ConstableReggie

Just finished listening! I’m a massive Banks fan, like seriously cannot emphasise how much both The Altar and III were the soundtracks to my life when they came out. Both those albums helped me through so much That being said… this is her most underwhelming album so far imo. First impressions:

While disappointing, are we really that shocked Marina might be venturing into NFTs? Like she literally sings in Pink Convertible "I just wanna forget how fucked up is our planet" (and yes I know the song is from the perpspective of the wealthy elite who don't care about climate change, but like if the shoe fits....)

it's funny seeing so much universal love for ARTPOP now, like even with the whole Act II petition as well. don't get me wrong, it's definitely well-deserved. but I was a member on gagadaily back when it was released, and everybody hated it. it was not well-received initially

I’m obsessed with Pink Convertible, it’s everything I expected and I love it !!

Same - HEP, Flowers and Goodbye are all top tier to me, but I can't get into Pandora's Box Also 1 week until Pink Convertible!! Let's celebrate that

I think this too, but we truly just don’t know. Like we never thought a studio version of IWBWY was recorded until it leaked

it's so good! I wish she had released a studio version. I have this memory of listening to a really good studio version of the bridge on Soundcloud. It was fanmade from the Conan vocals but it sounded really HQ. I haven't been able to find it since, so I'm not sure if maybe it's the Mandela effect.

Still no news… she’s sick you know all those Twitter memes about like “you don’t get to decide when you move onto the next stage of your life, it’s when Lorde drops an album”, this is literally me but with Banks. The Altar and III releases both coincided with big turning-point moments in my life I really hope we get an announcement soon, I need a new Banks album in my life to heal me

Given how well it's been doing on streaming and TikTok, I think it's safe to say she'll put it on the album

Weird... the version of HL posted to YouTube is different to the version on streaming. The piano in the first verse is much softer in this version

I swear Marina fans are never satisfied everybody was so hyped for this song after it was left off the album and now it’s here and everyone is disappointed. It’s a cute song and it sounds like a natural progression from the demo snippet we heard

I love this so much more than the standard cover! The black outfit looks much nicer than the blue outfit on blue background Plus the ‘Marina’ text is properly centred this time lol

why did he previously tweet that it'd be out in August

Omg can't believe how good this is!! Rina and Clarence continue to serve

I agree it’s not her best song ever, but honestly I’m just so excited every time we get new Banks music that I know it’ll grow on me more

Why would someone leak the instrumental before the full song smh (although tbh I hope the ? keep it to themselves and let Marina release it herself on the deluxe)

Oh wow I’m late to the party and ofc dbree is down now ? does anybody have another link to this?

That's correct. But the version where the drums start around 0:15 is closest to how the demo should sound, because that's the result we get from putting all the individual stem tracks together. The version where the drums begin later is more akin to a fanmade stem edit.

Same, I pre-ordered the CD/Zine combo back in April and the only update I've been given is that they're having trouble importing stock (into Australia). And I'm pretty disappointed that the CD doesn't come in a jewel case with the booklet - it's just a cardboard slip by the looks of it. I've asked for a refund but no response so far.

A fan asked why she never put INHA on Spotify and she responded "I didn't put it on Spotify because someone leaked it, so I was like 'what's the point'"

Yep there’s an extra 10 seconds on the CD version it’s 3:44, but the streaming version is only 3:34 Listen to the version here - https://onlyfiles.cc/f2/7VELqg0kPUF0zv4/- it’s the version that leaked from the CD, it has the extended intro

I think as someone else mentioned here "Q.T." might stand for Quentin Tarantino. The "Q.T. Cutie" character is the one in the diner, and the whole aesthetic is very reminiscent of Pulp Fiction

I was thinking this earlier as well. You can loosely divide all the tracks into 3 main groups: Songs about self-love - ADIAML, VFT Songs about society/politics - Man's World, PTP, New America Songs about Jack/break-up - HEP, Pandora's Box, ILYBILMM, Flowers, Goodbye as you can see, that's basically the order of the track list (with the exception of HEP), so it's like she just structured the order around these themes