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When she said she was gonna put it on Spotify, didn't she mean a new reworked piano version? So she actually didn't have to change her mind -- she might see no purpose in releasing the exact same leaked version.

The lyrics are way too weird for it to be a soundtrack for anything.

No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length 1. "Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land" Diamandis Flannigan, Diamandis 3:26 2. "Venus Fly Trap" Diamandis Flannigan, Diamandis 2:38 3. "Purge The Poison" Diamandis Decilveo 3:16 4. "Man's World" Diamandis Decilveo, Diamandis 3:28 5. "New America" Diamandis Flannigan, Diamandis 3:52 6. "Pandora's Box" Diamandis Flannigan, Diamandis 3:32 7. "Pink Convertible" Diamandis TBA TBA 8. "I Love You But I Love Me More" Diamandis Decilveo 3:43 9. "Highly Emotional People" Diamandis Flannigan 3:43 10. "Flowers" Diamandis Flannigan 3:54 11. "Goodbye" Diamandis Flannigan 4:42 Total length: 40:??

Well but I don't want it to perform poorer than FROOT or L+F. It's actually The Observer. The Guardian may write another review on their own (they always gave her 3/5 but left L+F with no review at all, maybe for the better lol).

I'm worried the album is not gonna chart very well, considering the vinyl problems and all that COVID jazz.

Nothing about INHA, Pink Convertible or Happy Loner. Nothing interesting if you ask me, astrological, spiritual, production and health stuff. But the concert was gorgeous! Love the rock band and her outfit.

LOL. Don't trust her, she's already said she would rerecord her MySpace songs after L+F but she keeps saying there's no use coming back to the past, rejected the Bubblegum Bitch music video project, and said that the songs her "baby self" made are too crazy for her to listen, e.g. Hermit the Frog. And is she really gonna sing apple of my daddy's eye taught me sex was a bad thing, gave me deviant longing? No offence but as an artist with a big fanbase she should weigh her words because then she'll find us disappointed as she did with INHA.

It's not a shame. She clearly wasn't happy with him. All this mental breakdown with her hair cut, alcohol drinking, psychology course, name change, even visits to Japan to find the meaning of life, let alone flowers fascination, and then desperate songs about happiness on L+F that she herself has admitted now were made because she was failing at trying to be happy. The whole L+F is just her being scared to love Jack and expecting more, but too afraid to say something bad to him, to lose him, etc. etc. Also "there's no heartbreak left to feel, it happened years ago"... And she even replied to a fan on IG during Clean Bandit livestream or something on IG that: What is Love? [CB's album title] "It is when you give and expect nothing in return." Poor thing, Marina. I think it all is really a tragic story. Now she seems in a better mindset and even if not, I hope she finds someone more valuable who makes her feel pure joy in life.

The lack of Pink Convertible hurts. This album needed another track about white privilege of a rich person thinking about Nikes instead of racial prejudice or environment. It would've made a message of the whole record stronger.

Whaaat You're so right! That's definitely not a coincidence. Chapeau bas.

I fell in love with the song. This is really her Oh No! and Bubblegum Bitch of this era. This is the quality pop we need. Don't mind it being so short, it just makes it more addictive and the listener willing to repeat again and again. A longer version would probably be a little exhausting.

Treating Venus Fly Trap as a spiritual continuation of Oh No! makes me appreciate the song way more.

Wow, she really had a nerve to put the best part of the video into the snippet.

WHAT THE HELL THIS IS AMAZING HELP

Highly disagreed. If she stuck to her own personal introspection on Love + Fear (also naming it Love in Fear) it would make a huge difference and make the record sound better and less pretentious. Yet, songs like all we know is life is strange, go enjoy your life and i don't know how to be a human where she was trying hard to become a pseudopsychological guru with plain messages failed enormously. She was too afraid to make this album about her, she was too afraid to tell the world she was scared of loving Jack, she was too afraid to tell it to him himself, and so on. That's the tea.

Then don't read reviews at all because it's their job, to say both good and bad things about the tracks. Not "a skip, idc, bye".

