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This is real important- Starting today, chart wise, Spotify and You tube with selected artists will only allow listening if one is a premium member ​And all the other streaming services will follow. Jason Aldean is the first to test this out both on Spotify and You tube. As it means more money to each artist, I say that is a great thing for the artist, but it means streams won't count unless one is a signed up, paid for member of each different one. (And only those will even hear it. It means later on, probably in week 2 or 3 or 4, then they will allow free stream, but by that time, the debut week is over. So time to stop being cheap, and time to sign up. (and remember, in US, only those in US count toward the US charts. And only if streaming the album itself. This is also the way these companies will be allowed to stay in business, what with copyrights and all. I myself am fine with this. A dentist wouldn't fix a cavity for free, why should a musician, writer, poet give it away?

wonder...I wa wa wa wa wonder... Ellie Goulding, now signed to her managers company, doing a Lana Born to Die or Paradise song, and also have something to do with the new one (I think once they had a mash-up of ride, but that was unofficial). Ride/Change/new? ​Enquiring minds want to know Call me Tap ped out

Important to remember- ​Lana had passed the Beatles #1 about 30 weeks ago, but then around Oct. when BTD dropped off for the Christmas season, Beatles came back so now they have repassed her. Had they stayed on the charts all along, she wouldn't have passed them anyhow. ​Same with some others she passed, they may pass her, but hers is newer ​In fact, Lana is #4 of all albums from 2000-2018 (and the single most important album of the last 20 years)

@lonelylolita dumb​ was anyone that believed a word he said when trump has never told the truth in his life ​dumber is anyone that voted for him ​even dumber is anyone who believed the lies spewed by Nader and the Paul racists and the extremist Sanders,who said both parties are the same ​(and they haven't been since the change over southern strategy in the 1960s) even most dumb is anyone today who would still vote for trump, or anything to do with trump if they had to do it all over again (same as every other country like UK would undo brexit if they (hopefully) get a new vote (Smart is the Queen and Parliament for wanting to undo it while they still can) ​what is true is that Putin is more deadly/dangerous than Khrushchev ​and trump is 100x lesser than either JFK or LBJ in a Bay of Pigs scenario ​now back to the show

I think people again are forgetting that wanting America to be like it was prior to the dictator trump taking control thanks to KGB Putin's ownership and friendship of him, does not mean one wants to give up America. One wants it to go back to the way it was and into the future with the Obama philosophy (and she liked an American named Barack in her song "American". After all, America was founded on protest, and the ones who protest are the patriotic Americans. The ones that hate America are the trump deplorables, the steve Bannon deplorables. And in a world where in 2018, perhaps the only great leader at the moment is Canada and Justin Trudeau, along with pockets of great states in America (ahem, the Blue ones) (and Lana is out of the black and into the blue) and she said in CHANGE that Change is staying and fighting now, she is hinting folk or country Guess what folks- that means Americana if one wants to find a label for a genre that makes any sense and commerciality. Which would also be known as Alternative Country (and the kind not necessarily played on the 124 stations that chart for billboards airplay country (as opposed to their main chart Country Songs which is all types. Cruel World (the song) was basically a much more sophisticated song that perhaps a Carrie Underwood or Miranda Lambert would unearth and sing and being in a happier place doesn't mean the music can't be dark. Because it is apples/oranges to meaning. (And there are happy oranges and sad apples and vice versa) One makes a left turn in Nashville, and that is the crossroad between country and Americana Are we gonna see Lana at the CMA fan fest signing autographs in the different booths? That would be amazing and she would not even have to sing at all, to get all the publicity in the world.

@elle-​ I think it's time for the PRE-Release thread, as things are moving quickly I am starting to think this may appear ASAP and I don't mean Rocky

​Remember- Pink Flamingos always fascinated Lana.

@delreyfreak ​that is NOT a mistake, I wrote that for a reason....

