Thunder Revenant

The cover ... the sonbg title ... the feature ... the font ... something about this is so hillarious. I'm sad she seemingly completely abandoned the glamorous LDR persona I stanned her for. Yet it's still ... hillarious and fun. First time since Cherry that I am excited for LFL. Although not the usual way I would be excited for Lana material.

No BAR ;( but the absence of Yosemite and the fact that it's 16 and not 18 tracks could hint a deluxe ...

If you're a 14yo teen - yes

Look at all the cringeworthy sh*t he puts out. "The Weeknd - Summer Bummer" would not suprise anyone. Listen to their collabs, that completely water down Lana's unique talent into some generic pop stuff.

When I saw the UV tracklist for the first time, I believed it to be fake with titles like Sad Girl and FMWUTTT. Maybe awful titles like "Summer Bummer" and "Groupie Love" are Abel's bad influence on her art. Or the tracks will be suprisingly good in the end either way. However "In My Feelings" and "Get Free" sound so fanmade and the absence of Yosemite make me think that this may be fake.

Ugh ... it lost a lot of funk/energy compared to the Coachella version and the vocals sound weak. But I guess that's what Clean Bandit does - create generic, mainstream music. Pretty sad that we had to wait so long for that watered down version.

Cause it's not cool to molest celebs, especially on their birthday

That's your opinion, maybe you should get some attitude hun.

The video is just like the song -extremely beautiful but not really something that sticks out of her work.

what is this logic. It's a manip using a L'Uomo Vogue outtake if I'm not wrong. It's not real at all.

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I can't at people actually thinking there will be L4L news. If she's even going to be there then I'm pretty sure she'll not do anything promo-related but celebrate her fucking birthday. Getting close with her batcrazy, braindead "YASS QUEEN" fans is definitly going to take all of her mental ressources and give her an excuse to cancel every possible TV performance for this era. The only thing I could imagine is a 5 second instagram vid where she tells someone the name of her favourite track on the album or whatever. But no official announcements.

Art Deco sounds pretty "cute". The instrumental is actually pretty nice as a soundtrack, don't really feel like it's too dark but more like to "dynamic" for an emotional scene

Sad Girl was a song I did not like when UV came out, mostly because the lyrics are pretty ... stripped back. But it really grew on me - the instrumental has this sort of gangster-movie-scene-in-a-dark-smokey-bar vibe and her vocals are on point. It's the only song she ever did that actually sounds sort of jazz-ish. And for like three days I wasn't impressed with West Coast. I guess I just was a bit too much into her unreleased stuff at that time and hoped for something different. At first, I only really liked the German Radio Mix, but then the song started to "hypnotize" me and it became my favourite Lana track.

most of the photoshoots so far are just what a basic fashion photographer woukd set up and not really like anything that really creates a visual concept. All Lana herself provided were some vanilla-pics in front of a white wall and pics from the Love MV shoot. Even HM had a more distinct visual theme. She should just gibe us the tracklist/preorder/music, at this point I don't see her delivering anything special other than that for the LFL era

This era has no actual visual direction. All of the photoshoots were nice, but they were just "the usual fashion photoshoots" (minus LaChapelle). The ONLY thing she should do is drop the tracklist and a promo single with a pre-order. After that, she may disappear until LDR6 but at least that way we'd had some music to listen to, speculate about etc.

As if that would mean anything

would already be out/announced

And I'm happy it's not like that. If I want happy and uplifiting music,I'm not listening to LDR. I love her for her sad vintage-queen persona and not for generic pop-shit featuring Abel's atrocious voice. Cherry gave me back my lust for Lust For Life

While I'm also pretty sceptical, the reason all those people had for believing it's "not going along with the topics/vibe" should be meaningless after Cherry and White Mustang

After re-listening to Melodrama a few times, I think it's a nice album yet not as spectacular as I expected it to be. Green Light, Sober, Sober 2 and Lieability made me expect something more dramatic and dynamic. The songs are all nice, yet it just feels like apart from those standout tracks, the album isn't really saying much more but just filling up the spaces. Supercut for example is a pretty track, yet not really anything more than standard-Lorde song and doesn't feel fresh or exciting at all. Homemade Dynamite and The Louvre try to explore the more upbeat site of the album, but fail to reach the greatness of Sober and Green Light. Hard Feelings/Loveless is nice, yet just another long, calm, typical-Lorde-ish passage on the record. Don't get me wrong - the album is nice. But just not nearly as exciting or groundbreaking as she made it seem with the preview tracks and everything. I expected more dynamic, dark, twisted tracks with great beats and definitly a lot more melodrama

It actually wasn't compared to HM and LFL. She really hyped it up with the promo singles and the the GREAT promo-pics, the change in both her musical and visual direction and she gave quite a bunch of interesting interviews for magazines. We got a bunch of controversy, three videos in a rather short succession and everything felt fresh and exciting. The problems began halfway through the era when she cancelled all sorts of performances and did not decide to drop 90% of BtD live in favor of new content (something that does not bother us by now cause we are used to it). But all in all the era was actually pretty exciting, mainly because the new direction she took was so exciting. Compared to that, the HM pre-release-time was pretty dull, yet at least it all went in a rather planned and logical way. After the album, she really didn't do ANYTHING exciting anymore, but noone actually expected it at that point. But LFL is just so messy and annoying and the new music, no matter if you like it or not, is not strong enough to build up as much excitement as it did back with UV.

And how would "giving us the album with a proper tracklist and pre-order" interfer with that?

The "antique wine glass" and the hourglass allude to the tarot card of the magician. The planets allude to the Love music video. AND THE COOKING STUFF IS BECAUSE SHE TALKS ABOUT COOKING UP STUFF FOR "THE KIDS" USING THE INGREDIENTS!! I can't believe people on here did never get that

I was so sure that her monologue contained some song names but so far this is seemingly not correct. Apart from the XO for LFL and the chimera for Sean Lennon, I doubt anything else is connected to the album at all. Just some usual ameticana-references plus some to magic/tarot