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Yesterday, Lana Del Rey attended her friend Valerie Vogt’s wedding in Mérida, Mexico.

LFL is pretty well mixed imo, blue banisters is MUCH worse

Arcadia... it always bothers me when she sings the highest notes and her voice starts distorting

the way most of these are from chemtrails blue banisters and ocean blvd 

Fully regarding the mastering / engineering and not the production style itself, these are what I have issues with:
 
American - Like @Dark Angel said, the high pass filter they used on her vocals drives me INSANEEEE it's ear-wrenching... I still like the song I just can't listen to it
 
Every single Dan track on Ultraviolence is filled with glitches, clicks, mic leak, bad take injection, distortion, quality distortion, etc. I adore the album but it could have sounded 100x better if they had someone else engineering those tracks... there's an endless amount of errors on every track.
 
The Next Best American Record - Strange overly processed vocal mixing, same issue with American
 
California - Bad vocal mixing 
 
Tulsa Jesus Freak - This song has always sounded off to me, bad mixing from every angle, bad vocal mixing, guitar too loud it becomes distorted, very messy altogether
 
Dark But Just A Game - If Jack were to come out and say this was a demo they didn't touch after the first mix I'd believe it
 
Arcadia - HORRIBLE VOCAL MIXING, distorted vocals when it gets too loud, cracks through the song
 
Black Bathing Suit - A Mess. Her worst produced song ever. The obvious cuts from studio to voice memo are so awful it makes the song unlistenable to me, terrible drums, bad vocal mixing, disharmonious chorus, cracks, clicks, distortion, why was this released seriously... 
 
If you Lie Down With Me - Horrible vocal mixing, distortion, I do like this song though
 
Beautiful - Bad vocal mixing / distortion 
 
Violets For Roses - Worst vocal mixing ever, piano distortion, there's a lot that makes this song a production nightmare
 
Thunder - Some of the worst engineering of her career, instrumental leak from the demo, vocal and production distortion, bad vocal mixing, bad drums, bad instrumental, it's just not well done at all
 
Living Legend - Bad mixing and mastering, the leaked version sounds better
 
Cherry Blossom & Nectar - Bad mastering, leaked versions sound better.
 
Sweet Carolina - Terrible mastering work here, vocal distortion, bad vocal mixing.
 
Kintsugi - Vocal muffled to death
 
Fingertips - Vocal distortion, bad instrumental engineering
 
Margaret - Terrible vocal mixing, messy work on engineering throughout, muffled to death
 
Fishtail - MUFFLED TO DEATH
 
Peppers - MUFFLED TO DEATH and terrible mixing on chorus, bad vocal mixing, clicks, cracks, this is what you would expect an amateur soundcloud beat maker to create
 
Taco Truck - Vocals are so muffled its unlistenable, horrible vocal mixing, bad mastering almost ear piercing like American, sounds cheap honestly
 
Looking For America - Muffled, filled with clicks, bad mastering, obvious pitch correction in spots
 
I Can Fly - Messy engineering in the chorus, vocals slightly over processed 

This is such a great thread!!
 
As for what others said--
 
She does sound fried in American (the whole song could use some bass) but the song is just so good...
Wildflower Wildfire is one of her worst songs in terms of production, and I can't believe some people still want her to work with that Mike dude again. The outro in particular is horrible.
Fishtail is meant to sound muffled due to the swamp/humid imagery, but as a Jack apologizer I do have to admit the real demon is Laura. Which leads me to Kintsugi, one of the very best songs from Ocean Blvd, if only it wasn't such a terrible recording/mixing. The album actually features many of her best vocal recordings ever, but this one sticks out like a sore thumb.
 
Lust for Life is probably her worst mixing, mostly because of the vocals. And also Blue Banisters, although I do enjoy the roughness of some of the songs.
 
West Coast is her best ever in terms of engineering imo.

I notice no one has mentioned any song from Honeymoon so far.
 
Interesting.

i've always noticed that the take after the bridge was different, but i like it, and it makes sense to me that after the explosive, amazing bridge, they would use a slightly different take, if that makes any sense at all? but i don't think UV has bad mixing/production at all, it really is her best album in that department, it's just simply wonderful, so atmospheric, so layered, so dark...

