GeminiLanaFan

We all know it’s gonna be low-budget. But I’m still looking forward to this. I probably won’t be watching the whole thing several times, but I’m curious. Besides, all the three songs that got a Rich Lee MV were stellar. I don’t mind something more « homemade ».

It’s the new « vinyl colour » or « album is scrapped »

So, according to Charlie's story, she is shooting a new video?!?

Critics finally get her. True, NFR is just as good as HM or UV, but « the depressed girl that idealizes death » (as some called her) isn’t there lyrically, which pleases them. And with each album, she tells the story of a period of her life and they finally like that chapter, I guess.

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I really feel you! The Greatest resonates so much with me since it came out because I had to get back to work after the summer break and I don’t know how to see my work anymore. Everything is just so hard and pointless. When she sings « if this is it I had a ball, guess that I’m burn-out after all »... I feel those words with very fiber in my body.

I prefer the greatest to the title track as well and it is so emblematic of 2019. But maybe the title track has « better vocals », with its high notes in the end? Or the opening line is more iconic?

She is on how many Top-20-best-of-2019 lists now?!?! How come there's no video yet for the title track? Scrap the rest if it was bad, but come on, roll with the wave, girl! Don't you see that you actually have a good chance of winning AOTY?!?!?

We don’t know what the third track is. And even Let Me Love You... could be a song she is working on and is not even recorded (she did say she found the line, knew that the song was important but didn’t yet how)

Same! She had only recorded three songs as of October? (I think) Plus she hangs out with jack first then she might record something... Plus she has a couple of projects on the side... So before 2021 is a big stretch and I don't want to get my expectations too high like I did after she released MAC and VB, and expect a new record when there might still be a long way to go.

I wonder if NFR’s success will postpone the next album, if it’s gonna presque her into doing something as good as NFR...

LFL has divided opinions as well. HM wasn’t a darling at first for many. We mostly agree with all of her albums before HM. But the « new Lana » doesn’t please everyone (I don’t see it as « new Lana » as much as growth and being less raw).

Bastille releases this Friday an extension to their June LP « Doom Days », which will contain demos, new songs, rearranged songs (with orchestra) and fan favourites that didn’t make it to earlier LPs. I wish she did the same with all of her albums, including NFR. Didn’t she say there were « Shagrila-esque » songs from the NFR sessions?

I see the praise she is receiving these days as « the critics finally caught up to what we already know », in most cases. The tide began shifting for some with UV, but mostly with HM and LFL. They were finally « getting her ». I get the criticisms she received when she first came out, with BTD: she was an alien and one that was so different from the others that they questioned if she was legit (harshly so). The acclaim for NFR just makes me happy that they finally recognize her talent.

I get that we all have our own taste and prefer certain albums over others, and I certainly don't always agree with critics, but to see NFR as boring and badly produced, I mean... The critical acclaim has just exploded, with the end-of-year reviews. It truly is her magnum opus, at least in the public sphere. I took a short break from it, over the last weeks, but came back to it this week. And man! What an album to come back to! The high notes of the title track just haunt me. Venice Bitch still transcends me when I drive (that progression!!!). I am tired as fuck, so The Greatest is just the most empowering song about depression ever. And California?!? It's the prayer I'm singing myself and my BF, who is just as tired as I am. Bartender just calms me down so much. Hope is just so heartbreaking in the winter. And when she sings «My baby used to dance underneath my architecture», I just can't help but fall in love with this song all over again.

Finally two posts in a row on this thread that don't trash Hope!!!!! it's a beautiful and aching song at the same time, so perfect for winter.

is it me or she is super quiet about that show?

I don't think it sucks per se, but it's likely it will deceive because our expectations are sky-high for it. it's a one-take song, it's acoustic... it might be too simple to please us on the fist listen. Unless she adds up a couple of electric guitar / synth outro to it...

I have a theory for you, and I might be completely wrong about it, but do you feel NFR is a summer / end of summer album and it might be why you don't listen to it that much? I'm from Canada, I love NFR, but November has been so fracking cold that the songs don't impact me as much?!?! To me, NFR really is a transition album (August-September- October) and I don't connect to it as much as I used to. Or maybe it's just that I'm taking a bit of a break from all things Lana (the pre-release thread was so fucking intense and long and eventless that I might still be tired of it).

yeah, the song win is a real stretch, unless her team starts promoting it heavily...

Summer 2021, but I guess it depends what her schedule is.

Just a nomination in the major categories is such an achievement at this point. Congrats!!!

I knew it!!!

To me, BTD can be any season. Paradise rings fall to me. All the others are summer albums, just not the same moment of that season: UV is a dark hot summer, HM is just before fall (Nothing gold can stay...), LFL is warm spring going into hot summer (really fits my mood in that season; super optimistic in spring and then realize summer is just another season with its deceptions), and NFR is August going into fall.

Agreed! I also hear a lot of Swan Song 2.0 in Bartender as well.