Jeanne Dielman

I wonder what Neil meant by "drop some new work next week". Could he mean there's still more from the photoshoot? Cause they released a lot of stuff... 5 covers each with even more different pictures associated and the 2 single pictures 
"Some new work" could just mean the Lana stuff as a whole since he works with other artists and also does his own thing but I like to dream 
 
I still think there's more to it... I find the 2 pictures from the single suspicious. Maybe they filmed a MV (or visuals for another song) or maybe it's just from a scrapped album photoshoot (even tho from Neil's words it seems like they were really determined to do the room photoshoot with the one take thing and all that...)

I just wanted to share with you all a really formative & impactful moment I had tonight with the title track from this record.
My wifey and I went out to our favourite bar that we frequent tonight until it closed at 3am, but we were still trying to keep the night going, so we hit up a friend of ours who works security at clubs to see where he was at tonight to let us in. He ordered us an Uber to meet him at his club for the night, and about 10 minutes into the drive while we were on the highway, there was a terrible accident a few cars ahead of us. We were stuck sitting there behind it as police cars and ambulances piled through, so my girl & I started chatting with the Uber driver about random stuff to pass time. I brought up Lana somehow (as I tend to do in every conversation) and the driver was like “Lana Del Rey? She’s so cool!” So ofc I asked him if he had heard her latest single yet and he said he hadn’t, so naturally, I played it on his aux & sang along to every word. Afterwards he said, “she killed that!” so I played a couple more of my favourite meaningful Lana songs for him such as Hope, California, 13 Beaches, Heroin, etc. The minutes kept passing and we began to sober up, and all of Lana’s lyricism got us in the mood to have some really deep conversations. The three of us ended up being stuck in that same spot on the road for nearly two hours as the accident was being dealt with, and during that time the three of us all talked together about the most intimate details of ourselves - our beliefs in afterlives/reincarnation, hopes & plans for the future, hallucinatory experiences, insecurities, darkest moments in our lives, happiest times, inner passions, family history, etc etc. Finally after almost two hours of no movement on that road, they eventually opened the lanes to get everyone off the road so they could close the entire highway, but by that time it was 4:45am and we decided to just head home instead of going to the club that would be closing in 15 minutes anyway. As we were only a couple minutes from our residence, I was like, “you know what, this calls for a full circle moment” and I played Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd once again. As we drove home in the final moments after all that we had just spoken about together, the three of us all sang along, even our driver to the chorus, us all shouting “DON’T FORGET ME” like it was the most important sentence we would ever say, hands in the air full on gospel-style (with our driver still keeping one hand on the wheel of course), as we reflected and relished in the final moments of the special time the three of us as two lovers and a stranger had just shared together. As the song began to fade out, he pulled into the driveway. We all exchanged hugs, and I told him that I would never forget him - and I meant it. He said he’ll always think of us when he listens to that song now, and I absolutely will always think of him & this moment too.
Who knew that a two-hour traffic jam in the middle of the highway on the way to a club on a Saturday night would lead to one of the most meaningful and memorable experiences I had this year, perhaps even in all my years. I’ll never forget this moment - or our driver John, shout-out to him.
I can’t wait for other memorable moments that I’m yet to experience with other tracks from the record, as there’s so many songs across Lana’s discography that I have such special ties too. However, this one is marking near the top of my list.
Anyway, it’s 7:30am now so I’m getting ready to go off to sleep. See you all tomorrow. Love u xx

The way she sings “but I can’t”, gently, exhausted, almost with a forced half-smile. Like she knows better, deeper, than the man who is telling her she can thrive - and maybe she does. Her gift is thriving though.

for me its those strings at (3:12) after the "but I cant"  she seems so upset but something in the background keeps pushing her, I really wasnt expecting this song to hit me this hard I cant stop listening to it!!!

The last time she sings " Open me up , tell me you like it, fuck me to death,  love me until I love myself " (3:27-3:37) with those harmonies,  I could listen to that forever and ever and ever 
This really became one of my fave Lana songs in such a short time
The intro feels like standing at the sea, you can feel a soft breeze on your skin & hair and you take a deep breath. The outro is like a big wave pulling you into ocean. Amazing 

Updated unfiltered Spotify streams:
 
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Day 1: 1,433,900
Day 2: 2,249,393
Day 3: 1,718,11
TOTAL: 5,401,404
 

Lovely quiz!
 
LMAO, I got The Well of Thought as well. 

