Doll Harlow

Venice Bitch feels shorter than Change

West Coast is FINE sweetie don't even try it

Honestly, I think this is her best song. 
 
Ultraviolence is shook.
Off to the Races was found dead.
Summertime Sadness can't find her wig.
Honeymoon is dead and buried.
Lust for Life is no longer with us.
Cherry choked.
Brooklyn Baby had a heart attack.
High By The Beach was killed.
Shades of Cool fell off a cliff.
Even West Coast drowned.
 
 
Fuck. Venice Bitch really did that.

For Venice Bitch, I'm reminded of the Doors, especially wrt the moog, and maybe it's crossed a little with Simon and Garfunkel. She's influenced by artists like Cat Power and Father John Misty, who do longer tracks on occasion, and Jonathon Wilson, who do longer tracks plus significant jamming. I hope she took the primary role in creating the interlude music, as having longish instrumentals is a really big change for her, and one of the obvious ways she can grow musically. Of course with experiments come failures as well as successes, but I don't think of this as a failure by any stretch. However, I do hope the album has more "torch-singing" in the other songs, as I kind of miss that.
 
With regards the album title: Hopefully, the descendents of Norman Rockwell (who died in 1978) are Lana stans and will let the title stand. It's a title that will really discomfit award shows that nominate it. What gives me hope from the album title, being as unexpected as it is, is that "Lana Del Ray AKA Lizzy Grant" and "May Jailer: Sirens" would make the sequence of released album titles a bit more reasonable, so maybe the probability is higher she (re-)release these works?  And maybe NFR will disinhibit her enough to release some unreleased collections (with surprising titles). With this artist it may be her diversity that ultimately sets her apart, which is why I stan the unreleased/suppressed stuff (as extensions of that diversity) and am not turned off by a direction change.
As for the song NFR? It will be interesting (for me, at least) to compare it to Ani Difranco's "Napoleon" (which also uses the word "fucking") and Carly Simon's "You're so vain", both classics in the genre of egotistical-artist-diss songs.

So a day has passed and I can honestly say the album title is really good. Norman Fucking Rockwell will surely grab people's attention since it's not your average album title. Smart move Lana

Listened to the interview with Zane and I’ve warmed up to the title and am sooo excited for the record
Especially the part where she talks about how she wanted Jack to keep a lot of the chord progressions cause they were so good
Also that bit about Lana flying the plane and her instructor being like “you don’t trust yourself” and her saying “you’re right, I don’t trust myself” in response is so hilarious
Ugh she is such a likeable and down to earth person

I really couldn't wait to wake up ths morning so I would be able to continue listening to VB.

VB made me cry somewhere between 6:30 and 7:00, it’s too la la la la la la beautiful, beautiful, beautiful

Also guys I cannot believe we actually made it out of the trap beats  
 
Now can people stop shitting on Jack as a producer??? I knew him and Lana would make amazing music together, Jack is such a talented and versatile producer

This makes me so emo. NYC to LA, girl to woman, legend to goddess

I love that Fantano jumped on that song like an hour after the release. And that he digs this song too. He's slowly becoming a stan lol

I love that Fantano jumped on that song like an hour after the release. And that he digs this song too. He's slowly becoming a stan lol

Is anyone else shocked as hell? But in a good way?

MAC shook me to my core and then VB took my core apart and put it back together in a better way
 
like not to be dramatic but
 
i'm more ready for the NFR era than i have been for anything ever

Already iconic
 
Edit: well this has been a flop

I'm not gonna place this with her 'LDR' discography personally, i know it sounds a bit cheesy but it fits better looking at her Lizzy Grant section imho; of course her lifelong discography would be the two "lists" compiled together but I can't deny that the title, while bad sounding for a LDR record- is perfect for something we'd expect from her pre-BtD, pre-blowup, pre-pop altogether. Even the damn cover isn't her in glam with a headshot, like every other LDR record was; it's just her set to a slice of life setting that evokes emotion, much like her AKA cover
 
jus..idk hear me out n think about it
 
 
Sirens
Kill Kill
Lizzy Grant AKA Lana Del Ray
Norman Fucking Rockwell
 
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Born to Die
Paradise
Ultraviolence
Honeymoon
Lust for Life
 
it also lowkey psyches me out seeing how complete of a story her LDR discography is, like it is a genuine study somebody could conduct and write tens of pages and essays on. The first ever opening instrumental to LDRs discog is from "Born to Die" with opulent violins and grandiose emotion; "Feet don't fail me now, take me to that finish line"
 
& with Get Free the first line is literally "Finally, I'm crossing the threshold from the ordinary world- to the reveal of my heart"- and ends  the semi-opulence we saw at the front of LfL and replaces it with ocean sounds- the exact opposite of the layered more modern production seen in BtD, something more down to Earth and grounded in realism and sanctity. even looking at the titles of the LDR records it tells a story, from the 3 words to the 1 and then finishing at the 3. 
 
While I hope to god she doesn't fade her glamorous persona for good I sincerely wouldn't be surprised if "Lana Del Rey" was over; or I'm being a casual fag and reading into things way too much and she'll go back to a LfL/Paradise sounds with more formulaic and boppier beats for LDR7 and completely shatter this theory

I'm so in love with these songs, and all the creative decisions she's making -- I've never been so excited for an album, nonetheless one by Lana. 
 
I have so many thoughts right now
 
Like, as much as I loved LFL, it seems like such an anticlimax compared to this. It's fun enough to listen to, but it really does feel empty compared to what she's given us here, already. I already love this for the same reasons I love AKA so damn much: it's Lana pursuing what she's passionate about, creating extremely unique, layered music. There's thought, soul, and inspiration behind it, and it shows. 
 
As for how strongly the era is already dividing the fans, I think it's brilliant. I haven't seen such outrage or vitriol directed at Lana for her creative choices since Born to Die, and I think it's absolutely amazing this time around, because she's consciously making provocative decisions. Like, you can't title an album Norman Fucking Rockwell without knowing it's going to give you some hell. This is the same woman, the same provocateur, that once raised eyebrows in the extreme for opening a track with the line "My pussy tastes like Pepsi-Cola". She's back.
 
I love that, especially with Venice Bitch, she's returning to that idea of nostalgia and classic Americana that we haven't seen in years and years, but as someone here said (apologies that I can't remember who), it's matured. She's become the most adept at writing in her own style that she's ever, ever been, successfully combining her starry-eyed view of the past and America (hence the reference to Rockwell, who painted an idealistic, wholesome America) with the reckless abandon and controversial attitude that made her famous in the first place, which leads us to the big ol' "fucking" slapped right in the middle of the name of an American icon.  It's heart without excessive sentimentality, and attitude without bitterness. 
 
I think these things combined (and things we have yet to see) will propel NFR to classic-level, like Born to Die or moreso -- maybe not in terms of widespread fan adoration, but in terms of being a stylish, smart, thoughtful and timeless record. 
 
I'm over the moon 

I think the album title is awesome, so different and so Lana at the same time. She's really letting loose, and it feels good.

This era already
The 10-minute track
The fucking title
 
She's really coming this era.
LFL has left the chat and found DEAD.

just took a fat hit n listening to MAC while the high kicks in so I can listen to Venice Legend 

Is anyone else shocked as hell? But in a good way?

*Throws money* 

It was only a matter of time before she did this. I always viewed her as in the same vein as Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen--a poet before anything.

It was only a matter of time before she did this. I always viewed her as in the same vein as Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen--a poet before anything.

It was only a matter of time before she did this. I always viewed her as in the same vein as Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen--a poet before anything.