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There’s a dour ballad here and there but overall I think it’s balanced. Not a bad album overall, just heard it fully.

All American Bitch is actually an amazing opener? And the Pretty When You Cry reference really suits the song. Then the song transitions perfectly to Bad Idea Right lol omg. I can’t believe Olivia is making me eat crow. Will listen to the rest now.

Idk which one I’m supposed to give an era too so I’m gonna do both: - Coloringbooks is May Jailer - KingsMotel gives me 2010 Lana

Honestly, I wouldn’t hate this if it had a Lizzy Grant twist. Make it creepy, complex, mysterious too.

You’re absolutely right

No features on her last album unless it’s Weyes Blood or Alex Turner. Or SZA. I used to love The Weeknd but he’s creatively bankrupt and I don’t see a feature between them that wouldn’t parrot previous themes they already explored. I’d be down with Rocky but I don’t see it happening.

I’m a Chemtrails truther so I wouldn’t mind…

The longer she stays away from home, the more material and inspiration she’s gonna get. I support this!

Absolutely obsessed with this. Takes me back to the type of music I was consuming like crazy from 2015 to 2017. What a bop.

What a basic ass song.

Wait, I love this. I’ve always looked at Chemtrails - Blue Banisters - Ocean Boulevard as the trio of albums that are a slow progression from outwards (NFR) to more and more inwards with each album, with OB being her first album post the claustrophobic feeling of the pandemic (hence why it probably opens and widens open from Paris Texas forward). Now with new landscapes, new experiences, close personal encounters with fans, etc will probably inspire her in different ways. And you’re totally right, last time she toured we went from LFL to NFR. She could go to different directions.

Zodiac, Black Bathing Suit, Grandfather

This thread is iconic already.

Chill don’t get mad at me bestie. Translation: thou shall not becometh aggravatedth with me, ol’ friend.

Guys remember she “recently” recorded Zodiac and that song sounds like an Ultraviolence and Blue Banisters sinister baby… she still has that aggression in her.

Not this 💀 why do older people always act like this, it’s not my fault y’all were born when cars were invented, like…

I think it works on NFR because her voice is very crystal clear on that record and that was refreshing after so many albums of the production being as intense as her vocals (sometimes even more). But I meant it even in terms of instrumentation! Grandfather, a top 2 track on OB for me, had no business having that saxophone in the outro being so drenched and muffled - it kinda does a tiny little disservice to a song that’s otherwise so intense and epic-feeling really.

Fingertips is definitely a top 4 track from the album and one of the greatest things she’s ever done lyrically. None of her contemporaries is doing that. I know that it’s a ballad but the absence of a defined structure, the orchestral work with intention behind every swing, the overall unbearable and uncomfortable intimacy of it all… it’s definitely challenging and profound work that must not be mistaken as a simple ballad I generally admire Jack as a producer but some of his techniques are getting kind of stale at this point. He muffles everything and uses the same drum machine patterns - I wish he could switch it up but our mother loves it so there’s that.

I’d love for her to explore this sonority:

Honestly, seeing that Lorde decided to switch gears and work with my baby Blood Orange/Devonté Hynes makes me a tiny little bit sad that Lana doesn’t have that impulse of changing drastically between albums in terms of the producers she wants to work with anymore. She doesn’t need to because she’s done it plenty of times throughout her career but I’d love to seeing happening again, at least once. I’ll always fantasize about Lana working with, I don’t know, someone like Noah Goldstein or some crazy left field choice that no one sees coming. But on the other hand her and Jack have always made beautiful music. NFR and Chemtrails have very specific soundscapes that were clearly influential to A LOT of people from Taylor to Clairo to Lorde, etc etc. And personally speaking I usually feel drawn to the music Lana and Jack do together even in an album like OB that has more than just one producer so I don’t necessarily complain about them working again… I just think Jack, while clearly very talented and an innate multitasker, will not be able to tread new grounds with Lana unless she doesn’t ask for it. As long as she wants to keep making music in the vein of the Jonis and the Carole Kings of the world, Jack is her go-to. It is what it is, I guess?

That was hot, keep going.

Manifesting Valley of The Dolls as the next opener

That’s a troll, right? They can’t possibly be for real.

Beautiful post!

I want a full album with saxophones in every fucking song