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Ye, don't misunderstand me. I get it's a metaphore of fearing to enter a relationship with someone who's risky to be with in terms of emotional/affective stability or whatever. I don't think Lana is talking about a real "serial killer", obviously. What I find problematic is the language and the figures she finds "suitable" to refer to human relationship topics. It's a form of symbolic power which she's actually a victim of. I've always felt bad for her whenever discussing her love affairs on her music, because the tendence is always to elaborate on them from a very violent and submissive perspective -maybe Ultraviolence is the album where she shows that more explicitly-. Anyway, just thinking and sharing with you.

"If he's as bad as they say then I guess I'm cursed looking into his eyes i guess he's already hurt"

Hey. Just was thinking about the lyrics on NFR, and noticed that some of them may rise again a huge cultural controversy surrounding Lana. I'm thinking specifically about HIAB ones... "If he's a serial killer then what's the worst that could happen to a girl who was already hurt?" How do y'all think critics and social movements will receive this kind of messages since we -fortunately- are right now in a world-wide explosion of reivindications towards women rights?

I've always thought that it would be a dream if she performed an acoustic version of Coachella, or even the original removing or lowering the ugly trap beats. The bridge it has never ceases to amaze me!

When I think this thread can't host a post weirder than the ones done before, things like this appear from nowhere

I've been quite haunted by the snippet since it came out, and just realised it sounds as a beautiful, mature mix between what Bel Air and Is this happiness represent in sound terms. Anyone else has noticed the simmilarity?

Any Nightwish listener over here?

I think she may not even be aware of the political landscape that allows the mass shootings to happen, actually. I mean, she's shown herself to be anti Trump and that's nice, but she clearly isn't diving deep on political matters nor has she done it before either. She has many times romanticized about weapons in her songs, just as a part of the USA imagery she's so in love with. A mass shooting is something that breaks everybody "in a cellular level" (as I think she said), but the reasoning concerning it isn't going further in Lana's case. Maybe with time she will be able to come with broader conclusions about the social events that cause conflict within her. And that would be amazing to see, actually. Imagine her looking at her previous work from a gender critical perspective, per example.

Even coming from slightly different circumstances, I kind of feel the same as you about this site. I read it for months -maybe since late 2018-, then decided to make an account, and I've felt so comfortable just standing here, reading amazing views on the most and the less important topics, and laughing so much (I still can't forget that post about NFR's deluxe edition coming with a kit to grow your own moths). So thank you all for creating such a warm space for us to come and for making us stay.

Here an oversensitive ear, then. Glad that it didn't bother you!

I'm sure there are means to make sure it doesn't sound like a glitch. Anyway, the song is beautiful.

The song is beautiful. But the production... Anyone else heard the weird taps at the end of the song, and the abrupt cut of the sound at the very end? It sounded as if some of them made accidentally some noise and then they forgot to erase it from the official song. I hate when this happens.

The link works, so she's actually releasing the song. But it doesn't allow to play it, at least in Spain.

Are y'all joking about this? Can't find it...

Nominating you for best comment

The lyrics are even worse than usually. And dont get me wrong, I think she's one of the most interesting famous artists in last 20-30 years, maybe, but her lyric-writing hasnt been good since her beginnings, and it has just got worst as her career went by. What we have heard till now from NFR... Atrocious. I can't, really can't believe she is still mourning about party dresses (at this point, is just a charicature of her already charicaturized self) and parties and shit. The point with Lana is that, even getting that incredibly absurd lyric-wise, she still develops incredibly captivating songs, being Venice Bitch the last huge example of that: maybe the worst lyrics of her whole career -and that is not an award easy to be winned, given her awful writing skills-, yet one of her most hypnotising, undescriptible beautiful songs ever. I don't think we actually have to worry about that, just resign and enjoy as it wont stop the whole to be so enjoyable. That's Lana.

U're welcome, and thanks for the advise!

There wasn't a meltdown with it, just mixed perceptions, I think. From my point of view, we just got a very unrepresentative snippet of what the whole of the song can potentially be, and even that way I found the production quite experimental and interesting.

It could happen, actually. Marina already did it with the "Love" side of her last album. It's truly weird the promo posters doesn't have any info about the date...

Already posted this of NFR's pre-release thread. Anyway, has anyone noticed the similarities between the chorus on The Greatest and on Sam Smith's "Im not the only one"?

Hey. Since this morning I thought that The Greatest chorus reminded me hardly of something. Just realized... Doesn't it sound a lot like "I'm not the only one" by Sam Smith?

Third time listening to snippets. This is her most down to earth, and at the same time, her most risky project ever. Sounds like honesty. Straight to the chest. No way I'm not crying when I listen to the full album, as I'm almost doing with just snippets. Bartender... Even HIAD sound perfectly contextualized. This girl... -Edit: 3492892840824th time listening to snippets. The 24 days left until the album release will be thougher than the hell she made us gone through since last september. Fuck.

Only snippets. But if they're already there 24 days in advance of the album release, sure the album won't take long to leak. Poor Lana

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/10524-little-boy-velvet/ He seems to be the author of the video you asked for, but I can't find the link. Maybe you can ask him!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5XptSCCciU -Don't know how to post the video itself from Youtube so it can be played here. The song is Never is a promise by Fiona Apple, which I find quite similar to what we've heard from NFR's title track-.