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I agree.

The mixing of metaphors is brilliant, and the literal and the figurative.

I am so glad to her ‘siren’ voice on TG, the ‘wasted’ and ‘facing’ vocal parts, which is what entrances me most about her, along with her songwriting. Siren voice also heard on ‘24’ and ‘13 Beaches,’ among others.

It’s very sad, sadder than ‘Hope.’I could see how some could find it even depressing. But despite the fade out ending, it’s cathartic, and that keeps it from being depressing to me.

Well that’s all certainly fair, thank you. I can see the irony in ‘lit’ from that perspective; by lit she essentially means licked, defeated, broken, finished. I see can’t help see it as her ‘Major Tom’ with the narrator looking back on loss a la ‘Old Money,’ but on a grander, global scale.

Accept as they are, and change to what you like once downloaded. I do it all the time. I will probably change the TG title to ‘The Greatest Loss’ tomorrow morning when I get the iTunes version.

What is the ‘culture’ line? It’s ‘lit’ or ‘licked’ or something else?

Does the fact that Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys drowned in 1983 at 39 play any role? He also made that depressing album, ‘Pacific Ocean Blue,’ which I don’t care for personally.

Maybe in TG she’s ‘the last girl on Earth’ again, but this she’s somehow gotten herself to Mars.

I agree, and Cacciatore’s scenario in his post above would be even better.

Full agree. There’s a “ground control to Major Tom” theme suggested in this song, so that it could be or almost be interpreted as being sung by someone from Earth watching the world be destroyed from a distant planet (like Mars) via a ‘live stream.’ Why does the narrator miss LA, NYC, rock n’ roll? Where is she that she misses them and can’t access them? Losing Earth certainly would be the greatest loss of all. Apologies for the double post.

Full agree. There’s a “ground control to Major Tom” theme suggested in this song, so that it could be or almost be interpreted as being sung by someone from Earth watching the world be destroyed from a distant planet (like Mars) via a ‘live stream.’ Why does the narrator miss LA, NYC, rock n’ roll? Where is she that she misses them and can’t access them? Losing Earth certainly would be the greatest loss of all.

Those who are reading TG as a sign-off to her career or at least this phase of it, remember she did something similar on HM with ‘Swan Song.’

It’s got to be that and it’s got to be his skin tone/race.

Calling everyone a racist is just standard currency now. Ignore it. Don’t let it bother you. She has a strong, consistent record of working with Black artists as equals and her dancers are Hispanic. No one can undo that.

Did it get leaked? If you have to pay for it officially, as most or all of us did here, then it didn’t get leaked. Maybe the release via Google Play jumped the gun, but it’s not clear yet that that’s what happened.

I think the full melody is going to take time to emerge, at least for me.

I am surprised there was not a reprise of the refrain at the end of TG. I would have preferred that. It could have been the biggest climax in all her music. But pretty amazing nonetheless. I am not disappointed. And her voice sounds great, so fluid on the ‘g-g-g-g-g-reatest loss of all.”

Thank you! I hope Jack produced it.

I am most looking forward to The Greatest, California, Love Song and Bartender, in the order, and then NFR. Least: TNBAR, HTD and HIAB. Are we sure Rick produced Bartender? Do we have verification??

I'm glad some here care about the difference between speculation and fact. Thanks.

If she releases one or both of the new videos in the next three weeks, we’ll have one or two more new songs before the NFR release l, and I don’t think LDR wants to do that, especially as we already have four complete tracks. But as we know from this era, anything is possible.

I don’t know what the larger meaning or context might be, but when a person with a male lover they’re really into reflects on the man they’re missing, I think that that is something they miss, if we’re really honest about it and not being too old maid-ish or queasy.