Vanilla Icy

the fact that lana pretty much leaked cinnamon girl and happiness is a butterfly with snippets, i thought something unexpected would happen in hiab but it was pretty much everything we already heard

no offence but it took Lana a whole effin year to release that album, and the roll out has been hella messy and has dragged on for way too long, even by Lana's "standards". You bet I listened to the shitty cassette iPhone recording of NFR

Im just glad cinnamon girl has replay ability

So this entire album (well, almost all of it) seems to me to be about Barrie; she still loves him, wants to be with him, wants to dance and party with him, wants him to "come back to America". Thinking about all the songs with this meaning sort of changes my interpretation of HIADT... the hope that she has and why it's so dangerous, is because after going through all her emotions through 1-13, she still ends it all hoping that they'll end up together, and part of her can't move on because of it, which is why that hope is dangerous, and why the album closes with that song and not Venice Beach (which everyone agrees would at least sonically be the better closer).

she was barrie's bitch 

lana wrote a lot of lust for life in topanga, california which is where the manson family home was

BARRIE FUCKING JAMES
 
1. "Barrie Fucking James"
2. "Barrie's Apartment Complex"
3. "Barrie's Bitch"
4. "Fuck It I Love Barrie"
5. "Doin' Barrie"
6. "In Barrie's Car"
7. "Barrie's Girl"
8. "How to Barrie"
9. "Cali Barrie"
10. "The Next Barrie"
11. "The Greatest Barrie"
12. "Barrie Tender"
13. "Barrie Is a Butterfly"
14. "Barrie Is a Dangerous Thing for a Woman like Me to Have - but I Lost him"

this is yoko ono's newest performance piece

ah man i feel like i have finally graduated from Norman Fucking Rockwell Pre-Release Thread Purgatory, full on into ldr - nfr Heaven/Hell.  i dont want to hear anyone else shit on the low quality - this album was literally made to be listened to on phone-recorded casette tape.  it adds to the vibe like a motherfucker and makes everything so much better. it's all clear enough to hear everything and the bass is still on point.
 
my breakdown of the NFR unofficial release experience goes like this:
Norman Fucking Rockwell: Carole King vibes, just like the snippet, skipped it like 3/4 of the way through
Mariners Apartment Complex: wbk, skip
Venice Bitch: see above
Fuck it I love you: this song made me a Lana fan again, maybe im born with it, maybe its bad taste, sue me.  Lana just doesnt want to admit the love bc shes a lil embarrassed about it, thats why she slurs like that. also maybe sis relapsed idk yall. secret favorite song on the album
Doin Time: like, its okay. should not have made it to the album but has its place as a soundtrack feature in the LDR discography.
Love song: I honestly cant remember how this went and ive listened like 3 times.  its the "in your car in your car" one
Cinnamon Grrrl: Lana Del Rey: Greatest Hits
How To Disappear: will be the sleeper hit of the album bc its not in this leak and we will all hear a whole new thing with the production when the album leaks in HQ i secretly love this song
California: listened to this in the shower and had a breakdown, amazing, best song on the album
TNBAR: i tried to listen several times and skipped it every time. i cant, the new version makes me want to die. demo is way better
The Greatest: i love it, makes me want to cry
Bartender: eh its okay maybe it will grow on me
Happiness is a butterfly: actually better than i expected, i am into it
HIADTFAWLMTHBIHI - i loved this song from January but i havent listened to it in a while
 
Lana's most raw album, somehow most depressing and most positive at the same time???

I kinda hope that the two are still good friends (even if they don't talk that much, maybe?) after what happened and that this is really the case. I feel like their personalities and relationship were something rare, and that they really got each other. Even if things don't always work out, there's always some once in a lifetime connections that stay and change us. I think they were really important to each other and it makes sense that this record is inspired by him.

i've noticed many songs on nfr have the same melody as lots of other songs is it another get free coincidence or is she actually sampling these songs

This fandom is so messy I-

I think it makes sense that it is about Barrie, the lyrics literally show that.

i've noticed many songs on nfr have the same melody as lots of other songs is it another get free coincidence or is she actually sampling these songs

honestly what idiot leaks an album by recording the tracks on their phone.. you can upload cassettes onto a computer

my only issue with cinnamon is that i really hate the second verse, its like cherry where it feels like it was cut off too soon


.. also wish they kept the post chorus after the final chorus i was really expecting one last drop 

beautiful strings but kinda hip hop

honestly what idiot leaks an album by recording the tracks on their phone.. you can upload cassettes onto a computer

also bartender has the same melody as summer wine kinda cute

honestly what idiot leaks an album by recording the tracks on their phone.. you can upload cassettes onto a computer

Honestly this leak didn't ruin her "plan" (as if she had one) at all. It feels like this leak wasn't even downloaded by that many people and those who downloaded it had already purchased the album / multiple vinyls / tickets and whataver so she will be fine. It's a LQ rip, the GP won't be interested in downloading that. 

honestly what idiot leaks an album by recording the tracks on their phone.. you can upload cassettes onto a computer

Lana is following Madonna's footsteps  queen of samples

i've noticed many songs on nfr have the same melody as lots of other songs is it another get free coincidence or is she actually sampling these songs