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When I mentioned that fans would love for it to be included in a future merch drop, he replied, “oh it might!” xx

If it was designed by the LDR village director hopefully they let us buy it 

literally like there are so many creative merch ideas she could have. like if they literally sold a yellow dress like the one she wore in the album cover or idk tex and mex earrings or like an arcadia sign necklace. the possibilities are endless and we get this?

i love this aesthetic

LANABOARDS EXCLUSIVE: On December 3rd, the day before attending the Variety Hitmakers event to accept her Decade Award, Lana Del Rey was photographed on polaroids in a hotel room by Paul Salem, the director of LDR Village and designer of her mysterious DNC jacket.

new polaroids!!

new polaroids!!

I've also wondered how differently Chemtrails would've been perceived if there had been no Rock Candy Sweet announcement. Loved the chaos energy, but there was never a moment to luxuriate in the album without that tension of a newer, possibly hotter one waiting one swipe away.
 
An album like this needs to be taken home and bonded with like a newborn, free from distractions. It's been awesome to re-bond with it post-BB now that there is no pressure. 

sUBURBIA THE BRENTWOOD MARKET WHAT TO DO NEXT BABY WHAT OF IT WHITE PICKET CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COOOOUUUNTRY CLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUB

Slant Magazine chose Chemtrails over the Country Club as the #1 best song of the year  and the album at #4, right behind Blue Banisters at #3.
What they said about the track:
On the title track to Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Lana Del Rey settles down near Brentwood, an affluent Los Angeles suburb, where she begins to feel torn between pedestrian normalcy and the pop-star stratosphere. In her restlessness, she seeks thrills in street racing and finds meaning in astrology; likewise, the song’s production gradually grows more ethereal and mesmerizing. Often in pop songs, unconventional turns of phrase represent awkward efforts to fit lyrics to a rhyme scheme; here, though, Del Rey’s experiments with syntax deepen the song’s themes. (What does it mean, exactly to live “under…country clubs”?) She applies the writerly instincts she honed in her poetry collection, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, to bridge pop aphorisms (“It’s never too late, baby/So don’t give up”) with diaristic specificity. Like “Text Book,” the opening track of Blue Banisters, the other album she released this year, “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” clarifies how Del Rey wants to be seen: as both a grounded person and an otherworldly talent.

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Slant Magazine put Blue Banisters at #3 on their 50 best albums of the year list, and Chemtrails at #4, and chose Lana as the image for the whole article 
 
From their article intro:
Even major label darlings like Lana Del Rey, who have built loyal fanbases but don’t fit easily into mainstream radio playlists, have thrown out the rulebook: The already-prolific singer-songwriter dropped two new albums this year and, to be perfectly honest, we had trouble agreeing on which one was better.
 
What they said about Blue Banisters:
“Let’s keep it simple, babe/Don’t make it complicated,” Lana Del Rey purrs at the start of “Beautiful,” a track from her eighth studio album, Blue Banisters. The lyric serves as a statement of purpose, reflecting the album’s pared-down arrangements. The decision to keep the music sparse draws focus to the lyrical content, which is some of the most razor-sharp and bitingly funny of Del Rey’s career. A fascination with color, a recurring thread that’s ever-shifting in its meaning, is weaved throughout Blue Banisters. When, on “Beautiful,” Del Rey quips, “What if someone had asked/Picasso not to be sad…there would be no blue period,” we understand “blue” to represent not just a state of depression, but one that yields inspiration. Del Rey’s vocals are as cherubic and distant as ever, stuck in a daydream but exactingly so. Sure, there’s an odd bit at the end of “Living Legend” where Del Rey’s trilling is processed through a wah-wah pedal, and there are several, perhaps inevitable, instances of thematic retreads from past albums. But by stripping back the sonic density of her previous work and taking its sweet time to unfold, Blue Banisters further fleshes out Del Rey’s increasingly vivid personal world.
 
