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ok my favorites are A&W, Candy Necklace, Peppers, Fishtail, Taco Truck x VB, Let the Light In, and Did you Know. 

After first listen, the standout tracks are The Grants, Did you know…, A&W, Candy Necklace, Let the Light In, Margaret, and Fishtail.
I need more time with Taco Truck X VB but my first reaction is the beats feel a little cheap for the VB part. I also need more time with Sweet, Kintsugi, Fingertips, Grandfather, and Peppers (again the beats feel a little cheap? I don’t know how to describe it). 
I enjoyed the interludes. 
I did NOT like Paris, Texas 

Sat in the shower, gave myself two seconds to cry, it's a shame that we die. 

who mixed this album cause damn… this is even worse than the cracking at the end of WFWF 
 
the clicking throughout fingertips, the saturated moments throughout the album, grandfather’s second half borderline unlistenable due to the bottom barrel mix… laura sisk you bitch 

I just learned that Grandfather's instrumental is based on this piano instrumental track from RIOPY called 'Flo' and it's so beautiful but Jack Antonoff had the chance to ruin it towards the end just to have a climax with noise.  Lana PLEASE NEVER WORK WITH JACK ANTONOFF AGAIN 
 

The entire album is full of mastering issues with audio cracklings. These are not present on the leaked versions and Dolby Atmos which has a different mastering. Can someone who talks to Ben or anyone from her team report these PLEASE they are so bad. It's not streaming specific it's on spotify, yt, digital flac etc.

Fingertips has to be one of her saddest and most vulnerable songs ever

Can't really get the excitement behind Grandfather. It's cute but I find it quite uneventful (similar to Margaret)

After several listens:
1. A&W
2. Paris, Texas
3. Fishtail
4. Peppers 
5. Candy Necklace
6. Taco Truck (alone)
7. Taco Truck x VB
8. Jon Batiste Interlude
9. Sweet
10. Kintsugi
11. The Grants
12. Ocean Blvd
13. Let The Light In
14. Grandfather
15. Margaret
16. Judah Smith Interlude
17. Fingertips
 
 
Grandfather would have been so much higher but I just can’t stand her voice during the chorus? Climax? The whispery airy high voice is horrible but she keeps using it. The hissing hurts my ears . Text Book is the same way. Candy Necklace too tbh but somehow it works in that song and it definitely does not sound as hissy. Anyway, it’s so hard to rank songs. Things shift every other listens .

i really think candy necklace might be the weakest track for me  maybe i just need some more time with her

First listen impressions: A&W/Judah Smith Interlude/Candy Necklace/Jon Batiste Interlude had me thinking that this album would dethrone NFR for me as my #1 Lana album and #2 favorite album of all time. I was literally tearing up at the end of Candy Necklace. Kintsugi and Fingertips kinda ruined my mood though because it completely killed the momentum of the previous 4 songs and of the album so far. Paris, Texas is gorgeous and feels like it belongs with the 4 songs before Kintsugi/Fingertips.
 
My favorites/highlights (no particular order):
 
A&W Judah Smith Interlude Candy Necklace Jon Baptiste Interlude Paris, Texas Fishtail Taco Truck x VB  
^^ If I could have a whole album of songs similar to this + Tulsa Jesus Freak and Chemtrails, I think it’d be my favorite Lana album. I am curious if I would’ve liked the album more if all of these songs were on the second half of the album. It’d feel like more of a build up, but then again, I think the first half would’ve been to slow to keep interest for a lot of people without things being spread out more. 
 
I was also surprised - from what people were saying here, I was expecting the second whole half of the album to be a lot more upbeat but really it’s only the last 3 songs, and they’re still very chill, slow songs for the most part, just with some harder beats. 
 
Overall, even with me needing more time with a lot of the album, this feels like maybe Lana’s most ambitious work. It’s so exciting and refreshing to have an album from her that’s this experimental, especially after how safe and simple a lot of Chemtrails and Blue Banisters felt. This album feels reinvigorating to me. I’m excited to have so much content and nuance to sort through. 

Let the light in = Eagles vibes 

These interludes are the worst ever. 

I wish she just censored it in the same way she censored for (Amy) and for (Whitney) in get free, and "...got a (cop) who turned..." in A&W.
I like that being a little motif in her music, that she just blacks out certain words that are too sensitive, like a redacted document.
the starry sparkle vibe over fingertips is too distracting

is that the glitch pop at 3:51 in CN 

tbh it bugs me so much i think i'll replace it with the leaked version  too bad the quality isn't that good

Please, I'm not sure, and if it's not intentional, I really don't want to ruin others' listening experiences, but at the very beginning of Peppers, there's a sound that sounds like a fart into a toilet and a quick laugh. 
Please tell me what it really is so I can rewire my 5 year old brain. 

YALL MB ITS RELEASED GLOBALLY LMAOOO 😭😭😭 it wasnt midnight for me yet and my dad made me finish our movie before i listened BUT IM ON SWEET RIGHT NOW AND ITS SO PRETTY!?!?!?!?! IT DEF SOUNDS LIKE A PARADISE SONG PARADISE AWW 

so true

Does anyone else think some of these songs remind you of musical theatre? *this is not a bad thing lmao* Sweet sounds just like a character breaking out into a soliloquy. Arcadia has a similar vein. Didn't she say something about working on a musical?

Margaret is Lana at her most 2000s indie/alt. It reminds me of feist and broken social scene

Okay, I caved and decided I had to listen tonight. I'm on Let the Light In. Wow. This album isn't hitting me with the immediacy that NFR! did, but there's something deeper and more special about it. The song structures are so unconventional and strange, and even on the songs that are the most "conventional," there's still something uncanny about it all - strange instrumentation, strange backing vocals. I can tell this is going to be an album that is just going to get deeper and deeper with each listen and I cannot wait to spend time with it. Wow. Even as a COCC and BB lover, there's something so different about DYKTTATUOB that really sets it apart.

i mean, there's that *one* line yeah, but i take it as funny if anything
it's really the melodies /sound i'm in it for with Sweet though. jesus it just sounds so classicas if it was ripped from the great american songbook
no hate tho bestie sjfhbsjd you do you <333
 
 
 
ALSO for fellow Sweet fans, it reminds me sm of this!!THE PIANO!!!
 

let the light in, peppers, and taco truck being the holy trinity of the album