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note: the album stitches very well.  the lyrics talk to each other (even the unreleseads) and the rhythms are very well connected.  dont be afraid

sweet carolina vibes maybe?
 

Now listen to me... she is not lazy... every song that she chose to put on this album its somehow a important part of her life. Living Legend is the song she wrote for a friend. Color Blue is one of the last songs she wrote to Barrie (her biggest relationship so far) cherry blossom is one of the very first songs she ever wrote. Thunder is a fan favorite since the day it leaked. And dealer fits well with her past of drugs. She is smart.
 
 

people still complaining about leaked songs that were never meant to be heard are now on an official album PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 

She scrapped a lot of newly written songs for this album, I don’t think she chose to include these unreleased to fill the gaps. If she really wanted to, she could’ve chosen some of the new songs she had written, or she could’ve just released a shorter album like Chemtrails

Lana could have released an 11-track album if she had wanted to. Living Legend was written for a motherly figure; Cherry Blossom is a lullaby to an unborn child. Thematically both songs are connected to the darkness of Wildflower Wildfire and could also be connected to the potential sweetness (sisterly/familial love?) of Sweet Carolina. I don't see how they're out of place. And I certainly wouldn't jump into conclusions about the "cohesiveness" of the album until I get the chance to listen to the entire album in sequence and fill in the gaps. 
 
 

We're officially only one month away....it's been a long, hard road, but we're almost there 

i can't believe we're getting LIVING LEGEND THUNDER CHERRY BLOSSOM AND NECTAR OF THE GODS (COLOR BLUE)  

THANK YOU! 
 
That's an actual unpopular opinion.
 
I know people will go to length to say that the AKA version is superior (even though it's great). The Paradise version of Yayo is the best. It's eerie and hauntingly beautiful.

Yayo Paradise is definitely the best version of the song we have and here's why:
 
Okay so I know many people don't favour this one, however, I feel Lana really captures the ethereal essence of the meaning of the song as well as the sound. Her voice is mimicking the lyrics "You are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night" - The Paradise vocals truly capture the sound of Lana's reverbed vocals being in that yellow lit tunnel. Her voice is travelling all the way through that long tunnel and out the other end, hence why her enunciation is slow, unclear and reverberating on the Paradise version. This is quite clever, and although it may not have been planned, it certainly adds to the realistic charm of the song and the melancholic feel Lana is going for. Her wailing vocals are mimicking cries. They raise harshly ever so slightly, almost in a wailing manner (such as the way she sings "ink bluuuuue" and "you have to take me riggghhht now"), and then softly descend into a quiet tone on the end of each sentence. You hear that pain in her voice, but the pain is subtle. It's modest.
 
The piano is gentle, sweet, and reminiscent of 1960's romance scene. It's simplistic yet tastefully different. There's not an awful lot of complexity, but it's just enough to pull you in like a silk rope and make you melt into a sea of feathers. It has a girlish charm to it, and the music box/xylophone instrument that harmonize with the piano adds to this quality. That's something the AKA version lacks in my personal opinion. 
 
Why people say the Paradise version is overproduced, I'll never know. The instruments and vocals are rich and clear, but that doesn't equate to overproduction. This is a very important thing to remember when evaluating music, and I feel like people get this mixed up far too much.
 
This isn't to say the AKA version is bad, but to me it's just a more rugged/dirtier version of the song. It has nice synths and strings (which make it feel full and grand without being overly pretentious), and the echo of her singing "dark niiiggght" is an amazing touch, but personally Paradise Yayo will always come out on top for the reasons above. 
 
Above all, I don't like the compare AKA and Paradise Yayo too much. They're both great songs in their own right, however given the meaning behind the song, I feel like the Paradise production does it more justice and goes wonderfully on the Paradise EP. 

Cruel World is one of my favorite songs not just by Lana but of all time ?

I think about it a lot too and try to figure out what it is that’s so perfect about it to me.
 
