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Midnights is a wild ride of an album and I couldn’t be happier that my co pilot on this adventure was Jack Antonoff. He’s my friend for life (presumptuous I know but I stand by it) and we’ve been making music together for nearly a decade HOWEVER… this is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators. We’d been toying with ideas and had written a few things we loved, but Midnights actually really coalesced and flowed out of us when our partners (both actors) did a film together in Panama. Jack and I found ourselves back in New York, alone, recording every night, staying up late and exploring old memories and midnights past. We were so lucky to also work with our brilliant collaborators Sam Dew, Sounwave, Lana Del Rey, Jahaan Sweet, Keanu Beats, William Bowery, and Zoe Kravitz. Laura Sisk was our excellent engineer. The wonderful and wise Beth Garrabrant took the album photographs. Midnights is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows. Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like Midnights. Which is out now  

𝐰𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐫, 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐰𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭—𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞—𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞-𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞.

Luna and the Lie headers

1. “I treat myself like I would my daughter. I brush her hair, wash her laundry, tuck her in goodnight. Most importantly, I feed her. I do not punish her. I do not berate her, leave tears staining her face. I do not leave her alone. I know she deserves more. I know I deserve more.” (i know i deserve more, michelle k)

2. “Don’t forget to love her. The little girl you used to be. Perhaps She lies within you. Untucked. Sleeping peacefully.” (nurture, kiana llanos)

3. “These days I wake up crying

holding myself in my arms

rocking myself like a mother

repeating

it’s all right- i’m here.” (rocking, nuela archer)

4. “There’s a little girl in my head & she screams ‘unloved! unloved! unloved!’ every moment of my life (@star-eaters)