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    23 minutes ago, GeminiLanaFan said:

    That’s my feeling too. Plus she seems to have a very friendship kinda of relationship with Jack, which might not be the case with Rick (mostly work relationship, I think). 

    this is gonna sound silly but rick is like noticeably older than her and funnily enough they stopped working together around the time she put her daddy issues to rest... :slayty: well, not entirely, but certainly in her music...

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  2. Posted

    4 hours ago, GeminiLanaFan said:

    Anyways, I’m glad OB got a bigger sound and I sure hope LDR10 will follow that, with some experimentation / alternative sounds

    I think that is what she seemingly wants to do, since so much of OB is about collaborations and using instrumentals from other artists, so at least she is open to experiments, which is good. Lets hope she finds herself a new collaborator... 
    do we actually have any tea as to why she stopped working with rick nowels btw? Other than her just wanting someone new and fresh to work with...

    Also tbh the last few songs on OB sound like a pretty strong conceptual direction for a new record, aside from the non existent instrumentals (thanks Jack).

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  3. Posted

    6 hours ago, Rock Candy said:

    • Take Me Home Country Road

    My wet dream is for her to do an album with the classic songs + new songs with Father John Misty, akin to the two they have already done. 
    But idk, I feel like it is in this era specifically that it is hard to predict if she is actually going to change the direction or not. Theoretically, she could do a trap-esque album like the last few songs on OB, the main culprit here is that she herself said during one of the meetings with her fans recently that she has been told that people actually did not like the latter half of OB as much (the fans of course told her that its not true), but if she actually thinks it is true, it might influence her not to go in the trap direction. 
    I dont think she'll stay deep in the COCC, BB lane for any longer, but where she is going to go - I have no idea. I honestly hope for some conceptual side projects, like the classics album or an album done with another collaborator, or a psychedelic album akin to the the last few OB songs (+AW). I wish she made a visual album tbh. Just something that would shake things up and have a strong conceptual aspect to it that she would stick to. 

    One last thing actually... Since her team obv sees that her unreleases are huge on TT an    d streaming, she might feel encouraged to do a bit of fan service in this sense and drop a record that is fan service-y in nature

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  4. Posted

    3 hours ago, Embach said:

    For me:

    1st

    BTD (transition from Lizzy Grant to LDR)
    ...

    Ocean Blvd (raw, vulnerable, fan fave)
    ...

    I feel crazy for saying this, but to me ocean blvd feels in some ways like she is circling back to her pre 2011 era of acoustic sound...

    Also, I dont mean this in a bad way, but objectively Blue Bannisters is not a real album... LISTEN... There is pretty much zero conceptual reason for her to dump 7 or so of her unreleased tracks in the context of that album. What I think happened is that Lana for some reason felt the need to drop a new album right after COCC, and at that point in time she had a clear direction in mind, which was to cover her own family relations and to diss some of her family members... - thus she ended up with 4 new songs (Textbook, Wildflower Wildfire, Blue Bannisters, Sweet Carolina) that cover those exact themes and which are the only "true" BB songs, because they were clearly meant for the album in the context of the announced themes. From that point, I speculate that for some reason she either did not have enough material that covers these topics to arrange it into a full LP, or she decided not to continue in that direction for personal reasons. The issue with the latter is that ultimately she did continue writing in this direction for Ocean Blvd, so I honestly think she probably just wasnt sure back during the BB era of writing or just needed more time. Anyway, to make up for this lack of material and time, she decided to drop some random unreleased songs just because she liked them and because she probably was still liking the idea of releasing an album comprised of unreleased songs, which she mentioned back in 2017. Because even the relatively recent songs like Black Bathing Suit and Beautiful (?) were outtakes. And now, in the Ocean Blvd era, the rest of her Blue Bannisters era/style writing was finally completed and thus she dropped Fingertips, which definitely sounds like a BB outtake and other songs about her family. Maybe she had a writing block on the topic of her family, which resolved after she started writing her memoirs or smth. Pure speculation. 

    ANYWAY, the point is that I do not think it is fair to call BB an album, when it is essentially a mixtape. And because 70 percent of BB is random outtakes from 3+ eras, most of which were left musically unchanged, I do not think we should use BB era as any sort of reference for her future musical direction or as part of her evolution, because it isn't. It is actually what sets Ocean Blvd apart, which is that unlike Blue Bannisters, some of her songs from Ocean Blvd, which are thematically identical to the themes of the core BB songs, were actually adapted to suit the record and not just dropped as is.
     

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  5. Posted

    Why is it that the perfection of Lana, her essence, always seems way more apparent in her collaborative work like soundtracks and, sometimes, features? 
    Her vocals, her adlibs, here give me so much of Season of the Witch and the humming from Is This Happiness, and the backing vocal doubling "so dishonest; And it's fine" at 1:44, the tone of her voice there, it just kills me, because it just sounds like something that I remember falling in love with, it sounds like the purest form of her to me. I think I do prefer the original production in terms of specifically the instrumental, but other than that, an already vocally beautiful song just became that much better. I think it's probably one of the more intricately arranged ones vocally. 

