Thunder Revenant

"I don't see how that's possible"

I feel sorry for Marina. She was so enthusastic and happy about the whole FROOT machine, but her team just sucks. First, they are too stupid to run the website, so all the lyrics leak and we already got to see Happy and Immortal promo stuff before it should have been seen. Then, they send out the singles information out too soon, so we knew what the "Froot Of The Month"'s would be. And now, they let the vinyl stores send out the Immortal/I'm A Ruin single too soon and seemingly didn't gave them any clear instructions for the prewievs. I hope this won't happen with the next two Froots or even the whole album ... Considering I'm A Ruin ... Like I said, it's my least favourite Froot so far but I suspect it's a grower. Immortal was a first-second love for me, Froot took a few listens before I could fully appreciate it. Happy .. I like it but the religious undertones gave me a hard time, but now that Marina confirmed that it's not about religion (and now that some time has passed after it was released) I also like it a lot. I'm A Ruin .. I was a little bit underwhelmed. It's like a shallow scratching on Happy and Immortal's sound with Electra Heart-esque lyrics and a more upbeat instrumental. But I have to admit it has a catchy melody, so maybe I'll love it after listening to it more often.

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Hm .. judging from the snippet this will not become my favourite Froot. Let's see how it'll sound in full ... So far: Immortal + Froot > Happy > I'm A Ruin

Well, maybe it won't be a lead single, but .. one song from the record, which may not even get much single attention but will be one of her favs. The same way she performed Body Electric a lot before the Paradise release

Hm .. I get the idea of the song and I think it#s good. The execution ... meh. The instrumental sounds like a "block", not really many instruments playing together. Emile did this on BtD a few times aswell, however, this time it's a bit more striking. The loom is a bit random, I don't really feel it. It's not nearly as fitting as in Million Dollar Man. But I like this "thrown in" e-guitar strings during the chorus, reminds me of Gods & Monsters and Carmen. The production .. sounds a bit raw. Her voice sounds a bit like a filtered acapella layed over an instrumental, and the whole song feels like you would listen to it with low quality headphones. The bridge also sounds thrown in. It starts out of nowhere, doesn't really fit the parts that come before and both lyrically and sonically it's unfitting. Talking about her voice, I don't really hear Born To Die Lana. The way she uses her voice her reminds me more of I Can Fly, Is This Happiness, Flipside and Big Eyes. The lyrics .. hm. At least she's a bit "critical" towards her lover but yeah ... The chorus is better than in her previous efforts but somehow there isn't much emotion going on there for me. Basically, it's a nice song and I could imagine I will need some time, so it can grow on me. But right now, I don't feel like it's something that will "satisfy" me for long, just like it was with the Big Eyes soundtrack songs. And I also don't want her to keep this style for Honeymoon. It's nice to have an instrumental style which is a thor back to Born To Die, but I don't feel like this would be any kind of "artistic progress". Apart from that, that#s not the style I imagine if I think about "Honeymoon" and Mark Ronson.

All the people mistaking fans, who like "promo" because it provides interesting stuff from the artist they love with people who only want promo because they only care about charts. Promoting an album doesnt interfere with being a "serious" artist.

I wasn't sure how to feel about The Pale Emperor. Third Day of A Seven Day Binge took me some time to get into, it was the same with Deep Six. After these two singles, I had low expectations for the album, only looking foreward to Cupid Carries A Gun, because of the Salem preview. However, I have to say, I was suprised by the album in a positive way. Killing Strangers is a good intro of the kind of If I was A Vampyre. Deep Six sounds much better in the context of the album. Third Day of A Seven Day binge ... I think it really grew a lot on me since the release. The Mephistoteles Of Los Angeles is a great track, it has a very cinematic undertone. Definitly one of the halbum's highlights. Warship My Wreck .. hm. It's a good track but way too long. It would be better if it was shorter, at least that#s how i feel about it at the moment. Slave Only Dreams To Be King is my favourite from this record. I love the beat, the way it drops in after the speach-sample at the beginning. I love the melody and the way it changes during the song. The Devil Beneath My Feet is a solid manson song, however, I guess that either way it is not a big stand-out (at least for me) or I will need some more time to get into it. Birds Of Hell Awaiting is the only song I don't really like on this record. I don't know, I just don't like it, neither the sound nor the lyrics appeal to me. But it was like this with The Reflecting God aswell, and now I really love that song. So we'll see .. however, at this point, I think the album would be good without this song aswell. Cupid Carries A Gun. I love it. However, it feels a bit thrown together, but still, the instrumental and the pound me the witch drums parts are gorgeous. Odds Of Even is a typical Manson closer. But a very very good one. I also love the three bonus tracks. Especially the "acoustic" version of Third Day of A Seven Day Binge slays me.

