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The amount of these we probably don't have...
 
Release them!!!

Her breakup songs from Honeymoon are pretty sad (The Blackest Day, Terrence Loves You). I guess that breakup (with Barrie I presume) hit her really badly.

i was going to say- based on all the evidence we have, Lana's love for spaghetti is her most stable and longlasting relationship
a linguini Queen

The artist reflects on her new poetry collection 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass'
 
When Lana Del Rey first began writing poetry, her words would come to her suddenly. Oftentimes a poem would reveal itself in its entirety, ready for Del Rey to dictate it onto the page. “I would drop everything if any sort of poem started to come to mind,” she tells Bustle. “It’s something I’ve experienced before with songwriting but less and less in the last few years.” While the singer-songwriter has sprinkled her music with homages to poets throughout her career in lyrics like “I've been tearing around in my f*cking nightgown, 24/7 Sylvia Plath,” Del Rey only began writing poetry in 2017, when she was experiencing writer’s block while crafting her album Norman F*cking Rockwell. The result of that creative exercise is Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, a sprawling collection of 13 longform poems and a selection of shorter works.
 
Violet’s poems tap into Del Rey’s signature gauzy, glamorous style. She muses about 1960s Hollywood, heartbreak, vaping, and summertime while assuming different personas — from Del Rey to a woman named Tessa DiPietro, to even Elizabeth Grant, her given name. Paired with personal photographs, the collection is a melancholy meditation on Los Angeles. But Del Rey says her inspirations extended beyond California.
“My perfect muse is probably wherever I am. When I was in New York the city was definitely defining for my attitude. I’m slightly aqueous and malleable in that way,” she explains. “When I was in the Midwest I felt very much called to be there. I felt like I was catching a little bit of lightning in a bottle by having so much space in the air to work. It gave me that electric feeling in my stomach that I get right before I create something great.”
 
Ahead of Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass’ release, Bustle spoke with Del Rey about reading books on midwifery, her next poetry collection entitled Behind the Iron Gates — Insights From an Institution, and why spaghetti is a great writing snack.
 
On what she’s reading now:
At the moment I’m mostly interested in reading about midwifery and herbalism and I’m re-watching the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.
 
On wanting to go back to school:
I always go about sharpening my craft in a roundabout way. For instance, my writing got better when I stopped practicing other things. I think for me the biggest tool has been just allowing myself enough space to let my innermost thoughts reveal themselves to me.
At this point I’ve done that enough and I am actually ready to get more seriously into the craft of writing — or the idea of taking more classes in school. I’ve said it before but I often wondered how much different my life would be if I wasn’t worried about being completely humiliated by endeavoring on certain projects or revealing more of my home life. But I think I’ve actually done that in Violet and I certainly have in the second book I’m working on Behind the Iron Gates — Insights From an Institution.
 
On reality TV and YouTube as self-care:
I love reality TV. I’m sure I’ve written 100 songs from cues to those shows. Self-care for me is kind of different every day. Sometimes I allow myself to stay in bed late in the morning and just daydream. I love to sit around and talk shit with my closest friends, watch long Target hauls on YouTube. I also like to sit around and read things that I’m interested in, books that involve magic or old books of poems I’ve collected. I have a lot of animals so taking care of them one by one I’m sort of pouring that nurturing spirit out into anything I can.
 
On licking her wounds after a bad day of writing:
I just try and stay super still. I try not to overextend myself and just do little things that keep me inspired, like staying a little bit too long in the parking lot of the Walmart reading a magazine that I just bought, or going a little bit too far out of town to an eccentric book store, or buying a coffee in a town I’ve never been.
 
On celebratory dressing:
I don’t do anything or wear anything to get into the creative process but I find if I’ve written something beautiful, I like to take some time to put on something beautiful for the rest of the day. I always take a hot shower and putting on a dab of perfume and lipstick feels kind of rewarding to me and in line with the process of creating something ethereal.
 
On the snacks that fuel her creativity:
Kombucha, slurpees, spaghetti every night. Coffee in the evening with an old movie playing on one phone in the car and dictating poems with the other phone.
 
 
 
 
By Samantha Leach
Source: Bustle

lol i love benito's lana drag

jesus yall are relentless for cocc. Lana feeds us an album every year and is giving us two poetry books within a year of one another and an audiobook.
Show some fuckin respect to Rihanna fans whom she let die of starvation.

Like, she was into her poetry so much and she doesn’t post about that on the release date? Wtf are you doing queen?

I AM SO MAD THAT THIS IS REAL. 

ended s**n  but I really hope they work out, he seems like a sweet guy from what little we’ve seen so far/how he reacted to ha fanbase going after him on twitter  

I um ... wonder what colour her nails will be?

