grandpas glass

fucking billboard listed GUTS and the record (two of the most overrated projects of the year) as #1 and #2 again and OB is back to #2 on the aggregated list 

This album is incredible for rainy days. It's been raining nonstop since yesterday and I'm obsessed with it.

OB is back to #1 on AOTY

They added the Record Collector List? Took them long enough

The music industry is such a joke I keep getting mad at random moments. Just let Lana win.

I had a dream last night that Lana announced her second poetry book in an Instagram post. She wrote that instead of attempting to rewrite the drafts from Iron Gates, she started from scratch and wrote an entire new book while she was on tour over the summer. She noted certain cities & states that fueled a lot of inspiration for her including Alabama, Burgettstown PA, Charleston WV, Charlotte NC, Columbia MD, Dallas TX, and Indiana(?) The caption in total was really long. She also noted that she would try to revisit Iron Gates one day, but was so excited to share her new collection with us as soon as she could. This new book was titled North Star and was being released through an indie Japanese publisher (it started with an U, something like Umaruane) and she put the link to preorder from the publisher’s website in her bio, but the site was all in Japanese. North Star would also have an audiobook edition with accompaniment from Jack Antonoff again. The post featured a video with the audiobook version of the title track of the book set to a visual of different scenery she had taken while travelling on tour with an orangeish vintage noise filter overlay. The poem was reminiscent of the speech she gave at her Dallas show and featured the line “never forget to let passion be your true North Star” from her speech and talked about Icarus as she did in her recent interview. Her voice in the recording was very light and delicate. The instrumental accompaniment was beautiful and similar to those on Violet but more lush.
I then made the pre-release thread for it and member Embach was the first to reply lol. Within seconds, the thread already had multiple pages of everyone freaking out about the release. Some people were also speculating she might tour in Japan soon because of the publisher. Her announcement also gained her 11 million new followers on Instagram skkk.
Anyway, just thought I’d share this dream with you all. I’ve been longing for another new poetry release from Lana, so I’m hoping this dream was a bit of foreshadowing that one comes soon

publications will say ANY random album is a top album or album of the year just because it's popular or trendy... it's hard to ignore them, because they do reflect how our current society/media views and critiques art... so i feel like it would be silly for me to say that we should just ignore them, i feel like we have the right to complain about it, never complaining or having strong opinions results in nothing changing, or at least, nothing being expressed, and i think it's good and even healthy to express our thoughts, opinions, complaints, whatever it may be
 
i honestly feel like nowadays, publications, media outlets, or even just individual people/critics are just afraid of having opinions or being seen as negative or pretentious, but not every album that's popular is great or worthy of being labeled an album of the year

Ok, so I listened to that Javelin album and it's the only one up there that deserves to be in top 5 with Ocean Blvd. It may be my 2nd fave album this year actually. 
It was a very weak year in music though.

https://www.theringer.com/music/2023/12/6/23989332/best-albums-2023-sza-lana-olivia-100-gecs
 
ocean blvd at #2

So I think this question could be perceived in different ways:
How has growing up influenced your view? Are there songs/albums you enjoy less or more than before? How has time based on things such as world events or personal experiences changed those perceptions?   
 
 

I made a playlist of Lana's covers in order, and I've realised it's the perfect way to listen to hear how talented she is throughout her career without selecting songs with bias from her released discography.

it was expensive watch it

it was expensive watch it

https://x.com/spotifylana/status/1732118713992638610?s=46
 
Smash album 
 
margaret almost doing 500k daily  

She would tell me (ideally) to go Hydrangea Lane, go into the China Palace, find my way to the library and look for "Paradise Lost", inside the book is a spell for a beautiful singing voice. 
 
 
 
I'm delusional. I know.

Is This Happiness - Lana Del Rey

I've listened to it at least 5 times today 
now i listen to Driving in cars with boys - Lana Del Rey

PINK CHAMPAGNEEEE

Something is comiiiiiiiing 
https://www.instagram.com/p/C0fEVRnSBVg/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
 
if you dm Alexandra ALEX2024 she’ll reply with “see you tomorrow…”
 
Btw Alexandra started to follow Lana on Instagram recently!! 

she would probably tell me to: get high, drop acid, never die, not tonight... LAKE PLACIDDDD!!!!!!!!
/uj probably something like stay close to the people you love, do what makes you happy, live a fulfilling life 

When I read this, I do so in Lana's voice... 

When you know, you know
So if you don't know, don't give up
'Cause you never know what the new day might bring
Maybe tomorrow you'll know

Stick with the winners
Go where it's warm
Don't go to the hardware store for the bread
Don't date mean people
Run at the sign of anyone who ever yells at you or gets mad at you
Try and just have nice friends
 
Don't give people advice, it's like a sin in the bible
https://www.tiktok.com/@henryork/video/7266971912075578629

(I miss her live chats)