Jared

Imagine wanting to toss aside a producer who has given Lana so many career highlights (and the most progressive/experimental music too) in such a short amount of time ( A&W, Venice Bitch, Mariners, White Dress, Chemtrails, The Greatest (among many others) for some lames who make boring boomer music. Nostalgia does crazy things to people's brains.

Jon Batiste makes boring Grammy bait music for boomers who post the “real music is played with real instruments“ takes on Facebook. She has zero chemistry with Mike Dean. Zach Dawes and Drew Erickson are solid but not good enough to to be an executive producer. I won't even entertain Rick Nowels nonsense. It's either Jack or a completely new producer.

To bully nostalgia ridden 'fans' stuck in 2014.

Gonna be alt-country.

Ben and Ed clearly have no respect for Lana as an artist. All these gimmicks (sped-up versions, remixes, 4 versions of the same vinyl...) are the side effects of Dua Lipa leaving their managment. Lana should follow her steps.

Source: Interview Magazine.

It's very obvious. They want simple, sped-up versions of Lana's songs. That doesn't mean Lana should water down/dumb down her art for shallow fucks who use her songs like Young & Beautiful as background noise while they fat-shame her and other celebs.

Also, not every artist has the same goals. They view ‘success’ through different lenses. I very much doubt Lana will cry herself to sleep if this or some other song of hers doesn't hit big on radio or Billboard charts. It's 2023, y'all should have gotten the memo by now.

The fact that some here are seriously arguing that sped-up version of some old Lana discard going viral on TikTok is an indictment on the quality of her new music and that she needs this to solidify her ''A-list/icon status''. With such 'fans', who needs haters? As for old vs new music:

I felt myself losing brain cells reading this. It really doesn't get much more shallow and superfical than this.

It's a generational thing. Joan and artists from her era take pride in in-person interactions. It's not like artists nowaday who do collaborations without ever meeting in person. Don't take it too literally, she just wanted to get to know Lana first.

Lukewarm reception where? Maybe among ''people'' who have Kim Petras and Melanie Martinez in their twitter bio.

Are we talking about the person who dropped the biggest dud in recent times after taking a 4 year long break?

''Lana Del Rey has a new album, and our rock critic Ken Tucker says she's making her most ambitious, riskiest music to date.'' ''This album has 16 songs, and a few of them may seem too long, too digressive, but who cares? Every one of them contains at least a moment of pure revelation, and many of them yield up a whole series of observations or musical twists that carry you along, transfixed. There's no one else assembling music like this, leaving you constantly unsure of where the next verse might go or even what the next verse might sound like.'' Lana Del Rey's ambitious new album is her riskiest to date : NPR

The only thing holding Lana back at this point is her own ''fans''. They're her biggest enemy!

So much for ''Jack isn't challenging and pushing Lana in the studio :('' narrative. Lana Del Rey’s Collaborators Jack Antonoff, More Discuss ‘Ocean Blvd’ – Rolling Stone

Sputnik is right about Candy Necklace being pretty banal and some of the tracks in the last third of the album can come across as gimmicky. But that's it.

I really like this review. The Gorgeous, Sprawling Anti-nostalgia of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Ocean Blvd’ - The Ringer

1. NFR 2. Ocean Blvd

My post was ahead of its time.

She's right.

Very much doubt it because I love Zach Dawes & Drew Erickson songs. Candy Necklace is just an uninspired song.

Candy Necklace is a copy and paste, by the numbers, low effort snooze fest. It sounds like a discarded demo from 2012, so it's not a surprise that the fans like it so much. But the fact that she went into the studio with Jon Batiste and came out with this is hilarious.

So true.