GeminiLanaFan

Disco Lana?!? Maybe for a song or two but a whole album? It’d have to be exceptionally good for me to get on board.

NFR might be more « stripped back » (although I was pleasantly surprised when it came out: I though most of the songs would have even less production than what we got, based on the snippets). It think the songs have many layers, but in major tones (She did ask Jack to not go too crazy on the production). HM was lush production wise, just all in minor tones. LFL has a very big production: everything is in major tones and has many layers, even the songs we say are « basic ». I guess I’m easily pleased when it comes to her. All of her records are different and that what I love about them.

Maybe the insider is Jack hahahahaha

Amen to all of that!!! Except for the Instagram pictures, she didn't «do much for fans» through these hard times. I know, I sound greedy, but still... I'm hearing what a couple of artists are doing through this quarantine (livestreams, acoustic covers, single releases...). She should just release Yosemite and Roses Bloom for You as a double single release: I doubt she'll ever be in an «appropriate» state of mind to have them on a record and we've been craving for these fuckers for three years now. Two cute and positive songs would be sooooo soothing at the moment

I guess it depends if she is recording as well... what is Jack’s schedule and all, if she sticks with him... This whole Coronavirus situation will delay many things in the months to come... Maybe it won’t apply to her new record though, if she already has a clear vision.

HTD grew on me a lot. I used to hate its production, but now I really love the strings (Melotron?). The Greatest is now my favorite from this record because it’s been the song I kept going to the most when I was feeling down. HIaB became one of my faves as well. There are now songs I hate, though TNBAR is the one I skip the most, because I overplayed it too much before Norman came out.

So I guess she is recording, if what they say is true?!? I’d love a two-part album: falling desperately in love and « my dreams are now shattered ». For her well-being, I hope she really takes so time off to figure out who she is without a man, like they say on that article.

Ending the album with the Greatest would wreck me every time. It’s probably my fave from NFR and I get so emotional listening to it. But it’s also such a downer, I need to listen to something else to cheer me up a bit. VB would have worked perfectly as a closer. But I must say I don’t hate Hope as a closer. If LFA has made it to NFR, that track would have been the “most perfect” closer. There’s lots of praise for it on its own thread... It didn’t disappoint: it’s both dreamy/ chill and UV at the same time.

Her record company counts the next one as LDR7. The “official” number of 7 began when they said LFL was her fifth album. However, we have no idea if AKA is part of those 7 or if Paradise is now an official one (it was meant to be an EP, but with 9 songs, it’s close to an album, plus it is a bit different from BTD). We’ve been debating this for many years now, and we still don’t have a definite answer.

Cinnamon Girl and NFR (title track) didn’t disappoint me either. But How to Disappear took me longer to love because the demo teased ended up being so different on the album. My main criticism of the snippets is when she starts posting them more than a year before the album drops. And in October 2018, she was posting so many snippets, it got us thinking the album was dropping very soon... LFL was teased a lot with snippets, but on a 5-month pre-release period, which is fine. But not a year +

I’m with you on that one. To me, she is a recording artist but I know that her record company don’t see it like that. I didn’t mind the snippet game, just not a 100 years before the album is released.

The last three more « acoustic » tracks, after The Greatest, form a new kind of message: after the grandeur of desolation and loss on TG, things have shifted, we’re back to a new form of culture, one simpler, more intimate. A sorta of « let’s go back to basics ». And Bartender is also a burst of hope after the sadness of TG.

To me, NFR, with Season of the Witch and Looking for America, is what she had in mind initially when crafting LFL: something a bit hopeful and sad, a bit folky/singer-songwriter, something a bit witchy, and a bit political as well. It’s a more cohesive LFL, in my mind. I don’t disregard LFL at all (it’s a very good summer album, very diverse), it’s all over the place and I love it because it reflects what I was going through three years ago, but NFR is with UV and HM when it comes to cohesiveness.

My BF and I had a debate about a « surprise release » being a good strategy for an album. True, it costs zero dollars in promotion, and it can be the best strategy for a record company if : - You’re a big enough artist ; - If the album is insanely good. I’m super curious about the sound and direction LDR7 will take, with the recent events in the world and in her life.

Agree with you that DT, while being a fun summer track, is not in the same vein as the other songs. But it’s the bop that album needed, honestly. Love NFR, love its subtleties and its overall feeling, but DT brings a little lightness to it, even if it doesn’t feel connected to the rest of the album.

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/48496/1/lana-del-rey-the-reluctant-melancholic-breakup-queen-we-need-in-isolation?amp=1&__twitter_impression=true I don’t know if someone posted about this already... I put it out here since it refers to her vocal memos, even though it is also about NFR and the Coronavirus.

I’d fucking love it. Though I wonder if she « can » go out and record (I know, she was out a couple days ago, even if she isn’t supposed to). Why not release a cute EP of unreleased stuff? Something acoustic like Yosemite?

Who knows? But « If This IS the End... » was a 5 min 12 voice memo, then it’s a super long poem. Maybe, maybe not. I’m honestly happy we don’t get to see all of her voice memos or notes in her phones: our minds would short-circuit thinking this could all be good songs (which I highly doubt). With the recent developments in her life, maybe it was just a confirmation to us that she is single ?

Well, this quarantine situation does say a lot about me: I made very little change to my day-to-day life, except that I don't go to work or the gym anymore

Maybe Grenadine Quarantine could work as a poem. But a 5min+ one? It has to be very wordy to achieve that, I think. Agree with you on the dates: it would be weird in 2021 if the song is too specific.

I like « If this is the end, I want a boyfriend ». It’s a simple rhyme, and yet it expresses that in this time of crisis, we all need a little warmth and arms to be held by. Grenadine Quarantine, however... :/

In the midst of everything happening in the world, both the Greatest and When The WorldWas at War now take a new meaning. Her voice on the verses of The Greatest sounds so beautiful.

Well, most of the first reactions to NFR (including many positive) were made in the ore-release thread since it leaked 2 weeks before release... When it happened, I knew it would dry up the post-release thread. Nonetheless, I still love that album and listen to it almost daily. It’s one of her best along with UV and HM.

Yay!! Jack!

I love how badass she looks on both her new post picture and the one in her story.