Honeymoon - Post-Release Discussion Thread + Poll

[ristretto 67]

someone on here wrote that every track on Honeymoon sounds like a Sofia Coppola movie, which I honestly really agree with and that's the god damn vibe I want for LDR5 tbh. I'm truly done with songs about daddies and velvet nights and beauty queens, and let's be real Lana is too. i'm longing for that slow death and heartbreak aesthetic accompanied by long beautiful Coppola shots like the HBTB video. i hope she's feeling these vibes for LDR5.

 

on another note, my ideal soundscape for LDR5 described with one song from each album would be Pawn Shop Blues, Off To The Races, Bel Air, Cruel World and The Blackest Day

[knoxavel 938]

someone on here wrote that every track on Honeymoon sounds like a Sofia Coppola movie, which I honestly really agree with and that's the god damn vibe I want for LDR5 tbh. I'm truly done with songs about daddies and velvet nights and beauty queens, and let's be real Lana is too. i'm longing for that slow death and heartbreak aesthetic accompanied by long beautiful Coppola shots like the HBTB video. i hope she's feeling these vibes for LDR5.

 

on another note, my ideal soundscape for LDR5 described with one song from each album would be Pawn Shop Blues, Off To The Races, Bel Air, Cruel World and The Blackest Day

you forgot to mention I DON'T WANNA GO, TV IN BLACK AND WHITE, GO GO DANCER ..... 

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,309]

you forgot to mention I DON'T WANNA GO, TV IN BLACK AND WHITE, GO GO DANCER ..... 

And Making Out, Is It Wrong, Push Me Down, Motel 6, Driving In Cars With Boys, Put The Radio On, Dangerous Girl... 

[knoxavel 938]

And Making Out, Is It Wrong, Push Me Down, Motel 6, Driving In Cars With Boys, Put The Radio On, Dangerous Girl... 

SHADY. <3

[Angel Fire 543]

someone on here wrote that every track on Honeymoon sounds like a Sofia Coppola movie, which I honestly really agree with and that's the god damn vibe I want for LDR5 tbh. I'm truly done with songs about daddies and velvet nights and beauty queens, and let's be real Lana is too. i'm longing for that slow death and heartbreak aesthetic accompanied by long beautiful Coppola shots like the HBTB video. i hope she's feeling these vibes for LDR5.

 

on another note, my ideal soundscape for LDR5 described with one song from each album would be Pawn Shop Blues, Off To The Races, Bel Air, Cruel World and The Blackest Day

That. Honeymoon is truly the most consistent and most beautiful/touching album she's put out yet.

It impresses me how she's always capable to overcome her previous records (which are flawless, to me, in every way), making a new album that's even more overwhelming than the one before everytime. I had this feeling with Ultraviolence and Honeymoon.

Back in 2012 I swore to God she would never be able to put out something as sensitive and as perfect as Born to Die was.

[Solar Fields 4,158]

Finally y'all are appreciating Honeymoon

[cashcomesquick 5,379]

That. Honeymoon is truly the most consistent and most beautiful/touching album she's put out yet.

It impresses me how she's always capable to overcome her previous records (which are flawless, to me, in every way), making a new album that's even more overwhelming than the one before everytime. I had this feeling with Ultraviolence and Honeymoon.

Back in 2012 I swore to God she would never be able to put out something as sensitive and as perfect as Born to Die was.

 

Yeah, then she released UV and disproved my fear. Nevertheless, it was harder to get into HM. But once you do, it's pure perfection.

[knoxavel 938]

aw HONEYMOON still be relevant. makes me happy. 

[Angel Fire 543]

I don't know if you guys ever realized that, but the Honeymoon instrumentals (and vocals) play a lot around the "time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future" theme (and some people here even say the Burnt Norton interlude is useless in the album, when, in fact, it's a major role in the understandment of the album themes) which I believe is a central role in the album and the thoughts Lana put in its creation.

 

Like, if you listen to "Music to Watch Boys to" you can hear, right in the beggining, that the chorus without instrumental goes forward, while, in the back sound, the echoes are played backwards.

 

We have this again in "High by the Beach" with the vocals being played going high and being repeated right after backwards and that goes throughout the entire song, everytime these "scream" (yawns? I don't know how to describe it) appear. The instrumental itself is also going forward and backwards sometimes.

 

Art Deco brings it again, with the trip beats in the beggining being played forward and backwards. The instrumental in Burnt Norton is essencially this. Played forward and backwards, forward and backwards, giving the feeling of an endless loop.

 

At the end or Religion the beats slow down to bring Salvatore, where the flutes are first going up and in a second beind played in reverse. 