For those that maybe don't realize it- ​She lets you into her world when she wants to. And 10 out of 9 times, when she lets you in, somethings brewing ​Because all those other times she hasn't opened any portal for anyone to see ​That means the truck is a hint. Might not end up being what appears, but for now one does have to think what does that mean ​me thinks I got it y'all. ​.................. ​on a separate tangent- ​did you read that in the US, the US car companies are just about doing away with cars altogether (how this reminds me of when CDs first started) ​and that the only cars that will be imported from overseas companies are limited edition models that are going to raise the price of ​a simple car to rich man status. they gonna say truck van suv is all you get, all you need, all you want ​(note- this paragraph has nothing to do with the top part)

​@trailerparkdarling Get free is a conduit between this album and next, between getting happier and being there and continuing, something that means what was going on in the past is not where she needs to be tomorrow as that was the cointuing sadness inside her. I am not sure why you want her to leave the record company (if it is to go on her own, why should she do that, when she now is one of the most profitable and to go private would not accomplish that. She has 4 albums, 2 of which were #1, 2 were #2. Far bigger voice through a record company as it stands now and Elizabeth wants her voice to be heard, but it's Elizabeth that is speaking now. Whether she sings a song that someone may think is trite, it still has meaning. Almost every artist releases an album that is not a story album, and there is one or two great songs, the rest is filler. Lana is giving 100% on every cut, every cut is meaningful, and not a tossaway (including the covers, including Burnt Norton, which to the narrative of Honeymoon was extremely important AND WHICH IF ONE READS IT AND GETS IT, it is showing one cannot go home again because that is gone forever and look how Lana hoodwinked misogynist males like Dan A. and her record company who had loudly put her down, into become a major fan of hers (and how he actually then recorded a Lana type album to piggyback off of her and how 95% of her vision for Ultraviolence was still in the final product. (and note the shift in melody(backward), was something done years ago by Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra, two people Lana was fully into and didn't take Dan A to bring her there. (And note- Lana has bigger and better chart stats than the Black Keys or Dan solo, which is what I think his original bitching was about, sheer jealousy. So why not just go along for the ride (pun intended) (and if people don't like it, well, I am an Elton John/ Pet Shop boy fan from day one for each...all those people that say both are not what they were at the start of their careers, have missed some of their best material, regardless of whether it was the biggest radio hit or not)

​@trailorparkdarling- Change is a sequel to Ride In Ride, she is getting out of her situation she was in, back in Born To Die and Video Games Ride was fleeing Change is staying and fighting for what one wants (I would have loved to see Roy Orbison tackle Ride, and I would love to see the full Bruce/EStreet band version of Change. which is paradox of Bruce's Born to Run her Born to Die juxtaposed with Ride/American (Which I picture President Barack Obama in)

@surfnoirswing Why is it that some people hate Lana so much that they wish her ill and negativity??? another 8 weeks (and it will get it) and Lana becomes #2 of all time. but one thing is correct- even if it didn't get another week (which it will) in 50 years, it will still be in the Top 100 albums that have over 300 weeks. But Lana continues her streak of being on a Billboard chart by being on the Social Media chart, re-entering on that chart.

​BAD NEWS- BORN TO DIE holds at 311 weeks as it is not on the Billboard200 chart dated April 14, 2018 ​to make matters worse- the Beatles #1 album gets its 311th week, so pulls into a tie with Lana ​and should it not be on next week, Eminem's album this week notches its 310week and is at 192 (itself might not be long for chart) ​ ​However, it could come back at any time ​Best ways- ​remastered BTD/Paradise with an added or changed song Christmas song added ​Some other singer singing a song from BTD that there is a version that is added to BTD or perhaps people would for an extended period purchase BTD ​but as said prior, the accomplishment is achieving the 275th and 300th week on chart ​but let's hope it reenters next week.

People​ wanting a mature 32 year old to go backwards and then act like an innocent teenage reminds me of "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane" and that final scene on the beach (what a trio that would make Bette, Joan & Elizabeth with a little Victor Buono thrown in)(impossible to just have a little Victor there)

Did someone on this thread have the sheer audacity to say that Video Games was a Happy Song???? ​and, btw, Honeymoon was no Happy song nor album either.until the final battle outcome and she directly wanted to make sure ​that she was NOT misunderstood there. one might have to go back to Gramma

Gives​ new meaning to Go your own way oh those beautiful people have such beautiful problems but then their history is littered with breakups reunions and more breakups while this reunion tour reeks of wanting the big bucks

@paradixo that is not what you said a number of years ago, is this the same paradixo??? @Terrencelovesme- Elizabeth is real. Just look at who the royalty checks are made out to. But don't worry, she still lets Lizzy May and Lana come out to play, but only when she wants to. and Gramma is real too.

