Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Pre-Release Thread: OUT March 24th, 2023

[huxter]

11 minutes ago, huxter said:

It is nice, but I am sorry to say this, it doesn't come close to Ultraviolence or Norman! 

 

In one of the songs she samples Venice Bitch and that brings lava of emotions from 2019. Proves how good Norman is and how hard is to reach that kind of quality. 
This new album is just fusion of Chemtrails and Banisters... though three new singles are quite good, I expected much more! 

[CVNTDELREY]

The cvnt she’s serving is unbelievable 

[Lustformoney]

Went back to read the AW release reactions… the collapse of the century and her best song fr

[barttttender]

1 minute ago, huxter said:

 

In one of the songs she samples Venice Bitch and that brings lava of emotions from 2019. Proves how good Norman is and how hard is to reach that kind of quality. 
This new album is just fusion of Chemtrails and Banisters... though three new singles are quite good, I expected much more! 

 

 

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You're being a little harsh. With tracks like Ocean Boulevard, Paris, Texas, Taco Truck and Grandfather, this album is miles better than Blue Banisters. The title track alone is one of the best songs she's ever written and Taco Truck is simply epic. 

 

I do agree with you that it doesn't hit the consistency in quality that Norman has throughout. it' also definitely has super weak spots (the interludes and Fingertips). But if you're going to compare it to lesser albums, at least compare it to Chemtrails and Honeymoon, not BB.

 

[Lustformoney]

11 minutes ago, barttttender said:

 

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Thank you. It's literally a chore to listen to. Her worst since Coachella. Why is everyone raving about it?

 

Cuz lb is full of positive hags who would stream her farts (before i get dragged im not saying the song bad) im sure the song will get better when i memorize the lyrics aka in 5 years maybe

[Heartlines]

1 hour ago, HighbytheSea said:

Hol up, who tf is left that hasn't listened? I haven't even listened to The Grants yet! When it dropped i had this calm just wash over me, saying I don't need to listen to it, and wait until the album. She's done her opener as a single for so many albums, but I feel this ones strength-its power. I know it's going to be overwhelming on first listen, but is that not what we want from someone like her? To have this entire project presented in full in high quality, a proper collapse, reeling from the song prior and being thrown into the next.

 

It seems this album created a snippet hunt fest and what is left for everyone on release day? Just a hq version of everything heard? Could never be me, but I fully understand the fever cus this classic is coming. I am so. Fuckin. Ready. SIDE C SUPREMACY BABIES I know it I know it I know it. Paris, Texas is mine.

 

I haven't listened to The Grants either. I told myself if she releases the first song or the last song on OB I wouldn't listen and I'll save it for release day. What an experience it'll be..I even stopped listening to OB and A&W back in February so those tracks can feel fresh and new. Amazed at my self control tbh, lol but it does feel like time is going by painfully slow but I know it'll be worth it once it's out. 

[blackpalmtrees]

14 minutes ago, barttttender said:

 

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Thank you. It's literally a chore to listen to. Her worst since Coachella. Why is everyone raving about it?

 

Idk but there is one user called @Fingertips who won’t stop harassing people who dislike it and it’s pretty embarrassing 

[barttttender]

1 minute ago, Lustformoney said:

Cuz lb is full of positive hags who would stream her farts (before i get dragged im not saying the song bad) im sure the song will get better when i memorize the lyrics aka in 5 years maybe

 

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I'm glad it's found its audience. I just don't understand how that's possible. 

 

Also, when the album drops on digital, I will literally delete the song and pretend it never existed. I will think of the album more fondly that way. 

 

[maysparkle]

17 minutes ago, moonchaser said:

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The way this is her longest record but it’s so emotionally engaging and eloquent and each song has something special, it doesn’t drag at all I saw people say that kintsugi/ fingertips are too long but i find them perfect as they are personally, they’re both such pleasant journeys if you’re going in with and open mind

Even the tracks that i was least excited for(sweet/margaret) ended up being amazing for me

We’re eating GOOD with this album, i’m so grateful 

 

If anything, this album feels too short and I want MORE. I love all the tracks that much!!