    On a si    denote, I think the vocal arrangement on this one and Season of the Witch is done in a similar style, so I thought it would be interesting if she ended up using that as a direction for her new record... Wouldnt hold my breath for it though. 

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  7. Posted

    Ok so Candy Necklace leaked...

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    And I fucking love it, it's so mysterious. 
    It's nothing like the snippet tho, like the snippet sounds a lot like fingertips but in the actual song it gives a different impression. I love this fucking song so much.
    I think somebo    dy got their vinyl early and recorded from there, because of the audio quality. 
     

     

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  8. Posted

    Just now, Yosemite said:

    Well, on her first break from social media she did come back bc Chemtrails dropped.

    There's def a small chance of her returning for Ocean :hottie:

    she came back for blue bannisters too lol

    Just now, taco truck said:
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    But like… they are literally getting married:deadbanana: if I was her I would not be happy

     

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    the song is not about lana tho. its about her friend, one of the musicians she worked with. but idk its hard to tell without having proper lyrics tbh

     

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    2 minutes ago, taco truck said:
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    I love Margaret so much but I kind of don’t understand the lyrics:bebe: it’s supposed to be a love song but sometimes it kind of sounds like he doesn’t know if he wants to be with her??? Can anyone explain

     

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    I think its about him being unsure if its his love or not...? thus the when ykyk lyric. I also thought that the "he met margaret on the rooftop" is about him attempting a suicide lol

     

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  11. Posted

    2 hours ago, Louise said:

     

    Underappreciated as a writer: As Lana mentioned in Interview, Sasha Frere-Jones wrote:

    He must be eating his words now!

     

    A lot of these reviewers who would shit on Lana in 2012-2014 actually often were like uhm 40-ish years old males, as far as I can remember. It was also the case for Gaga back in the day. I remember that at one point I decided to go in and check who exactly was behind each negative review and you guessed what demographic that mostly was. Also, we all know Floptony Floptano and his consistent misogynistic hatred towards the "sad", "baroque" and "girl" character/aesthetic archetype (thus not just Lana alone), and he is pretty much the quintessence of all those reviewers and their motivations. 

    TBH, reviewers are absolutely irrelevant now that anyone can just listen to the album as is, for free and or watch a reaction video, if they want to hear an opinion. Most journalists doing music reviews should enjoy their jobs while they still have them. I can't picture a teen or a young adult nowadays casually googling reviews for the album prior to them actually listening to it, certainly not the tiktok generation, unless they are some music nerd or want to confirm their thoughts after the fact. 

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  13. Posted

    6 minutes ago, summer bummer said:

    tbh i don’t really think that taylor has any impact on lana’s music at all but each to their own — idk if that’s what you’re insinuating anyways 🫶

    I dont think that either, in fact I find it interesting, that it is on this album specifically that Antonoff decided to use the same instruments as on some of the Folklore songs.

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  14. Posted

    7 minutes ago, DLT said:

    For me Margaret is the only comparable track. I know some have mentioned Fishtail sounding like it is off of midnights but I do not hear that myself.  

     

    Evermore and Did You Know are apples and oranges sound wise to me. Maybe they can be compared in the sense that they are an evolution of each artists sound but Did You Know differs in regard that it blends many different genres sounds and stylings while Evermore to me seems more tightly constructed. 
     

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    My personal take and just a personal take, no shade to Taylor she is a brilliant musician and business woman but she could never do what Lana does.  Lana could definitely make Taylor’s music if she chose to but Taylor could not go full Lana. I think she is a little more restrictive in that sense like she has a plan and keeps control over the way things work in that regard. She keeps herself reeled in a bit while Lana is more go with the flow, adaptive, and not scared to be a little more OUT there.

     

    I don't necessarily see why one would react strongly to this comparison, since in my opinion it is in no way derogatory. But as I have said, I think this is the closest Lana and Antonoff have been to his work with Taylor purely in terms of the way it sounds.

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    It is true that Lana's work is much more diverse here, though.

     

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  15. Posted

    Just now, George Parasol said:

    No offence to any of her fans but comparing Taylor to Lana is laughable really. Lana at the moment is on a different level and this album blows anything Swift has done out of the water.

    I am mostly pointing out the instrumental similarities, which didnt occur before even though Lana has been working with Antonoff for a while now. 

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  20. Posted

    On her vocals... 

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    Honestly the sheer variety of vocal styles and tembres she has on this album..? I always loved that in her art, that she has multiple... voices (I mean like in btd where she had two main voices, the lower, deeper one and the higher, girly one) , I guess, to depict various moods and intentions and on this one its so very present. To the point that some songs almost sound like they are from different artists :pout:

    And the mastering/recording quality of her voice is also interesting 

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