 

And the best of all, right in the beggining you have the sound of a man crying compulsively, which is repeated a lot of times. The cry itself lenghts less than a second, but they repeat it like, 9 times, so it seems like a continously cry. At the end of the bridge, when the violins rise again (at the end of the piano part) you can see that the cry is now going up, like a laugh, 'cause they're playing it backwards. God, it's fu**ing amazing. This part is more notorious if you listen to the instrrumental isolated, you can find it in here: 

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I listened some of the same pattern in the Swan Song instrumental, but right now I'm not remembering to tell you especifically. Overall, that's just shows how Lana is a fu**ing incredible artist, how everything is planned and she is really focused in materializing an idea, a thought, a belief in what she creates. It's simply overwhelming.

 

P.S.: I copied it from the "your fav instrumentals" thread 'cause I have never read someone discussing this before and I'd like for more people to know about it!

[Angel Fire 543]

I'm pretty sure there are other moments where this pattern exists, but I don't recall any other right now. If someone has noticed it, post it here! 

[Starsx 1,848]

I would forget Honeymoon existed if it wasn't for Lana Boards having the Honeymoon background 

But I guess I can listen to Religion or Salvatore to feel like I care about Honeymoon. Now those songs are amazing!!! 

[valentinoeyes 335]

I'm very happy with MTWBT, Religion, Salvatore, The Blackest Day and Swan Song.

And I even move Honeymoon and God Knows I Tried at times where I'm feeling really sad and need a pick me up. Overall, it's a great album but maybe not one you can constantly listen to on repeat. I do appreciate it and I wish others would too but different strokes for different folks. But I admit it took me 4 months to fall in love with it, had me feeling frustrated at first lol.

[SlowGinFizzzz 15,309]

The songs on Honeymoon are mostly great, I just feel like they shouldn't all be on the same album because they sound too similar. 

[Wild One 3,305]

The songs on Honeymoon are mostly great, I just feel like they shouldn't all be on the same album because they sound too similar. 

What's your favorite Lana album?

[PARADIXO 31,621]

The songs on Honeymoon are mostly great, I just feel like they shouldn't all be on the same album because they sound too similar. 

 

This makes no sense since both Born to Die and Ultraviolence are much more consistent sonically. BTD is all about ~dem loud trip hop beats and auto-tuned loons and UV is all dreamy guitars and psych effects. You can't compare Freak with Terrence Loves You or High By the Beach with 24.

[Wild One 3,305]

This makes no sense since both Born to Die and Ultraviolence are much more consistent sonically. BTD is all about ~dem loud trip hop beats and auto-tuned loons and UV is all dreamy guitars and psych effects. You can't compare Freak with Terrence Loves You or High By the Beach with 24.

-Exactly my thought-

[Wynwood 19,966]

This makes no sense since both Born to Die and Ultraviolence are much more consistent sonically. BTD is all about ~dem loud trip hop beats and auto-tuned loons and UV is all dreamy guitars and psych effects. You can't compare Freak with Terrence Loves You or High By the Beach with 24.

i usually feel like many of hm songs sound the same because she doesnt really switch up her vocal game. most, if not all, of the vocals are breathy, long, and monotone. in btd paradise and uv she constantly changes up how she sings. the vocals in brooklyn baby or nothing like the vocals in sad girl. the vocals in sad girl are nothing like the vocals in fucked my way up to the top. in paradise, she has the BEST vocals. she has so much energy and no song sounds alike. in btd she switches up a lot with her new low singing voice and her old high pitch lizzy voice. personally, this is ONE of the reasons hm sounds the same throughout. i would list other reasons but im lazy

[PARADIXO 31,621]

i usually feel like many of hm songs sound the same because she doesnt really switch up her vocal game. most, if not all, of the vocals are breathy, long, and monotone. in btd paradise and uv she constantly changes up how she sings. the vocals in brooklyn baby or nothing like the vocals in sad girl. the vocals in sad girl are nothing like the vocals in my way up to the top. in paradise, she has the BEST vocals. she has so much energy and no song sounds alike. in btd she switches up a lot with her new low singing voice and her old high pitch lizzy voice. personally, this is ONE of the reasons hm sounds the same throughout. i would list other reasons but im lazy

 

Oh I agree with you. Even though I feel like she sounds passionate on Honeymoon (I know, really unpopular opinion) I agree with them being breathy and long. They suit the theme of escapism/anxiety that exists throughout the record though.

[Floridian 418]

At this point I think it's safe to say we've all said something bltchy about Honeymoon. Myself included. And to be honest I just needed a punch line for a shltty joke I really love it tbh. It's a good album in my opinion and frankly it is slow af a lot of the time but I don't think that makes it a bad album. A lot of people here never stop talking about their alternative edgy love for old artists with music that had the pace to fit the time because it makes them look cooler but then also never shut up about how slow Honeymoon is 

[Wynwood 19,966]

remember when we thought honeymoon would be the album where lana finally stood up to her man, but it turned out to be the whiniest lana album to date