honeymoon is alive

and then we wait 10 years so she can be recognized as a visionary again 

Thinking of the reception of great music this year I, for one, LOVE Caroline Polachek and her music is AMAZING but I am so puzzled how her latest album is freaking 93 MC while Tunnels is shaping up to be lower than 80. The math ain't mathing for me 

this album isn't for everyone, we have to be realistic and realize some people don't have the taste 

and then we wait 10 years so she can be recognized as a visionary again 

and then we wait 10 years so she can be recognized as a visionary again 

let's just pray sputnik stays quiet 

i knew from the start that the moment lana took a more adventurous approach with any record the critics would switch sides and give it polarizing reviews. that's the thing with them, they don't like anything that steps out of the comfort zone

Yeah it’s very rare for a female pop singer to score below an 80 on Metacritic these days.

I'm not a reviewer at all, I can't go through each song and explain why I love it. I just do, I love this album. Gotta preface this again with saying I love everything Lana releases, so call me bias but this album is amazing. I've had a lot of loss in my family the last few years, I lost my grandma last year March 28th, lost my grandpa in Feb 2020, lost my uncle to cancer in 2019. So my mom lost her mom, dad, and brother so close together. Kintsugi and Fingertips just really hits for me, I feel like this album came at the perfect time since it's so close to March 28th. I think too listening to Kintsugi and Fingertips while reading the lyrics makes the song more impactful. 
 
I fucking love Candy Necklace, it sounds so haunting. And then the Jon Batiste interlude came on and wow...okay so I wasn't super excited for the interludes but the JB one is amazing. I love it so much, I really hope when she releases the music video for it that's included. It's like the perfect outro for Candy Necklace. 
 
The album through Grandfather feels very personal, dark, cold, and then once "Let The Light In" comes on I feel like the end of the album gets warmer, like a hug after the first 11 songs. Idk if that makes sense, like I said I'm not a reviewer but damn . I have to finish reading through this thread but maybe someone else explained it way better than I did. 
 
Lana did it again  I love it so much. Can't wait to explore this album more and more. And for the songs I didn't mention I love them too! It would just take forever to go through each song individually. 

let's just pray sputnik stays quiet 

let's just pray sputnik stays quiet 

let's just pray sputnik stays quiet 

This album is Lana's return to greatness. I loved BB (hated COCC) but THIS is just an absolutely perfect brilliant fresh album front to back that seems like such a huge landmark in her whole creative output atm already. It is 10/10. She made me feel things I last felt with Lana while listening to Honeymoon, I am speechless. The only track that can go is Juda Smith interlude. Everything else is literally Lana at some of her ALL-TIME BEST

let's just pray sputnik stays quiet 

God I wonder what Candy Necklace's true meaning is meant to be. I wish this was one of the songs she actually explained in interviews... to me, it seems to be a fucked up relationship that she knows is falling apart and tearing her down because the guy is so reckless, yet, this is also something that she loves about him. She knows it's immature to be acting so wild and yet she can't help but be into it... thus the song ends with no resolution. Just her and the guy repeating "Candy Necklaces." The thing that is both making her suicidal and in love. 

91 from variety 

There's no score but it reads like a 90 (a 100 if we're blessed) . We'll just have to wait for it to be apporved on Metacritic

please VARIETY GIVE HER A GODDAMN TEN
and Spin: Go fuck yourself (yeah y'all deserved this from Lana anyways lmao)

the only thing that matters is ajayii opinion so let's just wait

I can never wrap my head around the fact that some other gals can just release some stupid nonsensical mumbling over the mix of piano and cheap beats and get 10s and 9s from the critics while Lana releases a MASTERPIECE of an album like this and suddenly the critics are divided

This era just feels so GOOD I’m gonna cry like I think this is gonna be the first album since NFR that I feel like I’ve truly made memories with

shaping up to be my favorite album truly

Caroline, what kind of mother was she to say I'd end up in institutions?
All I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Greene and sit by
The lake, twisting lime into the drinks that they made 
Have a babe at sixteen, the town I was wed in and die
 
these lyrics just crush my soul  to think how different lana’s life would have been, whether she’d be happier, the betrayal she mustve felt. i know she finally feels at peace but i can’t help but feel shes still mourning the shot she had at a simple life. 

Anyways, music is made to enjoy. Not everyone is going to like this album but that doesn't mean that their opinion is less valid. Because we're stans, we will always love what Lana releases. However, when reviewers take the lyrics out of context or can't comprehend the meaning of the song, this is when I can't justify their opinion. 

Jacks insta post is so sweet I do love that Lana has someone working with her that obviously just admires her so much