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i personally hope she never collabs with billie or olivia  

hating fishtail is ugly and virgin behavior if u a fishtail hater i have bad news for you

Fashionably late in answering this but this is an interesting comment.
 
I do wonder if Lana’s refusal to play the promotional game has led us to believe she’s overall lazy as an artist and incapable to conjure concept albums regardless of whether she promotes them as such or not. In my opinion, Lana as of right now wouldn’t make sure to go out of her way to say this is a concept album the same way most musicians do when they have a concept project in their hands. 
 
This album is clearly narrative-driven and its structure does obey to a certain narrative of getting in and out of a tunnel: The Grants anticipate this moment (“I’m doing the hard stuff, I’m doing my time”) before the title track and Sweet display her own anxieties as she goes further into her memories and past (fear of being forgotten, the anxiety of being in a relationship and wanting to know about its longevity, as she affirms to being someone deserving of that). From A&W forward she gets into the tunnel, to harrowing (A&W), eerie (the interludes), dark (Candy Necklace) and devastating (Kintsugi + Fingertips) effects as she gets more and more lost in the misty forests of her own traumas. From Paris, Texas forward it feels like she’s coming out of the tunnel (“I just needed two seconds to be me”) which culminates in Margaret, a very bittersweet moment where, as some review points, she’s a spectator of joy rather than a receptor. And then the Fishtail/Peppers/Taco Truck coda where she’s finally embracing the recklessness and devil-may-care side of her that so many people (her mother and some past relationships) made her feel bad and inferior about. Ending the album with “signing off bang bang kiss kiss” feels like a major “fuck off, peace out” ride into the sunset. Who knows where she goes from here - at the end of the day, it’s her path to forge and her trauma seems to be left behind.
 
This tracklist feels so meticulous and incredibly deliberate in narrative and musicianship that it kind of feels unfair to discredit it as “non-conceptual” because Lana is too “lazy” to do something like that. Just because she’s not being overly promotional about it, doesn’t mean she’s a lazy artist. The fact that she poured so much of herself in this record and formatted it in such an intriguing and confounding fashion, makes me believe she’s anything but lazy.

the daddy i miss them part followed by the that’s how the light gets in part is one of the most moving moments of her whole discography 

Anyway.
 
I really have to go through every closing song because something about Taco, maybe it's just the damn joy it brings me, it's possibly her best closer. Greatest closer? Didn't say that, but it's so FUN and vibing, it's like a sexy wave goodbye as she sends us back to sea, after spending the day on the rocky, emotional shores of Ocean Blvd.

I KNEW when those songs leaked that this thread would fill with comments about how much better they are than the new record 
 
Well they already leaked go listen to those then 

I personally find it very beautiful when Lana sings about her family. She's not just providing insight into her own world, she's also encouraging us to contemplate those people in our own lives. A lyric like "my grandmother's last smile" is so powerful because how can someone hear it without considering their own grandmother's last smile? "Charlie, stop smoking" doesn't just make me think of Lana's brother, it makes me think of the people I love who are smokers and wish they could cut back too. "Chucky was there for three out of three" makes me think about rushing back to my hometown for my dad's final days. I think people get a lot more out of her lyrics when they find ways to relate them back to their own lives. Lana is a magician and she's very much placing these thoughts in our head for reasons that go beyond her in my opinion, she's just doing it in the way that is most personal and meaningful to her.

The only city in europe

if you want some basic bitch go to the Beverly center and find her 

Hey, let's waltz this out 

already 

We're 2 days away from "Boz Prison Fan Fiction" occurring in this thread if it doesn't leak in HQ in full. 

Telling myself I'm a good stan for not listening to leaks when in actuality I just don't know where to find them 

have to cancel my vinyl and merch orders because i unexpectedly lost my job today. :’( the grants has really been helping me through this difficult day in my life.

“And who knows what else…she will tell you in due time” ????

This comment was like pass the parcel lmao
 
or russian nesting dolls

That would be serious bullshit and would be a genuine insult to her actual fans. 

an opportunity for what? She’s already an international icon. They need her if anything 

big hair 

THE HAIR 

OMFG A REAL OUTFIT

Shout out to Lana's stylist tonight. The dress was perfect and the hair and everything = stunning. 
 
 
 
 

Not Kesha's mom making a LB account...

No, I'm pretty sure they divorced years ago before Lana was releasing music.
I made that all up in my own mind, I just checked and they are still married wtf

None of our business I know but do we know if Rob and Patty are still married? I wonder what he and her siblings think when she talks about her relationship with her mom?