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

[Venice Peach 54,293]

9 minutes ago, margaret soty said:

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What's your favorite runtime on the album? mine is Paris, Texas → Margaret. 

 

The whole second half 

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Even though Kintsugi is still growing on me (I love it tho).

Fingertips through the end of the record is just smash after smash. I can see a couple of those songs making it into my top 10 Lana tracks ever (Fingertips is there already)

 

[Blossom 8,976]

18 minutes ago, hotshot2am said:

Yet this isn’t a work of reinvention. ‘Candy Necklace’ meanders through some familiar Lana themes, depicting Gatsby esque visions of high society.

 

This is from the Clash review. First glitch-pop and now "Gatsby esque visions of high society"? Did we listen to the same track?

ngl the first thing I thought after listening to the track was that it sounds like how I would imagine a F. Scott Fitzgerald book to sound

so in my opinion, this description actually checks out (for once) 

[LanaBalkana 6,655]

15 minutes ago, hotshot2am said:

 

I guess the Rockefeller mention is all they remembered so they thought this is a song about high society.

They couldn’t hear the rest of the song because munching peanuts muffled their hearing

[Jeanne Dielman 5,982]

@hotshot2am For some bizarre reason the lengths of the album tracks haven't appeared on my Apple Music app yet. Are they different to the ones that were posted on this site? https://www.25music.de/11593369,4,lp,-,lana-del-rey,did-you-know-that-there-s-a-tunnel-under-oceanblvd,-,pop,602448591913,060244859191.html

[hotshot2am 18,781]

1 minute ago, Blossom said:

ngl the first thing I thought after listening to the track was that it sounds like how I would imagine a F. Scott Fitzgerald book to sound

so in my opinion, this description actually checks out (for once) 

 

It seems I looked at the song more from the lyric perspective, that's why I didn't make the connection.

[tomxev 333]

35 minutes ago, DCooper said:

 

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I personally wouldn't consider this a ballad album, I think it's very theatrical with lots of interesting details and twists and turns. There are definitely ballads and slow moments but it all seems very intentional and a part of the larger vision. 

 

 

The one at Cloverdale told me it wouldn't be on the shelves until Friday  let me know if you succeed!

Secured 💅 

 

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when a bitch like me need to get shit done, it’s like immediate, it’s lickedy split ! I just put it in my vinyl player tho and I swear the first track was called The Grants not The Path 🤔

 

[barttttender 4,937]

16 minutes ago, Honeytrails said:

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I tried to hard to wrap my head around the candy necklace metaphor but I don’t get it all 

 

 

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Yeah what's that all about? She repeats it 70 times but you have no idea what it means. 
 

guess we wait for the lyrics and see.

 

[DCooper 36,907]

Just now, tomxev said:

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when a bitch like me need to get shit done, it’s like immediate, it’s lickedy split ! I just put it in my vinyl player and I thought the first track was called The Grants not The Path 🤔

 

 

 Enjoy!! 

[rabbit 5,269]

1 hour ago, hotshot2am said:

 

It is the 5 AM snippet / Candy Necklace.

 

1 hour ago, brooklyn Babyy said:

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It's from Candy Necklace second verse 

 

Sorry I meant the gif!!

[Blossom 8,976]

Just now, hotshot2am said:

 

It seems I looked at the song more from the lyric perspective, that's why I didn't make the connection.

understandable! It isn't necessarily ab the lyrics, but more about the haunting, elegant sound 

[hotshot2am 18,781]

3 minutes ago, Jeanne Dielman said:

@hotshot2am For some bizarre reason the lengths of the album tracks haven't appeared on my Apple Music app yet. Are they different to the ones that were posted on this site? https://www.25music.de/11593369,4,lp,-,lana-del-rey,did-you-know-that-there-s-a-tunnel-under-oceanblvd,-,pop,602448591913,060244859191.html

 

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1) The Grants - 0:04:55.202000

2) Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - 0:04:45.051000

3) Sweet - 0:03:35.295000

4) A&W - 0:07:13.916000

5) Judah Smith Interlude - 0:04:36.757000

6) Candy Necklace (feat. Jon Batiste) - 0:05:14.520000

7) Jon Batiste Interlude - 0:03:33.435000

8) Kintsugi - 0:06:18.952000

9) Fingertips - 0:05:48.256000

10) Paris, Texas (feat. SYML) - 0:03:26.723000

11) Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing (feat. RIOPY) - 0:04:00.287000

12) Let The Light In (feat. Father John Misty) - 0:04:38.126000

13) Margaret (feat. Bleachers) - 0:05:39.891000

14) Fishtail - 0:04:02.548000

15) Peppers (feat. Tommy Genesis) - 0:04:08.928000

16) Taco Truck x VB - 0:05:53.277000

 

[tomxev 333]

1 minute ago, DCooper said:

 

 Enjoy!! 

