one time beauty queen

if it doesnt come today, im officially over it & will b protecting my peace by assuming its dropping along with the album on the 24th if it happens before then, great & hopefully its announced in advance or at least surprise drops at a time that is sensible for us fans that are in diff timezones too I only rly want the lighter & necklace personally n im not above turning to the arts n craft etsy gals if i miss out #SupportSmallBusinesses but yes, i rly hope everyone gets what they've been wanting <33 esp the boxset / clothing girlies cuz those things cant rly b replicated

idk if this has already been talked ab but the soda pop songs somewhat thematically overlap Diet Mountain Dew: "You're no good for me but baby I want you", unhealthy relationship, a lot of Lolita references throughout Cola: "I know your wife & she wouldn't mind", more sexually charged, affair with an older man, drugs & as another user recently pointed out, the unreleased song Coca Cola has the lyric "When we get high, Jimmy propose" A&W: touches on loss of innocence/oversexualisation at an early age "I haven't done a cartwheel since I was 9" (brings that Lolita stuff to mind/older men taking advantage of younger girls n women) & an affair too "still lookin like a side piece at 33" "Slips out the back door to talk to me" the whole Jimmy bit def sounds like an unhealthy relationship of some sorts.. be it with a man, a substance, herself or all three tbh. It's dark to me "Jimmy only love me when he wanna get high" i know we spent sometime spectulating why she went with A&W and not just AW/American Whore or AW&J but this could be part of it... if not on purpose, still an interesting coincidence

OH mY GOD I ordered the dark pink vinyl not even realising it included a poster till like a few days later & then I wondered if it would eat or just be a pic of flowers off neils ig story but I'm glad 2 see, that is a W !!!!!!!!!!

becoming a "Puts on the shower while he calls me / Slips out the back door to talk to me" truther - i just hear it plus both make sense in the context of a secret relationship/affair, of course "Seems like a bad time to talk to me" does too but I'm hearing the former more when I listen closely... perhaps a nod to "Back Door Man" - written by Willie Dixon & recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960. the lyrics draw on the Southern US cultural term for an extramarital affair- It was also covered by The Doors

fun so gonna do a few of these as I listen to what I've queued up! Old Money 1. Cold Cash Divine 2. Where Did You Go? 3. The Queen of New York City 4. My Mother's Glamour Lives On & On 5. Send for Me 6. Sunset & Vine 7. Run, Run, Run Hope 1. Pink Dresses & High Heels on White Yachts 2. 24/7 Sylvia Plath 3. Church Basement Romances 4. Black Narcissist 5. Calling From Beyond the Grave Black Bathing Suit 1. Grenadine Quarantine 2. If This Is the End, I Want a Boyfriend 3. Walk Home from the Mall 3. In Your Dreams 4. Untraditional Lover 5. When You Get the Blues 6. Looking Over At Me 7. Looking Over At You, Real Cute - (Interlude) 8. Like An Angel

i wonder if any of the songs on the album will be about her friend/relation/situationship (see how confused) w Donoghue then? maybe even parts of title track or A&W are? idk It's insane, how vague/private she's managed to keep whatever they got going on, good for her (#bartender) but i wont lie i am sooo curious we know the last song of LDR9 was finished in Sept '22 so I assume she started working on the album pretty much right after Banisters came out or even a bit before.. maybe Sept '21 ish? The whole "I love Harry Nilsson, that'll be an important thing to know later on" in her BB livestream lowkey gave that away? basically the album was mainly written/worked on over the course a year in my mind. They were spotted together at some birthday party in May of '22 & I'm pretty sure that jail pic of them was in July '22? & they probably already knew each other for a couple months at that point at least, so it's possible she could touch on their thing. Looooool the flowers he got her are so cute though like wtf , puppy flowers , i sent a pic to my bf to drop hints

idk if its underrated rly but maybe just due to the fact it's unreleased- On&On&On ... one of her best imo <333

God plz let today be the day

just thought this could be a lil thread we can use sporadically to post various images that match up with a song if a similar one already exists, apologies & thanks in advance to whatever mod for merging e.g. Old Money: Chemtrails Over The Country Club :

plus when you think of the line from the song that pretty much catapulted her to fame: "Only worth living if somebody is loving you, baby, now you do"

A&W is really Cassie Howard (from Euphoria) coded when i think about it...... tbh, a decent amount of Lana songs are. I think Cassie would be a Lana stan maybe ill do a deep dive into this at some point, just for the euphoria gals n funsies.

i did a delulu deep dive & found some random but interesting things out about certain ramada hotels, but i dont think lana wrote it w this stuff in mind i think it was rly just a lowkey hotel she could go to escape or maybe where she had the sort of "affair" she sings of in the song, maybe

spilled

I haven’t done a cartwheel since i was 9, i haven’t read the news in a long long time

yeah comments on jacks (un)originality, (which are directly related/tied to production), being one of them & i just think those are valid so it did translate, lol but we can put this to bed now

It’s dropping tomorrow 5pm gmt with the Ocean Blvd/A&W double music video (manifesting)

of course any discussion on anything should be conducted in a mature, respectful matter- goes without saying. why wouldn’t critiques on Jack or producers in general be valid though, if critiques on the song are ? production is a obv a HUGE & important part of what makes up a song.. production IS the song too…(and can make or break it in some cases) it’s not exactly “frivolous” imo, it goes hand in hand with the lyrics / singing.

why does anything less than a totally positive reaction to the song have to be considered nitpicking & meaningless discourse tho personally i find it interesting/ refreshing to see some diff perspectives than “‘magnum opus” “best thing since VB” etc let the ppl speak!!!!!!! edit: typos sjsjsj

wow they're pissed at OP lolol, but idk- I think there is an interesting discussion that could be had about the whole Jack situation if everyone just calmed down a bit. I can see good points from both sides tbh

Ppl can observe /bring up the obvious similarities btwn various productions while still also liking n appreciating the song, no?

It's crazy hearing them all back to back like this.. Jack has talked a lot about putting the artists vision first, but at this point it's obvious he is trying to develop a style where you think of him, Jack Antonoff the producer, before you think of the actual artist imo (very Phil Spector esque minus the drug & gun use) Some of the girls might wanna consider cutting him out from production duties if they want their sound to stay unique/different. The bleed between prods is too obvious now

thursday just seems so random, i don't think it'll happen but tbh maybe that's a sign it will happen