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we rejoice!
 
as much as i love lana’s quiet acoustic songs like not all those who wander, i’d loveeeee for the acoustic guitar to be more loud like how it is in hey blue baby. henry come on is lovely from what we’ve heard, i just want a bit more energy from the rest of the album. 

we rejoice!
 
as much as i love lana’s quiet acoustic songs like not all those who wander, i’d loveeeee for the acoustic guitar to be more loud like how it is in hey blue baby. henry come on is lovely from what we’ve heard, i just want a bit more energy from the rest of the album. 

I mean, it's just so funny how Lana is always a trendsetter and always go against whats trending
 
while people still naming their album titles as sharp, short, clear, marketable as possible, Lana went out with shits like "Norman Fucking Rockwell!", "Chemtrails over The Country Club" and "Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd", they are all so camp but so iconic at the same time.
 
and now everyone seems like  doing long ass album title trying to be as standout as Lana did and Lana in the other hand, goes with one single, simple word: Lasso
 
And this album title has actually grown on me in last few weeks. Cant wait to meet you, Lasso.

we rejoice!
 
as much as i love lana’s quiet acoustic songs like not all those who wander, i’d loveeeee for the acoustic guitar to be more loud like how it is in hey blue baby. henry come on is lovely from what we’ve heard, i just want a bit more energy from the rest of the album. 

we rejoice!
 
as much as i love lana’s quiet acoustic songs like not all those who wander, i’d loveeeee for the acoustic guitar to be more loud like how it is in hey blue baby. henry come on is lovely from what we’ve heard, i just want a bit more energy from the rest of the album. 

we rejoice!
 
as much as i love lana’s quiet acoustic songs like not all those who wander, i’d loveeeee for the acoustic guitar to be more loud like how it is in hey blue baby. henry come on is lovely from what we’ve heard, i just want a bit more energy from the rest of the album. 

we rejoice!
 
as much as i love lana’s quiet acoustic songs like not all those who wander, i’d loveeeee for the acoustic guitar to be more loud like how it is in hey blue baby. henry come on is lovely from what we’ve heard, i just want a bit more energy from the rest of the album. 

Interlude the trio would’ve made so much more sense for lasso  or a rework to add vocals 

there’s no way she’s releasing either of those two this year imo – ttpd needs time to shine. rep/debut must be coming out next year, and my assumption is rep tv is coming first (maybe on new year’s day hehe) then debut is  last as a way to wrap everything up neatly. 
 
this is the pattern the re-recordings have followed anyway:
new albums in 2020, 2 re-recordings in 2021
new album in 2022, 2 re-recordings in 2023
and now new album in 2024, 2 re-recordings in 2025. 

tired of kim and kanye songs she needs therapy

there’s no way she’s releasing either of those two this year imo – ttpd needs time to shine. rep/debut must be coming out next year, and my assumption is rep tv is coming first (maybe on new year’s day hehe) then debut is  last as a way to wrap everything up neatly. 
 
this is the pattern the re-recordings have followed anyway:
new albums in 2020, 2 re-recordings in 2021
new album in 2022, 2 re-recordings in 2023
and now new album in 2024, 2 re-recordings in 2025. 

there’s no way she’s releasing either of those two this year imo – ttpd needs time to shine. rep/debut must be coming out next year, and my assumption is rep tv is coming first (maybe on new year’s day hehe) then debut is  last as a way to wrap everything up neatly. 
 
this is the pattern the re-recordings have followed anyway:
new albums in 2020, 2 re-recordings in 2021
new album in 2022, 2 re-recordings in 2023
and now new album in 2024, 2 re-recordings in 2025. 

