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Tbh, at this point, this is the least excited I've been for a Lana record ever.
 
For one, the constant shift in direction seems insecure, as does the release date delay, as does the title change.
 
The new title is actually not an improvement over the last one. Hate me all you want, but Lasso was better.
 
Drew Erickson as a producer - snooze.
 
Announcing "two more singles", then backtracking also sounds like insecurity to me.
 
Henry sure sounds great, but also like nothing we haven't already heard on Chemtrails. (Based on the snippet alone). Also, she teased that a year ago, and clearly hasn't made songs that she's more proud of. So I'm not expecting "big" songs like Ride or West Coast or even OB, because than that would be her choice of single.
 
There doesn't seem to be a proper album cover yet, which also says to me that the album is nowhere near actual materialisation.
 
At 13 songs only, it'll be only slightly longer than Chemtrails probably, which is her shortest record to date.
 
Lastly, it's her longest break between albums (right?), but even May 21st sounds iffy. The fact that we have to wait six (or more) months is just excruciating. And god knows when the first single will drop. For all we know, she'll delay the album again, and drop the single in May.
 
It's not the best time to be a Lana fan tbh. Don't throw tomatoes on me, this is just my opinion.
 
 

Nicki’s husband being a rapist is a well known fact that’s been discussed for years now lol. She def knows and probably doesn’t care, just like a lot of other people in the industry. It’s not a niche internet thing like a celebrity maybe having old problematic tweets, she married (and had a child with, and harassed the victim of) a convicted sex offender

Album title is Off With Her Head
Best Friends drops 11/22
Make It Up features Sampha

music reviewers must be abolished, they were so fucking wrong 

What y’all know about Air?  “Sexy Boy” is okay I guess but this is their magnum opus:
 
 

This world has been so cruel to this angel. We truly don’t deserve her. Good for her that she’s not serving us anymore. I wish her all the peace in this world. 

Getting in my feelings about pop girls again and I'm so sad and angry for Britney... thinking about all the things she wanted to do in her career and all the little things about being a MOTHER she had taken away from her. All she did was work and work and work and make great art and for that she was punished with misogyny, stalking, and control. I get so mad thinking about how someone who affected so many people so beautifully, who is so loving and caring, was so manipulated and hurt for no reason. They ruined her ability to trust, they ruined her relationships with her friends, and it sounds like a lot of her problems with her sons now are also from the conservatorship (whether directly or indirectly through the trauma it caused her). A living legend who could be someone like Madonna or Nelly Furtado as a legacy act making music for herself and nobody else... or you know who else? Kelly Clarkson, Christina Aguilera, Paris Hilton, The Devil Man Who I Still Want Poisoned For His Shitty Guitar Playing @ Britney While She Had A Home Abortion On The Bathroom Floor, BEYONCE are the same age as Britney. Some of these people have their own shows, some are doing comebacks and anniversaries, some are doing... whatever Paris just did, and obviously Beyonce has been Beyonce'ing all over the place for the last two decades nonstop. Sometimes I think about how badly Britney just wanted to perform and do her thing and I get so angry about all the years wasted on forcing her to literally dance for others' amusement and others' wealth. She has lost precious time for her career, her family, her fucking ART to this shit. I think all the time about what Britney would be doing right now-- movies? features? fashion?-- and how she is probably retired forever, from everything, because of how shit everybody was to her for just EXISTING in the public eye. I just can't believe we're here in 2024 and one of our greatest stars is not only alive but really very young, and she will probably never do the thing she loves most in the world again because it was spoiled for her by assholes who will never know real consequences. Fuck all of them and I hope Britney experiences full love, appreciation, and healing in her lifetime. 

They are odious. I get not liking Halsey as a person, I am not a fan of her music aside from her rockier sound, but this record is in no way close a one. P4K and Fantano have always had this weird hate towards Miley Cyrus and Lana Del Rey too, which I am sure they only changed their minds on because it drove their website clicks and because Lana's influence is undeniable. I used to enjoy Pitchfork but they've become a cesspool that thrives on hit pieces that deviate from music criticism and hyper-focus on the artist's personal lives a little too much.
 
