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1990s losing to 1920s is crazy… 
 
2000s - 8
1920s - 4

Heroin, TNBAR, Yosemite are triplets sisters

1990s losing to 1920s is crazy… 
 
2000s - 8
1920s - 4

Heroin, TNBAR, Yosemite are triplets sisters

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_ZpU7LoLEH/?igsh=MWw2bjI0cHZsMXZkdA==
 
prague fashion week played lana’s 2012 budweiser shirt mdm performance

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prague fashion week played lana’s 2012 budweiser shirt mdm performance

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_ZpU7LoLEH/?igsh=MWw2bjI0cHZsMXZkdA==
 
prague fashion week played lana’s 2012 budweiser shirt mdm performance

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_ZpU7LoLEH/?igsh=MWw2bjI0cHZsMXZkdA==
 
prague fashion week played lana’s 2012 budweiser shirt mdm performance

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C_ZpU7LoLEH/?igsh=MWw2bjI0cHZsMXZkdA==
 
prague fashion week played lana’s 2012 budweiser shirt mdm performance

Norman is really lana’s fav album of her own… and rightfully so

Norman is really lana’s fav album of her own… and rightfully so

Norman is really lana’s fav album of her own… and rightfully so

We really need outtakes from the nfr photoshoot no other photoshoot from that era had that same magic one of her best

Happy Birthday, Norman Fucking Rockwell! 


 
I can't believe it's been five years since this perfect work of art came into the world! I'm never sure where to place NFR! on my Lana ranking — it's perfect. Sometimes, I think it's too perfect. The thing that sets NFR! apart for me is that it doesn't just immerse me in Lana's world; it's the one album that inspires me to create. After listening, I want to reach for my pen and paper and start writing. I want to make my life a work of art. I want to live, and, to quote Lana, "You make me feel like there's something I never knew I wanted."

All of Lana's other works transport to me to a place or time within my life. NFR!, though, feels like it is life itself. It has an evolution through so many experiences and feelings that it seems like the ultimate journey, seen through the eyes of someone who is desperately in love, and living with true freedom. Not the type of freedom in BTD that comes from the kindness of strangers, gas stations, and accepting the nihilist nature of life — but the freedom of feeling the ocean crash over your body, surrendering yourself completely to love and life, of riding the wave. of feeling so comfortable in your own being that you allow yourself to exist with abandon ...



My top songs are Mariners Apartment Complex, Venice Bitch, How to Disappear, The greatest, and hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it. Honestly, the strength of just two of those favourite tracks would be enough to give the album a spot in my top records of all-time. That's how great I think they are. Lana's poetry is "hot like a gun" as she says. She's never been a better songwriter than in NFR!, which encapsulates perfectly her strongest style of songwriting; telling a story through disjointed fragments, feelings, snapshots in motion. 
 
1. Norman fucking Rockwell: Possibly her best opening lines of an opening song, ever. Iconic. 
2. Mariners Apartment Complex: Some of my favourite Lana lyrics, ever. This is a beautiful song in every way possible. It's very reminiscent of Leonard Cohen (and references him "I'm your man") and almost every single line is quotable. 
3. Venice Bitch: Her magnum opus, as people like to say. The psychedelic-style soundscape is inspired. The lyrics are referential and although simplistic, it's the kind of song I'd want to live in. It's literally perfection. 
4. Fuck it I love you: The pop song of pop songs. 
5. Doin' Time: Possibly the only on-album Lana cover I wouldn't have guessed was a cover if I didn't know the original song. The production, her vocals, and the music video are all incredible. It's the perfect choice for NFR!. Not sure why it gets hate. 
6. Love song: Not one I listen to often but when I do, I feel it. The lyric "You know that I'd just die to make you proud" is probably one of her most relatable. 
7. Cinnamon Girl: I'll never forget the first time I heard this. It felt like Ultraviolence, but in this era. "There's things I wanna say to you, but I'll just let you live" is on the same level as "Sun and ocean blue / Their magnificence, it don't make sense to you." 
8: How to Disappear: Probably the finest example of Lana's ability to tell stories through songs. I love the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young reference in the lyrics esp. as she name drops them later in Bartender. 
9: California: Great song title and heartbreaking lyrics.
10. The Next Best American Record: Honestly, not a week goes past without me thinking of this verse and the way she sings it: "It's you—all the roads lead to you / Everything I want and do / All the things that I say / It's true—all the roads lead to you / Like the 405 I drive through."
11: The greatest: A top 10 Lana song. Incredible. No words. It's captured this era for me in a way that no other song has and probably no other song ever will. From the guitar solo to the last verse, it's how it feels to live in these uncertain times, stuck between nostalgia for times past, hopelessness, and everything moving so fast around you ...  
12. Bartender: Despite the hate, I love this song. I had a phase of being obsessed with it that never really ended. 
13: Happiness is a Butterfly: A hard listen. It reminds me of what could be in in love but always slips through the fingers. 
14: hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it: Lyrical masterpiece. Top 10 Lana song. The most beautiful album ender I've ever heard. 


 
Also, as someone who grew up next to the sea and lived in SoCal for awhile, NFR! just feels like home. It feels like I've lived in those songs (and not in a super painful way like OB) 
 
I'm just so thankful to live in the same time as Lana, an artist who captures my soul in her music in a way I'd never be able to express in my own art. 

oh- that’s not 

I knew it! They’ve met in march 2019 when lana went boating with her friends in louisiana you guys… do you remember? Im too lazy to link a picture, but lana wore all black with her hair tied to the back

I knew it! They’ve met in march 2019 when lana went boating with her friends in louisiana you guys… do you remember? Im too lazy to link a picture, but lana wore all black with her hair tied to the back

I knew it! They’ve met in march 2019 when lana went boating with her friends in louisiana you guys… do you remember? Im too lazy to link a picture, but lana wore all black with her hair tied to the back

I knew it! They’ve met in march 2019 when lana went boating with her friends in louisiana you guys… do you remember? Im too lazy to link a picture, but lana wore all black with her hair tied to the back

I knew it! They’ve met in march 2019 when lana went boating with her friends in louisiana you guys… do you remember? Im too lazy to link a picture, but lana wore all black with her hair tied to the back

Us old ugly guys need love too!

the way some ppl are acting like he’s ugly or something  he’s literally a normal guy. the beauty standards are crazy. and god forbid somebody love someone for more than just their looks.

we've been here before
 

her shirt is SO 2007 and honestly i dig it

western people are so weird why are they offended by anything? let the woman be a Waffle House werker in peace