West Coast

You didn't have to do Cindy Lou this dirty

*Patiently waiting for Lanz to interact with Daddy Auerbach*

This dress would've been a thousands better had it been in gold, not silver, and with a plunging neckline. This is just kind of meh.

It's the kind of underwhelming dress you wear when you know you won't win a rigged award for your underwhelming album.

because she actually served in the past and this looks just plain, but I guess it fits the era very well.

She looks terrible. Alright hair and make up, but that dress is basic. Lana's style died in 2016 and you guys know it.

She looks great, but she better show up in custom Gucci tomorrow!

Why didn't I think of writing that before...

I'm a firm believer in "everything happens for a reason", sometimes life sends you messages too strong to ignore.

There's a reason why I was nominated for "Can you come up with something else?!" Ya know.

I can appreciate Jack's work with other people. But with Lana? I made my case on several occasions.

I don't know if that counts as an unpopular opinion, but I went to think about it yesterday, and I honestly don't even have a favourite song on NFR... like there are a few songs that I overall find tolerable (NFR, Venice Bitch, California and The greatest), but like I don't even feel like listening to either one of them on repeat. For some reason this actually made me pretty sad. On LFL, while I didn't like the album as a whole, I could still listen to songs like Heroin, Cherry and especially Get Free all the time even though the album was a mess to me. While NFR is obviously superior to LFL in many regards, it's just almost completely forgettable to me. Never thought I'd think this way about a Lana album, but here we are.

Jack doesn't possess the willpower to create something as intense, intricate, intoxicating and atmospheric as Ultraviolence, maybe Ultraviolence on melatonin pills? But still.

I beg to differ. She said that on Ultraviolence we would hear the grand return of the Born To Die strings, it was featured in the title track and that was it. Though I will give her credit for saying that UV would feature a lot of psychedelic rock influences and it did. Honeymoon was supposed to sound "jazzy" it was hardly jazzy, some light jazz influences on a few songs and that was it, the rest of the album was this mix between classical/cinematic instrumentation and "muddy" trap beats as she described. Then came LFL, with its alleged "doo wop"/60s pop à la Shangri Las vibe, which was only present on the title track and Get Free. I can't really put my finger on the vibe she tried to go for for the rest of the album, as it's too all over the place. But for the most part it was heavily trap beats influenced. Now with NFR, we were supposed to get some sort of desert rock vibe meet Red Hot Chilly Peppers... it's a folk/wannabe prog rock album with piano ballads... Like I said, I'm eager for Lana to describe the sound of the next record, because I know for fact it won't be accurate.

"muddy trap"

How she described Honeymoon being jazzy, but like besides super subdued and light saxophone in Terrence Loves You & Art Deco that hardly counted as jazz. No disrespect, because Honeymoon is a masterpiece, but the way she describes her album prior to their release always makes me laugh after you hear the actual album. Can't wait for Lana to start running her mouth about White Hot Forever/LP7.

That's too bad, KP actually got that fire in him.

Black Beauty was honestly the only song I cared about that was unreleased and still ended up on an album. I honestly skip TNBAR, I feel like it's just réchauffé for Lana to put a song we already heard on a new record.

An actual L E G E N D. Plus, he produced Lana's best song: Ride. Imagine an entire album with the quality of Ride.

It would've been better with KP in command and you know it.

Exactly. I'm praying they know how to properly record piano and guitar this time around and use bass. Also, record vocals so they don't sound too flat and compressed, or downright cheap. I feel like what was lacking from NFR was just a good balance in the instrumentation, but also quality in recording. Overall, it was pretty painful to listen to for an extended amount of time. I guess my dream of Lana collaborating with Kevin Parker has gone down the toilet, Lana Impala would've actually slayed.

Finally someone speaking facts and acknowledging Jack Antonoff as the second coming over Christ, but also NFR being the era on which Lana outdone herself both musically and visually. Pushed the barriers of music too! (ngl my fingertips and eyes kinda burn writing such bullshit, but oh well)

@@takeitdoen production skills blow Jackoff out of the water, fact.

And it somehow sounds better than the whole NFR recording. Your mind!

This is actually worse than the c*p debate.