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  1. Posted

    Honeymoon was her first album that went for a very strong cohesive feel. Most of the time that leads to the individual songs not really sticking out much because they seem weak when looking at them in isolation.

    Honeymoon doesn't really have a song on it that can hold up to songs like Brooklyn Baby, Shades of Cool, Born to Die, Summertime Sadness, etc. It was intentionally low key and dreamy. It has a quiet feel and it was very hard to digest after the rather opulent and “heavy” production that made her music so unique.

    Aside from that, the singles leading up to the album's release were VERY underwhelming:

    • High By the Beach was an attempt at a BTD-esque bop but it's rather bland and sounded very cheap at that time.
    • Honeymoon is not really a good "single" and only really shines as opening/intro of the album. Sonically stunning but lyrically one of her weakest songs. The song focuses entirely on the soundscape and the melody gets pushed into the background.
    • Terrence Loves You is her most stripped back song to date. Yes, it’s a fan favourite but for someone like me who focuses a lot on production, it was an instant bore.
    • Music to Watch Boys to was the only song that felt like classic Lana after the three others but it was also very slow and low key.
    • Freak, Art Deco, Religion and The Blackest Day are the only songs on the album that are somewhat reminiscent of pre-HM Lana but they didn’t receive much attention aside from Freak, cause they were never promoted or pushed after the album's release.

    For someone like me who stanned Lana prior to HM mostly because of the exquisite production of her songs, HM was a point of crisis and I will never be able to properly look beyond the disappointment the album has caused, sadly.

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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, SoftwareUpgrade said:

    You should've clarified you meant the eras, lol. I mean, I liked COTCC as an album, but BB has not clicked with me at all :cryney: #tiredofpiano

    It’s a mix honestly. I love the vibe Honeymoon has but most of the individual songs don't click with me and I feel even more disappointed after hearing how wonderful songs like Freak could have been if she didn’t always scrap everything at the last minute.

    Regarding Blue Banisters: I actually enjoy a bunch of the new tracks. However, I don’t think filling it up with all those half-baked outtakes that already leaked in the same exact version was a good idea. It doesn’t feel like an album that was fully thought through and it just makes the other songs look even more like fillers.

     

    At this point, Lana should really reconsider releasing her popular unreleased songs. They all go viral and she makes 0 money out of it. I think she could easily release anthology volumes with her best unreleased material from 2010 and 2011. A more cutesy album and a femme fatale one. It would be a massive collapse.

     

     

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  3. Posted

    4 hours ago, SoftwareUpgrade said:

    Whatttt, this is offensive to Honeymoon :coffee:

    I mean yeah…Honeymoon is not as lukewarm as BB and COTCC in retrospect but god…I remember when it was released. It felt so underwhelming after Ultraviolence and she gave us NOTHING that era. Two of the videos were 50% lifted from scrapped UV visuals.

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  5. Posted

    On 4/9/2022 at 3:07 PM, BartenderDeco said:

    once she changes it we will never have a chance of getting honeymoon 2.0

    What a blessing that would be. We pretty much got three Honeymoons looking at her last three albums and I’m TIRED. Give me something exciting again!

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  6. Posted

    Oh wait wait...I see it's the Swifties attacking. LOL :byeh8rs2:

    The fanbase that has grown to be even more overly protective and aggressive than Little Monsters...

     

    What has she done? From literally encouraging her fans to cyberbully and attack people she was feuding with to actively trying to destroy someone's career, their first-week sales to publicly shaming a bunch of people through her songs and music.

    She never ever addressed and distanced herself from the fact that the alt-right hailed her as their "Aryan queen" and instead decided to stay silent on it. Instead she decided to sue bloggers who pointed out that she was being silent on it. For years she was perfectly complicit with people associating her with Republicans, the far-right because she did not want to alienate half of her audience.

    That is just something I cannot get behind.

     

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  7. Posted

    Looks like I hit several nerves...what does me disliking an artist, who is not as unproblematic as you claim her to be, have anything to do with misogyny? Don't act like some of y'all don't have certain celebrities you dislike as well. Anyway...maybe I shouldn't have aired it out on here.

     

    The reason I said it, is because I simply do not want her on a Lana album. Lana is my favorite artist and the last thing I need is a collaboration with my #1 least favorite artist ever.

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  8. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Cherry Blossom said:

    It’s not 2016 anymore :whatever2:

    And what about it? I fucking hate Taylor. Her music, her personality, her victim complex. Everything about her makes my blood boil. She‘s the most overrated artist to ever exist and has unrightfully won awards simply based on the fact that she was a rich white girl, who shut up about politics and made country music.

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  9. Posted

    On 4/5/2022 at 5:26 AM, The Siren said:

    :oprah4:

     

    not you having a calm discussion and theyre quick to block your disagreement :deadbanana:

    This is the second lunatic that is claiming she was copying her. There was another, even more deranged one who had an entire blog dedicated to providing incoherent evidence of Lana copying her.

     

    Regarding the picture with Taylor: As an OTH I am utterly disgusted at the prospect of Lana collaborating with this lizzard-faced turd of a person.

