I don’t think this constitutes a spoiler because I won’t be spoiling the song per se - this is what I personally and individually feel.
Listening to the opener gives me the same fuzzy shiver-y feeling that listening to NFR (the song) and Honeymoon (the song) gave me and they precede my two favorite Lana projects to date. This album has a classic feel not only within Lana’s discography but branching out in general: the way Billy Joel, Joni Mitchell, Kate Bush, Fiona Apple, Björk, Carole King, etc have produced absolute musical classics that inspired future generations and moved the masses (=fans). Everything about this project falls into place in a way that just feels inherently special and something… different. I keep thinking of the Ride monologue coming full circle.
Even the photoshoots, Lana receiving an award recently, all the hype, the industry finally recognizing her as a massive musician… this era feels - to me - like the first one in which we’re witnessing the release of a record that comes from an artist who’s near-universally seen as one of the greatest singer-songwriters we have; that this momentum is clashing with appears to be her most confessional and raw album to date… I don’t know. It probably wasn’t her intention but this already has some foundations of world-building to me. She has come so far and she knows it now. We’re lucky to have her