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So many good points raised in this thread lately
1. She has no label backup in the US, that means that there will be no significant promo (I suspect that the cancelled Letterman show last year was the breakingpoint with Interscope regarding their collab).
2. She's basically an online fenomenon but her online fandom is slowly breaking apart. Let's face it, no one, besides the online blogs, gives a shit about her new release. I have the feeling, from what I read about her in this era, that even the blogs are getting slowly bored by her, the controversies that fueled the thinkpieces about her are getting old and few of the writers are willing to praise her artistry. Some of her fans have already moved on, especially during the UV era, now she's 30 and she hardly appeals to the next teen generation with songs like HM or TLY. The idea of LDR as a huge star is dead. Maybe she get's lucky with the Weeknd collab to sustain some mainstream support for HM
3. From point 2 the only resonable conclusion is that her future is as a niche artist with a respectabily large, cult following. For that she has to pull the magic every time to give the desired fix to the addicted. I'm one of them and I got my fix with TLY and just partially from HBTB and HM.
 
and who give's a shit about the cover? If I cared about the covers I would never listen to any LDR songs.

I like TLY more than HM. It's definitely an upgrade compared to HM in every department, especially lyrically. In my opinion TLY is the best song so far from HM. I can listen to the lyrics now without getting upset about her fetish with abstract bad boys because I can picture the story as something related to her relationship with Barrie. This era is a roller-coaster for me so far

Quitting tea again? But after threatening many times the same thing...maybe has a different meaning

It's basically HM 2.0 with better lyrics but mining the same tired bad lover trope. I expected something dramatic at the end but she just hummed lazily. The sound is boring (Nowels) her vocals are just dreamy boring without conveying anything. Then guitars at the beginning were cool and I expected something different

Prisoner sounds great. Lana's part is incredible. The spoken outro  . Now I'm even more pissed at the HM songs.

The ode to the imaginary bad lover is beyond tiresome at this point. Sorry Lana, hiring snoozfest Rick Novels to produce the entire album was a huge mistake. The sound is tired, HM and TLY are so similar that is kind of tacky. Humming half of the songs is just lazy. I don't give a fuck about the covers but with this one, where she is just a tiny head between the lines, it's kind of a suggestion for the inevitable fading into irrelevance of her career. After TLY I give up any hope for this album. UV next to HM is a masterpiece and I still don't understand the rush to come out with this subpar album after UV

Interscope it's all about Jepsen, they doesn't give a fuck about Lana anymore. I hoped that they push HBTB a little but nah, they obviously don't believe in the commercial potential of the material on HM. The bad thing is, from what I heard until now, that this album is shaping up as inferior to anything she released in her career until now. Brace yourself to 50-60 on Metacritic

The ode to the imaginary bad lover is beyond tiresome at this point. Sorry Lana, hiring snoozfest Rick Novels to produce the entire album was a huge mistake. The sound is tired, HM and TLY are so similar that is kind of tacky. Humming half of the songs is just lazy. I don't give a fuck about the covers but with this one, where she is just a tiny head between the lines, it's kind of a suggestion for the inevitable fading into irrelevance of her career. After TLY I give up any hope for this album. UV next to HM is a masterpiece and I still don't understand the rush to come out with this subpar album after UV

The Billboard fiasco unfortunately reinforced Lana's messy image. Poor Lana has no fault in this and I hope that HBTB rebounds towards the top of the charts. Contrary to other opinions I think that she put herself in a position when she needs to release quality songs which are in the same time commercially viable.
 
The video seems to have good replay value. Why isn't HBTB played on the radio yet?

Please stop with this bye thing. Here are people with different opinions and that is the fun in a forum. I have a meltdown, others are praising this shit and that's fine by me

I talked about her stupid video not her career. Read first

Please stop with this bye thing. Here are people with different opinions and that is the fun in a forum. I have a meltdown, others are praising this shit and that's fine by me

Don't get me wrong. I'm mad at the execution of the video, it feels amateurish. You can express great ideas and in the same time take care about every single scene and shot. What is the idea to come out with a potential hit and undermine it with this poorly executed video?

I can't with the delusional interpretations of this amateurish video. She's such a bad actress and she moves so awkwardly that was painful to watch sometimes. At least get that lip-sync right. The way the gun didn't fit in the guitar case is ridiculous. She's such a troll

Don't get me wrong. I'm mad at the execution of the video, it feels amateurish. You can express great ideas and in the same time take care about every single scene and shot. What is the idea to come out with a potential hit and undermine it with this poorly executed video?

I can't with the delusional interpretations of this amateurish video. She's such a bad actress and she moves so awkwardly that was painful to watch sometimes. At least get that lip-sync right. The way the gun didn't fit in the guitar case is ridiculous. She's such a troll

I can't with the delusional interpretations of this amateurish video. She's such a bad actress and she moves so awkwardly that was painful to watch sometimes. At least get that lip-sync right. The way the gun didn't fit in the guitar case is ridiculous. She's such a troll

Please stop with this bye thing. Here are people with different opinions and that is the fun in a forum. I have a meltdown, others are praising this shit and that's fine by me

Please stop with this bye thing. Here are people with different opinions and that is the fun in a forum. I have a meltdown, others are praising this shit and that's fine by me

Don't get me wrong. I'm mad at the execution of the video, it feels amateurish. You can express great ideas and in the same time take care about every single scene and shot. What is the idea to come out with a potential hit and undermine it with this poorly executed video?

Don't get me wrong. I'm mad at the execution of the video, it feels amateurish. You can express great ideas and in the same time take care about every single scene and shot. What is the idea to come out with a potential hit and undermine it with this poorly executed video?

Don't get me wrong. I'm mad at the execution of the video, it feels amateurish. You can express great ideas and in the same time take care about every single scene and shot. What is the idea to come out with a potential hit and undermine it with this poorly executed video?

It's not UV video level trolling but it will not help her in this era.
 
I like it somewhat visually because she is so beautiful and I love the ocean.
 
Fuck Jake Nava, this shit didn't needed a director.
 
She killed HBTB commercially with this video but put the song in a different perspective and strangely I enjoy it more watching the video. I think that she exaggerates the paparazzi thing, she's not that famous. She was more insulted as an artist than bothered in her every day life by the media.
 
You can stop trolling Lana you'll never become a superstar. I'm not interested anymore how she fares commercially because she obviously doesn't give a shit. So far, qualitywise, HM has to mediocre songs and a subpar video. At least UV had quality songs, I'm done staning this era

I talked about her stupid video not her career. Read first

I hope that the action will go outside her house. I'm anxious because it looks amateurish from the snippets. The lyrics are quite good for a commercial song so she can deliver a video with great story and imagery. As others mentioned maybe the snippets aren't from the actual video but I highly doubt that. 
 
There is no time for her to troll again, she can't afford to fuck up a commercial era, she needs to be involved, to be professional about it and she cannot shy away from the spotlight. If she flops with basic top 100 songs (HBTB is borderline that) it will be uglier than the UV sales drop and she will loose a lot of fans and credibility.