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Is this related to Lana's cover of Joni Mitchell's For Free? I feel like Lana wouldn't put out a cover of "For Free" and in the same era feature on a song called "Eat for Free". Maybe she would, but it's just too similar and it would be weird and confusing. My theory is that the snippet and the Joni Mitchell cover are actually the same song, the album track "For Free". The song will interpolate some of the lyrics and melodies of the Joni Mitchell song, but it will only be 50% cover and will also have some original lyrics and melodies.

With Lana, you win some and lose some. First I thought we were getting ASC before Christmas, but not getting COCC until June or July because I thought the vinyls won't even begin printing until March. Now, it seems we're not getting ASC immediately, but we are getting COCC after all. As long as I get one of the albums soon, I'll be happy.

Lana looked gorgeous and I'm just gonna treat this as the alternate MV, but how can that even be considered a live performance? The lip syncing is so obvious. Lana clearly has the ability to sing live, so why would she resort to lip syncing? It's kinda embarrassing that this is her big return to TV. Disappointed in the song choice and disappointed in the performance. The new band and backup vocalists can stay though.

Realistically I think there is a good chance she will sing LMLYLAW or possibly Video Games since it would be a redemption of her SNL performance. I have my fingers crossed that she sings two songs, Video Games and Chemtrails.

She's not gonna delay the album that's meant to be an apology for delaying her other album. If she does, then she owes us a third album as another apology.

Ok the vocal and the instrumental gave me chills, but did she really need to name it "Summertime The Gershwin Version"? Forget the Capitalized T in "The", the Gershwin version as opposed to what version? As opposed to Summertime Sadness? The song was written by George Gershwin, every rendition of this song is "The Gershwin Version". If she wants to make a little annotation about who wrote the song, she can put it in parentheses after the title. Putting it unseparated from the title is just heinous, it follows zero naming conventions. It's literally almost as bad as the random capitalizations of the NFR titles, but I absolutely love the actual cover itself despite the unfortunate title.

She thinks she is so edgy, the lyrics are cringier than Bad Guy. Once again, the only thing going for it is that the production sounds cool.

i just Noticed the Capitalized "A" in The Song Title. lana is Once again Struggling With her Capitalization. sigh.

Now that LMLYLAW is officially out in most of the world and east coast USA, it is time to start our streaming party! All you have to do is add the song to a playlist and play it on repeat while you sleep. You can play the song with headphones on low volume so the plays get counted. Hope you all will join me, Lana needs our support.

Lana is gonna end up in a hospital ward with Trump as her roommate

That song Hallucinogenics was already nice before Lana jumped on, and from the snippet her vocals sound gorgeous and she fits the song's vibe perfectly. More importantly, the song fits her vibe perfectly if this is an indicator of her headspace for Chemtrails. And no this is not Christian music at all lmao, the entire song is about drug use. The implication of the line "Go find yourself a man who's tall and strong and Christian" is basically "go find a safe and stable man because I'm fucked up on drugs and I'm no good for you".

I am listening to the new album Articulation by Rival Consoles. It is really nice music to just vibe out to and get lost in the soundscape.

The final line "you should come back to our place, baby. Don't be afraid of our love" has two readings. First, she is saying the even though her man left, Lana wants him to comeback and she is still mentally holding onto their place and their love. (ie. her home is "our" place instead of "my" place). Second, Lana could be inviting a third person for a threesome/group sex or for some sort of polyamorous love. It fits in well with the song's theme of religion and perversion, faithful sinners. Polyamory was also alluded to in the music video for Freak, Groupie Love, and in her many references to Charles Manson. The first reading is probably more reasonable, but I do feel like Lana is being sly and intentionally left the subjects of "you" and "our" a little ambiguous so as to leave open the possibility that she is alluding to something else.

I hear "I'm a candle in the wind", which is the exact opposite of what she said in Mariners Apartmen Complex. I guess then she was feeling strong and resilient, now in this song she is feeling vulnerable and delicate.

