truthteller Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 does anyone have a AOTY account, we need this to be back to 80 https://www.albumoftheyear.org/album/579013-lana-del-rey-did-you-know-that-theres-a-tunnel-under-ocean-blvd.php
justin. Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 I was just about to come into the thread to complain about the fact that this is not “universally acclaimed” on Metacritic. Some of the pop girls can release the audible equivalent of a shart and get an 85. This deserves at least a 90.
EdgeofTeeth Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 6 minutes ago, justin. said: I was just about to come into the thread to complain about the fact that this is not “universally acclaimed” on Metacritic. Some of the pop girls can release the audible equivalent of a shart and get an 85. This deserves at least a 90. It's pretty unbelievable to me that more accessible artists manage to bag "universal acclaim" so easily when this is infinitely more masterful and complex than recent acclaimed albums like Midnights and Sour Whatever, if you get it you get it!
suburbannature Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 1 minute ago, EdgeofTeeth said: It's pretty unbelievable to me that more accessible artists manage to bag "universal acclaim" so easily when this is infinitely more masterful and complex than recent acclaimed albums like Midnights and Sour Whatever, if you get it you get it! Well, also - some labels quite literally threaten publications and were exposed for it
Kimi Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 if this album was shorter it would also be acclaimed
CottageHore Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 (edited) I’m sorry but an artist like SZA (who I love) can release SOS, an album that pales in comparison to her previous record, lacks storytelling and personal anecdote, is basically formulaic hip-pop music meant for radio with a bloated tracklist with no cohesion whatsoever and get a… 94 on Metacritic, after 5 years of doing nothing? But Lana pours her heart and soul into songs she writes entirely on her own with so many artistic whims and intricacies, exploring so many genres all while weaving them into her own cohesive signature sound and she gets a……. 80? I know critic opinions don’t actually mean **** but the selectivity they come to the table with when it comes to Lana is asinine and makes no sense. They’ll say she’s the greatest living songwriter and then turn around and give her albums a lukewarm rating. Make it make sense! Edited March 27, 2023 by CottageHore
Amethyst Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 The Exclaim review pointing out Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind as the turning point in Lana's career
Kristen Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 What a challenging, sensational work. I listened to it maybe three times back-to-back just now and the only issue I have is that loathsome J*dah Sm*th interlude I've now deleted from the tracklist on my Apple Music. I get its thematic tie-in to "A&W," but I certainly don't need to hear it every time I wanna dive into an otherwise extremely special record (I'd add it back in if they release Jack's gorgeous instrumental alone, though).
ontherocks Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 Waiting for American Songwriter, Popmatters and AV Club
VeniceBeach Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 81 on MC with 19 reviews (LA Times is missing)
Prince Tommy Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 2 minutes ago, Amethyst said: The Exclaim review pointing out Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind as the turning point in Lana's career They ate. I bring this up to people when I try to get them into LFL and on Lana The vulture and exclaim reviews are excellent, honestly all of the positive review seem to engage a lot more with the actual material rather than obsessing with grandiose narratives about the LDR persona which many of the NFR reviews were obsessed with. The pitchfork review is so phoned in tbh, but hey at least she got BNM. Quote Ocean Blvd’s cleverest inversion is turning all of this sorrow into a message of hope. Lana’s one of our most successful writers of breakup songs, because the best ones suspend us in moments of totalizing angst like still lifes of houses in disrepair. This album’s doing something else, suggesting that all that moroseness is temporary, and, as “Kintsugi” advises, cracks in our veneer create spaces for light to take hold. Near the end of the album, “Margaret” flips the “When you know, you know” refrain “Paris, Texas” uses to cover the motives for skipping out on places and people, instead underscoring a promise that it’s okay to feel lost and confused and to weave through a jagged, arduous path toward maturity: “If you don’t know, don’t give up / ’Cause you never know what the new day might bring / Maybe you’ll know tomorrow.” These remembrances of relatives and anxiety spirals about what the future holds are really about making sure we leave something of substance behind when we’re gone. The curiosity in “Kintsugi” about whether anyone will remember Lana’s music the way the teen in the third verse knows Scottish folks songs, the fixation on memory in “The Grants,” the cosmic concerns that come up briefly in “Sweet,” the Churchome sermon, and the dilapidated tunnel the album’s named after are all circling the same question: What are you doing that will resonate after you’re gone, whom will it resonate for, and how are you rewiring your life to make sure your time goes to them, not to whatever bullshit is said behind your back or whomever you yearn for who doesn’t feel the same way? You don’t have to know now. Ocean Blvd makes that clear. Lana Del Rey is right there with you looking for an answer. Love the attention to detail here - there's a lot of self reference both to her past works and even this world/album's internal narrative from song 1 to 16 and its brilliant, the best use of that in career that adds another layer of cohesion and intention to the whole thing. Her magnum opus lyrically? I say yes!
Kimi Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 SZA made well written engaging record stop the nonsense why is she even being mentioned.
Andre2000 Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 Lord not everyone has to like Ms grant It's so odd seeing people here act like critics are against women for going against lana but then yall proceed to insult other female artists to hell and back over and over If l like something then I like it and I think that's the mentality for almost everyone, nobody's going "oh Lana got an 80 instead of an 82? I won't listen" But y'all do you
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Big Bad Wolf Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 Another year, another acclaimed body of work
VeniceBeach Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 UK Mids 1 Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (32,861) [28,762 physicasl, 797 downloads, 3,302 streaming] 2 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori (17,867) [15,209 physicals] #1 debut on lock
mokitsu Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 am i the only one who loves the preacher interlude
ScorpiosGroove Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 1 hour ago, Haus said: I’m so happy with Peppers I don’t ******* give a **** Angelina really was in the room with her when she performed that one and we’re so grateful
Big Bad Wolf Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 16 minutes ago, Andre2000 said: Lord not everyone has to like Ms grant It's so odd seeing people here act like critics are against women for going against lana but then yall proceed to insult other female artists to hell and back over and over If l like something then I like it and I think that's the mentality for almost everyone, nobody's going "oh Lana got an 80 instead of an 82? I won't listen" But y'all do you I don’t think it’s that deep and I didn’t see anyone insulting other female artists? Saying X makes better music than Y isn’t an insult I don’t think I personally think it’s a more exciting album than COCC & BB and deserves to be higher than them but that’s just me 🤷♀️ It’s still getting favorable reception so I’m happy about that and regardless of the final score, it is still a very worthy album.
Mariah's Glove Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 4 minutes ago, VeniceBeach said: UK Mids 1 Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (32,861) [28,762 physicasl, 797 downloads, 3,302 streaming] 2 Depeche Mode - Memento Mori (17,867) [15,209 physicals] #1 debut on lock vinyl variants working HARD
Ice Cream Skies Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 Sales Acclaim Daddy MC needs to stop being shy and add our 100 from the Los Angeles Times…
NOW Posted March 27, 2023 Posted March 27, 2023 36 minutes ago, Amethyst said: The Exclaim review pointing out Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind as the turning point in Lana's career No because it’s so true, that was the first song we saw where she just winged it on the spot based on her stream of conscious thoughts, like in that video she posted where she sung it in a forest. It also was the middle ground between her upbeat tracks and the more folk direction she’d end up gravitating towards for all future albums. A very important song in her career that’s led us to this new album
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