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Do you really believe the album is coming out in a couple of months, though? 21st May is less than two months away. We have no single, no videos, no trailer, no official announcements, no links, no pre-orders, no leaks, no insiders. Lana is trolling us again.

Lucky you. My excitement is... dwindling. I just visited the page, scrolled through, and thought "god, this topic is getting tired." No fault of anyone here, of course; you guys are a hoot. But like.... dozens of people waiting around, speculating and cracking jokes about an upcoming album for a year.... when all they know is that there's a song called Henry on it, and a lame-ass title 'The Right Person will Stay' that might change since it had already changed from Lasso into that. It's a testament to y'all that you've made the speculations as fun for as long as you did. But the uneventfulness is

Another theory to kill time. Lana turns 40 this year on June 21st. i reckon she would want the record to drop before then, or on that day. Just because she's concerned with her legacy, and releasing 10 records before hitting 40 is cooler than releasing 9 records. (desperate times call for desperate theorising. Queue rolling desert bush. And scene)

Happy birthday, OB! Definitely in my top 5 LDR albums, and so glad it exists. I listen to AW so often. That track, and the title track are Lana's best album cuts since NFR.

So, LFL came out in July 2017. NFR came out in August 2019. That means 2 years and 1 month is enough for Lana to do her absolute best work. OB came out in March 2023. We're officially past the two-year mark. So, we could be getting a legit masterpiece. (Yes, I'm back on Train Delulu again. Choo-choo!).

100%. We've had three monochrome/brown covers back to back. Time to bring back color like NFR/BTD covers. With sex appeal, if possible. Sometimes I wonder if the reason why BTD and UV did so freaking well commercially was all the hot-af visuals.

Lord... Never been a part of a seven-month snooze fest before (September-March). Group hypnosis fail is what this thread is 😂 All the manifesting for nothing. Honestly, we should all just leave it until something real happens.... Because we've been mass self-hypnotising ourselves based on Lana's fake-announcements and a one-year old 20-sec song snippet, As far as we know, there is NO ALBUM, until confirmed there is. #truestory #breakthespell

A quarter or the year is behind us. Stage Coach is around the corner. Album release date is 2 months from now. Was meant to come out in September. Last single we go was early July. The single announced sounds like the sequel to Looking for America. Never a longer wait for something so... simple and minimalist. What is going on with this era? Lana's 'fuck you' to the world for losing that Grammy again? 🤔

Or she could use that energy to address her second single / album delay? Her clapping back at fans is pretty petty and is getting tired. Beyonce would never. Like if you know it's just rubbish some online trolls/basic bitches are saying about you, why even read it, for a start?

How can you tell when Lana Del Rey is lying? Her lips are moving. Girle's been trolling us for about a year now.

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Hahaha. 🫶🏻 It's my workout track. I probably listened to it as much as AW. So glad we have a proper bop. Love it!

Tough outstreams Carmen on Spotify. Prisoner next. Still doing 222K per day. For comparison, The Abyss, which dropped only a few months ago, is already down to 560K on Spotify.

So, super bored here... And just thinking, if we were ranking Lana's eras in terms of excitement, number of singles, visuals and hype... Not counting AKA singe that wasn't really an era per se because Lana wasn't famous yet, for me, it'd be something like: BTD (Lana's a Star is Born moment with a huge number of singles and high-budget videos, and alt. versions. Boy am I glad to have been there for every second of it! Especially the Born to Die video drop. Epic!) NFR (as protracted as it was, I freakin' loved this era! Remember the trailer? Fire. The Whole surf rock aesthetic of this record, the neon green, the windsurf jacket, the nails, the splash of humor in the videos, Doin' Time playing on the radio everywhere, a whole bunch of singles, a whole bunch of videos, just fire). UV (very solid roll-out, fire singles, especially WC, out of this world visuals, especially Shades of Cool. That was cinema!) Paradise (nothing beats the Ride video, and Burning Desire was solid. The fact that this came out unexpectedly and so soon after BTD. Boy, were we fed!) Honeymoon/Lust for Life (tie) (not the biggest fan of the visuals in either album, but at least we had multiple videos and a solid roll-out) OB (adored our only MV this era, one of her best, and the first two singles slayed... But the choice of 3rd and 4th singles were just weird (The Grants, CN). Another big budget MV for AW or Let the Right in Would have made this era as good as Paradise/UV). COTCC (aside from a decent though lesser-budget-due-to-covid Chemtrails MV, not much to write home about, underwhelming lead single, underwhelming White Dress MV. Still we were fed) Blue Banisters (if BB was the third or fourth single with that MV, fine, sure, great. But the first single? For such an unmemorable song? Nah Was never a fan of Arcadia either, nor its cheap MV. Textbook as a promo single? Puh-lease. Major flop era for me). The Right Person Will Stay ("Ah, geez, what can I say? What can I say now?") Anyone care to share their rating? Be my guest!

