angel galore

This album makes me so sad. I just had to stop at only track 3 because it's way too much. 

People who prefer the pastor interlude over the jon batiste interlude… what happened to y’all as children? Is it the religious trauma that’s lowkey giving you stockholm syndrome or is it just bad taste?

I'm so happy to see how successful this album is 
 
I think I said this before, but this just shows how important visuals are and with these gorgeous covers I imagine people are buying the album just because it looks pretty and they're curious about it
 
I mean, I've never bought a vinyl before and for this release I've bought every single variant, plus some cds and cassettes just because the covers are gorgeous 
 
I imagine people who are walking through target, vinyl stores, maybe UO or anywhere else this album is sold might just be captivated by the cover and decide to buy it because it's so pretty...it also makes it more appealing to the GP when they see something so aesthetically pleasing pop up on the "New Releases" on streaming services too lol

Probably very late to rankings but here's my unpopular one:
 
 

she's not here to play, so glad she's breaking her own records and getting high numbers on streams, sales and critics. she really deserves it 

where did all the chart girlies go
 
like we had to read your idiotic garbage nonstop in the pre release thread and now that this album is smashing you've vanished  

I was mentally connecting her homage to Elizabeth Short with the part of Get Free where she sings about “I’m doin’ it for all of us” like Amy and Whitney and “all the birds of paradise who never got to fly” bc she could’ve died like them but didn’t. 

This ship has sailed cos she definitely reads here sometimes 
 

i don't really know the context of this nor do i want to know but "she had slashes on her boobs" is crazy like  the girls and the gays really need to work on their scientific terminology if they want to be taken serious sheesh

this, and their biographies seem to have even more parallels, such as that Elizabeth Short also spent some time in Florida or that she worked as a waitress

Basically, Lana isn’t glamorizing Black Dahlia’s murder. She’s paying homage to her because they started out the same. Black Dahlia had dreams of becoming an actress while Lana had dreams of becoming a singer. Early in their career, they both didn’t have a stable home. Rather than Black Dahlia being known as the girl who was gruesomely murdered, Lana wants to show that she had this dream every since she was little of becoming a Hollywood star. Her comment also implies that what happened to Black Dahlia could’ve happened to her and other women as well, but it didn’t. Since it didn’t happen, she’s going to continue living out her dreams and creating her legacy. 

I think in Lana's comment she's saying that she (or any woman really) could have ended up just like the Black Dahlia
 
Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia) moved to Hollywood and was an aspiring actress, so I think Lana feels she relates to her in some ways. In fact, some of the rumors about Elizabeth Short said she was basically living on peoples couches, with no real home (much like Lana once did when she was a struggling musician)
 
There's a lot of parallels between them like that, the most obvious one being that both their names are Elizabeth lol

tbh that comment pisses me off so much cause i think one of the main reasons she deactivated her main was to escape the hate and have an account with only fans and love. i don’t want her to leave honeymoon cause people will start hating on that account too
whoops nvm it was on the lb account

not her contacting Ellen and also commenting on the lanaboards insta hello? she better NOT type in lanaboards.com on her ipad is2g she'd quit music after witnessing the mental illnesses here... 90% of this website should NOT be seen by her 

Oh. My. God. 😭
screamingcryingthrowinguphelp x
 

 

i'm still scared about this because when i first heard it i was definitely like ummm what?? but after sitting with it for a while i think it could be a good addition to the album, i interpreted it as her affirming that she regrets the way she handled the situation and that she had good intentions. she's been subtly hinting at it/trying to explain herself for a while but i think it was important for her to address directly. there are so many ways people could interpret it wrong but hopefully people see it for what it was, anyways the general public didn't seem to care about the lines in text book which are arguably worse in my opinion so i think we'll be okay!

i mean, this is the album that any stans have been craving for a long time, i don't understand what is it about some of these people who still aren't satisfied
 
It has the "piano ballad" and the personal / family lineage go-indepth story telling from BB
It has the soft breath of folk country - americana music of COCC
It has songs that don't follow regular pop song structure, which she literally sings the poetry à la Violet within the music by that "automatic/impromptu" technique.
It has the 70s surf rock influence, endless Californian summer from NFR
It has the extra, that glamour "pop" + "trap" sound from L4L
It has the heavy & cinematic piano, strings & violins that y'all fell in love in HM
It has the dark, the twisted, the sickness, the cruelty of it all from UV
It has the trip-hop, vintage hiphop, upbeat and catchy slutty sing-talk that we all obsessed since BTD
It even has the "surf noir" "metal glam" the "trailer park" feels with lo-fi electric guitar that resides within Lizzy Grant realm
 
Yet Ocean Blvd still sounds like itself - There's literally nothing to complain  You get to cry to it, get emotional to it, contemplate to it, smile to it, get heart-wringing to it, slut drop to it, twerk to it & praying in the church to it.
 
