LaMartine

i didn't feel heroin when i was streaming lfl on deezer either it took me going to a fishing trip to realise that i loved it so much, anyway i understand

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yeah i'm sorry too, i graduated high school when i was 16 didn't have the time to really understand teen drama

GBA would be so much better if the lyrics weren't so meek and passive in nature but i enjoy it EVEN THO IT HAS LITERALLY THE SENTENCE "GOD BLESS AMERICA" THAT SOUNDS SO MUCH BUSH FOR ME so that is pretty exceptional (i didn't need gba to be blatant 101 in yo face feminism tho but still) (i know it's an altogether american thing, but uh i get so many bush father/son memories) I have a question, who are these Gays i'm hearing about on this forum. Are they gay men, gay people, gay TMs with a set of pre-defined archetypes that i should know about? like does it pertain to gay women too? Am I one of the Gays? Do you include BIs? Is it an umbrella? i'm an ignorant as honestly i hardly have any straight friends and none of them stan celebrities. Someone mansplain to me please

I don't think anyone could be so devious as dropping such a tasteless yo momma joke like that, i know she's shading kanye with this single but i hope she's not going to go directly looking for him on the day she's dropping the album too, because i hope by that time that she'll realise what date it is. it would be too much honestly while i thought 1989 had some qualities her music really is a bit overrated, i can't understand all the awards and acclaim she receives i mean her work is pretty basic it's puzzling me. also the girl can sing but i don't like her voice, in her last album there are tracks when she's speaking about her songwriting process and it's very interesting but i don't like her timber: it's like listening to a recording of myself (and i hate my voice); LWYMMD tho i like the way she sings i actually liked hearing her and she's not actually even singing but the song was too petty and not grown up enough tho :/ i tried to get into her music, like she says i'll see how this one ends

i'm sure no one is saying it's easy but it's her job, if she decides to do live shows her performances need to be nice or at least she should try to make them so. many of her fans are young and probably depend on their parents, not everyone will have the opportunity to see her more than once so she should honour that and make it memorable. the conditions during her lives can be improved, and it's not that unbearable other artists do it too i just want lana to be the best she can be

I like the alternative version to summer bummer, especially because of the additional vocals and humming but i miss the "it's never too late to ..." verse

oh she gives me some yolandi visser vibes, i'm definitely going to try and check her music

I had to go and listen to The Avener mix for lfl, because I didn't until now. I think LDR's artistry has the potential for that, even if we get everything wrong it sounds like teasing fun just to lay out the archetypes of her aes xx yeah, i haven't thought about it especially since it will increase her streaming of the song on other platforms no matter what, so i'll be expecting a 5 minutes long video for now (if .. we get it) unless she goes for a simple super 8 style she usually nails her videos, if she does i'm going to be let down

Big Eyes

with all these recurring themes and tropes i'm kinda surprised we're not having a lana del rey mv bingo (the mechanic aesthetic with sweaty men in white tanks, i cannot) still it sounds strange to do so much with such a short song :/ at least for me

i have to take back what i said about still not being sure about the album, listened to it looking at ducks with my legs suspended in mid-air: it was awesome. music to brood over nature to. yeah i'm gonna sound corny but it really is a good soundtrack for life, it captured the zeitgeist of my post 2016 moodiness can't wait for more time to pass

i wonder if during the mv she's going to actually have a fast racing car moment to hint at the VROOOOM heard in wm, it seems logical but lfl had these motorbike sounds going on that came out of nowhere (but that's ok for me :DD) if she ever drops the video

yess there's such a peculiar feeling of 60s girls group and her timbre of voice is heavenly <3 and i know some people think it's too loud but that song is perfect, amazing; there are so many elements that it isn't difficult to imagine a music video to it and i agree about the endurance at live show like other said, i wouldn't mind if she took 5/10 minutes to herself to smoke a cigarette or drink something in the middle of the show tbh (i've never seen her live so i don't know if she does that already) it's cool that lana can be so chill now but i hope that she realises that the other A-listers really take it to their heart to perform well for a waiting crowd because they know, i have a feeling that particular thing is not her priority for now and she's content but maybe that's gonna change? hopefully? TNC & BPBP are not exactly my faves but they are so pleasant to listen to honestly, i never skip them

