Lasso - Pre-Release Thread: OUT September 2024

[Bonita 12,432]

A Lana murder ballad would be the best thing ever tbh

[Vertimus 9,362]

21 hours ago, Americen Whore said:

Ocean Blvd is a great album, but it has so many flaws, the mixing, the incoherency, too many samples, too many interludes, the unclear vocals, and many other things, it just lacks having its own atmosphere, when I listen to it, I feel like I’m listening to 3 different albums, I really hope lasso will be cohesive, with crystal clear vocals and great mixing.

I agree with everything you've said, AW, except that it's a great album. I personally place it at the bottom of Lana's catalog. Musically, it is not cohesive--not to my ears--though cohesion is not a requirement. 

 

We know that with LFL and BB, she changed the overall concept mid-way or more than once, and that's also true to some degree of UV and whatever happened to Tropico or whatever it morphed into (or simply died). More than anything, I'd say these albums have a compromised quality, and we, as fans, pick and choose the tracks, or the few tracks, we like. Even with COCC, Lana said something about feeling uncomfortable about releasing it as it was, somewhat under-arranged, etc. And we know she wasn't very happy with the final production on BTD. 

 

Now it appears she's doing it again on Lasso. So who knows what it's going to sound like or have as a theme or themes? If any? 

 

Besides Tough and Henry, Come On, I hope everything else is new to our ears, no bland, one-take Country Roads cover, no Prettiest Girl in Country Music, etc. I'd like it to be fresh, vibrant, realized, dynamic, and with some verve. Not sleepy.  

 

It would be great to know that Lana has released an album she really loves, is 100% proud of, believes is fully realized, and matches her original conception. Her Court & Spark, her Abbey Road, her Blurryface, her Grace, her Sticky Fingers, her Under the Pink or Boys for Pele, her Rumours. 

 

I realize a lot of members and fans believe she's done this already with NFR! and perhaps with OB as well. And Lana may feel that way about both of those albums as well. 

[helloheaven 409]

heres the leaked tracklist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars_(soundtrack)

lasso will be an entire album of covers 

[dexter 1,248]

We reached a new level of Boredom on the site of where just doing the survivors again 😭

[Cult Leader 3,982]

What if she opened with Body Electric because she interpolated the instrumental into a Lasso track, what then

[barttttender 4,380]

1 hour ago, Vertimus said:

I agree with everything you've said, AW, except that it's a great album. I personally place it at the bottom of Lana's catalog. Musically, it is not cohesive--not to my ears--though cohesion is not a requirement. 

 

We know that with LFL and BB, she changed the overall concept mid-way or more than once, and that's also true to some degree of UV and whatever happened to Tropico or whatever it morphed into (or simply died). More than anything, I'd say these albums have a compromised quality, and we, as fans, pick and choose the tracks, or the few tracks, we like. Even with COCC, Lana said something about feeling uncomfortable about releasing it as it was, somewhat under-arranged, etc. And we know she wasn't very happy with the final production on BTD. 

 

Now it appears she's doing it again on Lasso. So who knows what it's going to sound like or have as a theme or themes? If any? 

 

Besides Tough and Henry, Come On, I hope everything else is new to our ears, no bland, one-take Country Roads cover, no Prettiest Girl in Country Music, etc. I'd like it to be fresh, vibrant, realized, dynamic, and with some verve. Not sleepy.  

 

It would be great to know that Lana has released an album she really loves, is 100% proud of, believes is fully realized, and matches her original conception. Her Court & Spark, her Abbey Road, her Blurryface, her Grace, her Sticky Fingers, her Under the Pink or Boys for Pele, her Rumours. 

 

I realize a lot of members and fans believe she's done this already with NFR! and perhaps with OB as well. And Lana may feel that way about both of those albums as well. 

 

 

Prettiest Girl in Country Music is a beautiful song and deserves to be on Lasso.

 

Tbh, Prettiest Girl > Henry, Come on.

[barttttender 4,380]

24 minutes ago, dexter said:

We reached a new level of Boredom on the site of where just doing the survivors again 😭

 

BOREDOM NEXT LEVEL.

 

Truly, this thread has taken it to previously unimaginable levels.

