Chemtrails Over the Country Club - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[HighbytheSea 4,783]

OK. 4th listen and YOSEMITE. This is tragic. This one cuts without provocation. Her clear vocals, the emotions bleeding right from the heart, the deceptively simple prose, cus when you cut to the heart, it's our most simple pleas left. And we did it for fun, we did it for free we did it for the right reasons. F*CCXXKKKKKKK

[Thick Cocc 33]

4 minutes ago, Max said:

With a face like that, you're bound to be bitter about Lana's music. I feel like he wakes up at night just to hate on her.

 

ears that big and he still can't hear... sad. 

[longtimeman 7,962]

1 minute ago, Max said:

Not shaming his looks, Mr. Petridis just looks bitter AF. He radiates bitterness.

Gotcha. He really is the epitome of the old joke "why do people hate him as soon as they see his face? It's to save time."

[Churchome Rep 3,186]

Wow Alexis’s hate boner for Lana allows him to tank her Metacritic scores. They should weight it on a reviewer curve lol

[Nobody 21,298]

Did he even listen to White Dress 

[paradisetropico 7,379]

Just now, Surf Noir said:

why can't she just write about love & romance, while also being melancholy and vulnerable without being scruntized? there's nothing wrong with writing about love and being vulnerable in your art... 

THIS !!!!! THIS !!!!! THIS !!!!! why do some women in alt music not get torn apart the way she does? it must be because of her looks ? I seriously cannot think of another reason? 

[sparklingclementines 95]

1 minute ago, Surf Noir said:

why can't she just write about love & romance, while also being melancholy and vulnerable without being scruntinized? there's nothing wrong with writing about love and being vulnerable in your art... 

It's misogyny, if lana was male her music would be hailed as revolutionary

[Anthony 3,342]

10 minutes ago, Poor Stacy said:

Another 3 star review from Alexis, who apparently thinks the album is about "the same old love story again". What a fucking idiot, lol.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/19/lana-del-rey-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-review

 

The only criticism that I don't even care to read... ??

[ShadesOfFool 18,774]

Just now, paradisetropico said:

THIS !!!!! THIS !!!!! THIS !!!!! why do some women in alt music not get torn apart the way she does? it must be because of her looks ? I seriously cannot think of another reason? 

It’s because they take a stronger feminist stance 

[Fingertips 72,093]

None of these songs scream "same old love song over and over again." Worms for brains.

[Nobody 21,298]

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/lana-del-rey-review-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-b1819131.html

 

5 stars

[Poor Stacy 11,989]

Sorry to keep focusing on the reviews, lol, but the Pitchfork one is ridiculous. The more I read it, the more irritated I get. The interviewer is basically declaring her a racist, suggesting Lana she uses American symbolism to uphold white supremacy through her art ddddd:

 

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In 2017, Lana told Pitchfork that the American flag was no longer going to be a part of her live performances for fear of indicating national pride during the Trump era, but there was still one billowing on the cover of 2019’s Norman Fucking Rockwell!, and there may as well be one on the front of Chemtrails as well. (There actually is a flag hidden on the back.) She can’t help it: No muse speaks louder to Lana than the promised land, where cities are metaphors, its dead are its gods, and she, its glamorous Orpheus.

 

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Lana the artist and Lana the woman have been extraordinarily compelling as of late. Not because it’s in any way satisfying to see such a singular talent gesture so blatantly toward her own fragility and fear—off her albums, at least—but because she consistently manages to reflect back a very particular portrait of the country she holds so close. Chemtrails’ vision may be roaming, but the artist’s remains impressively narrow.

 

And then beginning with this quote:
 

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“For people who stormed the Capitol, it’s dissociated rage. They want to wild out somewhere! It’s like, we don’t know how to find the ways to be wild in our world….and at the same time, the world is so wild.”

 

And tying it into:
 

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To paraphrase Lana, it is definitely difficult to articulate one’s wildness, especially for those so inherently wild at heart. 

Along with the last sentence:
 

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What is lucid, though, is that Lana Del Rey’s inheritance has always been truly American—and everything we’ve seen in recent memory confirms how disarmingly, specifically American she’s become.

Yikes. Anyone else reading between the lines here? I totally get why that writer's being dragged. I hope Lana doesn't read it. She'll be fuming. 

[EndlessSummer 3,389]

#1 on US and UK iTunes!!!!

[Cloudbusting 5,383]

2 minutes ago, Nobody said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/lana-del-rey-review-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-b1819131.html

 

5 stars

 

Period! Do we know if it counts for metacritic?

[HighbytheSea 4,783]

2 minutes ago, Nobody said:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/lana-del-rey-review-chemtrails-over-the-country-club-b1819131.html

 

5 stars

That's more like it! It is. My god it is. 

[EndlessSummer 3,389]

1 minute ago, Roctab said:

 

Period! Do we know if it counts for metacritic?

Yup they gave NFR 80!

[Nobody 21,298]

1 minute ago, Roctab said:

 

Period! Do we know if it counts for metacritic?

 

it does 

[Fingertips 72,093]

Just now, EndlessSummer said:

Yup they gave NFR 80!

Oh wow oh wow 

[Cloudbusting 5,383]

Just now, EndlessSummer said:

Yup they gave NFR 80!

 

Just now, Nobody said:

 

it does 

 

[CinnamonGay 10,513]

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