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excellent analysis! It really makes me see the album as a whole in a new light.
 
With this record Lana has given us some of her most beautiful and refined tracks production and composition-wise.
 
my holy trinity for this record are Honeymoon, Music to watch boys to, and Terrence loves you.

HOT TAKE: Attack on Titan kinda sucks
 
It had the potential to be a great show but the plot holes and the obnoxious, one dimensional protagonist really drag the show down.

that moth be gettin' that booty though  

lol 50% of this video is just Ariana Grande doing narcissistic poses.

this motherfucker was more positive about albums like poppy.computer and witness than he is about UV (he rated it a 2)
 
I can agree that Lana's music isn't for everyone but......really?

Life is Strange and True say hi.
 
And You...

Life is Strange will forever be such a wasted moment... sonically, i actually really like parts of it. However... the lyrics are such a stupid and useless statement and the production is just whack in some areas of the song. 

The worst songs are Life is strange and No More suckers with those awful lyrics about food and towels. You sucks too, but it's cause of the production, the demo is so good. True Is meh and I can't stand Orange Tree. The rest is not perfect, It has its flaws too but it is at least decent. Btw, i can't believe we're still talking about this crappy album, it's getting tiring. Even if we keep on stating it sucks, it won't make it suck any less. Can She please release something with actual replay value? Thx

I don't get what's with all of the "the other woman" hate.
 
Personally I think it's a beautiful cover
 
really hits me with the feels

The grandiose production is what makes it so great tbh
 
If everything fits well together production-wise then I don't see what the problem is

roar is still one of the ugliest pop tracks I've ever heard in my life   
 
cannot believe it's got the most views out of all of her songs like wtf is wrong with people 

the acoustic version of Superstar is really good though
 
The lack of suffocating trap beats and the refreshing sound of real instruments in the background really allow marina's vocals to shine. This version definitely brings out all of the better qualities of the song. 

HOT TAKE: Attack on Titan kinda sucks
 
It had the potential to be a great show but the plot holes and the obnoxious, one dimensional protagonist really drag the show down.

lol 50% of this video is just Ariana Grande doing narcissistic poses.

emotional machine is horrible 

I know yall say I’m negative but today I wanted to just take a moment to appreciate how flawless Radioactive acoustic is
A timeless bop, perfection in its most pure form

Just type that already xoxo

I'm sorry Ma'am, but I won't take this bitch seriously. He disregarded/overlooked her entire discography up until she released her most subued record (much like all these so called critics that now claim to revere the musical genius Lana is/has become? ), the one on which she sounds less like "Lana Del Rey", probably why he likes it so much though. Anyway, Fantino Rice can rot. 

We all know that Summertime Sadness remained a shit stain on the fandom and drove a nail between two types of Lana fans. But I feel as though it’s almost been a decade since the alt pop queen really made her mark with summertime sadness, we should probably just admit by now it is one of if not the best song she has ever released. It seriously represents everything Lana Del Rey encompasses as an artist and will always remain her epitome of pop song mending.

I would honestly agree with you if NFR! was actually on an another level comparitively to her past releases, but it simply is not. The production and mastering of her past releases felt more cohesive and meticulous (except LFL) than what ended up being on NFR!. I still see NFR! as being the weaker album overall from a production point of view, there's is no highlight moments production wise on this record, or at least not for me. The album just lacks that "oomph" that the other albums had, it definitely lacks this sort of mix between intensity and/or mystery/mysticism or weirdness you'd find in a Lana album or song. Sorry to bring this up again, but I'm genuinely upset how most of the album has this dry, flat and tinny tone about it, so much for someone that says she spent months and months mastering records.
 
I'd say that Get Free is probably the last Lana song on which Lana actually sounded like the Lana of her first records, the construction of this track is so "weird" yet interesting. Can't really say the same about the vast majority of songs on NFR!.
 
There has definitely been growth on Lana's part, to me it feels like everything past Honeymoon, she stripped away the so called "Del Rey" persona in her music and lyricism. Agree, that she sounds more earnest on some songs on NFR!, but as for others I wouldn't say that lyrically it's her most interesting or mature album (that would be hands down Honeymoon) there are definitely songs that sound a little lyrically "basic" on NFR!. Like to me Venice Bitch... I like the song, but I definitely feel like the hazy/dry musical outro basically exists to beef up what was at the beginning a pretty weak song. The "Oh god miss you on my lips, it's me your little Venice bitch" and "woah woah for-ever", it might be 10 minutes long, but I don't see it as being career defining like some other fans. Not to mention her infamous and cringy "babies on the tour lyfe" lyrics in Happiness Is A Butterfly...
 
You're right though Jared, there is no conspiracy, critics just want to hear more or less the same, for a lack of a better word, basic or less extravagant and/or weird stuff. Or at least not from someone like Lana, who up until fairly recently was like a black sheep in the music industry.

roar is still one of the ugliest pop tracks I've ever heard in my life   
 
cannot believe it's got the most views out of all of her songs like wtf is wrong with people 

honestly i feel like the second half of honeymoon holds up a LOT better than the second half of ultraviolence

So you mean to tell me that Lana (and her yes man Jack) intentionally made most of the instrumentals sound flat and dry, purposefully omitted bass on pretty much 99% of the album AND championed a very unequal, unpolished and uncooked approach for the production and mastering of the record? Hmmmmm sorry, but no.
 
Both Ultraviolence and Honeymoon are miles ahead in terms of recording quality and/or soundscape. They are timeless classics. Brooklyn Baby, Shades of Cool, West Coast, Sad Girl, Pretty When You Cry, Honeymoon, Music To Watch Boys To, Terrence Loves You, Salvatore and The Blackest Day (and even Heroine and Get Free) obliterate the production and mastering of every single songs on NFR.
 
I cannot actually believe that we are fighting over the production of this record when we have so much amazing music from Lana (as well as many of her contemporaries) to actually compare it too, like it's painfully obvious that the attention to detail to create a top notch atmospheric sound was totally lost on this record.
 
I don't need anyone's "bias" over at Pitchfork to convince me otherwise, I know Lana has had better production days. 

Yep! It's like 99% of k-pop stars/groups. It's hard to dance as hard as they do and sing well at the same time. I dunno, I prefer live but I get it sometimes. I'd go see a favourite regardless 

This is literally how FROOT was marketed... can we stop taking what she says seriously? She loves to talk