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The new Flower song by Miley is one of the most boring, most tepid commercial song I have heard in years. The fact that this song is breaking charts and streaming records is insane.

i haven't caught a big fish since i was nine
i haven't seen patricia in a long long time 
i mean look at it
look at the length of my (fishing) rod and the bait 
the shape of the ocean 
do you really think i give a damn what i do after years of just hearing her talking
i say i live in the pacific really i'm at the atlantic
it doesn't really matter doesn't really really matter 

when track 16 is "elizabeth's story"

Now that I'm listening to it (it's been a while) it really does give me True Romance vibes. The song was recorded back in 2015

Still waiting for New Bottega to be added on Spotify 

LANA COLLAB WITH ALEX TURNER AND CIGS AFTER SEX CHALLENGE 
 
 
plsss

That's so true, at times I just get a sudden intuitive feeling to start reading a particular book. And once I start, there is no stopping as I just get too immersed in it
 

https://mega.nz/folder/47xw0KoK#dWVCPcRfxGMVW9ZPJ-3K0A 
 

i'm reading twilight. and only god can judge me

lovelovelovelove her nonfiction works, have yet to read play it as it lays though but it's def on my list. 'Slouching Towards Betlehem' is one of my all time favs, would highly recommend

Might start reading The Trial by Franz Kafka during my long shift at work tomorrow, the book's plot intrigued me so I purchased it today
 
I read halfway through The Metamorphosis back in 2021 but had to return it back to my uni's library, but I did remember liking his style of writing

bahaha no I get it, the Didion & Cohen books were gifted to me for Christmas & until late Jan they were just collecting dust fdhjsdjhf.. there's a right time & place to start a book, when you know you just know
 
Rlly need to buy both of those btw.

Purchased that book a few months back along with The White Album and Slouching Towards Bethlehem and I've been trying to get motivation to start reading it but I buy too many books at a time and my TBR shelf keeps getting bigger and bigger oop 

I finished reading 'Play It As It Lays' by Joan Didion & I don't know how to feel. it reminded me of TS Eliots 'The Waste Land' - “I can connect nothing with nothing.”
& the final szn of Mad Men (which MUST'VE taken inspiration from it). Its a sad, lonely & desperate novel but stunning.. it's no wonder she is heralded as such a fantastic writer. 
I'm looking fwd to watching the netflix docu on her soon / checking out more of her novels.
 
besides that, I'm in the middle of 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac & Leonard Cohen's 'A Ballet of Lepers' rn  & will review those when finished
 

meaning: the usual suspects / stuff she's directly or indirectly mentioned in songs or interviews AND books whose themes relate to her persona / vibe / interests and thus we might like to read.
 
stuff she's mentioned one way or another : (surely incomplete, i'll keep editing this if people add others in the replies)
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman Paradise Lost - John Milton Helter Skelter - Vincent Bugliosi Burnt Norton - TS Eliot On The Road - Jack Kerouac Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller Howl - Allen Ginsberg Victoria Holt - Road to Paradise Island Norman Rockwell (no specific book afaik) The Master Key System - Charles F. Haanel (@MoonAgain) The Bible (@HANGINGFROOT) Think and Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill (@Barry) The Satanic Witch - Anton LaVey Aleister Crowley (no specific book mentioned) Black Beauty - Anna Sewell A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess Nature (essay) - Ralph Waldo Emerson (this + the 3 above by @trayertrash) Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-77 - Allen Ginsberg Matcha - Jessica Flint & Anna Kavaliunas Everyday Watercolor: Learn to Paint Watercolor in 30 Days - Jenna Rainey (this + 2 above @ ig post feb 19) Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller (ig post march 19) Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories about the Wild Woman Archetype - Clarissa Pinkola Estés The Creative Fire: Myths and Stories About the Cycles of Creativity - Clarissa Pinkola Estés Untie the Strong Woman: To Know and Honor Holy Mother - Clarissa Pinkola Estés (this + 2 above @ ig post july 2019) In The Nature Of Materials: The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright 1887-1941 - Henry-Russell Hitchcock Man And His Symbols - Carl Jung The Evolution of Beauty: How Darwin's Forgotten Theory of Mate Choice Shapes the Animal World - Richard Prum (@kristinaj this + 2 above @ ig posts september 2019) Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald The Dawn Of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare - Tom Horn and Nita Horn (@AnarKissed) Surfing California - Bank Wright  
our Lana-related recs : (add a brief description)
The Girls - Emma Cline (coming of age story of a teen girl who joins a Manson-like cult in the 60s) Marlena - Julie Buntin (story of a toxic & dangerous friendship between 2 teen girls, marked by drug addiction and general recklessness) White Oleander - Janet Fitch (a very California book about a girl placed in several foster homes & her toxic, beautiful mother) Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem (imo it's impossible Lana hasn't read this book; a series of seminal essays about 60s California by prob the most iconic Cali writer) Junky - William Burroughs (THE book about heroin addiction) Inherent Vice - Thomas Pynchon (psychedelic noir set in 60s California about a stoner P.I. looking for a lost girl; also: watch the movie!!!) The Two Mrs. Greenvilles - Dominick Dunne (@kitschesque, "BTD era glamour") Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan (@RainOverLondon, "teenage girl named cécile who lives a lavish and languorous lifestyle, spending the summer at her family’s french riviera villa with her father, raymond, and his mistress, elsa; call me by your name meets gossip girl") Lithium For Medea - Kate Braverman (a story of addiction, of complicated mother/daughter relationships & toxic romances set in Venice, LA)