Why she sound different for … I thought she quit smoking

[x VB 12,508]

3 minutes ago, Jeanne Dielman said:

@hotshot2am For some bizarre reason the lengths of the album tracks haven't appeared on my Apple Music app yet. Are they different to the ones that were posted on this site? https://www.25music.de/11593369,4,lp,-,lana-del-rey,did-you-know-that-there-s-a-tunnel-under-oceanblvd,-,pop,602448591913,060244859191.html

The only different ones are The Grants (4:55 on iTunes) and A&W (7:13 on iTunes)

[Jeanne Dielman 5,982]

2 minutes ago, hotshot2am said:

 

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1) The Grants - 0:04:55.202000

2) Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - 0:04:45.051000

3) Sweet - 0:03:35.295000

4) A&W - 0:07:13.916000

5) Judah Smith Interlude - 0:04:36.757000

6) Candy Necklace (feat. Jon Batiste) - 0:05:14.520000

7) Jon Batiste Interlude - 0:03:33.435000

8) Kintsugi - 0:06:18.952000

9) Fingertips - 0:05:48.256000

10) Paris, Texas (feat. SYML) - 0:03:26.723000

11) Grandfather please stand on the shoulders of my father while he's deep-sea fishing (feat. RIOPY) - 0:04:00.287000

12) Let The Light In (feat. Father John Misty) - 0:04:38.126000

13) Margaret (feat. Bleachers) - 0:05:39.891000

14) Fishtail - 0:04:02.548000

15) Peppers (feat. Tommy Genesis) - 0:04:08.928000

16) Taco Truck x VB - 0:05:53.277000

 

 

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The only different ones are The Grants (4:55 on iTunes) and A&W (7:13 on iTunes)

 

Thank you babes! 

[Lasso 13,195]

Regarding the reviews.... we could actually see it coming. I haven't seen all of them but this album is def not getting unanimous critical acclaim and tbh, I think she doesn't want it. The album is very hard to digest, but it's undoubtely bold and it's very Lana. I don't think she made it for the critics this time, she made it for herself. 

[brooklyn Babyy 991]

2 minutes ago, rabbit said:

 

Sorry I meant the gif!!

https://giphy.com/explore/candy-necklace

[Sportscruiser 11,894]

That part of the Gigwise review that said some reviewers missed out entire tracks while going to the bathroom tells me everything we need to know about the integrity of music criticism. This isn’t an album that is easily digestible or catered to today’s frantic attention spans. It asks for time and open mindedness - which makes it the more rewarding the more time you spend with it.

 

It’s also kind of boring to see so many users still acting like music is divided in either beat-driven bangers or boring piano ballads and nothing else in between. A track like Grandfather is nothing alike Sweet or Paris Texas (for instance), they represent different things, go for different sonic soundscapes and even have Lana delivering different vocal performances. It can be a different frustrating to see people reducing this album to this or that when chances are it’s far richer than whatever box you’re trying to put it in. Give it time to sink in and wash over you. There’s an entire universe in this record and it’s a fascinating one, whether it entirely works for you or not.

[Future Jazz 9,190]

the fact that i have an entirely fresh album ahead of me and i’m going to discover it as a whole

[LifeOnMars 7,911]

It started off with a 79 on metacritic which is lower than NFR, COTCC and BB but higher than all her other albums. 
 

https://www.metacritic.com/music/did-you-know-that-theres-a-tunnel-under-ocean-blvd/lana-del-rey/critic-reviews

[Sportscruiser 11,894]

Just now, LifeOnMars said:

It started off with a 79 on metacritic which is lower than NFR, COTCC and BB but higher than all her other albums. 
 

https://www.metacritic.com/music/did-you-know-that-theres-a-tunnel-under-ocean-blvd/lana-del-rey/critic-reviews

 

What other major publications besides Pitchfork still haven’t reviewed it?