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see i wouldnt be so harsh if she didnt have the fanbase she does. like you mean to tell me millions upon millions go crazy over songs like anti-hero and bejeweled??? like what??

unfortunately yes! midnights is one of the most bland albums ive ever listened to. folklore and evermore are cheap attempts at transitioning into a more indie sound, lover is hysterically bad, 1989 has one good song and its a bonus track, reputation is unimaginably stupid.
 
she needs to quit it with the one note melodies. like you allegedly have a 3 octave vocal range why dont you fucking use it 

im sorry but like how does she have so many fans  her music is about as flat as paper she has like no charisma or anything and she hasnt really done anything notable outside of music to warrant such a fanbase... is it because shes the only mid 2000s-early 2010s pop girl that didnt really waver in terms of releasing/public image?

I got the thong. 
 

I don’t see similarities, I see plagiarism. Like, everything she has been doing in the past years. It’s either a rip-off or very bad quality. Nothing new. But this one is particularly evident to me. That trailer is also horrible lol 

I don’t see similarities, I see plagiarism. Like, everything she has been doing in the past years. It’s either a rip-off or very bad quality. Nothing new. But this one is particularly evident to me. That trailer is also horrible lol 

Not gonna lie, the way they're gatekeeping the tracklist and avoiding it to leak and the subsequent theories and fake tracklist is one of the best parts of a pre-release album cycle, lol. But it's anxiety-inducing, indeed.

The last chorus of Ocean Blvd 
 
This song is officially in my top ten, it's the definition of a grower (and I loved it on first listen) 

As long as the albums are good I couldn't care less about the charts but I still want Lana to be successful and get that top spot 
 
At the end of the day longevity is more important than peaks tho... BTD never hit number 1 on the US and it's still charting 10 years later 

I think Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd will have good streaming numbers on par with NFR and even in the long-term, the single has been doing much better numbers than Dealer and Watercolor Eyes with 300k+ streams a day almost a month after it's release, and it's RISING again, having in mind it is a very long song and many on the album will be too, this is a strong indicator it will do well as a whole.
Plus it's her longest album ever and has 16 tracks which will result in more streams. 
Also her hype now is bigger than ever, she's getting 14 million+ streams a day (3rd most streamed female artist)
And if we rely on the insiders it's a QUALITY album and it won't surely go unnoticed with the critics and general public too.
The instrumentals will be richer on the album the lyrics also, as we saw on Ocean Blvd, the album really has everything in order to great in the long-term and I really hope it does!
And not to forget her managing team lost Dua Lipa and they will be focusing more on Lana and her promotion which we'll surely get with her second single and tracklist reveal, since her record label has changed and they are aware of her streaming power and charting (BTD on BB200) for sure.
 

Indeed! NFR ended up being number 3 on release week… but the buzz around that album has pushed it to great and steady streaming numbers. Is a number one THAT relevant for labels? Maybe not, but it really depends on what happens next in terms of streaming / buzz / popularity, which is almost impossible to predict (the number of « odd » songs in her discography that went viral and gave a new popularity push to her albums is insane  UV doing so well after 8+ years?!? )

I love Courtney Love to death but there’s no way she introduced Lana to Joni Mitchell…Lana first mentioned Joni Mitchell in this 2014 interview and stated in this 2019 interview that she heard Joni’s name brought up constantly and “didn’t really start listening to too much of it until college”, which would’ve been well before she met Courtney. 

Swan Song is just one of those songs that make me unable to fathom how Lana is a real person in a world so full of consumerism, materialistic behaviors, and shallowness 
 
A sublime song

I finally preordered the white vinyl after staring at it for weeks. My poor wallet, the things it goes through when Lana drops an album.
 
ok I realized it's been slightly less than two weeks since the preorders went up but you know what I mean

Was looking at Lana's iTunes page to see the album covers next to each other and like it really hit me that I've been a fan for almost 12 years. 
 
I've literally been there for every pre-release era of each album, that's crazy. Ocean Blvd is making me so emotional already lol. 

I basically agree on everything, and yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking before: we truly are NOT ready for this album 

I basically agree on everything, and yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking before: we truly are NOT ready for this album 

I basically agree on everything, and yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking before: we truly are NOT ready for this album 

I basically agree on everything, and yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking before: we truly are NOT ready for this album 

I basically agree on everything, and yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking before: we truly are NOT ready for this album 

I basically agree on everything, and yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking before: we truly are NOT ready for this album 

I can’t wait for March, I’m so curious to listen to this album and her melodies and her stories!
 
The photos she took with Neil, they’re so intimate, and I’m not sure if it’s because she wants to remind her exes of what they’ve lost or because the lyrics on the album will be even more personal - maybe it’s a mix of both. She did say she had more things she wanted to “talk about”, so I’m positive we’ll get glimpses into her personal life, thoughts and feelings. Blue Banisters, hope, text book, they were just the beginning of something greater, I think. No one today writes lyrics like Lana does. She’s so original, and she does it so well, I’ve always known she had this potential in her and I’m so glad to have followed her for so long and to be here to witness her becoming better and better. I truly believe this will be her best album in terms of lyrics. You can hear a difference in her newer and older works, and I’m glad she’s not adding older tracks this time. Like she said, she’s very “conversational” and I’m all here for it.
 
She also said she’s angry, and before we thought she was mad at the media (“don’t ask if I’m happy, you know that I’m not” after reporters asking her why the big smile on the cover of LFL, “let me show them how bad girls do, ‘cause no one does it better” because reporters will always find something negative to write about her or twist her words) but this time, I think, she’s mad at Sean. And maybe more guys. Maybe even at her mom, or some kind of disappointment. Like mentioned by several users here when Tunnel was released, it got out on Sean’s birthday. Which could’ve been unintentional, but there’s no way anyone could misinterpret it now that she’s literally, openly said she did it because she’s angry with him. She even drove to Tulsa to see the billboard, she had it put up there for Sean to see everyday to work. And I love it lmao, I’d totally do something similar too if I had been hurt terribly by someone.
But Tunnel isn’t really a song about anger, or pettiness, or revenge or anything of that sort. Which makes me really curious to find out what song(s) will be on the album! American Whore is a provocative thing to be called or call someone else, but I really can’t tell if it’ll be that track or another one. Either way, I’m super curious to listen to it.
 
This album... it’s gonna be everything, I can feel it. I haven’t had expectations this high since Norman, and I love that album. Lana has a lot she wants to say, she’s conversational, she’ll speak her mind, she’s angry and she’s sweet and she’s gentle and she’s clever. She’s in a bedroom, and it can’t get more private and personal than that. You keep diaries in a bedroom. Maybe this album will be like reading a diary, but it’ll be us listening to her thoughts. The Grants... I’m sure it’ll blow me away.