blackestday x tough

Jack is rickrolling us at this point 😭
 

Ob is too wordy for me. I wish she could reintegrate spiritual references, colors, metaphors and secretful Passages, 13 beaches lyricism was like heaven. 

...this is too much Jack at this point. Girl you need to fire him and find someone new to get sparked up again. 
 
Go hit up Finneas.

jack antonoff will you ever give it up

I’ll probably forget that this song exists in like 2 days 

girls I want rick I miss him

I can't find the original but here's some sort of edit of it 
also in my search for that I have seen so many fishtail haters. fishtail is my fav song off ocean blvd and one of my fave songs ever. wtf 

With the recent Poetry In Motion and Come With Me leaks, I have been wondering: what do you guys think of Lana deciding to abandon what we have understood as "ambient", "dreamy" and "ethereal"? These songs mostly consist of long piano, organ keys and guitars. They are absent of any beats resembling hip hop or trap and seem to be appear in demo form. The following list are the leaked songs that I would consider to fit into this theme in no particular order:
 
Ave Maria 
Crazy For You 
If I Die Young 
Come With Me 
Poetry In Motion
Valley Of The Dolls
Serene Queen (demo?)
 
As evident with the release of Honeymoon and Lust For Life going forward, none of these songs ever made it into the released catalogue. The closest thing we have released to this in my opinion is Best American Record which is a reach.

I'd like to see her change course, whatever we call the course she's on right now. I'd love to see her go 'full pop' for an album, like Meet Me in the Pale Moonlight, Ride, or Bel Air, not the half-hearted pop of 'Margaret,' with its needless chatter at the end, that only breaks the song up. Sometimes it is better to have a producer making a good deal of the decisions. look at what a great job Rick Rubin did on Ride. I miss the perfection of tracks like Wait for Life—certainly including the production. 
 
It's ironic, not iconic, for me that OB has received 3 Grammy nominations when it's such a scattershot effort, with a lot of poor production and though overall album cohesion doesn't matter a great deal to me, I see little on OB. Maybe the academy feels it's a sort of lifetime achievement nomination for Lana; I don't think those are fair. If an artist is considered for such an award, then let it be an outright 'Lifetime Achievement' award.
 
(Look at Joni Mitchell's crappy new 'Live At Newport' receiving a nomination because she's a legend and has had a hard last two decades. She only does what amount to backup vocals on most tracks, while younger singers take the lead.)
 
As far as the dreamy ballads go, it's hard to say, because everything since Honeymoon has been such a mishmash in terms of song styles and/or quality. We don't know if there's actual logic behind her final choices for an album or if it's done more like, "Well right now I feel this way, I just wrote and produced this song and I'm really excited about it." I tend to think the latter is closer to the truth. I don't think she's very objective about the choice of tracks she places on an album. It's a truism that most artists are poor judges of their own work, and I think that applies to Lana to some definite degree.
 
Since Tori Amos has had a long career in some ways similar to Lana's, and Tori was the artist I listened to the most before Lana and 2012, I know Amos constantly left her best material on the cutting room floor and instead placed often-cringy tracks on albums instead. The best material, which she would often discuss in media, al la 'Yosemite,' was either saved and released on a 'career retrospective' or other compilation project, or on the flip side of the release. As a result, these songs haven't entered broad American culture, are known by almost no one outside of the Amos Stan base, and will no doubt be swept away into the dustbin of history. Which is a shame. 
 
I think Lana will make a mature album, but certainly not necessarily a commercial one, when she takes her time to make and think an album through, limits her advisors, and sticks to some kind of conception of what she wants the result to be. The general public may not want an album of dreamy ballads, but her Stans do, I think (as opposed to tepid piano ballads). Things do change midway, plans and conceptions change, but maybe if she really takes her time before she starts recording, she can stick to some sort of a schedule or overall conception and the result won't be a compromise. I don't see Lana as an album artist because of the poor choices or compromises she has sometimes made lately. 
 
I am thrilled it's been such a big year for her. That she deserves. 

She's lost weight and looks so good 

Flower Truck × VB incoming

I want the "prettiest girl in country music" song NOW!!!! 

I am convinced that we will get a dark and witchy winter album. Holly and Rick are definitely there. spherical sounds, melancholic melodies and a bunch of synthesizers and strings.
 
These are the songs describing her new sound for ldr10 
 

I am convinced that we will get a dark and witchy winter album. Holly and Rick are definitely there. spherical sounds, melancholic melodies and a bunch of synthesizers and strings.
 
These are the songs describing her new sound for ldr10 
 

Art Deco vs Crazy for you

Yep. Don’t get me wrong, he’s capable of the occasional banger that really NAILS Lana’s sound (Peppers, A&W, FIILY, TG, DBJAG etc) but for the most part his stuff is getting boring. I think it’s a Lana issue though, she’s leaning more towards stripped back / piano stuff which is hard to make it sound really lovely and lush.
 
i would actually do anything for her to work with Auerbach again. I really do not have any hope left in me anymore that she could ever make another album with such a cohesive, beautiful, all around gorgeous sound, lyricism, production, vocals- everything. But that’s the dream

I hope Lana gives erratic bottom energy for LDR10

do you guys think we’ll ever get Roses Bloom For You on an album? I really hope Zodiac doesn’t get the same treatment 

I think at this point it's less about simply disliking him and more about just wanting her to work with different people for a change 

Agree 💯 %

All I want from this album is a Rick song…him & Lana always make ART. 

I think that's more of a problem with Taylor, Jack is very much a yes man. I don't think it'll happen soon, but I do want new people on board for both Taylor and Lana

violet isn't an album, i don't care if she says that but it is literally not an album. she is the only one who considers it one 

I am convinced that we will get a dark and witchy winter album. Holly and Rick are definitely there. spherical sounds, melancholic melodies and a bunch of synthesizers and strings.
 
These are the songs describing her new sound for ldr10 
 

One of her best albums, thinking about this album every day...