LDR10 - Pre-Pre-Release Thread

[taco truck]

On 9/20/2023 at 5:39 PM, taco truck said:

LDR 10 Predictions

 

1-2 word title

12 tracks 

Average song length 4 minutes with 3 songs over 5 minutes with a total length of around 50 minutes

There will be a cover (most likely Stand by Your Man)

Either 1 or no features at all

No Interludes

 

The genre for this record won't be easily pinpointed, though there will be a strong southwestern influence (think God Knows I Tried, Religion, Wild One), it will be more electronic than traditional country, mixing synths and possibly some beats with steel pedal guitars, acoustic guitars, and piano, with some added cinematic elements of either strings, organs, and driving drums (think Ride). Themes will be less introspective than previous records, and more existential, talking about the human condition, and possibly more of a story-telling aspect (Breaking Up Slowly, Dragonslayer, and Unidentified Flying Bill). There will be a return of Lana's lower register on the record, with a mix of all her vocal styles. 

The album cover/photoshoot will be a similar vibe to these photos. 

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Album Color and Flower will be Maroon and Poppies

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There will be 5 album variants (not including standard black), they will be Maroon, Green, Blue, Magenta, and Cream

Vinyl inspo's

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still manifesting this

[southbeachswing]

3 minutes ago, honeymoon is alive said:

when she releases oh say can you see and pawn shop blues then what

And for k Pt 2.. Been thinking abt that soundcheck recently  

[fishtails]

okay, everyone stay on topic

 

Warning points will be given out to those who continue with this discussion that does not belong on this thread (or really on Lanaboards at all)

[Thats why they call me Dita]

When this thread was hot and I thought some insightful knowledge had been imparted for LDR10 and instead it’s this 

 

typical fucking Lanaboards 

[Limelight]

Literally remembered this page existed so decided to come and see if there were any news and it's the mess it's always been. 

[Venice Peach]

Can she just post a snippet of a piano ballad so people can argue on topic ? 

[unidentified dragonslayer]

when LDR10 becomes her most loved,successful & streamed album 

[Let the Light In]

4 minutes ago, unidentified dragon slayer said:

when LDR10 becomes her most loved,successful & streamed album 

[unidentified dragonslayer]

Just now, Let the Light In said:

what was she even talking about? NFR or BTD? i think she even wrote that for a fan recently at a show

[Make me your Dream Life]

I thought it was about White Dress

[honey dew]

I would love to hear how her voice sounds these days with some Rick production. He, or whoever produced her voice, back in the day compressed it really well and brought out those quintessential Lana tones... like that gorgeous unbeatable Lana chest voice production... I'm just very interested to hear how her current voice would sound with the classic production.

[little red party dress]

whatever she comes out with, i hope that it kind of has a psychedelic element to it. Like for example, cruel world, zodiac, just drums lol. I love lana and she's given us amazing songs from the piano but i think it's time she gives us some drums 

[Fingertips]

On 9/20/2023 at 8:39 PM, taco truck said:

LDR 10 Predictions

 

1-2 word title

12 tracks 

Average song length 4 minutes with 3 songs over 5 minutes with a total length of around 50 minutes

There will be a cover (most likely Stand by Your Man)

Either 1 or no features at all

No Interludes

 

The genre for this record won't be easily pinpointed, though there will be a strong southwestern influence (think God Knows I Tried, Religion, Wild One), it will be more electronic than traditional country, mixing synths and possibly some beats with steel pedal guitars, acoustic guitars, and piano, with some added cinematic elements of either strings, organs, and driving drums (think Ride). Themes will be less introspective than previous records, and more existential, talking about the human condition, and possibly more of a story-telling aspect (Breaking Up Slowly, Dragonslayer, and Unidentified Flying Bill). There will be a return of Lana's lower register on the record, with a mix of all her vocal styles. 

