GeminiLanaFan

I'm quoting myself lol i know, but... I dont hate country if it sounds like the twang guitar in Wait For Life.

amen! This is my fave sound for her. But did I understand wrong , but did she say in her Mojo interview that she has like TWO country cover albums? PLUS the folk one?!? If so, I better say farewell to my West Coast and Venice Bitch type of songs

Well with her, the direction of the album could have changed 10 times lol. That it stayed the same is almost surprising haha

I was thinking the same, but the way I see it now: - 45 minutes of a coherent vision is awesome; - Mojo's review made me think Chemtrails was the follow-up - sister album to NFR, so I'm curious to hear them back to back. If they are coherent with each other, it'll tell a two-hour story

Has anyone heard anything about WD having been uploaded on Spotify for a second before removal? It’s a rumour on some FB fan pages (if we think Twitter fans are awful, when it comes to trolls wanting to be interesting, FB groups are the worst). I didn’t see proofs of it, and nobody here is talking about it, so trolls probably.

I think you’re right about the number of snippets. But to me, it’s not the number of snippets that bug me as much as what proportion of the song did we hear (looking at you, Cinnamon Girl) and how long before release did we hear them. It seems she started the teasing game with LFL in the spring before release as a promo thing maybe and it was not that much in advance. But damn NFR had at least 3 or 4 songs teased via snippets a good 8 months before release, Which made me believe it would be like LFL and that album was coming sooner than it did. i Love that we heard almost nothing of this album, except, again, that TJF was posted way too soon for my own comfort. But it could be just me haha.

Snippets work when it’s no more than a couple of songs and not very far from release. LFL era was good on that matter because ewe still had surprises when the album dropped. But NFR was something else.

I liked the description of the songs, loved the appreciation from her piers, the recap of her albums and career. Maybe because Chemtrails feels like it’s another « threshold » in her career, I like the portait they presented of her. It felt genuine without being too « polite » or too « controversial ». But I agree that the photos are some of her weakest ever. Charlie, you are hot, but you are really giving me « I’m an art student » kinda vibe and not in a good way. Dealer taking the place of the WHF snippets on Debris now that we know WHF is TJF.

A HQ leak of NFR hasn’t happened a couple of days prior due to CD shipped early?! I think I listened to the album before release date because of a Hq leak...

You’re absolutely right. And to be honest, it was one of her best interviews ever. I guess we’re just starving and being impatient because we are so close to the finish line. But I gotta say, it’s weird promo, to water down each thing by giving nothing in between. But I guess we should be used to it by now, after NFR.

Lol she better do something soon: we’re officially losing it.

Yeah but I don’t know what is going on with this era, but doesn’t she always post important shit on the weekend? So maybe tomorrow?

Oh ok! I get it. My bad. well whether we call it lazy or just moving on, it’s true that she rarely goes back to a story once it’s out. And the story on Chemtrails particularly knowing it’s about S**n. Ari and her have very different writing styles and genres and it’s tricky to compare them (to have an album out every six months or so, Ariana must reuse all leftovers from previous projets). Lana truly is in the songwriters category, so I guess that’s how she perceives her promo should go, but she’s too successful to have minimalistic promo.

Lana is lazy?!? You’re kidding, right? You can’t call an artist that puts out an album or poetry book pretty much every year lazy. we don’t know why she cut Dealer and the other track from COCC, probably because they didn’t fit the overall sound of the album. we know she doesn’t like deluxe editions because they water down the storytelling, which is true for her. But with the lack of revenue due to COVID, maybe Chemtrails could be the exception of her recent albums not having a Deluxe edition added later on. Maybe, big maybe.

It was in one of her stories, in the background. There was a dog in that story and she was talking to a guy. It was so faint and we all trying to decipher the lyrics of the « When at last the day is done I grab my keys », with people guessing something about praying on your knees. Good times.

Although it’s a very good trailer, it’s my « least fave » from the bunch. HM had the Freak snippet and previewed the MTWBT video, LFL was intriguing as hell and packed with hidden clues, and NFR was just superb, with its old-time esoteric audio mixed with FIILY/TG video.

I’d be ok with an album trailer featuring one new snippet, like the HM one did with Freak. We haven’t heard very much of the album and one new snippet would hype me up (as if I needed it). We all know she hates Deluxe editions of her albums and I’m really ok with that, but some of you mentioned that due to COVID, she can’t tour and maybe a Deluxe released later on this year could help that « loss of revenue »?

Get Free is this magical ending song. That verse about rainbows I associate LFL with this weird period in someone’s life when they want to leave their old self destructive ways behind, but usually don’t completely succeed. Get Gree embodies that call, that urge to get into a more peaceful place. The way those last words are bursted... and to transition into NFR, where it’s not so much that she changed but accepted who she is and The Greatest is the perfect melancholy song without being « too much »: the guitars, her voice in the verses, that « end of the world » feeling... It’s in my top 5.

makes sense

?‍♂️ i always associated WHF as a noon July sun... but what if the Tulsa Jesus Freak thinks he’s white Hot Forever lol? A good diss track... or their love is as white and hot as a July sun?

If the reviewer described the song as ethereal, I don’t expect a lot of screaming but probably a whisper?!?

I hope Jack tweets about his fave from Chemtrails. Because last time, he sure was right about The Greatest.

Joni is not my fave singer, but she is the original blueprint of the singer-songwriter of Laurel Canyon. NFR had many references to that type of singer-songwriter. She is a legend and has been going on for 40+ years. To have Lana’s cover of For Free finishing on notes sounding like Joni is as iconic as Lana covering Summertime after having covered Doin Time that samples it.

Yes! Amen!