base talk 5 Years of Lana Del Rey's Lust for Life; thoughts on it today?

[NOW]

 

 

 

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When Lana Del Rey arrived six years ago, she was like a recovered memory, familiar and unsettling. Her preoccupations were nostalgia and melodrama, and strategic falseness became a kind of calling card. Her songs were sly and sometimes bracing, but they were most effective as a soundtrack for her real-time performance art.

But an interesting thing has happened in recent years: Ms. Del Rey’s personal mythology has receded, making way for her songcraft. [...] She alludes to politics and social circumstance, indicating a willingness to portray herself as a person living in the present moment. And she collaborates with Sean Lennon (a Beatles proxy) and Stevie Nicks as a way of identifying her influences and standing beside them, not inside them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/arts/music/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-live-review.html

 

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In this, Del Rey’s music, as always, invites accusations of naivety. No one but Del Rey, for example, might pay tribute to the flower crowns of corporate music-festival crowds without fear of death by embarrassment. Yet this album’s signature song might be “Coachella—Woodstock in My Mind,” which she wrote after hearing about North Korea’s missile tests and watching Father John Misty onstage in Indio, California. The concept is risible but the song works because of how gingerly, how desperately, she turns to Cold War-era youth culture to cope with modern nuclear-war fears.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/07/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life-review/534816/

 

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For years, it seemed Del Rey’s artistry lay in her ability to offer herself as a concept pursued to its logical end. Lust for Life presents her as something more interesting: a great American storyteller. [...] Like Hopper, Del Rey’s realism functions doubly as impressionism—literal representation as a means to capture the feeling of life in America.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-lust-for-life/

 

 

 

Edited July 21, 2022 by NOW

[TROPICUM]

Probably the best visuals we'll ever get from her, but it's probably her worst album

 

Saur sawrry but it just doesn't hold up when her big sister is the immaculate NFR...

[RideOrDie]

great album when you get rid of the filler, everyone has their own fat filler version of it, she was happy and actively engaged with the gaise, it really aged nicely when you take it for what it is instead of comparing it to what came before and after 

[MotoPapi]

I like about half of the album. 
 

13 beaches >>>

[trainsskyscrapers]

3rd Fave Lana Del Rey album after Born To Die and Honeymoon.

 

Pros:

- She actually listened to everyone who wanted the BTD gang back together: Justin Parker, Dan Heath, Emilie Haynie, Rick Nowels, Tim Larcombe. (Jeff Bhasker was the only one missing)

- She got to make her "Woodstock" album: slightly political, collabs with the second coming of John Lennon & Stevie Nicks, as well as Michael Jackson's ghost (The Weeknd).

- Work with Max Martin and Benny Blanco without sounding too pop

- Amazing Song titles.

- Favorite Tracks: Love, 13 Beaches, White Mustang, Cherry, Summer Bummer, Heroin, WTWWAWWKD, Coachella-Woodstock, Tomorrow Never Came.

- Many inventive melodies

- One of the best album teaser videos of all time.

 

 

Cons: 

- A very long album with a little filler

- Not really a fan of Change or Groupie Love.

- Needed more visuals. I would've loved to see some sort of faux-Woodstock performance medley visual for Tomorrow Never Came + Coachella-Woodstock. Also Heroin & WTWWAWWKD.

[Bacardo Royale]

I will always love this album regardless of the hate it gets

[T.O.A.D.S.]

She hasn't been able to top it 

[TrueBlood]

Easily her worst album, and if THIS is the worst album of an artist, it speaks volumes to how incredible the whole discography is.

[Gladiator]

One of my favorite Lana albums.

[josesuxx]

It's has some filler but it seems worse than it actually is cause the albums that came before and after are so much better 

[KatyPrismSpirit]

Radiohead really snapped on the last song

 

[Outlaws]

I still adore it

[Taylucifer]

it’s one of her best albums so idk why a lot of Lana stans hate it

[est. in 90s]

Heroin, In My Feelings, When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing, Summer Bummer and Groupie Love CARRIED 

Edited July 21, 2022 by est. in 90s

[original_lifeline]

I ended up hating BB. not this. it's an okay album

[ontherocks]

Production is terrible and it became clear that Rick needs to go 

[HeWolf]

LFL is by far her worst major single release. TW’s voice is unbearably annoying.

[Joesuxx]

22 minutes ago, HeWolf said:

LFL is by far her worst major single release. TW’s voice is unbearably annoying.

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[ontherocks]

36 minutes ago, HeWolf said:

LFL is by far her worst major single release. TW’s voice is unbearably annoying.

In all honesty, her spoken word parts are way worse and totally killed the flow of the song alongside with any possibility of radio picking it up. 

[T.O.A.D.S.]

51 minutes ago, HeWolf said:

LFL is by far her worst major single release. TW’s voice is unbearably annoying.

I agree. But that doesn't take away from the fact LFL (the album) is one of her best. The Little Lanasters will learn to appreciate it one day.

[Melancholy]

2 hours ago, trainsskyscrapers said:

- Not really a fan of Change or Groupie Love.

***** that's not a con for LFL that's a con for you!!!

[Terylee]

I like it. Always liked it.

[stjosephprey4us]

My literal only thought rn regarding Lana Del Rey is that she needs to release soon so that you gays can stop creating these rehashed threads 

[conquxror]

It’s an amazing album if you remove all of the bad songs from it. It’s far from Lana’s worse tho

[luckythisway]

It’s her 3rd worst but I appreciate it much more retrospectively than in 2017