fantascination

THE INTERLUDE I AM LITERALLY SCREAMING

Fuck it’s so beautiful. I’m gonna cry. Also EXPLICIT SONGS AGAIN?! WE WONNNNN

Can’t find it on Apple Music yet, but enjoy your first listen!!! So stoked!!!!

lana surprise drop the album today

she is active af y’all. something is cominggggg

sorry I’ve been trashed and didn’t realize something happened the album cover? iconic. the snippet? beautiful. I’m getting cocc 2.0 vibes from the three singles and the snippet, but tbh not super mad about it later later???? what does this even mean. this is going to be nfr all over again

I am out of the loop again. What’s happening in an hour and a half? Is she dropping something?

hot take: put wayamaya on RCS

Have to agree. Ultraviolence fucked me up and I’ve been chasing that high ever since

Cherry Blossom on RCS I’m callin it

petition for put the radio on to make it onto this album no particular reason, just the vibes the title’s giving me

I’m excited and hopeful for this, but at the same time, this feels a lot like the “question for the culture” moment where she announced Sept 5 as the release date. I’m willing to be optimistic, but I’m also not going to take a June release date as holy writ

Totally necroing this thread, but I haven’t seen anyone mention these lyrics in Raise Me Up: ”it’s like you said, it’s all been done before I don’t have to talk pretty for them no more I can talk what I want, how I wanna I don’t have to talk taste for you, mama” Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but I think that does kind of indicate that Lana and her mother don’t get along - and that her mother may have expected her to be more prim and proper, and more of a debutante. Lana is a self-branded free spirit, so this likely caused tension between them.

So if she’s doing American classics, I think there’s like a 90% chance Springsteen’s I’m On Fire will be in there. Right? It’s pretty in line with Lana thematically, too.

several pages later but I would fucking DIE if she covered this

I’m not too up to date on what’s going on here, but Lana is getting DRAGGED out there. I just left three separate Facebook groups because literally 85-90% of the posts were ripping on Lana. I’m thinking this is going to be her “cancelled” moment.

hello yes I have been awol on lanaboards since nfr dropped has anything interesting happened or are we in the desert

So does Lana actually have a tangible singing part in it, or is she doing background vocals like we suspected? I’m at work

Hi hello I've been working non-stop and don't want to backread. Any news on WHF?

Elle's song sorter was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I got to Off to the Races vs. Shades of Cool and I almost fucking imploded

YES. This is all I want in life.

Happy album day! So I listened to the leaks, but I wanted to hold my opinions until we got to the post-release thread and I had a chance to listen to them more than once. Now we're here so here we goooo NFR: Not going to lie, I was a little underwhelmed by it on first listen. It's a cute song, but it didn't blow me out of the water or anything. I've listened to it 3 or 4 times since then, and it's starting to grow on me a little more. I can appreciate the magnificence of it and some of the Disney-ish vibes it gives, especially at the beginning. MAC: Still a gorgeous, emotive song. "'cause even in the dark I feel your resistance/you can see my heart burning in the distance" gives me goosebumps every single time. Venice Bitch: Still one of my favorites on this album. Hazy and dreamy and perfect for the summer. Fuck it I love you: Love love love it omg. I said this in pre-release, but it's so surprisingly dark and reminiscent of her AKA stuff, and I LIVE for Lana's darker works. I prefer the single version, but I thought the alt version was nice in its own way. The outro gives me feelings. Doin' Time: I think it's cute and a good bop for the summer, but I've heard it so much over the past few days with all the interviews she did that I'm a little burnt out on it. I think she did the original song justice while still giving it her own unique Lana twist. Also the video is the best thing I've ever fucking seen. Love Song: This song is sooo beautiful I think it's one of the purest, most emotional love songs (no pun) that we've heard from her. It's so warm and cute. I read somewhere in the pre-release that it plays like a more mature Video Games, and I completely agree with that assessment. It feels a little like VG pt. 2 to me. Cinnamon Girl: Holy shit. HOLY SHIT. This was definitely one of my most anticipated songs on the record, AND IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT. The lyrics are simple, true, but THE BEAT AND THE OUTRO. I'M FUCKING SCALPED. I can already tell this is going to be one of my favorite Lana songs ever. How to Disappear: I don't know how to feel about this one. I was a huge fan of the Apple version, and I don't necessarily hate the album production of it - I actually really like it, in some parts. But I do feel it's a tad over-produced, and at some points the production drowns out her voice. I'm also NOT a fan of the Christmas bells. I think it would really be wonderful if they'd drawn the production back just a tad. California: This was my other super-anticipated song, and I was NOT READY FOR IT. I was not prepared for the UV vibes it served, and the overwhelming melancholy of it. California had me out here missing exes that I haven't seen or interacted with in YEARS. It's so beautiful and fantastically produced and OVERWHELMINGLY sad. "We'll do whatever you want/travel wherever, how far/we'll hit up all the old places" gave me literal full-body chills. Also an instant favorite. What a fucking masterpiece. The Next Best American Record: The demo version of this song is among the most-played in my Lana collection, so the change of lyrics was jarring, and I feel changing the chorus takes away the inherent meaning of the song - and the meaning of that song would have fit wonderfully with NFR's themes. The new version is a cute lil bop and I love finally hearing it lossless, but I think I'll always feel a little conflicted because of the demo. The Greatest: Superb song. I listened to TG for like three days straight after she dropped the single. Gives me classic-rock vibes in a way most of her music doesn't. The last few lines of that song always get me, emotion just drips from her voice. Absolutely fucking love it. Bartender: I definitely get what she meant by this one being "weird" - I get Rufus Wainwright/Tori Amos/Regina Spektor vibes from it, if that makes any sense. I think the minimalistic production works in this song's favor, and really allows her voice to shine through. It wasn't an instant favorite, but I keep finding it stuck in my head, and it's growing on me really hard. BAR-T-T-TENDERRRRRR Happiness is a Butterfly: I completely expected to not like this song, going in - I wasn't a fan of the snippets. And I wasn't really overwhelmed by it on first listen. Like most of the songs on this record, it's growing on me the more I listen to it. I actually really really like the "DONT BE A JERK DONT CALL ME A TAXI" part, and even if I'm passively listening to the song I usually screech that part, if it's socially appropriate. Hope: I adored this song when it came out, and related to it on a personal level almost instantly. Like Bartender, the simple production works in its favor, and really emphasizes the emotion and melancholy of it. I feel like this is one of her most vulnerable and raw works yet, and I love it so so much.

In all reality, though - after the extended emotional roller coaster that was the NFR rollout, with the uncertainty and the long periods of no news, I wouldn't take all of this as holy writ just yet. We all know her ability to stick to timelines and estimate release dates is shaky at best. I'm optimistic because I think she really is inspired by working with Jack, but cautiously so. Also - I know that this will likely be a country-ish album or something more in the lines of NFR, as it's likely that she'll be working with Jack again, but based on the title of White Hot Forever I'm getting unreleased vibes - Are You Ready, specifically. It sounds like a lyric from one of her unreleased songs, and some of the songs from NFR (HtD in particular) gave me the same kind of vibe. I know it's a pipe dream, but let a girl fantasize