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Though I can see how the last three tracks sound like bonus tracks and it can make perfect sense to end the album at Margaret, I think the album is perfect as is. The last three tracks add a lot of dynamism to the album. I think it would’ve been too heavy of an album without them even though Margaret is a cute happy ending. Also, having the last three songs feels like the album more strongly ties into A&W which seems like the defining song on the album. The album before Margaret feels like the first half of A&W while the last three tracks feel like the second half. I wouldn’t like the album as much without the last three tracks. 

What are the sides though? Because to me, there are five distinct sections that all have their own personality:
 
The Grants / Did you know / Sweet A&W / Judah Smith / Candy Necklace / Jon Batiste Kinsugi / Fingertips / Paris, Texas Grandfather / Let the Light In / Margaret Fishtail / Peppers / Taco Truck x VB

Though I can see how the last three tracks sound like bonus tracks and it can make perfect sense to end the album at Margaret, I think the album is perfect as is. The last three tracks add a lot of dynamism to the album. I think it would’ve been too heavy of an album without them even though Margaret is a cute happy ending. Also, having the last three songs feels like the album more strongly ties into A&W which seems like the defining song on the album. The album before Margaret feels like the first half of A&W while the last three tracks feel like the second half. I wouldn’t like the album as much without the last three tracks. 

Though I can see how the last three tracks sound like bonus tracks and it can make perfect sense to end the album at Margaret, I think the album is perfect as is. The last three tracks add a lot of dynamism to the album. I think it would’ve been too heavy of an album without them even though Margaret is a cute happy ending. Also, having the last three songs feels like the album more strongly ties into A&W which seems like the defining song on the album. The album before Margaret feels like the first half of A&W while the last three tracks feel like the second half. I wouldn’t like the album as much without the last three tracks. 

Though I can see how the last three tracks sound like bonus tracks and it can make perfect sense to end the album at Margaret, I think the album is perfect as is. The last three tracks add a lot of dynamism to the album. I think it would’ve been too heavy of an album without them even though Margaret is a cute happy ending. Also, having the last three songs feels like the album more strongly ties into A&W which seems like the defining song on the album. The album before Margaret feels like the first half of A&W while the last three tracks feel like the second half. I wouldn’t like the album as much without the last three tracks. 

Though I can see how the last three tracks sound like bonus tracks and it can make perfect sense to end the album at Margaret, I think the album is perfect as is. The last three tracks add a lot of dynamism to the album. I think it would’ve been too heavy of an album without them even though Margaret is a cute happy ending. Also, having the last three songs feels like the album more strongly ties into A&W which seems like the defining song on the album. The album before Margaret feels like the first half of A&W while the last three tracks feel like the second half. I wouldn’t like the album as much without the last three tracks. 

Though I can see how the last three tracks sound like bonus tracks and it can make perfect sense to end the album at Margaret, I think the album is perfect as is. The last three tracks add a lot of dynamism to the album. I think it would’ve been too heavy of an album without them even though Margaret is a cute happy ending. Also, having the last three songs feels like the album more strongly ties into A&W which seems like the defining song on the album. The album before Margaret feels like the first half of A&W while the last three tracks feel like the second half. I wouldn’t like the album as much without the last three tracks. 

On album at least, Lana Del Ray manages her public image very well. Of late, every new release has added to her mystique, finely blurring the lines between the person and the persona, to a point where one is indistinguishable from the other. There is a tension in her songs that arises from not knowing how much of what are hearing is the real Lana Del Ray standing in partial view – papered over by a collage of archaic 1970s pop culture references – and what is half-truth and outright embellishment. Lyrically she continues to fuse her own mythology with the mythology of California. ...Ocean Blvd rises above the sum of its parts and successfully presents an altered reality, blending fact and fiction, memory and desire, physical geography and the shifting geography of the soul. It is for these reasons that, after the dust settles on this golden creative streak, I think this record is going to be a lot of people's favourite Lana Del Ray album.
The direct contrast to Lana would be a pop amazon like Beyonce, whose career is a nesting doll of personas, seemingly refined by focus groups of images consultants and heavily tailored to an album release/tour cycle. There is nothing wrong with that approach. David Bowie and Madonna laid down the template. It works really well and allows for sudden reinvention.
I prefer something more fluid and contiguous, rather than a jarring transition where I can see the joins. I like artists who at least give the appearance of growing organically. For that to happen they need to follow their creative instincts and commit to a regular release schedule. Lana scratches that itch.
 

