Norman Fucking Rockwell - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[hippo 564]

Since the studio version has this christmas vibe, I actually like playing it even more nowadays that we are officially in the christmas season

I think this cover is amazing. It was briefly on youtube, but deleted shortly after. Luckily I snatched the audio real quick

 

https://dbree.org/v/2765db

 

ugh fuck yes

so needed this

 

thank you! 

[Make me your Dream Life 83,089]

Appreciation post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg3DxELVPj4 wth just like- ageless 

[FallingCherry 7,731]

Looking back, so many people here were complaining about how the album was released almost a year after the first single, but I have the feeling that 2019 was a total mess for music in general. So many artists made the public wait months and months between the first single and the album. And look at Zara Larsson, even worse; she released Ruin My Life in October last year and she haven't even announced the album yet. So I feel like we weren't that unlucky with NFR in the end LOL

[sjatib 5,030]

It's a great cover! I love his voice. Not a fan of the arrangement. The key change and the strings make it sound quite cinematic to me, which I don't think fit the song. Would've been a good arrangement for Honeymoon! The song is meant to be raw and the instrumental powerful. But I love how he still brings the emotions. He felt it which is important. If you don't feel a song, it doesn't sound the same when you sing it. There are tons of covers on YouTube that people praise because of amazing vocals or high notes, but that are lifeless to me. So yeah, he did a good job! Thanks for sharing

 

Edit: I also listened to his cover of HTD and it's so emotional. A really talented guy

 

I don't really think the cover sounds too cinematic -very under  Lana's standards on that dept., at least-, or not too much to sound out of place on NFR. It's actually the kind of big but down to earth sound I thought we were going to get when we first heard the snippets from Love Song ("In your car", by that times) and California itself, and both songs ended up being a big dissapointment to me. I think that the message and the sonority of California fit much more to a kind of ballad sound, and hearing it as a rock track sounded quite forced for me, which is one of the reasons I dislike that track. Like, I'd quite prefered it sounding as a beautiful and honest redemption song (with a production way more cared about than the one that we ended up getting), a bit cinematic maybe, but not bombastic or barroque, lets say.Something in the vein of how MAC sounds, maybe. That would have done for a more cohesive album, also ( I think that California is with Doin Time the song that's the most out of place of NFR, in sound terms). After listening to this guys cover, I got to think that California could work incredibly as a gospel song. Maybe someday someone will give us that kind of cover, I'd truly love to hear it!

[FallingCherry 7,731]

I went to a FNAC in France and they're playing Venice Bitch in full!! Taste!! I had never heard it anywhere before!

 

Edit: they're actually playing the full album! What a surprise <333

[daphnedinkley 12,395]

listening to the album on my stereo rn as i clean my room and honestly, what a lovely fkn album. the only song i really skip these days is Love Song. even California and TNBAR, which i didn't care for before, i don't skip. it's so nice to listen to this album as a full body of work  i particularly enjoy the flow from the end of Cinnamon Girl to the start of How To Disappear, it just works so well even though the two styles of song are different.

[SparkleJumpropeNoose 8,748]

Appreciation post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg3DxELVPj4 wth just like- ageless 

wait why is the venice bitch video kinda a serve minus the parts with that vile cheap film filter

[Veinsineon 70,376]

The fact that everyone is just now realizing Venice Bitch is one of her best songs

[Thunder Revenant 20,680]

The fact that everyone is just now realizing Venice Bitch is one of her best songs

Lol whut? People have been overrating it since the moment it was released

[Gone user 5,367]

Lol whut? People have been overrating it since the moment it was released

 

Yes this is exactly what i thought lol VB was like 1 week old and people were already calling it her best song ever made

[Terrence Loves Me 71,604]

thinking about nfr music video...

[Tammy 2,291]

'California', I hope she will perform the whole song on her European tour, and I really really hope people won't ruin it with their flat singing like...

 

 

[West Coast 44,802]

Yes this is exactly what i thought lol VB was like 1 week old and people were already calling it her best song ever made

 

Venice Bitch is obviously a great song, but it's clearly not her strongest lyrical effort, let's be real. Also, the long/hazy/dry musical outro basically beefs up what is a pretty ordinary song to begin with. Just because it's ten minutes long, doesn't make it one of her best song. 

[Gone user 5,367]

Venice Bitch is obviously a great song, but it's clearly not her strongest lyrical effort, let's be real. Also, the long/hazy/dry musical outro basically beefs up what is a pretty ordinary song to begin with. Just because it's ten minutes long, doesn't make it one of her best song. 

 

P R E A C H

[ArtDecoDelRey 15,242]

thinking about nfr music video...

lana is not

[West Coast 44,802]

P R E A C H

 

I mean... lovely song, but I rarely make it past 5 minutes. 

[Gone user 5,367]

I mean... lovely song, but I rarely make it past 5 minutes. 

 

i rarely make it past the 2 minutes mark 

[West Coast 44,802]

i rarely make it past the 2 minutes mark 

 

oops 

[Make me your Dream Life 83,089]

wait why is the venice bitch video kinda a serve minus the parts with that vile cheap film filter

I've a love/hate relationship w that of the vid yeah 

[GeminiLanaFan 45,766]

Venice Bitch is one of the three songs from NFR where the lyrics create a mood rather than tell a story (the other 2 being Fuck It I Love You and Cinnamon Girl). That song is genius and innovative for her for the musical take-off. I just get totally lost in the musical part when I drive. Plus the trippy California vibes are just quintessential Lana. To me, it’s one for the best songs on NFR and one of the best arguments for AOTY Grammy nom. This is also where she earns her alternative title when categorizing her music.