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  10. Posted

    6 hours ago, bluechemtrails said:

    Jack doesn't have to mean country, it can be surf music as well :dua:

    Wow the D I V E R S I TY.

    Unfortunately, he only has two chord progression for that “surf music” (see: Solar Power).

    He can fuck off unless he comes up with something new.

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  12. Posted

    15 hours ago, Writer In The Dark said:

    Do we really need Rick again? After LFL everyone was hoping she'll ditch him for good because of the cheap beats and voice filters
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    It wasn't Rick's fault that Lana kept changing her mind about Lust for Life's concept and sound.

    He still gave us some of her best songs on that album and overall, it's more enjoyable than the kind of snoozey and uninspired shit she's been serving lately. Hell, she didn't even bother to record a full album and just stopped halfway through then added some OLD ASS outtakes on it and didn't even bother updating/changing them.

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  14. Posted

    4 hours ago, Thunder Revenant said:

    01. 13 Beaches
    02. Cherry
    03. White Mustang
    04. Summer Bummer
    05. In My Feelings
    06. Best American Record (demo version)
    07. When The World Was At War We Just Kept Dancing
    08. Yosemite
    09. Yes To Heaven
    10. Tomorrow Never Came
    11. Heroin
    12. Change
    13. Get Free

    That way the record would start off with a few more pop-ish tunes, all featuring featuring those trap-esque beats with all of those elements kinda "rising up" until they find their climax in IMF. Then there are WTWWAW and BAR as some sort of transition, since it they both have some pop-y unertones but already lean into the more dreamy and cinematic sound of the album's second half. Yosemite/YTH/TNC would make a folk-inspired, "fragile kind of beauty" trio and then we get Heroin, which heralds the start of the albums dramatic last moments.

    There is still a bit of inconsistency, but I think it woul work out pretty well this way.

     

    NFR would still be flawless without having TNBAR and since CoCC should have just been an EP with the first 6 songs taking away Yosemite from it does not make any difference either.

    Starting with 13 Beaches and closing with Get Free is the only logical way. 👏🏼 I'm glad I wasn’t the only one who thought so.

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  15. Posted

    25 minutes ago, Ultra Violet said:

    I love how all of these are better than what we got. But I'm glad we got this mess of an album because it made everyone so creative :kiss3:

    I think the album is great how it is (although it flows much better with a rearranged tracklist). However, I cannot deny that a moody witch-themed album would have been more up most people's alley (me included). 

    Lust for Life being butchered was probably the biggest crime committed.

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  17. Posted

    So, I've seen a bunch of people hating on this album and I'm interested in seeing how people would improve it.

    This is what I came up with:

     

    Personally, I enjoyed the Dystopian Hollywood theme of it but I think it could have benefited from a shorter tracklist with stronger outtakes and better versions of certain songs. I tried to focus on a dark witchy theme.

     

    BEST AMERICAN RECORD (STANDARD)

     

    1. 13 Beaches
    2. Lust for Life - Demo 1
    3. Heroin
    4. Cherry
    5. Serene Queen
    6. White Mustang
    7. Best American Record
    8. Yosemite
    9. When the World Was At War
    10. Change
    11. God Bless America
    12. Young & In Love
    13. Get Free

     

    Singles:

     

    1. Love (b/w Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind)
    2. Best American Record (b/w Yosemite)
    3. Cherry (b/w Lust for Life)
    4. 13 Beaches (b/w Get Free)

     

    Music Videos:

     

    Love
    Best American Record

    Cherry

    Lust for Life (the one directed by Chuck)

    13 Beaches / Get Free

     

    Instead of putting all the collabs on the actual album, I would have saved them for a collab EP:

     

    STARGIRL - EP:

     

    1. Stargirl, Part 2 (feat. The Weeknd)
    2. Summer Bummer (feat. A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti)
    3. Groupie Love (feat. A$AP Rocky)
    4. Lust for Life - Remix (feat. The Weeknd)
    5. Wild One (feat. Marina)
    6. Tomorrow Never Came (feat. Sean Ono Lennon)
    7. Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems (feat. Stevie Nicks)

     

    BEST AMERICAN RECORD (DELUXE)

     

    Disc 1: Best American Record - Expanded

    1. 13 Beaches
    2. Lust for Life - Demo 1
    3. Heroin
    4. Cherry
    5. Serene Queen
    6. In My Feelings (Bonus Track)
    7. White Mustang
    8. Best American Record
    9. Yosemite
    10. When the World Was At War
    11. Change
    12. God Bless America
    13. Coachella - Woodstock in My Mind (Bonus Track)
    14. Young & In Love
    15. Roses Bloom for You (Bonus Tracks)
    16. Get Free

     

    Disc 2: Stargirl - EP

    1. Stargirl, Part 2 (feat. The Weeknd)
    2. Summer Bummer (feat. A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti)
    3. Groupie Love (feat. A$AP Rocky)
    4. Lust for Life - Remix (feat. The Weeknd)
    5. Wild One (feat. Marina)
    6. Tomorrow Never Came (feat. Sean Ono Lennon)
    7. Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems (feat. Stevie Nicks)
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  18. Posted

