TEMPORARY Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 19th, 2021

[Poor Stacy 12,096]

I fucking hate The Guardian. They gave NFR 3 stars and I remember fuming. I actually wrote a response in their comments politely collecting Alexis.  

If they don't give her 4 stars this time I'm going to go postal.

[menslayer 19,175]

does Complex review albums? and if it does, do they count for MC?

[barttttender 5,448]

52 minutes ago, Br00klynbaby said:

THE TIMES:Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Country Club review — the artist launches her best image yet. Herself

(4/5 STARS)

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Ever since she made a big splash in 2011 with Video Games, a song so moody and glamorous it could have been a figment of David Lynch’s imagination, Lana Del Rey has been an unsettling star. Variously written off as inauthentic, anti-feminist, narcissistic and irresponsible (for saying she wanted to die, an interviewer’s misinterpretation as it turned out), she hasn’t had an easy ride. And the albums have been up and down, from the lows of the VIP-area-friendly Lust for Life in 2017 to the highs of Norman F***ing Rockwell!, a vision of America in crisis, in 2019 . Now, having tried on all kinds of costumes, Del Rey has a new look: herself.

 

Set to the kind of plaintive songwriting that Joni Mitchell and Carole King did so well in the early 1970s, Chemtrails Over the Country Club turns the lens on to Del Rey’s past. It begins with her voice struggling at the top of its range on White Dress, bringing previously unheard vulnerability as she reminisces about being 19, working as a waitress, listening to the White Stripes and plying her wares at a music business conference, a glimpse of innocence before fame and its attendant tensions took over. It is very moving.

From there the album moves on to Chemtrails Over the Country Club, its title evoking the failure of luxury to erase paranoia, with images of Del Rey swimming in the pool in her jewellery, drag racing in her sports car and generally leading a privileged life that’s tinged with ennui. There’s a romantic but tragic vision of America throughout, from Tulsa Jesus Freak’s tale of an affair with an alcoholic Bible basher to a ghostly ballad called Yosemite, on which Del Rey sings in pure but resigned tones: “You made me feel invincible, like a candle in the wind.”

Every now and then you wish for a change in mood, something upbeat to bring balance, but for the most part the decision to keep things simple and subdued works. The Portishead-like Dark But Just a Game was inspired by Del Rey meeting a one-time hero of hers and finding them to be quite unpleasant, and her subsequent resolve to treat fame as a game that isn’t worth losing yourself over.

Dance Till We Die pays tribute to Mitchell, Joan Baez and Stevie Nicks before giving way to a cover of For Free, Mitchell’s 1970 song about being paid handsomely in a concert while an equally talented busker on the New York street plays clarinet outside for nothing. “They knew he had never been on the TV so they passed his music by,” sings Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, a guest on the track. “He was playing real good for free.” So ends an album about the price of fame, the purity of art and the cost of living, beautifully executed, thoughtfully realised. (Polydor)

 

 

what a brilliant review. Basically summed up all my thoughts and feelings about the album. I love it even more now.

[littleredpartydress 49,899]

2 minutes ago, Poor Stacy said:

I fucking hate The Guardian. They gave NFR 3 stars and I remember fuming. I actually wrote a response in their comments politely dragging Alexis.  

If they don't give her 4 stars this time I'm going to go postal.

that guy is a POS. he gives EVERY female pop-adjacent album a 3 or lower and the review always reeks of sexism  

 

 

[necessary sacrifice 8,866]

19 minutes ago, littleredpartydress said:

im cringing that author reviewed for free as if it was her song, and even compared it to joni, not realizing it was a cover of a joni song

 

this is why critics are meaningless, even if they do give good reviews  

The worst part is they’re comparing For Free to Joni, but saying Joni’s perspective would’ve been different.....? Proof that critics just put Joni up on a pedestal to bring other artists down without actually being familiar with her art. 

[Lustformoney 41,574]

i cant believe its over in few hours i already listened but i feel like it will be the first time

[Beautiful Loser 50,496]

I just know that Lana’s going to be mad at the times if she reads their review and the line about her trying on several costumes before finding herself.

[EndlessSummer 3,540]

summer, summer is almost gone...

[venicesnitch 107]

Will it be released locally at midnight or will it be worldwide? I know it didn’t come out midnight in NZ but I need one more delusional meltdown 

[COCC 29,554]

 

Omg (and they have 1.5 mio followers on twitter) 

[IanadeIrey 62,157]

Just now, venicesnitch said:

Will it be released locally at midnight or will it be worldwide? I know it didn’t come out midnight in NZ but I need one more delusional meltdown 

Worldwide! It’s coming in 9 hours and 17 minutes!  

[littleredpartydress 49,899]

2 minutes ago, COCC said:

 

Omg (and they have 1.5 mio followers on twitter) 

the first positive article posted about her to twitter in 11 (?) months

 

we won besties

[prettywhenimhigh 49,512]

I just want to sleep and only wake up once I'm ready to press play on the album 

[IanadeIrey 62,157]

7 minutes ago, Clampigirl said:

I just know that Lana’s going to be mad at the times if she reads their review and the line about her trying on several costumes before finding herself.

I know, right? As she should be! I would be too!  imagine being in the game for 10+ years, putting your life and love out there more vulnerably than what is considered socially acceptable in the music industry, being ridiculed for it for 7 years, and then finally be respected for your work only to later have it discredited as a mere “costume”.

 

I feel like reviewers say tactless s*** like this all the time in efforts to sound intelligent or to have what they would consider a “thought-provoking opinion” when in reality it reads as pretentious and rude. ;( 

[Lustformoney 41,574]

what if nothing happens at midnight est? we've been fooled so many times so i can really see this happening

[past the bushes 30,940]

can't wait to sing DATMIMBC and DIOIWON again

[Flowerbomb 65,597]

1 minute ago, Lustformoney said:

what if nothing happens at midnight est? we've been fooled too many times

 

Then listen to the leaks bestie. The vinyls have already gotten into some stans hands anyway 

[DCooper 37,403]

1 minute ago, IanadeIrey said:

As she should be! I would be too!  imagine being in the game for 10+ years, putting your life and love out there more vulnerably than what is considered socially acceptable in the music industry, being ridiculed for it for 7 years, and then finally be respected for your work only to later have it discredited as a mere “costume”.

 

I feel like reviewers say tactless shit like this all the time in efforts to sound intelligent or to have what they would consider a “thought-provoking opinion” when in reality it reads as pretentious and rude. ;( 

 

Agreed! I also think they're trying to justify their previous treatment of her, implying that it's okay that she was ridiculed for years because she wasn't authentic back then, but now that she's finally "found herself" she's earned their respect or something. It's ridiculous. 

[littleredpartydress 49,899]

2 minutes ago, Lustformoney said:

what if nothing happens at midnight est? we've been fooled so many times so i can really see this happening

she can no longer fool us

 

if it hadnt leaked already i would be nervous but idgaf at this point!

[whiteroses 860]

re-listening to the title track and LMLYLAW and wow the title track is really that bitch