ByDayAnother

As much as interpretative analysis can be fun, there is also such a thing as just letting the lyrics wash over you. Often with Lana’s recent work, the emphasis on stream of consciousness is the point - you’re hearing what can be and maybe even is without pattern. You can interpret and re-interpret and not interpret as you see fit. Not everything has to be figured out - I was annoyed by a recent reactor on YouTube who would complain at people offering essay-length explanations, saying “summarise the song I can’t spend ten minutes reading!” - but you can’t always have it both ways. You want meaning explained to you without having to work for it. If you can’t find meaning after the fact (the song), let alone a succinctly presented one, take the few minutes that the song itself takes to play as the most succinct explanation - the song is the song is the song, everything else is (fruitful or not) extrapolation.

Relatively unmoved by A&W. I dig it, but 🤷🏻‍♂️

Unmastered tracks are not demos - they are unfinished final tracks. Mastering is just the final layer of polish.

Woof.

My MSN tagline if this was 2007: 🎶 probably running away from the feelings today 🎶

The Judah Smith interlude is MUCH more legible with Dolby Atmos. It’s hit or miss with the other tracks though - A&W doesn’t hit as hard even though you can hear more little details. The Grants is much better with it. Title track is missing the piano as formerly mentioned. It’s weird. I wish you could select individual songs to turn it on and off with.

I admire the ambition of this reach 🥹

The Pitchfork review is pitch perfect, sums up my own feelings nicely.

Wish there was a more dynamic range of tempo change at some point a la BBS - I think that track spoiled me, I wanted a whole album of that, which is totally unrealistic, but I can dream!

I will say I do prefer the interlude to the song itself so I’m not too mad - I’d like CN a lot more if she didn’t keep rhyming “restless” with “restless” randomly

The Fingertips censorship isn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but… ooft 😂

damn, the supply chain be fuuuucked

This is a LONG one, but fuck it, for whoever should care for it:

I feel like I’m the only one absolutely LIVES for

I do wish

This discrepancy in the reviews’ descriptions of the music with what we actually hear… it’s giving AI-written articles.

The way that this definitely has happened 😂

My personal track-listing if I’d have had the choice, subject to change w/ CN:

Not to be that person but may I please have the Kintsugi lyrics? 🥹

re: Margaret

Absolutely agree.