Thunder Revenant

Unpopular opinion but I think Venice bitch is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper overrated. The lyrics are not that good, her vocal delivery and the vocals melody is not really up there with her best moments and YES the track is 10 minutes long and has some pretty nice elements of production but I feel like it's really not going anywhere. It's long and stuff gets added up but it does not really feel like the song is just going on and on for the sake of it without any development.

I LOVE this track, probably my favourite from the new album (although I haven't heard all of the songs yet) but the Kanye West namedrop is just unnecessary and does not add anything to the lyrics. Especially the way she just drops it during those last slow outro-lines.

This song really needs some time and space to bloom. At first it sounds like a nice, breezy, slightly weird track but then you hear all the layers. It's not just some standard-Lana-love track but actually a pretty thoughtful, introspective song. I like the build up a lot, especially with all the layering during the climax.

I listened to the LQ leak and ... well no. I still love the song but the lrics change is terrible. The bitter vibe and the "You did it all for fame. How does that taste coming out?" lines really were something special and beautiful. Now I get that she's at a different place in her life now and she probably has a different point of view on this relationship by now. But the new lyrics are just ... bad. They are meaningless, random and make no sense at all. If she wanted to chage the chorus, why couldn't she come up with something better than "I just wanna party with you, I'm taking of my bathing suit"? Empty phrases that don't fit the rest of the lyrics and don't even flow that well. The production and her vocals are still on fire and not even those bad lyrics will manage to ruin the song for me, but it's a fact that the new chorus is REALLY bad songwriting which was pretty much done for the sake of it.

There are some pretty good tracks on it, but the album as a hole is a mess and full of questionable last-minute-decisions. Especially after UV and HM were both so cohesive, artistic and she seemingly started to "mature" a lot with Hm, LFL just felt like a big step back.

I still want a Mark Lanegan X Lana Del Rey duet.

I gave into the temptation and listened to the LQ Leak of HIAB. To think that I was ready to stop caring for her after LFL and only listened to her stuff every other months a year ago. Now I'm completely enchanted again and I'm soooo excited for the album.

I still don't kbow why they are holding back The Greatest and FIILY after they "leaked" through Google and YT. Would habe been better to just push them out there instead of stubbornly sticking to their (new?) release schedule. The amount of streamd they probably lost that way ...

Ew she butchered the chorus lyrics and made them into meaninfless trash

Can someone pm me the new lyrics if we are not allowed to post them?

Can someone who listened to the leak pls update the BAR lyrics?

Latevto the party but I just heard The Greatest and - WOW! I absolutely love it. The grandeur in her voice, the songeriting ... FIILY is nice aswell but TG is definitly my favourite track from the album so far (considering the ones we've heard in full)

Wow, NFR really has some pretty different songwriting compared to the rest of her catalogue. It's much more direct and less romanticizing.

I'm on a short trip right now so it would really be a shame if someone sent me a pm with links to the greatest and fiily. mod note: user was warned for this post

Does someone have another link/pico for the snippet?

Bellevue is a castle in Berlin, it's the place where the president lives. It's also french for pleasant view. Don't know how that fits into Courtneys gibberish posts but whateve

Bummer, I really hoped we'd get the singles today so I could listen to them on my weekend trip The still looks pretty though. Excited for all of this

I hope we get the singles tomorrow. Anyone who does not want to listen should just like ... not listen. Let us others have our fun.

Of course, a leak is never what the artist wants and I did not mean to encourage them (although I guess at this point I would be hungry enough for this album to instantly listen to one). I just think that at this point it would not be the worst thing that could happen to her because the whole album is already wrapped up and finished, close to it's release and unlike for smaller artists the financial damage a leak would do would probably not be too harmful for Lana.

Almost all albums leak nowadays. Lana is a huge artist with an obsessed - I mean loyal fanbase. A leak may be a bummer for her but it won't hurt her sales, charting whatever.

To actually believe that in years and years of music history noone but Melonie Martini had the idea to use childrens toys in their songs. Cute. Really really cute.

Do you really REALLY believe that? Lol

Random thought: I love HIADT but I think it was probably not the best idea to release it as a single, especially since it's the last song on the album. Already knowing it kind of takes away the effect it would have had to hear it during the first listen of the whole record.

LFA is actually pretty nice and well written (unlike all of the so called political songs on LFL) and I'm happy and impressed about the way she made and released it. However, the track that will keep me busy until NFR/ the next NFR single is definitly SOTW

Lol why would you need input on that? If you consider it a demo then put it there.