necessary sacrifice

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

I always feel bad when I see people aren’t liking the direction she’s going in. I respect all opinions and it sucks to be disappointed in your favorite artist’s releases, and I’ve tried to figure out why mid/post-NFR tracks sound so different from her older material. 
 
What I’ve decided is that, especially with the adoption of her spoken poetry, she said she likes almost freestyling and making very few edits to things—just letting them be what they are. I think she lived by this dogma in the beginning with AKA, where everything felt and sounded like it had spontaneous air in the mix. 
 
Once she was signed by a big label, naturally they try to boil it down to a concentrate—cut out any stray frequencies, smooth and condense her voice, have crisp instrumentals keen for radio and movie play, etc.
 
I had liked Lana’s music in the past, but I really became a stan with the release of Mariner’s and Venice Bitch, because, while I hadn’t heard much from UV or anything at the time, I felt I could hear her true artistry come through in those tracks, with their lo-fi, vocal-center approach. It captured the electricity of a live performance, of an artist creating and breathing in real-time that sounded so different from the slick, airtight productions on the radio or sleek, older material of hers that I was familiar with.
 
I think she’s leaned even further into that after her work with Jack. We’ve heard her collaborators say that she’s done vocals in one take, or how she literally wrote and recorded White Dress on the spot while Jack played some chords. I think, above all lately, she values organicness—the feeling of catching lightning and bottling up that emotion right away, to present it as it was at that moment in time, and not revisit it. While I agree it has led to some more human “errors” (slightly wrong notes, lags in timing, fuzzy gear playback), I feel this is all so hyper-intentional in her art now, almost like a protest of the modern music industry. It’s almost like her trajectory has been a circle to get back to that spontaneity she felt with AKA.
 
I really appreciate that art and feel it is true to her acoustic, songwriting soul, but at the same time I see how far that is from the BTD—and even Honeymoon—sound, for example. I definitely feel empathy for the people who don’t love it as much and just wanted to type out my thoughts in case it resonated with anyone. Artists’ journeys have always been so interesting to me, and Lana’s is certainly one of the most uniquely interesting ones we’ve had to witness, as one of the first true viral stars to reigning indie/alt queen of the music counterculture.

What has she put in this, I can’t stop replaying it 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

feeling blessed that God made me a woman so i can't hear any of those super subtle mixing issues but i can see a larger spectrum of colours 

lana fans hate everything then get mad if every other single fan doesn't have the exact same opinion as them.  some of us can just enjoy things and be happy.  it doesn't mean we're uncritical idiots who can't be trusted to have opinions. if you don't vibe with one of her releases, you can share that without acting like you're better than people who do enjoy it.  this happens with every song, every album, every video, everything. i get it, some of you are never happy and maybe you take it personally when people don't have the same criticisms as you.  i hate how everything is becoming like this like everyone has to have the exact same opinions on every single thing in existence or they're branded as idiots or villains.  like get over yourselves and go fly a kite.  

why do you leave me with
watercolor pies?
 

hmmm i think i can actually imagine it between if you lie down with me and beautiful or between thunder and wildflower wildfire.  lots of songs on the album had breakup/toxic relationship vibes so i believe it could've been meant for it.  but then that is a reoccurring theme for her, so that also says nothing. 

HOT SUMMER AND COLD WATERMELON 
 

If this was an unreleased that leaked y’all would be shrieking your love for this song and begging lana to release it for years and years and years. 
smile guys you live in the good timeline

hmmm i think i can actually imagine it between if you lie down with me and beautiful or between thunder and wildflower wildfire.  lots of songs on the album had breakup/toxic relationship vibes so i believe it could've been meant for it.  but then that is a reoccurring theme for her, so that also says nothing. 

hmmm i think i can actually imagine it between if you lie down with me and beautiful or between thunder and wildflower wildfire.  lots of songs on the album had breakup/toxic relationship vibes so i believe it could've been meant for it.  but then that is a reoccurring theme for her, so that also says nothing. 

hmmm i think i can actually imagine it between if you lie down with me and beautiful or between thunder and wildflower wildfire.  lots of songs on the album had breakup/toxic relationship vibes so i believe it could've been meant for it.  but then that is a reoccurring theme for her, so that also says nothing. 

Last time I felt this catchiness from her melodies was when she released Chemtrails the title track, I think pre-chorus in WCE is almost as great as COCC’s chorus, the song itself isn’t just as polished but I don’t mind it, it reminds me of her Ultraviolence ~messiness~… this is Lana in her best form once again. 

Song has been on repeat since this morninggg
 
i loveeeeee it, sucks that some of you did not like it but I hope that changes it’s such a moody song 
 
I’m curious about the stripped back version and wonder if it was solely with guitar that could be even more sultry…..leak it

Other version of WCE was clearly made specifically for the episode and will be heard there (as it was already teased in the trailer). The version we got is probably the OG version Lana wanted to be released – especially with drums being “off-key,” this is kinda her already known procedure to make songs “imperfect.” Not saying you have to love this effect, I’m just saying this is something she often does with her songs.
 
I personally like it, I don’t like this whole obsession with making music super polished and I appreciate Lana for doing things on one take, I think it makes her craft unique.

I suspect she did actually write/complete this for Euphoria. Maybe she had some of the lyrics and melodies already, and then the show approached her and said they wanted a song and she created this. Something about it just seems so perfect for Euphoria, I don't think she just handed them a track that she already had.