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Also… i need another Doin time situation to happen so WCE ends up on the next album. It’s too beautiful to end as a stand-alone single and I need more songs like this on LDR9

Other version of WCE was clearly made specifically for the episode and will be heard there (as it was already teased in the trailer). The version we got is probably the OG version Lana wanted to be released – especially with drums being “off-key,” this is kinda her already known procedure to make songs “imperfect.” Not saying you have to love this effect, I’m just saying this is something she often does with her songs.
 
I personally like it, I don’t like this whole obsession with making music super polished and I appreciate Lana for doing things on one take, I think it makes her craft unique.

I think it’s mainly the production for me, the chorus sounds like a karaoke backing track to me if that makes sense? Iike the ones on YouTube that are basically fanmade and not the real instrumental

lipsters listening to the song for the first time after giving the "insiders" attention

i think it's time we turn that chicken coop into a rotisserie 

her chickens followed her into the studio

Watercolouuurrr eyes
That don’t make it right
 

Some fans like: why can't this soft soundtrack, meant for a sad movie scene, sound like a rocking, richly produced dance hit with electric guitar and drums?

I love it so much

I always feel bad when I see people aren’t liking the direction she’s going in. I respect all opinions and it sucks to be disappointed in your favorite artist’s releases, and I’ve tried to figure out why mid/post-NFR tracks sound so different from her older material. 
 
What I’ve decided is that, especially with the adoption of her spoken poetry, she said she likes almost freestyling and making very few edits to things—just letting them be what they are. I think she lived by this dogma in the beginning with AKA, where everything felt and sounded like it had spontaneous air in the mix. 
 
Once she was signed by a big label, naturally they try to boil it down to a concentrate—cut out any stray frequencies, smooth and condense her voice, have crisp instrumentals keen for radio and movie play, etc.
 
I had liked Lana’s music in the past, but I really became a stan with the release of Mariner’s and Venice Bitch, because, while I hadn’t heard much from UV or anything at the time, I felt I could hear her true artistry come through in those tracks, with their lo-fi, vocal-center approach. It captured the electricity of a live performance, of an artist creating and breathing in real-time that sounded so different from the slick, airtight productions on the radio or sleek, older material of hers that I was familiar with.
 
I think she’s leaned even further into that after her work with Jack. We’ve heard her collaborators say that she’s done vocals in one take, or how she literally wrote and recorded White Dress on the spot while Jack played some chords. I think, above all lately, she values organicness—the feeling of catching lightning and bottling up that emotion right away, to present it as it was at that moment in time, and not revisit it. While I agree it has led to some more human “errors” (slightly wrong notes, lags in timing, fuzzy gear playback), I feel this is all so hyper-intentional in her art now, almost like a protest of the modern music industry. It’s almost like her trajectory has been a circle to get back to that spontaneity she felt with AKA.
 
I really appreciate that art and feel it is true to her acoustic, songwriting soul, but at the same time I see how far that is from the BTD—and even Honeymoon—sound, for example. I definitely feel empathy for the people who don’t love it as much and just wanted to type out my thoughts in case it resonated with anyone. Artists’ journeys have always been so interesting to me, and Lana’s is certainly one of the most uniquely interesting ones we’ve had to witness, as one of the first true viral stars to reigning indie/alt queen of the music counterculture.

I was sold to this song as soon as I heard « Rock Candy Sweet »  It’s really dreamy. 

I never expected it to be anything more than a cute simple repetitive song with classic ldr unreleased vibes and that’s what I got. Very happy with it <3 reminds me of the good old days before norman got her annoying new fans that can’t appreciate this side of her   

Last time I felt this catchiness from her melodies was when she released Chemtrails the title track, I think pre-chorus in WCE is almost as great as COCC’s chorus, the song itself isn’t just as polished but I don’t mind it, it reminds me of her Ultraviolence ~messiness~… this is Lana in her best form once again. 

I like tove lo but literally no one cares about her songs 

and this is actually so sad because the BTD one would fit the 10-year anniversary theme so good!!! like it's a commentary on all the criticism Lana got around that time and then through her whole career

Other version of WCE was clearly made specifically for the episode and will be heard there (as it was already teased in the trailer). The version we got is probably the OG version Lana wanted to be released – especially with drums being “off-key,” this is kinda her already known procedure to make songs “imperfect.” Not saying you have to love this effect, I’m just saying this is something she often does with her songs.
 
I personally like it, I don’t like this whole obsession with making music super polished and I appreciate Lana for doing things on one take, I think it makes her craft unique.

Last time I felt this catchiness from her melodies was when she released Chemtrails the title track, I think pre-chorus in WCE is almost as great as COCC’s chorus, the song itself isn’t just as polished but I don’t mind it, it reminds me of her Ultraviolence ~messiness~… this is Lana in her best form once again. 

and this is actually so sad because the BTD one would fit the 10-year anniversary theme so good!!! like it's a commentary on all the criticism Lana got around that time and then through her whole career

Last time I felt this catchiness from her melodies was when she released Chemtrails the title track, I think pre-chorus in WCE is almost as great as COCC’s chorus, the song itself isn’t just as polished but I don’t mind it, it reminds me of her Ultraviolence ~messiness~… this is Lana in her best form once again. 

releasing three $2.5k vinyls for ugly rich people but not a 10-year anniversary edition of BTD... interesting choice

releasing three $2.5k vinyls for ugly rich people but not a 10-year anniversary edition of BTD... interesting choice

and this is actually so sad because the BTD one would fit the 10-year anniversary theme so good!!! like it's a commentary on all the criticism Lana got around that time and then through her whole career

releasing three $2.5k vinyls for ugly rich people but not a 10-year anniversary edition of BTD... interesting choice

and this is actually so sad because the BTD one would fit the 10-year anniversary theme so good!!! like it's a commentary on all the criticism Lana got around that time and then through her whole career

releasing three $2.5k vinyls for ugly rich people but not a 10-year anniversary edition of BTD... interesting choice