Pale Moonlight

We don‘t know and we probably never will. But I don‘t think it‘s that dramatic. Lana and her dad are probably quiet because it would be awkward for them to promote the songs. Or do you except a tweet like „buy the single where my daughter says I didn‘t protect her! Now on iTunes ♥️“
 
Lana has been carrying this trauma with her for a very long time. She has probably talked many times with her father or even her mother about how she has felt and maybe even told them she would mention them in the song. I dont think she would surprise them with the release and her father would then just post a picture of his shirt like he didn‘t care 

You can call the cover(s) bad, but you can't call them lazy. These are deliberate, and you don't have to like them (and lots of people don't), but I think she's definitely proving something by generating the comments she is. She's just released the three most personal songs of her career, after a decade of being accused of being a persona, a fake, an industry plant, someone whose career was bought by her father, inauthentic, etc etc. The decaying photographs, in series, work like a Warhol sequence, which are also 'basic' and 'fake', but in a deliberate way.

The day Spotify allows you to change album artwork, which is soon - it's over for album covers in general I hope y'all know that

Guys, this is the vengeance album. Did you think we were going to escape unscathed? The cover will be that "selphie". It's her revenge on us. 
 
 

She’s owning the whole narrative that her artworks are “bad” by making that selfie the artwork. I don’t see how that’s different from Taylor Swift, for example, owning her reputation of being a “snake” and employing the snake as a symbol for her album. Yes, it’s not aesthetically pleasing compared to her other covers, but that is the whole point.
 
For anyone who’s struggling to reconcile the cover and her usual creative output, maybe frame it like this: Lana’s true genius is in her intent and artists provoke thought, even if it’s not conventionally appealing. She’s doing just that, which, to me, shows artistic growth/evolution (in a sense)! 

HOT FIRE , HOT WEATHER , HOT COFFEE 

hope ur ok is her best song imo, so good
 
 

The thing that BOZ said about don't be negative about the release tells me that this is a calculated and planned/spread-out release where she is releasing in maybe... cycles? and the first ones out are the three most narrative ones all intertwining a theme about her past and herself. And this first cycle there is no interviews, no posts, no promo because they are her most personal songs yet and she knows the news and media will ask her about her mother, abuse, and the picture she is using, which she doesn't want to elaborate on...these songs were for the fans. a quiet release to begin telling her story. Now that this is just the beginning Im expecting as we move closer to the real release she moves on and release the lead that may not be as personal or revealing. And We most likely still have a high budget video coming since she followed colinseyes. 

Lana, if you read this: quick, drop the cover + preoder. It's very easy to exploit my bank account in this vulnerable state your singles put me in
 

Madonna posting stories with candies and now captioning BLUE on the instagram. I know the colobration rumours are just rumours but I believe she and Lana probably encountered during the studio sessions, and that's when Lana started to follow her back. Madonna is hanging out with Mike Dean, Sage Skofield and Sean Solymar for her tour's sound mixing.

Waiting for the day that my beloved HM will shine 

The more I listen to Text Book the more I love it 
That chorus is really classic Lana with a new twist.

The way this selphie makes my heart flutter hard every time it shows up… it’s too powerful 

Not Shazam sending me a notification telling me "we tried again and we found Blue Banisters by Lana Del Rey". Maybe they noticed me shazaming the snippet like 5 times a day for the last month 

i still maybe think she had a photoshoot in the moment of this selfie

and honestly i wouldn't complain at all, the place looks beautiful, brings me back to paradise photoshoot vibes

It’s funny to remember how upset I was with the single cover for MAC, how I felt that such a great song deserved a better cover, and that I’m almost indifferent to it now. Lana picking selfies as single covers is like a new tradition now, I know it’s gonna happen so I don’t have the energy to complain about it anymore lol.

Text Book really does keep getting better with each listen

who really cares about single artwork?
 
the only artwork that matters is album artwork

I am not really surprised by the low numbers of the three singles. The songs are excellent, but to release three songs at once with zero promo, the songs need to be bombastic to speak on their own and to appeal to the masses. The three are so introspective, and I guess the « casual BTD listener » doesn’t click with them?!?

I think her management have just given up now tbh. Remember it was Ben who forced her to do a better cover for NFR and it turned out so amazing, especially compared to the shit she was going to use. Lana seems to just be doing whatever she wants now visually tbh, these new single covers are genuinely hideous.
 
Edit: just saw her Billboard pic, LOL guuuuuurl, she takes pics like my Grandma posting on Facebook before she died. 

Stop lying to yourself this selfie is the worst visual she ever released, even cocc cover is better, the fact she changed all of her Sm to this shit... The embarassment

she changed her youtube profile pic as well 

Thats bc spotify is dumb and it was showing only BB as her newest release, u had to scroll all the way down to find WW and TB, i couldnt find it at first too so i streamed from her youtube 

If people let's start criticizing this photo, she will use it as the album cover. Reverse psychology, let's go! lol