Unpopular Lana Opinions

[creditcardromancer 752]

it makes me so sad that we will never get another album like AKA, BTD, and UV. like yeah all of her albums are AMAZING, but there is just something about those ones that is so special to me.

[CrazySister 2,239]

Lyrically speaking, I think LFL is her best, it showed a lot of maturity in the way she writes songs.

 

Hope deserves more. I truly believe it's her most complex song to date.

 

And unless she comes with something better, Honeymoon will remain as the album that strikes the best concept.

[mkultraviolence 5,832]

her song Hollywood is one of the worst from her unreleased discography and is way overrated. i heard a couple people agree that it's in the top 5 of her best unreleased. like really???

[CrazySister 2,239]

her song Hollywood is one of the worst from her unreleased discography and is way overrated. i heard a couple people agree that it's in the top 5 of her best unreleased. like really???

 

[West Coast 45,795]

i still don't get the obsession with california.  like to me the vocals sound messy and out of tune, song's nice i guess but i don't get that people genuinely think it's the best on the album?  hope still has that title (and is one of her best songs ever)

 

also on an album that traded bridges for musical outros it weirdly lacks both... choices. 

[Ultra Violet 18,984]

i still don't get the obsession with california.  like to me the vocals sound messy and out of tune, song's nice i guess but i don't get that people genuinely think it's the best on the album?  hope still has that title (and is one of her best songs ever)

 

For me I just like her vocals in the chorus. The layering sounds so good and the way she sings sounds desperate and it's one of the only parts of the album where we hear that old style of hers, the same way Ultraviolence had it. 

The verses of california are trash.

[June Gloom 1,787]

For me I just like her vocals in the chorus. The layering sounds so good and the way she sings sounds desperate and it's one of the only parts of the album where we hear that old style of hers, the same way Ultraviolence had it. 

The verses of california are trash.

honestly i felt the exact opposite!  i hate the chorus layering but think the verses are alright.  personally it feels messy since none of them are all that well tuned but i do agree the layered vocals are more UV than her other work

[mkultraviolence 5,832]

The Greatest has a horrible, stupid outro. There, I said it.

[Rorman Nockwell 56,719]

The Greatest has a horrible, stupid outro. There, I said it.

 

I'm usually asleep by the time it gets to the outro.

 

<-- me snoring during the TG outro

[13bitches 6,176]

I still think that NFR is tied with LFL for weakest title track, lyrically at least

 

My personal ranking of title tracks:

Born to Die

Honeymoon

Ultraviolence

Lust for Life

Norman Fucking Rockwell

 

[West Coast 45,795]

The Greatest has a horrible, stupid outro. There, I said it.

 

I honestly went from thinking it was one of the few great songs on this album, to think it's one of the most annoying ones. The vocal arrangement/progression is a mess, it sounds hella compressed, but also I hate how she mumbles the lyrics in the two verses (and that "and I'm waaaaaaaaaasted"). The guitar solo/instrumental climax sounds flat too, it lacks bass as well.

[CrazySister 2,239]

The Greatest has a horrible, stupid outro. There, I said it.

lol I remember hearing and thinking "ok, it's enough. End it". It even gives me anxiety, I'm always "now it will end, now it will end...". That was so unecessary   I tend to skip sometimes.

[Ivory Cricket 353]

I honestly can't finish the entire song. I get weirded out and feel like it should have ended at least two or three sentences sooner.

[slang 1,532]

The Greatest has a horrible, stupid outro. There, I said it.

The outro, specifically the terminal piano part, initially annoyed me too. Then I sort of rationalized it (see below). TG grew on me (I guess from initially annoying to interesting, but definitely not my top tier for the album).

 

I honestly went from thinking it was one of the few great songs on this album, to think it's one of the most annoying ones. The vocal arrangement/progression is a mess, it sounds hella compressed, but also I hate how she mumbles the lyrics in the two verses (and that "and I'm waaaaaaaaaasted"). The guitar solo/instrumental climax sounds flat too, it lacks bass as well.

"Hella compressed" : The beginning of it, on my equipment/ripping, has some noticeable overamplification (fuzzing). Other than that I don't really notice its compression, maybe because most pop is "hella compressed", but I wonder if TG stands out as being the most compressed song on NFR.

 

lol I remember hearing and thinking "ok, it's enough. End it". It even gives me anxiety, I'm always "now it will end, now it will end...". That was so unecessary   I tend to skip sometimes.

 

TG's piano getting really tinny at the end, with the repetition of the piano motif and final resolution (tonally speaking) musically reminds me of the death rattle of a terminally-ill patient taking their last breaths. Not that I think that will make you like the end of the song any better, but the way you worded your comment about it seemed very poignant to me.

[Jiggy 1,024]

I never listened to NFR after September

[KingJay 3,018]

Yea as much as I Love The Greatest and I think it’s one of the best songs on NFR, the almost minute long outro was unnecessary lol.

[KingJay 3,018]

Even tho it’s not a bad song, I wouldn’t have missed Bartender if it was cut from the album.

 

Also, I think I like the alternate version of Fuck it I Love You more than the video version. Before I liked the video version more... but now I feel like the other version is a bit better.

[West Coast 45,795]

I never listened to NFR after September

 

I've listened to like 3-4 songs from it since the end of September. But I relate to this comment a lot. 

[Flowerbomb 65,594]

I hope Lana doesn't diss any celebs in her future work because not only does it make the song age like milk because of her fake woke stance, but because it just sours the song in general.

[Rorman Nockwell 56,719]

Everyone: *hates the outro of TG*

 

Jack Antonoff: “The end just went on forever.… We were, like, ‘What if we just keep saying things?’”

 

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