The backup vocals for Get Free still have me shook one month after the release, it's honestly so good I remember being just a bit underwhelmed when the album came out but still it didn't stop me from listening to it everyday

she gives 90s kate moss vibes in that cover, i'm not a fan but the misogyny used against her has always gone out of hand and i sympathise yo i'm fascinated, i've bought 1989 at the time and i can't wait to see how she handles her return, i'm a 100% sucker for stories about taking back your agency this is going to be interesting but i hope she doesn't over dramatize it

oh i live for the space/cosmic aesthetic tbh which is why i'm so disappointed WM is probably the only mv we're going to get (Get Free could have had so much potential). I'm going to be kept longing, yearning for more :/ Lana is keeping me hungry Y.Y

I had to vote for heroin for personal reasons but when I was still streaming the album on deezer Get Free was the favest. Second spot is shared by WTWWAW (it has La Femme Ressort instrumentals for a moment, I LIVE FOR THAT) and Cherry, both are so sexy . GBA (and it has america!!! in it and i still love it) and the two features with SN&SOL come third

it's the collateral damage of an unpopular opinion thread leave it be, she flexes her voice all right during those vowels: maybe in a couple months time you'll come back to those songs and love them more and think this was all ridic, not everything must be fast paced words

yeah i think she sounds great too and in that song it doesn't bother me that much because i know it serves a purpose (she's being very emotional and we get an interesting glimpse into her inner world, basically her toxic relationships makes her feel anxious while she falls into a whirlwind of insecurities so i can understand that her poor soul feels haunted, her brain repeats her jabs again and again; it's sad and it helps me feel her pain) but i still have a personal negative bias i can't shake off . I'm listening to AKA rn and she does the ray-ray ray raise me up, which i'm kinda okay with tbh?. For the rest I can't be harsh on her on her unreleased tracks because it's difficult to criticise negatively something that wasn't meant to be broadcasted and she's careful with this trope in BTD, i have a hard time with this figure of speech when it's not cathartic or she doesn't use it to show off her vocal prowess when the verse is full of vowels, especially since to begin with i have a difficult time relating to lana's lyrics (but i relate to her emotions and everything else about her i like really). Like I said I'm pretty sure this dude's white mustang is triggering for her, but not for me so it slightly spoils the song for my taste. I feel L4L could feel much more polished if she avoided doing that in the title track and white mustang.

yep what bothers me is that i think she could write a good chorus if she were less lazy but it as if she foregoes that for the sake of her beloved trope which she can't move on from, i mean i understand she has somewhat of an obsessive personality reusing the same lyrics and such in many songs; it could be an innocent good artistic choice but sometimes if feels like recycling -.- literally the only way i can accept the chorus of g&r is if i interpret it like a warped antanaclasis he loves guns & roses (he likes guns and roses) he loves g&r (he likes danger/excitement but also beauty/nature) guuuns and roses, roses, ... (her love interest is bi or pan because some people have guns between their tights and others have roses and he loves all)

Okay here it comes, I don't know if in the 200 and so pages someone already brought it up but I don't like how lana continuously uses the title of her song as the main lyrics of her choruses, I'm not saying she shouldn't do it, probably she actually does it purposefully and it is me who doesn't *connect* to it so as an artist who knows better she can do as she pleases, but honestly I'd love it if she'd use it less like in UV and HM title tracks i can understand the use of repetition because the words "ultraviolence" and "our honeymoon" are actually evocative and the way she sings it actually puts me in the right ambiance and imo she does it best in Sad Girl because the sad/bad girl litany has this pathetic registry to it so it triggers something emotional to me but in the next track the PWYC chorus doesn't have that effect any more and more blatantly i almost hate it in G&R, the song is well structured, i love her voice and the instruments - if she could just add two worlds to the chorus to make it somewhat like a sentence or something more sophisticated i'd love it because repeating g&r doesn't cut it to me and it happens again in white mustang, a song i could be in love with but again the rhetorical device that makes the title repeat in the chorus frustrates me. maybe the apparition of his white mustang triggers something deep in her and probably makes her heart skip a beat but i don't relate and it leaves me wanting more from the track and i'm left with no satisfaction and in L4L it's even worse but it fascinates me that she doesn't seem to do it in BTD (if i recall correctly, by memory) sorry lana