Vanilla Icy

i love ricks production so much but i feel like all his contributions to NFR ruined the album 

She always changed her music in her albums. And Jack Antonoff is very versatile so I really don't think it will be a NFR!p2. + Tulsa Jesus Freak sounds really strange to me (the vocoder on the last part of the snippet is so bizarre) and I don't hear enormous similarities with Cinnamon Girl.
 
I hope COCC to be more "muscular" than NFR! : I'm thinking of desert slow songs like God Knows I Tried Flipside and Some Things Last a Long Time for a part of the album and some bangers as HBTB and SBummer on the other part.
 
+ I got a very strong feeling that Yosemite will be on the record.

Like critical acclaim has ever mattered for Lana  

not my twitter mutuals freaking out because they think cocc won't get acclaim, like who honestly cares, it only matters if we like the music (lfl has a better score on metacritic than uv - that speaks for itself)

I really do feel like Tulsa Jesus Freak will be the first thing we hear from the album (I mean it technically already is).

if it does actually end up dropping sept. 5th i really hope nothing leaks cuz i don't have any self control whatsoever and i wanna dive into this album without hearing a thing

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I think Chemtrails is also my favorite title. I was so disappointed when she announced WHF as the album title because it sounds super bland, generic and basic. But COCC evoques lots of imagery in your head, it has lots of potential as a concept and it brings a sense of doom that's very fitting for 2020. By far my favorite title, I really hope she comes through with the visuals, I'd love if she did something like the Bartender video but better.

i love ricks production so much but i feel like all his contributions to NFR ruined the album 

marina's cover of what you waiting for by gwen stefani is truly the best cover i've ever heard

true she ruins almost everything that she spends too much time working on

imo, Chemtrails Over The Country Club is just using the “camp” aspect attributed to NFR! and taking it to an extreme, honestly this could be like as good as Honeymoon & UV.
 
It’s always the albums she spends the least time on that turn out to be her best, she has less time to second guess herself and give in to third party opinions

at this point it's whatever to me, she's literally the queen of reusing lyrics even ones that are like 10 years old

It’s definitely somewhat of a creepy title when you really think about it. Definitely ominous as the person above said. As if there’s something sinister coming from above for the careless people down below.
 
The very strong imagery the title alone projects is why I have high hopes for the visuals of surrounding this album. Lana has always been just as interesting to see as she has been to hear, so hopefully we get really freaky stuff to look at.

i've seen people complain about the lack of snippets and spoilers in this era but personally i'm glad for it, they just water down the excitement and first-time listening experience (HIAB was the worst, i genuinely thought it was gonna be a 9 mins track considering how long the snippets were   ) 

the thing about surprise releases is that i feel it's less about, sayyyy, how much financial power an artist has or even how big their fanbase is - i think it has a lot more to do with how socially acceptable it is to like an artist and their ability to be trendy and talked about universally.
 
frank ocean, for example, dropped a surprise release and everyone talked about it and it worked bc he as an artist is well liked, considered "cool" and has that ~aloof~ vibe, his fanbase demographic is MASSIVE and diverse, and he's a fave on twitter and IG, even if his numbers don't match that of someone like Lana. if Megan thee Stallion, who is social media's current favourite girl (she's earned that dont get me wrong!) surprise dropped an album tonight, it would be ALLLL YOU SAW on twitter and IG bc she's a social media darling and to *not* listen to her or like her music is almost shocking in a way, so the majority of people would feel compelled to listen to her album even if they've never listened to her stuff before simply out of FOMO, a desire to join in w/ trends and an urge to see what all the fuss is about.
 
Beyonce is obviously a massive artist but again, the case is it's more shocking NOT to be a fan of her than to be a fan of her.
 
being a loud and proud Lana stan isn't hugely socially acceptable tbh - it's not considered weird, but it's not considered cool either. despite all her success, talent and critical acclaim, i'm not sure a surprise release would generate a big amount of buzz outside of her more intense fanbase really. i can see, like, a straight 25 year old dude from London checking out a surprise Meg album or Frank album or Beyonce album if he sees someone on his twitter timeline gushing over it - but i can't quite see that same dude checking out a surprise LDR album if he sees someone he follows gushing over it, and i find it even less likely he'd then go on to tweet about it himself and ask his group chat about it. you know what i mean? she's not universally loved online imo, especially not after Culture-Gate.

What I would really like is a validated release date. Validated by the record company and real promos that just say new album from LDR to be released on xx/xx/xxxx. No snippets or early releases just a count down to the release date. That would be exciting. As it is we can't depend on Lana's version of things and I don't want to see clips of her making cage free scrambled eggs while singing 30 seconds of a new song while a cat howls in the background.

I think we all misinterpreted what Lana meant by a surprise release. I don't think her intention was ever to drop an album like Beyonce, out of the blue. I always assumed she meant no promo cycle, no pre album singles etc. Like she's referenced the album a couple of times before she mentioned a "surprise" drop. I think she just meant it would be more low-key and kinda would just happen, rather than there be a build up to the release date.

I think it's a shame that most of the reviews for this album will be reviewing that dreaded Instagram letter rather than the actual album. Same thing happened with violet.

It doesn't feel real that we will have an entirely new album in a matter of weeks...

Another slow news day...
 

Wondering if she’ll tease White Hot Forever this week and release both in two weeks?!?

f uck i really need this album.

Tesla Jesus?
 
I don't know which I'd hate more, a song about Elon Musk or a song about Seany