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The fan fiction. Pretty sure Black Beauty (demo), Starry Eyed, Angels Forever were the sound of her sophomore album before that leaked. It’s still very much BTD-Paradise esque cinematic sound with the same producers (Emile Haynie). Then she changed the course of the entire album because of the leaks and did UV in like a week with Dan Auerbach in Nashville. Thankful that leaked because we got a better sound direction because of it, but it did tank her career commercially at the time because it was too different from the hip hop sound she did with BTD. However, UV is being appreciated years later so that worked out flawlessly in the end. I do think had she sticked with her original vision of UV, she would have continued her mainstream success after BTD, but that would have stunted her artistically and cut her career short overall. Her discography would’ve been like a basic pop girl, ala Katy or Ariana, where every album sounds the same. The rock pivot was mega risky. It didn’t pay off in 2014, but it’s paying off now. Lana did return to the BTD sound with Honeymoon and Lust For Life. Both albums are hip hop adjacent. Saying she’s not going back to BTD sound is a flat lie. Her sound simply evolved from the BTD sound. UV and NFR were both sharp turns tho aside from a few tracks (MPG, FMWUTTT, Old Money, BAR, Cinnamon). Only two albums with almost zero urban influences: COCC and BB. BB still have the trio interlude. But that’s like one song. Both are her biggest flops oop that should tell you what the audience really wants from her . Ocean Blvd is a perfect blend of gospel, choir, soundtrack songs, singer-songwriter, folk, indie, trap, poetry, piano, pop rock, folk rock, pop, hip hop, urban, rap, surf rock, reggaeton, and acid .

NFR was pretty crystal clear (except for HTD). Also way less reverb. Almost asmr like vocal mixing. Love Song is the most apparent. Tickles the brain just right. BB was crystal clear too, too clear to the point of nails on a chalkboard.

Have you heard of Ultraviolence?

VOID is on TTH and all the big playlists. Lana playlisting was so bad and still is now. Doesn’t matter because she still did great despite the lack of support. Also Melanie just a released a deluxe version in the middle of tracking week. That should boost sales by a lot. I was actually hoping for something similar with Lana with the “surprise” and that never happened. Melanie is the one doing it instead and honestly she deserves the high sales because she’s hustling/working very hard. She also did a bunch of meet and greet in different stores throughout release week which should boost sales. Before the album release, she performed the songs live, teased it with proper visuals, music video ready. Like Melanie did A LOT. Mind you, all in that ridiculous costume. And she’s feeding her fans well with a constant stream of new music this week, and they are supporting her back. Lana can’t even show up once at her own pop-up.

Let me post this again. Nothing cheap or dated about this I’m sorry. If you want cheap wack beats listen to Honeymoon and L4L. Also disagree on Wanderlust. Now that sounds like lo-fi beats to study to (generic). Fishtail doesn’t sound generic at all to me. Superior. It has a rough abrasive industrial sound similar to the end of A&W. Ooh, I love that. Also it’s not dissimilar to this: Just focus on the rough production and ignore the generic pop rock vocals and melodies. I’m purely talking about the rough scratchy production.

I really hope she sticks to her guns and not let those stup!d Instagram posts affect her. But she has a tendency to change and cancel things. I remember West Coast video was supposed to be a lot darker. UV cult video was scraped and the list goes on. The t*t cover recently, so who knows? I do hope she sticks to her artistic vision and not let some random Instagram posts influence it.

Paris, Texas is the Video Games of this album . - Beautiful classic distinguishable melody. - Lyrically thrives in simplicity [No overly complicated weird word jargons, not too wordy, no swearing, no offensive words (h!gh, f*uvk, de@th, wh0re, r@pe, wh!te woman, c0v!d)]. - Unique beautiful attention grabbing vocal performance. The moody deep voice in Video Games is nothing like you’ve ever heard in mainstream music. It was chilling. A head turner. The same with Paris, Texas in the opposite direction. Those very French? theatrical operatic high voice isn’t heard much in mainstream music. Instant timeless classic . Interestingly, I think “Yes To Heaven” tick those boxes as well. Simple inoffensive lyrics, beautiful melodies = classic. In fact, most timeless hits fall into that category .

It absolutely is. She went from selling 33K , mind you, with her last album to over 100K.

