Shades

guys..
I hardly ever comment here; I'm mostly a lurker — but I really need to drop my 2 cents.
 
I couldn't resist and I gave in listening to the recorded through a moldy washcloth during black Friday potato leak...
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I've never loved an album so much at first listen.
I don't have a single complaint—even the new lyrics in TNBAR fit perfectly. she changed the whole meaning but it's more along the lines of the latter half of the record and it reminds me of Video Games (in how the verses are about what she's living and the chorus more about what she wishes).
keeping the old lyrics would have kind of repeated the idea behind the title track, while here she admits how she still wants him cuz she sees him for who he really is (which also gives the other side of what she said in Love song)
even closing with her repeating she's still got hope is a brilliant choice.
this album is a beautiful blend of lovely reveries mixed with nostalgia and conflicting thoughts about what she's left behind.
and it sounds sad in a way she never quite fully explored much: honest and raw, rather than UV and BTD dramatic.

Regardless of how she got it, she's just a kid and nobody should be blaming her. As if any of us made perfect decisions when we were 15. It's an unfortunate situation for sis and her team but obviously someone dropped the ball for her to have it. Just more mess. 

I gave everything a listen once, and I'll save any further listens for when it's released. I cried to California, wow. Such a raw song. Instant new Lana favourite.
 
Anyways, I'm really disgusted with how everyone treated the Billie stan. As far as I can tell, this is another Del Rey management fuckup and they sent out the cassettes earlier than intended. The girl probably received it in the mail and got excited. That's not on her, that's on Lana's dumbass team and her own constant flipflopping on release dates etc. For everyone to bully this little girl and then laugh at her crying and saying she's scared is actually just gross lmao. Y'all are gross. 

I gave everything a listen once, and I'll save any further listens for when it's released. I cried to California, wow. Such a raw song. Instant new Lana favourite.
 
Anyways, I'm really disgusted with how everyone treated the Billie stan. As far as I can tell, this is another Del Rey management fuckup and they sent out the cassettes earlier than intended. The girl probably received it in the mail and got excited. That's not on her, that's on Lana's dumbass team and her own constant flipflopping on release dates etc. For everyone to bully this little girl and then laugh at her crying and saying she's scared is actually just gross lmao. Y'all are gross. 

I gave everything a listen once, and I'll save any further listens for when it's released. I cried to California, wow. Such a raw song. Instant new Lana favourite.
 
Anyways, I'm really disgusted with how everyone treated the Billie stan. As far as I can tell, this is another Del Rey management fuckup and they sent out the cassettes earlier than intended. The girl probably received it in the mail and got excited. That's not on her, that's on Lana's dumbass team and her own constant flipflopping on release dates etc. For everyone to bully this little girl and then laugh at her crying and saying she's scared is actually just gross lmao. Y'all are gross. 

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"

I gave everything a listen once, and I'll save any further listens for when it's released. I cried to California, wow. Such a raw song. Instant new Lana favourite.
 
Anyways, I'm really disgusted with how everyone treated the Billie stan. As far as I can tell, this is another Del Rey management fuckup and they sent out the cassettes earlier than intended. The girl probably received it in the mail and got excited. That's not on her, that's on Lana's dumbass team and her own constant flipflopping on release dates etc. For everyone to bully this little girl and then laugh at her crying and saying she's scared is actually just gross lmao. Y'all are gross. 

I gave everything a listen once, and I'll save any further listens for when it's released. I cried to California, wow. Such a raw song. Instant new Lana favourite.
 
Anyways, I'm really disgusted with how everyone treated the Billie stan. As far as I can tell, this is another Del Rey management fuckup and they sent out the cassettes earlier than intended. The girl probably received it in the mail and got excited. That's not on her, that's on Lana's dumbass team and her own constant flipflopping on release dates etc. For everyone to bully this little girl and then laugh at her crying and saying she's scared is actually just gross lmao. Y'all are gross. 

I gave everything a listen once, and I'll save any further listens for when it's released. I cried to California, wow. Such a raw song. Instant new Lana favourite.
 
