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These flowers are gorgeous I really hope this is for Lana 
 
I also love the idea of a darker, nighttime aesthetic. It also reminds me of nightshade/flowers that only bloom at night and kind of gives a witchy vibe too 
 
#teamtropico 

Are e really going to move again so soon? 
 
I don’t understand why he teased the flower back in October if the full picture wasn’t even a hint, and didn’t reveal anything…like why the secrecy 

Ok so these are indeed the same image, the newest one being a wider zoom-out. The flowers seem to be against a fence, taken outside (in a backyard, perhaps) at night. I’m wondering if he’s going to slowly zoom out to reveal a nighttime shot of Lana in a fenced garden

sexy jazz is coming i can feel it

Orchids:

 

yeah i'm moving
orchids the flower of the ldrx era yep yep it's true

im in my 'become deranged and obsessed with the sims for a few days every 6 months' phase so im trying to clear out and optimize my laptop as much as possible. and then im gonna redownload sims 4 and try some packs for the first time in a Very Legal Way. i want to try ts3 but i think my laptop would explode, killing me instantly

it’s just so hard to know because even for the other artists he manages, he’ll say new music soon and then it’ll be 6+ months for it to come out. I don’t get why he talks about things so early 

Did y'all see the tweet from ticketmaster?
  
"Insufficient remaining ticket inventory" I wonder how many of the tickets they sold during presale and how many are left.... ooooo this is gonna be bad 

Did y'all see the tweet from ticketmaster?
  
"Insufficient remaining ticket inventory" I wonder how many of the tickets they sold during presale and how many are left.... ooooo this is gonna be bad 

imo Taylor SHOULD definitely say SOMETHING. i know them diehard Swiffers are raging mad rn. 

why is your profile picture not Lizzy? It's throwing me off.
 
OT: Here's a breakdown of Ben's tweets throughout this year

EDIT:
May 18th: 26 weeks ago: Ben posts about W magazine and says "New music in the works"
June 4th: 23 weeks ago: A post about Lana at the Hollywood Bowl and says "new music incoming"
June 5th: 23 weeks ago: Ben comments that an album is coming soon in a comment
June 21st: 21 weeks ago: Ben posts a happy birthday post for lana and doesn't say anything about the new music
 
*Doesn't post about Lana for months*
 
August 18th: 12 weeks ago: Ben leaves a comment and says "new album nearing completion"
September 27th: 7 weeks ago: Ben posts about BTD's chart run and says "Beautiful 9th album coming soon"
October 22nd: 3 weeks ago: Ben reposts lana's TB post with the caption "extraordinarily special 9th (at least 😍) solo album to come"
 
I also think I missed a comment he made before May 18th talking about Lana working on new music.
 
So early in the year around W he posted about the album a couple times (and was with Lana and Chuck in Italy for Gucci), then from June 4th-August 18th doesn't say a word about Lana or new music. He also never reposted the Rockefeller snippet which is weird because he usually reposts anything she does when it comes to music. But then he posted about new music twice in the span of a month.

I would like to have this dream 

taylor swift is OVER party
meet me at midnight
swifties this is a joke! this is a joke

also i’m just not totally on the drake train rn, him writing that line dismissing and insinuating that megan lied about getting shot has me  like treating a real violent act like it’s nothing is just very much so not cute to me and actually quite gross

yeah i agree with both of these
it's less that i want taylor to speak on it and more that i want her to do something about it at least privately like if anyone can keep ticketmaster in check besides the government it's taylor swift she has more money than god at this point
but... i don't think she will and that's where a lot of the valid criticism is coming from i think (not to be confused with the angry swifties complaining about why they couldn't get tickets)

okay, I don’t have many expectations for LDR9/10 because I am expecting the bare minimum from her but also because at this point in her career, I don’t really turn to lana anymore for any aesthetics or cool branding, i turn to her just because of the music. so this is my dream LDR9 era that’s both realistic and unrealistic at the same time
 
- artwork shot by neil obviously
- no single, a surprise release that we will have no official mention of until the minute it’s out
- digital release only at first, and then physicals a month or two later with a hidden exclusive track on them (which i really wish more artists utilized more)
- album has a shorter track listing of longer songs. not like 4-5 minutes “long” but 6-8 minutes on average long. only like 8 tracks but still around 50 minutes-1 hour in runtime
- musically a mix of The Hissing of Summer Lawns and Fetch the Bolt Cutters
- i know we’re not getting a tour and i don’t even care for a tour, but it would be really cool of her to do a livestream on her website, or even just a stream a pre-recorded set, of her performing the album live in a pretty setting
 
i dream a lot 
 

8-9 tracks and its almost 40 minutes playtime.
It's a whole fucking era already

i don't think lana considers paradise an EP and let's be real is it an EP because a 8/9 track project in most cases would be considered an album

