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    3 minutes ago, mostexoticflwr said:
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    can someone describe or share their opinion on the margaret snippet cuz i give up on finding it 😭

     

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    Margaret, from what I've heard, has the vibes of one of those really sweet sing along/duet songs where the artist seems to be addressing someone near them or even in the audience. There's a short section where she begins talking, but I personally think it works. 

     

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    5 minutes ago, mostexoticflwr said:

    what do y'all think the aesthetic of the album is? cuz i feel like each of her albums have like a signature aesthetic that you think about when you think about the album but i feel like this album's aesthetic is kind of hard to pin down

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    I see it as the evening/nighttime/spring aesthetic of Norman. I also very much associate it with the W magazine interview aesthetic. Norman's aesthetic, for me, are bright summer days to the beach full of people. Ocean Blvd's is walking the boardwalk or the beach during a time such as spring, raining/fog, or nighttime that less people are there, feeling the sand underneath your feet, hearing the loud crashes of the waves, only leaving room for your thoughts to trail along the coast. Also the world of one's bedroom as indicated by the album covers.

     

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    Just now, American Whore said:

     

    this sounds great, too bad i'm about to have a meeting or i'd join you :icant:

     

    you're always welcome in the future :beyonce:

     

    also, apologize for being rude to you earlier, I just think Blue Banisters as a whole tends to send this entire forum into meltdowns, breakdowns, and name calling, and I didn't want that to happen to you or this thread today :oprah3:

     

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    3 minutes ago, Atlantis said:

     

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    thank you!!! i’m also looking forward to kintsugi, such a beautiful concept and title, and the few lyrics we have of it are already shaking my whole brain. i expect it to complement fingertips somehow. 

     

    also, even the title “fingertips”…. so simple, so effective. perfectly describes the whole song. i really love when songs have a title that is not song throughout the whole thing, or when it’s just something mentioned in the verses (like video games too), it really makes you look into the song more and think of why such a specific choice was made.

     

    for me, fingertips is just perfect because it’s such a small detail of the human body but it’s that one detail that allows us to do so many things. every touch starts from the fingertips…

    i wonder what made her choose it as a title! like if there’s some kind of deeper meaning behind it or if she was literally just touching some random plastic bags while trying to get someone’s attention lol 

     

    OK I’M DONE

     

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    This comment isn't meant to compare or generalize female singer songwriters or disparage Lana's previous works by any means, Lana has plenty of amazing tracks of similar caliber so far in her career, but in my opinion, Fingertips is the song closest to the BEST works of other game changing female singer songwriters such as Tori Amos, Björk, Fiona, and Kate Bush. It just has that spark of true greatness. 

     

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    2 minutes ago, Atlantis said:

    my opinion on fingertips: 

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    i love it. such a rollercoaster of emotions, i really think that it’s the one song that tells the most about her, her life and her family. she makes so many references to events that happened in such a long period of time and it’s so interesting to try to unpack all the lyrical content and guess what each line refers to. 

     

    it’s the song i’ve been playing the most and i agree with what she said, that it will be controversial. not everyone is going to appreciate the fact that it’s so spontaneous, literally a steam of consciousness, so the melodies are very much improvised and there is not a clear rhythm or structure (there are definitely some recurring motifs, but overall it’s hard to catch a specific melody on a first listen).

    it’s been playing on repeat since it leaked for me, also bc i feel this need to memorize every line and melody she sings.

     

    someone already said this but yeah, no other song of hers sounds like this. i love how soft it sounds with the strings accompanying her voice, they really highlight the beauty and “drama” of the song. 

     

    lyrically, she really touches on so many different matters that it can be almost off putting for some ppl when they listen to the first time (she goes from philosophical stuff like “will i die or will i get to that 10 year mark where i beat the extinction of telomeres?” to “charlie stop smoking!!” within seconds).

    some listeners will find this very random, i personally think she did a great job putting together so many different aspects of her songwriting in such a personal way. even the melodies, of course if she did another take to record the song it would all sound much more polished but that’s the thing, she literally freestyled a whole song about death, family and trauma and chose to keep it like that. it’s a choice that makes sense with the context and i love it. 

     

    other than this, the track overall is just filled with pure emotions that even if you don’t get all the lyrics on a first listen, or if you don’t know some of the stuff she’s referencing, the voice is enough to take you to places, at least in my case. 

    this was my first listen: i fell asleep after smoking a j then i randomly woke up at 5, saw that it leaked, listened to it in bed staring at the ceiling and i got goosebumps and watery eyes. 

     

    it truly is beyond me how she can sing about such heavy and dark stuff in such a beautiful, soft, vulnerable and yet hopeful way, even with lyrics that are very much straightforward and one would not consider “poetic”. 

     

    and I LOVE how in this album she is asking so many questions instead of just describing scenes. she has always been great at the latter, but these songs really show how she has evolved as a writer. she kinda puts the listener on the spot and allows you to reflect about so many deep aspects of life and death. imo her writing now really makes me wonder about things, it feels like a metaphysical journey (“did you know that there’s a tunnel under ocean boulevard?” “do you think about heaven?”) rather than a beautiful film that i’m thrown into (thinking of honeymoon, btd, uv…). 

     

    fingertips highlights for me:

    -literally every time she mentions death. it makes me think of that time when she said in some interview how she came up with the title “born to die”, like she was watching something on tv about someone who died and she was shocked about the fact that we all day. the lyrics in this song really feel like a full circle closing with this in mind. it feels like this music is coming from the same mind that had this shocking revelation while just watching tv with her father, long time before she even got famous. idk, to me it really feels like some lyrics are literally coming from her lizzy and pre lizzy era.

    -when she says “what the fuck’s wrong in your head to send me away never to come back?”……. how can someone sound so beautiful when saying something so full of frustration, anger, sadness. LIVING for the patty references, i shiver when i hear the line about ending up in institutions.

    -the lines “your spirit can sit and watch tv by my side” and whenever she says “give myself 2 seconds to cry”….. i don’t even have the words to describe these

     

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    I loved reading all of this, thanks for sharing your thoughts! Totally agreed :true: "It's a shame that we die" is one of her most brutal, honest, and universal lyrics to date. The entire stream of consciousness quality of the song coalesces into something major for her. I have a feeling that Kintsugi will be in a similar vein. 

     

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    Just now, burthday kake said:
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    I reaaaalllly love the closing line of the opener being "It's a beautiful life, remember that too for me"

    while it could've made a great album closing too, I think it's nice to almost "prep" the listener for everything that is about to come- the songs are def heavy because life as we know it is too, but that's pretty much the greatest sentiment one can hold in their heart to get through it all. 

     

     

     

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    One of the best closing lines to a Lana track ever, and perfectly encapsulates the journey of this record.

     

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    2 minutes ago, LifeOnMars said:
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    I’ve been trying to avoid listening to more leaks but does Grandfather really sound like Christian music? I definitely hear that vibe on a few of the leaked tracks but wasn’t expecting it on that one. 

     

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    It does sound spiritual. On the Grants she details the advice given to her by her pastor, there's the choir women, the Judah Smith interlude, I think religion/spirituality will be a running motif through the record. 

     

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