 

i sometimes forget that Norman gave us some of her best work in her entire career. Mariners, Venice, The Greatest... like wow. i hope Chemtrails does the same.

Fuck it I'm so drunk right now but this is gonna be a really good album and I liked all Lana albums, even LFL was overall a good album (maybe her weakest but still good).... so I don't think that she gonna disappoint me this time..and yeah slay me queen (maybe it's time to log off and go to bed lol)

Hi everyone,
 
A few very kind members on here have told me I should start my own thread with my cover arts, so here it is! I appreciate all of your kind comments and support since I started posting my COTCC cover concepts! <3
 
I've included below the COTCC concepts I've posted in the pre-release thread!
 
 


 

so happy she finally did an interview like this again. much better than that jack antonoff interview

Sean got DRAGGED in that on the spot poem 

Lana Del Rey Gave Us a Preview Of Her New Poetry Book—Plus, She Even Wrote Us a Little Something!
 
“Even at her plainest, she is opaque.”
“In this most present of moments, she was already living in the past tense.”
“It’s a multiple choice test with every answer scanned ‘C.’”
“The result is something like a dog that, when its leash is tugged, simply lies on the ground and shuts its eyes: basking in the sun, feeding off its warmth, never giving an inch.”
 
These are not lines from Lana Del Rey’s new book of poems Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass (Simon & Schuster), out on Monday, but snips from past New York Times reviews of the singer-songwriter’s work. Let’s call it the Lana-effect. The tendency for fans, critics, and writers (this one included) to deploy a string of campy descriptives in their attempt to do her justice. You could say everything Lana touches turns to poetry. You could say it’s high time she released a volume of it.
 
Though Lana Del Rey disciples have appealed to non-believers that her lyrics are poetry. And though Del Rey scatters Walt Whitman and Sylvia Plath references into her songs (a track from Honeymoon plays like a gauzy, haunting recitation of T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton), this is indeed the first time she has classified her own work as poetry.
 
The book, which features ripe citrus fruits in Hockney-esque colors on the cover, contains over 30 poems. If in her songs, Del Rey coos with a nostalgia for a bygone era she has not actually experienced, in Violet, the longing manifests via typewritten pages of her poetry, which are digitally scanned before being printed in the book. The rare typos are corrected in pen; some lines are askew, suggesting a crooked page placement; and one poem has what appears to be a coffee stain. Her poem titles are achingly romantic, you'd half-expect one of them to be tattooed in slanted script on her forearm: “Never to Heaven,” “The Land of 1,000 Fires,” “LA Who Am I to Love You?”, “Tessa DiPietro,” “Paradise Is Very Fragile,” “Bare Feet on Linoleum.” They contain in them love/hate letters to her current Los Angeles, and peace offerings to her past life in New York. (According to contemporary poets, Violet smacks of Allen Ginsberg.) 
 
Del Rey had dropped hints about Violet on her Instagram: There have been posts of her type-written poems, a tease of the book’s cover, and a description of the charity that proceeds from her book will benefit (The Navajo Water Project). One video has Del Rey reciting “Room 2”: The video is colored in shades of sepia, and a pair of red plastic retro sunglasses are affixed to her hair like a tiara. She also reads her poems aloud in Violet's audiobook, which was released in July and received a musical treatment courtesy of her frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff. Together, the pair crafted her highly lauded album Norman Fucking Rockwell! and this fall, they'll give us yet another record, Chemtrails over the Country Club.
 
Days ahead of the release of Violet, Vogue caught up with the singer-songwriter. She gives us insight into her writing process, a preview of two poems, and she even wrote us a little something special. 
 
 
How did you land on the idea of releasing a book of your own poems?
I had never planned to put out a book of poetry. It was when I stopped working on music completely and stopped working in the other fields I was interested in and took a big break that long-form poems started to come to me in the middle of the day. I was kind of surprised because I had no intention of being creative during my break. As the year and a half to two years went by, I started to realize that alongside the photos I had been capturing of the places where I spend most my time—from Vernon to San Pedro—I had a complete book. I planned on hand-binding it until Simon & Schuster asked if they could publish it. When I realized I could donate the entirety of the advance to the Navajo nation and downtown Los Angeles community, I felt it was the right thing to do. I made that my focus rather than what people would think of the actual poetry—considering I initially did it without any intention of selling it at all.
 
You’ve spoken about writing poetry long before Violet was born—what are your poetry writing habits?
Again my writing was somewhat accidental and as the year has gone on since I’ve finished the book, I’ve found that I’m getting better and better. The poems still come to me somewhat out of nowhere and mostly when everything in my life is calm. I never really sit down to write, but I’m often struck by something as I’m driving or walking.
 
