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Those Guardian and Telegraph reviews look awfully off the mark now.

melon head gave TOOL’s anti-vaxx album fear inoculation a 4 skskkssk

Like... it's not just my least favourite Lana photoshoot, it's probably my least favourite magazine photoshoot, period. The poses... the big brass knockers on her breasts... the cyanosis makeup... the lifeless facial expressions... the clothes... i can't loathe it enough

i'd say vogue italia was a hot mess but it was honestly just a mess

4 posts out of 20 seems a lot but it's ur thread

that same damn Lust for Life photoshoot:

Yup it would be good to start it again but with clearer rules that mitigate sources of confusion and chaos (tho this is lanaboards dotcom so- )

It should be 1 post per 12 hours to keep it fair +AND when there's two posts at the same time, nobody is allowed to post unless to clarify the correct totals (+ this doesn't count to this user's 12 hour limit)

who's gonna break into metacritic and find out their scoring algorithms

I would have thought that not even considering different weightings to different publications - a specific score like 9.4 should hold far more sway for Metacritic than a star review (out of 5) where the increment between scores is so large.

a dream... literally a dream Also, which of y'all wrote this? bc ur a queen https://metro.co.uk/2019/09/03/lana-del-rey-is-the-ultimate-sad-girl-and-i-never-want-her-to-change-10676397/

Norman fucking Rockwell - 19 Mariners Apartment Complex - 14 Venice Bitch - 18 Love Song - 13 Cinnamon Girl - 13 California - 12 The Greatest - 22 (+) Bartender - 18 Happiness is a butterfly - 11 (-)

this is for sure gonna push the metacritic score up - pitchfork holds a LOT of sway

Oh my god 9.4 is beyond my wildest expectations I can’t breathe I can’t breathe

Norman Fucking Rockwell - 19 (-) Mariners Apartment Complex - 14 Venice Bitch - 16 Fuck it I love you - 1 Love Song - 13 Cinnamon Girl - 14 California - 11 The Greatest - 20 (+) Bartender - 13 Happiness is a Butterfly - 11 hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it - 7

the heart attack I just had...

Email the LAtimes reviewer to let them know that their review may have been misconstrued and for them to clarify (and then hope they don’t give an even lower score )

I deadass had a nightmare (literally a nightmare) I woke up to find Pitchfork giving her 6.7 why am I so invested

I never said Jem Aswad was a cunt. Jem Aswad is my friend.

I’m fine with Sam Sodomsky doing it because he’s been very complimentary with her singles

My comment that didn’t make it past moderation : This is a poor review. The writer dutifully describes the general sound of the record and touches upon Del Rey's public persona, but unfortunately fails to stand back and critically appraise the album as a body of work. Where he does make statements of opinion, they are often unsubstantiated and miss the mark. Where are the 'jarringly explicit lyrics about sex and violence'? Are they particularly explicit when compared to what is considered the norm in pop music today? Why are they jarring - do they stick out like a sore thumb from the songs in which they reside, or is it perhaps because the artist is a woman? Why do the final three songs drag down its overall score? Is it merely because they are slow piano ballads? Why hasn't the critic deigned to mention the final track (arguably the emotional centrepiece of the record) at all, but has managed to shoehorn in clumsy comparisons to Quentin Tarantino in four out of eight paragraphs? The final paragraph sums up what is wrong with the review: the reader is left in the dark as to whether Mr Aswad thinks that the record is a good album or a bad album - only that it is a Lana Del Rey album. edit: I might email metacritic to ask them to not count it since it’s so poorly written

(Ignoring the goddamn man-children in the thread ) I made and have been listening religiously to a edit of the album: I've reordered the tracklist and made it gapless. been trying to upload on YouTube but it keeps getting blocked despite other ppl managing to upload shit?? Track list: NFR Mariner's Apartment Complex The greatest Love song Cinnamon Girl Fuck it I love you California How to disappear TNBAR (mixed with the demo) Happiness is a butterfly Bartender Hope Venice Bitch would love nothing more than to share it but don't want a WP or a ban lmao;; I just want YT to get their licensing sorted so I can upload it AND give Lana ha streaming coin

Neil McCormick’s review for the Telegraph was also trash. The UK letting her down