I don't want to hear church songs. I mean, she has referred to religion (Y&B, LO, GM) and this is ok, because she is a religious/spiritual person but i don't want a song about religion itself. Songs like this always end up preachy.

Religion .. pls not. But I already fear we'll getsomething like this, judging from the cross-necklaces that are all over her last photoshoots.

Why do so many people here act like their personal tastes are facts? I do enjoy Lana#s live vocals, however sometimes I don't like them (which is often when people say how godly they are ... like during some of the over-done MDM performances) and sometimes I love them. There are singers who do better than her and then there are the ones, where you can argue about how good they are live. Miley for example isn't my cup of tea live, even though I wouldn't say she is bad. Lana is not the live-vocals queen, but she is also not as bad as some people act. And I feel like it's the same with many other artists. I wouldn't agree with Katy being better than Lana for example.

I guess the snippet could be a reprise of Falling Apart and in this case it'll either be released on the album or as a B-side for Wait For Life

When/wherere was the 20th stated as a release?

Kill Kill - 8 Queen of the Gas Station - 7 Oh Say Can You See - 8 Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven) - 5 For K Part 2 - 4 Jump - 4 Mermaid Motel - 9 Raise Me Up (Mississippi South) - 4 Pawn Shop Blues - 0 Put Me in a Movie - 8 Yayo - 8

Born To Die feels so incomplete without the three bonus tracks, and I also don't think Burning Desire interferes with the coherence of Paradise. You could argue with UV. Yeah TOW is a good closer and the 3-track Deluxe version sounds a bit off, ending with FK. But I think it's a question of mis-placement. If ipside would have been bonus track n. 3, it would have felt "closed" again.

Proving my point, I don't build up my self esteem on how good the artists I like sell. You seemingly do and apart from this your disrespect for different tastes just shows again how looooooooow your level is. Pls, when will you ever make your farewells reality?

Well, if you think your pathetic ATRL sassyness hurts me, you are wrong "girl", since I have no need to bump my on self-esteem on the chart position and sales of another person but the fact how I personally like their music. And apart from this, I don't see how the first part of your "post" is connecting with anything I wrote.

It's so annoying how you act like you would know nay better than the rest of us. We all can just speculate but so far you have been putting down on all opinions which are not going with what you wish the album will end up. Big suprise: Even if you deny it as hard as Merier keeps failing her lipsyncs, in the end it will be Lana who decides how it sounds. She said it would be more "BTD/Paradise" like but this doesn't neccecarily means there will be hip hop beats. Could aswell mean that there will be less guitar and more strings again, or that there is heavy orchestration or that the whole vibe will be mor eromantic again and less bitter. Whatever, we don't know it, so stop acting as if you would sing on the album yourself.

Shades of Cool-37 West Coast- 3

Ok, I am no person who NEEDS big music videos and can't live with simple things. Also, I don't agree with many examples of "good glittery videos". Ride for example was cringeworthy in my opinion, National Anthem was a nice video, but I would have preferred a few more story-scenes instead of constant making-out/ family scenes. But i also think that the "around" does a lot of things. If it's glamorous Gangster-Lolita Lana, with pin up curls and gold chains, climbing out of a swimming pool, vintage-beauty queen Lana with Marilyn Monroe dresses and beehives or if it is the dark-psychodelic Lana with simple clothing staged with blurry photo-effects. I love her homemade style of Carmen as much as I love Woodkid's Blue Jeans music video. I love the "expensive cars and palm trees" Lana as much as the "super simple" Lana. But it's all a question on how you do it. The Ultraviolence video was really a big flop. Nothing "deep" and "atmospheric" about it, it's just over-simplyfied and executed very poorly. It builds up something and then destroys the "finally arrived" scene with random scenes of her walking around in the last seconds of the vid. Just random stuff which is supposed to be artsy. I don't think this is"why this era flopped" but I am always sad she never made something out of UV. All of those wonderful NK shots, she never really used in the media. All of these wonderful music video possibilitys. All of these wonderful "obscure" TV/Radio performances she could have done. So in the end, I don't really mind if she charts high or low, as long as I have something to love (apart from the music, obviously). An album si wonderful, but it's very nice for a fan to have good music videos and performances to watch/listen to. Not because of promo, but because it is something which you can satisfy your stan-addiction with. I hope she will do more of this stuff during the Honeymoon era again. She doesn't have to turn "YEAH PUBLICITY!" and stuff, but doing nor much at all is also very boring. And yes, I know she seemingly recorded a lot of stuff while "not doing anything" and it's ok for her to chose if she wants to appear on a show or not, but I just hope she'll be more on the spot for this era,

Where did she say anything about the artwork? I feel like the article which was referred to here before was most likely only quoting from the Billboard interwiev and they just got something wrong.

Well, maybe we'll get a Kill Kill/ Mermaid Motel rework for this record

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Shades Of Cool - 38 West Coast - 42

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