Jeanne Dielman

I know my fellow homosexuals are loving and feeling their oats because Lana is claiming her whore status. We love that but can we talk about the personal lyrics, critique on the rape culture? She is being so direct and is holding nothing back. I love that! 
 
I've always thought whether Lana was ever interested or not in feminism (we know she is a feminist) her music, her art has always had this STRONG feminist core i.e. A WOMAN DOING WHATEVER THE FUCK SHE WANTS. Like Sweet Caroline? Like beautiful a song about postnatal depression that MANY women go through but it's not talked about??? Who even does that?? She never needed a label because she embodies feminism. Always has.  A&W is so direct and she is leaving nothing to the imagination. I love how the chorus before the switch up happens there's an adlib that goes like "oh, okay" right after she says "American Whore" as if she's looking herself in the mirror and is being like "it's time to be a bad bitch". All the other times, it feels like a sad satire but eventually she found power in it and claims it. Then it turns into this psychedelic trap song LIKE DAMN, Mother is mothering yet again. 
 
She maybe soft but she is powerful! I meannn she's around after all these years! 

A&W and the title track tie into each other so well lyrically. I'm really feeling out a set story/thematic journey for this album just based on these two tracks (as well as some of what Lana talked about in the Interview interview) 

You know I got you! Love reading everything you write tbh 
 
The more I listen to A&W the more cemented is the idea that this will be another big moment for her. A big, brash, sprawling record dealing with love, body image, death, family, sex (addiction), harsh treatment by the media, etc… The critics and fans will both eat it up. She’s clearly very passionate about this one in a way she hasn’t been since NFR only this time she’s going full on therapy session (or quoting her… “effortless straight vibing”.
 
I’m also less worried about cohesion as I once was. I think I can already assume some of the sonic connections between songs:
 
- A&W + Peppers + Fishtails
- Kintsugi + Grandfather + Fingertips
 
Not to mention The Grants won’t probably be that drastically different from the title track, Sweet or Paris, Texas… And then there’s Taco Truck x VB at the end tying it all together.
 
I know I’m over my head but oh…
This is the experience of being a LDR whore.

As a literature grad student, I approve this message. A&W is her The Sound and the Fury. 

The more I listen to A&W, the more unsettling and dark it gets imo. 
 
I've been trying to get into William Faulkner and Lana's "new" writing style reminds me of him a lot - this American gothic thing, complex structures, stream of consciousness - it makes me uncomfortable but I can't stop listening/reading/trying to understand them  Lana is out there writing literary fiction, it's going to get harder and harder for the alleged insiders to come up with fake lyrics

I CAN[T WAIT. A&W is so unique and dainty and depressing and uplifting (the various parts and all their different moods) and I can't really say I've heard that sound done before in the same way, sort of like how I've felt with countless other Lana songs which paved the way for modern singers today. I also love that she hasn't cared for a long time now about things like socials or critics so I hope she truly went off in whichever creative way she wanted. I know all the songs are finished so I'm especially thrilled that there won't be (knock on wood... ) a million delays 
 

 
Also, no??? It will forever be about A&W to me before each listen 🔥

I really am in awe of this song, there is such a sinister edge to it that's just incredible 

In my opinion, having no music videos would add another cool dimension to this era. Truly like the album is her diary and the lyrics speak for themselves.

I doubt it but is it just me that like…doesn’t care if we don’t get any? 
 
music videos are kind of a dead format. it’s not worth the expense probably to do big production videos like COCC with how low YT views are for videos anymore. 
 
If she wants to film something cute that costs 0 dollars with her family or something, cool, but if not I’m not going to be mad. 

I think we'll get a single a week before the album. Do I want another single? Not really. But it's very clear their strategy this album is to just let the music speak for itself.

I didn't think Lana would top the melody of Cocc title track but A&W really does it tenfold 
 
"I say i live in Rosemead, really I live at Ramada. It doesn't really matter, doesn't really really matter" just sends me straight to the moon every time

holy shit did you hear the hidden male vocals in the dolby atmos stems? i wonder if they're from the guy that had vocal credits

I feel like you can better hear the instrumental details in A&W with Dolby Atmos enabled but her vocals are a bit more lost in the mix. Definitely worth listening to it at least once with Dolby Atmos enabled.

Our queen mumbling lyrics so she can be trending on lyrics sites

I feel like we're going to slowly but surely shed the darkness and heal as the album goes on and by the time we reach the Taco Truck we'll be in pure bliss 

Exactly. Not to get too personal but as someone who’s experienced addiction & abusive relationships that second part of the song strikes me as exactly this. It’s haunting and nostalgic to me. When you’re in those situations you’re experiencing what feels like the worst moments of your life (they are) while simultaneously feeling like you’re experiencing some of the best and most intimate moments of your life (that part is all an illusion) 
this 7 minute track absolutely needed to be together this way imo. They both wouldnt hit the right way without the other. 

Damn, they just love to make shit up 
 

1. Candy Necklace
2. Kintsugi
3. Let The Light In
4. Fingertips
5. The Grants 
6. Taco Truck
7. Margaret
8. Grandfather 
9. Sweet
10. Peppers 
11. Fishtail 
12. Paris, Texas
13. Jon Batiste Interlude 

Every reaction video I've watched they define the song as "WILD"

A&W still n1 on genius chart! https://genius.com/Lana-del-rey-a-w-lyrics

1. Grandfather Please Stand On The Shoulders Of My Father While He's Deep Sea Fishing 
2. Fingertips 
3. Candy Necklace 
4. Fishtail 
5. Kintsugi 
6. Taco Truck × VB 
7. Let The Light In 
8. The Grants
9. Peppers 
10. Paris, Texas 
11. Sweet 
12. Judah Smith Interlude 
13. Margaret 
14. Jon Batiste Interlude 
 
It already felt so wrong putting some songs lower on that list, so excited for the whole album 
 

Her vocals at the end are hilarious  So many hidden details.

Yeah, here we go:
 

the dolby atmos stems are so good especially towards the end

I'm excited for the whole album of course but I'm most looking forward to
The Grants
Fingertips
Kintsugi 
Grandfather 
 
I want the strings and piano to eviscerate me