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I BOUGHT ME A TRUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT~
 

I BOUGHT ME A TRUCK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT~
 

yaaaaaaass i love norman rockwell

I marathoned all Lana’s albums and I just finished lust for life and I’m so excited to listen to norman fucking rockwell (legally) omg it’s so close

bar-t-tender is the poker face

^girl put that in a spoiler b4 u get warned for spam

i definitely would not recommend this

I agree with @@FallingCherry for once. Can someone please explain the logic of releasing a music video for Doin' Time 3 fucking months after its release and on the same day that you drop an album full of original songs?
 
I mean, I'm not complaining that we're getting one or anything, but the logic was not found.
 

bar-t-tender is the poker face

bar-t-tender is the poker face

bar-t-tender is the poker face

But for real though whats the point of doing a music video for DT if Interscope won't send the song to pop radios? The fact they literally let her biggest potential hit go to waste it's just 

It's one minute of flat strings, industrial-like noises and effects and suddenly an almost trap beat

Bartender is THAT bitch in LQ, so I expect nothing less than greatness when I put my headphones on at midnight tomorrow night. 

i thought i heard her sing the word blue in every possible melodic and enchanting way but i was proven wrong

If you insist 
 
Norman fucking Rockwell
Great song honestly, I don't think I'd change anything other than the fact that it's the first song. It gives me second-third track vibes.
(Really personal opinion: I don't like the way Lana uses her voice in the chorus; though throughout the song she sounds excelent.)
 
Mariners apartment complex
Simply amazing. Nothing to say. A 10/10 track.
 
Venice Bitch
10/10 track. I've never been a huge fan of the "If you weren't mine..." section though, but I still like it.
 
Fuck it I love you
The first version we got is magnificent; it really captures the whole surf rock sound. Her voice sounds natural and playful and the lyrics are great. The leaked album version though... that's probably the worst beat I've heard in a Lana song. Also too much focus on her voice; it overshadows the otherwise incredible instrumentation.
 
Doin' time
I feel like I'm enjoying this song less and less. It's too noisy for my taste, and I can confirm I don't think it fits the album very well -- this is, for the first time, what I'd call a LDR 'filler', and it's so obvious why it's on the album. I don't skip it though.
 
Love song
Amazing, spectacular, brilliant, never the same etc etc. Gorgeous piano, incredible vocals full of emotion, beautiful lyrics, simply outstanding. My only complaint would be the non-existant outro; a very consistent issue on the album.
 
Cinnamon girl
Really intense and heavy, one of her most dramatic songs, especially considering the fact that it's part of such a mellow, 'anything-whatever' album. I love the concept of the lyrics. However, as I already expressed multiple times already, the outro is unacceptably poorly done. That's the only think I don't like about it, and it kind of ruins the song for me. The outro needed the heavy beat back instead of the really badly constructed 'trap' beat. I can't stand it... Bat attempt at sounding experimental. She had much more better experimental tracks. Also, the mixing is so poor at certain parts... for instance the piano in the beginning?? why is it so distorted? And right after Love song which was such a rich and deep piano; the one in Cinnamon girl sounds monotonous. And her vocals during the very last chorus (when she sings in a higher octave) make such a bitter contrast to the heavy and electronic production.
 
How to disappear
I can't describe how I dislike this song. Everything about it was treated poorly. It had potential (though I've never been a big fan of it), and they ruined everything about it: the boring, flat vocals, the mixing, the production most importantly... it feels like they simply had many ideas and tried to do them all at once. It was badly thought-out. Again though, I don't skip it.
 
California
Alongside 'Hope', it's the heaviest emotionally. It was my most anticipated track. It's beautiful and powerful. I listened to it quietly and I simply could not believe the emotion and how much I relate to it (and also to Love song and Mariners apartment complex). My only really personal issue with it is that they should've worked more on the instrumentation; I feel like they relayed too much on a very basic sound, when the sound could've been traditional yet outstanding production-wise like The greatest ; The greatest is, like many reviewers said, a song that seems straight from the 70s -- it has that classic rock sound but it still goes further. California is simply a throwback, and that's okay, of course, but I wish they would've made something, well, greater. Also the non-existent outro. Anyway the song is so powerful it's one of the best.
 
The Next Best American Record
Okay my main concern with this song were the horrible new lyrics. I don't care what y'all say: they're boring, meaningless and useless. The song itself is so grand and dramatic... the old lyrics fit incredibly well. These ones... not so much. the Eagles line Anyway, as I said before, I listened to the album as mood/ambient music so I wasn't paying attention to the lyrics and I enjoyed it much more. It went from a 4 to a 7. Still can't ignore the fact that the lyrics changed though.
 
The greatest
Perfect
 
Bartender
A really good song. However, my issues with it are mostly personal. I'm not a big fan of that style of piano playing... the lyrics from the verses sound forced and so does her voice (yes, sorry). when she sings "tea parties" I still really like it though, don't take me wrong. It's one of the most 'mood album' songs. It's such a demo though.
 
Happiness is a butterfly
Gorgeous, amazing, life changing... Such an incredible song. The lyrics are not as good as I expected, to be honest, but I still really like them. This song is genius... I adore the production, really.
 
Hope
10/10
 
So yeah. Beautiful album, I obviously liked it, I've got to admit that my reaction was a bit dramatic because, as I said, never felt such confussion and disappointment with a Lana album. I never thought I'd be here treating her as mood/ambient music: I always pay so much attention to all details, but I guess it's time to change that? 'anything whatever' 
My main issues with it, overall, are mixing, vocals and some decisions regarding production.
 
7/10 maybe? I don't know. I do hope it grows on me. It would be the first time an album by any artist grows on me. It's art, at the end of the day, I just have to connect it with my emotions and try to understand it better.

This is 99% confirmed. But of course, that 1% always requires Lana or her team to say something. Pretty sure this was going to be a fun surprise but .. yeah.

Her career is at such a high point right now- she’s just been the face of Gucci, she’s doing all these songs for movie soundtracks, she just recently hopped in the studio to record Looking for America, so I feel like it’s unlikely she’ll call it quits after this.
I hope her and Antonoff do an EP or follow up album full of production like VB and Cinnamon..........

Live lounge on Monday 9th September
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/14CSDLpxPbs1r353t1SglFX/stormzy-mark-ronson-charli-xcx-and-christine-and-the-queens-to-join-taylor-swift-for-live-lounge-month-2019

dropped out of uni for this album<3

It sounds like Tomorrow Never Came and Venice Bitch had a baby and that's that on that

She looked a little nervous at parts in LFL, but that Cherry performance was so good <3 <3 <3