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    Just now, salvatore said:

     

     

     

    thanks besties i'm going to obliterate the nearest planet in celebration get ready to look outside but wear sunglasses xox o

     

    rorman i'm going to murder him

    salvatore

    Obliterate a planet? Someone watched Justice League today! Jk if you didn't, as you are your own superhero. I mean truly, enthralled this delivered for you. I love Yosemite,  but she's dense, Many layers, so I need time to unpack. But it's, it's beautiful 

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    12 minutes ago, salvatore said:

    SALVATORE'S UPDATED THOUGHTS ON YOSEMITE

    yosemite- i lied above. i listened to the entire record with the incense and the breeze but yosemite i saved, i saved until the dead of night, and drove to an observatory be alone in my car outlooking the silent city sparkling on cliffside, engulfed in pines and hibernating wildflowers and i played yosemite on repeat for 45 or so minutes staring silently into the dead. this song is everything i've ever wanted. it's what kept me alive in a year i tried my best not to be and i built a fun following around it, i emailed interviewers, writers, tried to find photographers and collected every bit of information of the song i could. bought magazines that referenced yosemite, i did an entire paper around Yosemite by John Muir. I have two shirts from the 70s referencing yosemite, i've stumbled upon bottle openers from the park out in the roads where i'd walk alone at night hoping i'd be at the wrong end of a desperate persons violence for no reason other than trying to find feeling, yosemite is a lot to me and when we didn't get it in LfL i was heartbroken and decided to crave it more than ever before

     

    upon her interview of MAC/VB i knew Architecture was the theme of Norman. Even though the song said to not start the new record i felt she wouldn't give up the past title track of Lust for Life that easy, or at least her muse wouldn't. The description of norman as a cocky artist with an ego that needed settling, the rejected scraps of White Mustang's music video, it all felt too coincidental and i called it that Architecture would have inspired, or be on the album (i was right), following i felt Yosemite would come to fruition here, having Lust for Life be this disjointed parent record of Norman Fucking Rockwell, i figured it'd stay similar for 'White Hot Forever'; the attempts at social commentary, the deliverance into an acoustic side to her discography, they'd be messily glued on Lust for Life and then refound in their own spaces, and now they have been. and Yosemite is the song of Chemtrails.

     

    The music itself is everything i had hoped, it was brooding, optimistic, enchanting, emotional and methodical. Her rescinding the song out of vocal vulnerability in the same breath she killed malibu out of fear of transparency found a funny way into an album full of airy and broken vocals. White Dress being a thread laced through Wild at Heart in the way it is through Yosemite through Dark through For Free. The a capella she sung in 2017 obviously didn't do it justice and how anyone thought it could was laughable and that is their own fault. Her voice here is gorgeous, the song writing is beautiful, the atmosphere created in this song is so . fucking. beautiful. I knew this song was my favorite she's ever made before hearing it and I've heard it and it's still the best song she's ever created. The bridge is like a god speaking through the sky in thundering tongues and lightning flares. The imagery i suspected years ago of desert-y folk songs you'd look out over the desert and see an impending storm rings true, this is the calm inside a storm, it's an ignorant and threatened peace. i see nothing but rainless storms and sharp winds light by the invincible glow of candlelight. Yosemite is immaculate, a highlight, and a mission statement for the record. It couldn't be without Chemtrails and Chemtrails couldn't be without Yosemite. 

     

    She wasn't quite at yosemite in 2017, and being able to confidently proclaim enough that she could put a song about doing things for free on a record bookended with a memoir about making art for free, and a collaborative homage to a song about lovingly observing others making art for free is quite powerful. Her never mentioning Yosemite in the lyrics is powerful

     

    Yosemite being the only 1-word song on this album is powerful. 

    She's so powerful, and so very realized

    FRAME THIS. ITS WHAT YOU DESERVE. well done, well done. Now go, enjoy this bliss you earned. Go forth in joy. I'm so happy for you!

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    Hi guys!!!!!! OK so

    White Dress is a career highlight. I cried quite visibly, it was too much. The want and knowledge that we can't go back to those times, we just aren't those people anymore. 

    -LMLYLAW slaps in album context and is now sexy

    TjF-hot. Yup. That's it. F*ckin hot.

    Wild at Heart should be the next single. An amalgamation of Greatest and How to Dissappear and possibly better than both.