You should stay (real close / across) to Jesus Keep that bottle out your hand, my man Find your way back to my bed again Sing me like a Bible hymn We should go back to AR-Kansas Trade this body for that (can of gin / can, Jim) Like a little piece of heaven (I'm a / or a) candle in the wind You should come back to our place, baby ​Don't be afraid of our love

OK I really do not feel I'm being misogynistic because I would be just as baffled if a man dyed their hair color. What was she thinking???? I understand the $300 Grammy dress from the mall. I mean, I hate the dress, but I can appreciate that she was taking a stance against the celebrity culture of over-spending and over-consumption. But is this $39.99 dye job really necessary? Like you have already made your point Lana! You are rich, but you still go to the mall and buy the same things that everyone else buys. You don't have to dye your hair in Oklahoma and literally transform yourself into a Karen to prove your point! That hair is so homophobic, I am so traumatized.

Video Games Yayo (Paradise Edition) Fine China Black Beauty The Other Woman Art Deco Wild One Cherry Blossom Lust for Life (Demo version) Beautiful People (Demo version) Heroin Change Happiness is a Butterfly

How exactly is NFR safe? Because she isn't still singing about Carmen street walking and doing party favors when she's now 35 years old? If anything, repeating the themes and sounds on BTD forever would be the safe thing for her to do, since she would never need to get as emotionally vulnerable as she is on NFR. Being vulnerable and real is never safe or easy. She swears because she has a foul mouth and that's how she expresses herself, it doesn't detract from the album. Yes, NFR is more subdued and intimate lyrically and sonically, but being large and grand is not always synonymous with quality. I don't know how people can say NFR is lyrically weak when Happiness is a Butterfly, The Greatest, Mariners, Venice Bitch are right there. Or how you can say that some of the more stripped backed songs aren't absolute stunners, like Love Song, Happiness and Hope. Lana is not pandering to critics, this is just where Lana is at in her life. She wants the lyrics and melody and instrumental composition to shine through without every song needing the support of some giant production. Out of all of the thousands of people who release stripped back singer/songwriter type albums, critics fell in love with NFR because it is actually a masterpiece.

I forget which website listed the album's genre as dream pop. Imagine Jack playing really fuzzy distorted guitars for 8 minutes while Lana takes a 3 minute interlude to make gibberish noises and do vocal exercises at the top of her vocal range. Knowing Lana, her version of dream pop would be more like Beach House and less like Mazzy Star.

Here is my dream track listing for a stripped back and acoustic unreleased compilation album. It could easily be multiple disks long and include as many as 40 tracks. She could include many of her leaked and un-leaked tracks, plus a handful of covers, plus alternate and acoustic versions of album tracks. 1. Fine China 2. Roses Bloom For You 3. Love (acoustic guitar version) 4. Yosemite 5. Wild One 6. Say Yes to Heaven 8. Dark Paradise (demo version but with less drums) 8. Thunder 9. Mermaid Hotel 10. Backfire 11. Kill Kill 12. Velvet Crowbar 13. Flipside 14. Methamphetamines 15. Lust For Life (demo version #2) 16. Beautiful People (demo version) 17. Wait for Life 18. Born to Die (acoustic guitar version) 19. Pawnshop Blues 20. Chelsea Hotel #2 20. Cherry Blossom 21. How to Disappear (acoustic piano version)

I could see Future and Lana working well together, but she would need to go into his world, because he would probably not be capable of coming into her world. He sometimes shows versatility on his own songs, but whenever he gives a guest verse he just raps a few lazy lines about doing drugs and having sex and he usually feels completely disjointed from the rest of the song unless he is working with one of his friends like Young Thug. Future wouldn't treat it as a duet or a creative collaboration, he would just treat it as a guest verse. If Future were to fit into any of Lana's records, I would actually say it would be Honeymoon. Some of those deep slow jams where Lana lets her songwriting wander recalls the slower and more tranquilized sounding Future songs where he sings more than he raps, specifically on the album HNDRXX. I could see him on Art Deco.

Someone was asking a few pages back about the pop art font on the cover of NFR! It is in the style of Roy Lichtenstein who along with Andy Warhol was one of founders of the pop art in the 1960's. Lana's lyrics are packed with references to American artists of all mediums from the 50's-70's. I think this font was a sly way of visually referencing another iconic 60's artist without using her lyrics. I actually could maybe imagine Lana doing a Slim Aarons tribute on the cover of COCC, first because it would continue the tradition she started with NFR! of making visual references to American artists on her album covers, and second because she referenced him in Hope and she likes to create continuity between her eras by working some lyrics or motifs from past albums into each new album. The only reason why I think she would not choose to do a Slim Aarons style cover is because an image of a country club with chem trails in the sky would be by far the most expected and obvious cover choice. Lana never likes being literal or obvious with her album covers, she just picks a cover that captures the mood of the album. We may be just as likely to get a picture of Lana in the middle of a city as Lana in a literal country club.