[drugsdesire]

18 minutes ago, Lustformoney said:

I caved in and listened to fingertips. Well This is the kind of song that u have to force urself into liking and then maybe eventualy u will like it

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i love fingertips but i definitely understand how someone can feel like this, it’s a very complex song that sometimes you just don’t want to hear because of how heavy it is and because the production isn’t an earworm. don’t get me wrong, it’s a gorgeous song. but imagine being in a mood to listen to peppers or an upbeat song like that and you press play on the album only to get hit by the saddest, most intense traumadump lana has ever put out. i get it! 

 

[Blossom]

3 minutes ago, Lustformoney said:

Cuz lb is full of positive hags who would stream her farts (before i get dragged im not saying the song bad) im sure the song will get better when i memorize the lyrics aka in 5 years maybe

Here are the lyrics! Let me know if u need me to explain them to you <3

Spoiler

Fingertips 

 

(Verse 1)

When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags

Thinking I wish I could extrapolate some small intention

Or maybe just get your attention for a minute or two?

 

(Verse 2)

Will I die?

Or will I get to that ten year mark

Where I beat the extinction of telomeres?

And if I do, will you be there with me? Father, sister, brother?

 

(Verse 3)

Charlie, stop smoking

Caroline, will you be with me? 

Will the baby be alright?

Will I have one of mine?

Can I handle it?

Even if I do

They said that my mind, it's not fit

Or so they said, to carry a child

I guess I’ll be fine

 

(Verse 4)

It wasn’t my idea, the cocktail of things that twist neurons inside

But without them I’d die

They say there’s irony in the music

It’s a tragedy, I see nothing Greek in it

Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with dad, grandma, grandpa, and Dave

Who hung himself real high in the National Park sky

It’s a shame, and I’m crying right now to get to you, save you

If I take my life, find your astral body

Put it into my arms, give you two seconds to cry

Take you home, I, I’ll give you a blanket

Your spirit can sit and watch TV by my side

 

(Verse 5)

Cause baby I went through a time when I felt you were doing it

I couldn’t handle it, I was in Monaco

I couldn’t hear what they said on the telephone

I had to sing for the prince in two hours

Sat in the shower, gave myself two seconds to cry

It’s a shame that we die

 

(Verse 6)

When I was fifteen, naked

Next door neighbors did a drive-by

Pulled me up by my waist, long hair to the beachside

I wanted to go out like you

Swim with the fishes that he caught on Rhode Island beaches

But sometimes it's just not your time

 

(Verse 7)

Caroline, what kind of mother was she to say I’d end up in institutions?

All I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Greene

And sit by the lake twisting lime into the drinks that they made 

Have a babe at sixteen, the town I was wed in and die

 

(Verse 8)

Aaron ended up dead and not me 

What the fuck’s wrong in your head

To send me away never to come back? 

Exotic places and people don't take the place of being your child

I give myself two seconds to cry

Let it crash over me like the waves in the sea

Call me Aphrodite as they bow down to me

 

(Verse 9)

Sunbather, moon chaser, queen of empathy

I give myself two seconds to breathe

And go back to being a serene queen

I just needed two seconds to be me

 

 

[Cake Bush]

1 hour ago, Vertimus said:

No Paris, TX? 

 

1 hour ago, imaginist said:

You put The Grants twice babz 

omfg im so dumb. Paris, TX > The Grants

[barttttender]

Just now, blackpalmtrees said:

Idk but there is one user called @Fingertips who won’t stop harassing people who dislike it and it’s pretty embarrassing 

 

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Well, it's good to have a dialogue and, again, glad it has its fans. But couldn't it have been a bonus track or sth? Wedged in the middle of the record like that, damn. I liked how Ultraviolence had a sequence of weaker cuts that were just plopped in there as bonus tracks. I wish LDR would go back to that, instead of treating some songs like the crowning jewels of a record.

