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Right? Total waste of money at this point. Yeah, she's in the Win Edwards clan, the stans that buy VIP packages for the whole tour, get front and center each time and get in the way of other fans so they can have their millionth selfie with Lana. Creeeeeps.

Hunter Marie and her little crew are such suck ups ughhh

OMG SAME! I mean I had her hair in my mouth, it was a little weird, but I got really close to her head when I took a selfie with her back in 2015. She smells really nice lol.

Glad you seem to have had a great time! But doesn't it suck that Lana seem to only be interacting with the same 5-ish fans at every single one of her shows...

What's up with her being late though? I saw Lana like three times for her own concerts and she was maybe late 15 minutes at the most? I have not really paid attention to her performances during the LA To The Moon Tour tbh (mainly because she didn't came in my city that time around), but was she late during that tour as well? Sorry, but that's kinda corny and disrespectful on her part.

Interesting, Wet Hot American Summer White Hot Forever is not out yet? But I do have heard of Ultraviolence and Honeymoon which are both her magnum opuses? And actually have good production and mixing creds.

Serving Laura Ingalls realness.

These outfits so far... that's like Johnny Blue on crack.

Lust for Life... to me personally, it's not that the sound was too varied, although that didn't make the album sound all too cohesive, the album just had too many collabs and was tainted with trap beats, and a lot of the lyrics sounded a bit juvenile and shallow.. Now with NFR, while I genuinely believe the album is great, I just don't care for the production and mastering, it sounds really messy, cheap-y, tinny, flat and dry at times. The vocal track doesn't mesh well with the instrumentation on a lot of songs. Vocally there are great moments on the album, but her voice is at times a little inaudible and/or is drowned in the instrumentals. As for the instrumentals, on a lot of track I feel like it lacks bass or percussions to create a deep/varied or balanced sound, that's what makes it flat for me. I honestly hope Jack will either challenge Lana more on the production of WHF, or that he as other tricks to show, because I honestly think that it will be NFR 2.0.

do you mean to say that not all piano based songs have a cheap-y and tinny tone about them? I'm shocked.

*prays in Kevin Parker*

Ngl when I first heard she was going to name her next album White Hot Forever I legit automatically thought about Wet Hot American Summer

You tried again LMAO. Girl, I know you're facetious, and if you think for one second I cannot be challenged than you are even more delusional than I thought you were. I've literally been having arguments with the same three stans on here for like a month. I honestly don't mind going on about this forever, because I genuinely believe the production of this album is somewhat terrible. Also, how some people are using critics (that up until Lana started smiling on the cover of LFL, they literally hated/trashed anything she would do) as some sort of proof that Lana has become a musical genius on NFR alone, is really less than smart. It's so funny how you talk about me "dominating" the thread with my assumptions about other stans when you're literally the one doing that, while that might've been facetious, that was still dumb assumptions on your part. I have never made assumptions about anyone here, I literally just write about what I think of the production of this record, nothing more. Now you can either chose to ignore my comment and go on with your life or you can answer me till the end of time, but rest assured I will always find time to answer your comments kindly.

I mean we're quite a lot of people here, and Instagram, and twitter, and Reddit that think the production is quite lackluster and the mastering is a little off? Guess what? We're both tired of each other, but we're all part of the same fandom and we all have the right to our different opinions. Get used to it. Besides you're allowed to go on and on about how we're all crackheads that live in our mom's basement and listen to Lana's Sad Girl songs from her Sad Girl days on a loop, and that just because we don't like the production of this record? Sorry, but I've never made gross assumptions based on the kind of music some fans here like to listen to, let alone call anyone a drug addict or made fun of their living situations. You tried. The production and mastering is still terrible though.

Well Dan Auerbach has made incredible music, Yours, Dreamily was a great record! And also I don't know where all this hate for Rick Nowels comes from? Yeah Lust for Life was pretty bad, but Honeymoon is literally her most beautiful record production wise? Rick Nowels is chameleon like, he's been a producer or co-producer on pretty much all her records, he just goes along to get along. Why do you always go back to some "critics are always right!!1!" rhetoric? Can't you form your own damn opinion about an album and its production??

I never wanted anything more to happen in my life, Ultralonerism?

When did all these assumptions about me doing drugs and wanting Lana to stick to this Sad Girl persona come from? I mean it was enjoyable and interesting for her first two albums? But I don't enjoy the misery of others and very much appreciate artistic growth, honey. You're clearly missing the point here. I have literally said nothing about the lyrical content of her new album, I love the direction she took, it's more mature and interesting than singing about doing drugs and having daddy issues for sure. I'm literally always mentioning the production/mixing and mastering of this album. The production of this album was deliberately bad and the mastering is atrocious, that's it.

I'm not. Just tired of people shitting on all her other albums, because we just a got a fresh one. Literally disregarding all the other producers Lana worked with? That's just dumb to me. Not saying Jack is a bad producer per se, he did some great work with Lorde, St. Vincent and even TSwift, but with Lana I just don't get how they made something that sound lackluster at times. Sorry.

LMAO I honestly dare you to find a single negative Born To Die review/critique that doesn't mention that: a) Lana's career was either "paid" by her father and/or she's a manufactured artist made the "the music industry" b) That Lana tried to get into the music several times before, but it never took off. I don't know how long you've been a fan, I'm guessing you're pretty fresh into the fandom, but up until Lust for Life, every single one of Lana's critics were tainted with hatred and resentment against her, there was very little talk about the music, so for you to quote these Metacritic scores as proof of Lana's so called excellence on NFr, that's just baffling, irrelevant and quite frankly hilarious. You can say all you want, but bottom line NFR, is literally her least interesting album from a production point of view, it sounds flat, dry, and very unequal, and that piano sounds hella tonny, so much for Lana's magnum opus uh?

There's a huge difference between wanting Lana to stick to her Sad Girl persona, and wanting her to actually make music worth listening too, with good production and mixing values, and not sound so damn cheap and amateur-ish on what is supposed to be (and this is based on some mentally unstable losers here) her so called magnum opus? You're basically saying that everyone that didn't think NFR was that great are all Sad Girl boys, doing drugs and wishing Lana was still with Barrie, I cannot with your delusional ass. I ain't living in anyone's basement no more, sis.

I couldn't care less what critics have to say about Lana's music, the critics that have "praised" Lana on NFR, are the very same critics that have been disregarding her since the very beginning. Their words don't mean much, just saying. Also aren't you the fan that comes here just to shit on all her albums and say the words "magnum opus" like 11240749 times day? Aren't you tired too?

why did she go for that hideous pop art font/style for the cover this era

I agree with each and every single one of the points you've made here. It's not to say that he's a bad producer, but Lana isn't a typical pop star (not saying Lorde or St. Vincent are though), but Lana is in a league of her own, he didn't quite get her essence on this record and it shows, Lana's usual mysticism and sense of mystery was lost on this record. Lana though, and this is judging by all the interviews, seems to be quite enamoured with his musicianship... well good for her, I don't share the sentiment here though.

I think a lot of people just turned their backs on Rick because he was apart of LFL, which is arguably her least interesting (or her worst) album. But to be honest, I see him as Lana's companion, he was apart of Ultraviolence, and he basically produced Honeymoon with just Lana and Kieron, and it is her best album, or at least her most cohesive and greatest from a production standpoint.

can you actually believe that it took her a year to release that and it ended up sounding unfinished... like that's just