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That's not really a good reason to squander buzz. But she's not using any of this potential, so it is going to waste. Why do we need to respect them, though? Lana chose to become famous. She chose to be a singer. She chose to be signed to one of the largest record labels in the world. She could easily have ended up like hundreds of other failed musicians. Thus, her actions in regard to her job can and should be open to criticism and critique. tbh I don't understand the point of playing barely any songs from Paradise, Honeymoon, or Ultraviolence. she knows her fans, the people who pay to see her live, know her work, including her unreleased material. so there should be no problem with performing other stuff.

Exactly this. I'm not against indie artists or labels, I just don't think Lana does anything to promote her career and that she'd fall flat on her face doing any of the shit she does(n't do) if she were given an indie label-level budget.

That would only make her album releases messier tbh.

Lana Release the goddamn album already

At this point, I'm expecting LDR5 to get cancelled or pushed back or something.

Swan Song was decent imo but 24 should never have been put on the album. It was awful. Unrelated: Considering how terrible this era has gone thus far, I don't actually have faith that this album is going to come out unless I get hard information (release date, tracklist, title, etc.)

I don't know why you were expecting her to do something different from what she usually does. I'd agree with this, but it's definitely not intentional. There's no way these leaks are intentionally be used as promo when she's squandering the buzz she gets from them. This is why I hope it leaks early.

I wonder why we haven't gotten any concrete information about the album despite its first single leaking early and (apparently) its title track or a demo of it leaking.

I have it, it's 5 minutes long and they got deadmau5 to produce it.

I love Born To Die and I'd love a BTD 2.0. It's just that it was overproduced. That doesn't make it bad. Just overproduced. That said, I also want more albums like Ultraviolence, where she's pushed into creating stuff like that.

ehhhhhhh. AKA was acoutic and it wasn't boring. But I'd be okay so long as it's not overproduced.

I mean...I'll still buy it...

If we have to wait that long... I hope the whole album leaks.

Plot Twist: LDR5's tracklist is only "Love", "B A R" and 13 instances of that screech at varying lengths.

Prediction: the full album (or demos for for the full album) leaks before we even get a release date for the album. I can't believe that. There still have to be songs left off of Ultraviolence or Honeymoon or another unreleased album or something. Plus there are still a bunch of demos and alternate mixes that haven't leaked. Like Melancholia or the 8 other OTTR mixes. That actually makes me kinda sad tbh. I like this song because it feels like an AKA track to me. D: But I'll reserve judgement until I hear the final version.

I don't think I've been this excited for an album since Ultraviolence. "Love" was okay to me but this new song has me so excited. It reminds me of AKA.

Do other fan forums filter leaked information about a musician's work? x_x If someone (Lana's team) is reading this and making them censor it...well...they need to be securing Lana's shit instead.

False. Angels Forever could have definitely sounded good on Ultraviolence if it was redone the way Black Beauty was. And Fine China wasn't even that good. To be fair, it wasn't finished I assume, but as it is it doesn't compare to any of the material that was on Ultraviolence.

I don't know about anyone else, but I think Honeymoon was inconsistent quality wise. It's my least favorite album by Lana. I can't listen to it all the way through. The first three tracks and last three tracks of the album were almost completely terrible (with the exception Music To Watch Boys To, which was the best song on the album) and the middle of the album is just monotonous. I can listen to individual songs from Honeymoon but not the entire project. I agree. IMO, she peaked sonically with Ultraviolence (mostly because of Dan Auerbach) and lyrically with either AKA or Born To Die (only looking at material that was released). And honestly, it's not that she can't top Ultraviolence, AKA, or Born To Die. It's that she doesn't really seem invested in improving. It's why I want her to take as long a break as she needs between LDR5 and LDR6 just for her to get that fire back.

It's so odd people would see National Anthem as serious. Same with Brooklyn Baby. I saw Brooklyn Baby as ironic but non-stans thought she was serious.

I agree and disagree. An unironic vintage Americana album would be tasteless in the face of Trump. However, if she's clever enough lyrically, she could subvert the Americana and make it a critique of Trump. Something in the vein of National Anthem could work (I always understood that song as a derision of Americanism).

Have you listened to the original versions? I feel like Lana did a decent enough job with The Other Woman but she sucked the soul out of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.

No. I don't want her to do another Nina Simone cover.

Hmm. >Lana doesn't need promo >Love not doing well is the fault of the leakers Pick one. Songs often leak before their intended release, that's been a fact for most of the 21st Century thus far. And yet, there are songs that get leaked still do well. If Love doesn't do as well as it could have, it's not because of leakers. It's because Lana or Interscope failed to push the song the way they should. That's Lana Del Rey's fault, not leakers'.

uhhhh, what? i would hardly call BTD, Paradise, or Honeymoon trip-hop.