[Venice Peach 53,984]

49 minutes ago, Cult Leader said:

What if she opened with Body Electric because she interpolated the instrumental into a Lasso track, what then

The Fenway intro song sounds just like Cola with those drums + strings combo so maybe she was Paradise inspired for this album 

[Candy Necklace 5,755]

I need Lasso to sound like born to die or ultraviolence or honeymoon or lust for life or Norman fucking Rockwell or chemtrails or blue banisters or ocean boulevard but also be unique and fresh at the same time

[Embach 35,750]

1 hour ago, helloheaven said:

heres the leaked tracklist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars_(soundtrack)

lasso will be an entire album of covers 

Tbh Charli should do that

[The Sun Also Rises 5,034]

This sounds weird, but I was watching this video and the first half of the visuals (especially from 0:12) are very much the environment/colours I was picturing for Lasso 

 

 

[Americen Whore 9,800]

I really hope Luke laird produced most of the songs, that henry snippet sounded so fresh & had crystal clear vocals.

[DrippingPeaches 98]

1 hour ago, Venice Peach said:

The Fenway intro song sounds just like Cola with those drums + strings combo so maybe she was Paradise inspired for this album 

she WAS using a lot of paradise/tropico short film imagery on the ocean blvd tour so i wouldn't be surprised if she took inspo from it 

 

 

 

[The Sun Also Rises 5,034]

1 minute ago, DrippingPeaches said:

she WAS using a lot of paradise/tropico short film imagery on the ocean blvd tour so i wouldn't be surprised if she took inspo from it 

 

Please please PLEASE   

SING AVE MARIA HONEY

[Let the Light In 18,208]

Manifest: Lasso album co- produced and co-written by Tim Larcombe and we also have ITTJ released

[Embach 35,750]

4 minutes ago, Americen Whore said:

I really hope Luke laird produced most of the songs, that henry snippet sounded so fresh & had crystal clear vocals.

i wonder how many (new) Christian themed songs there will be, i looked up Luke Laird's instagram and a lot of his posts (bio too I think) were about God and Lana's Christian as well

[Vertimus 9,362]

4 hours ago, Embach said:

Yeah, but with Lana-esque writing style of course. I do think that any (country) singer can write murder ballads but Lana can nail it 100% if she puts her own (classic) references into the lyrics.

I agree, but sometimes her storytelling can be sappy of late, as in the last chorus of How to Disappear, which sinks the song for me.   

[The Sun Also Rises 5,034]

1 minute ago, Vertimus said:

I agree, but sometimes her storytelling can be sappy of late, as in the last chorus of How to Disappear, which sinks the song for me.   

 

That's interesting. I particularly enjoy the last verse (if that's the part you meant?) because of the last reference to Crosby, Stills, Nash + Young. 

 

I think Lana could nail a murder ballad. We know she it in her — and I agree it doesn't have to contradict the "lighter" label. 

 

9 minutes ago, Embach said:

i wonder how many (new) Christian themed songs there will be, i looked up Luke Laird's instagram and a lot of his posts (bio too I think) were about God and Lana's Christian as well

 

I don't want outright Christian songs, but I've always loved Lana working in her faith, struggles with it, and iconography into the lyricism, as in Tropico etc. I'd be really interested in this theme, depending on how she executes it.  

[Vertimus 9,362]

1 minute ago, The Sun Also Rises said:

 

That's interesting. I particularly enjoy the last verse (if that's the part you meant?) because of the last reference to Crosby, Stills, Nash + Young. 

 

I think Lana could nail a murder ballad. We know she it in her — and I agree it doesn't have to contradict the "lighter" label. 

 

 

I don't want outright Christian songs, but I've always loved Lana working in her faith, struggles with it, and iconography into the lyricism, as in Tropico etc. I'd be really interested in this theme, depending on how she executes it.  

I mean the part at the end that goes "I'll always be right here." There are enough people in the world already writing sappy, 70s-style schlock ballads, and probably always will be, since there's a huge general audience for them. It's a message people like to here over and over, generation in and out.

 

But Lana is capable of much more, and so I feel she rather hobbles herself with songs like HTD. I personally don't want to see her move in a bland, all-audiences Life is Beautiful direction. 

[SalvaWHORE 33,642]

"UV" this / "Paradise" that

the way we are still holding ourselves to false hope this era again, we never learn 

 

we were born to die, but a delulu keeps us alive