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I think there's a diminishing returns thing with leaks. You find an artist you ABSOLUTELY love, and you're craving more more more, and then you find there's a little back catalog of unreleaseds or leaks or songs that were released but then quickly taken down, and it's like "OH MY GOD, MORE CONTENT TO LOVE!", but after awhile, the shine wears off.

Sometimes, the songs were legit mastered and ready, they're *done*, but held back for a deluxe that never materialized, or an entire album or EP that was canned last minute. They're great quality, lyrically and compositionally, if it's a ballad and you love ballads, then you love it. If it's a pop-bop and you want another pop-bop, you love it. Love/hate comes down to personal taste regardless, and everyone is happy to have another song or body of work.

Then you have the songs that were 'done' in the sense of album ready, but not selected and sent for mastering, and the rest of the body of work they were to go with went on and lived its life while they got forgotten. They're still great, but they just didn't get included for thematic reasons. The execs and managers did their own ranking and reviews and the track(s) ended up at the bottom of the pile for whatever reason. Still listenable. Still likable. Fans rejoice.
 
Then you've got the songs in the intermediate that were still in the workshop. Some are 'finished'. Some are absolutely not. Some are lyrically right, but the instrumental is shit, or vice versa. We've got 8 different versions with different intros and outros. Sometimes they're missing a bridge or a proper intro/outro. Sometimes it's just all instrumental stems with no vocals. Depending on the case, dedicated fans will 'fix' the track in a week. Sometimes it's absolute crap. Song quality is questionable - sometimes we get that 320k/WAV, sometimes we get that "recorded in a club in the bathroom on a 2002 Nokia' experience". Sometimes listenable, sometimes horrid. And with demos and WIPs - wide range of expectations v. reality. Could get shit that sounds almost album-perfect, could get shit that's literally tin-can microphone and a ukulele. Could have nonsensical lyrics to fill the space in a track, could just have gaps of silence in the tracks altogether.

After awhile of leak after leak after leak after leak after leak after leak bouncing between these different quality levels, it gets fatiguing. I used to be like 'OMG NEW SONG WHENN???!!!", but then when the full doesn't match the hype of the snip, I'm a little more reserved the next go round. Or when the snippet is passed around for months before the full drops, by then I'm already over it.

Add in that some people are really hunting for leaks or unreleaseds from a certain 'era' of an artist, or only looking for a specific sound or song, and suddenly the leaks and outtakes and resurfaced old material starts to become less impactful, less important, less celebrated. In the case of Charli, there's a dedicated block of folks who have basically bone-grafted Pop2/Self-Titled/HIFN to their skeletons and literally anything that isn't poppers bottom PC music is panned. There's a block of people who crave witchy-goth-tumblresque True Romance 24/7/365 and anything not from that angsty era is panned. XCXWorld sluts literally want one thing and it's Bounce are constantly chasing that "high" of when that whole thing materialized, so anything less doesn't smack the dopamine button like it used too.

Just my 2 cents (adjusted for inflation).
 
(Also sometimes the song really is just that fucking bad, which is WHY it wasn't released. Something something we all missing the forest for the trees on that one.)

THAT BEING SAID...
 
I am (baby) obsessing.
 
MOTDF and Crying Stars are good. 3.5/4 out of 5. Solid songs (to me). Going into playlists. Will be bopping. Worth the wait or w/e on MOTDF. I have her. We living.
 
WvW I like it a LOT, BUT sonic texture is off. Sounds demo. Maybe more in future? Maybe scrapped and this is what we get. Who knows. I remember hearing snippets in the past so getting the full now is nice.

Hotel - meh.

Tables - I need the fulllllllll. I love it.

bounce is a meme and we love her regardless shes incredible leak the final leak the stems yada yada 

we need bounce demo 1  

check the tracker everything highlighted green in each section is brand new!

im convinced cry baby isnt gone shes just gonna be adapted to the new concepts

oh thats embarrassing we need tone tags or whatever 

Just finished season 1 and what the fuck… Y’all need to get into this. Season 2 premiering March 26th!

Yesterday was track 9, today track 5. There is not much information, they have registered it under a different name.

where are the girls with the aha music site thing? let's get to work

Shes coming back with a different more ethereal aesthetic probably, like a fairy or some sort of witch wich is too on the nose already 
 
I would have liked It better if she continued with her becoming an alcoholic housewife like her mother and make It a little more mature… but I guess we are getting Leage of Legends instead
 
Is not that I think Its a bad concept but maybe a little too ambitious, the visuals will need lost of CGI and we all know how Melanie delivers when her budget is cut short… I fear we are in for a Sharknado kind of film 

ya i don't know why everyone is saying crybaby is gone when the first teaser is "back from the dead" and the pic has crybaby's grave, she is obviously coming back in some way

im convinced cry baby isnt gone shes just gonna be adapted to the new concepts

im convinced cry baby isnt gone shes just gonna be adapted to the new concepts

im convinced cry baby isnt gone shes just gonna be adapted to the new concepts

You're definitely out of the loop, because these new songs don't relate to the childish aesthetic at all

yeah im getting scared ngl 

She already has and Its not getting better…
 
I think It has to do with the cowritters she uses, she has good ideas But Its too stubborn to make them work
 
for example some of her first songs when she used to work with other songwritters Dont have much to do with Crybaby yet are better than the last ones! For example Gold Digging Love, Run, Trophy Wife, Bombs on Monday Morning, You Love I, Night Mime… the lyrics there are really good and dont follow a storyline 

I love each and every Angel but Bounce is becoming a meme at this point. 

if anything i get the feeling that the sirens "era" were the real dark days 
 

Big red flag: anyone who responds to a fan experiencing the once in a lifetime moment of meeting Lana in a store or on the street, by complaining that they spent 90 seconds enjoying a fun chat with their idol, rather than forcing Lana to sit down for an hour an answer endless questions about her work, life and upcoming release
 

I don't like the connotation in OP that if Lana does something in the vein of her older style, then she's somehow satirising or making fun of the fans who enjoyed it.  

Hard agree with all of this but I don't necessarily think that the second half of A&W is satire about "old Lana" fans.
I think she's allowed to make fun music for the sake of making fun music without there needing to be some deeper meaning. But then again, everything is up to personal interpretation.
Tbh I think one of the biggest red flags on this website are people who think their personal opinions and interpretations about her music are objective facts. If you prefer A&W to her entire discography then that's fine, if you don't think it holds a candle to her last few albums then that's fine too. (This paragraph's not directed at you, just at *certain* members of this site who can't seem to understand that and cause endless arguments )

i’m sorry, i was rushing when posting and my typing was all messed up. what i truly really meant was the boarding school part. i was trying to say that people take the words shes saying as serious, that she truly believes people should do those things. i was using the album aka when i truly meant the boarding school times. my apologies

wowow i had no idea this would be taken that way. i relate a lot and love that album… no hard feelings