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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

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

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

(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 

(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 

The guy who said Lana will never be beautiful cause her ears are too low and talked a lot of shit about her for not wearing enough makeup and not having her hair in a pretty style to her surgeon’s birthday party even though she looked completely fine is calling the “You’re just a man” line sexist.. Yeah seems about right

Alexis Petridis writing the Guardian review be like

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

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

A hint?

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

I wrote a critique of the Variety review and it didn't make it through moderation skdjfksdf 

The Guardian and The Observer are two separate newspapers in the UK. The Observer is a Sunday newspaper that belongs to the same organisation as the daily Guardian paper so shares the same website. However, editorially they are separate and Metacritic counts them separately.

Hate to break it to y'all but the 2014 interview was conducted by Tim Jonze (also of the Guardian).

Hate to break it to y'all but the 2014 interview was conducted by Tim Jonze (also of the Guardian).

Hate to break it to y'all but the 2014 interview was conducted by Tim Jonze (also of the Guardian).

I know that, but i've read many enthusiastic opinions by p4k's team on Twitter. Hope still a dangerous thing, btw.