Kali Uchis’s song “Moonlight” got a TTH placement. They’re on the same label . She sold less albums and the song itself is doing less streams than A&W. So yeah, I don’t think interscope believe in this project, hence the vinyls shortage (inventory problems) and merch delays, no music videos, and no streaming push. It’s bad but I can see why they’re apprehensive and not pushing the album at all. Two commercial failures back to back (Chem and BB). Lana shot and scrapped the music videos they already spent money on. Arcadia had two videos that made no noise, etc. The only hope is that they’ll start pushing the album now after seeing the sales numbers. Polydor has already started pushing it. A&W got playlisted on BBC radio 1 out of nowhere recently (Well, technically not out of nowhere literally right after we got the U.K. sales numbers. It’s very much because of that). The music industry is full of bribery. Labels won’t invest in you unless they can see a return.

This her best performing album since Ultraviolence. Yes, NFR did actually flopped initially. It was her lowest selling debut (before the pandemic albums).

Does it bother anyone that the album order is wrong on one side? I thought they would fix it . One side is perfectly ordered with the release date chronologically. They made a mistake by placing Blue Banisters before Chemtrails. I don’t understand how no one NO ONE on her team noticed it??? They can’t even get the album order right, like what is this? This whole thing is also very meta. The mistake just so happened to be with Blue Banisters and Chemtrails which is arguably her messiest release. A mistake on the jacket and out .

Deluxe boost sales not split them, hence their existence. It’s literally another variant with bonus songs.

I don’t think Lana is thinking of that lady when writing her songs.

I mean it would still be #1. Sales were LOW all year around. Also they could’ve delayed it further if the physicals weren’t ready. They are still having inventory problems gimping her first week sales:

Sad because she would’ve been #1 any other week before March. Her label is trash at picking release dates. Tbh they’re trash at most things. How do you sell over 100K and still not be #1. The album should have come out the week Karol G releases her album. Easy #1 or any other week before that. Now she has to settle for #3 because of a 36 song album and a 0.69 cents songs EP with 10 versions and 12345 remixes .

Radio 1 is forced to playlist “A&W” because Lana just scored the biggest album in the UK . This era will have great longevity me fears. It’s doing so well already just based on the music alone. No visuals yet.

I think her label didn’t believe in this project. Poor Spotify play-listing which means they didn’t pay Spotify = not investing in it. No music videos = once again not investing. No performances. Also no radio premiere for any of the singles until “The Grants” when Chemtrails had multiples . Plus the consistent stock issues with her Vinyls leading all the way to the debut week when they had months to prepare. Lacking inventory for her first week is absolutely terrible . It should be FULLY stocked and spilling. They clearly didn’t think it was going to sell. Low balling her demand.

Chemtrails video took months to come out. She shot Candy Necklace on March 21st. Judging by her comments, it looks to be a special effects heavy video. I’m not expecting it to come out anytime soon.

Deserved for Melanie. I see so many Lana stans help promote her album by constantly tweeting about it. Even on her own forum. Bad publicity is still publicity. I don’t see that many tweets about Ocean Blvd from other fan bases tbh not even the bad ones. They are very minimal. That’s when you know the album is going to tank in streaming because no one is talking about it.

NFR did 74 million lol. Yes, it did better. Also in 2019 when there 50% less streams. Ocean Blvd is still outselling NFR by a lot if you include physical sales.

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Wasn’t the idea scrapped because it leaked (untouchable five or whatever). The second album was suppose to come a lot sooner at one point. Black Beauty was suppose to be the first single. The leaks have damaged her career and redirected it many times.

Updated rankings: 1. A&W 2. Paris,Texas 3. Fishtail 4. Peppers 5. Candy Necklace 6. Taco Truck x VB 7. Jon Batiste Interlude 8. Grandfather 9. Sweet 10. Kintsugi 11. The Grants 12. Ocean Blvd 13. Fingertips 14. Margaret 15. Let The Light In 16. Judah Smith Interlude Fingertips no longer unlistenable. Climbing the ranks . I’ve come to the realization that "Let The Light In" and "Margaret" are the two most generic-sounding songs on the album. Doesn’t fit the album, imo. "Let the Light In" sounds too much like adult contemporary radio fodder to me. “Margaret", a similar thing (like a Taylor Swift song), the melody is like Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo idk how else to explain it. The way Taylor writes songs, they just have this kiddy melody to them, and like a high school prom/suburban country girl vibe for the lyrics. Idk immature? Still, the song edges out “Let The Light In” a bit for me because of the roof top party talking segment. It made the song less generic. Both songs, however, are the most Kidz Bop-sounding songs compared to the rest of the album.

Yes? Her Label saw the predictions.

Fell to #3 (the gap is just 6K to #2).