    CHEMTRAILS OVER THE COUNTRY CLUB

    1. White Dress
    2. Chemtrails Over the Country Club
    3. Let Me Love You Like a Woman
    4. Wild at Heart
    5. Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost Wanderlust
    6. Tulsa Jesus Freak White Hot Forever
    7. Breaking Up Slowly
    8. Dark But Just a Game
    9. Yosemite
    10. For Free
    11. Dance Till We Die

    BLUE BANISTERS ARCADIA

    1. Text Book
    2. Wildflower Wildfire
    3. Thunder
    4. Nectar of the Gods
    5. If You Lie Down With Me
    6. Dealer
    7. Black Bathing Suit
    8. Interlude - The Trio
    9. Blue Banisters
    10. Beautiful
    11. Violets for Roses
    12. Living Legend
    13. Cherry Blossom
    14. Sweet Carolina
    15. Arcadia

    So, the concept behind this is to split the album into two halves. The first symbolizes the angry phase, reflecting on the painful youth and past relationships. The second half symbolizes healing with the help of friends and your chosen family and ultimately reaching Arcadia. Arcadia symbolizes self-love and thus making peace with oneself.

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  20. Posted

    26 minutes ago, plastiscguy said:

    We can only wish... I mean, Queen of Disaster, Jealous Girl and Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight went super viral and she released more piano ballads :creep:

    Lana going back into that soundscape would be a dream. :crying2:

    Kinda Outta Luck

    Caught You Boy

    Us Against the World

    Dangerous Girl

    Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight

    You Can Be the Boss

    Every Man Has His Wish

    Hollywood's Dead

    TV in Black & White

    Back to tha Basics

    Never Let Me Go

    Queen of Disaster

    Take Me to Paris

    Prom Song

    Driving in Cars with Boys

     

    What an album… :crai:

     

     

     

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  21. Posted

    16 minutes ago, ioncewaspoisonivy said:

    After listening to this album non-stop for two days, I am ready to give my opinions. Arcadia is the only skip for me, I love the chorus and production but lyrics turn me off. Every other track is incredible. However, as some of you mentioned before, it feels more like a mixtape than a cohesive album. I hope she takes her time off, find a new inspiration and maybe works with someone new for the next record. That being said, nothing changes the fact that she is the BEST singer/song-writer of this century and none of her cheap impersonators can even come close to her. None of them.

    Agreed. It’s no coincidence that every time she collaborated with someone new, she created some of her best work.

    What makes BTD and UV so good and so special was that by the time they got to the production, the songs were already somewhat finished and they could focus on sewing them together to the cohesive, yet individually distinguishable masterpieces they were. She said herself that Dan A. reignited the flame inside of her. Before UV she was already somewhat burnt out after non-stop recording music for 3-4 years straight.

    I personally believe that right now would be the perfect time to release some actual unreleased songs mixtapes. Her unreleased catalogue is going viral and we know some of her favourite tracks are in there. She wouldn’t even need to try to fit them into a new album which always feels somewhat inauthentic and out of place.

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  22. Posted

    41 minutes ago, lover said:

    I actually feel the exact opposite! in my opinion, the songs of COCC flow so well together, it's a complete and satisfying journey (with little tracklist re-arrangements, of course). BB has great singular moments, but I honestly can't look at BB and see a good, cohesive experience :noparty:

     

    Same. It feels too much like a mixtape, especially knowing that many of the songs don’t come from the same time frame the others were written in. Lana's albums are always a reflection of her mood at a certain time and reflective of her current state of mind. A mixtape album with such old songs CANNOT be a cohesive body of work unless you entirely rework the old material somehow.

    1 hour ago, Veinsineon said:

    I think it’s still unreal to me that she’s admitted her love for these songs that, before, she couldn’t even acknowledge really. Living Legend especially. That live video really made it clear to me how special her music is to her, now if only she could remember every single song the way we do :true:

    Still waiting for a live performance of Bel Air. :true:

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  25. Posted

    1 minute ago, americangothic said:

    The sound:

    Now that Jack is gone it's pretty clear that Lana is the one whose vision involves a minimalistic aproach when it comes to the music, and we should get used to it. She's in a quieter headspace than when she was younger and that's part of growing up.

     

    She's less ambitious than who she was in the 'Born to Die' era, she feels more at peace than the chaos she felt during 'Ultraviolence', and she doesn't really care about playing it safe and try to cater to broader audiences. She'll probably never ditch de piano ballads as long as the outer sound is reflecting her inner vision.


    No.

    If she keeps going into that direction with every song being forgettable I will just stop caring for her in general honestly. I will not and have never been the type of fan that will force himself to like anything because it’s an album/song by my fave artist. I think that is a very shitty approach. After all, we are the ones that pay for her music. If she doesn’t feel like putting effort into her music, I will not feel like putting money in her pocket. It’s as simple as that.

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