.

honestly y’all i really don’t think we’re getting a single… i think she’s gonna make a post on a random sunday in march and be like “hi my album is out in 2 weeks” and then never mention it again. i’m fully prepared for absolutely no promo this era, atp i’m not even expecting a music video  but maybe that’s me limiting my expectations to the bare minimum so i’m not disappointed when if it is the bare minimum

I actually wanted to add onto this. I actually had been listening to Taylor Swift since 2009 and bought all her CDs and some merch until about 2013 when I got more into Lana and haven't really kept up. These past few weeks I have been paying attention to all the TS news since she announced Midnights and the whole thing seems... uncomfy to me. The whole idea of selling four of the exact same vinyl, an INSANE amount of merch, a few weeks later followed by an entire second round of holiday merch, the release of a million different remixes some of which you have to purchase, etc. 
The whole setup of Midnights has seemed like such an obvious money grab toward fans, especially younger fans, who absolutely adore her and will absolutely spend money they do not have just to support her, a multi-millionaire likely soon to be billionaire. Her silence regarding the entire ticket master fiasco, the fact that they didn't disable dynamic pricing, and not even to mention to fact that there are tickets being sold for over $100,000 right now online is extremely disappointing. The ticket master fiasco certainly is not all on Taylor but she hasn't issued any sort of apology or even at least attempted to console fans in any type of way who were literally bawling their eyes out online. The whole thing just gives me this yucky feeling and as somebody who once obsessed over her when I was younger and listened to her music religiously growing up it's really, really disappointing. At least from this side of things, I can tell she does like having special moments with fans and making them feel a part of her music but it just seems all kind've... orchestrated at this point. I still do enjoy Taylor's music and I really do think she has genuine passion for fans I just think her love of amassing a ridiculous amount of wealth off the backs of fans is not only disappointing but borderline disturbing. 
I'm honestly just glad to have a favorite artist like Lana who has never really been interested in making herself a product to put on display and sell to people. Especially with her ending the deluxe version after ultra, saying she was interested in a digital-only release not too long ago, etc. it's obviously Lana has no interest in tithing us for cash at every possible turn. 

I actually wanted to add onto this. I actually had been listening to Taylor Swift since 2009 and bought all her CDs and some merch until about 2013 when I got more into Lana and haven't really kept up. These past few weeks I have been paying attention to all the TS news since she announced Midnights and the whole thing seems... uncomfy to me. The whole idea of selling four of the exact same vinyl, an INSANE amount of merch, a few weeks later followed by an entire second round of holiday merch, the release of a million different remixes some of which you have to purchase, etc. 
The whole setup of Midnights has seemed like such an obvious money grab toward fans, especially younger fans, who absolutely adore her and will absolutely spend money they do not have just to support her, a multi-millionaire likely soon to be billionaire. Her silence regarding the entire ticket master fiasco, the fact that they didn't disable dynamic pricing, and not even to mention to fact that there are tickets being sold for over $100,000 right now online is extremely disappointing. The ticket master fiasco certainly is not all on Taylor but she hasn't issued any sort of apology or even at least attempted to console fans in any type of way who were literally bawling their eyes out online. The whole thing just gives me this yucky feeling and as somebody who once obsessed over her when I was younger and listened to her music religiously growing up it's really, really disappointing. At least from this side of things, I can tell she does like having special moments with fans and making them feel a part of her music but it just seems all kind've... orchestrated at this point. I still do enjoy Taylor's music and I really do think she has genuine passion for fans I just think her love of amassing a ridiculous amount of wealth off the backs of fans is not only disappointing but borderline disturbing. 
I'm honestly just glad to have a favorite artist like Lana who has never really been interested in making herself a product to put on display and sell to people. Especially with her ending the deluxe version after ultra, saying she was interested in a digital-only release not too long ago, etc. it's obviously Lana has no interest in tithing us for cash at every possible turn. 

The mods reading these posts knowing they're going to have to sort through this sewage treatment plant of a thread later 
 

We are on the same wavelength