Carmen Del Rey

I think every album Lana has put out is uniquely her. I know a ton of people miss the lyricism of BTD, but I feel flowery language can only get you so far before it gets stale. Keeping the same style as BTD with all of her albums would have pushed her into a corner. 
 
I mean, looking back at it, I feel like the subject of Lana losing her spark has been going on since ultraviolence. I remember the complaints about her writing abilities tanking then Honeymoon came and UV was amazing then LFL came and Honeymoon was put on a pedestal and etc. I would agree that she’s simplified her...vision as the album cycles go on but I believe that’s it’s more maturing/her realizing her standing in Hollywood. She doesn’t really have to put on a theatrical album that makes you wish you had an older boyfriend that deals with drug money and buys you pink lipgloss and has women on the side because she’s solidified her skills in the music world. 
 
I can say good things about each album, I can say bad things about each too. Maybe it’s unpopular to overall like every album she’s put out? Lol. Let Me Love You is actually the first single she’s put out then left me feeling eh, but I have hopes for the album given the teaser we got. 

Lust For Life is a good song
 

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girl who made that ugly photo of always forget never forgive and then started spreading  lies about lana on twitter and now lana deleted the ugly ass photo from insta

Honeymoon is her best album
 

FIRE JACK ANTONOFF

Doin Time vs Religion

Season Of The Witch vs Doin Time

i cant remember what magazine it was with but she said in an interview she's basically done every drug. they asked "even heroin?" and she said "no comment"

im almost certain years ago there were paparazzi pics of her having lunch or something with a glass of wine and a bottle on the table? i remember ppl on here commenting about it, no idea if it was confirmed tho

Honeymoon is her best album
 

Honeymoon is her best album
 

Honeymoon is her best album
 

FIRE JACK ANTONOFF

Lust For Life is a good song
 

Honeymoon is her best album
 

I feel like it also says a lot about Lana’s life too! I can imagine she’s had a life that has posed a lot of challenges and so her first few records were her working through those things - and she even said she wasn’t necessarily happy with her story up until a certain point in the LFL era; she was just chronicling things as they were. 
 
I love all of Lana’s records so much but I definitely find myself resonating with her newer records as she puts them out because I personally find that I move with her. I think Lana has definitely implied that she’s in a much lighter place than she was when writing her first four  records so of course the way her life is at a given moment will translate into her records - hence, the more “natural” presentation of NFR.
 
I’m grateful for all her albums and love the journey she’s taken us on but I’m also happy that she’s expressed being in an overall more casual place where she can feel even more free to do what she wants (even though she kind of always did)!

Could not agree more. 

'NFR' just feels like the least Lana Del Rey-esque of her albums, like it could've been done by almost every indie girlies. Like @Enchanted Mansion said, it feels impersonal. There are good parts in there, some not so good. It feels somewhat watered down at times and there is literally nothing cinematic about the album, which is sad, but it's an artistic choice she had every right to make. But it's just not the boundary pushing, uniquely Lana album I have come to expect at every release. It's cute, light and background music at a coffee shop-ish to me.
 
I so hope 'Chemtrails' doesn't suffer the same sucky fate. That's my unpopular opinion on it. That is all. 

i don't get why people say it upsets them when other people say NFR is lana's best, it's just personal taste  

it's hard for me to say which album is my favorite cause i like them all for different reasons but personally i relate to NFR the most as the lyrics are so raw and i guess the most realistic in a way? most lana songs from BTD-HM paint this dramatic picture of a relationship straight out of like a godfather movie, which i love her storytelling and the cinematic feeling of those songs but it can sometimes be so over the top and dramatic that you can't even feel comforted by it.

It’s such a cute and cinematic-sounding song, but I find myself rarely listening to it because it does very little for me. It’s mostly a personal preference for me, but I 100% agree lol

i am once again reminding this thread that if you don't like NFR it's simply because you haven't had your NFR dedicated emotional break down yet
 
Anyway. I'll admit that NFR has some very corny and cringe lyrics. I've never been a fan of the "if he's a serial killer then whats the worse that could happen to a girl whos already hurt", but let's be honest, all of her album has cringe moments on it. but at the end of the day they're still enjoyable albums as long as you don't take everything so seriously 

love is kinda boring

NFR, as with any of Lana’s records, contains its fair share undeveloped songwriting, but I don’t think that writing that is accessible, less shocking, and/or cinematic is indicative of poor lyricism as much as a matter of personal preference (if that makes any sense). 
 
My appeal to NFR’s songwriting (especially in tracks like hope, The greatest, MAC) largely stems from how purposeful she utilizes her references, analogies, and sensory details. Not only that, but she also maintains a sense of intimacy even when she’s drawing from a pool of extremely specific life experiences; the line, “Serving up god in a burnt coffee pot for the triad,” is a great instance of this. 
 
Again, I totally agree that NFR has plenty moments where the writing is cliched or lacking in nuance, but the same could also be said for her other records as well. However, I’d argue that many of NFR’s most mature lyrical moments show a clear progression from the most developed of her past records, but that’s just me
 
also can’t figure out how to remove the spoiler so just ignore her lol

as it should. finally some taste