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Just found this on the web and sure you'll enjoy
 

 
-best part of it is the flying Duke's belt-

Just found this on the web and sure you'll enjoy
 

 
-best part of it is the flying Duke's belt-

just found this youtube channel, theyre making pretty accurate instrumental remakes of NFR songs 
the hiab one 
 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQYeEnLWwGDZomwEDd5H1eQ/videos

It's amazing how many musical references are over the album... Didn't know about the one you are pointing, p.e. But found out that the "dream a little dream of me" lyric comes from a The Mamas and the Papas song, which comes to join the well known "California dreamin'" she also put on the same song. She has quite a vision of the place she's at on the musical history and she's aware of the things she's channeling also. Love that.

It's amazing how many musical references are over the album... Didn't know about the one you are pointing, p.e. But found out that the "dream a little dream of me" lyric comes from a The Mamas and the Papas song, which comes to join the well known "California dreamin'" she also put on the same song. She has quite a vision of the place she's at on the musical history and she's aware of the things she's channeling also. Love that.

Looks like she’s referencing a song from the sixties called Crimson and Clover by Tommy James and The Shondells. Part of the song goes “Crimson and clover, over and over.”

I found -nearly a year ago- that "crimson and clover" were references to drugs also, but don't remember exactly to which ones... Anyway, it makes sense in the context of the song and in her own lyrical universe.

I think I’m nearly a year late with this but is the line “Me myself I like diamonds, my baby crimson and clover.” a drug reference? She’s used diamonds to refer to drugs in Florida Kilos.

She's too attached to the dancers to get rid of them, plus she will only add a couple of songs to the tour playlist. Those will be NFR and Cinnamon because one has a long intro, one has a long outro, and both have a good amount of repetitive lyrics.
 
I can't see her doing most of the other songs on this tour, but I'd like to be proven wrong.
 
I'd also love it if she re-did her stage like the stage in that bar in the FIILY/TG video. Obviously the show stage is much bigger, but she could have neon signs and replicate the lighting 'n' shit.

So, after listening a few times I have to say that this record is deftinitly one of my favs from her. It  reallymade me fall in love with her music agan. I was kinda over her, because my music taste had eveolved into a pretty different direction ever since ~ 2015 and Lust For Life was a big disappointment. Even though it has some of my favourite tracks from her, the messy album as a whole, with stuff like the terrible Shrieknd-Collab, the Coachella disaster, the faux-deep politicals songs etc. really made me think I was over her. I only casually listened to some f her songs, sometimes out of nostalgia, sometimes as a sort of guilty pleasure.
But NFR really draw me back into her art. It's such a well crafted album!
 
Fuck It I Love You really became my favourite track of the album. When it was released together with The greatest, I instantly loved TG and thought of FIILY as a cute, nice-to-have-song. The week before the album release was a week where I had some days off in between university stuff and plans-with-friends and I spent the last hot days of the german summer at the public swimming pool in my town. I often went there alone, swimming, reading, listening to music - and within this atmosphere FIILY really clicked with me. The surfer vibe, the summery feeling contrasting the introspective, melancholic lyrics ... I really adore this song by now. (Funny enough I link Heroin to a quite similar period in my life, during the summer of 2017)
 
California is definitly a very epic track, something you can only listen to when you're in the right mood because it's so ... dominant. But the lyrics are really powerful and moving. The "even though we aren't in contact anymore, I'll still have your back when you need me" motif is something rarely found in Lanas music, which makes this track even more touching.
 
Happiness is a butterfly was the song I was the least excited for - I disliked the snippets she posted on IG, especially the ones of the verses. However, listening to the full track with all its parts in their right context ... it became one of my top 3 songs from the album. The intro line  "Do you want me or do you not?" already deeply moves me and I love the way the song floats between sadness, hope, anger and a kind of romantic atmosphere.
 
Bartender is a very interesting song aswell. At first glance, it seems like Old Moneys little sister - less oldschool-glamour but kind of the same simple elegance. But then you notice the underlying anxiety, the "rush" within the songs clamness ... You can envision driving through the night with the fast passing neon lights blurring to some kind of scary pulse. It's a very special track indeed!
 
I really don't mind How To Disappears final production. Yes, it kind of takes away from her vocal deivery and the wonderful storytelling within the lyrics, but the whole weirdness of it and the sentimental kitsch somehow elevates it onto another degree of quality.
 
MAC and VB grew on me alot, I can finally accept the (inferior) new lyrics to TNBAR and I got this slight on-off-realtionship with Doin Time, where sometimes I think it's a lot of fun and sometimes its existence within the album's tracklist irritates me.
I still stand by the thought that releasing HIADT as a single was a bad idea since it kind of took away A LOT of the effect the song would have had as an album closer if it was still some sort of suprise during the first listen. It's such a heavy, impactful song that you are often tempted to skip it when you know what's coming for you.

I could agree on this if the hypothetical continuation was well executed. I think that there were many highs on NFR but the album itself suffered from a huge clumsiness as a whole... There was some magical vibe above it, but it didn't actually worked as a full artifact. I think that i intuit where they wanted to go, or which path they were trying to follow, and if it was done in the outstanding way that it deserves -and not as on NFR, as much as I liked the album with its many flaws-, i'd be here for a culmination of that vision!

nfr is the only other album apart from uv i wouldnt mind a continuation of styles from. i really love the style of nfr and would love to see it on whf

praying this is not some baddie album with an Ariana feature and songs about cha-cha matcha

It only now became listenable for me but like. It really sounds like she's singing the wrong note the entire time

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Hey. I read someone said that there had been some mastering changes on the album versions of MAC and VB. I noticed some subtle changes, also -mostly drums and emphasis on rythm pattern on MAC and some changes on electric guitar towards the end of VB-, but my technical knowledge about the matter is under zero. Anyone who knows better could point on which changes where made? Thanks in advance!

He and his fragile male ego must have felt threatened listening to NFR (song).

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Her best cover yet. A big wink to her fans.

Hey. I read someone said that there had been some mastering changes on the album versions of MAC and VB. I noticed some subtle changes, also -mostly drums and emphasis on rythm pattern on MAC and some changes on electric guitar towards the end of VB-, but my technical knowledge about the matter is under zero. Anyone who knows better could point on which changes where made? Thanks in advance!