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Someone DM’d me on Instagram saying they thought they heard Lana soundchecking Florida Kilos at one of the other shows (maybe Dallas?) so if that’s true, then it seems like she’s been practicing it to play at the Florida shows! She’s always played that song when she’s in Florida for previous shows, so I could definitely see it happening tonight x

Zella just posted an Instagram story with Florida Kilos as the overlay song, hope it means what we’re hoping it means and not just her picking the song because of the location

she HAS to sing florida kilos idc

All the Colombians like

The genuine care that a mega famous artist has to have to not only recognise fans with mutual follows online but also usernames and then go out of her way after the meeting to find your page, DM you and then talk about it on stage the next day is so wonderful. What a woman, so happy for you Elle 

The fact that Zella just posted FK on her insta story 

yeah florida kilos is alive and breathing 

OMG THE FUCKING SERVE 
She looks so beautiful , it's also reminding me of the Honeymoon era
 

this is so 2015 coded

people saying this gives the same as when people say “all lana songs sound the same” 

we could see the kil0s and the keys baby ohh yea

i got something for ya 

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Probably both. She said recently she loves Marilyn as a person not only as an icon and old movie star so I guess it's the aesthetic but also everything surrounding that era and all the different lives those artists had.

I think it could be both. In her video for "candy necklace" the allusion is direct; as if it were a metamorphosis of the endangered American woman who does not end up flourishing, due to the dark side of the American dream. Basically, ending up dead. 

basically the whole lana discography... 

'Americana' as a music term or category is not a subject or theme, predominantly, it's a sound, using traditional instruments like fiddles, banjos, dulcimers, mandolins, acoustic guitars, harmonicas, etc. while drawing inspiration from 19th century American music like ragtime, Dixieland, and early 'country music' like the Carter Family and Bascom Lamar Lunsford. I would expect Lana to do something like Brandi Carlile, the Secret Sisters, early Parker Millsap and early Rayland Baxter, J. R. Jones, the Brothers Comatose, Ben Morrison as a solo act, Anderson East, early Dylan LeBlanc, Frankie Lee, and the California Honeydrops. All of these artists go in and out of 'Americana, largely because Americana doesn't sell and so they try popularizing their sound, and, in my opinion, usually fail at this. They make their money and career touring, unless, like Carlile, they do become popular successes. Almost all of these artists have tried to go beyond their sound and totally shot themselves in the foot. Rayland Baxter and Anderson East are the exceptions (though Baxter's 3rd album was horrible). 
 
'Americana' broadly used as a term means nostalgic 'symbols' of America past, like gas stations, doo-wop, Elvis, car washes, push-up bras, young men hanging out on the corner, argyle socks, bowling, Route 66, classic cars, family road trips, poodle skirts, Mount Rushmore, the Mississippi River, bootleg whiskey, the Everly Brothers, Walt Disney, riverboats, beehive hairdos, the Depression and the Dust Bowl, flappers and the Roaring 20s, suffragettes, the 50s suburbs, diners, "Where hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day," cotton candy, the Twist, "I found may thrill on blueberry hill," Stuckeys, cowboys, covered wagons, famous candies like wax lips, hula-hoops, folk art paintings, jug bands, famous carnival rides, etc. Lana clearly understands all of that! I'd love to hear her do Chuck Barry's 'Back in the USA.' 
 
We have to keep in mind that Lana said she thought of 'Ride' as a country song or potential country song, so that might be a clue. 

Since we're talking again about Lana making a country album, I remembered when Pitchfork mentioned Lana in the review of Orville Peck's "Show Pony."
 
"He shares a similar comportment with Lana Del Rey, another artist who speeds forward, casting glances at what she’s left in her wake. The spare guitar ballad “No Glory in the West” harkens to Del Rey’s obsession with waning grandeur and the frail seams of American mythology. “Ridin’ past the best/And there’s still no rest,” Peck laments".
 
If you told me that No Glory in the West was written by Lana Del Rey I would believe it. I must also say that it is my favorite Orville Peck song. 
 
 

I've wanted a christmas EP for YEARS... I would stream tf out of that I love christmas jams

Super super super happy for you, Elle and your friend! You deserved this! It's so sweet reading stories like these! I also loved how you described the emotion as "neon squiggles & fireworks", that was perfectly said!
We love you, our cute Princess!

Elle your encounter made me teary-eyed I'm so happy for you <33
It seems that our favorite artist is a really good and kind person in real life , something you can't really say about all artists 
 
Also them mentioning Greece was so random , still waiting for her to perform here