What they said about Chemtrails: 
The way Lana Del Rey connects different songs to one another, even across different albums (like Lust for Life’s “Cherry” and Norman Fucking Rockwell’s “Venice Bitch”), is peerless—perhaps rivaled only by Taylor Swift—and partly what makes her work so enveloping. On Chemtrails Over the Country Club, Del Rey delights in dropping breadcrumbs: Her discussions of jewels on the title track links with mentions of the same on a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “For Free,” and she sings fondly of her ranch near Coldwater Canyon, which “sometimes…feels like [her] only friend,” on “Tulsa Jesus Freak” and “Dance Till We Die.” These thoughtfully connected threads make the album feel as if it’s in dialogue with itself and the rest of Del Rey’s catalog. And while it doesn’t engage with our current moment or hot-button issues as urgently as Norman Fucking Rockwell does, it’s also part of a larger pop-cultural conversation—or at least, it has some hilarious and apt references to astrology, Kings of Leon, and How Green Was My Valley.

Her entrance on Dealer is a career highlight 
 
 
I check it  I wreck it  I turn it around 

vocally i'm team chemtrails, her voice sound fucking amazing there

Question for people who know about sales/charts and release strategies: could the month of February and it being a collab help us infer anything about the song?? Should we start keeping track of other artists or projects scheduled for/around February??

I don't think she's releasing music that early so it's probably for another artist (unless she releases the lead 8 months before the album 

She did a lot of new stuff on BB:
 
Text Book and Black Bathing Suit with unexpected tempo changes
Blue Banisters has literally no instruments, her voice alone carries the song
Arcadia has the very new and adventurous idea of comparing her body with geographical places, and she has never sung such a warm wonderful ballad before
The interlude, Dealer - ok, I don't have to explain that ones
Black Bathing Suit has a very new sound and lyrical ideas, I don't think she has ever sung about her body in this way before
If You Lie Down With Me: the retro-jazzy trumpets at the end are extraordinary
Thunder: never before has a well-known leaked song been given such an enhancement with a superb string arrangement
Sweet Carolina: for the first time, a song created with family and friends (and a piano played by Rob)
 
I would say that there have never been so many new elements and experiments on one album. I don't see any repetitions on NFR, Chemtrails and BB, each album is completely different from the others.

sooo boz made a post on atrl that lana is doing a collab in february? anyone have a screenshot?

I wonder if Lana’s gonna end up going through a Dolly Parton phase, where she’s releasing albums each year/multiple times a year. She did it this year, she did an audiobook in 2020, she did NFR in 2019. She’s been talking about the singer-songwriter genre returning and it just makes me wonder. I’m not talking like a country phase, but the release schedule. I guess it’s harder for her because of vinyls and i love collecting her records, but i’d be so happy if she decided to just drop like 2 more albums in a year where they’re available digitally at first

manifesting an album that sounds like a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night

vocally i'm team chemtrails, her voice sound fucking amazing there

I fully agree with this, however, I don't think that takes away from acknowledging Lana's impact on modern female alternative/pop music. Of course it all dates back to her inspirations and the women before her like Joni or Joan. Lana on her own though has a lot of accomplishments as well and there are so many artists right now that site her as an inspiration, even people like Taylor Swift. I don't think that anyone on here thinks she necessarily invented anything, but rather that she helped bring certain elements of her music as well as the music of earlier female artists back into the mainstream. 

joni hip hop and trap queen omg??

i see what you're saying, but i don't think anybody is intentionally trying to rewrite & erase history by celebrating & recognizing lana's achievements, majority of people here aren't going to talk about, or even be aware of, other artist's accomplishments because this is a forum dedicated to lana, we're mostly going to talk about lana & only lana, & i would say that no two artists are the same, i'm sure there's been other artists who've blended genres together & innovated music, but lana did it in her unique way during a particular time period where it was effective & it was innovative, & that should be recognized as well