Norman Fucking Rockwell - Pre-Release Thread

[lanangel 934]

am i the only one who's hearing bad audio, it sounds like it was recorded on garage band like her voice is muffled in the snippet

[blueice 93]

Her last solid album release was probably Ultraviolence.

 

I began listening to her music after Ultraviolence, so that's why I don't know about the promotion of this album. But Honeymoon was solid, it had a frame in which we knew what when and where.

 

I think she wants to be that kind of an artist that is sharing everything on insta, to be remembered with this kind of approach - yes, it's different but on the other hand it does not fit with her traditional way of promoting new singles on the radio.

 

I'm not saying she does bad things with album promotion, I'm saying she does weird things. I mean - if she decides to give us something weird like an unreleased compilation with "songs she did for fun" - then she can promote it as weird as she wants.

 

But when she gives us something traditional,  with traditional radio premieres - then please, stick to it and don't mess us with weird snippet sharing, then scrapping.

 

Lfl is painful period. Maybe it's really for the best not to comment it. But it's annoying how she does the same with NFR. It is maybe going to be an amazing album, but poorly promoted. If she had released VB now, and release the whole album the last week of february, with 2 promotional singles in between, would've been great.

[American Whore 51,332]

HIAB SPUNDS SO GOOOOOOOD IM DYING LOL

 

wait so does this mean HIAB is the same song as NFR??? Is that the title track???? I’m so confused....

am i the only one who's hearing bad audio, it sounds like it was recorded on garage band like her voice is muffled in the snippet

That’s because she’s recording it on her phone being played on a different phone’s speakers

 

 

 

 

Side note: She talks about the avenue where John met her down on in HTD in HIAB so it’s getting even MORE COHESIVE

[Creyk 11,699]

HIAB SPUNDS SO GOOOOOOOD IM DYING LOL

 

wait so does this mean HIAB is the same song as NFR??? Is that the title track???? I’m so confused....

 

Some people are saying no but actually, yes.

 

jk we don't know but it doesn't matter

 

[jvcx 3,644]

Thinking about the possibility of the record being nothing but mostly tracks with her and a piano and no proper melody, LFL sure does seem like a blessing of some sort.   I can tell you this much, if it is

 

 

Sorry Lana. 

[daytonadeath 3,596]

I mean, if she put effort on her tracks, we can get an amazing album, even if it's just her and a piano. I mean, seriously, it's cute to hear this lullaby-like songs, but she can use some complex progressions using the piano, like fiona apple does (I mean, listen to Regret, Valentine or any other song by her tbh lol)

[Fingertips 72,034]

Thinking about the possibility of the record being nothing but mostly tracks with her and a piano and no proper melody, LFL sure does seem like a blessing of some sort.   I can tell you this much, if it is

 

 

Sorry Lana. 

Totally agreed. Should have went in the direction of MAC and VB

[UltraviolentJack 2,811]

Okay but do we know what that in your car song is? It sounds pretty but it was such a random snippet I feel. And it sounded like it had good production.

[Fingertips 72,034]

HIAB is the most watched snippet of every song on her instagram. Wouldn't surprise me if this is the lead single.

[daytonadeath 3,596]

btw, Lana should start playing some instrument like piano or guitar or anything. I think that it would let her explore more her own music.

[Chiunzhan 1,475]

Okay is she gonna release or something? this came out of nowhere and I'm nervous omg, what's going on? surprise release? single? announcement? 

 

 

Edit: Just saved it before she deletes it or whatever

[99centlips 8,519]

Cool snippet, can she release it now?? I swear every time she posts there’s just more questions, not answers.

[Flowerbomb 65,594]

When I first heard the HIAB snippets (the first and second one), I liked it a lot because I thought it would lead into something more bigger (as in production wise), but this new snippet we got has actually turned me off a bit because it just sounds like piano all the way through...so my excitement has dwindled down, which is a shame because I had high hopes for the song. Obviously I have yet to hear it in full so I'm trying not to be too harsh.

[Beautiful Loser 48,827]

I kind of imagine HIAB to go crazy somewhere in the song, where the beginning of the chorus (“happiness is a butterfly...” starts to echo, the layers of her voice blend into each other but not in rhythm you know (kinda like Gaga’s “half psychotic, sick, hypnotic...” in Just Dance, but softer) and then we get some weird guitar picks a la Bowie’s Space Oddity (you know, when the spaceship gets lost) and everything just gets surrealistic and experimental and chaotic, but in a good way, and...!

 

And I know it’ll never happen. It’ll probably just be another piano ballad, lol.

[viagra 1,642]

Jack Antonoff is not exactly known for psychedelic guitar-driven music. I dont know why you expected the album to sound like that. Its described as introspective sad girl album. The album will be filled with these piano-driven ballads.

[UltraviolentJack 2,811]

Jack Antonoff is not exactly known for psychedelic guitar-driven music. I dont know why you expected the album to sound like that. Its described as introspective sad girl album. The album will be filled with these piano-driven ballads.

And therefore will flop. These songs are okay but don't have a very well structured melody. In the end they all kind of end up sounding the same.

[Beautiful Loser 48,827]

Jack Antonoff is not exactly known for psychedelic guitar-driven music. I dont know why you expected the album to sound like that. Its described as introspective sad girl album. The album will be filled with these piano-driven ballads.

Because Venice Bitch fooled us all and put us in a spell we can’t get out of.

[Wynwood 19,967]

HIAB is cute but is this album just piano? wheres the laurel canyon vibe she was talking about?? the surf guitars??

[Flowerbomb 65,594]

Jack Antonoff is not exactly known for psychedelic guitar-driven music. I dont know why you expected the album to sound like that. Its described as introspective sad girl album. The album will be filled with these piano-driven ballads.

 

Because Lana literally said in the radio interview that it would be a similar vibe to RHCP?

[Wynwood 19,967]

Jack Antonoff is not exactly known for psychedelic guitar-driven music. I dont know why you expected the album to sound like that. Its described as introspective sad girl album. The album will be filled with these piano-driven ballads.

we expected it to sound psychedelic and guitar driven because thats how lana described the album in the interviews in september

 

its like y'all forget there were 2 interviews in september where in one of them she revealed the album title and the sound of the album