Shades

smh this thread is dead

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
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Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
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California is definitely about Barrie. You could tell by her face she was deciding what to say ... and in the end went with an answer vague enough to answer the question whilst still leaving some uncertainty.
 
Facts:
 
  She ghosted the subject ("I wanted to reach out but I never said a thing"). She ghosted Barrie. He was (brutally) dumped via an interview.
  "You said to a friend that you wish you were doing better" - they have lots of mutual friends (Jaime King, for example)
  She described Barrie as "dark". In California, the subject "has the blues".
  Barrie is from Scotland. Most people from the UK aren't acclimatised to warm weather, so him "hating the heat" makes sense.
  The song contains UV references ("Flipside" for example) - she wrote UV while she was with Barrie
  "If you come back to California" - so the person has at least BEEN to California, but more likely, they lived there at some point. Barrie.
 
And today she said "he's still in London". Barrie is from Glasgow, Scotland, but he definitely has lived in London and he goes there a lot; I've seen stuff on his insta stories. He may even be recording his album there.
 
And then there's all the stuff he's done lately:
 
He has SOTW on his story.
He put up that pic of himself playing the piano, taken by her.
Yesterday he had this clip from Vanilla Sky on his story. Make of it what you will:
 

 
The prosecution rests, Your Honour.
 
Stan Larrie 2.0
 
Plus Chase got that awful haircut, grew an awful moustache and smokes cigars. Ew. No.
 
Anyone who disagrees may have an argument with me and lose miserably.

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
ok rant over sorry

Lmao why do we care what that nasty mouthbreathing overgrown Caillou looking fuck has to say? Not only has he paid dust to Lana for years, giving UV something crazy like 1/10, his reviews were always an attack on her character and reeked of misogyny. We don't need his worthless validation. We been knew of her talent and artistic genius and his unflatteringly late arrival to the party is a reflection of his weak mind in following the bloodthirsty pack back in 2011-2014. Next!
 
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I said what I said 

Anthony Fantano switching up like a f*ggot... Pitchfork switching like a f*ggot... I LOVE THIS SONG!

Look I'm actually fucking happy that Lana is finally receiving all this acclaim left and right, but to me it was long overdue. Too little too late, her past albums deserved as much praise as what NFR is currently receiving. Other than that I'm doing great, school just started again and life is going super well 

Barrie truly is her greatest muse 

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.

how is this already at 34 pages    i could never keep up with the NFR pre-pre release or pre-release and now here we go again   

how is this already at 34 pages    i could never keep up with the NFR pre-pre release or pre-release and now here we go again   

90+ pages consisting of basically nothing but praise - what an album!

If that’s their opinion and it doesn’t match up with yours its completely fine. I hope you didn’t hand out a wp for nothing....

how is this already at 34 pages    i could never keep up with the NFR pre-pre release or pre-release and now here we go again   

First things first, the quality of work Lana produces in incredibly short amounts of time is outstanding and should not be understated.
 
With that being said, I would love to see what Lana could put out if she and her producers spent maybe double the time (which would still be incredibly short compared to other artists) on her albums. Lana has an extremely high album turnover, but that often means writing a song in an hour (see: probably half of NFR), not tweaking or hardly tweaking the lyrics, having the production done and then moving on to the next song. The songs are shockingly good for the process being that short, but I do wonder about the incredible quality we'd get if she actually took the time to edit/perfect her work.

how is this already at 34 pages    i could never keep up with the NFR pre-pre release or pre-release and now here we go again