Azealia Banks Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 3 hours ago, Unoriginal said: you guys are exhausting for a thread that complains about LB so much it's interesting to see you all doing the things you drag them for Period
Kh-Loud Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) I really wasn’t sure how I felt after the initial listen, maybe a little underwhelmed. However, after sitting with it for a few days, I can certainly say that this album is top 3 in her discography for me. It’s just so raw and unfiltered. There are aspects of the album that encapsulates and captures Lana’s musical styles from every era; it could had easily been named her self titled. It also isn’t very accessible due to how quite and wordy it is. To fully get it, you have to sit and just focus on the words and emotions she tried to convey. She got me to feel all these emotions I rarely ever feel, which means it’s a great album from LANA. Honestly, I probably won’t repeat the majority of the songs from the album a whole lot because I feel so fragile and broken after every listen! I just am in a very good place and happy now a day so it’s harder to listen to Lana’s music compared to when my life wasn’t going the way I planned Edited March 20, 2023 by Kh-Loud
Lose My Breath Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 3 hours ago, Chemist said: The Line of Best Fit review extracts(7/10) Despite the range of Lana’s catalogue as it grows, these sixteen songs are easily among her most complicated, emotionally; pensive and optimistic, often at the same time. ..Even with such searching material, her pen remains amongst the sharpest working today. Sonically, this is another album which sounds designed to sit on a shelf with the classics. “Sweet” plays like vintage Carole King, while “Paris, Texas” enters fresh territory; a twinkling and playful piano pulling in the direction of Vashti Bunyan and other legends of the English folk-revival. “Let The Light In,” the best of her numerous collaborations with Father John Misty, is a total gem; a straight-down-the-line Jackson Browne-rocker, the kind which would have been a hit on FM radio in ‘73. In fact, the three-song stretch from “Grandfather Please Stand On The Shoulders…” to “Margaret” stakes a claim as among the very best from her nine albums to date. However, in equal measure, Del Rey’s singular mindset can result in indulgences which threaten to derail the whole album entirely. On a 77 minute record, do we really need two interludes (one being a four-minute sermon from a megachurch pastor) and a remix of “Venice *****,” far inferior to the original? “Margaret” is a perfect album closer, but it’s not this one’s. Instead, the record staggers on into “Fishtail,” a dull trap ballad, and hits a dead-end with “Peppers,” an excursion into rap which is an absolute mess; so incoherent that it's excruciating. I agree with them. Peppers is terrible. I also had to delete that one preacher interlude. It’s absolutely awful EXCEPT, the amazing stretch starts at Paris. That group of songs really is a huge highlight in her career. If she kept that up for the entire album, it would easily collapse NFR
GentleDance Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 still waiting for a review as iconic as this one Quote Del Rey paid homage to Brooklyn in her 2014 song “Brooklyn Baby,” in which she narrates making music with her guitarist boyfriend. The borough provided a romantic backdrop to her art, but she neglects to mention how gentrification has displaced generational Black residents living in Brooklyn due to skyrocketing rent prices, caused in part by middle-class creatives and/or professionals moving to the city.
Melancholy Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 16 minutes ago, beautiful player said: Absolutely love a coherent, well-thought out post and then *** will say we are not intellectual enough to appreciate those beautiful but undeservingly half baked songs
Kh-Loud Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) This album really is a huge grower because of how fragile and subtle the melodies are. Other than stans, no one will sit through several listens for it to grow on them. it will be Stans’ favorite but panned Edited March 20, 2023 by Kh-Loud
nasa Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 3 minutes ago, Poete said: Another 7/10 from Clash. it’s over. Bye
WildAmerican Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 honemoon is public! finally got to follow it!
GentleDance Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 Banisters really damaged her career, the acclaim this would get if she didn't release that mess
GentleDance Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 Just now, WildAmerican said: honemoon is public! finally got to follow it! she's typing
popmusicisdead Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 Let Me Rob You Like A Walmart really damaged her career, it's all been downhill from there
Club classic Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Eeveelution said: Opening this thread this morning and seeing all the meltdowns over reviews, only to see they were 80s and a couple of 70s. right?
WildAmerican Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 13 minutes ago, GentleDance said: she's typing QFTC pt 2 is coming, she wanted to make sure everyone saw it
Azealia Banks Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 25 minutes ago, GentleDance said: still waiting for a review as iconic as this one
State of Grace. Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 I can smell a critics lashing coming, lemme stay perched on honeymoon
shookspeare Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 has the COCC stanning started now that this is certified PANNED
GentleDance Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 1 minute ago, WildAmerican said: QFTC pt 2 is coming, she wanted to make sure everyone saw it Now that Tinashe, Charli XCX, Bebe Rexha, Demi Lovato, Ed Sheeran
Club classic Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 why are you f words panicking when 70 is the lowest we got so far?
Prince Tommy Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 8 minutes ago, State of Grace. said: I can smell a critics lashing coming, lemme stay perched on honeymoon If we're lucky she'll just say she didn't expect this one to be acclaimed but she doesn't mind because it was fun to make etc and leave it cute Flashbacks to her dragging Ann Powers for her glowing (but arguably patronizing) NFR review she really just needs to stay away, theres something iconic/messy from every era
Lament Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 (edited) I get that the interludes fit the narrative but they're so close to each other that the album becomes too dense and heavy at one point. Candy Necklace feels drowned between them… She should just have made them shorter or idk Edited March 20, 2023 by Lament
catsandlabneh Posted March 20, 2023 Posted March 20, 2023 2 hours ago, beautiful player said: Erickson is responsible for some of her worst work (Violets for Roses Be serious
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