Pink Champagne

I do love Kintsugi though, just don’t like how quiet it is. It’s not black and white. I like both, and have a preference for the older material.

I can assure you I wouldn’t think that! It’s more about the production elements for me. I want to feel surrounded by the song and more recent Lana songs don’t have that same effect for me. That’s all.

I will have to disagree with you on that. Still love the music though!

That is true, I think I just prefer that vocal style more combined with the atmosphere the older songs have.

Wouldn’t you say it’s more clear though? Her voice sounds a lot louder to me compared to the vocals on Kintsugi for example (which I love by the way! It’s a beautiful song, but it’s muted)

It’s not about them being piano ballads. Old Money is a piano ballad and it’s stunning. It’s warm and has soul. Some recent piano songs are lacking the emotional quality. I love Candy Necklace too. I still enjoy the new music but I will not abandon the notion that overall, her old work had better instrumentation and created a beautiful atmosphere more so than recent work.

Pink Champagne does in fact eat up the new album with the production alone save for Candy Necklace

Neil Krug is a god

In my mind they are grocery bags. I picture her mom having gone grocery shopping and a young Lana trying to get her attention while tracing her fingertips over the grocery bags.

I agree, would have loved a much longer Taco Truck, it was so fun. I’m hoping she explains why she added VB because right now I don’t see the connection.

My picture discs came

everybody is so creative!

Yes that’s the word. Each song felt like a whole world. I want to stress that I still love the current music! And I also miss the cinematic experience.

I’ll be honest I miss Rick and Dan and David and Emile

I will say that Candy Necklace gives me that older Lana feel, and it’s probably my favorite on the album. I love Fishtail too, but imagine it with BtD or Honeymoon type production. It would really eat.

The album overall is beautiful and I can see her vision with it. The weakest songs for me are Paris, Texas, Grandfather, and Peppers. I enjoy the album. I want to stress that I am not saying I want her to revisit old material because I know that’s how people will interpret this. However, there was a different quality to her work pre-NFR and maybe even before LFL (minus a few tracks, mainly unreleased ones from that time). There was something there that isn’t so present in the music anymore and it’s totally okay for some people to long for that again. Listening to this album and then listening to songs like Old Money, Dragon Slayer, etc, there is something different there. I don’t expect her to go back to that style because she’s growing as a person and I appreciate it. But I am allowed to miss that story-telling and atmosphere that old songs had. Once again, I love this new music too, but the older music had that atmosphere and maybe it’s the current producers she’s working with contributing to that (minus Jon Batiste).

I agree with you. I do like the music and it has grown on me since I first listened but it hasn’t grabbed me the way I was hoping it would like Born to Die, Paradise, UV, and Honeymoon did when I first listened.

The way she sings Lately, I've been thinkin' about how things used to be Swingin' in a nightgown underneath the old oak tree Almost Victorian with you, you can talk to me But, lately, I can see… in Fishtail is a very similar melody to Hello, pretty baby, I can be your cherry pie, You walk into the room, my heart goes boom Send me to the sky in Live or Die

I think Sweet plays well into discovering her deepest fears because it describes what she wants in a relationship and how she sees herself. And then we move onto to A&W where a guy was treating her as a side piece, completely opposite of what she describes in Sweet. The Judah Smith interlude completes this idea.

Lana said on IG that the video draws from the Black Dahlia

I see they mentioned she talks about a suicide attempt in Fingertips. Is this true? I didn’t realize that. Is it the verse where she talks about the neighbors pulling her up by her waist?

Not this again

Elon said he likes Lana’s music

Why isn’t Taco Truck 9 minutes