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BECAUSE BECAUSE LANA IS SUPPOSED TO SING ABOUT COCAINE AND DADDIES, DYING YOUNG AND FAST CARS FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE. HAVE BOMBASTIC AND OVERPRODUCED SOUND. AND AND AND ALSO HER COVERS MUST INCLUDE A VEHICLE YOU KNOW HOW HER PAST ALBUMS USED TO? AND ALSO SHE NEEDS TO DITCH JACK ANTONOFF BECAUSE HE DOESN'T MAKE SONGS SOUND BTD OR UV. UGH.

Lost at Sea really came through and ended that trolling furry weeb  it’s a cloudy and misty day by the lake and this song hits the spot 

Lost at Sea really came through and ended that trolling furry weeb  it’s a cloudy and misty day by the lake and this song hits the spot 

Lost at Sea really came through and ended that trolling furry weeb  it’s a cloudy and misty day by the lake and this song hits the spot 

Lost at Sea really came through and ended that trolling furry weeb  it’s a cloudy and misty day by the lake and this song hits the spot 

Lost at Sea really came through and ended that trolling furry weeb  it’s a cloudy and misty day by the lake and this song hits the spot 

Lost at Sea really came through and ended that trolling furry weeb  it’s a cloudy and misty day by the lake and this song hits the spot 

Lost at Sea really came through and ended that trolling furry weeb  it’s a cloudy and misty day by the lake and this song hits the spot 

don't even try to argue they're just here to hate on everything lana does, it's better just to ignore

LOLL you never give up do you 

What is wrong with you?

Violets for Roses is beautiful  the 'aaah ahh ooohh' vocals are cute. I don't get the hate for the masks off lyrics, like weren't you happy that the pandemic was slowly over? 
Tbh I hate when people tell others what to think about this album, like just let us enjoy it 
 

This album is truly the sister to Ocean Blvd and I looove thinking about their bond  Blue Banisters is diurnal, campy and botanical, and I think of it like a scrapbook, like a collage of moments and eras. Ocean Blvd is nocturnal, existential, unpredictable, and more like a long string of thoughts, shifting moods and metaphors. The imagery of her awake in bed in the dark is very evocative of this concept. BB is a restless day, OB is a sleepless night. I love these 2 albums oh my God!!!

lowkey a beautiful stan… it’s so simple but so pretty and makes me romanticize my life. what i love about lana’s newer stuff is that it’s simpler in lyrical form, but not in a bad way. i just feel like she romanticizes the simpler things in life lately. it really does feel relatable, in my opinion. i just love her confessional writing style so much. it’s like she’s an old friend who just tells us stories about her life. idk if this makes sense to anyone else, but

said he’d come back every may, just to help me if i paint my banisters blue
blue banisters, ooh

why I think LDRX will just be an unreleased compilation and LDR11 a reissue of aka lizzy grant 

hello I'm back and I think I'm alive!!! long ass post below, brace yourselves!
 
I just don't know if I have words to describe exactly the roller coaster of emotions that was to be there. it was definitely the most intense experience of my life and a night I'll never forget, I feel so blessed to have witnessed the absolute HERSTORY being made in front of my eyes. 11 long years waiting to finally get the chance to see her live and I feel like it was just worth the wait, nothing could've prepared us for what was about to come and I just feel extremely lucky for that to be my first lana show!
 
as soon as she hit the stage wearing the blonde marilyn/lizzy wig I thought I was gonna pass out. I never screamed so loud in my life. the lizzy stans were not paid dust, we were paid GOLD.
the backing vocalists, the stage design, the whole ass ballet crew, the outfit AND hair change, the choreographies, the interludes, the career visuals on the screen behind her, her vocals!!! truly unbelieavable. all the time I could hear people around me in shock she was serving that much production!!
 
I was nervous about not knowing the setlist beforehand but now I can say I'm glad I didn't, it really was the best thing ever to find it out right there at the time, SO MUCH FUN. she fucking slayed in every way possible. the setlist was random but so iconic I could not believe it. sure it was a bit of a bummer we still had several BTD tracks, no honeymoon and chemtrails tracks and the erasure of west coast and HBTB but honestly she performed fucking FLIPSIDE!!!! I lost my mind. singing "SO YOU THINK YOU'RE IN CHARGE??? DO YOU??? ACTING LIKE A BIG SHOT!!!!" was sOOOOO satisfying after so many years of her ignoring this song completely. I was SUPER excited for DMD and it was better than what I expected it to be, I need that version on streaming!!! the backing vocalists slayed so hard and they looked like angels, especially during bartender!!! just top notch chef's kiss so fucking good
 
but the biggest highlight of it all was lana's attitude. it just made me so happy, sosososo happy to see her the most confident and excited we have ever seen her on stage. I think the 4 years far from the stage was the best thing that could've happened, I don't remember seeing her so happy and eager to perform, she looked she could perform for 3 hours straight if she could. her happiness and love for our country is so genuine and I swear nothing else was more beautiful than seeing that. she looked very emotional a few times and everytime I saw her eyes glowing like she was about to cry I felt like crying too. that being said I cried my ass off during the grants (my mom too omg) and tunnel. it really was just like how imagined it to be, everyone emotional af screaming "LIKE ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIIIIIGHHHH THE WAY JOHN DENVER SINGS" and "DON'T FORGET MEEEEE", a whole ass del rey church mass, amazing.
 
also, seeing a bif of the diversity in this fandom filled my hear with joy. I went with my mom and we ended up meeting so many cool people, people from aaaalllll over the country, people who worked their asses off to travel from far away to see her! like, everyone I talked to did not live here in the city or anywhere close to here. also saw so many daughters with their mothers/fathers too just like me, older siblings with their younger siblings... it was so cute to see, honestly. also, so many goths and metalheads, lana really breaks the barrier, she IS the moment.
 
