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https://x.com/spotifylana/status/1732118713992638610?s=46
 
Smash album 
 
margaret almost doing 500k daily  

This is her best album, so naturally it's right for it to earn Lana her first Grammy. 

This is how I feel about a lot of those artists. They’re cute and I don’t think their music is bad necessarily, it’s just not that memorable. If I heard some of those albums on the radio, I prob wouldn’t care to know what song is playing. I just can’t see a lot of their music having the same longevity that Lana’s music does.  Ocean blvd, u will never be forgotten 

Im still not over this. I get teary eyed every time 

Is This Happiness - Lana Del Rey

bartender- lana del rey 

in the wintertime keep your feet warm <3 

Tbh it is pretty surprising to me.
 
Ocean Blvd has its idiosyncrasies but I think it should be clear to anyone, especially someone calling themselves a music critic, that this album is not only a new height in Lana’s own career, but conceptually something few if any current musicians would be capable of envisioning let alone executing. 
 
You can like the music or not and I don’t care if some magazine ranks the album lower or higher, but in my opinion not even including Ocean Blvd in a Top 50 albums of 2023 list shows a complete misunderstanding of the current music landscape and what art is fundamentally. 
 
 

I just checked AOTY site and their total list for the best album and even though Lana is 3rd so far I just see that critics want to give this title to some one era wonder again. It's the same old about giving all the flowers to underdogs and sure, it's probably even good but I just don't understand how these albums are on the same level with Ocean Blvd. I maybe can understand the hype around that Caroline girl, even though her music is not for me. But I can't believe that out of all albums critics and Grammys decided to praise that 3 boring girls album. It literally sounds like any Spotify Indie playlist you'll put as background music. It's not bad at all, the hype is just so random that it makes me dislike the album.
And let me not even start with that Avril Lavigne tribute album at 1st place...
 

NPR did NOT have Ocean Blvd in their top 50 albums of 2023, but they did have room for Sexyy Red's Hood Hottest Princess on the list. I mean, who at NPR is selecting these? Almost every other major publication has Ocean Blvd in their top lists. I guess taste is loss on them.

No offence to any Sexxy Red fans in the audience
Edit: They do have some good contenders on their list, don't get me wrong, but leaving Ocean Blvd off is an insult to the art of music and lyricism.

I hope she also wins the categories she is not nominated for. I’m expecting at least 7 Grammys

I think this is first year she will for sure win SOMETHING. I’m feeling candy necklace and alt song.
also feeling a performance coming for sure, she’s been on one lately and I love to see it 

gonna be her year i fear

Manifesting a&w full version performance  opening Grammys 

"[...] a sweeping, deeply revealing and even slightly indulgent work of musical art. Her lyrics are as intimate as ever [...]" - Time Out
 
"Thrughout this dizzying, 78-minute swirl of the sacred and the profane, Lana Del Rey pays tribute to her own hodgepodge canon of Americana: Harry Nilsson, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, “Forensic Files,” John Denver, Angelina Jolie and — finally, provocatively, deservedly — herself." - The New York Times
 
#1 AOTY Music Year End List Aggregate
#1 Sunday Times
#1 Time Out
#1 Metacritic Most Discussed Album of the Year
#4 The New York Times
#6 Les Inrocks
#6 MOJO
#6 Uncut
#6 Pop Matters
#8 Riff
#11 Pitchfork
#11 MondoSonoro
#16 Exclaim!
#18 Gorilla vs Bear
#20 Esquire
#21 Rolling Stone
#24 Paste
#25 Consequence
#36 Crack
#164 Metacritic 
GQ (No order)
Fopp (No order)
 

 
"The seven-minute song, an incredible slither of detuned guitar, brooding piano and staticky detritus, feels like that body stretching and spreading out luxuriously, defying tidy convention. For as much as Del Rey has been contorted into this impossible space – by men, by critics, by society – her essential self remains intact in her sublimely freaky, wayward music." - The Guardian
 
#1 The Guardian
#1 NME
#1 Pitchfork
#3 Rolling Stone
Esquire (No order)

and Lana will show them that you can still win it as an alt artist with exceptionally good music

I can see her winning Best Song In The World with A&W at the NME Awards. 

A&W is so good that I don’t celebrate valentines day anymore … feb 14th is A&W day in this household

I'm scared to get my hopes up because NFR should've been a sure-fire Grammy, but I think it might really happen this year