression from Born to Die to be honest.

     

    The one sad thing is, when I recap her albums and her progression in my head, knowing that she is capable of such modern, experimental music kind of highlights how monotone and slow Honeymoon is, particularly because the albums are side by side in her discography. It almost sounds like she had been slowly declining and then popped back up with something fresh and Lana. I say this as someone who loves Honeymoon, but sitting next to this album and in the context of her career it seems like a low point.

     

    As much as I do like LFL and objectively see it as an amazing album, it didn't captivate me on first listen the way I had hoped. A few songs I had high hopes for let me down, and I was pleasantly surprised by others.

     

    Film songs > BTD > P > UV > LFL > HM 

     

    Keeping in mind that I think of them as having very narrow margins, that while HM is last I don't think it is significantly less quality. 

     

    Song rankings, mostly on preference. I’ve only listened to some of these once so this isn’t a super thorough analysis….

     

    1. Cherry 

    Sexy and amazing. The melody is hypnotic, the lyrics are captivating and so Lana. I will be looking for a clean version, because while the cussing is not so distracting that it changes my option of it as top song, but it is just unnecessary. The ad lib part towards the end is masterful and she took a lot of time to really sculpt the atmosphere here.

    2. Change

    Beautiful ballad with, again, beautiful lyrics. Proof that if a song is good enough then an artist does not need a ton of production. I particularly love the way she sings the line "I feel it coming in me". I'm a sucker for dark ballads and this one happens to connect with some of my personal life, which is why it is so high on my rankings.

    3. Love

    The hopeful message and direct address to her fans is unprecedented and refreshing from Lana. Even if this song didn’t represent how she feels now, I think it’s a hopeful glance to the future. The production is simply amazing in this song, and the video is beautiful.

    4. Tomorrow Never Came

    I had zero interest in this song from the lyrics we knew from interviews and the snippet. The song itself blew me away and I was surprised at how much I liked Sean’s voice and how much he sounds like John. The lyrics are the highlight and she did a good job sculpting a melody that really fit them. I think the feature actually added something to the song and may showed two sides of the same wall.

    5. Heroin

    I thought this song started off strange with the references to Topanga and the life rocked me lines are uneccesary, but the moon line is surprisingly catchy and it built up. I think I got overwhelmed at the line near the end about getting on an airplane and finally changing – it was so unexpected and in the context of the album it is quite frankly one of the best moments of the album. I think some of the lyrics are a little off and I wish she wouldn’t randomly throw the word “shit” around and had put a little more thought into it. EDIT: Upon further listening, this is obviously about Barrie. She mentions heroin a lot in UV and she is talking about flying away to a "foreign land" and he is from the UK soo..

     

    6. Summer Bummer

    This one really grew on me! Lana’s verse is some of her best lyrics on the album. I like the rapping parts too and some of the effects and production techniques they used really made this pop. I did like the alternate version quite a bit more, but both are great. I like that she has something a little more uptempo as I think the record really needs it around the time this song comes in. 

     

    7. 13 Beaches

    I adore the intro, this is classic cinema and everything I am into and love from Lana. Not sure what relation this is to a horror movie though. It only ranked so far down because it just didn’t really “stick”, but I have a feeling as I listen to this one more its going to become one of my favorites. I think the structure is pretty neat and the lyrics are alright. As a LA resident I was happy to understand the Ventura line with more context (and wow!).

     

    8. Lust For Life

    I’m not the hugest fan of the song but it is solid enough. The lyrics are full of Lana-isms to its detriment, but I do like The Weeknd’s parts. I feel like knowing the greater context of the album and Lana’s state of mind, the chorus now almost feels desperate, as though if she didn’t have that spark of hope then things would fall apart in a very real way.

     

    9. Coachella

    I never thought this would be higher than dead last but, again, the album gives it new meaning. The duality of the past and the present is actually interesting to think about in our modern climate, and it was almost prophecy that she talked about this duality in the trailer and then ended up writing this song. It makes a lot more sense as to why she wanted to include it. I’m not over the famous rich white woman hipster lyrics (the second verse is so pointless) but it is what it is and that kind of is her life. 

     

    10. White Mustang

    I was oddly touched by the first verse and almost cried when I first heard it and I don’t know why. I think she just captured a feeling so perfectly. The verse melody is okay but it gets extremely tiresome very fast, I wish she had done something different for the second and fourth verses. My eyes glaze over during the chorus and I kind of wonder what the fuck the song is even about and why I am listening to it, which ends when the verses start. I understand the annoying title repetition for the chorus for UV and BB because it was actually significant, but this song is too much. Everything after the second chorus is forgettable, even though I think her voice and the effects are beautiful.

     

    11. God Bless America

    I was most excited and subsequently let down by this song. The intro and verses do not match the pre and chorus at all, and I vastly prefer the dark, tense mood of the pre chorus. It just kind of sounds like a mess, she should have come up with a darker mood for the verses. The outro was surprisingly good though, the guitar part was put here and somehow it worked.

     

    12. Beautiful People

    Obviously beautiful lyrics and a really cool message for a song, but I can’t follow it enough to derive the meaning from the song and had to rely on what I knew from reading on the boards to “get” it. Stevie’s voice was surprisingly unpleasant to listen to even though I like some of her other work. I think it needs more listens.

     

    13. Groupie Love

    I love the production but I just find the song topic and lyrics to be just so weird and unrelatable. Another forgettable “Lana”ish song like White Mustang.

     

    14. In My Feelings

    I like the aggression because that is rare with Lana and a nice fresh approach, but I’m just not liking the clunky melody or the lyrics.

     

    15. World At War

    Not feeling the melodys here at all and the lyrics don’t do it for me either. I don’t get why she thought this was too dark for the album?

