GodBlessMe
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I'm so happy that she's releasing the album on October 25, though.
I'm moving to Tokyo on the 20th and I've lived in Denmark my whole life so Japan will probably be quite a change from what I'm used to. I have a feeling that Magdalene will be the perfect soundtrack to all the new things that I'll experience.
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This was so hard but probably:
- Lana Del Rey - ‘Honeymoon’
- Charlotte Gainsbourg - ‘IRM’
- Julee Cruise - ‘Floating Into The Night’
- Emmylou Harris - ‘Wrecking Ball’
- Yoko Ono - ‘Season of Glass’
- Charli XCX - ‘Pop 2’
- Joan Baez - ‘Whistle Down the Wind’
- Rosalía - ‘Los Ángeles’
- Laurie Anderson - ’Strange Angels’
- Nico - ‘Drama of Exile’
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I don't really mind the videos being by chuk. obviously, not all videos can be high budget and I just like having visuals for her songs.
do you guys think Lana is actually playing the piano in the NFR video tho? I find it sort of embarrassing if she's just pretending.
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Not to be over dramatic, but I cried while reading the pitchfork review. I can't believe that after all these years Lana is finally getting the respect she deserves :')
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Crack Magazine gave it 90/100. Do they count for MC? (just checked and I think they don't)
Sadly, no.
These are the publications that count for MC:
Chicago Tribune (Greg Kot)
Classic Rock*
Kerrang!*
Mojo*
Q Magazine*
Revolver*
Spin*
Uncut*
The Wire*
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So far her score is at 77. :/
They added the LA Times review as an 80, but doesn't it read like much more positive than that?
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I just know that in exactly one month everyone will start trashing NFR and begin claiming that they always loved LFL. I can't wait for the almost stalinesque revision of history.
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Is that not literally driving away from your problems at night?
It can be both sis. If it was purely about sobriety she could've said soda but cherry coke is evocative and intrinsically tied to Americana imagery.
No, it's literally not?
And just 'soda' would be a lot less detailed and specific.
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it's not the truck that's cliche, you could replace that with car/train/plane, doesn't matter. Just the whole concept of running away from your problems (or driving I guess) late at night is very played out. The inclusion of a truck makes it a little more lizzy grant-esque but it still feels like a clunky and cliched line. The whole song feels like a huge regression in her writing, going back to name dropping American iconography (Bacardi, cherry coke, Crosby Stills and Nash) rather than actually creating imagery.
But she's not singing about driving away from her problems late at night? She's singing about buying a car in the middle of the night in order to hide it from the paparazzis so that they don't know which car she's driving.
And the cherry coke line is obviously about her sobriety and not just a way for her to namedrop american iconography.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=658&v=iIY1hDWz_-c
Another video interview in support of magnum opus. She really cares!
Omg she's hilarious
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I don't really care about Lana's political views. If I judged artists on their moral habitus I wouldn't be able to listen to many of my favorite artists.
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The album is so amazing! The way it depicts this extremely californian brand of hopelessness strongly reminds me of the book 'Play It As It Lays' by Joan Didion. Have any of you read it?
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I actually think Lana is at that point in her life where she wants to be more low-key and just focus on purely being a poet. She might still write music, but only release a few singles a year. There could be other albums on the horizon but honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't. I don't know her personally (duh), but it's not hard to see where she wants to be. Lyrics can be very telling. The Greatest really does imply she's just tired of it all. And not to sound ageist but she's not getting any younger. Maybe she just wants to do different things and explore other hobbies aside from music. I can't imagine her being like Madonna or Cher, still touring and singing well into her 50's/60's.
I can't imagine her being like Madonna or Cher either, but I can easily imagine her being like Marianne Faithfull or Joan Baez, releasing songs like these when she's in her 70's:
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"It turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself. That's not a lie."
Ok, but how do you not take yourself everywhere
I'm 20 pages behind so someone might have already answered, but I think it makes sense. She's talking about moving to California to escape the self destructive lifestyle she was living in New York and I think she's realizing that she'll never be able to escape it because "everywhere you go, you take yourself". At least, that's how I interpret it.
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Lana del Rey covering The ballad of Lucy Jordan... A concept
Lana covering literally anything by Marianne Faithfull is my biggest dream
I now want Marxist Folk Tune in addition to Muscle Beach Baby and Jack, I Love These Chords.
She should cover this song:
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Omfg this thread was such a trip down memory lane. Took me back to being thirteen/fourteen years old and spending literally all my time listening to Lana and browsing LanaBoards. Aaah those were the days<3 Summer of my life, not doing what I should... as Lana would've put it;)
Back then me and my best friend - she preferred the 1975 but she'd agree to listen to Lana with me - would skip school and steal her mom's liquor and listen to 'Noir' on repeat. This video in particular:
The memories