 

Also glad to see I'm not the only one disliking it.

 

[blackpalmtrees]

The only songs i haven’t listened to since the leakage are Sweet and Margarine, they’re literally vomit inducing

 

Especially when Jack comes in cosplaying Bradley Cooper on A Star Is Born, mumbling god knows what

[menslayer]

okay I love this album now 

[venicebitch]

22 minutes ago, Lustformoney said:

I caved in and listened to fingertips. Well This is the kind of song that u have to force urself into liking and then maybe eventualy u will like it

exactly! it took me like 20 listens to finally get this song but now that I got it… trust me, it’s amazing. especially with the context of the album 

[summer bummer]

20 minutes ago, barttttender said:

 

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Thank you. It's literally a chore to listen to. Her worst since Coachella. Why is everyone raving about it?

 

coachella forever the underrated gem ?

[barttttender]

2 minutes ago, Blossom said:

Here are the lyrics! Let me know if u need me to explain them to you <3

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Fingertips 

 

(Verse 1)

When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags

Thinking I wish I could extrapolate some small intention

Or maybe just get your attention for a minute or two?

 

(Verse 2)

Will I die?

Or will I get to that ten year mark

Where I beat the extinction of telomeres?

And if I do, will you be there with me? Father, sister, brother?

 

(Verse 3)

Charlie, stop smoking

Caroline, will you be with me? 

Will the baby be alright?

Will I have one of mine?

Can I handle it?

Even if I do

They said that my mind, it's not fit

Or so they said, to carry a child

I guess I’ll be fine

 

(Verse 4)

It wasn’t my idea, the cocktail of things that twist neurons inside

But without them I’d die

They say there’s irony in the music

It’s a tragedy, I see nothing Greek in it

Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with dad, grandma, grandpa, and Dave

Who hung himself real high in the National Park sky

It’s a shame, and I’m crying right now to get to you, save you

If I take my life, find your astral body

Put it into my arms, give you two seconds to cry

Take you home, I, I’ll give you a blanket

Your spirit can sit and watch TV by my side

 

(Verse 5)

Cause baby I went through a time when I felt you were doing it

I couldn’t handle it, I was in Monaco

I couldn’t hear what they said on the telephone

I had to sing for the prince in two hours

Sat in the shower, gave myself two seconds to cry

It’s a shame that we die

 

(Verse 6)

When I was fifteen, naked

Next door neighbors did a drive-by

Pulled me up by my waist, long hair to the beachside

I wanted to go out like you

Swim with the fishes that he caught on Rhode Island beaches

But sometimes it's just not your time

 

(Verse 7)

Caroline, what kind of mother was she to say I’d end up in institutions?

All I wanted to do was kiss Aaron Greene

And sit by the lake twisting lime into the drinks that they made 

Have a babe at sixteen, the town I was wed in and die

 

(Verse 8)

Aaron ended up dead and not me 

What the fuck’s wrong in your head

To send me away never to come back? 

Exotic places and people don't take the place of being your child

I give myself two seconds to cry

Let it crash over me like the waves in the sea

Call me Aphrodite as they bow down to me

 

(Verse 9)

Sunbather, moon chaser, queen of empathy

I give myself two seconds to breathe

And go back to being a serene queen

I just needed two seconds to be me

 

 

 

Spoiler

Any song that has the words "plastic" and "bag" in the lyrics is an instant skip in my book. Some of her worst lyrics.

 

[Super Movie]

Spoiler

Honestly I think a lot of people simply can't handle Fingertips because it's not sanitized and packaged, it's completely raw and pulls no punches with listeners. And there's a lot of people I feel won't even give it a chance because of that (or the fact that she talks about her family which to certain Lana fans is like murdering somebody). It's a powerful song that needs to exist in Lana's discography imo

 

[summer bummer]

i listened to the album and

 

Spoiler

it’s a solid 8.0 for me right now, definitely like it more than cocc & bb but there are some parts of the album that i don’t really care for. i’m happy though ?