Unpopular Lana Opinions

[West Coast 45,793]

1 hour ago, Vanilla Icy said:

some of her new songs are becoming too wordy for me. she's a great songwriter and i acknowledge how much she's improved (though she's always been great) but sometimes it feels like she's putting too much together and it breaks the flow of the melody.

for instance "all roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries, that pump the blood that flows straight to the heart of me" is beautiful, but it doesn't run very well

I agree with that very much, the lyricism is great but it's too wordy and it makes the song not sound too melodic from a vocal delivery standpoint. 

[YourGirl666 13,250]

31 minutes ago, Whore of Tropico said:

Without You sounds cringe sometimes, one of the most forgettable track in BTD. And it's too overrated.

The piano demo still slaps tho, same with Carmen

[Crimson and Clover 22,505]

On 9/24/2021 at 5:40 PM, LanasRightCheekFiller said:

I might be opening up a can of worms here but Arcadia is so bloodless and bland compared to her other music, I'm surprised it's on the same album as wfwf, one of Lana's rawest songs both lyrically and sonically. I love that she's bringing back a larger instrumental range (cocc was monotonous af) but the lyrical content is so inconsistent in terms of quality that it could pass for that of a LDR generator. Like those unbearable comical car references are so out of place next to the brilliant 'all roads that lead...' lyric. Her telling us to listen to it like we did Video Games makes sense in this context because you can just tell she was trying to recreate its magic which, naturally, didn't work and only made her come off as faux deep. That lack of authenticity is what made Arcadia age so fast for me while Video Games is still impactful and still worth its initial value even after 10 years of its release. (the people who trash vg can go be not-like-other-girls somewhere else).

I like Arcadia but yeah. I keep saying it here, it reminds me of Josh Groban-esque syrupy adult contemporary music from the early 2000s. I love the verses but the chorus loses me 

[Super Movie 51,663]

I'm not fully sure if this is unpopular or not, but I think that the Mermaid Motel demo is the only Lana demo I prefer over the final version

[YourGirl666 13,250]

Arcadia verses are RBFY level melody, but the chorus kinda ruin the song for me, like, I'm already used to it, but it still doesn't sound like it really fits (also, as someone already said above, it's too wordy). Even an instrumental chorus would be better. Not a bad song tho. 

[IanadeIrey 62,020]

53 minutes ago, Super Movie said:

I'm not fully sure if this is unpopular or not, but I think that the Mermaid Motel demo is the only Lana demo I prefer over the final version

Same! I really like Mermaid Motel as it is on AKA but there’s just something so timeless, sultry, eerie, and hypnotic about the demo. The drums, guitar, and layered vocals are so perfect that I do not have the vocabulary to explain why I love it so much lol. It’s among my top 5 favourite songs from that stage of Lana’s career. 

[Venice 6,933]

I'm glad the CoCC era was short. 

[viktoria 3,176]

Chemtrails is her best album and Honeymoon is her second best album. 

[Venice 6,933]

1 minute ago, athena said:

Chemtrails is her best album and Honeymoon is her second best album. 

 

Wait, I thought CoCC was pretty loved?? Omgm then maybe my opinion isn't controversial after all 

[Cherry Blossom 21,532]

living for the mermaid motel demo praise. steven mertens my god 

[Cherry Blossom 21,532]

Lemme give some of my unpopular (probably popular) opinions

 

Lolita Demo 4 > album version

 

Dark Paradise is the worst on BTD, it feels so empty and boring

 

Diet Mountain Dew Demo 2 > album version 

 

Sad Girl, Money Power Glory and Fucked My Way are some of Lana’s most boring and uninspired songs. even though all of them have elements i enjoy and aren’t actually bad, they drag on Ultraviolence and should have been replaced with unreleased tracks / is this happiness + flipside 

 

Popular opinion but idc, she should never have changed tnc bridge WHAT WAS THE REASON

[bluechemtrails 26,726]

7 hours ago, moonbeam monsoon said:

I wonder if she got product placement dollars for that. Hilton too… is Arcadia a musical billboard?

She mentions this hotel as a favour for Paris Hiltons popular comment in the Venice Bitch video.

[Coloringbooks 14,010]

6 hours ago, Super Movie said:

I'm not fully sure if this is unpopular or not, but I think that the Mermaid Motel demo is the only Lana demo I prefer over the final version

That demo is great, but I don't think it's able to top the album version for me.

[WaitForLife 5,236]

I don't listen to AKA and Paradise at all.

[x VB 12,508]

Sad Girl is a mess. I like the song but too much reverb in the instrumental + vocals 

[GeminiLanaFan 49,030]

I Talk to Jesus is so underwhelming and I’m glad it is not on BB. The verses are good but the chorus sounds like a Sunday morning Christian contemporary soft rock song 

Wild One has incredible verses but something is a bit missing from the chorus and the bridge (I like it though, as opposed to I Talk to Jesus). 

[sjatib 5,172]

6 hours ago, YourGirl666 said:

Arcadia verses are RBFY level melody, but the chorus kinda ruin the song for me, like, I'm already used to it, but it still doesn't sound like it really fits (also, as someone already said above, it's too wordy). Even an instrumental chorus would be better. Not a bad song tho. 

 

Not a bad song, but definetly the one I got to enjoy the less off the 4 singles we have (which I enjoy hugely, except for this one). It sounds like a mix of old melodies from her and there's something on her higher notes that bugs me.

[Sportscruiser 11,894]

8 hours ago, Crimson and Clover said:

I like Arcadia but yeah. I keep saying it here, it reminds me of Josh Groban-esque syrupy adult contemporary music from the early 2000s. I love the verses but the chorus loses me 

 

Absolutely. It’s definitely the weakest song out of the released singles.

[GeminiLanaFan 49,030]

Unpopular but LB is not always representative of the whole Lana fan base, at least when it comes to numbers and what are her « best » albums. 
On LB, Wildflower Wildfire is often said to be the best out of the four singles released, and yet it has the lowest streaming numbers on Spotify. 
Fan favourites here :

California, Shades of Cool, Heroin… Heroin and California didn’t even break the 50M stream barrier and SoC doesn’t even have 100M streams on Spotify. Not that those songs aren’t excellent, on the contrary, but when we are manifesting the next album to sound like those, not so sure if that album would be considered a success outside of here. 

[COCC 29,554]

12 minutes ago, GeminiLanaFan said:

Unpopular but LB is not always representative of the whole Lana fan base, at least when it comes to numbers and what are her « best » albums. 
On LB, Wildflower Wildfire is often said to be the best out of the four singles released, and yet it has the lowest streaming numbers on Spotify. 
Fan favourites here :

California, Shades of Cool, Heroin… Heroin and California didn’t even break the 50M stream barrier and SoC doesn’t even have 100M streams on Spotify. Not that those songs aren’t excellent, on the contrary, but when we are manifesting the next album to sound like those, not so sure if that album would be considered a success outside of here. 

Unpopular opinion: LB has the better taste than the rest of the fandom