It's good that people are lashing out at them. Also, Fantano is an idiot who lets his biases influence his music critiques. I dunno why people enjoy his stuff. He seems like the type of person who interrupts you every other second with shit-tier mansplaining takes. His influence comes from a circlejerk of people who cannot come up with their own opinions re: music.
 
IDK, ganging up on somebody when they share something so profound to them and something that touches such serious subjects is really childish and unprofessional as fuck.

PREACH

The fantano and P4K reviews make me so unreasonably mad. This isn't the best album of the year, of course, but there are at least 6 tracks on here that are absolutely stellar. I was so shocked on so many moments of the album when she went so far and so personal, revealing her deepest secrets about death, sickness, family trauma. This album is so personal that it feels even uncomfortable to listen to, like you're reading someone else's diary. And yet, you have sick fucks like Fantano and pitchfork who go out saying she's trying to get clout, be some attention seeker???? So what you're saying is she suffered through cancer for our entertainment, so she could make some money??? I don't fucking get it. If I was Halsey, I would never release an album again, but I hope she ignores these rats and knows that she really made something important that resonated with a lot of people. Just needed to soapbox abt that 

the review was about everything except the music. it was pure yap trash. also anthony fantano gave this album a 1 and said "boohoo you have cancer? get over it". his "review" was equally as bad as pitchfork's if not worse and entirely mean spirited for no reason.
 
its so weird to me that anyone who says "this album is bad" just happens to have a negative bias against halsey and actually don't care about the music that much. but anyway stream the great impersonator 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Cpzv-wMfnp9ULG6TF-MQF0_4lfjGxteniBnP4Hy6DPE/edit?gid=0#gid=0 made a halsey tracker xoxo

Alice of the Upper Class is so good .
Ashley better get that shit on Spotify soon.  Digital deluxe bonus tracks are so dumb.  Why couldn’t it just have been on the Target CD?
 
Anyway the record is an absolute masterpiece.

There’s another digital deluxe on her website with a song called “Nothing” it’s not as good as the Alice song.  Someone uploaded a really good video of her show in Brooklyn from last night, Lonely Is The Muse is so good live. 
 
 

let her cure your taste #DISEASE 

This might have became my favorite Halsey album... 

Arsonist kind of SLAPS! Specially the spoken part 

Alice of the Upper Class is so good .
Ashley better get that shit on Spotify soon.  Digital deluxe bonus tracks are so dumb.  Why couldn’t it just have been on the Target CD?
 
Anyway the record is an absolute masterpiece.

oh for real. im TIRED of these stupid multiple webstore exclusive varients 

Alice of the Upper Class is so good .
Ashley better get that shit on Spotify soon.  Digital deluxe bonus tracks are so dumb.  Why couldn’t it just have been on the Target CD?
 
Anyway the record is an absolute masterpiece.

Im loving this!!! She’s so versatile yet she has such a distinguished style for an album called The Great Impresionator! Her lyrics are always so raw and direct, yet poetic! I also love how she touched the subject of her sickness in some songs (from the singles I didn’t think she was going to). On my first listens my favourites in no particular order are: 
 
-    Dog Years
-    Panic Attack
-    Ego
-    Lonely Is The Muse 
-    I Believe In Magic 
-    Darwinism 
-    Arsonist 
-    Hurt Feelings 
-    Life of the Spider (Draft) 
-    I Never Loved You 
 
so far her most chill album, I would even call it almost country at some points. But unlike other (TS I’m looking at you) the stripped down instrumentals make sense and don’t make it boring. Really 90s overall! 
 
I love the direction she’s going with this, for a minute I was scared after listening to So Good (maybe her worst single ever, so mid I can’t put into words), but she took her time after IICHLIWP and delivered once again! She’s going for critical acclaim, sadly she’s far behind her successful days. 
 
Dog Years is specially touching, love the metaphor and the theme of that song  the vibe is vibing 

Wow...this kinda destroyed me and made me felt heard all at the same time 

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

This album was incredible