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More meditations on the royal family on her next album. Candle in the wind was just the beginning ETA: Lana views things by how iconic they look and doesn’t consider any context. (Queen of) Judging things by a picture book that she forgot to read

Today Was A Fairytale is so different in the re-recording to me. It used to sound much more playful and had those little instrumental details (like the little chimes when she goes “the way you kissed me”). It’s lost in the new mix. Taylor’s vocal weaknesses helped sell the youthfulness and naïveté of Fearless. But I respect her reasoning for re-recording

It wouldn’t surprise me but why would Lana go to Dallas from Austin?

I agree, I didn’t like Doin’ Time or LFL but they helped with promo and streaming numbers. COCC sank like a rock I see them stepping in to retain that prized 14-21 demographic that Polydor head was talking about.

I think COCC was the album her label knew would be hard to make commercially successful but the trade off is that they will give suggestions on RCS to make it more popular. Kind of like adding Doin’ Time or Lust for Life with The Weeknd

But Nikki isn’t mainstream country music at all though

The way that White Claw is angled closest to her

That Alexa answer sounded like a word salad that was meant to describe “something with audio that will be released with copyright”

Day of the Grammys she posted a Facetime screenshot of them so it might be related to that

Lana once said that she liked Rick because he didn’t force her to continue writing if she hit a roadblock or wasn’t feeling it. His attitude is “ok let’s move on” which is definitely a kind of creative philosophy but maybe to some is a “yes man” position

Given her lack of instrumental skills, Lana is more dependent on a producer giving her the chords and beats than say, Taylor. Then it becomes a process where Lana is asking Jack for more “wild” or “stripped back” and he can’t deliver but it’s not like Lana can do it herself. So we end up Lana pre-emptively saying COCC isn’t 100% to her original vision

Jack can’t be co-producing the whole album, right? (this is me coping) Like Lana and St. Vincent are the only ones who made Jack the sole co-producer on most of their tracks on their albums. Melodrama is the album that naturally fits into Jack’s style the best and the only songs he’s the sole co-producer at are the stripped down piano ballads. Everything else Lorde sent to other producers for their touches.

Link? Lana sweetie wait until other Jack-produced albums come out and hear the recycled chord progressions from Love song or something on there

She sounds good I like that Nikki acknowledges that BUS is simple haha. I can see why she’s so drawn to Nikki especially on a musical level. Nikki is that very indie musician who plays super small venues & doesn’t have mainstream country support, which gives Lana the opportunity to live out her White Dress years.

was this a question? nikki does have some NH dates in the summer https://www.nikkilane.com/tour

yes there’s one in Austin tonight

The fact that this album isn’t getting its due on streaming + Spotify’s major bugs (it keeps crashing on me on mobile when and only when I put COCC on shuffle it seems) make me more peeved than it should Also Lana isn’t really doing any promo for this era so I interpreted it as “new era, new sound” but she’s still leaning into country

Lana should learn how to play the piano and general music theory so she can have more ownership over the production side of her music. More instruments in her music, pleaseee I’m not a Jack Antonoff fan because I’m hearing similar regressions in St. Vincent’s artistry since Massseduction and St. Vincent has way more musicianship than Lana does. So if Lana is responsible for picking the (basic) chords/sounds with no formal training, then what does that say about St. Vincent? That can’t be right

Having 2.5 albums of lush pop (BTD, HM, parts of LFL) but getting like 3 albums of folk/country is testing my limits ngl

It would seem so cruel of Lana to get Nikki’s hopes up about an album coming out and that’s why we know it’s coming (later) who cares about the fans

Nikki and Lana met during her UV era as they both had Dan Auerbach produce their albums around the same time! UV 2.0 y’-all I listened to Nikki’s music tonight. It’s much more uptempo than Lana’s and quite fun. I can think of so many ways this collab will turn out but I’m still hesitant because their vocals are so different and Lana has a tendency to slow down her songs

A female country duo is such Michelle Branch teas

This one is easy to write away because it’s Texas and their governor is mega eager to reopen things. Plus Nikki Lane is the one on tour and who is gonna come after a real indie country artist

This album is gonna be so reliant on producers to make or break it. VG and Ride are country songs at heart, sure, but the instrumentation is what makes it so alt-pop

"Country record coming out later" omg