Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[TrashMagiq 58,573]

The audio crackling issues still not being fixed on Apple Music :/

[longtimeman 8,918]

1 hour ago, rosalee89 said:

Listening to taco truck x vb. Does anybody else think it sounds just like Maggot brain by funkadelic ? 
 

I think it’s beautiful and my favourite right now. I just wish the tt part was longer and they added a heavier version of the guitar crescendos from VB. 

I thought I was the only one, but it fits that it's a famous guitar solo created while on acid on the day that Jimi Hendrix died. On the other hand, there are a hundred songs that start with clean electric guitar playing slow arpeggios that it brings to mind, including a bunch of late Velvet Underground outtakes like Sad Song and Satellite of Love.

[brooklyn Babyy 991]

11 hours ago, The Grants said:

hope they have heavy production and they are not just Beautiful and VFR part 2

I don't think it would be smthing else than piano ballads Rob is pianist and it will be sweet caroline kinda songs 

I like her reaction by the way she helped me understand more the lyrics 

 

[Sportscruiser 11,894]

Don’t know if someone shared this but this analysis is amazing and truly shines a light on this record as a concept record:

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/M0TH3RCR33P/status/1639410172002009089?t=dz3Z2TlgYbPNuWMYW11Kcw&s=19

 

I’m also really happy to see so many people online loving this record. My instagram feed is full of people stanning different songs, I haven’t seen that since NFR.

[summer bummer 1,936]

new 4 star review from The Observer! 

[BartenderDeco 19,636]

25 minutes ago, Sportscruiser said:

Don’t know if someone shared this but this analysis is amazing and truly shines a light on this record as a concept record:

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/M0TH3RCR33P/status/1639410172002009089?t=dz3Z2TlgYbPNuWMYW11Kcw&s=19

 

I’m also really happy to see so many people online loving this record. My instagram feed is full of people stanning different songs, I haven’t seen that since NFR.

i feel like lana would be too lazy to make a concept album and if she did she’d mention it

this is a great analysis though 

[Furor Poeticus 16,351]

Some user reviews on Album of The Year are so bad 

[one time beauty queen 18,411]

50 minutes ago, Sportscruiser said:

Don’t know if someone shared this but this analysis is amazing and truly shines a light on this record as a concept record:

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/M0TH3RCR33P/status/1639410172002009089?t=dz3Z2TlgYbPNuWMYW11Kcw&s=19

I so love this analysis, it makes it even interesting to look at the title itself again.. "did you know that there's a tunnel under ocean blvd?"

 

like yes, literally there is the jergins tunnel but also..... whats an ocean (ignoring the blvd here shortly)- it's beautiful to look at but when you get under it there's all kind of horrible things... it's murky, it's deep, dark & blue... like trauma n pain. what's a tunnel? like that person said, it starts out dark, but it always ends with a/the light. almost like the title is a double entendre & one of the meanings is "did you know that there is a way to the light after the darkness?"

 

i also find it interesting bc a user on here pointed out all of the posters saying : did you know.. that there's a "tunnel under ocean blvd" 

the quotations could def imply that it was also a metaphor for something else all along 

[evalionisameme 13,889]

Nikki seemed nice tbh- not that we know any of her friends but we get anonymous tips on gossip rags sometimes from “friends” so it was nice to see her hanging with someone who had no benefit to befriend her.

[Lavender Sunshine 4,246]

This album left me in shambles 

[Venice Jesus Whore 4,471]

I’m gonna taaAaAake 

 

MINE

of you

WITH me

 

thank you

one more time

[Blue Ribbon 3,559]

 

22 minutes ago, Furor Poeticus said:

Some user reviews on Album of The Year are so bad 

Literally, why are some people saying the songs sound all the same 

[TropicoKitten 5,012]

IIIIIIII went to Paris (Texas) withasuitcaseinmyhand

[Jeanne Dielman 5,982]

49 minutes ago, summer bummer said:

new 4 star review from The Observer! 

I was scared that we might get another 3/5 review from them (BB did). It counts for MC (they still haven’t uploaded the Record Collector review btw, probably due to the fact that there hasn’t been a digital version of it yet?). 
 

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/26/lana-del-rey-did-you-know-that-theres-a-tunnel-under-ocean-blvd-review-bold-and-enthralling

[cominguplavender 295]

4 hours ago, GeminiLanaFan said:

Nikki is nowhere to be seen either 

but nikki is on one of the vinyl sleeves front and center and it hasn't been thatttt long ago that lana's performed with her right

[rightofjupiter 16,591]

3 hours ago, Lustformoney said:

Lana stopped liking her posts in november. The evil has been defeated

they went to Hawaii together (in a bigger group) for New Years 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,030]

1 hour ago, Sportscruiser said:

Don’t know if someone shared this but this analysis is amazing and truly shines a light on this record as a concept record:

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/M0TH3RCR33P/status/1639410172002009089?t=dz3Z2TlgYbPNuWMYW11Kcw&s=19

 

I’m also really happy to see so many people online loving this record. My instagram feed is full of people stanning different songs, I haven’t seen that since NFR.

I never thought of it that way, but it makes A LOT of sense. I thought the album was, well, darkness turning into light, winter to spring, but the tunnel metaphor connects all of those together. 

 

on my Instagram, a lot of people posted about Taco Truck X VB. It really is crazy how this album is addictive and growing on you. The second half of the album was stuck in my head Friday, but since yesterday, I listen more to tracks with orchestra. And Kintsugi and Fingertips now feel like « short » songs?!?! 

[cominguplavender 295]

if you don't believe me,

my poetry, 

or my melodies

feel it in your bonesss

[hotshot2am 18,781]

2 hours ago, TrashMagiq said:

The audio crackling issues still not being fixed on Apple Music :/

 

Spotify said their content team is looking into it but no idea if that will result in anything.

[Lustrouslines 5,202]

don’t know if this was said before, but kintsugi sounds so quiet and muffled? compared to most of the tracks.