pawn shop blues

Whoever wrote this needs a raise. I was laughing in a way I haven't laughed in a very long time.

Cat Power said she had a new album ready to go, but not sure if that means it is actually recorded/mixed/mastered or she is ready to start recording. I'm really interested to see where she will take the new one, because she's always doing something different from the last release.

Honestly, if she sang with passion and confidence again, I would be happy with any song she chose. I know some of the 2012-2015 performances could be rough, but she also looked genuinely interested and engaged onstage in a way that seems really rare/infrequent now.

Like others have already said, there just doesn't seem to be that extra magic that is frequently found in Lana's music. There's nothing inherently bad about it, but also really nothing that elevates it. The melody lacks variety or spark, lana is kind of mumbling through a lot of the track (except the chorus), the piano chords are "nice" but feel like very standard piano chords for a melancholic/sad type song, and the general theme of Lana falling/unable to forget someone who just can't improve their situation and behavior feels a little too familiar, especially since there's nothing in the production or vocals that redeems that sense of familiarity. Kinda like the whistling, though.

I never thought that I would ever see the day where MTWBT would be performed live. Always wondered how she would do that considering the verses and chorus overlap each other a bit. Glad to see she is adding some new songs to the setlist.

I think it would be near impossible to ever know exactly how much of her music is a play-by-play of past experiences. I think that, emotionally, she has always told the truth about what she's been through, how things felt for her. You can hear it in the lyrics and in her voice. Even if the line between fiction and reality is sometimes blurred in her songs, I've never felt "cheated" listening to her, and that's really all I care about (and possibly all I really even want to know).

I am so late on this, but I finally finished listening to the full album, finishing with Get Free. I was trying to savor a little longer, but couldn't resist. Y'all were right in saying GF has lizzy style focus. I was kind of taken aback about how much the backing vocals sound like her from years ago (unless it is someone else on backing but it sounds exactly like lizzy 2008). About the "for ___ and for ___" lyric--I like the idea some here mentioned about K and J, but I am also not sure if it really fits, considering the lyrics that come right after that basically say she is trying to be happy and free for all of those who weren't able to before they passed away. Considering what we know about K (someone--literal or not--who is on death row for crimes) and J (a violent cult leader/cult-type person), I'm not sure why she would dedicate that sentiment to those people. I think at least one of these people is Amy Winehouse. Lana has talked before about what Amy/Amy's music meant to her. Probably doesn't need to be said, but for those unfamiliar, Amy became pretty known for music that dealt a lot with sadness, drugs, and unstable relationships, themes that were lifted straight from her personal life. Amy lost her life at 27 due to complications from her addictions. Seeing as how there are parallels in Lana's past music about addiction and unstable/unhealthy relationships, it would make sense why Amy would be included as a sort of honor/inspiration. Also probably worth noting that Amy has a song called October Song--a song about the death of Amy's beloved bird Ava--that includes the lyrics "Ava flies in paradise." Considering how GF includes the "birds of paradise" right after the "for __ and for ___" lyrics--and how October Song is also a song about death--it seems likely Lana was including Amy at least somewhere in Get Free. It would also go along with what Lana said about not wanting to include things that would end up in the press, since Amy is both still a famous public figure and the LFL release date was just two days before Amy's anniversary of her death, and I could understand Lana's worry that some journalist would try to twist that into making Lana look like she was capitalizing on Amy's death.

I've been listening to this nonstop for the last few days.

Queen.

Wonderful

Hollywood Driving In Cars With Boys Backfire

I've seen so many think pieces already written about this album and what Lana's music means in the post-Trump world. I love how she always gets people talking and discussing.

If she makes an album of unreleased/leaked songs, I really don't want her touching any of them. No re-recording, no adding in additional things, no taking out parts that sound too negative or controversial for her taste today. These songs are part of her past and history and she needs to leave them there and just allow them to speak for themselves.It's a cool thing to hear an artist's growth and she would be taking that away from listeners if she tried to match it up to what she feels now, a few years later.

Maybe I am just getting really old already, but I swear you need like 3 pairs of ears to understand 90% of what lana is saying in In My Feelings. I looked up the lyrics and was amazed people could transcribe the song. especially during the bridge, i swear i am just listening to her vocalizing. (she sounds really nice in it, still don't understand a damn thing tho)

anyone else think that sean's voice in TNC sounds a lot like Elliott Smith? I mean, I know a lot of people are comparing it to John Lennon obviously, and The Beatles/John Lennon were big influences on Elliott's sound, but I hear a lot of him in the phrasing, that kind of slightly nasally but softspoken and sweet and yet rough way.

I liked Dylan when he made that first BTD video. I could accept that he hadn't heard a lot of pop music, according to him, and I loved how he saw a lot of what made BTD special. But I kept on seeing him give nearly album he was listening to "one of the best albums ever" award and when he said that about Ed Sheeran's Divide, I kind of checked out.

I am listening to this album as slowly as I can so I can savor it, so my reaction times are very behind, but BPBP is so amazing and has such a 70s vibe, especially when their voices come together. I also see what stevie was saying when she said she learned a little from Lana. I can hear her kind of dragging out the syllables just a tiny bit more (in a good way) than she normally does when she usually sings. They fit so well together in the world of the song, in a way I wasn't expecting.

The fuck! and bitch! lines in Cherry might have worked a little better if they were pronounced in a different way/tone, but they are said the same way you swear when you can't remember your google account password. It takes me out of the song a lot. Cherry's still a very good Lana song though.

Feel like Lana's fanbase is the only one who would, in the span of 24 hours, leak her entire new album that's just about to come out, get called out for that shit by Lana herself, and then suggest that Lana let everyone call her a motherfucker as a term of affection.

Considering how much shit has gotten stolen from her at this point, she probably considers it the same as YouTube.

This interview helped me re-appreciate and realize just how much strength and determination she has had to have to go down the path she did. This whole thing could have never happened had she just caved in and gone in the directions people wanted and that would have blended in with what everyone else was doing. Or it could have very, very well stopped completely after BTD and we would have never gotten anything else---and that would have been perfectly understandable, considering how much hate she got during that time. Very few people would realistically keep going in a public way after dealing with those circumstances (because again, for anyone who was not around during the BTD backlash from all corners, it was not just the typical hate that all new musicians get in some doses when they make it big, it was near-unprecedented the way people attacked every single aspect about her). Every album she's put out has been a testament to her strength of surviving all the bullshit and going with her vision. To me, that makes her a role model to everyone who is or feels different from the pack. She lets you know to just keep going and to show up with your full self, even if not everyone will connect with it or understand you.

Lana's sitting on the H of the Hollywood sign, looking to see whose souls she needs to haunt for leaking her shit.

Feel like when Lana said a release party, she meant like her, Chuck, Stella, FJM and Emma, and maybe one or two others, with Stella being super encouraging and offering vegan treats to everyone while being like "wow Lana, your album, it's finished, wow you made it, wow", Emma taking photographs of the party for her own personal collection, and FJM smoking a cigarette on the balcony while talking to a guest about "what the majority of people just don't understand" about the current social-political situation and what needs to be done about it. Then again, she's done some kind of lavish things this era compared to others, so maybe she'll rent a mansion and invite Paris Hilton and half of LA. I don't know.

bernie, there's still a chance you can win. here's how--

where did you find that? edit: nevermind