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You guys just haven’t heard Lana’s voice in good quality since born to die her voice sounds amazing and clear 

I like the original better. Fits the meaning and intention of the song. Lana’s instincts were probably correct. 

we want hyperpop

I really hope we get Purify

desperately need her to release her glitch pop anthem

There's no LDR10 you fools, she'll drop the unreleased compilation, announce a hiatus and then pull a Fiona Apple after 8 years and release LDR XXX, a masterpiece with 98/100 on Metacritic. 

we should move this thread to Rumours 

is this the white dress she was referencing with Sun Ra?
cant recall if there was a Sun Ra appearance when she signed her deal with 5 points - cant locate the photo or know the date to look on the wikia

Idk what yall r on about this album barely has piano ballads. BB is really the only I would consider to be a mostly piano ballad album

Madonna. Bland music imo + bad diva attitude + toxic 50yo fandom bulling Gaga (+ I have nightmares of her face chasing me lately) 

Period!!!!!!!

Ok but now I get why this album feels so short, she either starts singing late or finishes singing early, why not sing the whole damn song 
plus two interludes 

Hi guys, so I was on TikTok and found a video of a Taylor Swift fan coming up with a ranking system to know which album you love the most and it's actually very impressive. 
SO I guess I'll share it here. 
 
The idea is, for each album you need to put the songs in 3 categories : skips, favorites, neutrals. 
 
For example :
 
Born To Die (Paradise Edition) has 24 songs. 
 
For me, I have 5 skips so (5/24), 15 favorites (15/24) and 4 neutrals (4/24). 
 
You divide your number of skips by the total number of songs which equals, for me, to 20% skips
You divide your number of favorites by the total number of songs which equals, for me, to 62% favorites
 
You add the 2 numbers : 20 + 62 = 82.
You subtract from 100 : 100 - 82 = 18
so, 18% neutrals
 
Now each pourcentage of favorites equals 1 point (so 62 for me) and each neutrals equals 0,5 points (so 9 points) =  62 + 9 = 71 points !
 
Do this for each album and rank according to the number of points.  
 
This is my final points according to this system : 
 
UV = 85,5 points
NFR = 75 points
BTD Paradise edition = 71 points
Honeymoon = 60,5 points
DYKTTATUOB = 59 points
LFL = 53 points 
BB = 43,5 points 
COTCC = 19 points
 
In order to not rank twice the same song I only ranked BTD Paradise edition.
 
Tell me what you think, can't wait to see yours if you do it ! 
 
 

Was listening to this song and got shocked about how much it resembles MAC
 
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SdQxXN4H9YWc5lC76O4CD?si=u45sNzOKT1CN0sJLZlm_2A

This what A&w would be if it was produced by a different producer 
 

yes theres so much sampling from recent work. even in taco truck the “caribbean blue in sweater weather” sounds like a reference to “youre in the wind im in the water” from cocc. taco truck shouldve definitely been a full song, leaving off VB. also, like someone pointed out earlier, the bartender melody in fingertips. 
 
yeah im not sure if laziness is the right word but its just odd. parts of the album sound fresh and others sound like a carbon copy of what we’ve heard before. i know lanas capable of creating new things so its not a testament to her talent but maybe her level of effort?
 
i still think the album is good and i come back to some songs but yeah… this realization im having is making me feel a bit differently about the album. 

Okay love that for you then, but let's agree to disagree miss Mimi Imfurst. I think Venice Bitch is an amazing song on its own and it already existed in its own unique and iconique way prior to this album coming out.
 
Taco Truck would've been an amazing song on its own as well. She didn't elevate either songs, reusing something that was already perfect, choices were made. I've been seeing a lot of Tik Tok edits switching VB for Radio and I actually think this would've been a better fit, harkening us back to her BTD days. 
 
A&W worked for me, because they were both fresh pieces of music mashed together, but they tried to repeat this feat on the same album with a different song we had already heard prior, and I don't think it worked as well.
 
I find that it was a "cheap" way to close a seemingly great album. To each is own.
 

I personally find it odd that she sampled songs that were released/recorded like 2-3 years ago? Not sure if that's laziness/artistic laziness, or the result of working with more or less the same team for four albums in a row, but the album is just very sample heavy.
 
My main complaint is that she completely botched the closing track and did the song a disservice. Like Venice Bitch on its own is a career highlight, but the remix just sounded cheap/corny to me. Taco Truck, even though it goes back to your comment about Lana heavily sampling in her own/past work on this record, started off amazing and could've been a remarkable song on its own, but the song has this mod podged feeling to it and not in a good way.
 
In hindsight, all these insiders saying the album sounded fresh and like nothing we had heard before, well that was kind of a half-truth, as you can clearly hear a lot of her past work (and especially the recent one) in these new songs.
 
The album is still good though.

there’s literally no reason to insult someone’s intelligence lmao…… im not saying they serve no purpose however, there are so many melodies, lyrics, samples, and literally an entire song that were taken from her past work on this album. a reference here n there is cute but i mean… the sheer amount of references is taking away from this albums originality. 

this might be a hot take but does anyone else feel like all the references/samples of her past work are a little lazy? i swear i hear a new one everyday 

I’m a candy necklace glitch pop apologist 

lana del rey has a song, her voice breaks at 6:40
something about the way she says "IT'S LIT" makes me feel like... 

...from being a 10/10