It’s a screenshot from somebody messaging Nikki Lane, it’s obviously not going to be from her. I meant the sender of those messages posted the screenshot to Twitter somewhere to show their defence of Taylor, where Florida Kilos got it from to post here. U can tell it’s not Nikki’s screenshot because her messages are on the left side 

woah… out of all parts of Lana’s life I’m so fucking invested in 2004-5 Alabama/may era. So fascinating. what truly happened there? if anybody is to film a documentary i definitely would be very fixated on this segment of her life truly. this is speculation purely but what i think happened there- my two coins is that
 
Lana went to Alabama maybe to live with her boyfriend (who i think was older than her?) and the man asked her to marry her (i talk to jesus / guns and roses / thanks to the locals poem) but Lanz declined. they also maybe like to go back between alabama and cali. she also went to AA meetings around this time frame. the relationship eventually grew tense after it then she decided to leave as to pursue a career in music (west coast/pawn shop blues). what i’ve thought about for the last two weeks of this part of her life…

Oh Nikki Lane the mother that you are 

nikki lane doesn't seem to be a big fan 
https://www.instagram.com/stories/nikkilane77/3351229468919719371/

oh i 100% agree! i’ll always prefer the middle ground of an average length album, then potentially a deluxe version later on. if taylor had dropped The Anthology later it would have been really exciting, but because it happened just a few hours after ttpd was released, it was just too much all at once. plus she had already done that double album thing with midnights so it wasn’t super surprising or anything. 

I have mixed feelings. For a lot of those artists I think it’s them trying to flood their streaming numbers. In the early digital era it was reliant on people buying singles, but with streaming you don’t have to buy anything and can listen to a full album (not that many people do) for free. So they just pump out what they can and aren’t as discerning with track choice. It can definitely indicate low artistic integrity. For SZA, she spent about 6 years inbetween CTRL and SOS and you can tell she put care into the song versus Morgan who….. 
Cowboy Carter had 27 tracks BUT like 4 were interludes. And I think regardless the intention shines through on CC. So much attention was put into the production and songwriting. The music is GOOD so it’s not at all a chore to listen to.
I don’t think a long album is necessarily bad. But off the top of head (=i.e. your examples), the good ones reflect intention and precision in that they spent considerable time on the album, from mixing to production to track flow. 
But that’s obviously a labor intensive feat and isn’t possible to achieve if you’re Drake or taylor and have been releasing project after project.
 
On the flipside, I think super short albums also make me doubt the artist’s passion and drive. I haven’t heard Ariana’s but I get your point in it being good cause there’s no filler as that’s generally my thoughts on Guts. Dua Lipa’s doing a 10 track album, the first in 3 years or so, and she’s already released 3. Waiting for a new album of 7 songs just feels like waiting for a collection of singles or something. That plus a 4 show tour it’s like… are you just not into making music anymore?
 
 Overall if the music’s good it’s good. You shouldn’t go in aiming to be an album with 30 tracks or 15 or 10- you should do what’s natural. Quality should come over quantity, but if you’re only happy with 30-40 minutes from years of your potential studio time then :/
Something I want to learn more about is how music is consumed today and how streaming has affected not just like, marketing tactics and sales numbers but the actual music making itself. 

ok let’s talk:
 
how come so many popular artists have been  releasing long albums in 2023-2024, and how do you feel about this trend? sza released SOS with 23 tracks, m*rgan w*lien released an album with 36 tracks, drake’s recent album was 23 tracks, beyoncé’s cowboy carter has 27 tracks, and now taylor has released an album with 31 tracks. 
 
personally, i don’t really like this trend…i think it takes away from the artistry of an album being created with intention and clarity. it is overwhelming for the listener, and yeah you can listen to the whole album slowly, but i’d much rather have a clean-cut album to listen to on release day. in the case of ttpd i haven’t even listened to the 15 new tracks yet because it’s just too much, and at this point some songs are gonna start blending in together. initially i was looking forward to beyoncé’s album but i haven’t even started listening to it because of how overwhelmed i feel.
 
then you have artists on the other end of the spectrum that release shorter albums – ariana grande’s eternal sunshine was 35 min long, olivia rodrigo’s guts was originally 39 min long. billie’s new album will be 10 tracks long. this isn’t necessarily a bad thing because in the case of ariana, i thought her album was clean and perfect with no filler tracks. so i’d take that over a long album any day, because those feel more like a compilation of the artist’s songs than a body of work. 
 
feel free to disagree with me if you do like long albums !! i mean i can definitely see how it can keep you occupied for a long time which is exciting but … ain’t nobody got time for that.