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I hope I got this description right omg, English is not my first language. I don’t make the news, I just report them!

Why is it you who determines that for her? I must have missed the obvious personal connection you have with her that fuels how well you know and understand her actions. Frank Ocean never promoted his work and always released it without any social media fanfare. He used to post music on his tumblr account for heaven’s sake. Does that necessarily mean he doesn’t care about it enough to put on the work and promote it like someone like Selena Gomez or Bad Bunny? She announced the date. Her deactivating her socials probably mean a lot of things: mental health issues, exhaustion from all the attention (negative and otherwise), a request from her team to let some steam off of her, etc. Why are we still insisting on the “this showed lack of interest/professionalism” just because most artists use social media to promote their work? Given how much she looks up to an era in which it was all about the music and not much about this type of industry machinations, it makes perfect sense that she would eventually want to take a break. There are so many layers to this situation and yet some of you always seem to choose the oversimplifying interpretations and not only insist on sticking with it but also even go as far as wishing for a leak because YOU determined she doesn’t care for whatever reasons and therefore all of a sudden we’re allowed to minimize the release date she and her label decided. Make this make any sense…

Eh… I don’t buy that, with all due respect. She screamed for the things she couldn’t want for him at a Black Lives Matter protest?

This makes virtually no sense at all.

I forgot to add: WW (Top 15 Lana best songs ever!) > BB = TB > Arcadia. Could you elaborate, please?

Text Book is a slow burner and it creeps up on you with further listens. At times I thought it was kind of terrifying even. There’s this menacing mystery to it that I can’t quite grasp yet. The BLM line kind of prevents it from being a 5/5 song. There’s no excuse for the inclusion of that lyric and it’s also lyrically pointless? Sure it situates us in the place and event they met but did she really need to say “I screamed for them”? LOL. It’s too jarring of a line and it takes me out of the song for a few seconds… but then she pulls us back in just as easily. Still, it’s just kind of stupid to write something like that imo. WW and BB are flawless. Arcadia is also amazing and so so so subversive but since one of my friends told me that the “roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries (…)” part sounds like a Celine Dion song, I cant un-listen. That part of the melody is a bit strange as well and not my favorite arrangement of hers BUT everything else in the song is stellar, particularly the verses and the pre-choruses.

I honestly can’t wait for the entire shift in the female alternative music landscape to alt-indie-rock instrumentals under aching, confessional writing about how the past intertwines with the present and the future Taylor’s Green Curtains incoming! Lorde’s Drunk At The Front Porch impending! Halsey’s If I Can’t Have a Grammy, I Want The Countryside in the works!

Absolutely! And it would make so much sense if it was placed in the middle of the album, right after the whole Text Book - Arcadia sequence because thematically it encapsulates the desire to just let go of all the things she’s supposed to say, do or feel as determined by others and just surrender to what she truly wants for her life, hence becoming her only god - which would have been a pretty powerful statement from her if you take in consideration the amount of times she idolized men, american icons/symbols, relationships, her past, etc (to the point of equaling them to god all mighty figures/religion) most times in detriment of her own sense of self. Not saying BBS - Beautiful - IYLDWM - VFR won’t get the job done as they’re probably going to expand that notion further and further but given the overarching themes of the album we already have a grasp on, it’s easy to imagine that Disco could perfect fall into place in Blue Banisters.

I’m kinda sad Disco isn’t in this album. Can you imagine a rework of that song with richer production and deeper/post-LFL Lana lyricism? The end of the alt pop girlies as we know them

Waking up and it’s not October 22nd yet again

I have a great feeling about Beautiful. If you think about it, every song of hers with a generic title that could be fabricated by some random Lana title generator bot (California, Cherry, Freak, etc) was a highlight. There’s no way this song isn’t anything but a total slay. Violets For Roses gives me heartwrenching breakup song energy. I can sense sacrifice, resignation, melancholia. I can feel it being a song that only grows and grows with further listens. Black Bathing Suit sounds sultry in and of itself. Going by what lustforlife said about the song being a Lust For Life Stan Pleaser, I think it’s going to be a very intriguing addition to her catalogue and perhaps even what Cherry was to LFL in a way: the fan favorite that everyone adores and wants a MV and tour setlist placement for. If Sweet Carolina is anything near the aching nakedness of Hope/Is This Happiness (her two best closers imo!) we’re in for a treat. Having a song co-written with her father and sister (two of her greatest pillars) at the tail of an album that sheds a light on her troubled past and present really will set it apart from her previous album closers. I have a feeling it will be hopeful, joyous and sweet. Can’t wait. And none for If You Lie Down With Me because I have no idea what to expect or manifest for that one.

Not this tired ass argument again.

Is the second pic yours? The collapse!!! Photography/editing experts unite! I’m interested in learning more about The Daddy Krug Technique as well

What you don’t tell no one, you can tell me

Support us by saying what kind of song Sweet Carolina is. Are we looking at a piano ballad, an acoustic ballad…? Is it country, is it rock, is it similar to Hope?

That’s not true at all…

Manifesting electric guitar and drums

Whatever. I took a quick look at ldrarchived’s insta and it was really cute seeing her Lust For Life - NFR period. She looked so happy even if a bit contemplative. It transported me back to the days I used to see those posts in real time while I was myself transitioning to a life in the big city. Super nostalgic.

An artist is a human being. I understand you’re trying to look at this situation through a business lens but I firmly believe that if an artist gets caught up in this type of industry machinations, it will eventually creep up on them to god-knows-what consequences. If she thinks the best for her is to quit social media, she has every right to do so. You think most artists actually use social media to promote their work? No, their accounts are ran by managers, publicists, assistants. Give the entire autonomy of social media management to any celebrity (the way Lana did) and watch some/most of them crack under the pressure. Frank Ocean doesn’t use Instagram like most people do. People like Fiona Apple don’t even do it at all - and likewise, Lana doesn’t need to as well. To even think about depositing blame onto her shoulders about something that was detrimental to her mental health is quite frankly absurd. I’m used to not agreeing with your takes at all but this one has to be the most outrageous you’ve ever written. Good god.

I believe in @lustforlife until proven wrong.

When do the production credits usually come out? Maybe that way we could have an idea of what the songs will sound like.

1. The worst kind of bullies and gaslighters are the actual right wingers and ill intentioned people in power who use their prejudice to forward anti-LGBT legislation and incite violence and discrimination. I understand and empathize with your frustration but if you think this place has the worst kind of displays of homophobia, I am absolutely shocked and perplexed. 2. You are not entitled to determine whether other people should use the word or not. It works both ways. Your experiences are valid and need to be heard but I don’t think it’s fair to put them above our own. You have no idea what any of us went through. 3. No one is forcing you to use the f word. Some people do it out of empowerment, comfort and sense of community. It’s ok to disagree with the people doing it but you’re being abrasive and disrespectful for no reason and that’s not how the discourse should be happening? Don’t turn against your own community. 4. Comparing this situation to the apartheid is just… oh my god.

I don’t usually use the f word but it wouldn’t cross my mind to tell other people of my community to stop using it. Specially since it’s used as to reclaim its derogatory meaning and flip it and reverse it. It’s the same logic as the n word. To burn a fuse over (mostly) gay men using the f word on a safe place such as LB… pick a struggle. It’s also time people understand linguistics (albeit important and essential) is not the end all and be all of activism. If anything time has proven again and again how limited linguistics can become.