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Everything posted by Sportscruiser
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111sugi said the sample is from a fan favorite and that he was truly surprised by its inclusion so it has to be between Mariners, Venice Bitch, The Greatest and Cinnamon Girl - I don’t see which track can be a fan favorite beyond those; she did say not too long ago in an instagram comment that Norman was probably her favorite record so I can see Lana paying tribute to it in some fashion. Also, I just realized that if 111 = Kintsugi then maybe neither Kintsugi or Burn Me Where You Belong are a song title. Maybe he was referring to his main account?
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You might be referring to Dance Till We Die. I love Lana and Jack together but that song deserved to be fleshed out to the max.
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Honeymoon remains not only the best but also the MOST mixed and mastered album of her entire career. 7 and a half years later and I still discover a little flute here and there or a hidden sax behind so many layers but still very much palpable. I really love Jack as a producer for Lana and Clairo specifically but Honeymoon is on a totally different level for me. It sounds expensive.
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I’m torn between not wanting more spoilers to avoid ruining the experience and wanting to know more about track motherfucking 8. I know there are more tracks we know nothing about but since the songs placement seems very deliberate on this record, I think track 8 is super intriguing since it follows the American Whore - Pastor Interlude - Candy Necklace - 2nd Interlude sequence and kicks off the second half of the record which has been praised by both Kintsugi and BOZ. And it’s the song that precedes Fingertips so there has to be something to it!
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Apologies for any eventual mistakes, I’m not a native english speaker. Just wanted to state the obvious because it’s getting increasingly harder for me to deal with spambots who just want to tear Lana down for the sake of it. You want rock music? Ultraviolence is there. You want an incredibly cohesive blending of orchestra, dream pop, trap AND jazz? There’s Honeymoon. Hip-hop? Born To Die. Trap AND new age folk all in one sitting? Lust for Life. The second coming of Joni Mitchell? NFR. Folk and country done in a way that’s not as alienating as those genres can sometimes become? Chemtrails. Oh you’re tired of music and just want to hear someone do spoken word? Violet! I could go on but the work is out there. Respect it.
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That’s a bit reductive on a whole and factually wrong on some parts. Let’s start with the latter. Lana has already tapped into rock music with Ultraviolence and folk/country with Chemtrails; indie music as a form of categorization is getting more and more obsolete if you don’t add anything next to the term “indie” so in that sense and if you think about her entire career, she’s done indie music through her entire catalogue. Said catalogue has had an incredible variety of sounds and inspirations, ranging from hip-hop, trip-hop and trap… all the way to rock, jazz, blues, folk, surf rock and Americana. Few artists of her magnitude and fame can brag themselves about doing the same - they don’t have to but if there’s something that’s truly undeniable about Lana is her immense versatility and how she was able to translate that into records who go for different soundscapes but manage to sound inherently like Lana. Which brings me to the other point: your comment is absurdly reductive because it reduces Lana to this automaton who needs to deliver something drastically different - something that’s truly symptomatic about how female musicians are perceived and the immense pressure the industry (and fans) put on them that’s constantly demanding them to reinvent themselves. I’m not saying anything brand new or original here but so aren’t you. This incessant need to criticize and project your own expectations onto an artist who has done enough in her career to provide variety (most of the times going against the mainstream spheres and having her originality being repurposed by other artists who get a lot of cred for doing what she did years before them) is exactly why I’m surprised she’s still doing music at all. Being a filmmaker myself, I can’t imagine what it must be to have to deal constantly with this level of scrutiny and authority, like artists aren’t allowed to do whatever they please anymore. At this point, if her career decisions and artistry aren’t something that cater to your sensibilities or expectations, I suggest you shift gears and invest your time on something other than tearing an artist down for not doing whatever you feel like they should be doing. You’ll see you’ll be spending your time in a more fruitful manner and on the other side of the road, people like us will be spared of offensively reductive opinions by someone who acts like a reddit edgelord without any substance to back up their arguments.
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Imagine an interlude like Bare Feet On Linoleum! It’s the creepiest thing she’s ever done and it would fit perfectly in the themes she apparently approached with this record. BFOL is so eerie with its strange twist on apathetic domesticity disturbed by her family trauma flashing through her mind. It would have been the serve of the century, ruin a few careers, etc