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tbh I don't really know how I feel about the concept... I am wating until someone will edit this and connect these professional scenes together  but besides that, visuals are GORGEOUS, BREATHTAKING, BEAUTIFUL. It could be one of her best music vidoes EVER. 

do we think that she will upload without bts? 

I expect they'll release a shorter video or a short film

It wouldn’t be a Lana release if half of her fans weren’t complaining about not getting what they wanted 

Yup same as everyone, it's a cute behind the scenes video ... I was hoping that this whole behind the scenes thing was just an intro to the actual video but it lasted during the whole thing . That said, she looks phenomenal !!! Especially at the end when she's at Hollywood Walk of Fame, it's so Born To Die Lana ! Beautiful shots but the whole thing is kinda ruined by this behind the scences vibe

OH, FUCKING HELL, BITCHHHHH! THIS SHOT!

why the hell would you spend so much money recording a professional video with looks and makeup and wigs just to not include the best shots in exchange for shots of people shooting those shots? i just do not understand

THE CLOAKED LONG BLONDE LANITA.  IM ABSOLUTELY FLOORED

i’m a little peeved 
 
this would be great if it was a behind the scenes video…
 
ALL THOSE PROFESSIONAL SHOTS WERE GORGEOUS AND THEN IT KEPT CUTTING AWAYYYY TO BTS WITH EVERYONE TALKINGGG
 

So ... wtf is this. 
I mean yeah, playing with the BTS/ not BTS vibe is a fun idea but ... this was weird. I'd rather have a shorter more conventional video tbh

ITS SO LANA

Full agree. Thanks. 
 
Also, I still notice an ominous silence here around the meaning and/or interpretations of 'A&W.'

LTLI, I've been listening to it a lot and what strikes me is how much it jumps around stylistically; 'Candy Necklace,' 'Margaret,' 'Peppers,' 'Paris, Tx,' and 'LTLI' don't sound to me as if they come from the same album, which, as I said, is okay with me. Nor do I get any sort of 'overall message' or mood from the album, also no problem. I'm listening to it as a collection of single songs or favorite songs among the track list. 
 
OB, I'd like to have the experience of being able to see it that way, hear it that way. 

I personally don't think the album is cohesive.

Got a knife in my jacket, honey on the vine
Baby, I'll bring the coffee if you bring the wine
I'm in love, I'm in love 
 

 
Rank Character 1 The Blackest Day 2 High By The Beach 3 Art Deco 4 13 Beaches 5 Freak 6 White Mustang 7 Cherry 8 Music To Watch Boys To 9 Yosemite 10 Taco Truck x VB 11 Fishtail 12 Wildflower Wildfire 13 Cinnamon Girl 14 Born to Die 15 Salvatore 16 Swan Song 17 Dark Paradise 18 Ultraviolence 19 Ride 20 Lust For Life 21 Million Dollar Man 22 West Coast 23 Cola 24 Gods & Monsters 25 Money Power Glory 26 Old Money 27 The Next Best American Record 28 Religion 29 Young & Beautiful 30 Thunder 31 Love 32 American 33 Tulsa Jesus Freak 34 If You Lie Down With Me 35 Get Free 36 Mariners Apartment Complex 37 Happiness is a Butterfly 38 Doin' Time 39 Love Song 40 Peppers 41 A&W 42 Candy Necklace 43 Heroin 44 Summertime Sadness 45 Radio 46 Carmen 47 Change 48 Off to the Races 49 Video Games 50 Beautiful People Beautiful Problems 51 Blue Jeans 52 Arcadia 53 National Anthem 54 Chemtrails Over the Country Club 55 Black Bathing Suit 56 Living Legend 57 Big Eyes 58 Wait for Life 59 Fucked My Way Up To The Top 60 Summer Bummer 61 Body Electric 62 Without You 63 Groupie Love 64 Terrence Loves You 65 God Knows I Tried 66 Is This Happiness 67 Pretty When You Cry 68 Lucky Ones 69 Bel Air 70 Yayo (Paradise) 71 Shades of Cool 72 Once Upon a Dream 73 Buddy's Rendezvous 74 Honeymoon 75 Brooklyn Baby 76 Flipside 77 God Bless America - and All the Beautiful Women in It 78 Burning Desire 79 Diet Mountain Dew 80 Lolita 81 This Is What Makes Us Girls 82 Chelsea Hotel No. 2 83 The Greatest 84 hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it 85 White Dress 86 Violets for Roses 87 How to Disappear 88 Norman Fucking Rockwell 89 Fuck It I Love You 90 Dark But Just a Game 91 Dealer 92 Black Beauty 93 24 94 Guns and Roses 95 Florida Kilos 96 Season of the Witch 97 Looking for America 98 Bartender 99 Wild at Heart 100 Venice Bitch 101 Sad Girl 102 Blue Velvet 103 Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood 104 Tomorrow Never Came 105 The Other Woman 106 When the World was at War We Kept Dancing 107 Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind 108 In My Feelings 109 California 110 Cherry Blossom 111 Nectar of the Gods 112 Let The Light In 113 Kintsugi 114 Margaret 115 Watercolor Eyes 116 Let Me Love You Like a Woman 117 Cruel World 118 I Can Fly 119 You Must Love Me 120 Paris, Texas 121 Some Things Last a Long Time 122 Text Book 123 Summertime (The Gershwin Version) 124 Dance Till We Die 125 Breaking Up Slowly 126 Sweet 127 Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing 128 The Grants 129 Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd 130 Not All Who Wander Are Lost 131 Beautiful 132 For Free 133 Sweet Carolina 134 Blue Banisters 135 Fingertips 136 You'll Never Walk Alone  

