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  7. Posted

    1. Happiness Is A Butterfly

    2. Norman Fucking Rockwell

    3. Fuck It I Love You

    4. How To Disappear

    5. Venice Bitch

    6. The Greatest

    7. California

    8. Mariners Apartment Complex

    9. Doin' Time

    10. Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It

    11. Cinnamon Girl

    12. The Next Best American Record

    13. Love Song

    14. Bartender

     

    Surprised how low Cinnamon Girl ended up, I wish it had just slightly stronger beat.

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  12. Posted

    If you have to break the lyric down like that you're not really enjoying the music. Just please stop judging things by face value 

    I disagree. A song is not only the music, but also the words. The lyrics can affect the impression of a song, good writing can really elevate it, even if the topic is not very interesting/original.

     

    Also, in what way am I "judging things by face value"?

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    Not many people talk about it, but NFR is such a uneven album in terms of lyrics quality. There are so many great lines, but unfortunately as many horrendous. I wish Lana decided to have a co-writer. Anyway, here is my subjective list of the lows and the highs. 

     

     

    WORST

    “You're fun and you’re wild” – Norman Fucking Rockwell (so cliché)

    “My, my, my, you found this, you need this” – Mariner’s Apartment Complex (the repetition of “my” sounds so forced)

    “Fear fun, fear love

    Fresh out of fucks, forever” – Venice Bitch

    “Ice cream, ice queen” – Venice Bitch

    “Wha- wha- wha- wha- whatever

    Everything, whatever” – Venice Bitch

    “In the car, in the car, in the backseat, I'm your baby” – Love song (cringy!)

    “Make you real proud of your baby” – Love song (also cringy!)

    “Lying on your chest in my party dress

    I'm a fucking mess, but I” – Love song (terrible, cliché rhymes, sudden end with “I”, very poor writing)

    “Baby, it's the best, that's a test and yes” – Love song (poor rhyming)

    “Touch me anywhere 'cause I'm your baby

    Grab my waist, don't waste any part” – Love song (waste – waist is atrocious + cringy)

    “Cinnamon in my teeth

    From your kiss, you're touching me” – Cinnamon Girl (has absolutely no flow)

    “Baby, you don't ever have to

    Go faster than your fastest pace or faster than my fastest cars” – California

    “You make me feel like

    There's something that I never knew I wanted” – The Next Best American Record (does not go well with the melody, sounds forced)

    “We play the Eagles down in Malibu and I want it” – The Next Best American Record (same here)

    “Those nights were on fire

    We couldn't get higher” – The greatest (one of the worst rhymes on the album)

    “The culture is lit, and if this is it‚ I had a ball” – The greatest (the stressed rhyme lit – it is so bad)

    “Hawaii just missed that fireball

    L.A. is in flames‚ it's getting hot” – The greatest

    “With my bartender, hold me all night

    Bartender, our love's alive” – Bartender (again, horrible rhyme)

    “Happiness is a butterfly

    Try to catch it, like, every night

    It escapes from my hands into moonlight

    Every day is a lullaby

    Hum it on the phone, like, every night

    Sing it for my babies on the tour life, ah” – Happiness is a butterfly (no flow, repetition of “like every night”, which itself does not sounds natural, rhyme butterfly – lullaby, generally poor writing)

    “I had fifteen-year dances

    Church basement romances yeah I've cried” – Hope is a dangerous thing (the last part – yeah I’ve cried – does not sound good, like the phrase ended to quickly and she put anything there; there are more lines like this unfortunately in this song)

    “Hello it's the most famous woman you know on the iPad

    Calling from beyond the grave, I just wanna say, "Hi dad"” – Hope is a dangerous thing (the worst part of the song that kinda destroys it for me, bad rhyme and cringy)

    “There's a new revolution

    A loud evolution

    That I saw” – Hope is a dangerous thing

     

    Overall worst: 1. Love song 2. Cinnamon Girl 3. Venice Bitch

     

    BEST

    “Goddamn, man-child

    You act like a kid even though you stand six foot two

    Self-loathing poet, resident Laurel Canyon, know-it-all

    You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you” – Norman Fucking Rockwell

    “You took my sadness out of context” – Mariner’s Apartment Complex (great line, a bit spoiled by a horrible rhyme context-complex)

    “And if I wasn't so fucked up, I think I'd fuck you all the time” – Fuck it I love you

    “All of the guys tell me lies, but you don't

    You just crack another beer

    And pretend that you're still here

    This is how to disappear” – How to disappear

    “He moves mountains and pounds them to ground again” – How to disappear

    “My baby used to dance underneath my architecture

    He was '70s in spirit‚ '90s in his frame of mind” – The Next Best American Record (amazing first line)

    “The culture is lit and I had a ball

    I guess I'm signing off after all” – The greatest (If the first line is ironic)

    “"Life on Mars" ain't just a song” – The greatest

    “Wine is flowing with Bacardi” – Bartender

    “Playing games of levitation

    Meditating in the garden” – Bartender

    “If he's a serial killer, then what's the worst

    That can happen to a girl who's already hurt?

    I'm already hurt

    If he's as bad as they say, then I guess I'm cursed

    Looking into his eyes, I think he's already hurt

    He's already hurt” – Happiness is a butterfly

    “Maybe I'd get less stressed

    If I was tested less like all of these debutantes

    Smiling for miles in pink dresses

    And high heels on white yachts” – Hope is a dangerous thing

    “I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown

    24/7, Sylvia Plath

    Writing in blood on the walls

    'Cause the ink in my pen don't work in my notepad

    Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not

    But at best I can say I'm not sad

    'Cause hope is a dangerous thing

    For a woman like me to have” – Hope is a dangerous thing

    “Spilling my guts with the Bowery Bums

    Is the only love I've ever known” – Hope is a dangerous thing

     

    Overall best: 1. How to disappear (the only song with no weak moments in lyrics, overall solid) 2. Norman Fucking Rockwell 3. Bartender

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  17. Posted

    Hi, my first post :)

     

    This album appears to be an absolute masterpiece! I don't disline any song! For me it's her best by far (end of supremacy of Ultraviolence)

     

    I don't understand why Happiness is a butterfly is such a polarising song. I was anticipating it the most and I am not disappointed at all! It is so perfectly bitter-sweet, I feel touched every time I listen to it, cried couple of times. Can't wait for hq. Personally I think it is one of Lana's best songs ever, and maybe the best on the album, but there is also...

     

    Fuck it I love you! Holy shit, the 30s snippet was sooo misleading. It is everything I wanted from Lana since West Coast (her best song in my opinion). And it has decent lyrics! The ending reminds me of God bless America, but better! Lana's lead singles are always so great!

     

    The least favourite songs… Altought all are fine, I would say that Love song somehow similar to HIAB, but less emotional and with less interesting melody. And worse lyrics (personal opinion!). + Bartender and The Next Best American Record.

     

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