Get this- Jenny, known now for Rilo Kiley, Jenny & Johnny, Nice as Fuck also was a child actress ​Jenny Lewis back in 1987, about 11 years old, 31 years ago, played perhaps the single most obnoxious tyke in tv history on the 3rd season ​opener of Golden Girls "Old Friends" ​where the secondary story was Rose (Betty White) attempting to get back her teddy bear, which was taken and held for hostage by one of the Space Cadets, Daisy (played by Jenny) ​(the heartbreaking main story line was about a person Sofia befriended overlooking the beach, who is battling and going downhill quickly Alzheimer's. ​note- the only thread I could fine that mentioned Jenny was a Rilo Kiley thread from 2013

the bus literally says STAR TOURS and those busloads of people PAY MONEY to see the stars, of which two sisters are doing just that and one sister is filming the other on the bus (like billions of people have done since they started these tours of the stars.) Showing Lana is separate from the Grant Sisters. and each song of the Opera that is Honeymoon from start to finish is about that. fan fiction is any other interpretation.

​Chuck's iconic Honeymoon cover showed perfectly that my opinion of Honeymoon is indeed FACT. billions of people have taken a bus ride passed the stars house and it shows two sisters on a family trip, Chuck and Elizabeth on a tour of stars homes one they shall pass is the legend, the iconic Lana Del Rey shows two separate people and how they morphed, merged, and finally separated with Elizabeth winning the battle over Lana. interesting too is how this also outdoes or equals on a separate level, Twin Peaks 2017 continuation, where the people that came in, were NOT the people at the end. perfecto.

Chuck and only Chuck should shoot the cover/inserts and it's time to get Chuck onto the charts in an official duet wouldn't it be cool if Chuck got a #1 song singing a EG song

@ldelreyyay but I believe everyone is mistaking what is being said in Coachella as she is not wanting to talk to god and trading the fame fortune and legend, and give up everything to want to find out how these evil people think. (I'd give it all away to ask him one question, him being kim or trump and why they are two sick boys with all their toys(being nukes to blow up the world) and I believe part of the reason some here hate Coachella, is because for one of the few times and in the middle of LFL, she breaks the 4th Wall and comes out of character (I'd give up fame fortune and legend) and is directly singing as Elizabeth (and once she does, there is no turning back) and nowhere does it indicate kim/trump are going "up there".

@bartender- yeah, I would include Sirens and the other earlier stuff, so I would just give her the entire Top 10 and have Elton's Capt. Fantastic the first non-Lana album at #11. and for everyone- either my memory is totally gone, or who knows what, but lately been seeing No Kung Fu listed in her discography- Does that actually exist or is it either a boot or fan made? And if it does exist, was that always the title? I thought I knew most everything from day one.

Gods and Monsters has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with Hollywood where the stars, male and female are considered Gods and the monsters are the casting couch rapists and those that take advantage of the innocent In Coachella, she is talking about wanting to ask a Kim/trump one question, and it has nothing to do with a so called god. even God knows I tried is just a metaphor or usage of a word to make a point and has nothing to do with religion Unless of course Gramma was a Goddess, there is no religion in the early stuff either. And as she believes in science, impossible for a smart mind to actually believe the hokum now isn't it? And she has a smart mind. Once people start to think, they realize they are being played, don't they? Like when a kid discovers (SPOILER ALERT) that Santa Claus may be in the heart, but c'mon, like how in the world (or otherworld) would that even be possible? God knows it couldn't. (LOL)

@99centlips​ response #1266 SHE (Lizzy/Lana/Elizabeth) recorded the best 6 albums of all time, musically without genre AKA Born to Die Paradise Ultraviolence Honeymoon Lust for Life and I will predict the new one will be the 7th. nothing else comes close.