Velours

If you want to break my cold, cold heart
Just say, 'I loved you the way that you were'
If you want to tear my world apart
Just say you've always wondered  

Chemtrails would have sounded so cool as a more 70s psychedelic folk inspired album, it’s a true shame. Imagine if it was sonically similar to George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass album, the religious imagery could have been truly elevated by music like this. Still, I can’t get over those vocals on Yosemite.

I wish he never said this, now I’m fuming about the potential that Lana had to release the second album on the 10th anniversary.
 
Ultra you will always be her Magnus opus 

Enjoyed listening to this and reading the comments 

I love his tweets omg, he's so funny yet so smart and poignant.

Going off this with a little background about Dr. Oz for anyone curious about his history (and I’m sure there’s more) -
 
https://youtu.be/Q0zb-NoiuHc?si=9GLSopv0oKwwlJt4
RFK jr. was on The Dr. Oz show a few months ago. They believe thimerosal used in some flu shots (Adult tetanus boosters and one type of meningococcal vaccine for adolescents are the only others that contain thimerosal) is linked to autism. Thimerosal has a type of mercury with a harmless amount. Mostly used as a preservative and prevents microbial growth 
 
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safety/about/thimerosal.html#:~:text=Research does not show any link between thimerosal and autism.
It’s been slowly removed from vaccines as a precaution as medicine advances. The CDC has stated there is no evidence linked to autism. Dr. Oz even says in this video it was “implicated” and “possible” as a link, but ultimately “discredited” yet still goes around saying it’s harmful. 
 
 
Dr. Oz has been criticized for years sharing recommendations that are unsubstantiated. He’s famously suggested weight loss supplements that have no evidence and even tweeted astrology is a “valuable tool” for medical information. I personally find astrology interesting, but using it as legitimate tool for medical information advice especially coming from a doctor is extremely concerning

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4269523/
there was a study done examining these health recommendations on medical talk shows which includes Dr. Oz.
 


https://www.apha.org/news-and-media/news-releases/apha-news-releases/2024/rfk-jr-hhs-nomination

TLDR: anyways - mr. brain worm with no medical background as secretary of health and human services working with pseudoscientific TV show host dr. in charge of Medicare + Medicaid both known to spread misinformation is comical but extremely concerning. 

Tomorrow Never Came

We were ROBBED wtf

I thought exactly the same.
I think with l+f we were expecting 'why' she was missing so long, some angst and explanation in her music (which is in some outtakes like demons + angels) but she came around with 'enjoy your life! :)' which was disingenuous, and we all knew it, including her. adiaml feels more honest but her writing still isn't up to par, though that's more evident on the political tracks rather than personal ones imo.
I'm not sure she can ever get to MATD levels again but I'd rather be pleasantly surprised rather than let down, she writes best when she's writing from specific* personal experiences or has a theme (adiaml title track springs to mind, and obviously electra heart). (*she admitted she didn't do this for l+f, she wrote 'generally' and why I think her cover of 'only want you' from the era feels like it could have been on the album)
I agree with you, I actually wrote a bit more in my original post but deleted it because it felt too long. but in short, my opinion is to get around the accusations that you're only coming out to 'sell' something is you either make the product good, and therefore it doesn't need selling, or you form a parasocial relationship to sell the product, marina isn't doing either and that's where she's been falling short.
there are successful artists that don't interact with their fanbases at all and just drop music and hide away again, but I think if you didn't start that way it's quite difficult to make the transition, you almost have to make the music twice as good to make up for the lack of interaction, which again, she hasn't been doing and I can't see her doing. (as much as I would like her to bring out a 10/10 album and would be happy to be proven wrong.)

That's also probably a big part of it. I forget she's that old. In the TFJ-EH-Froot run I always think of her as being like, 19 to 24, when in reality she was like 25 to 30.

I think that might be a part of some of the fanbase's 'disconnect'. I feel like there was a HUGE leap in perceived maturity - between Froot and L+F it felt like she somehow lurched forward a decade in her appearance and appearances, mannerisms, attitude, etc. I always imagine EH, specifically, being such a 18-21 year old's album. The themes and the touches of angst around it are just so..... "youthful" to me. And then Froot comes along and we glow up a bit, but then....it feels like there was a missing "step" between that and L+F, and that "missing step" in maturity in all forms I think is where things rifted.
 
All rambles but I hope someone gets what I'm trying to put down.

the greatest success of froot was that she had created fanbase that genuinely cared about her and was excited for her going 'indie' and finding happiness that she dedicated the record for.

I feel like we really don’t know anything about her time in london nor Glasgow, apart from the time she bought blue Doritos and signed magazines for the staff in a coop. 

Her honeymoon account reached 20 million followers, the same amount she had when she deactivated her Lana Del Rey account

If you want to break my cold, cold heart
Just say, 'I loved you the way that you were'
If you want to tear my world apart
Just say you've always wondered  

We were ROBBED wtf

Ultraviolence double album???? 40 songs?!! Leakers do your job challenge  

Well, I guess she was with Donoghue in the beginning of the year after all..

We were ROBBED wtf

We were ROBBED wtf

We were ROBBED wtf

We were ROBBED wtf

We were ROBBED wtf