LDR5 - Pre-Release Thread

[eatmyass666 217]

tbh I'm on both sides. Lana is here to create art, she has the right to release it how she wants to when she wants to.. I'm not an artist; but as a hoe that fcks w/ art hoes I can say that artists don't owe shit to anyone- even before she was famous, she was releasing stuff just so that she can show off art that she created and that she's proud of, I feel like a lot of fans don't really respect that and feel the need to take advantage of her and beg her ass for more. Buuut, on the other side- it is kind of annoying that she refuses to promote her work. It just makes me feel like she's not proud of what she does and does not care to draw in more fans- it's like she's just releasing music to be like "here u little bitches, now stop complaining". I do also wish that she at least ATTEMPTED to promote her stuff and get out a better image of herself.. cuz like it's kinda annoying that whenever I say I'm a lana fan, people still reply with "oh yeh that depressing bitch that was on snl that one time"

[white gold 4,240]

[...] as a hoe that fcks w/ art hoes [...]

 

iconique

[LastGoodbye 28]

It doesnt look like her tho..

 

[Harmonia 1,413]

Just popping in to say I've had Love on repeat for the past half an hour and it has truly, fully clicked with me. I liked it from the day it released but now I think it might be my second favorite lead of hers behind West Coast. What a song. The "don't worry, baby" bits are euphoric.

[latothemoon 11,827]

The fact that the Cash Me Outside Remix is the song right above Love on the Billboard 100 

[Say Yes to Heaven 27,014]

Lana Del Rey announces new album! The sultry-pop queen has come back to bless us all again (YASS!) with her new album; titled: Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.

[LanaCharts 1,933]

Lana Del Rey announces new album! The sultry-pop queen has come back to bless us all again (YASS!) with her new album; titled: Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.

Sweetie I...

[Sylvia Plath 470]

Lana Del Rey announces new album! The sultry-pop queen has come back to bless us all again (YASS!) with her new album; titled: Hopeless Fountain Kingdom.

 

 Halsey just made Best American Record sound like a much, much better album title.

[Wynwood 19,966]

Born to Die (2012)

Ultraviolence (2014)

Honeymoon (2015)

Hopeless Fountain Kingdom (2017)

 

iconic discography!

[Veinsineon 70,437]

[Mind Melt 10,090]

i can't wait for someone to take that seriously

[LanaCharts 1,933]

'Hopeless Fountain Kingdom' Lana's best album title? We can tell   

[jimmydean 252]

If ur gonna listen to lana, listen to her bc u like her fucking music. Just bc ur trying to get her video views up doesn't mean she owes you anything, some of ya'll so extra 

somehow the topic of this thread always gets turned around into sales, who cares????OMG its not that serious lmao

[reputation 6,314]

Y'all claim to hate Halsey yet bring her in the LDR5 thread. Snooze!

[frankie 1,781]

if lana makes good music then she makes good music, how popular she is and how many views on youtube she gets shouldnt be the sole reason for being a fan of hers

[Shades 1,693]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with wanting Lana to be more active in terms of providing more than just bare minimal effort for her fans, and it certainly doesn't mean she has to "sell out." No one is saying she owes us anything. It is, however, disappointing to be fans of someone who literally does almost nothing beyond just dropping the album and releasing a few subpar music videos. Yes, the music is great and lovely and at the end of the day we will all listen to it, but it quickly runs dry.

 

Lana doesn't care for being mainstream, and I don't blame her after what she went to, nor would it suit her either. However!! Not being mainstream doesn't mean she should literally just scrape by with doing almost nothing. Lana should take advantage of being on such a large label and use their resources to craft eras that she feels comfortable with.

 

For example, she hates singing live television -- why not record a few intimate performances of your favourite songs off the album and post them on Youtube periodically throughout the year? Just her and the band.

 

She doesn't like extensive & exhausting promotion -- you don't want to appear on TV mopping the floor with Jimmy Fallon, fine, we get it. Why not just host a few livestreams that last more than 30 seconds so your fans can see/interact with you??

 

Interviews depress you & make you want to kill yourself because the questions are always dumb and passive aggressive -- why not do a Q/A with your fans where you get to pick the exact questions you want to answer?

 

Lana seems to really like the process of actually making the album and then quickly loses interest in it almost immediately to move on to the next one. Why not document the entire album recording process, showing us how she crafts each song, talking about the history/meaning behind each one...

 

Idk. There's lots of things she can do to make the fan experience a whole lot better + remain completely comfortable in LA going to work or the coffee shops. The fact also remains that she won't maintain her popularity/sales at this level of effort and will quickly lose the ability to even make the kind of music she really wants to.

 

wow this ended up so long this is what happens when u go on lanaboards to distract u from midterms 

[Solar Fields 4,158]

no offense but I scroll right past when I see y'all write more than a paragraph

[Shades 1,693]

no offense but I scroll right past when I see y'all write more than a paragraph

 

same tbh

[Flowerbomb 65,555]

I wish Lana would set a date in which she would tell us this exciting news, it'll give us something to discuss about...

[Shades 1,693]

I wish Lana would set a date in which she would tell us this exciting news, it'll give us something to discuss about...

 

that's another thing!!! would it literally kill her to give a fucking date for ANYTHING just so we can start getting excited like :rip: i just don't get her sometimes