     

    16. Get Free

    Kind of forgettable, again with the lyrics and melody. Her voice sounds odd for the chorus.

     

    ** Would have ranked Architecture #3 on this list and shifted the rest down one. 

     

    Beautiful ballad that tells a clear story. The production is perfection and the lyrics are vague and weird just enough in places to be interesting. “Tell me how it treats you now” is so accusatory. I don’t know how she made a song that, in content, I could never relate to, yet I am so moved by the feeling of loss. The glass in the bridge and  the “I-I told yous” at the end are amazing little touches that make the song. The bridge part is a little odd and meandering, but the rest of the song carries it.

     

    I think this will change a lot as I listen more, I’ve been listening as I wrote this and I’ve already gotten hung up on Heroin so that will rise for sure and I think a lot of the bottom half just needs more plays.

     

    With this said, my overall perception of the album on just one listen is that it is experimental, shiny, and checks all the boxes for being amazing, but it just didn’t “stick” for me personally and is the first Lana album to do so. I think my tastes are changing, and while I love her and always will, I think I’m opening up to the fact that her music may not be my 100% favorite or preferred. This is a random tangent, but I am a little sad over it since Lana has been my uncontested favorite artist for the past 5 years but, as the album talks about, people change.

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  9. Posted

    I hope that it comes earlier than midnight for the West Coast, I feel like ether Halseys or Lordes albums came at 8 or 9.. usually it's awesome being down on the West Coast because she does so much for LA fans and I get so many more references in the songs, but we get the music released almost last in the entire world lol, at least officially.

     

    I have work training tomorrow and would rather listen tonight in my hotel than try and cram it in tomorrow morning or wait until tomorrow night(!)

     

    And god bless that this thread is almost ready to be closed.

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  11. Posted

    She always organize her tracklist per style and influences; like Diet Mtn Dew and National Anthem close; Fucked My Way Up and Money Power; 24, Swan Song and Dont Let Me Be.

    Since Paradise she keeps the bops at first and then ends with some ballads, the last one written by her is always grand and magnificent, with strings and stuff.

     

     

    OT but seeing you type these out made it JUST hit me how hilarious Swan Song and DLMBM being one after the other is... she is literally saying "yes, I wrote a song called Swan Song, no, i'm not quitting music". Not that I think it is why she chose that cover, but a clever/funny piece nonetheless  :teehee:

     

    I like this analysis re: LFL tracklist, CWIMM makes more sense and actually, to me, explains why I felt like it was "out of place" earlier... because it mixes the two sides of the album and is the bridge, it fits neither here nor there, but is its own part of the story. 

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  13. Posted

    I'm excited for GBA, Cherry, and Change. I didn't like Change from the insta snippets but hearing it in HQ makes it sound so sinister. I'm not really getting the In My Feelings hype. GBA is going to be perfect for watching fireworks, it sounds so dark and gives amazing visuals of hanging out on fire escapes in the city at night with tensions in the air. :flutter:

     

    Sorry but listening to the snippets CWIMM sounds even more out of place to me. Idk what the weird bass thing is in the instrumental but it makes the song feel "bloated" to me. I think strings would have been nicer.

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  14. Posted

    The new snippet of White Mustang, unfortunately. 

     

    Caught up in my dreams and forgetting

    I've been acting like armageddon 'cause you

    Hold me in your arms just a little too tight thats what i thought

    Summer's meant for loving and leaving

    But I was such a fool for believing that you

    Could change all the ways you been living

    But you just couldn't stop

     

    Literally up awake right now because I just snapped internally and realized I don't think I want to be with my boyfriend of 4 years anymore and I literally can't lie down next to him in our bed.  :sadcore: 

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  19. Posted

    I'm trying to go! I doubt she won't mention anything at all, if she wanted to celebrate her birthday and not acknowledge anything regarding her music she'd do it in private and not at a publicly announced event that fans will presumably go to. She wouldn't be open inviting fans to stuff if she didn't have something to say, she's too private for that and knows better by now. Also this is a club, so I'm imagining this is 21+ which weeds out the crazy teens. I'm optimistic! :) I just hope I make it in!

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  20. Posted

    I don't think we are getting any info because she wants the dust of Lorde and Halsey to settle before trying to get anyone's attention again. She probably knows she missed the boat, and trying to promote an album while so many others in her sphere are dropping theirs just seems like it wouldn't be as effective. It makes sense to me to wait until next week or the week after for the preorder or any announcements since we are finally through the big releases of June, and next week is a month before, which I think is more the timeline she's historically worked off of.

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  21. Posted

    I just bought a ticket! I had no idea she was playing so close to me - only like 30 minutes away. After hearing the snippet and realizing how close she was I HAD to, blew off going camping with friends lol. Us LA fans are stupidly spoiled.

     

     

    Also, @meultraviolence the show starts at 12pm PST, Lana goes on at 6pm PST. 

     

    EDIT: Also just realized her set is only 30 minutes long :( 

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  25. Posted

    I was there, she was awesome. She seemed way more lively on stage and sounded so good, but she did roll her eyes quite a few times, look bored, and messed up lyrics but that was fine. The difference in confidence and enjoyment from seeing her in Atlanta in 2014 versus last night was amazing. She really does need to mix up the setlist, but I'm glad we at least got Freak and not Summertime Sadness or Carmen. I was very happy to finally hear Yayo live because that is my favorite song from her but why in the world she didn't do West Coast is beyond me. The crowd chanted for Salvatore after she did Freak but she ignored us. The crowd was actually really good for a Lana show, they weren't screaming and singing super loud. It was nice on the beach but honestly the way the place was shaped you couldn't really tell how close you were to the ocean - I couldn't see it at any point in time.

     

    I know this is blasphemy on here but I actively disliked Cat's performance. :(

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