Norman Fucking Rockwell - Pre-Release Thread

[softcore babyface 4,376]

So is livestream the new red party dress, pale moonlight, mid july, summertime or.....

[Nobody 21,511]

1. Lana Del Rey – “The Greatest”

“I’m wasted.” “Me and my friends, we miss rock ‘n’ roll.” “The culture is lit, and if this is it, I had a ball.” If you were to hear any of your friends drunkenly slur those words tonight, you would feel nothing but shame and pity and embarrassment. Lana Del Rey sings all of these lines on “The Greatest,” and she doesn’t just get away with them. She makes them sound like end-times profundities. Such is the power of Lana Del Rey in 2019. She can imply that the late Dennis Wilson is now in the place that the Beach Boys sang about on their most detested song — one that they recorded years after Wilson died. She can also follow up “Kanye West is blonde and gone” with “‘Life On Mars?’ ain’t just a song.” She can do anything. She’s a wizard.

 

“The Greatest” is a gauzy ballad about the apocalypse — about savoring all the memories of decadence you have accumulated, since you’re sure these will be the last memories of decadence that anyone gets to enjoy. That’s a hell of a burden for a song. But torch-crooning over Jack Antonoff’s funeral pianos and reverb-dazzled guitar-howls, she makes anxiety sound like acceptance. If that’s not a superhuman feat, I don’t know what is. –Tom

 

https://www.stereogum.com/2055837/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-301/franchises/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/

 

Acclaimed legend 

 

Poor FIILY though

[necessary sacrifice 8,865]

I listened to California and Bartender...

 

 

holy shit these two are great. I can’t even imagine the heart attack I’ll get when hearing them in high quality. I’m gonna listen to them one more time and delete them. I refuse to listen to the whole album though since How to Disappear didn’t leak and that would drive me mad. Anyway, idek how I’ll pick favourites when the album comes out because everything I’ve heard so far is overwhelmingly beautiful.

 

[American Whore 51,313]

So is livestream the new red party dress, pale moonlight, mid july, summertime or.....

Also boulevard too

[Chestnut Fox Sexy Jesus 3,026]

[house of balloons 12,792]

I know this sounds made up but I beg you to trust me when I say that I, a resident in a tiny town in this small country, once saw a middle aged woman drive a convertible in the opposite direction of the one way street I live in, full speed, while blasting In My Feelings through the speakers. It couldn't be from a radio station, she's probably the only other stan around. I feared her, but I also welcome her as my future self.

a brave soldier she is 

[Jared 3,131]

 

1. Lana Del Rey – “The Greatest”

“I’m wasted.” “Me and my friends, we miss rock ‘n’ roll.” “The culture is lit, and if this is it, I had a ball.” If you were to hear any of your friends drunkenly slur those words tonight, you would feel nothing but shame and pity and embarrassment. Lana Del Rey sings all of these lines on “The Greatest,” and she doesn’t just get away with them. She makes them sound like end-times profundities. Such is the power of Lana Del Rey in 2019. She can imply that the late Dennis Wilson is now in the place that the Beach Boys sang about on their most detested song — one that they recorded years after Wilson died. She can also follow up “Kanye West is blonde and gone” with “‘Life On Mars?’ ain’t just a song.” She can do anything. She’s a wizard.

 

“The Greatest” is a gauzy ballad about the apocalypse — about savoring all the memories of decadence you have accumulated, since you’re sure these will be the last memories of decadence that anyone gets to enjoy. That’s a hell of a burden for a song. But torch-crooning over Jack Antonoff’s funeral pianos and reverb-dazzled guitar-howls, she makes anxiety sound like acceptance. If that’s not a superhuman feat, I don’t know what is. –Tom

 

https://www.stereogum.com/2055837/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week-301/franchises/the-5-best-songs-of-the-week/

 

Acclaimed legend 

 

Poor FIILY though

 

 

[Make me your Dream Life 87,782]

Pretty much six days at this point sis

Bitch. Im fucking FLOORED

It was my local CD store.

I see, i see. Ok got it thanks!

[War In My Mind 2,999]

Hey everyone - sorry, off topic. Is anyone French here or has anyone managed to get the pre sale code for the show in Paris? I bought the album but I think I bought it from the wrong store and now I don’t have a pre sale code for the show in Paris. If any of you are planning on buying early entries can you please give me a shout? I would really appreciate it

im not french and live nowhere near anywhere she is having a show (god hates the midwest) but 

bonjour

[WilshireBoulevard 5,420]

The UK is the new Los Angeles.

 

Y'all get merch we don't and UO exclusives, let us have the i love citrus dress

[ArtDecoDelRey 15,284]

ugh the greatest song of all time

[ChicaCherryCola 1,393]

Hey everyone - sorry, off topic. Is anyone French here or has anyone managed to get the pre sale code for the show in Paris? I bought the album but I think I bought it from the wrong store and now I don’t have a pre sale code for the show in Paris. If any of you are planning on buying early entries can you please give me a shout? I would really appreciate it

Is it the same code they were sending to our email before the other shows? Mine is unused, if you want it, PM me!

[Lust 4,031]

I really want to get the glittery cassette, do y'all know any way to get it outside the UK? and also, if Annie premiers NFR on Tuesday, will the quality be pretty bad? it's an online stream so it shouldn't be thaat bad right?

[amostori 780]

I really want to get the glittery cassette, do y'all know any way to get it outside the UK? and also, if Annie premiers NFR on Tuesday, will the quality be pretty bad? it's an online stream so it shouldn't be thaat bad right?

 

i know that there r sellers on depop from the uk that will buy them and send them when they're released!

[necessary sacrifice 8,865]

I like singing Fuck it I Love You as “Finky I Love You” to my cat and she really likes it too. I’m grateful Lana wrote a chorus so easy to use my cat’s name in.

[transfemmefatale 246]

Wait people don’t like In My Feelings??? That’s like my favorite song from L4L, the level of fed up she is, is so refreshing to hear. It’s such a cathartic song about female anger and the men who don’t deserve us.

[ChicaCherryCola 1,393]

I really want to get the glittery cassette, do y'all know any way to get it outside the UK? and also, if Annie premiers NFR on Tuesday, will the quality be pretty bad? it's an online stream so it shouldn't be thaat bad right?

Cassete: you can have it reshipped from her original UK store! Just use a service that ships it to a UK warehouse first, and then they forward it to you. But it might be quite pric$y.

NFR: the BBC website seemed to have pretty good audio quality for me! At least it won't be a phone record from a K7.

[WilshireBoulevard 5,420]

I really want to get the glittery cassette, do y'all know any way to get it outside the UK? and also, if Annie premiers NFR on Tuesday, will the quality be pretty bad? it's an online stream so it shouldn't be thaat bad right?

 

There are services with UK addresses that will ship it to you for an extra cost someone in here should know, if not figuring out what to google shouldn't be too hard

[Nobody 21,511]

She might've actually topped Venice Bitch with The greatest 

 

[amostori 780]

still cannot believe lana actually put 

"you act like a kid even though you stand six foot two"

in a song what an honest legend