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    Do y'all think it matters if we live in the US and order from her Canada store?

     

    You can definitely do it if you just wanna purchase the digital album for the presale code. I'm from Canada and I've done it on the US store for the NY presale.

    Don't do it for merch though the exchange rate is already bad as is, and you'll pay a shit ton for shipping

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  6. Posted

    It does say "Purchase any item from the store before Thursday, September 28th at 11:59PM EST and you'll gain access to an exclusive tour pre sale. More information on dates coming Wednesday September 27th.", so I'm just going to be preordering the vinyl, which I wanted to buy anyway.

     

    Sorry Lizzy but I'm not paying 50$ for a cap or 85$ for a cheap windbreaker

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    can we discuss the lyrics now?  :flutter:

     

    I'm assuming we can since it's out almost everywhere...

     

    SO, I need yall's help... Genius says it's "the fact that I can't deal" but I keep hearing "the fact that I can't heal" (which I like a lot more...)

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    My quick review after two listen throughs: 

     

    Love - 6.5/10 Lana brought something unexpected with this track which was happiness and that makes it nice to listen to, but I don't think I will be coming back to it much 

     

    Lust for Life - 7/10 It's sincerely a cute track. Not much depth but it's not trying to be deep.

     

    13 Beaches - 8/10 When those beats kick in! Godly! Strings at the beginning I am uncertain.

     

    Cherry - 6.5/10 Perhaps just not my thing but I find it a little repetitive and there's a lot going on

     

    White Mustang - 7.5/10 A really solid track, quintessentially Lana. Could've been a bit more fleshed out.

     

    Summer Bummer - 8/10 I love A$AP and I love Lana and I love them singing together. A strong track, but I do wish there was either a rap or more singing on Lana's part - even speak-singing.

     

    Groupie Love - 7.5/10 It is a great song and while I love A$AP I am still iffy about his verse - it seems a bit too generic, like anyone could've written it.

     

    In My Feelings - 5/10 Not feeling it so much

     

    Coachella - 6/10 Not a terrible song, works quite good as an interlude or a transition.

     

    God Bless America - 8/10 Strong song, good message, and a nice beat.

     

    WTWWAWWKD - 8.5/10 Very strong vocals and music

     

    BPBP - 7.5/10 Their voices have a strange way of contrasting against each other starkly when singing separately but when singing together it is heavenly

     

    Tomorrow Never Came - 9/10 It's made me cry last night it's made me cry this morning. Personal wishes, like wanting more tropical sounding Lana, push this one to the top for me. I just wish they had one more "Hey, Lady-lay" bit after the bridge and it would've been a 10.

     

    Heroin - 7/10 I don't know how to feel about it quite yet, but I like the story inside it.

     

    Change - 5/10 I know some critics were saying it's a strong song, but it was a little too stark and bare. I don't think I like Lana over a solo piano.

     

    Get Free - 9/10 It sounds so Lana and yet like she has grown so much from the woman who released BTD 5 years ago. The direct reference to Ride especially pleases me as that is one of my top songs.

     

    Individual songs averaged - 7.5/10

    As an album I would give it an 8 or 8.5/10!

     

    Wow I'm glad I don't hate myself to the point of preferring Coachella to Change

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    From the highlighted, I agree with the first part, that it will weaken, but if you're into Roman history and have ever read The Rise Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon, old as shit, long as shit, but fun to discuss and debate :D) or have divulged into how the empire split into two, you'd see that the "collapse" of the Roman empire was more of a dissolution than anything. It wasn't a big, violent implosion. Like the saying goes, "It went out with not a bang, but a whimper." The power was gone. Other areas of Europe, Asia, and Africa were becoming stronger, richer, and their religions were in direct competition with the beliefs of the Roman empire, and they held much more power. 

     

    BRICS was an optimistic thought that didn't turn out as planned, for sure. I think a multi-power structure is inevitable, and if that turns sour, as it has all throughout history through economic competition, ideological disagreements, etc, the loss of stability would be far-reaching. 

     

    To finish the line... it's only the beginning. Maybe not in our lifetime, but we (the world) are likely to see some massive shifts in paradigm, and they will be rattling, but collapse I can't see happening too suddenly. There's too much investment around the world in the US right now for other smaller yet still mighty powers to accept it. But there will be weakening. An immediate example that comes to mind is Russia. Russia has obviously weakened since the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union, but Russia is still alive in well, just poorer and less powerful. We'll probably see something similar. 

     

    brb going to go read the Foundation series because I miss this kind of introspection lololol

     

    The Roman empire approach is quite interesting to be honest, let me look into that (not a pro)! Moreover, I think that the outcome would vary according to the cultural differences between the old and the new hegemon, a bit like Huntington said in Clash of Civilizations... The rise of the sinic civilization against the occidental civilization would have, in my opinion, similar impacts as the clash between the orthodox and occidental civilizations during the Cold War.

     

    And about that, the shift in the 90s from a bipolarity to an unipolarity with a lowkey multipolarity has had its fair share of damage... Neither Russia nor any successor state of the USSR is doing good; they have all failed to modernize themselves economically, politically and culturally, and are crippled with corruption, poverty, political instability and gas dependancy.

     

    Maybe I'm also too much a believer in brutal changes/collapses, as any good marxist. :hooker: 

     

    :)

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  25. Posted

    I mean, a bunch of people less privileged than most of us would probably die, so not a great thing to wish mate

     

    Also America wouldn't just collapse socially and everyone start killing each other off but keep making money for the rest of the world. My ideal scenario would be a transition from world power to global power, so that America was no longer a hegemon. But cmon 

     

    edit: I actually talked with some of my fellow researchers the other day. US power is inevitably going to soften in the next three years unless Trump does something horrible and it escalates in a big way. Other countries are already recruiting US talent for research like mad because they know it'll be easy to convince them if they have adequate funding (that Trump might jeopardize). China will probably take the place of economic powerhouse over the US in the next few years, for better or for worse. But I just hate when people say they want a collapse because that would destroy the lives/kill so many disadvantaged people and it's the opposite of wanting a better world.

    Yeah the occidental world order is not doing good, especially under Trump... I mean not only is he fucking up America itself but also its relationship with other occidental countries. However, I don't think a collapse is avoidable; there's no way any new hegemon will appear under the Bretton-Woods system, it's just way too inherently american... BRICS would be the only viable option but lol...

     

    Basically I think the US will remain the world leader, but will be a weak one at that, which would destroy all hope for stability...

     

     

    ​It is the end of an era... It is the end of America...

     

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