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  9. Posted

    Production aside, even the lyrics sound half-finished and/or awkward to me (though this is a trend on NFR, not the title track alone)

    Goddamn, manchild
    You fucked me so good that I almost said I love you
    You're fun and you're wild
    But you don't know the half of the shit that you put me through
    Your poetry's bad and you blame the news
    But I can't change that, and I can't change your mood

    I've hated these lyrics since the moment I heard them in that snippet she teased with the ugly filter. This isn't funny, this isn't cute, this isn't "organic," this isn't good – much less so being the first lyric on the entire album. She follows Get Free (IMO one of the best songs in her entire catalogue) with this? If you're going to write lyrics this lazy at least put in some vocal effort; she sounds bored as hell; there's hardly any melody.



    'Cause you're just a man; it's just what you do
    Your head in your hands as you color me blue
    Yeah, you're just a man, all through and through
    Your head in your hands as you color me blue
    Blue, blue, blue

     

    At least she sounds interested in her own song, I suppose. Not really sure what she's supposed to mean by "you're just a man; it's just what you do." As an aside, I don't really get the whole full-of-himself douchebag character from this song; it's there in parts but to me it feels like she just touches on that aspect – it feels more about her relationship with the man in question. This chorus to me could be from a completely different song. The repetition of the second line in the chorus feels clunky and, again, lazy, as does the repetition of the word "blue."



    Goddamn, manchild
    You act like a kid even though you stand six-foot-two
    Self-loathing poet, resident Laurel Canyon know-it-all
    You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you
    But I don't get bored – I just see you through
    Why wait for the best when I could have you?

     

    And again with "goddamn, manchild" . The song picks up somewhat with the second verse, which feels more on-par with how Lana described the song. The resigned "why wait for the best when I could have you?" line does sound very Lana, but after showing signs of moving forward mentally on Lust for Life, this feels like a regression, a step backward.



    'Cause you're just a man; it's just what you do
    Your head in your hands as you color me blue
    Yeah, you're just a man, all through and through
    Your head in your hands as you color me blue
    Blue, blue
    You make me blue

     

    Her vocals sound pleasant enough on the outro, but again, the repetition starts to get a little stale.

     

     

    And that's just the lyrics; the strings at the beginning of the song are too quiet, the piano sounds cheap and demo-ish, and she sounds bored for half the song. The strings, while a nice touch, are too quiet and cheap-sounding; the horns at the end of the song are pleasant. While the song isn't horrible, it does feel like an early take, an incomplete version of a song to be finished at a later time. For the title track of an album that'd been teased for about a month shy of a year before its released, I kind of expected better.

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  13. Posted

    Kinda ignored Black Beauty for so long but I really see how beautiful it is now. I relate to the fucking subject of the song FUCK

     

    Small curiosity but is it the same vocal take on the final and the demo version?

    I'd say it really sound like but haven't payed full attention. I'd say they just fucked up some stuff for the final (add reverb and noise) but not sure she re-recorded??

     

    There could be some lyric changes too but, as I mentioned, didn't pay full attention. Started wondering because of the Love demo that sounds a lot like final take too.

    Sounds like the same vocal take to me, with the addition of some reverb. Same lyrics
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  20. Posted

    Let's focus on what's important here.

     

    Honeymoon sessions.

     

     

     

    and china palace

     

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

    LEAK CHINA PALACE.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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