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Lana Del Rey, Alvvays, Caroline Polacheck… Grammy losers <3

Agree! As much as I wanted her to win just for the sake of it, I much prefer her NOT being internalised by the industry… they’ve committed so many sins against her, they cannot sanitise their reputation by awarding her AOTY once. She can continue to live on the outskirts, challenging the industry instead of doing her best to remain in its graces (like so many other artists do). They’ll never get her

Next album needs to be Carrie inspired, title track MV she sets the Grammys on fire… Taylor can be the teacher she spares… sounds like Hole, Live Through This ofc… post-Lasso world I’m dreaming of you…

4:40AM I need a cigarette

Every lifetime legend that has never won a Grammy… Lana Del Rey you will always be famous!!

Taylor is very very very sweet for that… I love Lana so much

Will this ever end

I’ve pre-grieved

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Tudor-era cleavage she’s serving Anne Boleyn in a way

Gorgeous

Blue banisters is unlistenable because she rhymes /my banisters blue/ with /blue banisters oooo/

So… ocean boulevard?

Her set overran and mic got cut off, so she sang a capella video games with the entire audience! Very emotional

Omg… kind of iconic what the fuck

It’s very easy to understand… when people are dissatisfied with an album they call it transitional in the hopes that Lana will offer something they actually enjoy for the next album. Both COCC and BB were called transitional albums too - is it so hard to accept that each album is a fully formed statement? and “moving into a new sonic landscape” is not unique to any particular album… every album is transitional then in this sense because the nature of making new songs means that she’ll be exploring new sonic territory?? Ocean blvd isn’t any more transitional than any of her other albums, there’s nothing to suggest this is an in-between spot between two distinct epochs of her career. And even if it were, that’s only an analysis that could make sense in retrospect

Every record since LFL has been sounding like a transitional record to some of you guys… what are we transitioning to?? We’re at the destination!

She’s become a washed out red scare trad fash mess without an interesting project to distract from it. Just wallowing in internet basements reeking of vocal fry and doritos

Apart from For Free, isn’t this the first post-NFR song she’s performed live?

~ I was on the stairs, Ella Fitzgerald in the air, feeling hella rare ~ I wish this part just went on and on and on

There is such catharsis in having VB at the end of the record. Like slipping into an end credits layer of reality, a mindless haze after the hero’s arc of the rest of the album. It feels like an altered state, which the album plays with a lot - at the end of A&W and peppers with the sort of drugged up transitions, Candy necklaces as the bad trip, both interludes. And that notion of the altered state hits harder when you consider the last words spoken in the transition from Taco Truck to VB are Lana trying and failing to recount a dream… and then she just gives way to it. It’s either an ultimate escape or something more sinister (the same way the second half of A&W could be)

Peppers has become my unexpected fave

The way she talks about the wipe out interpolation in Peppers before she actually merges into it Omg

Yay BNM