jazzsinger

I agree and I've literally been thinking about this all day... I know its not fair to compare albums but I cant deny that UV and HM are her most sophisticated albums and extremely progressive, lyrically speaking. I feel like theres a "bar" "fuck" "car" "America(n) "poetry" or "blue" in every other line of each song off of NFR, I know repeating words/phrases is her thing, but it didn't work for me on this album. she also said this album was deeply introspective (hope/MAC/happiness/?) but UV and HM seem infinitely more introspective to me (how can you get more real than god knows I tried???) I feel as if the songs on NFR have so much potential but the lyrics are just lacking. that being said I do love a few songs off of the album, its still fresh so im sure it'll grow on me

Her lack of self-awareness in regard to that performance is kind of telling imo.

a part of me knows lana will never top UV or HM and im trying to live with that 

i never really fell in love with video games the way everyone else did...   I feel like everyones fav song from BTD is VG when mine is easily BTD (or carmen)

whats "good" from the conservative side though

l*ves*ng is so cringey I try to forget it exists 

l*ves*ng is so cringey I try to forget it exists 

l*ves*ng is so cringey I try to forget it exists 

wait - you're telling me you don't think honeymoon is mature or sophisticated (and you think NFR IS???) have you listened to it in full? it's literally her most stripped down, vulnerable album but okay

l*ves*ng is so cringey I try to forget it exists 

l*ves*ng is so cringey I try to forget it exists 

wait - you're telling me you don't think honeymoon is mature or sophisticated (and you think NFR IS???) have you listened to it in full? it's literally her most stripped down, vulnerable album but okay

l*ves*ng is so cringey I try to forget it exists 

wait - you're telling me you don't think honeymoon is mature or sophisticated (and you think NFR IS???) have you listened to it in full? it's literally her most stripped down, vulnerable album but okay

a part of me knows lana will never top UV or HM and im trying to live with that 

wait - you're telling me you don't think honeymoon is mature or sophisticated (and you think NFR IS???) have you listened to it in full? it's literally her most stripped down, vulnerable album but okay

wait - you're telling me you don't think honeymoon is mature or sophisticated (and you think NFR IS???) have you listened to it in full? it's literally her most stripped down, vulnerable album but okay

a part of me knows lana will never top UV or HM and im trying to live with that 

wait - you're telling me you don't think honeymoon is mature or sophisticated (and you think NFR IS???) have you listened to it in full? it's literally her most stripped down, vulnerable album but okay

jackoff fan boys make me wanna gag like...imagine stanning for white mediocrity    the fact is UV and Honeymoon literally shit all over NFR and back like pick any song from those 2 albums and put it next to any track on NFR and well...it explains itself doesn't it girls, an underproduced album with terrible sound engineering and lackluster vocals will never be cute and will never be her magnum opus! sorry luv x 
also since when do we give a shit about what fucking critics say? lmao like who actually cares what some old ass white men think, they're only taking her seriously now as an artist once she stripped away the glamour and del rey persona because critics don't wanna take hyper feminine women seriously and just see them as vapid popstars 

Sorry but I have to laugh, this whole "NFR iS tHe bEsT FeMaLe aLbUm ReLeAsEd tHis dEcAdE!!1!" narrative you're trying to push is getting a little old now.
 
It's honestly laughable how you always bring up Honeymoon stans being bitter that NFR got recognition Honeymoon did not, like you're always using critics as proof of Lana's so called greatness on this record. Very same critic that literally shit all over her discography up until this album. Albums that, if I may add, probably got you into listening to her music or be a fan I presume? Shitty critics didn't stop you from listening to these albums at the time of their release, did they? Funny how now some of y'all Jackoff Antonoff stans now use that as some sort of leverage whenever people point the out the obvious faults and flaws on NFR.
 
Sorry but saying that this album is her best just because she's got good reviews for it is bullshit, it's literally been two months since its release and as much as I love Lana and think it's well overdue that she receives acclaim, saying that NFR is better than the tens of thousands of album that have been released since 2010, let alone her own albums, is a fucking joke.
 
You keep talking about how perfect this album is, but frankly, it's probably her most subdued. For the life of me, I honestly can't stand how flat, dry, tinny and lifeless the instrumentals sound, not mentioning how cheap they come off on certain tracks too. And don't even get me started on how unequal and plain the vocals sound too on most tracks. It's just painful how there is not symbiosis between voice and instruments on this record. Even some of the lyrics are just cringeworthy "Oh god miss you on my lips, it's me your little Venice Bitch" like wtf is that about? So much for Lana's alleged "best and career defining song".
 
Funnily enough, on my way back home earlier Brooklyn Baby came on shuffle, and wow, this track obliterates the vast majority of tracks on NFR. Instrumental wise it's everything NFR should've been, perfect balance of subtlety and intensity, intricate instrumentals not like "look I can play guitar!!" in your face kinda instrumentals, everything but flat, and perfect arrangement of vocals and instrumentals. An actual masterpiece.
 
At this particular point even Lust for Life was better production wise.

She never does a 2.0 of the previous album on her next albums, so we're good lol. Remember we should not believe these early descriptions because we all know how Lana is

I would like WHF to be a rock album, kind of like Ultraviolence, but with even more loud, distorted electric guitars. But, the quieter, piano and folk-style sound is okay too.

so the greatest would do well on the radio but not MAC? make it make sense 

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