The brilliant, campy, culturally relevant, ahead-of-its-time 2001 masterpiece, Josie and the Pussycats 

Anetra losing twice was crazy she absolutely devoured each lipsync. Her choosing to save Spice was so iconic she could’ve easily saved the stronger lipsyncer and have a guaranteed win but she chose a challenge. She def became one of my favs w this episode.

Absolutely💯💯💯

I watched Aftersun over two weeks ago and i'm still not over it 
 

Three books:
 
The Trial - Franz Kafka
 
Heaven - Mieko Kawakami
 
The Woman Destroyed - Simone de Beauvoir

And now, the latest addition to the family—
 

 
Excerpt from the article:
That's the other thing. At first, the title was definitely going to be Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, and then I fucking panicked and I went to Neil's house and said, "I know this is fucked up, but I've changed the title. It's going to now be called, 'Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd Pearl Watch Me on Ring a Bell Psycho Lifeguard.'" He was like, "What the fuck?" I was like, "I'm not telling anyone. Just mock it up." He mocked it up, but we realized that maybe it was a bit much to have six titles in one (Eilish & Grant, 2023).
 

 
References
Eilish, B. & Grant, E. W. (2023, February 14). Lana Del Rey and Billie Eilish Fall in Love. In Interview Magazine, (547). Retrieved from https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/lana-del-rey-and-billie-eilish-fall-in-love

It's so funny that the pearl title makes "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd" seem short 

Imagine if Lana's albums were released with their original/working titles, this is the result. Originally posted on Reddit, with minor tweaks.
 
Nevada (Lana Del Ray AKA Lizzy Grant)

 
 
Born 2 Die* (Born to Die)

 
Note: Original or planned titles included G.B.A. (God Bless America), The Best of Lana Del Rey,
The Revenge of Lana Del Rey, The World Is Ours, and Do U Luv Me Yet?
 
 
Born 2 Die — The Paradise Edition (Born to Die — The Paradise Edition)

 
 
Melancholia* (Ultraviolence)

 
Note: Melancholia was the original song name for what we have now is the title track of Ultraviolence.
 

 
 
Music to Watch Boys To (Honeymoon)

 

 
 
Best American Record* (Lust for Life)

 
Note: This may not be accurate, but I'd like to think this is the name she had planned for the album.
 
 
Bird World (Norman Fucking Rockwell!)

 

 
 
White Hot Forever (Chemtrails Over the Country Club)

 

 
 
Rock Candy Sweet* (Blue Banisters)

 
Note: Loved You Then and Now (Rock Candy Sweet) was originally planned to be in the upcoming album,
but was later scrapped and the album title changed to Blue Banisters.
 

 
 
Pearl watch me on ring a bell psycho lifeguard (Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd)

 

 

 

 

To me it sounds like Sam Dew, the 1/3 member and lead singer of Jack’s other musical project Red Hearse (so underrated btw)
 
Not the first time his vocals were present in another artist's song, case in point Taylor Swift's Glitch
 
And Jack produced A&W so it’s not out of the realm of possibility that he could've used a brief snippet of Sam’s voice for that part