ModernBohemian

I don't know if this has been brought up by anyone else yet, but I can't help but think about the first half of the album as a chronological allegory for her romance, heartbreak and then stages of grief.

1. The Grants/Ocean Blvd/Sweet is her in love, thinking about a life of love but still foreshadowing future loss (love and denial (in hindsight) stage).
   "Do you want children? Do you want to marry me?"
2. A&W is where the betrayal happens (especially considering the extra verse she sang on her live in the car about Sean), The anger and reckoning stage.
   "It's not about havin' someone to love me anymore
   This is the experience of bein' an American whore"
3. Interludes/Candy Necklace is her turning to spirituality while still lamenting the restlessness/reckless of men. Reasoning.
4. Kintsugi - the quietest point of grief, depression, that hopefully starts to precede the last stage of grief, acceptance. 

To me, the remaining half of the album her accepting her place in life and trying to find potential joy in living in the moment, friendship, family and embracing her sultry spirit again. 

This is the only pre-album cycle that we haven't been given an accompanying music video for any pre-album singles and/or trailer. 

Unusual... but given the insider information around a "surprise" that finally does it right by fans, I suspect (and want) it to be something highly visual like a series of music videos or short film

It's a doco or a long film/music video series. That's what fans want

16 minutes ago, JFKs Fine China said:

Listening to Text Book this morning and reading this thread and I have some thoughts. Just a note, this might be a COMPLETE REACH but 

First, the lyrics "I guess this is really the end I've never felt jealous before this year but I'm jealous now" really hit me differently after her announcement last night. Maybe she's referencing the experience of watching her friends live a normal, fame-less life on Instagram. We know she wants privacy more than ever and is probably sick to death of the trolls commenting on her posts. Her thoughts, body, music are all open to be critiqued in the comments of her posts and I'm sure she has read some hateful things. I don't see this announcement as spur of the moment.  @lustforlife said BB is "the end of Lana Del Rey". Maybe de-activating her socials is just the first step down a road of seclusion and letting the music speak for itself. 

 

Secondly, we know Text Book starts the album. Lana said BB is about "what it was like, what happened, and what it's like now".  The lyrics "and then there was the issue of her I didn't even like myself or love the life I had"  stuck out to me. I see these lyrics as young Lizzie speaking about not liking herself or the emotionally unstable home she lived in as a young girl / teen. In some ways, the creation of the Lana Del Rey persona saved her from that life (or maybe it felt this way to her in the beginning): it brought money,  instant adoration and freedom to build a new life for herself. Years later, though, the "Lana Del Rey" name has also brought a ton of baggage: think pieces, 0 freedom or privacy, twitter hate, etc. Maybe deactivating is just a way for her to begin tearing down this image of Lana Del Rey and only letting the music shine through. I could see her being very reclusive (like Fiona Apple) and popping out for interviews once every few years. 

 

I don't think she will ever retire from music but this record is definitely a turning point for her. I'm excited to see the story she paints in BB and hoping it all comes together. 

And maybe this is just me dwelling too much on the fact that I won't get a "Lana Del Rey posted" push notification for the foreseeable future 

Love this. Adding to what you've shared, since she said Arcadia is about "what happened" the lyrics "They built me up three hundred feet tall just to tear me down, So I'm leavin' with nothing but laughter, and this town" make me feel like leaving social media is part of that story. So we've got two parts of the story... I'm interested in the "what it's like now" part i.e the end of the album. Perhaps when the album comes out, the final songs will be her way of telling us where she is at and her leaving social will be clearer. 

I was not hyped until Arcadia and now I can't stop listening to it and thinking about the album. And I don't know why but the outro verse makes me cry, you can really feel her there

what a fun time to be a fan 

So it feels like just yesterday we were doing our COCC countdown and now we're already at 263 pages for RCS. I love us

She wastes no time stringing us along right away, and I take the bait every time. String us along queen 

I really didn't like it last night and then today it started to make sense in the most beautiful way - like how sometimes you look in hindsight at your life and at the time found things unusual, challenging or even banal, but then realised how much you were living.

I listened to it and I don't love it, but I like it. Will give it more listens. I just feel like when I heard MAC or VB, it felt much more dynamic and nuanced, but this feels more straight up which I don't mind but it's not exciting for me.

I love how she tends from kind-of to super ironic at times, while also being true to character at the same time  And then the actual subject matter of her answers are so nuanced and/or abrupt to me which makes them even more interesting

Are these extra pictures real? I found them on Twitter

hi guys, I'm so excited, but what's happening?

37 minutes ago, RormanNockwell said:

Yeah she lifted the first pic that comes up in Google and put a filter on it. 

I don't know if she's trying to acknowledge shit so she doesn't look ignorant, or if it's deeper and the apparent sudden obsession with environmental catastrophes will be an underlying theme on COCC. Possibly she's going for like apocalyptic themes as a follow-on from the death-of-the-culture themes in songs like The Greatest. 

She's a weird sis so idk, though

I remember she randomly posted so many videos of burning forests and fires pre-NFR and then it was one of the central motifs of NFR. She's SO random though that you can never tell with her 

I want a modern video and slow dreamy trappy song about coked-up old money rich bitches sipping magnum champagne at a country club gossiping about conspiracy theories with it being stylised so glamorously that it starts to ebb and flow indistinctively into satire and irony and then back...

We are completely in the dark ... this feels ... normal 

After NFR, I just really want something more ... aggressive 

well, it all halted with a screech so suddenly but not surprisingly lol

do we have a hq version of the album cover taller poster version?

guys... i might need time. I just might. but right now....i don’t really like california

all of my favourite lana songs, I hated on first listen

Seriously hoping the version of HTD we get on Friday will be different

I love every song, except I just can't get into HTD, 

1 minute <3

Is the chick who leaked it actually in jail???

please DON'T PM me the link!!!!

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