Well, it's official. It's Jeremy's bday and still no single lmao. I swear, this "era" is like the musical equivalent of Waiting for Godot

She's the best. <3 Hers and Taylor's fangirling over Lana 24/7 is just so right. People with good ears gotta admire Lana

I still think she will drop the single on Jeremy's bday (tomorrow, 21st). It's the first single she's dropping since they got married. #TeamDeluluRise

Okay, sth. just dawned on me. Hear me out. We keep speculating on the album's genre, wishing for Fenway, going back and forth on somber vs. beats vs. electric guitars, etc. But, back in the real world, we already know what the production will be like: *super stripped-back.* Because Lana herself said "even if it's super stripped-back, I want it to be just right." (Paraphrasing). This also tracks with that "Sirens on a budget" early intel, and with what Henry snippet sounds like. So, there's really no mystery. This will be an album of "When all those who wonders are lost" or "Looking for America" vibes.

I hear ya. Fu*k all of 'em I actually have more faith in whoever said that Jeremy's birthday is March 21st, and she'll drop then. That would make sense actually. Given that it's also a Friday. Also, March 21st is exactly two months ahead of the alleged album release date, and just enough before Stagecoach to make a splash... Shall we take plunge in the *Delulu* poll till tomorrow?

Me neither. Look at how great Birds of a Feather did. Made no difference. Also, Lana's been pretty bad with choosing singles ever since NFR, so maybe it's better that way. When I say bad at choosing singles, I mean that her non-single tracks are doing better (Cinnamon Girl, Let the Light In, Margaret, Dealer, Cherry, etc.)

Yeah; maybe she's doing what billie did last year with hmhas. Also, if Henry is as soft and acoustic as it sounds, there's no point having it as a single imo

Can we please please stop manifesting "somber" vibes for this record? Somber: having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness. Did you all not have enough of seriousness on sadness on the last two-three records?! Lmao If so, please go stream Nectar of the Gods, Fingertips, Cherry Blossom, For Free,Judah Smith Interlude, Jon Batiste Interlude, Texbook, Wildfire Wildflower, Candy Necklace, Kintsugi, Yosemite, etc.

Sorry but that's just whack. Rick Nowels co-wrote and produced some of Lana's biggest songs (e.g. Summertime Sadness, Young and Beautiful, Love). Even his throwaway cut (Say Yes to Heaven) is a massive hit a decade years later. I mean, this is the guy who wrote so many hits including a quarter of Madonna's Ray of Light. You don't just go ahead and dis Rick... As much as I love Antonoff x LDR, Jack has yet to produce a single entry into Billboard 100 for Lana. The only song that charted with his production credit on it was Tough, and he wasn't even the main producer. So, if anything - Lana's fading more with Jack at the helm than rick. Ask a person on the street what Lana song they know, and it ain't gonna be Mariner's Apartment Complex or A&W. I'll tell you that. Again, no hate towards Jack, but what you said just ain't right.

Fyi, i'm tots fine with country. I always was. I loved the idea of LDR tackling a new genre (like btd was pop, uv was rock, nfr was surf rock...). And I always liked Tough and its country themes and influences. #LassoForever The thing I *don't* want is this stripped back/sobre vibe everyone's talkin' about. Which doesn't sound like Lana nor country to me. It just sounds like Chemtrails 2.0. or, more so, BB 2.0. That is what I *don't* want. Sounds super boring to me.

I"m not hating on you, but I'm hoping for the opposite of somber. Hear me out: we already have a stripped-back acoustic masterpiece (Chemtrails). And Blue Banisters wasn't far off. So, we kinda already have an album (or two) full of somber guitar songs such as Nectar of the Gods, Living Legend, Cherry Blossom, Yosemite. And Ultraviolence wasn't exactly a pop record. It was guitar. It was somber. I don't think Lana should repeat herself sonically. And if she does, I hope she rips off Lust for Life (Fenway) rather than the second half of BB. Also, with Die with a Smile, Beyonce, Chappel Roan and other big country-infused guitar songs dominating the industry, a stripped-back album would fall off the radar as soon as it drops. So, I'm hoping The Right Person Will stay is bigger in production, more melodic, and catchy. More American and Ride in spirit than Nectar of the Gods and Living Legend. Somber is the last adjective I want to use to describe this record. I'm ready for some fun!