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She must be thinking that not caring whether she charts or not is nonconforming lol.

Oh I know! I just meant the overall album complaint, not just a single track one. We'll see.

Lana did detach herself from the sadgirl suicide persona with NFR, agreed 100%. Its influence on popculture or anything else -- not at all. This album would've made no difference to the world, trust me. Comparing it to a cultural phenomenon that Born to Die was is a joke. And the fact that Jack is recycling the same material over and over says nothing about Lana really, he did the same with Melodrama and 'New York' by St. Vincent before working with her. This just happens with producers who get to work with so many different artists. We could also say that Rick Nowels had a similar impact on Lana Del Rey, Marina, Lykke Li and Madonna, but just because Madonna was the first with Ray of Light to work with him doesn't make Madonna's Ray of Light responsible for Lust for Life or Electra Heart. Nowels, however, never made sound repetitive. Antonoff though... I didn't like NFR to begin with, but now what was unique of that project is becoming generic in the music industry and for me makes it lose its value. This is not good at all. Hope the Pitchfork says something about it. Anyway enjoy this kinda exaggerated meme I made today.

Not this sounding like a damn NFR outtake. Solar Power is cute but that's enough lol.

after writing 'tryna get back as fast i can'? she used not to make grammatical mistakes so idk

she really isn't hungry doesn't proofread her lyrics anymore

i was joking there but clearly her youtube team is dumb for MATD/Marina inconsistency and especially leaking purge the poison. video thumbnails aren't really that cute too

her team proved to be ruining her career yet again

LOL they seriously changed the song title because of tiktok Anyway it's only youtube thing so who cares. But why did they do that just now? Is Oh No! trending again? "wE cAn'T go BaCk To tHe PaSt i WiLl nOt mAkE BubBleGuM bItCh vIdEO"

shades of cool, obvious other than that, probably million dollar man, gods & monsters, west coast, cruel world, off to the races, honeymoon, terrence loves you, young & beautiful and the like

I feel like Pink Convertible would help in that. It ain't a ballad and it was political so I guess the balance would work better, as I probably have said already. Anyway at least we have Man's World, Ancient Dreams, Purge the Poison, Flowers, Highly Emotional People, Venus -- I'm really happy with all these tracks, almost all of them are 10/10, I can forgive her clunky lyrics somewhere because the production is magnificent. Goodbye is nice but not quite there, it's too dramatic for me to enjoy it on a daily basis. New America, I Love Me More, Pandora's Box -- you could do better than that.

they were sent via mailing list but they're not included on spotify for some weird reason even tho handmade heaven is. karma on the other hand had no official single cover whatsoever

Oops It's not necessarily that I hate the aesthetic, but her face is so small and the rest of the package is just plain gray background and I'm really not fond of that, especially since it is so different from the rest of her discography. Anyway that's purely subjective, so I don't care about it that much; what is serious is those single covers, i.e. Superstar, Orange Trees, and Karma that didn't even have a cover on mailing list. WIth David at least I'm happy to see everything having different art covers. Nonetheless, the promotion (incl. vinyl delay, "hot pink" vinyl for Man's World etc.) is so bad this era I am speechless, though I'm unsure if it's his responsibility or Atlantic's.

I hate Jess for letting the black and white album cover happen as well as no single covers on Spotify like what the fuck

Tove part is really good, but the remix production is so bad, it ruined the original sound. Her team, WTF. It's way worse than the Muna and Blossom remixes that I am able to enjoy.

Oh yeah it is, but the promotion is terrible.

This really sounds better!

I find it hilarious how people want Marina to make an album full of love ballads and want more of what's on the second half of Ancient Dreams but that's almost exactly what they got on Love + Fear; soft to be strong, believe in love, end of the earth, too afraid, emotional machine who? Most Diamonds don't let this album grow on them I fear. Please Don't Call me could've been added to FEAR though, it fits.

it's not marina sound, it's just the family jewels sound

so what? are we now supposed to forget the album ever existed or what? i despise the album, yet, some songs are really great. and please don't tell me that this album *differs* so much, like we basically had a transition from quirky baroque pop of The Family Jewels to the most commercial sounding Dr. Luke track ever and then to indie rocky FROOT with a freaking disco Blue out of the blue. we can joke but Marina is a sonical chameleon and L+F, whether we want it or not, belongs to one of the works she has made. and neither is Ancient Dreams as brilliant as her first albums, so whatever. anyway this era is so dead now, i can't

Why not though? Most of the tracks there are either about or inspired by or even created by Jack himself and now we got Ancient Dreams whose half is about him too. L+F partially feels more like a collaboration project between Marina and Clean Bandit honestly, but that's what happens when u give so much of urself to another person when you're in (toxic) love. It would make little sense if the album got erased completely from her discography or seen as "the-should-have-not-happened" type of album especially seeing that she's such a personal lyricist. Now we can just wait for another album that has nothing of him.

Cure For Me is a bop! Not necessarily in her style but very nice to listen to something fresh & catchy from her.

the insiders claim so. the label must know it isn't doing well because of their dumb release methods.

Musically she's become more *normal*, duh. Of hers to say she loves Kate Bush but feels strange about Hermit the Frog... the nerve.

that's probably the cost of her creative freedom lol