Updated unfiltered Spotify streams:
 
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Day 1: 1,433,900
Day 2: 2,249,393
Day 3: 1,718,11
TOTAL: 5,401,404
 

Updated unfiltered Spotify streams:
 
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Day 1: 1,433,900
Day 2: 2,249,393
Day 3: 1,718,11
TOTAL: 5,401,404
 

Updated unfiltered Spotify streams:
 
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Day 1: 1,433,900
Day 2: 2,249,393
Day 3: 1,718,11
TOTAL: 5,401,404
 

Updated unfiltered Spotify streams:
 
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Day 1: 1,433,900
Day 2: 2,249,393
Day 3: 1,718,11
TOTAL: 5,401,404
 

I want to say this track is an experience. Its so beautiful and is magical. The melancholy vibe, her stellar vocals (god i missed her lower register) feels like a return to her older albums. Her tone is absolutely gorgeous and the backup singers added so much to the already heavenly song.
It can be featured on any vintage sad gay movie.
 
The Neil comment suggested that the album feels like the sea? The DNC was a wave logo too.
Tbh the track does feel like you're walking into the ocean and voluntarily drowning yourself as the waves crash down.

i cannot imagine blue banisters and chemtrails combined as one album, they’re polar opposites for me in my opinion  where chemtrails is light and airy and sunny and pastel, BB is dark and heavy and humid and stormy. i feel like what makes these albums work on their own is their cohesion—if you take that away, they don’t have much else going for them. even if you took the best songs from both and put them together, i think the messiness of it would actually result in a worse album than either of them are right now 

I just noticed Sweet is marked as explicit 

i wonder why her team/label push the ocean thing so much like what does it mean nnn 
 
 
 

i am really, really, really enamoured with the title track and my god i’m relieved to be saying that. honestly no shade to the last two eras at all (well maybe some slight shade to COCC since that’s my least fav album lol) because i really really liked blue banisters but i did have this secret worry that i was gonna listen to the title track, like it just fine enough but then never really have a desire to go back to it because it just blended into all the lana music that came out in the past 2ish years and it just didn’t hit the spot but that’s not the case, there is some real undeniable magic to the track and i find myself thinking about it a lot  although it’s in the same vein as something from BB, it’s such a well crafted song that it doesn’t feel homogenised or samey to me. the instrumentation, the INCREDIBLE back up singers (i wish i could personally write to each one of those ladies and thank them for the way they absolutely elevated this track, because WOW, wow wow wow, wowowowow, WOW), the lyrics that seem to reveal more and more of their meaning with each listen, the ups and downs in lana’s voice, the addictive catchiness of “when’s it gonna be my turn? don’t forget me!”, how it starts off with a relaxed exhale but ends up as this gorgeous singalong…. i really love it, it sparks something inside me similar to what The Greatest does. i have such high hopes for this record now, i really really do 

Updated unfiltered Spotify streams:
 
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Day 1: 1,433,900
Day 2: 2,249,393
Day 3: 1,718,11
TOTAL: 5,401,404
 

Hmmm...BOZ said that the song is not what we expect at all, used the quotation marks when he mentioned the "collaboration", and also said that he wants to listen to it more before he writes about it. I guess this might be one of the unconventional tracks of the album or/and Tommy's contribution must be quite unexpected. 
 
 
 
 

Updated unfiltered Spotify streams:
 
Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Day 1: 1,433,900
Day 2: 2,249,393
Day 3: 1,718,11
TOTAL: 5,401,404
 

She needed to get Chemtrails and Blue Banisters out of her system. I'm glad that she did, because I really do love those records, but I'm SO excited for what's to come.

lana actually does reference an unreleased song in ocean boulevard; "love me to death" from because of you 

AGREED! i haven’t been this excited about a lana era since nfr. i feel like she’s really excited about this record as well which is amazing. she seems fully confident in the music and the direction it’s going in. 

Also, it’s astounding to think that if you told me, 1 year ago, Lana was going to announce an album with 16 brand new songs, an incredibly cohesive and alluring artwork supporting it and a roster of disparaging features ranging from Tommy Genesis to Jon Batiste, I would have probably laughed.
 
I adore Chemtrails and really respect/like Blue Banisters but this rollout is indicative there’s something lying beneath the surface this time around. For Lana to be displaying such secrecy and restraint around this project while announcing a project so devoid of histrionics that also manages to appear to be a very beast of their own, like an era with a purpose… wow. As much as I like and/or love her last two eras, the differences between those and this one are very noticeable. I feel there’s something truly great coming.

The day BOZ stops speaking in Riddles and just says what things are is the day that there is peace on earth