luna de miel

Yayo (aka Version) vs yosemite

100% agee
the pairings are always so random too, like when Lana interviewed Kendall Jenner??

yep, i agree. she’s definitely not as “blunt” about her beliefs as a lot with women are, but you can tell with her lyrics and everything that she is definitely a feminist. i’m sick of the “romanticizing abuse” thing too, i don’t get it- why can’t she just write about her pain and experiences without being called a whore? makes me wonder about the line from “A&W,” referencing rape and how people believed she’d have asked for it if she was raped. maybe that’s a comment on all of the people saying she romanticizes and asks for sexual abuse.

Looking back at some Rob's insta captions from when he was in the studio:
 
"Back in the studio...recording a beautiful ethereal album"
 
With a pic of New York "A lot of beautiful songs about this magical city...."
 
"Epic project..."
 
"Magical music coming from London..."
 

lovelovelovelove her nonfiction works, have yet to read play it as it lays though but it's def on my list. 'Slouching Towards Betlehem' is one of my all time favs, would highly recommend

"Most people" = the very loud and obnoxious minority of people who feel personally victimized by a musical instrument

I finished reading 'Play It As It Lays' by Joan Didion & I don't know how to feel. it reminded me of TS Eliots 'The Waste Land' - “I can connect nothing with nothing.”
& the final szn of Mad Men (which MUST'VE taken inspiration from it). Its a sad, lonely & desperate novel but stunning.. it's no wonder she is heralded as such a fantastic writer. 
I'm looking fwd to watching the netflix docu on her soon / checking out more of her novels.
 
besides that, I'm in the middle of 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac & Leonard Cohen's 'A Ballet of Lepers' rn  & will review those when finished
 

depression

Rob's Lizzy Grant era!

Interview magazine’s interviews tend to be a lot more conversational, as opposed to a professional interview

ur right. let's be grateful and bow down to the queen

so does this make rob a nepo daddy ? 

I've had a feeling all along that Lana's whole career has just been a project to allow Rob to become a star.

when the first post on oceanblvd is “New single Setting Sail On A Distant Horizon out now on all platforms 🌊 ⛵️ Happy Friday ☺️” 

sry
i just have to laugh at Lana being held up as the poster child of anti-feminism as a 37 year old woman with no kids or husband, who is famous & makes herself million of dollars. like nauuuuur be fucking for real for 3 seconds & direct that energy towards the "andrew tate is right actually" tiktok b*tches
 
maybe these should be moved to rando discussion thread tho my bad

the way we got A&W without a peep from the oceanblvd ig account 

Even with the change in date of the album release, I feel like this is the smoothest era so far in recent history. I think we quickly forget how uniquely awful the waiting period for NFR! was (I wasn't on LB at the time, but I remember waiting in annoyance through most of late 2018 to mid 2019), the disaster that was the COTCC announcement (+ the White Hot Forever announcement) and the radio silence making us think the whole album had been scrapped post-QFTC, and the total ambiguity of the Rock Candy Sweet -> Blue Banisters release dates. 
 
We really lucked out with Did You Know. 

Yeah, I was like, why do they still bring this up? Is this topic always going to be stuck in peoples’ heads? Positive or negative. Do we know a male singer, who’ve been categorized like that? 
This tired me up, I guess 

lolol

to be honest I can hardly blame Lana for never wanting to straight up adopt the 'feminist' label  (despite clearly caring deeply for women & being aware of n regularly pondering on the patriarchy) after one of her first experiences with a self-proclaimed feminist was them throwing a book at her unprovoked lolol... that's one way to shoot yourself along w your cause right in the foot.
 
radical types like that will always drive others away & make it hard for people to want to associate with the "movement"/group or whatever you wanna call it

Lana’s feminism manifests itself in atypical ways. In her work you have to read between the lines. I’m what you would consider a “typical feminist” but Lana definitely is. A feminist is literally just a person who supports women getting the same rights as men. Speaking up about domestic abuse (Ultraviolence) is a bold choice and many could argue it’s romanticized but I doubt that was Lana’s intention. She makes music for her and gives no fucks about how others perceive it. A woman not seeking validation from the media and doing whatever she wants is feminism if you ask me. It’s just not “typical” feminism. 

Idk if this was mentioned already but I had a brain blast and I wonder if Lana did this intentionally:
We all know part 2 of A&W is very much giving Lizzy Grant/BTD energy, and when the song starts to transition, all the vocals sound reversed and there’s also some effects that sound like it’s a VHS tape rewinding or something so it’s like she’s literally time traveling back to her old style. And that also makes me wonder if the narrative of this story is actually taking place in present-day Lana’s life or if she’s just reflecting on her Lizzy Grant days
 
or maybe I’m just dumb LOL

he posted her in 2021, but in Lanas recent interview, I think I remember her saying that Rob, Chuck, and Charlie live together so thats confounding if they're still married.

Writing the hottest diss track of all time

omg same... Rob never posts about her. Are they even married still?  Anyway...