Norman Fucking Rockwell - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[Beautiful Loser 48,620]

My brother said he’d listen to NFR! since it got such a high score on metacritic! I’ve caught him playing Million Dollar Man before so I hope he’ll like the album too!

Update: He said he liked Venice Biiiiitch!

[UltraHeroin 8,803]

Venice bitch being confused about some people having OpiNiOns about it: 

 

[Cinnamon In My Bussy 85]

Ugh Bartender is STILL that song I skip everytime it comes on

[LanaBoi 1,810]

I disagree. God Only Knows has a completely different sound - it is far more upbeat and surfy. There is literally no similarity between the two songs at all, other than the fact that they both have bells. Maybe God Only Knows is what they were going for, but if so, it didn't work.

 

Honestly, if you're gonna say that it sounds like God Only Knows then it's also fair to say that it sounds like Jingle Bells, because it's about as similar to the former as it is to the latter.

 

 

Didn't say they had the same sound, but that doesn't prevent the use of sleigh bells from being (as I said) a nod to the Beach Boys who used them in multiple songs including Dance, Dance, Dance, I Can Hear Music and God Only Knows. 

[TangerineDreams 937]

Venice bitch being confused about some people having OpiNiOns about it: 

 

They had one year, one whole year, they're way beyond saving now

[house of balloons 12,792]

not gonna lie, i expected half the album to age with time

 

it just got better 

[WildMustang 14,758]

I need the bartender and Venice bitch instrumentals

[Pink Champagne 9,441]

A friend just quoted Hope on Facebook. The taste jumped OUT

[picturebook 900]

What happened to the the pink vinyl from the Netherlands that sold out the same day? 

[Pink Champagne 9,441]

Hiiiii, well I’ve never been worse, but the picture was shared on twitter by @officialcharts who awarded her the trophy

Hope you’re feeling better today <3

[renaissance 8,329]

not gonna lie, i expected half the album to age with time

 

it just got better 

Agreed! I haven't listened for a few days cause so much new music came out over the last few days but I'm currently relistening and WOW I'm FLOORED again it's like listening for the first time lmao

[Edelgard 1,819]

What happened to the the pink vinyl from the Netherlands that sold out the same day?

 

It was just the UO Vinyl

[Creyk 11,677]

The intelligence in Bartender's lyrics, I can't

[Vertimus 9,547]

I'm not surprised LDR was angry about the Ann Powers review on NPR.

 

It's fine for Powers to intellectualize and analyze as she did in the review and to publish her thoughts--those are her interpretations, perceptions and standards--but to hold LDR, or any other artist, to those standards, or particular vision, when those interpretations are that complex and that individualized is absurd.

 

LDR is not Ann Powers, just as Powers is not LDR and does not have LDR's often-extraordinary music talent. LDR is a pop star who is also branching out into other kinds of writing, like poetry, and artist. LDR's talent would probably come to a screeching halt if she tried to 'intellectualize' her every creative impulse to attempt to meet some sort of impossibly high standard that in fact has nothing to do with her life or even with music ` that in fact, belongs to someone else. A massive case of writer's block would result, even if only temporary. 

 

I say, 'Art For Art's Sake,' first and always, and then yes, let the artist take responsibility for whatever she or he creates, as art that is made public in any way does not exist in a vacuum. 

 

I think of really creative artists like Blondie and Kate Bush, who have written songs about virtually everything--adult/child sexual attraction (Bush, 'The Infant Kiss'), alien abduction (Blondie, 'Shayla'), sister-brother incest and suicide (Bush, 'The Kick Inside'), the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (Blondie, 'War Child'), death pacts between young lovers (Blondie, 'Suzy & Jeffrey'), bank robberies (Blondie, 'The Hardest Part,' Bush, 'There Goes A Tenner'), sound weapons created by the government used against the public (Bush, 'Experiment IV'), Wilhelm Reich (Bush, 'Cloudbusting'), the end of the world by meteor and by nuclear war (Bush, 'Hello Earth' and 'Breathing'), seductive computer programs that paralyze the user (Bush, 'Deeper Understanding'), sex for sale (Blondie, 'Call Me'), blue collar life (Blondie, 'Union City Blues'), etc.--that have had absolute creative freedom to write about whatever interests them at the moment or strikes their fancy. The burden of history should not rest on their shoulders every time they pick up their pen or sit at their keyboard. 

 

Elisabeth Grant, over the course of her musical career, including before she became LDR, has written about a great number of things, and I have been saddened to see the scope of her writing getting narrower with time and with what seems like necessary seriousness ~ thus I am happy with the ending of 'The Greatest,' which suggests she and others are watching the end of Earth from another planet. Serious yes, but visionary and literally other-worldly. 

[enchaunted 106]

i've made a mashup back in 2017, and i just noticed that this mashup is kind of "dark paradise (NFR version)" lol this would really fit in nfr 

https://youtu.be/FXIdOeAGSKI

[picturebook 900]

Maybe it's just me but I am only able to listen to Lana's album since it leaked. I only listened to Melanie's album once and didn't watch the film. Also I did not listen to Taylor's new album more than once. Also many singles dropped...I am like: WTF I don't wanna lose time with basic music- want to listen to Norman FUCKING Rockwell.

[WildMustang 14,758]

The piano in bartender gives me Japanese lullaby vibes don't ask me why

[bartenders 1,206]

i think nfr is starting to age for me     it doesnt feel THAT great anymore, but i guess its natural to not be so hyped about an album after the release.

[enchaunted 106]

Maybe it's just me but I am only able to listen to Lana's album since it leaked. I only listened to Melanie's album once and didn't watch the film. Also I did not listen to Taylor's new album more than once. Also many singles dropped...I am like: WTF I don't wanna lose time with basic music- want to listen to Norman FUCKING Rockwell.

 

 

omg you are the coolest one. like, wow what a cool human being. trash everything except lana! yes. that's definitely what we should do.

[Fingertips 72,034]

i think nfr is starting to age for me     it doesnt feel THAT great anymore, but i guess its natural to not be so hyped about an album after the release.

and then they switch like *******