    DbJaG has a beat change that makes me want to crawl on the floor like a damn vampire. Sexy as all hell.

    NAWWAL is too close to home. I ugly cried even though the songs not that heavy. It hurts alot.

    Yosemite is too dense to unpack right quick. It's amazing but there's alot here. I need time.

    BuS- hated Nicki, and I like her, but that's a whiskey song and I was drinking wine, so no judgement yet.

    DtWD-The BRIDGEEEE. That's the whole statement. Shocking, jarring, perfect. Flex that skill my queen.

    For free-a kind Witch coven crosses my path singing their hymns as I fish and say hello. I loved it. Needed a damn outro.

     

    This is her most cohesive, reflective, painful album. Not cus it harbors the most pain, but our age, our eras, won't ever look the same, and she is serenading that loss, but the Hymn of hope is still there. Honeymoon unseated. A new Queen is here.

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    Taking no negative energy into post release. This is going to be one hell of a serve, to some this may be the album they've always dreamt she could make. To think of all the chaos (both fun on the boards and hectic in our worlds) that has finally gotten us here. In the end, the reviews never mattered. Just the fact that after so many of us were quite alone for so long this year, a dear friend is dropping by, reminiscing on older, easier times-and acknowledging that none of us can go back anymore. So find your friends, old and new, and take them with you on your journeys, small and large. That's her energy this new decade, and it couldn't come at a better time. Serve Queen.

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    7 minutes ago, Jack Antonoff is a God said:

    Goddamn, man-child. You fucked me so good that I almost said "I love you" is one of the greatest opening lines of an album ever.  Not that I would expect someone who thinks Honeymoon is a masterpiece to understand that.

    Yawn, boring bait is boring. Like sis, we understand-but it ain't that serious. Lana could write The Odyssey and you'd drag her for over exaggerated prose. No winning with you and it does nothing but drag the whole page down cus no one likes scrolling through blasé drivel. Thank you, next.

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    1 minute ago, TrashMagiq said:

    H.E.R. kinda reminds me of Alessia Cara in the way that you don’t really see much of her & she’s not really that big of an artist but once award shows come she’s very Present & winning random stuff.. H.E.R.’s music is good tho so it’s whatever. Still not over Alessia Cara’s corny ass winning best new artist over SZA tho, that’s full on evidence the Grammy’s just do whatever without making sense.

    Oooof I was about to disagree with you so hard till I read the full post. The way I was actually excited for Alessia to grow up and gain life perspective so she could write the cold bangers I know she's capable of. Her radio hits are vanilla as hell

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    Just catching up, Fiona wins twice?? Longevity queen and deserved. H.E.R gave an amazing rendition of God Bless America at the presidential inauguration with an electric guitar so she is stanned and happy for her. Phoebe and Chloe and Halle were robbed, and...please don't drag me...Taylor deserved it. Folklore came out in a very fragile time in my life life and Seven is the best song she's ever done. Women won this night, even if they weren't recognized. And Harry, cus we love him ;)

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    52 minutes ago, past the bushes said:

    she'll win it, that album totally deserves it :agree: 

    if not, feel free to quote me and drag me next year :ma:

    Screenshot snapped, already planning the bottles I'll either drink when you're right, or shatter when you're wrong. Manifest!!! 

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    Just now, Elle said:

    Omg should've invited Lana to sing her cover of You'll Never Walk Alone :oic3:

    But Brittany Howard is doing a great rendition though x

    Omg travesty. Not miss Howard's performance, just a missed opportunity. We stay losing this Era. Which is why we will win so hard when the album drops. Also not nominating Violet for best spoken word but nominating ANOTHER rendition of Charlotte's Web is a hate crime

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    Well, it seems this pre release is chaos for everyone. Best of luck mod mother @Elle, I hope it doesn't suck too much figuring this out. It also seems White Dress is not a Spotify new music Friday single and I.....the sigh I let out fogged up the windows in my house. Sighhhh please Lana, Queen of heavenly melodies and high registers, PLEASE give me something!

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  24. Posted

    Just now, PARADIXO said:

    Honestly my favorite thing about this entire thread was BoarGate. It was so cute and fun and the fact that I had to make a whole essay on boars last year made it even better :lmao: 

    It was devine. I wish I knew who to give credit to, but the gif of all the baby boats crossing the river-representing us going to post release was the cutest, most accurate thing. 7 days babies. 7 days!

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