Vertimus

Her music has changed a good deal since BTD, but doesn’t mean that every album is better than the one before or that there’s even been actual creative evolution or forward progression from album to album. That’s the way it is for most musical artists. I think Lana’s albums are very much of that pattern.
 
OB has some good things on it but a lot of filler and repetitive tracks. I’d like to see the next album have a higher percentage of good/great tracks and sound very different. I would welcome a different producer/production team. 

Her music has changed a good deal since BTD, but doesn’t mean that every album is better than the one before or that there’s even been actual creative evolution or forward progression from album to album. That’s the way it is for most musical artists. I think Lana’s albums are very much of that pattern.
 
OB has some good things on it but a lot of filler and repetitive tracks. I’d like to see the next album have a higher percentage of good/great tracks and sound very different. I would welcome a different producer/production team. 

Her music has changed a good deal since BTD, but doesn’t mean that every album is better than the one before or that there’s even been actual creative evolution or forward progression from album to album. That’s the way it is for most musical artists. I think Lana’s albums are very much of that pattern.
 
OB has some good things on it but a lot of filler and repetitive tracks. I’d like to see the next album have a higher percentage of good/great tracks and sound very different. I would welcome a different producer/production team. 

A-men. 

A-men. 

I love Ocean Blvd’s cover but I hope it’s a colorful album cover this time, like NFR & HM

The mixing on Ocean instantly makes me enjoy it less, Fishtail would be a hit with better mixing. That is something I really miss with Rick is that everything sounded crisp always 

I don’t want music that everyone can listen to 
 
if everybody likes it maybe it’s not that good 

y'know it's not an actual real pre-(pre-)release if there are no arguments over producers

Instead of bitching having profound and intense discussions about the production and mixing and qualities about her latest albums and her producers and pianos for the 994873656478392487th time in this pre-release thread (I'm pretty sure that those discussions occurred more often a couple of eras back too), let's manifest 10/10 perfect brilliant amazing songs with spectacular incredible showstopping ethereal production and beautiful stunning poetic thought-provoking deep lyrics.  we can like write here what would be our dream songs for this album, what vibe should they have, which instrumentals, which topics ect, even if that's in our dreams, I know that all of you have a great fantasy and with our great minds, we can manifest something great!
 
I mean, we can have discussions about her producers but we've had these like every year and where has it led us? nowhere! 

Leakmas this year was very bollocky wanky shite sorry not sorry

Bad children always got a lump of coal in their stockings on Christmas....

Bad children always got a lump of coal in their stockings on Christmas....

No leaks, huh? 
 
Well, Merry Christmas and Winter Holiday to one and all here, and to Elle especially, and Lana too. 

No leaks, huh? 
 
Well, Merry Christmas and Winter Holiday to one and all here, and to Elle especially, and Lana too. 

No leaks, huh? 
 
Well, Merry Christmas and Winter Holiday to one and all here, and to Elle especially, and Lana too. 

No leaks, huh? 
 
Well, Merry Christmas and Winter Holiday to one and all here, and to Elle especially, and Lana too. 

Asteroid City was my favorite. 
 
I found Barbie overlong and stretched thin. 

I've been trying to figure out why the song isn't hitting for me despite me loving and being raised on John Denver and loving Lana and this is it.
 
It really does lack sincerity compared to the original. 

As I see it, there's no use doing a cover of a genuine, certified classic, especially of an American radio classic, if you don't feel it and don't think you can bring something genuine and fresh to it. That's the whole problem with covers. Linda Ronstadt was the classic covers artist of the 70s and she brought it almost all the time, even into the 80s with her immaculate covers of The Moon's A Harsh Mistress and Anyone Who Had a Heart. Even the old 70s semi-schlock classic Wildfire by Michael Murphy, for example. If you're going to cover a song like that, you'd better be ready to bring it, to bring the magical emotion that makes the entire song, because comparisons are going to be immediate. The same is true of movies remakes, with recent failures-at-the-box-office like Ben-Hur and Westside Story. 
 
Simon & Garfunkel are top-drawer Americana, foolhearty  to attempt, as I see it. 
 
I'd like to see Lana cover Lilac Wine, but not if she doesn't relate to it or can't feel it. I find about half her covers flat, lackluster. Even Season of the Witch lacked the punch of the original for me, and there's so much brooding spookiness in that song. I don't think she understood the song. I didn't see much effort put into it, anymore than has gone into CRTMH. The sad thing about her CRTMH is that, with all the touring, Lana no doubt knows that feeling very very well—she as much said so in the new interview. 
 
As always, I'm happy for those who enjoy it and hear something different than I do. 
 
Thanks. 

It sounds rushed, stripped down, flat, basic. As others have said, where is the instrumentation that made the original seem and feel sincere and of its time and place? 
 
She's singing the lyrics a la the classic John Denver version, but she's not singing it as if she means it or has experienced what she's saying. Where's the sense of loss, the passion, the relief of finally getting back to the place that she feels she belongs? Compare it to Buddy's Rendezvous, for example.  
 
Funny how on OB she says, "the WAYYYY JOHN DENVER SINGSSS" and she's doing the opposite here, no passion. It seems to me that this would drive away potential fans rather than create new ones. 
 
I hope we get the Americana | Classics album and soon, but I hope the rest is a little more fully realized and heartfelt than this. 

same... were only getting treats, im ready for the main course
 

it's still not a true leakfest until we get at least one unheard fully produced song

there's plenty more original files to be shared 

Where is the goddamn CHRISTMAS SPIRIT on Lanaboards