grandpas glass

It's interesting that she sampled NFR where she was singing  You fucked me so good that I almost said I love you
and now it's not about having someone to love me anymore  
I think I see what you did Lana

I should be fired for how much I've listened to A&W this week instead of working 

A&W really is her full circle moment huh
it's the standing up and doing sad twerking especially

Hi all, just want to add a vote for "Jimmy shimmy cocoa puff". I strongly believe Lana is referencing the song "Country Grammar" by Nelly but switching the word "Shimmy" for "Jimmy" (and/or ambiguously switching between the two words). I can completely imagine Lana having had exposure to this song at a formative period in her life (it was released in 2000). As you can see, "Country Grammar" also includes the line "light it up" which appears in A&W as well. The rhythm/melody is quite similar as well.

"Country Grammar" Lyrics:
Shimmy, shimmy cocoa, what? Listen to it pound
Light it up and take a puff, pass it to me now
 
*Note: I realize that Nelly's song is likely a reference to the older "Shimmy Shimmy Kokobop" but I think she probably had the Nelly version in mind.
 
 

God's a charlatan, don't look at me
 
directly before the pastor interlude  (Assuming the lyrics are correct on Genius)

Interview confirmed they will restock the issue on their website next week. It’ll also be hitting stands tomorrow the 17th x

Psycho Lifeguard would be such a good Lana song I just know it 
 
Maybe it's Taco Truck 

I wonder if those are lyrics from different songs or full song titles that were at one point in the tracklist 
Like:
(Pearl) Watch Me
Ring a Bell
Psycho Lifeguard 
They all look like Lana titles to me but it would be weird to scrap them if at one point they were part of the album title 

same! the acoustic guitars in the first half really remind me of kurt cobain's acoustic demos
 
 
 

And even if hope is stripped down it’s a masterpiece, so fuck these people. NFR is a timeless album, just like BTD is. 

I really disagree with anyone who thinks NFR is a bad album If it's not your taste that's one thing, but it is not "watered down lana" it is so quintessential Lana and there is a reason it's so critically acclaimed and loved by the public... it's her second Born to Die, you can already see the influence it's had on pop music by a lot of (failed) replicas of the introspective nature and more grounded sense of production on the album... and i really wouldn't call any of the songs stripped down on it besides Bartender and Hope. It's her masterpiece imo

summarized: confirmation that a&w is a lyrical masterpiece

summarized: confirmation that a&w is a lyrical masterpiece

For anyone who’s interested here’s a 37 minute video about A&W. 
 
 

instead of
"Then we go **** on the hotel floor"
I still hear
"Ended up we fuck on the hotel floor"

fuckin' jimmy...

i know some have speculated that "jimmy" is referring to herself, but i'm speculating that "jimmy" could possible be alcohol? there's many theories about what the track "ultraviolence" is about (the theory that it is about the source family cult is my favorite) some have speculated that ultraviolence is about alcohol, in fact, somebody that lana knew personally even said it themselves that the "jim" she mentions in her songs is alcohol (also there's a chance she actually met him way before 2014 because he was friends with reeve carney, somebody who also knew lana in 2007, the song jimmy gnecco from 2007... etc.)

 
it's possible that A&W is primarily about her youth, and as we all know, she suffered from alcoholism when she was a teenager which resulted in her being put into a boarding school, and i think it's easy to assume now that being put into this boarding school was probably a very negative experience for her
 
"jimmy only love me when he wanna get high" could reflect the idea that drinking was only fun/enjoyable when it was something done with other people, or for the purpose of escapism, similar to somebody getting high, drinking only "benefitted" her when it was a way to have fun or to escape, this really reminds me of "get drunk" some of the lyrics share this concept of alcohol being something enjoyable even if it's obvious that it's very destructive "it's gonna be a ball" "this time it will be fun"
 
"your mom called, i told her, you're fucking up big time" as a young teen, drinking was obviously a bad choice, especially since she got addicted to it, she's saying this as if it's somebody else who's aware she's addicted to alcohol and that she's messing up herself and her life
 
"jimmy, if you leave the house, find me in the club" obviously, a club would be a place where somebody would drink alcohol, especially socially and as a way to have fun and let loose
 
the second part of the song is a lot more energetic compared to the first part, but there's still a lot of sketchiness underlying the beats and lana's catchy delivery, because even if she's taking about love, light, getting high, it's not out of a place of having pure, delightful fun, or feeling content inside, it's coming from a place of pain and self-destruction, it's almost as if all of the events or feelings she described in the first half resulted in her addiction(s), which would lead into the following years of her life and career

After listening to A&W over and over since it came out I still can't get over how dark this song is. It's truly chilling.
 
Also this puts the title track on a whole different perspective and really makes me understand what Lana meant when she said this album had no room for colour. It's VERY black, grey and white. 
 
As a long time fan (a decade...) it still feels unreal that we're getting closer and closer to her family/personal history this many years in. For God's sake, the intro to this album is titled "The Grants". And as someone said earlier in this thread, it feels like while Chemtrails was mostly leftovers tracks, the clear standout from that album "White Dress" is very much telling of this new direction in songwriting Lana had been tapping into. With Blue Banisters, I think she was just beggining to see the full potential of this new style and a lot of the new songs on that record seem superficial to me.  
 
Now, with this new album it really feels like we're going DEEP. And it's dark as hell, man.

A&W and DYK are hotter sister's of BBS and IYLDWM. Don't get me wrong, all of them are hot but the newest one are just IT

LOL honestly bestie I couldn’t agree less with your opinion on the track but this comeback genuinely made me laugh sjdbdjfbfd A&W is honestly a grower and a shower and I keep coming back for more

Ppl can observe /bring up the obvious similarities btwn various productions while still also liking n appreciating the song, no? 

the „i don‘t care if she‘s successful“ girlies have been really quite lately

A&W is giving nina sayers omg

I was talking about this ATRL thread https://atrl.net/forums/topic/430421-jack-antonoff-caught-recycling-sounds-again/

To add to what others said, she's also not that US centered so even though she has good streams, not even half of them count for Billboard