I can't wait to see what else she'll do during the rest of the tour!!!! I feel like she'll change a few tracks of the setlist, so I'm still hopeful to see tracks like honeymoon being played live, we definitely need it! anything is possible! the sky is the limit!!!

NOOOWW back to this bitch that that's this festival... MITA WHAT'S GOOD??? if it wasn't for everything I've mentioned above, I swear this festival would've delivered me the worst experience. from the get go, as soon as they started to sell tickets, you'll only see people either complaining or dragging them on social media and everyone is right. I hope this joke of a festival will never happen again and I really hope next time lana will come with a solo tour or at least with a festival that will actually respect her and her fans, because the amount of fuckery that was going on with this festival is truly unbelieavable. starting with the unnecessary gigantic VIP section (the existence of this VIP section actually), the big screens that had an awful delay and the audio that was actually so low for a big show like that. not to mention them basically disrespecting the only reason this festival sold out tickets by cutting her set off. overall a cash grab in everything. Music Is The Answer? no, MONEY Is The Answer and I want the owners of this festival to fucking CHOKE on my imaginary dick. lana definitely developed some type of back problems after carrying this whole festival on her back like the true QUEEN that she is.
 
but despite all of the issues, I would do it all over again and I recommend everyone going even if it's in the middle of the chaotic GA. I swear to you nothing gets bigger than the emotion of seeing lana live.
 
the end, thanks for reading!!!!
 

My theory; I think VG was the perfect song to finish on
 
I hate when people diminish Lana’s earlier work to being all about boyfriends and relationships and shit (I mean a lot of it is but it’s not JUST about that). But it is also evident that bfs & relationships are big impacts on her and on what she writes about
 
She’s spoken at length about the process she had of writing Video Games - about a relationship where she’s essentially given up her plans as a writer/singer to live a life of domesticity with her man. A lot of people play it at their weddings and I’ve never known why because it’s beautiful, yeah, but it’s so damn sad. Not just melodically - but the overarching themes break my heart
 
And ofc we all remember the infamous Dublin performance where L broke down singing VG on stage. Singing “it’s only worth living if somebody  is loving you” at a time when felt like she wasn’t - not just in a relationship sense but in terms of fans too, being villianised by the press, being openly suicidal - is beyond heartbreaking to think
 
But now she’s SO much happier and healthier, which is a point she’s stressed repeatedly in interviews and is apparent to see even in candid and fan photos. She told Rolling Stone in March that she has passion for making music (or words to that effect, can’t double check rn) for the first time in a decade. She’s just released an album full of healing 
 
So to me it makes perfect sense to use VG as a closer now. A) it shows full circle how far she’s come from those days when she couldn’t sing it without breaking down and B) with all the self-reflection she’s done on family and friends and so on, the lines don’t HAVE to be about a partner anymore. To me, when she says “it’s you, it’s you, it’s all for you…” she’s saying it to her fans and loved ones, because THEY are the ones she lives for now. And also for herself! I like to think she’s addressing past Lizzy on the stage of Arlene’s Grocery with her lil guitar telling her… this is for you, too, kid.
 
(I haven’t taken my mood stabilisers yet so please excuse me.)
 
So she’s sending her fans back out into the world after her performance telling them… this was for y’all. I think it fits beautifully. 
 
(In the same vein I think Get Free would also work, but VG ties the whole healing shit together better) 
 

FLIPSIDE 😭😭😭

FLIPSIDE 😭😭😭

Flipside was such a lovely surprise and it sounded amazing live!! 
 
The background singers was a nice addition (I could’ve done without the dancers imo) 
 
 
also i got so emo when she was watching her career throughout the years in music videos while the ride monologue was playing 

FLIPSIDE 😭😭😭

I really love the vocal delivery of both of them throughout the song. 
 
taylor sings alone
taylor with lana doing background vocals
lana sings alone
lana with taylor doing the background vocals
 
the rest of the song they are interspersed with each other.
 
beautiful 

taylor's versions are indeed a cash grab but not for the reason y'all are pointing lol. it's a cash grab bc it's cheap and lazy. she ruins all her classics by putting no effort in re-recording it, so the final result is lazy vocals and the cheapest production ever. and yes, it is a LOT of work to re-record all those tracks + unreleased ones and work on new music on top of that, that's why she should take her time and really perfect it. but she doesn't. why? why is she putting this subpar material out there? bc she wants the money. therefore making it a cash grab 

By the time my racer jacket gets here, it’s gonna be too damn hot out to wear it