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fishtails liked a post in a topic: The Right Person Will Stay - Pre-Release Thread (OUT: May 21st, 2025)
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
Thank you. Honestly, I could probably come up with 20,000 titles better than "The right person will stay." But I know the title has its fans, so I'll shut up. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
Watch her say something random like "Our new album, Moonlight Melancholia, is coming out July 21st." -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
i very highly doubt it. There was a time when we would get a huge lead single with big, high-production MV values. Now it's like 'I'll drop this acoustic ballad as the lead single whenever i get around to it, and there'll be no MV, and you just have to deal with it." Ugh. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
I just wished she'd dropped the first single with the album announcement. Like, what difference does it make? She dropped Mariner's ages before the actual album, and no big deal. Instead, she's delayed the album by 9 months (September-May), then delayed the two singles she's announced before year-end. If she'd dropped ONE god-damn single before the year-end, at least should we mitigate some of those false promises and delays? Lastly, if it's Henry and it's a super minimalist ballad, then why wait that long at all? It's not like extensive orchestra and drum programming needs extra work. Basically, just drop the single lana damnit -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
Please no more voice demos. Can't imagine anything lazier for a musician to do. It's like a writer publishing their voice memos where they literally told a random story that popped into their head without story- nor sentence- level editing. It's a fine experiment for a song or two, but we've done that, we have it in the can, let's move on. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
That's a very good point. The girl is an absolute genius, super creative, and has what most important: the soul of a a true artist/poet. (Unlike say, Lady Gaga, for example, whom I find completely plastic.) It could also be that we're just massively overthinking everything with this new album lol, and critical/fearful before it even dropped. Thanks for this reality check haha. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
"His solo production on 'Beautiful', 'Violets for Roses' and 'Fingertips' makes the songs kind of uneventful." Periodt. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
Glad we agree on some of these points. I don't think her music is declining per se. It's just different. In some ways it's evolving. Venice Bitch is a massive leap forward, as is most of NFR and some of OB. She's also aging and clearly has a different concepts in mind. But again, some of her confidence is definitely damaged in the process, and I miss some of that "wtf, can't believe she just did that, quen" momentum. Part of me believes The Right Person will be even softer than Chemtrails or OB. But let's see. -
barttttender liked a post in a topic: The Right Person Will Stay - Pre-Release Thread (OUT: May 21st, 2025)
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
I mean, vaping and smoking like a chimney certainly doesn't help lmao. But I anyway, singing amazingly is not all that important in pop music. Just look at Madonna. It's more about the tone, melody, phrasing, and conjuring the right atmosphere, which Lana is a master of. I don't think she's wowed me with her vocal proficiency per se since that high note on NFR (the song). But I don't care for that kind of stuff anyway (otherwise, I would listen to Mariah Carrey.) The only issue i have is perhaps that Lana doesn't sound as confident perhaps as she did back on BTD and Paradise. She'd open a song with a razor-sharp line like "My pussy tastes like pepsi cola", and it had so much sass and personality. Now it's all becoming a lot softer and demure. Which I still love. But I kinda wish she would mix it up a little vocally and lyrically. Especially with her album openers, which are feeling more and more samey (sad ballads). I guess I miss her confidence and sense of fun on the last few records? I think the super harsh criticism of her early work has scared the bejeezus out of her and she's playing it more safe, with tones and lyrics she know work well and won't get her dragged through dirt. -
barttttender liked a post in a topic: The Right Person Will Stay - Pre-Release Thread (OUT: May 21st, 2025)
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
100%. Either uv or lfl. it just doesn't sound anything like her recent output. Like nothing at all. 2018 outtake at the latest. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
Yes. She says "Back to the start, back to the basics" at the start. Which is another reason why it would be a fantastic album opener. But it really does sound more like a LFL 2 opener, rather than a TRPWS opener. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
I'd love it for it to be the opening song.For me, it would be her strongest opener since NFR and White Dress, and her first upbeat opener since Love. But I don't think this would happen because it would give the illusion of the album being more bopp-y. If Henry is the first single, get ready for Grants II or Textbook II as the opening song. In fact, I don't think Fenway will be on the record at all, and neither will Tough. I'm kinda bracing myself for Chemtrails 2.0. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
Same here. Most people will do a decent job at it. The only time where it clearly bugged me was with BB because I genuinely felt like there were a lot of first takes, a lot of bad vocals, a lot of haphazard mixing, and just lower quality overall. I wasn't surprised when people pointed out that some of the songs were actual YouTube rips. Which is another reason why I don't feel like Sisk deserves the hate. Not with BB around which she didn't even come near. Also, nothing Sisk has ever done comes close to the awful and cheap vocal reverb on Florida Kilos, and as I mentioned, Bartender's reverb and Tomorrow Never Came's. Those songs were ruined for me, especially when you know how good Lana's vocals can be reverb-free. -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
That's a very bold statement. Out of curiosity, what did you think about BB's mixing and engineering? -
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barttttender replied to Elle's topic in New Releases
100%. It's kinda funny. The woman (Sisk) mixed and engineered two of the most critically acclaimed albums of Lana's career (OB and NFR), and now she's Satan herself just because a few posters don't like Lana's vocals on certain tracks? Like, how are we talking about Sisk and not Dan Reid and co.'s work on Blue Banisters? I've had colleagues at work tell me off for playing Arcadia which to everyone sounded like a cat being beaten through my airpods. The sound recording on most of those tracks is so first-take and unpolished, it's kinda embarassing. Blue Banisters had twenty engineers and mixers, according to Wikipedia, and to me, they still didn't do a good of a job as Sisk, all hands on deck.