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I love it

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I guess they really got the best of us, didn't they?
They said that love was enough, but it wasn't  

I love Grandfather, the build up is heavenly. But that line does take me out of the "zone" a bit, it's almost distracting. 
 
 
Yes please! Also shoutout to Terrence Loves You for the spot of Lana's best bridges ... I'd love something really ethereal like that again
 
 
I agree! The SYML and Riopy features were stunning and still felt so Lana. Jon Batiste on Candy Necklace is insanely good. Tommy Genesis brought the  And I'll never turn down Lana and Father John Misty, their musical sounds and voices just complement each other so well. Ocean Blvd had my favourite features of any of her albums so far, because they were kind of "understated" and really flowed with the album. Having said that, I do love Lana without any features so I'm happy with either way she goes 
 
I would actually love this  I neeeeeeeeed behind the iron gates 

My feeling is that Born To Die and Ultraviolence were more a product of the music industry and not Lana's actual vision (which was included, but ultimately the labels decided a lot of things, especially in terms of production). There are many, many good (and better) songs that didn't make it onto these albums. But in the end these two albums have contributed a lot to Lana's popularity and are an important source of income. I guess Honeymoon was the first album where Lana was able to make more of her own decisions and shape it according to her own ideas.
Nevertheless, Fantano's reviews were way off the mark and too harsh.

I had a dream last night that Lana announced her second poetry book in an Instagram post. She wrote that instead of attempting to rewrite the drafts from Iron Gates, she started from scratch and wrote an entire new book while she was on tour over the summer. She noted certain cities & states that fueled a lot of inspiration for her including Alabama, Burgettstown PA, Charleston WV, Charlotte NC, Columbia MD, Dallas TX, and Indiana(?) The caption in total was really long. She also noted that she would try to revisit Iron Gates one day, but was so excited to share her new collection with us as soon as she could. This new book was titled North Star and was being released through an indie Japanese publisher (it started with an U, something like Umaruane) and she put the link to preorder from the publisher’s website in her bio, but the site was all in Japanese. North Star would also have an audiobook edition with accompaniment from Jack Antonoff again. The post featured a video with the audiobook version of the title track of the book set to a visual of different scenery she had taken while travelling on tour with an orangeish vintage noise filter overlay. The poem was reminiscent of the speech she gave at her Dallas show and featured the line “never forget to let passion be your true North Star” from her speech and talked about Icarus as she did in her recent interview. Her voice in the recording was very light and delicate. The instrumental accompaniment was beautiful and similar to those on Violet but more lush.
I then made the pre-release thread for it and member Embach was the first to reply lol. Within seconds, the thread already had multiple pages of everyone freaking out about the release. Some people were also speculating she might tour in Japan soon because of the publisher. Her announcement also gained her 11 million new followers on Instagram skkk.
Anyway, just thought I’d share this dream with you all. I’ve been longing for another new poetry release from Lana, so I’m hoping this dream was a bit of foreshadowing that one comes soon

Instead of manifesting Lana working with the most uncool and washed-up producers in the industry that only pop stars who are way behind on the trends work with (Aaron Dessner & Kevin Parker), we need to manifest the following:
 
1. An album that feels like a cohesive statement and not a random playlist
2. An album where she gets weird and experimental all the way trough and not just on two or three songs before she chickens out and starts playing it safe.
 

TBH. I hope she's over this "raw sound" she's done for the past 4 albums... It was cool with NFR but it's very tired now. 
I hope she goes for a more polished sound this era -- I think a nu-metal sound like with what she did with Serene Queen would be sooooooo cool but I doubt she'd ever do that again.
 
She has so much potential to experiment with her music but she's been very narrow-minded recently which is disappointing to see considering BTD-NFR all have completely different sounds and NFR-OB are basically the same just in different fonts...
 
I am simply just manifesting she steps out of her comfort zone again 
 

Dessner too, Tobias Jesso Jr and Tame Impala

We need more ppl rallying for an album that sounds like Stargirl Interlude x Shades of Cool

but seeing her going back and forth to L4L era these days really warms my heart because L4L is MY favourite era of her, like that feeling of listening to the album in summer 2017 is one thing i will never forget for the rest of my life. I never hated L4L, i will stand by L4L till the day i die. Idgaf if people hate it.
 
and that vintage futuristic galaxy aesthetic was brilliant and she really pulled it the fuck off. I need her to reuse it. I need a spacey-jazzy, night time shoegaze, psychedelic space-time distorted record  
 
And lets talk about how suitable the retro sci-fi aesthetic is for Lana. I just know she will fuck it up real good. Manifesting something like Lana Del Rey meets Metropolis (1920s) visually

back to LDR10 
after Ocean Blvd, i'd say i want her to do some crazy shit, more camp, more WEIRD, experimental, more controversial, something unexpected.
 
Lets be honest she is the BEST when she is unexpected and leaves no clue to no one. Thats when she is a real THREAT and all the pop gurlies better watch her ass. Dont believe me? Just look at Venice Bitch and A&W - till this day, both of these are the most crazy shit she ever done.

i know she'd nailed and slayed this

This exactly! I have always wanted this both visually and sound wise from Lana and I think that would be the perfect way for her to execute it. I hope that we see a heavy folk influence from her again, I love when she taps into that. I would be here for a full-on album inspired by Nancy Sinatra, Patsy Cline, '70s Dolly, Tammy Wynette and fused with The Carpenters and some early Fleetwood Mac. Would even be cool to see her do some kind of psychedelic, folk-country mix. Put on your boots and give it to us, Lana. 

why does everyone hate breaking up slowly i love that song 😭😭 fill me in

why are we sleeping on dark but just a game😀😀😀

i’m here for this tbh! the moodboard is cute. country doesn’t have to mean breaking up slowly pt 2, lana could do better than that. she could go for a 50s-70s themed dreamy americana sound, kinda like fleetwood mac or nancy sinatra. she could also continue with the darkness of ocean blvd and make something similar to raise me up. i see the vision. it would be as if the 2nd half of lust for life & aka lizzy grant had a baby
 
 

fixed

imagine if she sampled one of her own BTD tracks... it'd be iconic