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If people let's start criticizing this photo, she will use it as the album cover. Reverse psychology, let's go! lol 

If people let's start criticizing this photo, she will use it as the album cover. Reverse psychology, let's go! lol 

If people let's start criticizing this photo, she will use it as the album cover. Reverse psychology, let's go! lol 

This is also her picture on Facebook now. She will put this picture everywhere. This is the revenge! 

I mean I wouldn't mind this as the cover tbh just get some groovy font for the title and her name done 

This is also her picture on Facebook now. She will put this picture everywhere. This is the revenge! 

I think in Blue Banisters, the man said he would come back every May and paint her banisters blue - but he never did, so that’s why her sisters painted them green and gray. 
 
I think she was speaking generally about her experiences in love but I would assume she was also thinking about Sean Larkin, since she mentions Oklahoma (which is where he’s from).  

Plus, all of the songs on COTCC were written before they broke up, so I think some of the songs on the forthcoming album will address their relationship ending and will delve into how her upbringing led her to enter that relationship. Text Book captures that perfectly, it seems - she attributes the effect her mother had on her relationship with her father and how that led her to compensate for what she was missing in that familial unit through her relationship with Sean.  
 
Sorry, such a long answer! But yes, I think the songs are written in response to her relationship with Sean, with her linking it to her relationship with her father and mother. 

This is also her picture on Facebook now. She will put this picture everywhere. This is the revenge! 

She may have deleted her posts from her profile, but I just saw this Sponsored post from her account on my timeline posted about 7 hours ago - 

I really don't think it was added as a throwaway lyric, it fits perfectly. She's been through a brutal year where a bunch of idiots who know nothing about her have called her a racist, a Karen, a Trump supporter, etc., and obviously none of that is true. The lyric is sincere and places the song in a very specific and challenging time. She's solidifying the fact that that's who she is, and then brings it back to the theme of the song by wishing her father was with her, and reflecting on the disconnect on the lives they live. 
 
Not to mention the fact that Lana fans will be singing along to the song forever now. Having people repeat "black lives matter" even if it's just in a song is a lot more powerful than people who post on social media and then do nothing beyond that to support a cause. People dragging her for that will drag her for anything.

"Old man river keeps rolling"
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but that seems a reference to the song "Old Man River", sung by Paul Robeson, whose art was strongly linked to politics anti-racist. For those interested:
http://blog.nyfos.org/old-man-river-sung-paul-robeson

I also had that thought when I heard the song. Sean doesn't have a Thunderbird, specifically, but he does have a Cadillac DeVille - There is a "slight" similarity between them. And see how interesting: "Brentwood" is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, but Brentwood is also a neighborhood in Broken Arrow / Tulsa, Oklahoma. ❓?❓

I also had that thought when I heard the song. Sean doesn't have a Thunderbird, specifically, but he does have a Cadillac DeVille - There is a "slight" similarity between them. And see how interesting: "Brentwood" is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, but Brentwood is also a neighborhood in Broken Arrow / Tulsa, Oklahoma. ❓?❓

I also had that thought when I heard the song. Sean doesn't have a Thunderbird, specifically, but he does have a Cadillac DeVille - There is a "slight" similarity between them. And see how interesting: "Brentwood" is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, but Brentwood is also a neighborhood in Broken Arrow / Tulsa, Oklahoma. ❓?❓

"Old man river keeps rolling"
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but that seems a reference to the song "Old Man River", sung by Paul Robeson, whose art was strongly linked to politics anti-racist. For those interested:
http://blog.nyfos.org/old-man-river-sung-paul-robeson

"Old man river keeps rolling"
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but that seems a reference to the song "Old Man River", sung by Paul Robeson, whose art was strongly linked to politics anti-racist. For those interested:
http://blog.nyfos.org/old-man-river-sung-paul-robeson

"Old man river keeps rolling"
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but that seems a reference to the song "Old Man River", sung by Paul Robeson, whose art was strongly linked to politics anti-racist. For those interested:
http://blog.nyfos.org/old-man-river-sung-paul-robeson

"Old man river keeps rolling"
I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but that seems a reference to the song "Old Man River", sung by Paul Robeson, whose art was strongly linked to politics anti-racist. For those interested:
http://blog.nyfos.org/old-man-river-sung-paul-robeson

I also had that thought when I heard the song. Sean doesn't have a Thunderbird, specifically, but he does have a Cadillac DeVille - There is a "slight" similarity between them. And see how interesting: "Brentwood" is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, but Brentwood is also a neighborhood in Broken Arrow / Tulsa, Oklahoma. ❓?❓

this song is kinda a maze to interpret
one minute she’s talking about her dad, then i think she’s talking about sean, and then this line, 
 
“people say we’re too much alike” 
 
reminds me of barrie 

Okay so I have a few points that I need to make as far as Textbook and the theme of the album.
 
The lyrics are very much the topic she said this album would be. "I'm writing my own story. And nobody can tell it but me" 
 
When she says "Let's rewrite history, I'll do this dance with you, you know I'm not that girl, you know I'll never be", I don't think she's talking to someone she's dating or a love interest. I think she's saying this to article writers which makes a lot of sense. 
 
It makes me wonder if she's going to continue into the "my past" thing with this record. Also, I love the vocals on the second verse of WW. Those shaky, jazzy vocals. We haven't gotten that from her in so damn long it felt fresh again. Reminded me so much of Paradise

I have been reading through the last couple of pages of this thread and I totally get that some of you don‘t like the songs. They have a complex melody, are not catchy on the first listen and not easily accessible. I was struggling too when I heard them. So it‘s absolutely ok if you don‘t like them and if you want share your opinion!
 
But please keep in mind that for some users (including me), this is peak Lana. She has probably never created something so unique and never shared lyrics that are so vulnerable. Sometimes they feel like poetry and after stanning her for ten years I see a new side of her as a person and musician. They also show how she has created her own place in the music industry where no one else can follow her.
 
I hope you consider this before you post „We will never get the old Lana back“ or „why did she work for Mike when it‘s not for a hiphop record“. And that the rest of the album could sound quite different and that it’s too early to write it off.

he’s truly lanas counterpart 

An entire batch of songs was registered, including an interlude, so I think this might be the album!
In alphabetical order:
 
01. Almost Good *
02. Am I Still Your Baby?
03. Bunny
04. Dance For Love
05. Girls
06. Golden *
07. I Don't Know How To End **
08. I Know You Like Sound (Interlude)
09. Last Time
10. Mushroom Punch
11. Only Heaven
12. Real Life
 
* These songs have previously been performed live
** This song was independently released over two years ago but it was just registered with this batch
 
Most of the album seems to have been done with Jay Joyce (new collaborator) and/or John Velasquez (the producer of I Don't Know How To End & You Sexy Thing).
And before anyone asks - no, none of the songs have a Lana co-write!

Yep! I posted a list of registered songs on the previous page, which probably make up the album tracklist!