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omg also the way they fucking ate this: Nothing against Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, and nothing against Phoebe Bridgers for that matter. But Boygenius, the band of three musicians from Virginia, Tennessee and California, is less than the sum of its individual parts. In an honorable way, their joint debut album rebels against the cult of destructive rock stars and other rock 'n' roll folklore. It doesn't add any new perspectives to the male and heterosexual genre narratives, but at least some previously underrepresented ones. Nevertheless, The Record is not a system disruptor. Boygenius' songs remain too shallow for that and the band's staging as suit-wearers and guitar destroyers too firmly anchored in traditions that cannot be broken by reversing the most obvious signs. The fact that Boygenius were nevertheless celebrated in 2023 - also and especially for their positioning as a female-fronted band, especially by platforms and magazines that had previously shown little interest in rock music diversity - says more about the state of music journalism than about them. (Daniel Gerhardt)

I moved a tiny bit ngl

Has she cut her hair or am I seeing things?

Fuck it I love you vs Jump

tbh I hope this album - whatever it is - isn’t coming anytime soon because Ocean Blvd is soo not done having its moment

and flopgenius not even on the list we love to see it

I’m so scared of how I’m going to survive that crowd with my almost nonexistent french… I need to get on my duolingo grind asap

You really can never know with her lmao it wouldn’t surprise me if she was randomly in Antartica one day

Got a primary entry ticket!!!! So excited!!!!

somebody should tell her she signed up for Primavera Porto too lmao

I feel so proud for not jumping the gun with Barcelona or Porto now that this has been announced, my frontal cortex did its job for once

Yeah interesting huh? But I get it these songs really are on another level... Lana has 5 songs on the reader-voted top 50 songs list (A&W and title track besides these three), the most of any artist.

Interesting that it’s billed as her only performance in France this summer

In fact you were right!!!!!! Special concert from Lana was just announced for Wednesday the 21th of August!!!!! Presale sign-up is now live until Sunday at midnight, the presale will start Monday at 10 am.

If Lana doesn't take best alternative album I definitely want it to go to her. I must say I hadn't heard anything from her before but I recently listened to "I Inside The Old Year Dying" after seeing it on so many year-end lists and I have to say I really really enjoyed the album. I understand it's quite different from her past work but I'm still excited to check out more of her back catalogue.

I slept on it too until very recently but Dance Till We Die

Wildflower Wildfire too... easily a top ten in her discography for me

Yess, Change is a big favourite of mine!! I think the message of the song and the way she conveys her emotion about it is really special

Ocean Blvd title track............ when I catch y'all

her calling rep goth-punk is sooooo funny like ok girl..... if you say so

welll whatever she's up to I snagged myself a ticket for the tour next summer in the presale today so let's hope it's sth good

idk whether I'm more invested in Ocean Blvd winning or them losing atp

Though the title would go on to inspire many jokes about its lengthiness, Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd is a massive creative triumph for one Elizabeth Grant. She and superproducer Jack Antonoff hit their stride as partners on this Grammy AOTY-nominated project, with the alt-pop titan mustering some of her most vulnerable and thoughtful lyrics ever while somehow managing to maintain her trademark campiness throughout (see: that perplexing four-minute spoken interlude from pastor Judah Smith). While her earlier work gives way to more dramatic proclamations and aesthetics, Ocean Blvd takes a softer, more introspective approach to Lana’s longtime muse — Americana — that’s achingly feminine, full of yearning, and underscored by clever references to male figureheads such as Leonard Cohen, John Denver and Bob Dylan. What a weird review blurb this is from Billboard lmfao tell me you didn't understand the album at all without telling me you didn't understand the album at all... Judah Smith interlude being her trademark campiness like WHAT

Tbh it is pretty surprising to me. Ocean Blvd has its idiosyncrasies but I think it should be clear to anyone, especially someone calling themselves a music critic, that this album is not only a new height in Lana’s own career, but conceptually something few if any current musicians would be capable of envisioning let alone executing. You can like the music or not and I don’t care if some magazine ranks the album lower or higher, but in my opinion not even including Ocean Blvd in a Top 50 albums of 2023 list shows a complete misunderstanding of the current music landscape and what art is fundamentally.