Thunder Revenant

WTF happened. How did we go from alt-pop masterpieces like Sadness Is A Blessing, Get Some, Gunshot, No Rest For The Wicked, Little Bit and Breaking It Up to this bullshit. Generic, bland and annoying. Her last cover gave me hope for something great - and now ... THIS? ew

UV was redone though. But yeah, I don't think time equals inspiration and creativity.

Y'all overobsessed over the "out of the black and into the blue" lyric and now thaz she's referring to it you don't get it

Those snippets sound terrible and generic. I hope the rest of the album is better. Hard Rain could be ok in HQ but Deep End seems awful

But she IS going backwards with LFL or those cringy tourlife lyrics

It's just not good

It is

Because it's boring

I actually always enjoyed the beats on Born To Die. Don't get why y'all try to come for them - they are an essential part of the album. I'd love an album with more dramatic drum-rolls like on Cherry though or if she ACTUALLY did a trip hop-esque record a la Portishead/Puracane/Archive

I think it's a great duet, however I hate how his vocals are layered during the verse while hers aren't.

I want her to cover a Yoko Ono song for the next record so all the EDM-pop-gays can choke

But .. that "psychedelic fire" is what makes UV. Listen to The Black Keys stuff and you hear which parts of the sound were influenced by Dan. And I think they are quite essential.

Heroin, Pretty When You Cry, Wait For Life

I get what you want to say. But I personally think that if all she can come up is "Yeah, shit is going down but let's keep on daaaaaaaaaaaancing!" "cause we're beautiful people with beautiful problems", then she should just not say anything and stick to songs about daddys and unrequited love. Because LFL really has no "personal thoughts" to submit. At least I can't find anything that's ACTUALLY related to the topics she said she'd sing about. Take away GBA's chorus and all her talk about how it's about the woman's marches and you have .. well, a typical Lana song. Songs that comment social and political issues can be great, even if you are not part of an unpriviledged group. But I feel that Lana just can't pull it of.

nah. if she really to release this, she's gonna have to apologize

I personally could not get any certain vibe pr aesthetic for LFL. The album felt pretty disjointed and messy with a lot of random different sounds. For me, it failed to archieve the "class" of the rest of her albums. It was neither very conceptional, nor intense nor mature nor an indicator fpr artistic growth - just a collection of 16 new songs, which were nice to have (at least some of them) but not interesting as a body of work.

Art has always been about social issues. Lana's just not good at doing that, especially since she's not really doing it - she writes some of her usual lyrics and then puts two or three superficial lines about some social issue into them. You don't have to write/sing a literal essay on a social issue but politics, society etc. are an important part of art. That's one of the biggest problems with todays music. Many of them are either just focussed on doing superficial music with a focus on commercial success. And if "mainstream artists" pull of political songs, they often end up cringy.

Yeah, I love Lana for the things she does/did, so I have no problem with the lyrics/motifs. I mean, Cherry is a sweet nothing but it's SO Lana and that's part of why I love it that much. But when the production, songwriting and general atmosphere of her album starts to lose it's unique "Lana-touch" like on LFL (partly because the album was too messy), the lacking lyrical motifs stick out more.

This "You" thing sounds bad. If she's really that out-of-inspiration that she needs to do basic EDM music, she should just retire.

I think they are ... pretty much the usual Lana stuff. Cherry, Heroin, White Mustang ... songs like those are the bread-n-buter Lana lyrics. Some songs like 13 Beaches and Change stick out as interesting improvements, while others like Lust For Life mark a new low. Biggest problem is that she kind of lost a big portion of the "Lana-magic" on LFL and therefore those "usual kind of Lana-business" lyrics seem a bit boring and uninspired. I mean, God Bless America and When The World Was At War are supposed to be politically inspired, but the lyrics are really far away from being deep, meaningful or anything but Lana's comfort zone-lyrics. In addition to that, her perception of "political songs" is pretty shallow and lyrics like Coachella or WTWWAW, although I get the intention behind them, turn out as cringeworthy. And the worst thing is how she's into this "I sing for mah children" thing ... it's cute on Love but she definitly needs to stop that.

Don't lie

My wish is that Lana will talk about how Yosemite will be on this album during the whole pre-release era, just to scrap it once more. Your move hun.

Every era needs its porn spam I guess ...

and ... how is this offending you in any way? tHaT's jUsT mY oPiNiON, aM i NoT aLlOwEd tO pOsT tHat iN tHiS tHrEaD? Really, you just want to be offended and start to read things into my post that ARE NOT THERE. All I stated is that I think it's unrealistic we'll get Cactus or Wild Ones and people here seem to keep getting their hopes up. Could have quoted any other person bringing the tracks up.