Why does this read as a 2012 comment on one of her vids on YouTube

Oh my god Fantano gave her a 9  I legit thought he was giving her a light to decent 5 or whatever. Great news!

i can feel the growth of her music, and just the general growth of life thru this album. 

Ocean Blvd isn’t meant to be or feel immediate: it’s meant for one to sit with it for a long, long time. It keeps growing and growing. The people who keep reducing it to a piano album are just stuck in BTD/UV nostalgia and can’t consume music that isn’t short or beat driven - or both. 

turquioisejewel already said it. Lana is not the radio. I do respect your opinion, but it's weird that you're sort of demanding Lana to make "gym music" or whatever? This is an album about mortality lol, this is where she's at. Also, "The culture"? We're recovering from the worst tragedy that has happened to humanity in the 21st century, a fucking global pandemic, millions of dead, we all either lost someone recently or know someone who lost loved ones. A friend of mine lost both their parents... they both caught covid. Relationships have gotten harder to maintain, and she's pushing 40, she's singing about wanting to finally settle down with someone. She's also feeling hot and confident in her own skin; she doesn't need a four on the floor beat to hit them PRs on the gym. Social media has changed a lot with the pandemic, and she deleted her own official accounts. If that isn't connected with "the culture"... I'm signing off.

Ok, I’m now ready to say this: Ocean Blvd is now my favorite album of all time. My previous favorite album of all time was in that spot for 7 years now, so I don’t say this lightly.

Ok, I’m now ready to say this: Ocean Blvd is now my favorite album of all time. My previous favorite album of all time was in that spot for 7 years now, so I don’t say this lightly.

Ok, I’m now ready to say this: Ocean Blvd is now my favorite album of all time. My previous favorite album of all time was in that spot for 7 years now, so I don’t say this lightly.

My dad just enthusiastically sent me a voicemail of a track he heard on the radio he was sure I would love as it is "very Lana"
 
It was Candy Necklace

Paris, Texas ALWAYS has me picturing this moment from the Video Games music video:
 

 
I don’t even know if it’s the kind of visuals I’d want for a music video for Paris, Texas (because I mostly picture this album as black and white and dark), but this is just always what pops in my head when I hear it.

An indictment is formal notice that someone receives, notifying them it’s believed they committed a crime (by a Grand Jury). The indictment lists what charges they’re facing. An arrest would only happen in the event an indicted person doesn’t surrender, so it's unlikely he's going to be held at county jail unless he totally loses his marbles. 

What does this mean exactly? 

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-indicted-new-york-grand-jury-hush-money-1234703427/
 
 
Trump is being indicted in NY, for the first time a former US president is being criminally charged
 

Paris, Texas ALWAYS has me picturing this moment from the Video Games music video:
 

 
I don’t even know if it’s the kind of visuals I’d want for a music video for Paris, Texas (because I mostly picture this album as black and white and dark), but this is just always what pops in my head when I hear it.

Paris, Texas ALWAYS has me picturing this moment from the Video Games music video:
 

 
I don’t even know if it’s the kind of visuals I’d want for a music video for Paris, Texas (because I mostly picture this album as black and white and dark), but this is just always what pops in my head when I hear it.

Paris, Texas ALWAYS has me picturing this moment from the Video Games music video:
 

 
I don’t even know if it’s the kind of visuals I’d want for a music video for Paris, Texas (because I mostly picture this album as black and white and dark), but this is just always what pops in my head when I hear it.

It’s really sad and disturbing to me how everything has gone full circle and a lot of the general public is just back to making fun of Britney again. In 2021 at the height of #FreeBritney, people acted like they had learned so much since the 2000s about treating women fairly, understanding mental health, etc., and as soon as Britney’s out of the conservatorship and not acting how people expect her to, now she’s just become the punchline of a joke again. It’s disgusting. Though she’s done so much for me and so many others out there, I can’t help but think that she would’ve led a much happier life never being famous.