PrinceSpears Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 Just now, Lana Banana said: Hello. It samples Venice ***** and she remixes it Yeah I know that but just thought the start sounded like 13 Beaches as well so wasn’t sure. Thanks!
Amethyst Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 Any Tinashe stans here? I just realized how similar the Judah Smith interlude is to some interludes on Tinashe's mixtapes (except not as long, but it also has someone preaching over a dark atmosphere). See: The Will To Survive, Video Tapes but mainly the intro of Fear Not.
ahauntingnearu Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 2 hours ago, ElleDriver said: "It's too long!" will NEVER be a valid criticism music journalism is terrible like Btw this album is meant to be listened from start to finish every time. We need to do something about our diminishing attention span for our own sake... It absolutely is, wyd part of crafting an album is cutting unnecessary parts - and there are absolutely parts like that here, especially the interludes. If you can't see that, try taking your Stan hat off lmao You wouldn't say "length doesn't matter" about an artist you disliked, like Chris Brown's abysmally long albums.
ontherocks Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, PrinceSpears said: Yeah I know that but just thought the start sounded like 13 Beaches as well so wasn’t sure. Thanks! Nah, otherwise Nowels Retirement Home would have been credited
State of Grace. Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 The partial streams suggested that the album would be doing 25M-30M, weird Still the numbers are great and she's getting her biggest debut It is doing well in the US/UK at least. The album is too wordy so I don't think it'll do anything outside the anglosphere.
ahauntingnearu Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 54 minutes ago, P!NK2LOVE said: Yeah this album is changing my life too. She really puts **** into perspective. I'm glad it's grown on you; you didn't like it a few days ago iirc
Amethyst Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 14 minutes ago, ahauntingnearu said: It absolutely is, wyd part of crafting an album is cutting unnecessary parts - and there are absolutely parts like that here, especially the interludes. If you can't see that, try taking your Stan hat off lmao You wouldn't say "length doesn't matter" about an artist you disliked, like Chris Brown's abysmally long albums. That's subjective. The thing about reviews is that they should give arguments for their claims and all the ones that I have read saying the album is too long haven't said explicitly why the album would benefit from being shorter or why some parts are not necessary. Comparing Lana's album to Chris Brown's 30 track albums with the sole purpose of bulking streaming numbers
popstickle Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 1 minute ago, State of Grace. said: The partial streams suggested that the album would be doing 25M-30M, weird Still the numbers are great and she's getting her biggest debut It is doing well in the US/UK at least. The album is too wordy so I don't think it'll do anything outside the anglosphere. 12 tracks have charted in the Top 200 of US Spotify while all 16 tracks have charted in the Top 200 of UK Spotify - it’s looking very good! I really underestimated her, honestly though she wouldn’t get higher than LFL first day streams.
ontherocks Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 4 minutes ago, State of Grace. said: The partial streams suggested that the album would be doing 25M-30M, weird Still the numbers are great and she's getting her biggest debut It is doing well in the US/UK at least. The album is too wordy so I don't think it'll do anything outside the anglosphere. It suggested more like 20-22 million and the good sis got carried away in his prediction this time. In the end, I think it will be still under 20 million cause with such a lyrics heavy record, only the US and UK care.
Haus Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 [Fishtail, Peppers, Taco Truck] is on par with [Shades of Cool, Brooklyn Baby, West Coast] and [Heroin, Change, Get Free]. A trinity of trinities.
ahauntingnearu Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Amethyst said: That's subjective. The thing about reviews is that they should give arguments for their claims and all the ones that I have read saying the album is too long haven't said explicitly why the album would benefit from being shorter or why some parts are not necessary. Comparing Lana's album to Chris Brown's 30 track albums with the sole purpose of bulking streaming numbers Exactly dd - you'd disagree with their review regardless of whether it gave explicit recos for shortening or not, though, so it doesn't really matter. And I'm not comparing to Chris brown - it's just another example of length as a factor for evaluation, like many Taylor swift albums. Reading comprehension, babes. Lana fans can be so pretentious praising everything she does to high heavens and attacking everyone else And it's not "not having an attention span" if you comment the album is long when it's close to the length of some movies. Not everyone wants to listen to such a long body of work. I personally don't mind it, but I get why people would say this (and other extremely long albums) drags on. But it's so dismissive to think like you and some of the people in here do. Edited March 25, 2023 by ahauntingnearu
P!NK2LOVE Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 15 minutes ago, ahauntingnearu said: I'm glad it's grown on you; you didn't like it a few days ago iirc It was a bit too much (it still is, especially Fingertips good LORD is that song heavy) but it’s brilliant. She’s brilliant. After reading through the lyrics etc. I’m just absolutely stunned and don’t know what to do with myself. It’s that good.
P!NK2LOVE Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 Guys I’m reading through the lyrics of Fingertips on Genius while listening and am having an out of body experience. I- The stuff about the telomeres. Her uncle. I-
Lana Banana Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 13 minutes ago, Haus said: [Fishtail, Peppers, Taco Truck] is on par with [Shades of Cool, Brooklyn Baby, West Coast] and [Heroin, Change, Get Free]. A trinity of trinities. Peppers?
Pendulum Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 2 hours ago, ElleDriver said: "It's too long!" will NEVER be a valid criticism music journalism is terrible like Btw this album is meant to be listened from start to finish every time. We need to do something about our diminishing attention span for our own sake... Have you listened to Ethel Cain's debut? pretty much every review dragged the UNNECESSARY length of Preacher's Daughter, deservedly so
No More Candle Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 Guys, I... I think I like the Interludes. Yes I am not a fan of the pastor talking but the instrumentals of it are just so haunting and hypnotizing.
ScorpiosGroove Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, XtianB said: Blue Banisters > this snooze fest calling this a snoozefest but not bb is WILD
No More Candle Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 By the way, any news about @BlackoutZone or a possible world tour?
ontherocks Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Lana Banana said: Peppers? Peppers changed the life of endangered ginger ppl in northeast England for the better. Anyways: new favourite comment on AB: there should have been less piano ballads. Piano ballads only work if there are only a few on the album!!!111. I think that member confused Lana with Gaga Edited March 25, 2023 by ontherocks
Antisocialites Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 The lenght of an album is VALID criticism. Just like it's valid in cinema.
SupremeGoddess Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 didnt sufjan stevens put out a 30 min track to critical acclaim or something? imagine thinking a 16 track and hour long record is “too long” ok girlies go back to listening to tiktok speed up remixes of lykke li
P!NK2LOVE Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 I didn’t originally like the interludes either, and I still don’t really like the second one, but I’m starting to see the vision. For the preacher one, I think that with a track as raw and as vulnerable as A&W preceding it, with her pretty much abandoning the persona that she spent 10 years crafting, in which was her love obsessed persona finally excepting that she’s just gonna be ****** up forever and doesn’t need love any more. So she’s just embracing the ‘*****’ archetype I feel in that part. And then I think in the second part, Jimmy, she’s embracing it fully and has become that character. Fast-track to the interlude that follows, where she feels shame and embarrassment after the encounter, as we’re lead to believe that being a ***** is wrong in our contemporary era. Thus, she takes herself to church and allows herself to be preached at. My interpretation, anyway.
Haus Posted March 25, 2023 Posted March 25, 2023 10 minutes ago, Lana Banana said: Peppers? Peppers will be seen in time.
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