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

[Lustformoney]

6 minutes ago, barttttender said:

 

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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. 

 

Glad i found a person as negative as me looks like u took my place in getting dragged every day tho

[CVNTDELREY]

Which are your skips from the album?

I’d say Margaret but it’s kinda growing 

[Just Cherry]

On 3/16/2023 at 11:49 PM, Just Cherry said:

Is anyone else keeping track of all the references to her previous works in the new songs?? I haven’t listened to the whole album yet but these are the ones I’ve remembered so far. 
 

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• ”Palm trees in black and white” from Fishtail

• The way she’s singing Love Song during the “how we write our love song” line in Let the Light In

• The “Sweet, barefeet” in Sweet being the exact same as the “I’m lonely, I’m lonely” line from Wait for Life 

• The Serene Queen reference in Fingertip

Anyone notice any other references? I haven’t listened to the album again or been in the thread since then. Trying to wait it out to listen again. 

[yourolllikethunder]

57 minutes ago, anwdelrey said:

The Grants made NME’s best new tracks playlist which is a good sign. But Pitchfork has been awfully quiet.

 

I’m predicting either a 9-10 from Pitchfork or like a 7 ?

lol @ the pitchfork prediction being so sadly true. you know they’ll hit her with a 7.X or it will be BNM, really no other option in their ‘let’s rate Lana’ playbook 

[summer bummer]

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kintsugi & fingertips definitely my least faves on the album though… they’re so difficult to get through for me, they drag on a lot in my opinion ?

 

[evalionisameme]

I don’t think any song should take you over 3 listens to like it tbh-this is a psychological phenomenon where the brain may grow to like something if repeated. 
 

Maybe it’s just not good 

on the other hand I’m actually waiting to hear everything in HQ so I’ll see when it’s released.

[neon palms sway]

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Me when the guitar intro of taco truck starts

 

[LetTheLightln]

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one day people will realize fingertips is one of her best songs ever and it's on a completely new level any artist has barely ever reached and explored 

 

[yourboy]

 

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Fingertips is an earworm. I am literally hissing the lyrics 24/7

 

GAVE MYSELF 2 SECS TO CRY

 

[hotshot2am]

2 minutes ago, Just Cherry said:

Anyone notice any other references? I haven’t listened to the album again or been in the thread since then. Trying to wait it out to listen again. 

 

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Cinnamon in your teeth – Candy Necklace (Cinnamon Girl)

I love to love you – Let The Light In (MTWBT)

 

[summer bummer]

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one day people will realize fingertips is one of her best songs ever and it's on a completely new level any artist has barely ever reached and explored 

 

i love your optimism 

[maysparkle]

4 minutes ago, evalionisameme said:

I don’t think any song should take you over 3 listens to like it tbh-this is a psychological phenomenon where the brain may grow to like something if repeated. 
 

Maybe it’s just not good 

on the other hand I’m actually waiting to hear everything in HQ so I’ll see when it’s released.

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Everyone is different. I loved Fingertips from the first time I heard it, 10 seconds in. It’s fine if you don’t like it, but that song is there for the people who do. Luckily there is something for everyone on this record. 

 

[barttttender]

1 minute ago, Lustformoney said:

Glad i found a person as negative as me looks like u took my place in getting dragged every day tho

 

God, I hope that's not the case, and that people won't perceive me that way. I've been the biggest fan since Blue Jeans dropped in 2012.

 

I just have very high expectations of her (especially after NFR), and it pisses me off when she puts out a song that's beneath her capabilities.

 

I love this board (super fun to be part of during a release) and definitely want to stay and contribute. So, I'll try and focus more on the positives (which there are a lot of). I'm mega happy with Taco Truck and the title track, so Fingertips is basically forgiven hehe.

[Lustformoney]

11 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

 

 

Uncreative drag i said give me 5 years

[barttttender]

6 minutes ago, yourolllikethunder said:

lol @ the pitchfork prediction being so sadly true. you know they’ll hit her with a 7 or it will be BNM, really no other option in their ‘let’s rate Lana’ playbook 

 

I think Pitchfork will give her a 7.5 or something along those lines. 

[Furor Poeticus]

The top 5 from the album to me are (in alphabetical order):

 

American Whore

Candy Necklace (or Fingertips, I can't decide yet)

Grandfather

Peppers

Taco Truck x VB

[evalionisameme]

4 minutes ago, maysparkle said:

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Everyone is different. I loved Fingertips from the first time I heard it, 10 seconds in. It’s fine if you don’t like it, but that song is there for the people who do. Luckily there is something for everyone on this record. 

 

Exactly it’s subjective- the descriptions sound interesting especially candy necklace 

[EndlessSummer]

So excited for all the youtube reaction channels to listen?

[terrenceszyou]

It's not an album that you digest right away.
Listening to the album doesn't match our euphoria on the pre-release topic. You need the calm to listen. It gave me the same vibe as the Honeymoon release, when the long tracks felt impossible to connect. There are the fun tracks that get you hooked fast, like Peppers, but the real gold of the album you don't get right away.
It also comforts me, because I know that with time it will grow on me and the entire fan base. Maybe it will become one of the favorites.

[CVNTDELREY]

Ajayll better come back…