West Coast 45,790 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YourGirl666 13,231 Posted September 26, 2021 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 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson and Clover 22,485 Posted September 26, 2021 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 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Super Movie 51,550 Posted September 26, 2021 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 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YourGirl666 13,231 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
IanadeIrey 61,910 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 6 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Venice 6,933 Posted September 26, 2021 I'm glad the CoCC era was short. 12 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
viktoria 3,174 Posted September 26, 2021 Chemtrails is her best album and Honeymoon is her second best album. 3 Quote last.fm Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Venice 6,933 Posted September 26, 2021 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 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cherry Blossom 21,472 Posted September 26, 2021 living for the mermaid motel demo praise. steven mertens my god 9 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cherry Blossom 21,472 Posted September 26, 2021 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 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bluechemtrails 26,493 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 8 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coloringbooks 13,942 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 0 Quote I live for the visions I can't see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WaitForLife 5,230 Posted September 26, 2021 I don't listen to AKA and Paradise at all. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
x VB 12,507 Posted September 26, 2021 Sad Girl is a mess. I like the song but too much reverb in the instrumental + vocals 1 Quote http:// The legacy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeminiLanaFan 48,862 Posted September 26, 2021 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). 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sjatib 5,168 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sportscruiser 11,893 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 3 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeminiLanaFan 48,862 Posted September 26, 2021 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. 5 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COCC 29,553 Posted September 26, 2021 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 12 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites