American Whore

I just fucking saw this and the titty shirt is sold out. I'm mad

You stan kpop artists whose discographies all sound the same but go off i guess sis edit: maybe i shouldn't be mean. sorry, it's late and i'm sleepy. off to bed. edit #2: i will say though, i do think that it's unfair to say half of the album should've been axed. i'll give you the interludes, but the rest of the album serves it's purpose. ironic coming from someone whose username is an axed song edit #3: sorry, i'm actually going to bed this time. i'm not trying to be mean

This, but also, people in here are also afraid to give negative criticism. I've said this before and I'll say it again. (Using a spoiler in case you haven't listened, but my thoughts are below if you or anyone is curious to read them.)

I don't think a speculation thread gets made until we hear from Lana that another album is coming, which usually happens the same week of release, so I guess we should hear something soon lol

no not necessarily. ultraviolence came out in june 2014, the tour was announced in december 2014. la to the moon tour was announced a month after lfl and the dates were announced 2 months after lfl released too. it's doubtful she'd announce dates right off the jump. even if there is a tour which i doubt, she has summer festival shows which could either be easy to plan around or super hard so idk

not really. lana was on tour just before honeymoon came out. endless summer tour in 2015, then she dropped it 4 months later

ew why did i picture him to look like a hippie, serving FJM circa 2015? and THIS IS HOW HE LOOKS??? like a twink who stopped sucking dick for jesus but couldn't stop twerking for jesus?

Even if she doesn't tease the next album (like she always does) can we still get a LDR10 pre-pre-release?

we had so many deaths during this prerelease thread

i think it'd be so fucking meta and iconically funny if lana read this fucking thread like imagine being someone with a dedicated website about you that you read. that seems very silly lol but i honestly wouldn't be totally surprised

wait reads this thread? i'm confused lol wdym

I SCREAMED

Judging by Lana's posts, it seems she understands this and that must be the point of this album. That the critics aren't going to like it and she understands this, just like I was saying. Some may, if they get it they get it, but if not then so be it. She's making the music she likes making and I'm here for it. The more content she has, the more she has to write about and more ideas she wants to put in our ears, I'm fine with it. Even if it's something the critics don't get. There's something about getting older which is funny I'm in my mid 20s but there's something about that and caring less about what other people think. Sometimes that can be destructive but clearly Lana has used it to her advantage, rather than destroying her career or her discography. Look at Kanye, he's done the opposite of what she's done meanwhile he's been put to such high expectations nobody's ever really satisfied by what he's doing anymore. Then again, he's also making Nazi jokes or Nazi statements so there's that too... but it's just interesting seeing two very opposite perspectives of the same idea happening, almost mirroring each other. Lana doesn't care because she expects bad reviews and expects to be shat on so she's making some of her least held back, most vulnerable lyrics, meanwhile Kanye expects high praise and high reviews so in ways he doesn't care anymore because he sees himself as a narcissistic genius. I guess my point here is that Lana is still somehow in her prime. Whether this is a 10/10 or a 5/10, the woman has managed to continue writing some of her best work this far into her discography. It reminds me of what I thought after UV, HM, and NFR released-- it just makes me wonder where she goes from here.

You all need to realize, critics are not fans of the music they listen to. They listen to so many new releases that they would probably not even play the same thing twice. An 80/100 or 8/10 is a high enough review that that's not bad. that's 4/5 stars. Considering some of the lyrics on this album, specifically at the end and i don't want to put this in spoilers because I'm not spoiling anything, I'm surprised they didn't feel any type of way. Maybe they didn't pay attention to the lyrics, who knows. But they aren't Lana fans. They've probably heard her music before, they know it's good but they don't find it to be life changing. A lot of us have a grandiose expectation from her and sometimes we feel we get what we want so it's automatically "brilliant" and the music IS good imo, but I couldn't see this being a 10/10, 100/100 album. It's good, but at the same time it's long in places that shouldn't be and short in places it shouldn't be. The interludes are about 2 minutes too long, the last three tracks of the album are about 3 minutes too short each track, and the album is still good. The critics never love Lana, it's something we'll always have to deal with. Lana needs to accept it herself. Realize the music is there for those who care to listen and who care to give it a try, but it's also not going to hit with everyone. Sometimes her music is only for some people who get it.