Vertimus

Me too.

My favorite of the new songs. There are definitely great similarities to COCC. Both together would have made one terrific double album.

VF

That’s my favorite soundtrack; it’s certainly better than the movie, which I like. I didn’t think of the piece in relation to that scene towards the climax.

Violets for Roses. It’s very catchy after a few listens.

So is The Trio LDR and her two siblings? Someone has probably suggested this.

Why do you think so? Do you mean commercially or critically, or both?

Due to the 'supply chain shortages' of many routine items we keep hearing about in the news, with the cost per load of cargo from cargo ships from China rising from $3,000 to $18,000 overnight, anything is possible with the physicals, even if the physicals are coming from elsewhere, or even here in America. There seems to be gridlock and lack of supply somehow at the same time, or that is what is being reported. Only God knows what the truth is.

BAM it leaks, I say. Then word gets out, like 'wildfire.' Anything else comes afterward. In my experience, LB users have nothing to do with it; it comes from elsewhere, somewhere in the wide world, no one claims responsibility.

Hilarious.

C'mon--they're in the music business; they're legends of the post-50s music business. You think they know less about everything related to it than we do? Just because they're artists in their own right doesn't mean that they don't Stan other artists of all kinds. To come forward with the kind of public praise for Lana that they have, I'd say they follow her pretty closely. And we know Courtney Love, a legend from a more contemporary era, is a huge fan.

Yes, but IMO, the more recent attempts at humor and levity, like 'Groupie Love,' and, to a lesser degree, 'HIAB,' failed. Back in the early LDR era, when 'Hollywood's Dead,' 'Making Out,' 'Radio,' 'National Athem,' and 'Meet Me In The Pale Moonlight' were written, she apparently didn't focus predominantly on composing 'deep' songs like 'Hope,' 'Text Book,' and 'WFWF,' and those earlier songs, sonically, had such verve; they were so clever, like pastiches of contemporary pop songs rather than sincere attempts at pop songs. I'd like her to feel secure enough in her artistry and self to compose and release some more relaxed, buoyant songs if she so choses; 'Arcadia' is actually a move in that direction, like the 'COCC' title song, it encompasses both light [or 'lite'] and serious themes brilliantly, and, musically, has a light touch.

I agree. Culturally, it's like, 'WHAT new Lana Del Rey album?" That's what I meant a week or so ago...she's turned her back on the press and by now they've turned their back on her. She caved somewhat to PCism on NFR!, and she was praised to the heavens for that album, and that, from the critics' point of view, was her commercial/critical peak, so now, as Joni Mitchell once sang about herself, the critics "get out the boards and the nails" and wall you off and wall you out. It's like many actors who win the Oscar for Best Actor; Hollywood turns its back on you after that. You've reached the peak of your career in their eyes, even if you're only 25, and you're largely finished. She's free, of course, to make whatever decisions she wants to, but I think releasing an album with 4 or so previously-leaked [great] tracks only furthers that impression. Because any dieheard Lana Stan, even people like Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks and Joan Baez, have probably all heard the leaked tracks dozens or hundreds of times. And critics as well.

I loved the tongue-in-cheek humor, bounce and levity some of her songs had in that era. She didn't take everything she wrote, or herself, so deadly seriously. That's one of the reasons I wasn't greatly overwhelmed by UV.

The BB songs co-written with Barrie will put some money in his pocket, badly needed, I suspect.

And it’s great.

A-men.

I intuit--and I may be wrong--that LDR's major period as a public figure, chased and sought after by the media, is over, whether it's for interviews, magazine covers and articles or public appearances. She's not exactly encouraging them. This may be exactly the way she wants it.