Lorde

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fallen fruit goddamit...... 

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18 hours ago, Voignamir said:

i was shitting on it before but i'm listening to this record on repeat since release and it's growing A LOT, it sets a certain mood and it really has some very magical moments like the intro of The Path or the deluxe tracks

i can't say yet if i like the whole record but i'm definitely past the hate phase

my favs: Hold No Grudge, Dominoes, Big Star, but i'm able to find something to enjoy in every song,

except the title track  this one is just dull and so uniteresting, i don't know what it's supposed to do but it's not doing it for me

See it's interesting to me that everyone seems to have quite different fav/least fav tracks. I'm in love with Stoned, Fallen Fruit, and Mood Ring; the two I'm struggling to get into right now are Dominoes and Big Star!! 

 

I have seen a lot of mixed reviews for this album but each song seems to have an equal share of lovers and haters, which signals to me that there aren't any songs it's just quite a polarising album with no inherently 'bad' songs', it'll be quite the grower I think. Already since my first listen I've come around to California, Secrets, and Oceanic Feeling.

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11 hours ago, 13beachess said:

Just listened to Big Star "for real" and I cried. Thinking about my beloved dog that passed last year ?

Such a simple, but yet so emotional track.

its such a lovely track especially thinking about my dog that died but overall its one of the best tracks

 

 

Spoiler

 

^ me listening to big star

 

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Hold No Grudge has me by the throat

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Does anyone else get Marina vibes from the California chorus? It sounds so pretty though.

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From the Nissan to the Phantom to the plane ? ? ✈️ 
We'll disappear in the cover of the rain. ? 

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Both the bonus tracks should of made the standard album and we need “hold no grudge” on streaming NOW

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1 minute ago, willfoshizzle said:

Both the bonus tracks should of made the standard album and we need “hold no grudge” on streaming NOW

Big star should have been the bonus track 

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Big Star is so beautiful, and Stoned hits different on vinyl. 

Axe is genuinely terrible, worst song on the album methinks.

 

1 hour ago, willfoshizzle said:

Both the bonus tracks should of made the standard album and we need “hold no grudge” on streaming NOW

what I've been saying from the beginning 

 

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2 hours ago, ChaoticLipster said:

From the Nissan to the Phantom to the plane ? ? ✈️ 
We'll disappear in the cover of the rain. ? 

 

the way im completely addicted to this track 

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I don't care what anyone says, critics can fuck off, I LOVE this album I swear it took me by surprise  

I love it so much, Fallen Fruit is giving Bury the Hatchett's The Cranberries and The Man with the Axe is giving early Sia and I'm living for it  Hold No Grudge and Mood Ring are incredible, top tier in the album for me. I even enjoy the title track now

I would only add a little more production to Stoned, Helen of Troy (I needed that to build up and explode in an amazing outro), Dominoes and Big Star, removed the outro from Secrets and there you have, AOTY. 

It's making it onto my top 10 albums of the year anyways

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been listening to the album on repeat for the past few days and i gotta say- i really like it

on my first listen i really wasn’t that impressed and i think think the reasoning for this might be the order of the tracklist. it goes up and down all the time. i feel like she should’ve put all the “upbeat” songs together in the beginning and then let it simmer down towards the end. i really don’t know if there is a reasoning behind the tracklisting, there’s got to be- i mean it’s lorde we’re talking here!

the path and oceanic feeling are both such great openers/endings though. there are so many exciting parts but there really isn’t a big build up to be found anywhere (once again, not a bad thing!) the rest is just a bit messy. that little speech in secrets, i think it’s by robyn, is so so so sweet. man with the axe’s production in the end is so melancholic. that dark turn in fallen fruit is SO lorde. love the message of leader of a new regime.

 

it’s a very mellow album and i don’t think it’s a bad thing. i’ve been falling asleep to this record a lot- so peaceful, definitely recommend!

 

overall, i think this album is very much lorde- just a side we haven’t seen before. a very peaceful and toned down album but overall i really love it. cannot wait to see what coming experiences this album will be the soundtrack to.

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‘Solar Power’ by Lorde is projected to debut within the Top 5 of the Billboard 200 with 55-60k units. Yikes, but she can only blame herself for releasing a box with no CD which won’t count towards sales.  Ridiculous business decision, almost as bad as OnlyFans banning porn. 

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Oceanic Feeling gets better each listen  I might be becoming slightly obsessed with that track

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56 minutes ago, ChaoticLipster said:

‘Solar Power’ by Lorde is projected to debut within the Top 5 of the Billboard 200 with 55-60k units. Yikes, but she can only blame herself for releasing a box with no CD which won’t count towards sales.  Ridiculous business decision, almost as bad as OnlyFans banning porn. 

When is it going to click that she release a box with no CD *because* she doesn't gaf about sales? Her main focus w this album seems to be creating an experience of an album for her listeners, which I think she's done, I'm loving every second of it. She explicitly said there are no hits on the album; she is already big enough and has made passion rather than chart success her main focus with her music. Why is it so hard to grasp that charts don't define an album's success, and its meaning to the artist?

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54 minutes ago, Super Movie said:

Oceanic Feeling gets better each listen  I might be becoming slightly obsessed with that track

Same. And the album booklet made it even more beautiful for me. 

 

"Last song I wrote for the album. My brother had been in a car accident when I was in NYC, and his head injury was making him angry. Needed to tell him I loved him, and it'd all be okay."

 

Little brother

I think you're an angel

See your silver 

chain levitate

When you're kick-flipping

Baby boy, you're 

super cool

I know you're scared 

So was I

But all will be revealed in time

 

?

 

I still remember the accident. I live somewhat near Lorde's childhood home and played football w Angelo at high school; he was skating and got hit by a car. I was out nearby delivering my sister's papers at the time and my father and (other) sister saw him, they described it as 'the most heartbreaking thing ever' watching Sonja come running down the road crying, I'm glad he's okay now.

 

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1 hour ago, lil aerosol said:

 

I still remember the accident. I live somewhat near Lorde's childhood home and played football w Angelo at high school; he was skating and got hit by a car. I was out nearby delivering my sister's papers at the time and my father and (other) sister saw him, they described it as 'the most heartbreaking thing ever' watching Sonja come running down the road crying, I'm glad he's okay now.

 

 

 

whaaaaaaaaaaaaat

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I think the album is ok but I need to be in a certain mood to listen to it. Mood Ring is still the best song, it gives me Taxi Ride (Tori Amos)  vibes. 

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lorde laced "the path" with crack.. it's trew, it's trew! 

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It’s actually grown a lil on me

 

i love the path, one of my favs from her. Fallen fruit is good, and I actually am finding myself liking big star, dominoes and and oceanic feeling which is funny cause I HATED them at first. 
 

secrets from a girl is by far her worst song ever though. That outro is just embarrassing.