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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, Veinsineon said:

    That blue cover is ugly as fuck tbh. Looks like just another still from the Chemtrails video and it bothers me... john deere supremacy

     

    Preach ??. Y'all have to stop celebrating mediocrity. It doesn't stand out in any way. Meanwhile the one with a truck is gorgeous but I wish the vinyl color was more brownish or pastel yellow to match her dress. 

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  3. Posted

    49 minutes ago, Super Movie said:

    Lana's vocals now > Lana's vocals in 2011-2012. At least to me, she sounds a lot more in control of her voice now and I personally think it sounds better (and I think that if she went for certain vocal stylings now that she did then like MDM live vocals or even the baby voice, it would still sound better today than it did 10 years ago)

     

    Definitely, whenever I hear Ride, although it's one of her best songs, her vocals seem kinda forced and unnatural. 

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  4. Posted

    4 hours ago, Vanilla Icy said:

    ultraviolence has really boring visuals apart from the shades of cool music video 

    I think that Ultraviolence was supposed to have a 70s bittersweet down to earth vibe. I'm kinda disappointed that the vinyl gatefold and sleeves didn't have a prettier interior design since Neil Krug absolutely nailed the album photoshoots. 

     

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    3 hours ago, Rorman Nockwell said:

    No I agree wholeheartedly

    Also, lots of lyrics are worded very awkwardly. "In the month of mid July" was the beginning and now we've arrived at "run your hands over me like a Land Rover" 

    I know what she's trying to say but it's expressed so awkwardly that I think it makes it sound like a Land Rover has hands that run over people. Bad attempt at expressing that metaphor imo

    I haven't found any of her lyrics to be particularly brilliant lately. Insightful maybe, but not cleverly crafted. Wildfire is probably the best of the four lyrically

    Her lyrics used to be very nuanced and filled with subtle messages that you had to really contemplate and Arcadia's lyrics are so simplistic and transparent that they almost sound like they belong in a song by The Wiggles explaining the circulatory system to 4 year olds

    The only thing I noticed about her mighty progression in lyricism is more words and more random themes. No catchyness. In terms of the melody and production, the song Guns and Roses sounds like a masterpiece compared to her recent discography, since people love to say how that's one of her worst songs. I prefer the cringy 'kiss me with your blue jeans on the balcony, daddy' because it was at least catchy, cool, edgy and different from the rest of the artists. 

     

    2 hours ago, May said:

    i like arcadia, her vocals sound good but the vocals on some lines are simply painful on the ears especially in earphones :rip: idk if it’s her mic technique or if it’s the production or what but i have to turn the volume down right before a couple of certain lines

    Yeah, her voice doesn't really sound that good when singing higher and louder. Sounds kinda shaky. She sounds really good in that Summertime cover and WW tho, I couldn't say the same for Arcadia. 

     

    1 hour ago, Deadly Cruel Girl said:

    The Arcadia music video is cringey.

    I like the song though. It's not as great as Video Games but it's okay. I like Wildflower more.

    Like literally. She had a million ways to make a cheap homemade "authentic" video. Why is everything for her so mediocre since Chemtrails? She is really starting to give uncool mom vibes. 

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  7. Posted

    4 hours ago, Enchanted Mansion said:

    It's been a while since I last came here for lack of time, but I'm back, and it's good to see you again. :flutter:

     

    As for Lana I followed a bit what she did this summer and I was happy to see that she was doing well and all these beautiful selfies, these covers and Blue Banisters finally with a date of the beautiful visuals, that's great. She has always been beautiful but I love how the photos are really pretty and worked out.

    And the picture of Barrie they were the perfect couple, I'm glad she didn't shut the door on this guy, he looks so cool and sweet. :wub:

     

    Well I'm going to repeat myself with my long text boring, but I was once again honest about what I learned from Arcadia: :ohno:

     

    As for Arcadia well it's a good title but it's still light years away from Video games as she described it. Although I liked the 3 titles released, I am really fed up with piano vocals, she can do so much better. The outro is original that said, I liked it.
    So yes it's beautiful, it's slow, Lana Del Rey in her lust, it's perfect for her fans to make aesthetic videos with it, but I found that to be an abysmal void. It's really empty.
    The clip is cool but we are far from the authenticity of his old home made which had something more in the scenarios, the effort which made them so fascinating and interesting.

