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Jon Batiste Interlude is so euphoric

I personally find it very beautiful when Lana sings about her family. She's not just providing insight into her own world, she's also encouraging us to contemplate those people in our own lives. A lyric like "my grandmother's last smile" is so powerful because how can someone hear it without considering their own grandmother's last smile? "Charlie, stop smoking" doesn't just make me think of Lana's brother, it makes me think of the people I love who are smokers and wish they could cut back too. "Chucky was there for three out of three" makes me think about rushing back to my hometown for my dad's final days. I think people get a lot more out of her lyrics when they find ways to relate them back to their own lives. Lana is a magician and she's very much placing these thoughts in our head for reasons that go beyond her in my opinion, she's just doing it in the way that is most personal and meaningful to her.

I wonder if my neighbours have been enjoying the album

I had the most beautiful weekend with this album. Two of my closest friends who have moved away were both in town and Friday night I listened fully with one of them, and then Saturday all 3 of us listened together and they were both so deeply floored. It sparked so many interesting conversations about life and death and family and everything in between and I am so grateful for those 2 listening experiences

I think it's definitely an interesting addition and the instrumental is obviously stunning. It's inclusion is quite thought provoking because at times it does seem like she's supporting everything he's saying, but she also chose to make it spooky, and then by the end of the album she's literally dancing naked for her neighbours which goes directly against how this sermon starts. It's placement so close to Jon Batiste Interlude with only one hypnotic song in between also makes me think they are some sort of yin and yang vibes. Lana certainly contains multitudes

Telegraph was added, back to 80

The fact that the album ends with this lyric is too good. I swear her work goes right over most of these people's heads, but she really has the last laugh.

Omg I didn't even bother with the review after I saw the "self-indulgent" bs, but this is baaad. How could they publish that sentence and not feel stupid?

Sorry but a critic dismissing Fingertips tells me all I need to know

Self-indulgent seems like such reductive criticism for an album like this. It's literally a twisted journey to the center of her heart and mind, like it should be "self-indugent." She's exploring her soul with no filter and it's a sight to behold.

Candy Necklace seems like some hypnotic odyssey through toxic relationships or something, it's genuinely unsettling. She put drugs in that song, she knew what she was doing by repeating I am obsessed with it over and over

Surely that Variety review is at least a 90, they called it a riveting emotional tour de force in the headline alone.

One of my besties who moved away arrives for a weekend visit in a few hours and I am so excited for our listening this evening!! He loves Lana but doesn't listen to her often because he finds her overwhelmingly emotional, but he is ready to dive into the ride tonight

I honestly could see this happening, I think she purposely made Taco Truck short as a little moment, but I wouldn't be surprised at all if she revisits it later.

Obsessed with this song

This album is really proving how irrelevant music critics are

I switched to my phone and found it, thank you!

I just downloaded the Apple Music free trial to see what this Dolby Atmos business is all about, how do I know if I have it turned on? I went to settings but I don't see anything about it

10/10

This pre-release was frightening at times but it's been a lot of fun and the album is absolutely everything I could have dreamed of! Can't wait to fully discuss this masterpiece in the post-release and then hopefully take a break before we are thrown into it all again!

All the little threads that connect the songs is so amazing

Omg the talking on Taco Truck x VB is MARGARET

The Rockefeller, my umbrella parts in Candy Necklace might be one of my favourite moments in all her music

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