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

[EndlessSummer 3,539]

Will the UK album chart be announced today?

[living legend 3,171]

37 minutes ago, barttttender said:

 

People want to feel happy and listen to music at the gym and feel good about their life. Piano music is deep but often depressing. And I say this as a big LDR fan who loves the new album. I love it to pieces, but I also know that I'll be going back to High by the Beach, Ride, Summertime Sadness and Doin' Time more in the long run - cuz those songs make me feel good. Makes sense?

 

sittin on the sofa, feeling super sucidial

 

hate to say the word, but, baby hand on the bible, i do feel like it’s you, the one who’s bringing me down 

 

[Sam Redlark 6]

On album at least, Lana Del Ray manages her public image very well. Of late, every new release has added to her mystique, finely blurring the lines between the person and the persona, to a point where one is indistinguishable from the other. There is a tension in her songs that arises from not knowing how much of what are hearing is the real Lana Del Ray standing in partial view – papered over by a collage of archaic 1970s pop culture references – and what is half-truth and outright embellishment. Lyrically she continues to fuse her own mythology with the mythology of California. ...Ocean Blvd rises above the sum of its parts and successfully presents an altered reality, blending fact and fiction, memory and desire, physical geography and the shifting geography of the soul. It is for these reasons that, after the dust settles on this golden creative streak, I think this record is going to be a lot of people's favourite Lana Del Ray album.

The direct contrast to Lana would be a pop amazon like Beyonce, whose career is a nesting doll of personas, seemingly refined by focus groups of images consultants and heavily tailored to an album release/tour cycle. There is nothing wrong with that approach. David Bowie and Madonna laid down the template. It works really well and allows for sudden reinvention.

I prefer something more fluid and contiguous, rather than a jarring transition where I can see the joins. I like artists who at least give the appearance of growing organically. For that to happen they need to follow their creative instincts and commit to a regular release schedule. Lana scratches that itch.

 

[turquoisejewel 2,014]

"charlie stop smoking" says lana as she goes on to take her puff number 54317 at 10AM 

[Marius 12,856]

8 minutes ago, EndlessSummer said:

Will the UK album chart be announced today?

I think so, yes. 

[turquoisejewel 2,014]

3 minutes ago, Sam Redlark said:

Lana Del Ray

 

jk, you spilled

[LanaBalkana 6,786]

1 hour ago, honeymo0n said:

sweet is really growing on me, it's such a cute and sweet track, makes me emotional almost every time i listen to it

Same. I always forget playing it because it’s stuck between the singles which I overplayed and then I return to it and I’m like damn that’s amazing

[wilting daisy 3,395]

i'm not surprised fantano gave the album a positive review, he's been giving lana generally positive reviews since honeymoon but i am surprised he rated the album so highly and had so few criticisms of it. he even rated it higher than norman which he kept referring to as her best! disappointing tho that he still won't reassess her early work under a new lense but we can't wxpect him to love all hwr albums (even lots of her fans have albums of hera thwy don't like). but i feel like he secretly likes lana more than he's willing to admit, especially since we've seen in previous videos that he seems to know all the lore around her unreleased tracks which most casual fans don't even know about. but anyway, i'm glad he enjoyed the album and i hope his misogynistic fans are seething lol

[turquoisejewel 2,014]

43 minutes ago, barttttender said:

People want to feel happy and listen to music at the gym and feel good about their life. Piano music is deep but often depressing. And I say this as a big LDR fan who loves the new album. I love it to pieces, but I also know that I'll be going back to High by the Beach, Ride, Summertime Sadness and Doin' Time more in the long run - cuz those songs make me feel good. Makes sense?

idk what you're talking about bartie, the other day i had spotify on shuffle during my hip thrusts and when candy necklace came on i kept thrusting like crazy 

[PARADIXO 33,110]

Spoiler

I love Margaret and Jack's verse, it should've been the closer 

[LanaBalkana 6,786]

5 minutes ago, PARADIXO said:

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I love Margaret and Jack's verse, it should've been the closer 

This!! Fishtail-Peppers-TacoTruck could have been a bonus digital EP or something

[LanaBalkana 6,786]

14 minutes ago, turquoisejewel said:

idk what you're talking about bartie, the other day i had spotify on shuffle during my hip thrusts and when candy necklace came on i kept thrusting like crazy 

Melancholy boosts my hormones 

[Rico25 7,961]

23 minutes ago, PARADIXO said:

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I love Margaret and Jack's verse, it should've been the closer 

Imagine the album ending on a skip instead of one of her best songs 

[MrFameKills 11,123]

Magot is not closer worthy

[turquoisejewel 2,014]

10 minutes ago, LanaBalkana said:

Melancholy boosts my hormones 

cut to us bench pressing 100kg while sad girl is blasting through the headphones 

[Venice Jesus Whore 4,471]

Though I can see how the last three tracks sound like bonus tracks and it can make perfect sense to end the album at Margaret, I think the album is perfect as is. The last three tracks add a lot of dynamism to the album. I think it would’ve been too heavy of an album without them even though Margaret is a cute happy ending. Also, having the last three songs feels like the album more strongly ties into A&W which seems like the defining song on the album. The album before Margaret feels like the first half of A&W while the last three tracks feel like the second half. I wouldn’t like the album as much without the last three tracks. 

[Rico25 7,961]

Have we ranked quarters yet?

Side A > D > C > B

Though side B has Candy Godlace 

[Venice Jesus Whore 4,471]

4 minutes ago, Rico25 said:

Have we ranked quarters yet?

Side A > D > C > B

Though side B has Candy Godlace 

What are the sides though? Because to me, there are five distinct sections that all have their own personality:

 

1. The Grants / Did you know / Sweet
2. A&W / Judah Smith / Candy Necklace / Jon Batiste
3. Kinsugi / Fingertips / Paris, Texas
4. Grandfather / Let the Light In / Margaret
5. Fishtail / Peppers / Taco Truck x VB

[mlittle11 12,234]

14 minutes ago, MrFameKills said:

Magot is not closer worthy

i think the melody is closer worthly but the lyrics and jack make it totally unworthy 💀 i would be so upset

[emliqua 3,039]

C>B>A>D and I am shocked by my own ranking