My first post although I have been a Lana fan since 2011. First I want to say, the fake lyrics this era are really good! Especially the lyrics of Hidden in the Hills, it really sounds like Lana's words but without being a parody of Lana-isms. It kind of has me hoping the lyrics aren't fake because there is something sinister about those lyrics and I would really love an album with a bite to it. Anyway, I have been thinking about the title "Chemtrails Over the Country Club", and I thought I would share some interpretations and connotations that might reveal something about the sound or themes of the album. Maybe some of these are a stretch but here goes. Flight is a symbol of freedom, and we know that Lana was previously taking pilot lessons. In the opening verse of "Hope...", Lana sings about disliking the social pressures of being expected to behave in a certain upper class and feminine way. A country club is an embodiment of that culture that makes her feel suffocated, and she looks up in the sky to see chemtrails and wishes that she could fly away. Lana also just went through a breakup, metaphorically taking flight and leaving her relationship behind. Thematically this album will deal with concepts of freedom and liberation. For Lana, freedom may be closely related to romance. Lana suggests in many songs that she struggles with finding personal fulfillment or contentment when she is not in love. To be single is to be free, but in Lana's case, to be in love is also a form of freedom from her own void. I am expecting an album that at times conveys deep infatuation (al Love Song, Video Games), and also deep introspection as Lana discusses what "freedom" means to her at this stage of her life (ala Change, Hope is a Dangerous Thing). The name also seems satirical. It seems to mock social elites, people who are affluent enough to belong to a country club, and ignorant and paranoid enough to believe in chemtrails or other government conspiracy theories. We know that Lana has become progressively more political, and hates president Trump and his voters. This album title to me suggests that she may be trying to get inside the heads of these types of people. There is a sense of anxiety in the title, as if the subjects of Lana's satire feel that their white country club suburbia is being invaded by outsiders and threatened by a changing world and culture. This same type of discomfort with a rapidly changing world can be felt on The Greatest. Lana may be expanding on that theme by exploring the phyche of people who are mentally still living in 1950's suburbia but physically living in a world of social media and fear mongering politicians and government conspiracies, etc. Even if the above point is a misinterpretation, the word "country club" is strongly associated with the upper class. Lana's early music was fixated on the lifestyles and culture of the upper class. Satirically or not, she idolized the rich. Lana's relationship with money has changed a lot and like the more she gets the less she cares about it. I don't believe that this album will have the same perspective on the 1% as BTD or pre-BTD songs, but it is basically guaranteed that Lana will put the spotlight on them one more time on this album. Finally the word "chem" can be a slang term for drugs, specifically methamphetamines, which Lana has sung about in the past and even has a song titled after. The image of a pristine blue sky polluted by chemtrails reminds me of the way that Lana suggests that her body has been polluted when she sings "drugs are in my veins, I'm running out of time". Flight can also be an allusion to being high, like when Lana sings "I'm flying to the moon again, dreaming about Heroine". Also, one symptom of methamphetamine use is extreme paranoia and belief in Government conspiracy theories, such as believing in chemtrails. I am expecting this album to deal with drug use, either explicitly or implicitly, and have an overall more trippy sound than any of her past albums. I am expecting an album of strong juxtapositions. The production will be a tug-of-war between lush-beauty (the country club) and harsh psychedelia (the chemtrails). There will be gorgeous piano ballads, there will be psychadelic songs like Venice Bitch and West Coast or maybe a more electronic psychedelia like Heroine, and perhaps there will even be orchestral string arrangements that recall BTD. The album will be extremely passionate and sensual, but there will be an underlying current of anxiety throughout the entire album that reflects both Lana's personal anxieties, and also larger social anxieties about class, race, coronavirus, president Trump, etc. In the same way that FIILY takes an abrupt turn, Chemtrails will be full of twists and turns lyrically and sonically. One second Lana is in love, the next she is contemplating death. One second Lana is enjoying being in the country club, the next she is staring at the chemtrails. Let me know if you agree or disagree with any of this, or if I am just putting way too much thought into this.