wildheart

I don’t hate any of this per say but I don’t care for them at all. In my feelings Sad Girl Don’t Call Me Angel Freak Guns and Roses Breaking Up Slowly Summer Bummer Body Electric Shades of Cool For Free

Yep. i think UV, NFR! and BB have the perfect album covers as they encompass the feeling and vibe of the record.

Since we’re speaking about the motherhood themes in BB, I want to bring up the books Lana posted on her Instagram circa 2019 (nfr! era). The images were Women Who Run with the Wolves and Untie the Strong Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It’s curious that Women Who Run with The Wolves would become one of the central themes of COTCC, with the video for the title track clearly referencing it. And Untie the Strong Woman, a book about motherhood and the mother archetype would come to play in BB. I personally recommend both books extensively, but god HER MIND

You really don’t like being wild huh

I think I can appreciate it for Lana’s vocals and music but it’s just kinda there. Lyrics aren’t that interesting.

My updated list after a couple of days and many listens: Text book BBS Dealer Thunder WW IYLDWM Nectar of the Gods Living Legend Blue Banisters Violets for Roses Sweet Carolina Arcadia Beautiful Cherry Blossom Trio (hot take: I feel VFR, Beautiful and Cherry Blossom could have been album highlights under Jack’s production. The lyrics are there but the melody and production aren’t that interesting. They give me WAH and NATWAL energy.)

It’s a grower for sure. Grows more beautiful and poignant with time.

I think regardless if you find her writing compelling now or the BTD era, this is a huge level of vulnerability she is exploring with BB. You go from saying “I got a taste in men much older” in Paradise to “I guess you can call it text book, I was looking for the father I wanted back” in BB. From “my mother’s glamour” in UV to “my father would never step in when his wife would rage at me” and “I’m not friends with my mother” in BB. you might really find her dreamy musical landscape/persona from BTD/Paradise/UV more compelling but that’s all they were. Dreamy. They’re no less beautiful or complex, but they weren’t entirely real. Lana’s getting more raw and open in every record, and that is growth and not at all comfort imho.

I think some of the meltdowns in the previous pages have more to do with people realizing this is just Lana’s new sound. Jack wasn’t pushing this piano agenda, she wants piano. And while she is still definitely experimenting (dealer, bbs), she’s taken a turn out of the BTD and UV era, with a few homages sprinkled now and then. that Lana sound ain’t coming back and BB solidifies her decision to keep playing in the music sandbox of experimentation and complex, vulnerable writing.

!!! THIS !!! Heroin, Change, and Get Free were goodbyes to the previous era and hello to NFR, COTCC, and BB. I re-listened to the entirety of Lana’s discography before BB dropped and the story she’s telling is very cohesive. She’s having fun in BTD and Paradise, she gets dark in UV, she goes “deeper and deeper” in Honeymoon, she shifts dramatically in LFL, she lightens up and opens up in NFR!, she goes folk in COTCC, etc. All records lead to each other perfectly.

I agree. COTCC and BB are sisters. COTCC and NFR! are half-sisters. LFL and NFR! are cousins. Honeymoon is UV’s rich aunt.

this is nfr! erasure (but Honeymoon is top three)

again Text Book stans are elite

having taste is a rare thing nowadays

Songs that give off witchy lana energy: COTCC, Bartender, Gods & Monsters, BBS, Dark Paradise, WW, Religion this is my opinion ofc

I want to articulate something, I feel like while I prefer this album immensely over COTCC, a few songs from COTCC are like untouchable. Like White Dress, COTCC, Wild at Heart are just like elite and while BB has serious bangers, they never touch the height of these songs. does anyone have similar feelings? Like BB is a better album/experience, but COTCC has some utterly beautiful songs?

all text book stans are elite

As someone who’s always related Lana’s music and had a really bad mother, it means a lot she’s opening up and talking about her mother. It really hits hard the fact that only now in her eight album she’s barely talking about her mother. A non romanticized version at that (she does mention her glamour in one of UV’s song). She just keeps going deep on levels of her psyche.

it’s the wild on you baby put your red boots on giddy up my father would never step in when his wife would rage at me the only thing that fits me is this black bathing suit you roll like thunder i don’t wanna live for me

I feel you on that. I was high listening to the album and I felt she was coming on so hot. I guess we got used to the calmness and stripped down sincerity of NFR! and COTCC and we weren’t expecting BTD/Paradise/UV era fire paired with mature lyrics. It’s a lot.

Here's the deal: Cherry Blossom, Beautiful, VFR, and NOTG would have been appreciated and treated as the true gems they are on COTCC (they have the themes of wild and fame of cotcc, but they are also softer melodies and country-esque)

first of all, TASTE i felt the same when I found out Text Book was the opener, like Miss Elizabeth really said “I’m about to tell you all you fuckers my life story”

I just gotta say all the baddies have nfr!, honeymoon and bb in their top three I need to let BB sit a little longer in my brain but as of now: 1. NFR! 2. 3. BB - Honeymoon (GIRLS ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIFE) 4. COTCC 5. BTD 6. LFL 7. UV (I’m not like other girls) 8. Paradise

you’re all really dragging Jack like nfr! wasn’t in your top lana albums (I love Jack, glad he did what he did in nfr! and cotcc. And I’m glad he wasn’t involved in this album. Both opinions can co-exist)

“Maybe if I go blonde, we can get our old love back” - text book