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  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, honeybadger said:

    ultraviolence makes me literally insane when i listen to it – there have been points where i have to monitor and reduce how much i listen to UV because as i said it can make me like very depressed or extremely overenergized and impulsive... honeymoon too but less so and other certain songs of hers :bebe: ALL I WANT is an album or at least a bunch of songs that just make me go crazy and emotional and insane. like hit me where it hurts tie my heart up in a knot knock me around

     

    i don't care what toll it takes on me i need it giphy.gif

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

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  13. Posted

    Spoiler

    Okay. I've listened to the record and have had some time to gather my thoughts.

    Tulsa Jesus Freak, Dark But Just A Game, and Breaking Up Slowly are definitely standouts, for me. I've listened to TJF probably 25 times since the leak - that "white hot forever" comes for my neck :toofunny:

    I do like this album quite a bit, but honestly, I think it's in the lower end of my ranking of her albums. I agree with many of the sentiments on here about it being homogeneous and lacking a proper buildup. Her voice is absolutely gorgeous, as usual, and I can appreciate the emotion that went into a lot of these tracks - but I do feel like it's missing a climax, and when I was listening through the record, I was struck by how similar all of the songs sounded. All of this isn't to say that I hate or even dislike the album, but it definitely pales in comparison to some of her other work, for me.

    If I had to make a tentative ranking right now, it would look like:

    UV > BTD/PD > HM > NFR > COCC > LFL

    With all that being said, though, I do want to wait until it comes out officially to put my final opinion on it. Also, I'm a UV stan who never evolved past 2014, so my opinions are biased :toofunny::toofunny::toofunny: I'm going to be waiting for a UV pt 2 until I die

     

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  15. Posted

    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. 

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  18. Posted

    Okay. I’ve been a stan since the Video Games mv, but LFL was my first album cycle on LB that I was active for. 
     

    Has Lana HERSELF ever given us a date that ended up not being correct? Not a date that we came up with, or the media came up with, or Stan Twitter or whoever. Not trying to be snarky, this is a honest question. Has Lana ever reneged on a date that she either said herself, or explicitly endorsed?

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  22. Posted

    1 minute ago, Vertimus said:

     

    But she used to celebrate 'White 50s Culture,' though with her own spin on it. I think a lot of "fake Woke people," the ones who attacked her over the years and continue to, made her turn away from her roots and perhaps what she loves and admires, historically. She grew up on Lake Placid, which is a beautiful vacation destination in the Adirondacks, and you can't get more 'White' than that. I haven't heard her publicly repudiate Lake Placid. On the contrary, she mentioned it in 'Looking For America' in a positive manner. 

    That’s a good point - I hadn’t thought of that, actually. And completely forgot about Looking For America. 

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  23. Posted

    Ok y’all. I don’t know if this has been said yet, but here’s my theory re: the alboom:

     

    I think Lana is, at least partially, going to make a political statement with this album. Specifically, I think the title “Chemtrails Over the Country Club” is a jab at the political right - specifically, middle-to-upper-class, predominantly white and wealthy Trump supporters. From the beginning of Trump’s presidency, his most ardent supporters have been proponents of a wide variety of conspiracy theories - the Obama birther theory, the “Deep State”, the Clintons having a body count, just to name a few. And, most recently, the conspiracy theory that COVID is fake, over-exaggerated, or a government hoax to achieve totalitarianism. 
     

    Furthermore, country clubs are generally associated with the white and wealthy - in the same general category as yachts, white picket fences, huge houses, etc. It’s a rich white people thing, and plenty of rich white people are right-leaning or Trump-supporting. I think this might be the idea Lana’s getting at - chemtrails over the country club. Conspiracy theories enrapturing the white and wealthy, drifting over the country club where they lounge. Entertained at the expense of other, very real political and social issues. Used to avoid addressing those very real issues, perhaps. 
     

    Idk, I might be reading too far into it, and I don’t know if Lana would make a political statement like this. I know she’s been vocally anti-Trump in the past. This was just what I thought of when I heard the title. 
     

    (I’m not looking for a political argument, or to argue about the veracity of certain conspiracy theories. I don’t mean to disrespect or offend anyone. Just wanted to share my two cents)

     

    EDIT: oh fuck this is a novel of a post. sorrryyyyyyy

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  25. Posted

    9 minutes ago, sjatib said:

    If she's scheduled the release to be eligible to Grammy nominations, it can just come today or tomorrow. I think it would be quite possible given the fact that she's said herself she cares about Grammys. So there's some reason to keep delusion until tomorrow, at least!

    I am chugging the Kool-Aid on this one. If she wants the cocc to be grammy-eligible, she's got to release by tomorrow. 

     

    Reality can be whatever I want :flop:

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