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Except for Cinnamon, the one that deserved it the most but I won't complain at this point lol. We have been fed

So all the videos in the album trailer are actually gonna be released. This is the first time this is happening!

I thought I was hallucinating

Ask her what the fuck happened to How to Disappear

I wish HIAB had more lyrics. Or that she didn't repeat that long ass chorus with the exact same lyrics. It's too beautiful but too little

Fixed to "hold me, love me, touch me, HELP ME"? Cause that's so wrong lol

This shades are so ugly I'd rather write what I see Norman Fucking Rockwell - Pastel Blue Mariners Apartment Complex - Brown Venice Bitch - Brown background, some Golden lines and the synth is Purple Fuck It I Love You - Dark Blue Doin' Time - Orange and Yellow Love Song - I don't see any color, dont know why. Cinnamon Girl - I see a whole scenery of an industrial complex with Pink smoke coming out the Silver machines, I love that vision. How To Disappear - Yellow California - Dark Green The Next Best American Record - I see a Bright Blue swimming pool in a desert surrounded by Maroon mountains and palm trees adding some Green The Greatest - Gold Bartender - Black with Dark green lines Happiness is a Butterfly - Gold and Pastel Pink Hope - the Piano is Gold and her voice is Brown I see a lot of weird images while listening to music, I don't know why, it's always been like that lol

Cinnamon Girl sounds like a pink nuclear bomb, that's the best way I can describe it I don't know why.

Why is this thread so dead and boring? lol I know we've heard the leak a million times and we're already tired of the songs BUT COME ON IT JUST CAME OUT

What happened here?

Omg The Guardian's review is so stupid lol

I cried of relief that I lived to listen to this record lol. Ok what I'm gonna say is so weird but do you guys ever thought that too? Especially this August since she announced the release date I often thought "Omg what if I die before the record is out? What if I get ran over by a truck and die without having listened to NORMAN FUCKING ROCKWELL?" lol The thought of never listening to it kinda scared me

An extremely mainstream pop video for Cinnamon, almost Ariana-like but I know that's never gonna happen lol but a gay can dream. And one for TNBAR, even though it's one of my least favorite tracks I think they could pull off something cool

That sounds legit actually. I'm here for it.

Omg he was

I want yOSemiTe and rOseS BloOm fOr yoU!!!!111!!1q!!

Coachella sounds cheap as fuck too, but those strings on HTD scream $0.99 to me lol. And it doesn't go at all with such a Dylan-esque high-level poetry that those lyrics are. But I think that was just a weird choice, wish it turned out differently but this is what they wanted I guess.

Yes, I'm not talking about that "raw" quality she has been incorporating since UV, and it peaked in LFL (and now on NFR more than ever). I think that's so cool about the production of her songs and I believe it's how she likes it and it totally works. Her vocal takes are SUPER RAW, like when she hits a note slightly wrong (not criticizing, this is NORMAL to every fucking singer, after all we're humans) they don't bother correcting it digitally, because it sounds so natural and reminds us that she's a real person. But I'm talking about something else.

Cinnamon I talked about in the previous post. Start at 0:16. On "all the pills that you take" she's using mic 1. On "violet blue green red to keep me at arms length dont work" her vocals are layered but THE MAIN VOCAL is still with mic 1. Then on "you try to push me out" she comes back using a totally different type of mic, the quality of the vocal is different and it breaks the continuity of the track, sounds like a different room, different ambience. I know it's not that big of a deal, but once you hear it you can't unhear it and everytime I hear this little things I'm reminded that Jack and Laura (the audio engineer) didn't make that big of an effort to make a PERFECT record, which is kinda inconsiderate to Lana. It's annoying.

The ones that bothered me the most were CG for sure, HIAB and HTD. On the first verse of CG the main vocal is split in two takes but they were done in different mics. It doesn't sound continuous at all.

I think they left the "fame" backing vocals just for ambience. You can't even understand she's saying "Fame", we only know that because we've heard the leaked version. You only hear "aim, aim, aim....". If they used that delay effect on "good" it would just sound like "oo, oo, oo..." and it's not that cool. I assume that was intentional and I like it.

I'm a singer-songwriter and producer for a living. There's a lot of technical issues with the mixing + the master is weak for some songs. But if you wanna deny it idc, whatever helps you cope lol. I love the record by the way, but I'm not deaf.

Yes, mixing is not all "art", there is a technichal side of it and this album definitely took some missteps.

Can someone link me to that? I've been trying to find it for ages