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That's a lot of words for "this song has barely no instrumentation and sounds like a whisper". I really don't see the complexity in this one, but then again, to me, NFR is her most simplistic/tedious and least avant-garde album to date. To each their own, but I agree with @sjatib, 'Love Song' ain't that song. To me on an album that featured not one, but four piano ballads, it was one too many, it should've gotten the chop to profit the superior 'Bartender'. I guess that counts as an unpopular opinion.

THIS IS AMAZING I'm submitting this for best post at the 2020 Lipsters! (wow you're cute too... )

wow you snapped

The threads were on fire Lana's a liar Jack really is a know-it-all I guess Jared's not coming back after all

J***B L*****r was found dead in a bush (near Lana's house).

Money Power Glory vs How To Disappear

People seem to often forget that LanaBoards is a discussion platform.

I feel the exact same way, I'm living for Lana's first three albums and the meaning behind them, how intense they are. But, I see that she was ultimately a sad person at heart at the time. Now I couldn't care less about her newer stuff, but I'm glad she seems to be in a happier more healthier place on a personal level.

In no way am I obsessed with Lana's relationships, I honestly don't really care about that, because I'm mainly interested in the art aspect of Lana. But trying to act level headed on a forum literally dedicated to a celebrity is quite laughable. Trying to pretend that you're not obsessed with Lana Del Rey while being a registered user on LanaBoards. The audacity. There sure are different levels of obsession, but still.

Exactly, I personally was left pretty underwhelmed with LFL, there was too much trap beats and futile lyrics to my personal taste, but at least the songs I loved on there I really loved them. Overall, the album felt more like a party playlist, but a party it was nonetheless. NFR is just too plain and beige for me to enjoy, it's legit her first album that has actually bored me. I too want a new era ASAP, NFR left me starved. i

Imagine thinking that the instrumentation on NFR leaves room for your imagination. It's the most unimaginative production on any of Lana's records and I have heard L*st for Life. Honestly the only song on NFR that I'm like "Wow that's kinda cool" would be Venice Bitch, but even on VB there are sonic elements that make me cringe. I honestly thought I was going to leave the eternal debate about NFR's sound and production behind in 2019, but it's shit like that makes it hard for me to let go and forget about it. Props to him for trying to create some sort of sonic experience on NFR, but with albums like Born To Die, Ultraviolence and Honeymoon I think that it's no easy task (I mean for him maybe). NFR just happen to be too safe and beige/plain for Lana, on top of sounding flat and ever so lackluster to me. What haunts me the most is the way he bops his head frantically...

I honestly forgot that this existed. The fact that no one on LanaBoards has mentioned anything beyond that teaser clip kind of tells me that no one in their right mind would pay 300$ (or even some voidable monthly subscription plan) to hear Jackoff brag about the lackluster production/mastering on NFR.

he's a fucking 'celebrity' cop on some shit tier TV channel I don't think he's got much room to talk. He legit shares airtime with the likes of Duck Dynasty, The Walhburgers and Storage Wars, even the term 'celebrity' is a bit of a stretch for him honestly.

legends only

It sure looks like it.

Cherry vs Gods & Monsters

ngl I'm a big high atm listening to this classic from down under Tame Impala - The Moment

I honestly hope Lana comes back to headline Osheaga this year, but rumour has it Lizzo is getting that spot. Choices.

It was her time indeed. I'm so nostalgic of Lana from that time period. 2014 was her year. The Coachella performances are iconic, the shortlived Ultraviolence era is iconic, the album, the visuals, her looks/hair/makeup from that year. I honestly miss this Lana: the mysterious, not so annoyingly California, seductive/femme fatale, rock-y songstress Lana. Ugh, The fucking flavour.

Exactly. I feel like Jack didn't push Lana at all. I very much remember reading an article in which Lana was very impressed with some sort of chord progression Jack was working on and saying she wanted that for NFR and that ended up being the instrumentals for Love Song... one of the songs I very much think its instrumentals is non-existent. The whole thing just made me realize how much of a "Yes man" Jack is, or he just goes along to get along. I'm not only blaming him for the album's weaknesses, they are both responsible for that. I agree with you on this also, there are a lot of lyricism highlights on the record, but also a lot of songs that just sound... eh. While I very much like Venice Bitch, I can't stand the actual "it's me your little Venice bitch" line, also Fuck it I luh ya has got to be the cringiest line Lana has ever uttered for an eponymously named song. Also, the Kanye West namedrop in The greatest, was so unnecessary too and to me it was like Lana tried to be edgy. I feel like it's a bit too late for WHF/LP7 to differ from NFR, because Jack basically confirmed that he and Lana they never really stopped working on songs together. My hopes for the next record to actually differ from NFR aren't very high. I feel like we're going to get more or less of the same style, not the same album, but the same beige/generic acoustic vibe.

I liked your comment at first, but then I realized that you implied that NFR is on the same level as Ultraviolence, and that the follow up record, in that case WHF/LP7 will be as equally "good" as NFR. If anything Lana should make a 180 change from that record and go into a completely different direction with an entirely new producer/collaborator for this album to be remotely interesting to me.

Musically Lana is capable of so much more than what she has displayed on NFR. I feel like the album was just too surface level for Lana. The fact that she says she has recorded a full rock album with Miles Kane but doesn't want us to hear it is shady. Her music process post Honeymoon doesn't fascinate me as much as what it used to to be honest. I feel like Honeymoon is the last album from Lana on which she gets in the studio and she has a full concept for a record and wants it to have like "x" amount of songs and sound a very specific way. Both LFL and NFR differ from that. I feel like nowadays Lana just gets in the studio and records song after song; cherrypicks what she likes most and makes a record with that. There's not the same attention to detail or intention to make a cohesive album with a specific sound/production and, dare I say, concept album? Didn't Jack say in an interview that he and Lana they basically met and just recorded a bunch of songs and never really stop? Also, on LFL, while the album's roll out was rushed due to leaks, I feel like Lana kept going back to the cutting board to add/remove songs (still can't believe that we have Coachella, but never got Yosemite). The real surprise on White Hot Forever/LP7 to me would be that Lana actually has a concept this time around.

It's not a whole lot, but here's all the Lana stuff I've collected since 2012, besides the physical copies of her albums: The standard edition (and coloured version) records I have: The special editions, boxes, singles I got so far: Just because it's my favourite album it deserves its own category AND because it's the most beautiful collector's edition type of thing Lana has put out: The few official clothing I own: All the Lana relating things I was given/got/kept at her concerts: Magazine covers: And to top it all my two autographed items: That's about it. I think I'm going to start a "Vinyl collection" thread unless there's one already.

listening to this classic a lot lately

It's just foolish in my opinion how the rollout of her projects comes off as totally unplanned and unprepared. Amateur through and through.