 

Here’s how I see it: 
- VB was part of NFR and on this album, the culture « died » with The Greatest. Which sorta mirrors the world we are living in. Before that, there was still hope and dreamy vibes to existence. 
- VB on Taco Truck feels like strolling on Venice Beach in 2023, in a non-dreamy, almost menacing world. the world has changed, we are now entering a new « stage », with more uncertainties. 

Grateful for another day of no one trying to drag Lana for the "regretfully also a white woman" line
 

woah, is it specifically based on this? 

i started listening to this record with more intention/ less distractedly, and oh my god. BAWLING. I think, what this album tackles is kinda like a very unique perspective of a woman, that can translate to, many changes in life that one has little control over, to being hurt so much but still choosing to still keep the course and being a good natured person (despite the many things) and doing so in a way that the popular opinion might not understand and even hurl scorn for, but in a smart, classy and matter of factly kind of sense. she sings about family, themes of time, character, and identity. she comes out steadfastly, and shining.

like idk about ur guys' cycles of life etc. but this album sounds like the dreadful backstory of the sweetest person you've ever met, and in plainer language, the person that you sort of write off all the time's perspective. she sings of it quietly, and does it with care. and it's heartbreaking,  cus if you've ever been in a position of getting a lot of undeserved flack after doing your best to be a person w integrity/ good character, you can hear the wisdom, the healthily accepted not so cheery facts of life, and the silent faith and confidence that a more quiet, and less boisterous person has. 

in my own life, i think because people see me as sweet, and unassuming, they think i'm naive, or stupid bc of how happy and cheerful i can be, and for the most part, i am, I learned to allow myself that, but, very few people really know the amount of more, let's say negative things that i've gone through. i think they'd be surprised at how I can still keep smiling, and because of things i've gone thru, really emphasized the need to be a positive force. I won't scream it off the mountaintops cus that's my life, and I'm not gonna tell anyone, but this is online so I feel like it's ok to mention, it'll get lost in the thread, but I earned my happiness. and going thru harder times, I feel really appreciative of passing those tests of character. 

this album, resonates w me in that way, and I think, it's a beautifully hopeful record, of how dare I say, people trying to be good, can still be seen, if even silently trying, and having that confidence of being who you are, without having anyone having to applaud/ praise you for it/ give you benefits for it. it's like an answer from the kind of people you might deem forgettable, the chance and comfort to being understood, and that's extremely powerful in our world, cus societally, majority of people are too quick to judge and have even less time and focus to really try to understand something, let alone step outside of themselves to really make space to connect (unless it was a peer/ group etc.) 

I'm really happy for her. she's so real for this, and I love how we're celebrating it, if even just in fragments more thru music and sound. 

Where’s that insane promo you and that other user are talking abt? Are we so used to her never doing anything that we think this album rollout had a huge amount of promo?
Look at Dua Lipa — or even Meghan Trainor — that is an insane amount of promo. What we had were just crumbs, tbh 2-3 magazine covers, listening parties & 2 pop-up shops are not an insane amount of promo. We didn’t even have a single MV pre-release, let alone a MV on release day 

it’s true, but taking away comparison to any of her other albums, there still is SOME promo … i mean people were convinced she’d never tour again and now she’s doing shows
 
my thought was just that she’s done more than what the expectations were — since the expectations were so low 

Peppers is finally growing on me. Particularly love the production at the climax of the song. Still having trouble with its placement on the tracklist but I assume that it has special meaning where it is so it's whatever. It feels so much like an unreleased Lizzy song.

reminds me of the last line of the full title of Fiona Apple's album When the Pawn... : 
"And if you fall it won't matter, cuz you'll know that you're right"