BLACK BATHING SUIT .. i love the roughness of it but it would eat harder if it was professionally mixed n stuff

many songs off of blue banisters  thunder having remnants of the demo still audible is just criminal

On a real note, as someone who literally had to change my health insurance because my old one was so bad they almost killed me, I just don’t feel that bad in this situation. I’m not saying people deserve to be killed because they’re doing something unfair and unjust, but it’s really hard to feel much empathy. I’ve also been denied access to see specialists that could have helped me over a decade ago, but because of insurance, wouldn’t let me. There’s so many people in different situations suffering from this, people with life threatening conditions but also people with chronic illnesses who may suffer. Every. Single. Day. For the rest of their lives. Hospitals are restricted on what they can do because of insurance all the time. Seen so many people suffer because of INSURANCE. that’s insane. I get how hard it is to find the right solution because everyone is in a different situation, but CEOs denying people of life saving treatments is absurd and evil. 

Her speech makes me sad.. I know it’s meant to be about Jack and celebrating him.. but it reads like “I was nothing until you started working with me” and kinda makes it sound like she believes her work wasn’t good prior to meeting him and nobody liked or cared for her 
 
You made masterpiece albums before him! And she kinda dismisses that her songs are based off many other things than production…

Also reads a little bit like a slap in the face to Rick Nowels, Emile and her other old producers.
 
I miss the times she would mix up the producers. Going from Emile to Dan to Rick was superb, each album having a different vibe.

My point is that she's THE Lana Del Rey and she needs to stop acting like she was nothing before they crossed paths--he did not elevate her art to a so-called God-tier level all on his own, to the point where she cannot envision a future without him on board.
 
She needs to give herself more credit, and also more credit to past collaborators. Jack Antonoff did not make Lana Del Rey. That's all.

Beautiful angel wow x
 

ohhhhh wait this picture is so beautiful......

she said in the latest interview she did she had plans for dying her hair dark brown before the end of the year, so I'm predicting she's gonna debut dark hair again (signifying the start of the era) and give a slight tease of news (that most fans won't be satisfied with) 

She gonna mention Southern Gothic again  mark my words

she will serve again 

Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd released Dec 7 2022
 
Take Me Home, Country Roads released Dec 1 2023
 
I see a pattern for Henry to be released this week 

I still listen to it daily

Her some of her song titles in her albums are:
• one word adjectives or random things/people (Sweet, Beautiful, Bartender, Dealer, Thunder, Change, Fishtail, Freak), she has a lot them
 
• references to a (famous or a close) person (Margaret, NFR, Sweet Caroline, Terrence Loves You)
 
• references to a famous song or a book or a movie (Sweet Caroline, Paris Texas, Lolita, Body Electric)
 
• sentence from a chorus (Grandfather..., Did You Know..., Hope..., When The World..., Let Me Love...)
 
• names of location/places (Yosemite, California, Venice Bitch, Mariners Apartment Complex, Arcadia)
 
• weird but cute word combinations (Tulsa Jesus Freak, Wildflower Wildfire, Summer Bummer, Coachella Woodstock In My Mind)
 
• clothing items, accessories (Black Bathing Suit, White Dress, Candy Necklace)
 
• Food, mostly drinks (Taco Truck, Cola, Cherry, A&W - a rootbeer brand, Diet Mountain Dew)
 
I mean, we can expect at least one from each category for The Right Person Will Stay
 
Also, appreciation post for Dark But Just A Game, I fucking love this title, I claimed this from day one!!!

Saw this on ldrworld twitter (@ldrworld1) this is AMAZING I love this sm it’s timeless, elegant, nostalgic, simple

The only thing I wish for this album, is to have crystal clear vocals,
ocean blvd’s was full of muffled songs, that henry snippet sounded so clear, so I hope the other songs sounds as clear

I think you’re sadly right. Its place was on Ocean Blvd   
We need this song like right now, it’s just too good not be heard. Seriously, why didn’t she ditch the damn Pastor interlude for Zodiac, placed between A&W and Candy Necklace? This track run would have been unmatched. And Zodiac is even a bit shorter than the pastor’s speech, I mean…