Lana to be featured on upcoming Bleachers album on song ‘Alma Mater’ - song out November 15th, 2023

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5 hours ago, Embach said:

I listened to the song for the first time yesterday and.....it was probably the cringiest song I've ever heard. Like what the fuck was that:

She's my alma mater

Chasin' lines all night

Smokin' me outta sight

Well, summer's gettin' hotter

Threw her T-shirt down the pike

Screamin', "Fuck Balenciaga"

Right past the Wawa

Threw on "Heartattack and Vine"

As she alligator cries

I'll make it darker

2003, sad all the time

 

This isn't even camp, it's like something what a pretentious nerdy Instagram kid in high school, who thinks they were born in a wrong generation, would write. Sorry this was too specific, I know that Jack isn't like this but I know that he's capable of doing better music. The production reminded me of Midnights album a lot. Like the song isn't bad, it's just so weird, the whole time I listened to the song my face was like this  Lana's part was good though, the "I'll make it darker" part. I wouldn't mind listening to this part for 10 hours, it was like so smooth.

 

I can't lie, the writing reminds me of what an AI-written stereotype of what a bad Lana song would be like. 

 

The "summer's getting hotter," is a Lana mainstay, "screaming fuck baleciaga" (screaming black lives matter?), heartattack and vine is an album but it also reminds me of "hollywood and vine," I'll make it darker is probably a Leonard Cohen reference  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y), but the way the last line is framed in the song sounds almost mocking.

 

I don't know, it's a really weird one, I can't vibe with it at all and like you said it does come across as pretentious (and strangely unauthentic). I wonder what Lana wrote on it. 

 

Edit: I'm very rarely critical and overly negative like this, but I just don't like the song. The most annoying thing is I feel like it had so much missed potential lyrically. It's almost there, but it's just not hitting the way it should. 

Edited Friday at 04:47 PM by The Sun Also Rises

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Just now, The Sun Also Rises said:

 

I can't lie, the writing reminds me of what an AI-written stereotype of what a bad Lana song would be like. 

 

The "summer's getting hotter", "screaming fuck baleciaga (screaming black lives matter?), heartattack and vine is an album but it also reminds me of "hollywood and vine," I'll make it darker is probably a Leonard Cohen reference  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0nmHymgM7Y), but it feels almost mocking of the sad Lana lyrics. 

 

I don't know, it's a really weird one, I can't vibe with it at all and like you said it does come across as pretentious (and strangely unauthentic). I wonder what Lana wrote on it. 

 

I have a  theory that this was a random little demo lana had jotted down that she wouldn't have released but jack liked it, and then to finish the song he was attempting to write like lana which is why it feels a little disingenuous from them both. I don't actually hate it but dissecting it lyrically alone sure doesn't make it look great 

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20 minutes ago, americangothic said:

"Something a pretentious nerdy Instagram kid in high school, who thinks they were born in a wrong generation, would write" is the best way to describe the lyrics of this song, lol. What in the actual world. But I really dig the vibe, tho. The video is super cool. I like this song way better than "Secret Life" imo, even if Lana's barely in it.

Oh it's definitely better than those two Bleacher collabs from 2021