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Norman Fucking Rockwell - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

Norman Fucking Rockwell!  

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  1. 1. What are your favourite tracks from NFR?

    • Norman Fucking Rockwell
      379
    • Mariners Apartment Complex
      396
    • Venice Bitch
      569
    • Fuck It, I Love You
      362
    • Doin' Time
      256
    • Love Song
      346
    • Cinnamon Girl
      515
    • How to Disappear
      238
    • California
      540
    • The Next Best American Record
      209
    • The Greatest
      523
    • Bartender
      379
    • Happiness is a Butterfly
      385
    • hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it
      247


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Hi I'm Foxglove and I have not listened to Norman Fucking Rockwell in 27 days.  I can't believe I used to be the person who would find myself curled up on the kitchen floor, headphones in, listening to Mariner's Apartment Complex in the dark.  I knew I was at a completely new low desperate point when I burned a CD of the potato quality leak of the album recorded on a phone by Cassette Girl and listened to it over and over in my car.......  I want to thank this group for helping me recognize that even though I've suffered from horrible taste in many dark times in my life, I have the power within to break this addiction.  I never thought I would come this far, and I'm making a solemn promise to myself and my loved ones to keep going and only listen to good music with actual meaning.  Thank you so much for your support

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sometimes I think about the cinnamon girl snippets and im like "o its not that different from the final" then I actually play the snippets and BITCHHHH  :defeated: why would she make the bass and distortion so fucking quiet it was so good before and now it just feels flat 


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sometimes I think about the cinnamon girl snippets and im like "o its not that different from the final" then I actually play the snippets and BITCHHHH  :defeated: why would she make the bass and distortion so fucking quiet it was so good before and now it just feels flat 

 

totally agree, before NFR came out I was listening all the time to a fanmade edit of the song made from the snippets and I was so excited for the song

 

when the real song came out I was so disappointed. I liked it less than the fanmade one

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sometimes I think about the cinnamon girl snippets and im like "o its not that different from the final" then I actually play the snippets and BITCHHHH :defeated: why would she make the bass and distortion so fucking quiet it was so good before and now it just feels flat

I think it was just because she played it in her car and because of the phone quality tbh. I agree the bass sounded louder in the snippets but I don’t think it really was louder in reality


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Withstanding all the time, changes and seasons

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsJV_s0TZ18&t=1004s

 

Don't know if this review had been discussed yet here, but it's one of the few ones that doesn't adhere to the mainstream view about the album (the "incredible masterpiece" "second coming after Christ" thing), and it also highlights many of the flaws that some of us have highlighted about it since the beggining. The guys reviewing are very funny, and it's even funnier to see how pissed the people are in the comments about their review. Check it if you haven't, sure a nice thing to entertain to during quarantine ;)

 

8 days late sorry but those guys are goddam stupid. and not bc of this review (i watched it when they put it out) but they know nothing

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8 days late sorry but those guys are goddam stupid. and not bc of this review (i watched it when they put it out) but they know nothing

 

I don't know them except from this review, so can't judge about how much they know or don't know about whatever, yet I found the review funny and somehow brave -as they went against all the big critics in the industry, who exposed exactly the opposite vision about the album-.

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I think it was just because she played it in her car and because of the phone quality tbh. I agree the bass sounded louder in the snippets but I don’t think it really was louder in reality

 

Same, I think it was due to the distortion of playing it in her car and the microphone in her iPhone distorting it again.... 

Oh and something to add, I love that we got this album almost with everything she promised. There were no snippets or name drops of songs that didn't end up on it, or her talking about her fave songs on the album only to not have them on the album. I guess the only thing was the production of How to disappear changing, but that quickly grew on me anyway (though I'd love to hear a studio piano version). 


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It's so weird how the Submlime documentary Lana specifically recorded Doin' Time for has STILL not been publicly released... It only ever did film festival circuits (and received pretty poor reviews). I want to see it!


"It's 2011, and we should all be aware of exactly how fast technology is developing" - Lana Del Rey

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i can now officially say that i am a fan of "fuck it i love you". a bop! i love the surfy guitar and i'd love for her to experiment with that kind of instrumentation more in the future.

Tea! My fav song alongside TG and Mariners.

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So. Oddly enough and maybe im not alone in feeling like this but. Does anyone else remember how we literally waited over a year for the album? After all the snippets and early singles. It sorta feels the same w isolation. and I keep thinking about the places I felt magic w certain songs and all that like. This is a great record to store memories to, and I keep going back to the metaphorical islands of refuge the album trailer mentioned. Girl next door beach city Lana served.  



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Doin' Time had the potential to get one of her biggest hits like Summertime Sadness. They sent it only to "alternative" radio stations if I remember correctly. They should have sent it to bigger radio stations as well. I talked to my best friend today and Doin' Time was playing in the background and she usually doesn't listen to Lana at all. This reminded me that I could have been a bigger hit than is it. But we know Lanas Team/ Management :scoff:

Lana doesn't need to have big hits on the radio but it would have been nice.  The only songs I hear on the radio of her are Summertime Sadness and Video Games (at least in my country). I don't listen to the radio that often but it would be nice if they would play a newer song from Lana even it's a sublime cover.


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"Swan Song. It’s on my album Honeymoon. It’s the antithesis of hopefulness. It’s about trying to find beauty in giving up. If I had my way, I would continue to persist in all areas of my life, but it can be quite challenging because I can be too trusting too soon."

 

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