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I actually love Peppers, it is my second most streamed song of the year but I have some issues with the production, I just wish it was more clear and less murky. But I still live and would love more songs like that but better quality, I just don’t know if Jack can do that

I don’t like the production/mixing on Peppers. Great song but it just sounds a bit muffled!

I'm totally manifesting a reworked version of 'Dum Dum', sluttily slowed down and given an ethereal angelic bit in there as a contrast.
 
(Yeah I haven't slept in nearly 3 days so my brain is all over the place. So apologies for my weird, over-analysed, scrutiny of her entire back catalogue - including the unreleased stuff - I'm just hyper AF. Coming back to the boards, to then get hyped over a new album we know nothing about, probably wasn't the smartest idea. I really need to take some sleeping tablets and go to bed. Sorry again for sperging out so much, lol.)

Beautiful isn’t actually that bad when you really listen to it, with some slight changes it could be really great 
 
Also the main producer of Blue Banisters should have been Zach Dawes 

fishtail aged so terribly for me unfortunately..  so i too hope we don’t get an album full of jack antonoff-trap songs
 

Yeah. She's missing the person because she will never see them, they disappeared. But the thing is that stars are the one which are disappearing in the morning. The sun supposed to be the one which misses them in the morning. It probably supposed to be "like the Sun miss the stars in the morning sky". But she probably somehow wrote it to fit the melody I guess...

I struggled with the meaning too at first but I think the simplest explanation for it is that when sun rises, the stars leave - the stars never really see the sun, they just "disappear" in the morning and vice versa (at first I used to think that the line was a metaphor for suicide, because in the morning the stars have disappeared). 
 
For me just...the stars never see the sun anymore. It's kinda like Minecraft...
 

Peppers isn't really radio friendly and poppish that much, which is why it wasn't released as a single and no one knows about it

Okay but FR this sounds exactly like something I could hear her releasing, on her country style album. She has the right kind of vocal flexibility to go in with either a deep voice, or her much higher "head voice"....or a combo of the two.

We all forgot don't worry🙏

They're both so flat they don't even feel like Lana songs 

I want her to re-embrace her sultry vixen side, now that she's gone through the cathartic, vulnerable stuff. Obviously I'm not expecting her to return to her younger style (she's older and more mature like the rest of us) but I want some kind of voluptuous, sexy vibe. Like sonically I'm after some 'Million Dollar Man' and 'Your Girl'' 'Gods & Monsters' 'Hollywood's Dead' 'Terrence Loves You' 'Yayo' kind of sounds, with stuff like 'Thunder' 'Dealer' and 'Wait For Life'. Bring Back Emile for the big sound production, with some 'Is This Happiness', 'Heroin', 'Beautiful Player',  'Black Beauty', 'Shades Of cool' 'JFK' 'Buddy's Rendezvous'' and '13 Beaches' type of tracks in there for slower dramatic dreaminess. 
 
I was also obsessively listening to 'Playing Dangerous' recently and the way she had sampled some old 60's girl band stuff reminded me of a couple of the songs on Adele's last album. I love that retro groove (and it could possibly help to get her a 'chart-worthy song that appeals to the masses), so some stuff like that, maybe channelling some Dusty Springfield drama. (This sort of thing could really work with a bit of Mark Ronson magic)
 
Being in Alabama though I think we are going to see some country vibe, and I really hope that if she does, she takes it in the direction of Amanda Shires (her recent album 'Take It Like A Man' has a few tracks on there that would suit Lana's voice. (Everyone should listen to that album, as well as Shires's 'Down Came The Doves album; trust me, you'll love them both)  And if she could get on board with some dramatic country 'Murder Ballads' she would absolutely "kill" it.
 
(If she's thinking of incorporating some southern state, working class vibe and references anything do with waitressing in restaurants, I'd LOVE her to shake it up with some dreamy, 'Twin Peaks' sounds and iconography. She could really shine in that vein)
 
(Just please don't work with, or even mention Nikki fricking Lane again please. That chick is drab AF) 
 
If I were to get my absolute perfect album it would be Lana collaborating with Nick Cave for some dark, haunting and brooding, American Gothic inspired murder ballads and dramatic
storytelling, with some of it potentially set amid a beautiful, crumbling, antebellum mansion. I would die a very happy woman if that combo ever came together! 
 
I'm also so over trying to shoehorn political crap and clumsy, out of place tokenism, into music. Stop trying to prove to the crazy far leftists that you're not a racist, homophobe or whatever the insult du jour happens to be. Fuck what anyone thinks or says if you just happen to make an album without a bunch of other women and non-white people in it, that's perfectly fine. I'm not saying to avoid working with people of any stripe based on their identity. I just want things to be organically complimentary to the themes and musicality of the songs. You can never appease the mad people. Just focus on making the best music you possibly can with the best people for the job. (which incidentally precludes Nikki Lane from even being allowed to set foot in the studio, lol!
 
I want dark, sexy, seductress Lana, embracing her femininity, but with that dramatic vixen vibe she owns so well.
 
Jazzy, dark and sexy. Bring sexy back Lana!
 
(And if 'Children Of The Bad Revolution' or 'Catch and Release' could be reworked to modernise them in a way that made them still relevant, would be awesome. But I obviously have  tendency to want and hope for the absolute impossible. But she really does have to work with Nick Cave at some point. They would be perfect together. Someone needs to make it happen!)

This is the answer.

so deserved

And another bites the dust
 

I heard the remix and burst out laughing I’m sorry- 
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT
It has no like cohesiveness. Like it feels as if every section of the song is it’s own song I CANNNT 

Woman with Cat Power
and Hallucinogenics with Matt Maeson <3 

Lorde is a studio artist, not a live one. Always felt her voice ranged between decent and awful in her live shows. It’s not something that’s brand new. Still love her to death.
 
She’s working with Blood Orange for this new record. Whatever’s coming will be legendary.

Been listening to Ridin' a lot lately, and wanted to know what do you guys think is her best featuring. I'm sure there's already a thread here but couldn't find it !
 
My top 4
- Tomorrow Never Came 
- Ridin'
- Peppers
- Lust For Life

‘Cause we were just that good, 
It was just that good (fame, fame, fame…)
 
-The Next Best American Record NFR version 

Brutal 2.0 but much more annoying.
 
I truly still don’t understand her supposed appeal. And this new music? It’s like she’s releasing Sour’s B-side.

Sour 2.0. Still writes like Taylor Swift, still tries to emulate Lorde with the use of back up vocals, still tries to give it an Avril Lavigne meets Paramore rock twists to the vocal inflections. The most derivative girl in pop music right now.
 

Not an unpopular opinion but:
Why does seemingly none mention her Blue Velvet cover?
I might be biased since that was one of my first "lana" songs that I listened to, but I genuinely think that it is a good song, not the best, but still good.

I gotta rephrase this.
 
NFR deserves all its hype, but I do think it gets a lot of it because it’s her most accessible album.

1989 is one of those pop perfection albums. It solidified Taylor Swift as one of the greatest artists in our generation - love her or hate her.
 
I’m very excited to hear this album. It will likely be my favorite re-recording yet. 

The album cover photo is not what I expected. Look at that smile! It is a beautiful photo and my favorite cover of the rerecordings so far.