    In addition, this video seems to me to have been shot during the Chemtrails era (hairstyle and makeup) so no effort to dissociate the 2 eras.

    She is at the point where she knows that the critics will give her a 10 because they do not like daring and prefer very clean songs, flat without risk, so she does not bother anymore and besides why she would do ? She has understood that she no longer needs to make efforts to sell.

    She writes what she has in mind and does her clips anyhow, she knows she will always have applause and that's a problem.

    Lana is unfortunately better with big orchestrations and without all that you feel it's pretty empty, elevator music (and I like it a lot). It's redundant and boring, I like her old computer guitar demos, it doesn't have the same flavor.
    I know she's not on the same musical level anymore but it's pretty pretentious to say that her new music is really good when she does. I'm really waiting for the day she wakes up. I know Blue Banisters will be very beautiful, but once again I'm afraid of something forgettable and drowned among the thousands of piano voices she has done her last few times, and the worst thing is that everyone looks to like it and not realize the mess it makes available to us...

    I'm waiting for the album to see how it all comes off, she's an artist who can surprise.

     

    Warning: I still love her and she owes me nothing, but I think I'm crumpled because it's been 3 years since I really liked a song from her 100%, don't take this text as a hateful thing. :flop:

     

    It's okay, go hit me :(

     

    Oh my God, you literally said everything I really felt when I tried to convince myself to love the three singles + Arcadia as much as her old music. It's not it sis. I don't have fo add anything else since you're reading my mind. It does feel empty, like that toxic positivity movement. The only song that is comparable to her old music is Doing Time, Cinnamon Girl and Wildflower Wildfire, if WW had a little different production it could've easily belonged to Ultraviolence. I wish someone can take away that damn piano from her since she got waaaaay to comfortable for three albums. 

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  10. Posted

    4 hours ago, Coney Island King said:

    I know this is a first world problem, but releasing an album with 25 different covers that are all good is genuinely distressing as a consumer.

     

    Definitely a first world problem lmao.

    I see multiple covers/vinyl colors as way to choose your favorite and feel special for having a different version than your other Lana stan friend. It never crossed my mind to buy every version for the sake of collecting. 

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Whore of Tropico said:

    "why are these twinks always begging for that weak ass/boring ass 'Yes to Heaven' song to be in every album i have to make? I cant comprehend it" — LDR being confused every era (since Ultra)

     

      Reveal hidden contents

    ...and we still have to stream YTH thru "unreleased playlist/google drive collection/youtube" today.

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    Because we want it on streaming services and on vinyl thank you very much. 

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  15. Posted

    14 hours ago, Elle said:

     

     

    "... unreasonable explanations of not showing general accountability..." 

     

    She doesn't owe anyone anything. What accountability does the cancel culture expect from her? To post a video of herself crying on te couch with no makeup and a bun? Nah bitch, that's what people pleasers do. Her "problematic" shit is laughable. Let's just remember that Nicki Minaj protects her pedo sex offender husband and father of her child and her pedo sex offender brother, but yeah, it makes me racist for saying that because Nicki is a woc. I can't get over how white kids in my white ass Slavic country keep calling Lana a racist:oprah2:. Do these people have any critical thought or just listen what Twitter says?

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  16. Posted

    7 hours ago, The Siren said:


    I screenrecorded her stories

     

    Omg the video where rock music is playing reminds me of arriving to Greece in the morning shortly after crossing the border :crai:. I can feel the hot roads that will melt your flip flops.

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  17. Posted

    11 hours ago, Writer In The Dark said:

    One day I was looking at the credits of Honeymoon and how many interesting instruments they used for it. That was Lana at her peak, in my opinion. Now she uses one small part of it. 