I saw her live during the endless summer tour and she opened with it so that’s a huge part of it for me ? I struggled with drug use while living with a boyfriend who used during the years following the concert so then the lyrics had a whole new meaning. It will always stand out in her discography for me, I agree about never getting over it. 

That's so lucky you got to see that live on the endless summer tour! Aka, her best. And omg I hope you're in a much better place now ♡

I think about it a lot too and try to figure out what it is that’s so perfect about it to me.
 
I saw her live during the endless summer tour and she opened with it so that’s a huge part of it for me ? I struggled with drug use while living with a boyfriend who used during the years following the concert so then the lyrics had a whole new meaning. It will always stand out in her discography for me, I agree about never getting over it. 

Me too! And I've thought about why, many times. When UV was released, my first experience listening to the full album of course started with CW and I was so shook. It was so raw and the energy was angry, crazy, chill, despairing and carefree, emotions I cycled through over and over that year too. The length also really lets me sink into it and get lost. I swear I will never really get over it. 

roses bloom for you, plus an assortment of outtakes from honeymoon, ultraviolence, and NFR. i would also love to hear any of the early versions of NFR (the song) if they exist, bc i loved that little bit jack and lana tried to remember during the livestream. if there's anything else around from whenever i talk to jesus was recorded i'd love to hear that, and tbh also whatever other early demos there are for LFL songs (a heroin demo would be dreamy). i love the demos for LFL the song and beautiful people and it'd be cool to see if/how other songs on LFL changed when lana decided to try and make the record's outlook a little brighter. this is a very long answer and not a list at all but so it goes 
edit: i would also die to hear more concept demos (i love valley of the dolls) and her voicenotes from when she records vocal ideas for songs (this would never happen but still, can dream)
 

I love how specific this thread title is, just saying
 
Honestly I'd want something completely new. Not leaked new material, but something raw that the leakers don't even know about, and preferably from 2013-2016, her best lyrical era. Thinking more deep and shocking tracks like beautiful people, wild on you, etc.

Mine
 
1. Unidentified Flying Bill
2. Wild One
3. Ice Cream (Salvatore Demo)
4. Say Yes To Heaven (Honeymoon Version)
5. Crazy for You

I don't know if this has been discussed before but has anyone noticed the similarities between Change and Yosemite? I feel like Yosemite is where she was trying to get to in Change
Change has lyrics about the wind blowing and it's strong and "on the wings of a bomb" and basically she is very vulnerable, and then in Yosemite she sings that she is no longer a candle in the wind. It's like Change is all about instability and uncertainty and thinking she needs to change. And then Yosemite is the opposite - it's about stability and accepting that some things are outside of her control and can't be changed and/or don't need to change, and that the past is the past, etc.
I can also a hear a similarity in the way she sings "it's blowin' in softly" and "like I was before" but maybe I'm reaching
And to me this all makes sense because she said she didn't put Yosemite on LFL because she wasn't at that place yet
Idk if any of this makes sense because I don't have time rn to word it better than that, but yeah

I know that you were just kidding but it got me thinking about how much we need proper bridges on this album. None of the 4 songs we have so far have the classical verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus structure. They all kinda stop after the second chorus and a somewhat short outro. Mostly, this has been the case since Norman Fucking Rockwell, except for songs like Dance Till We Die or Not All Who Wander Are Lost, but even for the songs on Chemtrails which do have a bridge, it usually has the same chords, or even the same lyrics and/or melody as the verses, which used not to be the case up until Lust For Life. So I'm hoping that listening back to her older unreleased songs made her realize how cool having proper bridges is, and how she needs to bring them back I mean the bridge is arguably the best part of most of her older songs

Cruel World is one of my favorite songs not just by Lana but of all time ?

Cruel World is one of my favorite songs not just by Lana but of all time ?

lustforlife is Ben pretending to be french

starting to get your lies mixed up eh 

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