Jeanne Dielman

Waking up to Video Games and Venice Bitch slander 
Christmas has really been bad for some of y’all. This isn’t the unpopular Lana opinion thread.

I'm actually listening to Ocean Blvd like I listen to Video Games. Not Arcadia!!!!

y'all looking at the ocean blvd single cover: this song gives me blue vibes! 

I’m just now starting to realize how heart wrenching “when’s it gonna be my turn” is. I hope this album has more songs that punch me in the gut. 

This. If she came back to the BTD style people would bash her for trying to hard. We are so lucky to have such an authentic person giving us 1 album per year 

It depends on whether they skillfully develop their style further or whether they frantically cling to old recipes that once led them to success but have long since ceased to have any effect.
Fortunately, Lana is experimental and resourceful enough and we don't have to worry here. With many artists, it's already over after two or three albums.

Y’all act like she used to do 24/7 fast paced pop songs…
She’s doing the "moody" music since Ultraviolence, and I love that.
She just needs to bring back her little twists and turns…. aka Rick Nowels.
3-4 faster songs per album would be perfect.
Ocean Blvd sounds so far pretty promising to me.
She worked with multiple people on it & took enough time to make it perfect.
The title track combined "classic" & "new" Lana.

 
 
 

Go listen to Born to Die on loop for the rest of your life and leave everyone else alone

lana herself is approaching being a middle aged woman. if you expect her to make super fast paced music about being needy and helplessly in love and staying in toxic relationships, you’re going to be disappointed. she’s naturally more wise, mature, reflective now, and she’s still making beautiful poetry and music. 
 
think about classic rock bands; did they make 10 completely different and innovative albums? no, most of them had like 2 or 3 good albums at best. so why are female artists like lana constantly expected to churn out insane new  albums and edgy eras, but someone like ed sheeran is still making the same music and hasn’t changed his appearance since he debuted? female artists have to change genres every album and dye their hair or some shit to keep people engaged with their music. it’s complete BS. 

i think we should just let women live and not worry about whether or not they're "boring" because women shouldn't be obligated to be groundbreaking, edgy, or exciting  our society is okay with men being whoever they want to be no matter how "bland" or "basic" they may be (which isn't really a bad thing to be honest) but women are held to such a higher standard... i know this is getting off-topic, but it's still an important thing to be said, so...

the thing that is more worrisome to me is not the critique on an unheard song but the comment about middle aged women being instantly boring
 even the new single touches upon issues of age in a way 

i mean negative opinions are fine and sometimes entertaining, it’s nice to see a difference in opinions. but ppl hating on the syml track already rubs me the wrong way. it feels like y’all will INSTANTLY hate anything with piano in it. that track sounded so peaceful, wistful, and nostalgic, like walking around paris on a rainy day. it was also fast paced unlike the piano on cocc/bb, so it’s something new. but as long as lana isn’t using instrumentals similar to the ones on btd/uv/hm, someone will always be hating and calling her new music boring. 

why does this forum seem to have such a strong dislike towards middle-aged women? it's getting really weird at this point

why do y’all even come on this website if you are going to trash music we haven’t heard a single second of 😭 no matter what you’re not going to like the album when it comes out if you go into it already expecting to hate it and have very weird preconceived biases, that can’t be fun

We don’t even know the title of the song and you’re already throwing sh*t at it. You don’t waste your time… 

Who cares if some of her songs sound similar to other songs... we all know she out-served them anyway

bartender is my favorite off of norman so anything similar to it would be a treat  

One of her best songs, Bartender. 

It’s beautiful, I’m excited!

it's a mysterious and beautiful melody, it reminds me a little bit of Bartender... I'm definitely acclaiming this song right now.

I'm so here for it.
 
I've always wanted her to explore lush, ambient instrumentals. The title track from Blue Banisters teased me, so I'm glad to hear that she might be exploring that direction even more

since we’re on the subject of what the ocean brings..

how does everyone feel about Lana sampling this in some unknown TUOB track? 

Personally, I’m intrigued to see how it gets used and what vocal melody she’s assigned to it! I’ve never really listened to SYML, but it’s an interesting choice for sampling!

People keep saying that there are a lot of musical surprises on this record and that there's something for everyone, so the label doesn't necessarily surprise me despite a lot of the songs being experimental 

apple music/itunes is so unserious when it comes to genres

Does anyone think its weird TATUOB is saved as pop when all her other albums save as Alternative? We know this album isn't going to be "Pop" so it's weird its saved like that. Maybe it's just a glitch but I'm pretty sure the artist/ label picks the genre.