Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[WildMustang 14,759]

Fingertips is playing in my head all day, her voice 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,030]

4 hours ago, DragonWhore said:

I never said they were for 9 lol

its coming

Babe, I want to believe you, many of the hints you gave came through, in a way, but the lyrics you teased, plus Del Norte County and Coronado, are nowhere to be seen… So, forgive this skeptical lot, but we need to stick to facts. However, if those elements do appear in a near future, you sure will become a deity (plus there’s a vacant spot, with BoZ vanished )

[ModernBohemian 176]

I don't know if this has been brought up by anyone else yet, but I can't help but think about the first half of the album as a chronological allegory for her romance, heartbreak and then stages of grief.

1. The Grants/Ocean Blvd/Sweet is her in love, thinking about a life of love but still foreshadowing future loss (love and denial (in hindsight) stage).
   "Do you want children? Do you want to marry me?"
2. A&W is where the betrayal happens (especially considering the extra verse she sang on her live in the car about Sean), The anger and reckoning stage.
   "It's not about havin' someone to love me anymore
   This is the experience of bein' an American whore"
3. Interludes/Candy Necklace is her turning to spirituality while still lamenting the restlessness/reckless of men. Reasoning.
4. Kintsugi - the quietest point of grief, depression, that hopefully starts to precede the last stage of grief, acceptance. 

 

To me, the remaining half of the album her accepting her place in life and trying to find potential joy in living in the moment, friendship, family and embracing her sultry spirit again. 

[how the light shines in 2,641]

15 minutes ago, ModernBohemian said:

I don't know if this has been brought up by anyone else yet, but I can't help but think about the first half of the album as a chronological allegory for her romance, heartbreak and then stages of grief.

1. The Grants/Ocean Blvd/Sweet is her in love, thinking about a life of love but still foreshadowing future loss (love and denial (in hindsight) stage).
2. A&W is where the betrayal happens (especially considering the extra verse she sang on her live in the car about Sean), The anger and reckoning stage. 
3. Interludes/Candy Necklace is her turning to spirituality while still lamenting the restlessness/reckless of men. Reasoning.
4. Kintsugi - the quietest point of grief, depression, that hopefully starts to precede the last stage of grief, acceptance. 

 

To me, the remaining half of the album her accepting her place in life and trying to find potential joy in living in the moment, friendship, family and embracing her sultry spirit again. 

I was mulling this around in my head the other day, I think it's why the album front to back is such a cathartic experience, for me anyway

[PARADIXO 32,940]

13 hours ago, littleredpartydress said:

what if someone had asked Picasso not to be sad

 

 The way I COULDN'T believe this song when I heard it

[PARADIXO 32,940]

7 hours ago, barttttender said:

Very well said. Like, she got all the "genius" acclaim she wanted with NFR and then started to believe that everything that pops into her head is a great lyric or melody. But it isn't. E.g. "charlie stop smoking etc, Caroline will you... " Anyone could have written lyrics like that.

 

and the pretentiousness - yes. "Me and my boyfriend write hit records without trying, like, all the time." Um, technically, you haven't had a solo hit since Doin' Time four years ago but okay, Lana.

 

It's incredible how you're able to pull out so many negative comments no matter the hour of the day  By "hit songs" she obviously doesn't mean an actual hit on Billboard, she means the songs are catchy and great and feel classic to her and making great songs comes naturally for her. But whatever.

[Rico25 7,889]

Any updates on the potential new MV rumors 

[Morissetteus 1,541]

Hey guys, I just got an invitation to the global listening party via email. It’s about in 13,5 hrs.
Did you know about that? 

[blackpalmtrees 2,458]

People who prefer the pastor interlude over the jon batiste interlude… what happened to y’all as children? Is it the religious trauma that’s lowkey giving you stockholm syndrome or is it just bad taste?

[ShadesOfViolence 6,658]

I have come to a conclusion that I hate Jack's production no matter what 

[PARADIXO 32,940]

This album makes me so sad. I just had to stop at only track 3 because it's way too much. 

[wilting daisy 3,395]

its so embarrassing that genius still has "God's a charlatan" in the a&w lyrics and all the locals will think she actually says that 

also the connotations for some songs like kintsugi and candy necklace are so cringey... sometimes i wonder how people come up with this stuff

[Venice Jesus Whore 4,471]

Judah Smith Interlude gives me chills. It’s haunting. 

[Venice Jesus Whore 4,471]

1 hour ago, Morissetteus said:

Hey guys, I just got an invitation to the global listening party via email. It’s about in 13,5 hrs.
Did you know about that? 

Edit: nvm refer to post below me instead

[George Parasol 642]

1 minute ago, Venice Jesus Whore said:

The global listening party was a week ago on 3/22.. maybe you got an email accidentally scheduled for a week late?

 

https://www.lanadelrey.com/oceanblvdgle/

I think they mean this

 

[turquoisejewel 2,014]

7 hours ago, #FreeCandyNecklace said:

In Kintsugi, when she sings "In one year, we've learned the turn of the mouth/The depth that the chest cavity takes," is she talking about the way the actual body looks as someone dies? When I first heard the song I didn't fully know what she meant but when you consider the rest of the song I can't help but think this is what she's referring to. I've seen a lot of the reaction videos confused about this particular part.

I interpret "the turn of the mouth" as someone's passing turning everyone's smile down, like an actual upside down mouth, meaning sadness and grief.

The "depth that the chest cavity takes" I take it as when something very sad happens and you first take notice, you feel like you heart and chest are heavy and it's hard to breathe, like an elephant sitting in your chest, that sinking feeling  

 

(but I also think it does have a double meaning: that, and the literal body of someone who passed, changing and decomposing)

[Honeyyoung 17,096]

8 hours ago, barttttender said:

Very well said. Like, she got all the "genius" acclaim she wanted with NFR and then started to believe that everything that pops into her head is a great lyric or melody. But it isn't. E.g. "charlie stop smoking etc, Caroline will you... " Anyone could have written lyrics like that.

 

and the pretentiousness - yes. "Me and my boyfriend write hit records without trying, like, all the time." Um, technically, you haven't had a solo hit since Doin' Time four years ago but okay, Lana.

let's not talk like fingertips isn't her lyrical magnum opus. and the hit songs line is quite clearly satirical, but whatever I guess

[Eugene 26,669]

not slander to Ocean Blvd in its own thread. 

[Blue Ribbon 3,559]

just a thought

what about

talking about pink champagne and the other tropico leaks in the threads dedicated to them? 

[wilting daisy 3,395]

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