Are you serious? I've been praising this album all along before it l**ked and been in love with every single, especially Man's World that so many of you decided to ditch after a few days. Go find another person to spread your toxicity on just because I did not like New America as much as you did lol.

a review i guess after a few listens only venus fly trap - so yeah she wanted her own new Bubblegum Bitch and she made that. i enjoy the i did it my way baby and sacrificed it all for a life to call mine lines. a nice tune but she really should've scrapped the millionairess line. neither is it relatable to her listeners nor is it pleasing to listen to. she is an artist after all, earning money on them + boasting about a personal worth is really nasty, let alone for a person like her. but maybe she knows exactly what she's doing and deciding to adapt the 'male' point of view, who knows. i know straight men love listening to songs how freaking awesome and rich they are (not) lmao. very intrigued about the video coming. the production saves the lyrics anyway. YES highly emotional people - weirdly a simple song but i like the message. it lacks more verses but who cares, her voice is so powerful here. fighting toxic masculinity is all i ever wanted for our girl! a decent song i think. YES new america - so much potential. wasted. i may forgive the funny (yet somewhat catchy) instrumentalisation sounding like a superhero cartoon (probably intended) but america america repetition is so ugly. this song is so vague that i don't really know what it's about. some verses are nice (enjoying the who gave you line) but it's still another to be human situation. why is she singing about food industry and then racism??? food / too / do rhymes? does she even proofread her lyrics now? it seems like she didn't really know what to do with this track. girl you can do better than that. expected sth on the level of purge the poison that had so much details in lyrics and now you gave us THIS? also it's practically the same beat over and over. she knows how to make a song about america, she made hollywood. this one's rather weak. disappointed heavily. NO pandora's box - lyrics feel like a random lana song and the production feels like a love + fear track. a weak combination. NO i love you but i love me more - a very good song suprisingly! nothing groundbreaking but at least it's a good breakup pop-rock song up to standard. i wish the bridge was more interesting though... anyway everything is decent about this track. YES flowers - i had to follow the lyrics to feel the song fully but when i did, i literally shed a tear to it. absolutely beautiful! heartwarming! now this is the song where i don't even care if it's rhyming or not. you can feel the emotions. love the verse 2, pre-chorus, bridge... also the piano complements the song so well. YES goodbye - apart from the fact that i wish this had a longer outro this is an astonishingly beautiful track. almost as touching as fear & loathing. almost. but still, i suddenly started crying like a baby to it (probably because of flowers but whatever). YES all in all: really expected more political exploration. it could've been a great concept especially seeing the album has only 10 songs so she could've easily made 10 tracks about each different issue, e.g. british colonialism or balance of power in the gender culture. we have ancient dreams that is a nice opener to the theme + exploring the topic of beauty standards and portrayal of women through their looks, then man's world about minorities and feminity in culture & in the past, purge the poison about nature and modern feminity in politics & business, highly emotional people about men forced not to talk about their emotions. and the song "america america is bad". that's all. i have a theory that she gave up on the idea of a political album (perhaps filled with collabs with other female singers) as soon as she broke up with jack and needed space for personal tracks, and now we got a mix of the two. it's a good record, but unfortunately not better than froot, electra heart or the family jewels. she needs to release pink convertible because it seems like a nice song and definitely better than new america.

I got a theory that the alt pic visualises the personal side of the album and those breakup songs, while the main cover the political side of it. Back to the music, at this moment I am confused. The singles have been excellent but the rest of the album is a song about her being a millionaire and then lots of tracks about how Jack is an arsehole (wbk). I don't know what to think about it right now. A good album though, for sure.

Sounds cool. If it leaks then we can for sure forget about her releasing it.

How are people thinking the video is for New America when she basically had choreography for VFT posted on IG?

Wow, didn't really expect New America to be about racism. Excited!

sometimes the shorter the songs, the catchier they are, look at bubblegum bitch

I think Ancient Dreams has a great message that absolutely everyone can relate to, and that's why it's definitely something that could attract people outside of her regular fanbase. Also the fact it's so reminiscent of Womanizer, one of the greatest hits of Britney... I wonder how critics will like the album.

You're all probably gonna eat me for it but ok. So, I listened to the three songs again today, followed the lyrics, and as far as I felt compassion towards Lana as a person, I felt unbothered by her as an artist. I guess this is controversial but these lyrics are totally messy and yes, they do evoke emotions from her, but they're too hermetic, as if about secret, private life whose audience can see only a glimpse. The thing I find the most beautiful about artistry is to bring value of your personal life and try to make it at least a bit more universal. She doesn't do that here. Or maybe that's just the thing with me; I don't really like soft piano ballads, I dislike soft rock and folk with passion, and I still think these tracks could've easily be added to COCC and no one would notice a difference. Bonus tracks, for instance. To say they're ill-produced would be an unfair understatement, but I find myself not interested by the final product. The new album will for sure feel like a pleasant journey to her heart, and I will consume it once, but I will not be probably listening to it over and over as I used to with her previous records. Don't get me wrong, I don't want to criticise Lana but, to me, this doesn't feel like music for the masses, just something homemade to ease your own pain that only the hardest stans or closed ones are going to be fascinated by. It's so surprising because I much preferred Violent Bent Backwards over the Grass.