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Not to offend any Bleachers fan that may be over here, but if the feature is on one of their songs, Im afraid of whats coming. It doesn't get blander or cornier than their music, IMO (excuse me again, Bleachers fans, their music make me cringe heavily).

I don't know about his personal taste on music (I mean, don't know if I can share his appreciations and approach to the album), but the style-aesthetics he is depicting definetly sound promising. Aiming to hear the album!

I actually love instrumental music, but his just lacks something for me. Listened also to some of her work with Beyonce and it's technically impeccable, quite well crafted and neat, but... Maybe kind of plain for my taste. Maybe too clean. I actually prefer, regarding hip-hop oriented producers, Lana's work with Emile Hayne or the bunch of people she worked with during BTD/Paradise era. But if Antonoff with his three damn chords got to work for three whole albums with Lana, Mike Dean for sure deserves his chance too!

Been listening to Mike Dean's solo work and I can't say that I adore it. Surely more solid than almost anything Jack has done, but still lacking some artistic complexity from my point of view. Hoping his work with Lana will be innovative, anyway!

Is it Father John Misty on the first picture?

Basinski goes first!

The fact that this sounds quite feasible actually...

2030's favourite musical genre for us will be lanaboardsvaporwave, filled with imagery from gifs of that woman reflecting behind the wall, "Shanice" written in glitter and nostalgia from when Diamantes Wild was still Dragon

I was thinking about how the possibility of Lana going full bombastic again sound-wise has been discussed in this topic, and thought about how inmense a Lana-Labrinth collab would be. Imagine a Lana album produced by him... I could die after that!

Why did I thought this was exactly the case... Thank you!

Source?

I love CB and WOY deeply, they are maybe my favourite unreleased songs by Lana. But we've had them for years already, no need for them to be added on a 2021 new album. Not having already been listening to them for years.

The fact I'd kill to hear Lana going through that route...

Watch this kind of edit becoming trendy from now onwards. I can totally see it happening xd

Na, I didnt dislike any of those albums (truly loved COTCC, actually, and some parts from NFR too), but this just didnt click for me. Sounds like a standard pop heartbreak song, and the lyrics are corny. Anyway, that was just a 30 second snippet, hoping to end up loving the whole thing!

Hahahahaha... The energy behind your posts is something the world just needs, man <3

Not feeling the snippet. Sounds kinda cringy for me. Let's hope it isnt!

They better give her Premium access for free!

She's trending in Twitter Spain because of the cover. The hasthag: "#picsart"

The BB cover make those looke like Caravaggios. She truly outdid herself with it.

How to reuse a picture from a former awful cover and manage to make it even worse (really, I cant imagine a cover that gets to look any uglier than this last one) in the new one. I dont get whatever's going through her mind design-wise, if any at all does. Anyway, hoping that music is beautiful.

Already can listen to the intro chords: G... D... A....

This is amazing. Thank you all for the work! <3

Couldnt agree more here. She happened to come to the world in a specific context that ended up leading for her to live a privileged life, but that's just a fact and noticing it doesnt mean blaming her for it or whatever. Nobody should blame someone for being born in a deprived environment either (even if many, many people in fact blame socially vulnerable people for being vulnerable but that's another issue). But yes, she definetly could have used all the resources she has at disposition to grow a wider perspective regarding the position she's in, and she's definetly not done it yet. Truly hope she does someday. And definetly everything can be analysed from a political standpoint. I think that it is quite necessary when what it's at stake is not watching contingent inequalities as natural, as naturalising them makes even harder to notice and try to overcome them!

I guess you can choose which analytical paradigm suits the best to your views (as they exist precisely to enable people to look at the world in a way that makes it meaningful for them), but what you called the "marxist lens" or "materialistic framework" isn't something that's reductible to "you have more, I have less", but a whole complex scientific artifact that's used by all the centers of power worldwide to design how resources are distributed and regarding which interests the distribution is made. This isn't a left-wing discourse tick, as you seem to perceive it, but a whole perspective that's been developing for centuries and that shapes the very root of the choices that are made by the highest level institutions (which aren't precisely suspicious of being left wing, but who know how much inequality -socioeconomical, tangible one, no one's discussing epistemology or metaphysics here when discussing inequality- is the result of political decisions and how to take advantage of it). COTCC develops a very situated narrative that's (as any narrative given) determined by the place Lana exists in in the world, and that happens to be a very privileged one, no matter how much she may have worked. 99% of the world works on a higher, harder basis and conditions than Lana does and they don't get to live the privileged way Lana does. This isn't, of course, Lana's fault or something to blame her for, as she isn't making the choices that make the terrible inequality we live in to happen, but that doesnt mean she isn't absolutely at a privileged place in many, many levels, and that it affects the way she looks at the world and what she has to tell about it. COTCC being political (as any cultural expression is, willingly or not -as a manifestation of a specific way to approach to the world, with a concrete value- system behind it-) doesnt require for it to talk about World Bank or Christine Lagarde, politics don't resume to institutional politics. The fact that her position in the world allows her to make a living from depicting her life experiences with fame, wealth, gender inequality, episodes of relative poverty or the perks and bads of living in an environment of as privileged people as her speaks itself about how social conflict exists, and how the world is seen from the minoritary portion of people who gets to benefit from the current state of that conflict. Anyway, my point here isn't (nor it was in my first post to which you answered) to set Lana as responsible for the social disfunctionalities and injustices that happen to divide the world, but to highlight how her artistic production, as every other artist's, comes from a very concrete place and therefore speaks about certain things that arent just available for the majority of the people, as art isn't isolated from the political and organizative contexts it's produced in and tends to reproduce the features of those contexts itself.