The album cover/photoshoot will be a similar vibe to these photos. 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

Album Color and Flower will be Maroon and Poppies

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

There will be 5 album variants (not including standard black), they will be Maroon, Green, Blue, Magenta, and Cream

Vinyl inspo's

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

 

 

Was with you until this distinction. Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd? is Lana's most existential record to date since Honeymoon and AKA, and I think that viewing introspective and existential lyricism as opposite ends of a binary does her music a disservice. I think they're pretty interchangeable. All of Lana's music is pretty existential, some more than others. However, this is the record where she puts her foot on the pedal and floors it. She writes about the most hard-hitting and universal experiences of what it means to be a living, breathing, feeling, and thinking human being that lives in societies that tend to impose meaning on us. Thoughts about having children, continuing her legacy, not wanting to be forgotten, taking the memories of her loved ones with her when she passes on,  the thoughts about her past negatively impacting the woman she is today. Those aren't just personal unrelatable ramblings from a mad woman''s diary meant for her and her alone, those are thoughts we all have as humans throughout our lives. That is by definition what it means to write existentially; there must be a contemplation about how one's eventual mortality often is what motivates us to create, to pass on a legacy, to make meaning. Writing something existential requires, at the bare minimum, for the writer to be introspective by nature. If you're not introspective, then you can't reflect upon or contemplate those bigger issues in any sort of meaningful way. 

 

If you meant something along the lines of scale in which she writes about, such as The Greatest tackling societal decay, for example, well the lyrics to that song and what was to come a few years later on Ocean Blvd aren't exactly polar opposites or mutually exclusive. Its just a matter of scale. 

 

Sorry, not attacking you btw, just wanted to share a different perspective. I just don't think that the scale of what Lana writes about over her last few albums makes her music any less existential. I actually think songs like White Dress, Kintsugi, and Blue Banisters are amongst her most raw and existentially written tracks to date for many different reasons. 

[takeyourselftosleep]

On 9/21/2023 at 10:43 AM, Let the Light In said:

Isn’t that like Lana’s favorite word

 

 

 

I need Lana to do exactly this genre; imagine her voice over this instrumental. I would literally explode

[taco truck]

5 hours ago, unidentified dragon slayer said:

what was she even talking about? NFR or BTD? i think she even wrote that for a fan recently at a show

I’m pretty sure NFR is her favorite record, I think it was a defensive post right before bb came out in case it got bad reviews lol

[barttttender]

41 minutes ago, arman said:

whatever she comes out with, i hope that it kind of has a psychedelic element to it. Like for example, cruel world, zodiac, just drums lol. I love lana and she's given us amazing songs from the piano but i think it's time she gives us some drums 

 

I'm open to piano only if it has a big orchestra production behind it like Young and Beautiful or Ocean Boulevard.

[dontlookaway]

1 hour ago, taco truck said:

I’m pretty sure NFR is her favorite record, I think it was a defensive post right before bb came out in case it got bad reviews lol

a while ago she said Violet is her favorite album and in her Hollywood Reporter interview she said "The music took a huge turn from Norman, and it’s been going down that path aggressively. I’m going to continue going where I feel the only next stop is, but I think it’ll be in an Americana vein." so I don't think we'll have anything like Norman for a while, at least not with what she's recording now. also betting that if she releases a studio version of Stand By Your Man it'll be on a covers album since she said she still wants to do one

[Thunder Revenant]

5 hours ago, taco truck said:

I’m pretty sure NFR is her favorite record, I think it was a defensive post right before bb came out in case it got bad reviews lol

I think it was during the CoCC era ... I think it was after everyone hated the terrible BTS cover artwork

[Pico Ocean Boulevard]

I had a vision that this album will have 13 tracks 

 

Tbh I would take 13 tracks if all the songs are 4 - 6 minutes , wouldn't mind a song again that is longer than 6 minutes 

[honeymooncd]

I'm wanting a short album this time around like COTCC and UV. I want it to be concise folky with her lana touch