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Y’all we are the album campaign. A human experiment. Lana hasn’t needed proper marketing for years because we’re crack heads. Like it’s absolutely insane. The woman could breathe and Poland would know in 20 seconds because of the gays. 

the topic of death (my biggest fear) seems to be very prevalent in this album and I just know Kintsugi is going to break me into a million pieces and leave me helpless on the floor
 
 

lanaboards new users either come in with their cute hello messages or straight up calling us nasty fägs there is no in between 

So we’re comparing albums based on parallel track placements? What the heck.

Personally, TikTok is a disease to the music industry. It's requiring songs to fit into a certain box or format in order to go viral so people can make more money. It's capitalism. People are literally making music now specifically so it can be used on TikTok instead of making music because it's good. Lana's music doesn't and never has fit into that box nor does she care to conform to it because she makes true art. 

Welcome to your first leak cycle as mod. Unfortunately, it's happening way earlier than anticipated.. x 

I will never understand why people let random insiders lower their hype. Literally nothing could be said to make me less excited 

Y'ALL AMERICAN WHORE HAS JUST SURPASSED WEST COAST TO BE LANA'S FOURTH MOST POPULAR SONG ON HER SPOTIFY.
15-CONSECUTIVE-DAYS STAYS >1M DAILY STREAM - A SEVEN-MINUTE SONG DID THAT Y'ALL. THE DEMAND IS INSANEEE 

March appears to be, yet again, the messiest, most delusional month of the year and I'm here for it.
 

It's the way they delayed the release, but there were apparently no delay in vinyl production so record stores are actually receiving the album in time for the inital release date--the mess that's about to unfold in the next couple of days. They're fucking up big time. 

I don't rank anything before I haven't listened to everything 

your pee while you’re sleeping:

The girl who interviewed Lana for Billboard posted a TikTok where she revealed that Lana sung Fingertips for her, and she said this is the song to look out for 

Just woke up, did it actually leak? 
This is not good, I’m so sad for Lana

This is really insightful. And I actually think it could have to do with how she “transformed” in the eyes of Sean.
 
At first she “called him up” and he “c[a]me into [her] bedroom” — which she calls a “sacred place” in Violet — and this reflects the Lana who represents wholesome Americana and domestic idealism. This is what Lana was reaching for in Chemtrails and was en route to achieving in her relationship with Sean.  
 
But then it “ended up” that they “fuck[ed] on the hotel floor” — so now this previous act of lovemaking (Lana’s “legacy” as described in Salamander) that occurred in her “sacred place” is now a mere hookup. And given the nature in which he approached her for this hookup as revealed by Lana on TikTok, she was non-consensually placed into a mistress role, that of an “American Whore”.
 
So, before, it was about having someone to love her. But after this “transformation” that had become externalized onto her by Sean, she had no choice but to live “the experience of being an American Whore.”

I think this also gives new meaning to Tulsa Jesus Freak since the whole song is pretty much about Sean/their relationship
 
But specifically the line "find your way back to my bed again" kind of gives the context needed, that (likely) they had officially broken up, but continued to hook up after that, while unbeknownst to Lana, he was dating and engaged to another women (hence these new lines in A&W)
 
He's a terrible person...I'm sure there are other songs about him on Ocean Blvd too but I hope Lana is able to move on from him now that she has shared all of this 
 
 

Got a cop who turned on the back beat
Puts the shower on while he calls me
Sneaks out the back door to talk to me
I'm invisible, you should’ve told me
Did you really think I would spare your tears just to save your happiness?
When I had no idea you were engaged. 
After all of those years,
do you think I’d spare their tears to save my face?
You must not have known who you were dealing with.
 
we moved on too quickly from this.
brings a whole new meaning to the sidepiece at 33 line. heartbreaking really.
 
also fuck sean

exaaactly! i vaguely remember a while ago writing that i was manifesting some sort of deep dive into a euphoric moment - baby wants a dance, baby gets her way  to me the jimmy part is a crushing dreamlike collapse into a representation of her experiences at the ramada (metaphoric, parodic, or not). ugghhh the jimmy part of the song just makes it so whole <3 and it's honestly such necessary relief after the heavy third verse. i also don't know enough abt music to fully understand or even identify a backbeat lol but i feel like the production in jimmy is intentionally meta 

Lol I got you! Thank you for bringing it up in the first place ❤️
 
Definitely a song with so many layers, and I’m totally with you on the Jimmy segment. In my opinion, she’s telling in the first part of the song, but then showing in the second part of the song -  she now embodies “the experience of being an American Whore” through a seemingly fun and loose breakdown.
 
With the samples of the NFR title track, the Jimmy segment feels a bit like a pastiche of two Lanas (the critics’ darling, Lana and the subject of harsh criticism, Lana) - it takes the song that represents Lana’s most critically-acclaimed career-period and periodically distorts it against hip-hop beats and more vibe-y than narrative-driven lyrics. This, in my opinion, is a juxtaposition that marries the Lana who says she lives in Rosemead and the Lana who’s at the Ramada. So I think she’s just representing the lyrics from earlier in the song, but through sonics rather than lyrics.  
 
And I think she just wanted to fuck around in the studio with Jack lol. With her fashion choices and behaviour on social media over the last year-and-a-half, it really seems like she’s having fun with this image of the “American Whore” and reclaiming this stigmatized label assigned to her (by the media, and, perhaps as a result of how things ended with a certain someone based on the lyrics she sang on TikTok).

something that i noticed is a little detail in the following lyrics "call him up, come into my bedroom, ended up, we fuck on the hotel floor", notice how she first mentions her bedroom, which would coincide with her home in rosemead, afterwards the hotel floor, which would coincide with the ramada, i feel like this lyric, especially with that little detail, can be interpreted in different ways, perhaps she's describing how when she's with somebody new, they get this picture-perfect, calm, matured image of her, but later on, they learn more of her struggles and secrets, that's a very metaphorical take on it, but i feel like this song is more deep and complex than we think

I think you’re right—and sorry no one is engaging meaningfully with you on this because what you’re saying has so much merit lol. Yes, the lyric has its first dimension in meaning (where she says she’s at home in Rosemead but really she’s at the Ramada Inn for a sexual encounter). But the line represents more than just that - it’s not purely literal. 
 
It expresses a kind of dichotomy that the media often captures about Lana. The line contains within itself the oscillation between a wholesome domestic idealism and a more suggestive, perhaps crass femme fatale-ism that the public loves to project onto Lana. They tend to both fetishize and weaponize these two conceptions of Lana in their think-pieces, and she completely toys with that in the line, concluding that “it doesn’t really matter” whether or not she’s presenting herself as one or the other. 

See I get that but this line follows “Do you really think I give a damn what I do after years of just hearing them talking” so I think it can be interpreted in multiple ways. I.e. to serve the American Whore aspect of the song, but also as a response to her critics. In my opinion.

It’s like the TUOB by Empire State Building. 
we love to see this