Anyways, I'm really disgusted with how everyone treated the Billie stan. As far as I can tell, this is another Del Rey management fuckup and they sent out the cassettes earlier than intended. The girl probably received it in the mail and got excited. That's not on her, that's on Lana's dumbass team and her own constant flipflopping on release dates etc. For everyone to bully this little girl and then laugh at her crying and saying she's scared is actually just gross lmao. Y'all are gross. 

Hey. Finally sucumbed and gave it a listen. The level of sadness in the album... She sounds like she is absolutely gone from this world, just looking at it through a blurry periscope. Don't know if I may be the only one getting this feeling towards it, but it may be  -if not the- one of the saddest musical projects I've ever listened to. I'm even happy that she's been hanging out with her baddie friends for a year and taking some distance from the things that made her produce this heartbreaking and beautiful thing. I wasn't ready for this. And I'm willing to see what the media that has done fun of her "sadness" till now will have to say about NFR.

I gave everything a listen once, and I'll save any further listens for when it's released. I cried to California, wow. Such a raw song. Instant new Lana favourite.
 
Anyways, I'm really disgusted with how everyone treated the Billie stan. As far as I can tell, this is another Del Rey management fuckup and they sent out the cassettes earlier than intended. The girl probably received it in the mail and got excited. That's not on her, that's on Lana's dumbass team and her own constant flipflopping on release dates etc. For everyone to bully this little girl and then laugh at her crying and saying she's scared is actually just gross lmao. Y'all are gross. 

I mean she's a literal child who admitted she doesn't even know that much about Lana and her music, it didn't seem like she understood what she was doing at all. And obviously she's a Billie fan she's 13 lmao you can't hold that against her
 
You can't treat kids whose brains aren't even fully developed like they're adults, she didn't kill someone ffs she just did something dumb. If she was acting out some detailed plan to sabotage Lana and ruin NFR's release, she wouldn't have uploaded this potato quality bullshit, or used her main account, and she wouldn't have had a nervous breakdown afterwards.

is it strange that i lowkey don't even want to listen to the album anymore?   idk i'm still so tired from the past year of waiting, and this is a bit upsetting because it's extremely messy and not even funny... like they haven't done anything for FIILY and TG and i don't think they'll do anything now.... plus i'm not that interested in hearing what's 'left' of this album since we have several snippets of the like 4 songs that remain unreleased.... it's paradoxical because i've loved each and every song that was released so far but i don't know it's been so tiring

I don’t really care about the “first album experience” thing bc it doesn’t really matter after 2-3 times anyway and I literally experienced honeymoon for the 1st time through some shitty UO recordings and I still can appreciate this album just the same as y’all. It’s all about making memories with the album which takes MONTHS of listening the whole tracklist again and again and hearing some new elements everytime you listen to the whole thing. Sooo if you want to wait for the HQ album then just do it but don’t talk shit about other people because that’s not your experience and not your business anyway lol

Yeah she's a child. She probably felt special for receiving that cassette first and didn't realize the implications.

Poor girl. She’s too young, please don’t be this mean. I’m sure Lana wouldn’t like it

The fact that one month ago we were discussing the vinyl color

Hey quick question, what the fuck?

Shitty lyrics, the demo version was SO much better

*iconiclogan angrily writing this, smashing his keyboard while Bartender loudly plays in the background

addiction is a powerful thing, its possible shes singing about drugs, without doing them recently. 

what technology-phobic gay was responsible for SCREEN RECORDING this audio rather than just extracting it from the video. HOMOPHOBIA

lana writing music about her own toxicity and demons, and not just about her toxic love interests......,.,.,.. it just hits.....differently.... this dark queen is coming into her own. these men were just a symptom honey and OOF WE ARE RELATING!!! what a self actualizing angel

So...
 
FIILY was meant to be out 16th
 
TG the 17th
 
Then google play added TG by accident today which caused it to leak. Then they took it down.
 
Then Jack said both songs are out midnight.
 
Them Lana uploads FIILY on youtube, takes it down. It leaks.
 
Then Spotify uploads FIILY as a new release bit you cant actually play it.
 
The mother fucking circus is in town and Lana and her team are the fucking clowns.

I did what I could