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Yes you’re right! Apologies. Well I obviously can’t speak for the trans community specially since I’m not trans myself but if everybody made an effort to understand where Kendrick came from with that track despite the morally complex execution, then it makes no sense not to give Lana the same treatment.

If Kendrick gets a pass despite saying the t-slur and heavily featuring Kodak Black on his record, I think Lana should be fine. Sadly the industry doesn’t work that way.

No, otherwise we would know the song’s name since we know the names of the first 4 tracks and AW is #4. I think the pastor interlude is song #5.

Queerness, women, science, people over 16…

Isn’t the pastor interlude after American Whore?

She’s going full CONCEPT on this one, isn’t she.

Also, enough about the pastor! I wanna know what the Tommy Genesis feature sounds like, specially now knowing it’s an unusual collab. Or anything new about another track we don’t know yet!

One or two minutes of a white male pastor screaming I can get behind but over four minutes? I trust Lana’s vision but goddamn it, that’s going to be a trying moment for me.

Gorgeous post. Lust For Life is aging like fine wine. The trap beats never feel dated and the journey from the first half bleeding into the second half (with its sadder but still hopeful tone) perfectly captures the transitions Lana probably lived and felt. Is it cohesive? Well maybe not specially when compared to the masterpiece in cohesion that was Honeymoon; does it matter that much to me? Not at all. Lana managed to bottle up the state of the world during that era and deliver her ruminations about it in a way that felt both nostalgic for previous moments in history where social and cultural change were busting at the seams (late 60s for instance) AND ominous for what was about to come - listening to Change now, knowing what was going to happen from 2019 forward, is absolutely haunting. LFL will never top NFR, Chemtrails, HM and UV for me but it’s a goddamn great album that is much richer and more textured than what I initially thought upon its release. Its vision, for someone like me - about to turn 30 years old in a couple months - is now crystal clear. Get Free EATS.

Idk why but Body Dysmorphia and Environmental Anxiety are kind of cringe-y titles.

Not that it matters that much but am I the only one who has the feeling this one will have a reception similar to NFR? It won’t carry the same “omg Lana is actually one of the best songwriters we have!” narrative because that has already been consolidated but I genuinely think this album will be the portal to a new stage of her career ala Fiona Apple where her albums will get consistently raved and talked about. I can see Pitchfork creaming themselves over this one (long tracks, conceptually dense, unusual use of features, etc) as opposed to the most modest reaction Chemtrails and BB had. This one feels more ambitious and perhaps a more incisive statement from her.

I will die on this hill: Wildflower Wildfire is Lana at her most Tori Amos. Very reminiscing of Little Earthquakes, to my ears and senses at least. I do, however, agree that Lana has a broader vision and scope. I’d add that even Fiona out-Tori’d Tori as far as female rage/anti-patriarchy songwriting goes.

She wishes.

I’m sorry but this is textbook Lana.

Y’all are making me feel some type of way.

I don’t see that as lying; she’s describing a fantasy lifestyle that she wants for her future where everything that went wrong is behind her but she’ll always, through writing, think about those years as they whisper in their ears. Stunning writing achievement for her but not a lie at all imo.

Please! There has to be a way through this

Don’t let me stop you. Discuss away.

I know. There’s also not much to discuss if it’s a theme she hasn’t explored in 10 years.

But that doesn’t mean it’s up for debate on a public website. I mean we can do it but does it feel right to you? Plus those songs you’ve mentioned have been online in over a decade. What other angles are left to discuss that weren’t already?

It pains me that we have an ultra-pixelated picture of the entire tracklist and yet we can’t decode it. Literally what’s the point of technology if we haven’t found a way to do that

Is it bad that Everything Is Embarrassing remains her magnum opus in my books? Talk about a classic

Celine Dion not getting in is also sort of bizarre. Happy for Lana as her voice is absolutely one of the central parts of her appeal and uniqueness.

These comments are so exhausting. Just listen to Ultraviolence, jesus fucking christ.

Do we have any new updates besides BOZ teasing samples of old songs?