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1. Ultraviolence will always be my favorite.  West Coast/Shades Of Cool/Money Power Glory/Flipside are some of my favorite songs of all time.
2. Honeymoon is criminally underrated.  The whole record just feels epic/monumental to me.  The Blackest Day is a monster of a song.
3. Born To Die had a massive influence on my music taste.  Summertime Sadness was my anthem in high school .  Off To The Races might be her best song.  
4. NFR! shocked me because it felt like such a departure.  The Greatest makes me despondent but it's brilliant.  California is absurdly great.  Shoutout to Cinnamon Girl too.  
5. Is Paradise an album?  Eight (nine) songs feels more like an album than an EP to me.  Ride is undeniably one of her best pieces.  Gods & Monsters is an old favorite as well.  
6. Lust For Life is very nostalgic for me.  13 Beaches/Cherry/Heroin/Get Free are all career highlights.  
7. DYKTATUOB will probably go higher in my ranking with time.  I'm still digesting this one.  My jaw was on the floor the first time I heard A&W.  Excited to hear some of these songs live.  
8. COTCC is not my favorite album but Yosemite is beautiful song.  Tulsa Jesus Freak is also a gem.
9. Blue Banisters is not a bad album but it is NOT my cup of tea.  Dealer and Thunder are lovely.  Nectar Of The Gods is probably my favorite Ultraviolence reject.  
 
Just because COTCC/BB are low in my ranking doesn't mean I hate them.  I bought both of them.  I'll always support her art even if I don't love the direction she's taking.  
 
I didn't include AKA in my ranking since it was released under a different stage name.  Also I haven't really listened to it enough , I need to work on that!

we should move this thread to Rumours 

This is a good ranking(only lust for life on the bottom

A german Superstar like Christoph waltz

Del Rey arrives 

 
Rey sports a custom "AWOOGA" model fursuit manufactured by "Karnal Desires 🐾 " and a Gucci bralette, gently clothed over the bust. Del Rey makes mention of Choupette being the obvious choice, so she channeled her COTCC werewitch era, going the opposite route to give us this lewk 

A german Superstar like Christoph waltz

#oldschoolfanwarning
 
1. Paradise - while it's not a perfect release, any album with Ride, Gods & Monsters, Cola, Body Electric is gonna top my list.  I wish she had included a few more songs of the era (Y&B etc) to make it a proper album and not just a BTD side-piece.
2. Ultraviolence - Probably her best proper album.  No skippable songs.
3. Honeymoon - Although the songwriting might be one notch below UV, the production is probably my favorite of her career.
4. Born to Die - uneven, but the highlights are still some of her best songs.
5. Lust for Life - also very uneven, but with a couple highlights (in my feelings, heroin)
6. Norman Fucking Rockwell - i'm not a fan of how this record sounds over-all, but there's a few highlights for me (fiily, the greatest, title-track)
7. Chemtrails - She was really losing me on this record.  A couple highlights, but I haven't gone back to the album since the first month it came out.
8. DYKTTATUOB - Listened to it once and haven't re-listened.  It's sad to see my connection with her music dying on the vine.
9. Blue Banisters - Listened once the day it came out, never listened again.

I think, for better or worse, an artist presents a certain stance, especially at the beginning of their career, a persona, and this is true of musicians from Billie Holiday to Bob Dylan to Jeff Buckley to Beyonce and the boys from 21 Pilots. And that stance often changes for some artists--look how many personas Madonna has had--while other, more centered artists often maintain the same persona over the decades--like Prince or Bruce Springsteen. 
 
Lana has changed so much since BTD/P, and has every right to, as apparently she feels she's expressing herself more completely, genuinely, and honestly, something she seemingly needed to do to exorcise her demons. So much of OB is deeply personal, and presented as deeply personal, and that's the way I've received it. I get it, but for me, a lot of it is too subjective to be really interesting as songs, rather than poetry or diary entrees, things she's written completely for herself.
 
For example, learning the things we learn about her life in 'Fingertips' certainly excites a lot of her more emotional Stans, who say it makes them cry, or hits them so powerfully that they have to pull over to the side of the road to sob, but what about everyone else? The events are just sort of listed, they're not presented in a dramatic way like they were in 'Wildfire Wildflower.'  The music just sort of tinkles on; you can barely hum it. As I see it, and I know I'm in the minority here, just because these things happened to her doesn't make them necessarily interesting as presented. Who hasn't faced multiple tragedies and losses, or been victimized, including the suicide of loved ones? My best friend in high school, Steve, who I loved dearly, committed suicide just before his 23rd birthday, to name one example from my own life. 
 
And judging by the 'common events of day-to-day life' she's been singing about, I expect the next album to have song titles like 'Stretch Jeans,' 'Bathrobe,' 'Interviewing Maids,' 'Cinnamon Toast,' 'Lovin' That New Reality Show,'  'Having The Carburetor Fixed,' etc. 

I kinda understand what you say… when I saw my ranking I remembered being disappointed with Lust For Life and thinking it was her worse album when it was released (considering the ones released by major label). I miss that time, she was so impeccable then