Ryusei

It's really interesting that Lana has Weyes Blood ends the record. I get why people would be upset about it but it's kind of a beautiful gesture, especially with the reviewer saying that she really sounds like Joni in the closing moments. Lana really looks up to her idols and has been treated well by many of them, like Joan Baez, Stevie Nicks, Bruce Springsteen, etc, so it's almost like she's passing on that kindness to someone else she admires.
 
Lana has been searching for this community of hers for so long and it seems like she's finally found it. The album cover makes a lot more sense to me now. It's like this whole album is a cross-country road trip and that picture could have been a casual moment taken at one of her stops along the way as she catches up with old friends. Nikki's feature is like another stop across the country where she plays a song at a bar with another old friend. It makes sense that she technically debuted the song in that way.
 
Like @Dragon pointed out perfectly, there's this theme of fostering love from other women and being able to be who she wants to be. I think these elements will be the safety and hope that balance the darker themes about the struggles she's faced in the industry and the longing for her simpler past. 

Also the daddy from Mojo is hot... Lemme suck him for informations

Ask the MOJO guy if he's listened to Dolphin Flower yet 

She said it was “cool” and mentioned having “a lot of good lightning in the air in Oklahoma”
 
sizzlin like a snare!! 
 
I feel like she’s so self critical, that her describing the song as cool gives me a lot of hope

WHF IS ALIVE??! 
 

You
Should Stay
That Close To
Jesus




 

LB crashed for me for like 10 minutes
LB is not ready for what’s coming 

it made me feel.. it made feel like a god 
 

Manifestation kitty is READY 

a contender? forget that you already won let’s give conceptart47 their title

Don’t be afraid of our law. She’s singing it for Sean.

? We're on the boards, dragging our sweet clowns
There's nothing wrong, hating on LFL
Watching the meltdowns, over the circus club ?

"lust for shit"
 
"7 minutes ago, lustforlife said:"
 

 
 

yaaawn what a tired dig

Well as someone who has probably heard the original several hundred times let me give a little breakdown of some changes I have noticed (which are clear as day to me):
 
- In general in the song I feel like the drums are a lot more noticeable especially the hi-hat and the fast drumming part right before the chorus. Fiddle is also slightly louder i think.

- The background vocals are more subtle in this version, I feel like in the original you could hear them more prominently.

- Taylor's vocals are a lot fuller, less frail sounding she sounds a lot more in control of what she's doing and I feel like there is a brightness to the new vocals and an enthusiasm that wasn't there in the original, which probably stems from having to compensate a little because her voice did get a bit lower over the years. But it works perfectly for this song. Also she used to have a rather heavy twang still back then which is non-existant now and that, to me, mainly shows in her "R" pronunciations. Like "Real" or "For" etc. 
Long Story Short.mp3 I love her new vocals.

- Main vocal delivery/pronunciation etc. differences or lack thereof:
    - Verse 1 is basically exactly the same, no big differences
 
    - Chorus 1 "waiting" and "run" are 2 words where you can perfectly hear the thing about the brightness I was talking about, also confidence I guess. 
 
    - Verse 2 already starts a little differently, when she sings "so I" she kinda goes - _ - if you know what i mean lol in the original she just went - - - all just very flat. Also "dead if they knew so close your eyes" got a lot more flavor to it now. I guess that would be a good way to describe it. Also the "oh oh" after "escape this town for a little while" is very different. In the original she kinda just does 2 Ohs and this one feels more staccato-ish again from new vocal techniques. 
 
   - Chorus 2 "this love is difficult" she pronounces "difficult" completely differently from the original and the "but it's re eal" afterwards is also different. 

   - Bridge She added a "but" in front of "I got tired of waiting" that wasn't there before but that she sang live a lot I guess it became very natural to her. 
 
   - Final Chorus The way she sings "That's all I really know" is so much better here like to me it brings across the conviction this part is supposed to express so well. Also breathing here is slightly different, i think she takes one more breath throughout the whole section. 
 
   - The little Oh Ohs at the end are pretty much the same
 
Hope you enjoyed my TED talk lmao and yes I have no life. 
  
 
 

She really just spawns in a random state every 3 weeks. I'm jealous seems fun

LB user resisting the urge to say “duRiNg a pAnDEmIc?!?” for the 100th time this year 

yaaawn what a tired dig

I had always heard in Sad girl the lyric - He’s money on the side, About 2 months ago I found out I’m deaf.

yaaawn what a tired dig

yaaawn what a tired dig

yaaawn what a tired dig

yaaawn what a tired dig

Katy just getting "untalented" 

These were the first few interviews I heard her actually talk etc Which made me fall in love with her at the time 
 
 
It hurts so much especially with the memories I have attached to that part of my life. I was happy, free and has so much less responsibility. I love who I am now but I'd give anything to experience  just one day back in 2012/13/14