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Pink Flamingo

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  1. I just finished listening to the whole album (first official listen), what can I say? This is a fucking trip. Mother you did it again
  2. the MC score should go up because it is not an average but a weighting, the Pitchfork score is more important than Slant.
  3. Guys, I have a question, I have apple music and spotify free version, I'm going to listen to the album on the pc with headphones, which one do you think sounds better? I mean, from the browser player or should I listen to it from apple music from my mobile?
  4. Early in Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd, Lana Del Rey highlights a sermon from megachurch pastor-to-the-stars Judah Smith. In the most Del Rey fashion, it was clearly recorded on her phone during a service — you can hear her and a friend’s giggles bump up in the foreground, above Smith’s projecting voice and a piano instrumental that keeps it moving. Smith proselytizes about love and lust, reading from the Book of Psalms. His presence feels strikingly superfluous in the context of Del Rey’s quite heavy ninth album (especially when you think too hard on the ickiness of his former views on abortion and homosexuality). But the way he fits into her vision becomes clearer in his final two lines: “I used to think my preaching was mostly about You,” he says in a conspiratorial tone to what is likely a room of hundreds, if not thousands, of congregants, ”And you’re not gonna like this, but I’m gonna tell you the truth: I’ve discovered my preaching is mostly about me.” The core of Ocean Blvd is Del Rey trying to get a closer look at herself, flipping the story as we have come to understand (and maybe even misunderstand) about what she’s trying to tell us. Through stories of her family, a failed relationship, her conflicting desire of being both seen and hidden, Del Rey exposes more than just who she is, but why she is who she is.
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