Do you remember the first time a poem captured your attention? Is there an instance of a work or line leaving a lasting impression?
Absolutely. When I was in boarding school in 10th grade, my teacher Mr. Campbell focused on the beat poet era, and ‘Howl’ by Allen Ginsberg struck me probably as nothing ever has before. I didn’t necessarily have the inclination then to write poetry, but I knew that I had sort of found my crazy niche of people.
 
Your song lyrics are so poetic, how do you set out to write a poem versus a song? How does the process differ? Do you ever find yourself orchestrating soundtracks around the poems you write?
I would say the process of writing the poems is somewhat similar to my songwriting in that if I get lucky enough to catch that lightning in a bottle by hearing a melody in my mind or a phrase for a couplet in a poem, it seems to come out of nowhere. I definitely don’t ever find myself orchestrating music to the poetry. Because the way that the words come is very different. The cadence and structure of the poems seems foreign to me, whereas songwriting is very natural. I often wonder if that means that I’m not a very good poet or if the whole process is more like a channeling.  
 
Your lyrics are lush with literary influences, Whitman in particular, but are there any unlikely sources of inspiration you pull from?
I guess the best way I could describe an unlikely influence would be living by on the fray and with my ear to the ground. I’m never completely in the center of the mix of culture. I’m kind of somewhere to the side so I can have a lot of space to let my own muse direct my daily activities. … I don’t read much formal poetry anymore, although I had a long time where I did. I think a very heavy influence are the stories behind the writers I love rather than the works themselves. … Such as the life and death of F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck.
 
In a recent interview with Interview, Jack Antonoff mentions his favorite line in the book is “I can do that.” Could you also zero in on a line that resonates with you?
Yes, I would say that the line that resonates most for me is actually from the same poem—the very title and single line from that poem:
My bedroom is a sacred place now
there are children at the foot of my bed
telling me stories about the friends they pretend to hate
that they will make up with tomorrow
To me, that is the sweetest, truest line from the book—other than a line from the poem “salamander” about wanting my poems to be something that I forget about and then remember again casually or papers that my husband finds under the table. All of it is about a life of sentimentality, a wish for a healthy family, a nod to the turmoil of family, of origin, and the willingness to dig my hands and mind deep into all of those imaginings.
 
Some of your fans might be picking up their first book of poetry when readingViolet. What guidance would you offer? How are they meant to experience it?
Well, it’s a vulnerable thing in some ways to write a book of any sort. So it is truly meant to be found by those who just come upon it… And I think that’s the whole point for any fans of mine to remember that when you do things for fun and for yourself, it just might end up being one of the best things that you’ve ever done regardless of people’s opinions of them. Sometimes the most important thing to ask yourself is: What would I do if I was willing to be completely embarrassed? And by doing that, I often find I am taking my next right action.
 
How are Violet and Chemtrails meant to interact? Are there echoes between them?
I’m really not sure yet. Sometimes I see similarities in things I do at the same time in hindsight. I would say the connecting factors are probably trying to maintain my position in the center of my family and moving that unit around the country safely between the midwest to the south and back to California and in doing so staying connected with our dear friends. Sometimes there is a burden of being more recognized than others and a concern of safety on top of my younger self not having felt safe all of the time. So there is a bit of wistfulness but determination to figure things out in both the album and book.
 
Can you tell us about the cover art for the book?
Yes! I’m honored to have asked Erika Lee Sears for her painting of the oranges as my cover art. I think she is one of the most fantastically talented living artists and I can’t wait for other people to find her. Even as we speak her work is being shown in more and more art magazines. Symbolically of course, I love the aliveness and juiciness and vibrance that an orange or a tangerine suggests. I’ve used them as motifs many times.
 
Would you be able to write a quick line/verse for us?
Niko calls me Elizabeth,
he reminds me to take my medication every day at four and then when I say I’m still anxious
he says-
that’s what you’re here for.
And there’s something in the way he looks at me
a little bit too long
that makes me feel good about leaving my ex
makes me feel like a song
makes me feel like a poem that he’s reading
scanning me like paper
It hurts a little bit to watch him watch me
but it’s better than being led on
 
 
 
By Lilah Ramzi
Source: Vogue
 
 
 

Ben getting shaded by fans. I can't

Ben getting shaded by fans. I can't

Ben getting shaded by fans. I can't

Ben getting shaded by fans. I can't

Ben getting shaded by fans. I can't

Ben getting shaded by fans. I can't

Ben getting shaded by fans. I can't

she really has the worst management huh also this has me laughing out loud rn
  

why is this sending me