     

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    Rick Nowels  – acoustic guitar (tracks 1, 10); electric guitar (tracks 2, 4, 6, 9, 10, 14); bass (tracks 1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14); synthesizers (tracks 1–7, 9–13); mellotron (tracks 1, 4, 7, 9, 12, 14), piano (tracks 1–3, 10, 12); organ (tracks 1, 4, 5, 11, 13, 14); chamberlin (tracks 10, 13); electric piano (tracks 4, 12); keyboards (track 5); percussion (track 10); celesta (track 14)

    Kieron Menzies  – synthesizers (tracks 5, 7, 11); drum programming (tracks 1, 2, 4–7, 9, 11, 13); synth bass (tracks 4–6, 11); percussion (tracks 2, 6, 7, 10); sampler (tracks 2, 4, 5, 11); effects (tracks 1, 3, 5); loops (tracks 9, 13)

    Leon Michels  – winds, keyboards, saxophone, flute, juno, synthesizer, synthesizer pads

    Brian Griffin – congas, drums, percussion

     

     

    And many more. That's what I wish for new Lana music, but it's pretty clear we're not getting that. 

     

    We stan an artist who uses live instruments. I kinda got sick of fake ass instruments a.k.a. "You think you are listening to a guitar and real drums but it's actually all computers :lmaoney:" 

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  20. Posted

    I forgot that Mad exist until I saw her pic in the thumbnail and had to take a look. 

     

    I remember that I forgot to listen to her album lmao. 

     

    .... I mean, she is a victim more or less of bullying by insecure girls but at the same time people making essays about her completely ingnore the part where she wasn't actually discovered and lying about being discovered, lying about photoshoop, fillers and the BLM protest pic so those may be one of the biggest reasons people don't like her. There are plenty of more successful instagram model turned pop star girls who aren't bullied as much and are much less problematic. Madison being a product of nepotism, having scandals and lying is just fuel on fire that goes with being a beautiful celebrity. 

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  22. Posted

    23 hours ago, Mer said:

    Lana collabs with other artists just don't sound good...Her voice is too distinct and shines best on its own. Exception would be a rap features (meh) and deeper bass voices (like Wicked Game!). 

     

    Yeah, It doesn't do her favor at all. In my mind are Don't Call Me Angel, especially because her verse suddenly becomes very slow tempo and dark which can make a listeners bored because they're used to the high popy tempo. 

     

    Breaking Up Slowly is AWFUL, the studio version is good but live... don't watch it if you don't want to be disappointed in Lana, she sounds like she started singing 2 days before. 

     

    I think the reason she usually sounds 5/10 if not worse live when collabing with someone is because her voice is pretty weak and she doesn't use a lot of vocal techniques so she can sound either weak when singing with someone with a stronger voice or amateur when singing with someone who's a perfectionist. 

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  23. Posted

    2 hours ago, Diamantes WILD said:

    how lana used to release music: ashley-tisdale.gif how she releases music now: rowndarownd-gareth.gif

     

    1 hour ago, Frangipani said:

    Lana releasing Arcadia

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    Stans incoming:

    "B-but Lana isn't lazy she's a human leave her alone okay she put maximum effort in her work COCC is her best album your not a real fan who respects authenticity fuck off you like her more when she was manufactured singing about Lolita" 

     

    based on real comments 

     

    Edit: GUYS THIS IS OUTSIDE OF LANA BOARDS LMAO. Kpop stans usually act like this. 

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  24. Posted

    God is really testing me with Lana's vinyl ( it's my bank actually). I've already ranted on this forum I'm just not sure on what thread that Amazon declined my card and I wasn't able to get brand new BTD and UV for 12€ and 20€. Than I found a most likely blue gatefold BTD German version for 14€ and the site also declined my card. Then I releazed that PayPal doesn't allow me to transfer money from my card to Pp. What the actual fuck. I pretty lucky with finding deals for other albums on sites like Ebay and ordering them without any problems but my bank really said "No Lana for your crazy ass, buy something actually useful". Time for an another trip to my bank and mentally preparing myself to be sent with "We will be working on it in the future".

    :stareney::eyeroll:

     

    I got it in the end I didn't even need to transfer money lmao. 

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