NOW Posted August 30 Posted August 30 (edited) If this is it, I'm signing off Miss doing nothing the most of all Hawaii just missed a fireball L.A. is in flames, it's getting hot... https://www.instagram.com/honeymoon/p/C_UH-CSyWw_/?img_index=1 Edited August 31 by NOW
NOW Posted August 30 Author Posted August 30 (edited) So I moved to California But it's just a state of mind It turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself That's not a lie https://music.apple.com/us/album/norman-f-g-rockwell/1474669063 Music Videos Spoiler Edited August 30 by NOW 1
NOW Posted August 30 Author Posted August 30 (edited) Lana is one of our most complicated stars, a constantly unresolvable puzzle—someone who once called her own work "more of a psychological music endeavor" than pop. But on Norman ******* Rockwell! that ground-swelling complexity coheres to reveal an indisputable fact: She is the next best American songwriter, period. Quote Norman ******* Rockwell! is the apotheosis of Lana Del Rey, songs of curiosity and of consequence, darkness and light, a time capsule of 2019, proof that a person cannot escape herself but she can change. https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/lana-del-rey-norman-*******-rockwell/ Quote Lana Del Rey is large – she contains multitudes, and the way she balances and embodies them on her fifth album is nothing short of stunning. https://www.nme.com/reviews/lana-del-rey-norman-*******-rockwell-review-2543488 Quote [...] she's finally made her pop classic. The long-awaited Norman ******* Rockwell is even more massive and majestic than everyone hoped it would be. Lana turns her fifth and finest album into a tour of sordid American dreams, going deep cover in all our nation's most twisted fantasies of glamour and danger. No other songwriter around does such an expert job of building up elaborate romantic fantasies, and then burning them to the ground. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-reys-norman-*******-rockwell-878534/ Quote Norman ******* Rockwell! proves (again) Del Rey as a fully-realized artist who has remained true to her obsessions — aesthetic, cultural, and personal — outlasting the misogynist criticisms that could have derailed her early career. https://consequence.net/2019/09/album-review-lana-del-rey-norman-rockwell/ Quote [...] she's made the case that she has no one but Springsteen to compete with as the great chronicler of the USA; its psyche, all its dreams. On Norman ******* Rockwell!, her sixth album, she proves this once and for all. Indeed, musically Norman ******* Rockwell! feels like an album built to resist time – one of those songwriters' records that could have been made whenever: Graceland, Blue, Tapestry. https://crackmagazine.net/article/album-reviews/lana-del-rey-norman-*******-rockwell/ Quote Despite the image, the aesthetic, the precise references having undeniably made Lana an icon, this album proves that with just a pitch black room, a microphone and piano she'd have everything she needs to stand at the forefront of a whole era in music. https://diymag.com/2019/09/02/lana-del-rey-norman-*******-rockwell-album-review Quote Del Rey has long cemented her status as a cult icon in the vein of a Tori Amos or Fiona Apple, whose influence on the title track is unmistakable, and she inspires the kind of fanaticism that often leaves her detractors perplexed. With Norman ******* Rockwell, however, she's made an album with the unfettered focus and scope worthy of her lofty repute. https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review-lana-del-rey-norman-*******-rockwell-eulogizes-the-american-dream/ -- Quote Even when certain critics panned Lana Del Rey's record Born to Die—and the infamous Saturday Night Live performance that preceded it—most of them acknowledged that the singer's debut album contained a kernel of American songwriting greatness. On Norman ******* Rockwell!, that seed (which was already blossoming in 2012, frankly) shoots into a flourishing magnolia tree, with every lyric a fragrant petal that reveals a flicker of her personality: a poised clapback at a reporter ("You took my sadness out of context / At the Mariners Apartment Complex"), sighing eyerolls at a tortured poet beau ("Cause you're just a man / It's just what you do") and muted optimism whispered to herself ("Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have / But I have it"). As the petals drop, the scenery flits between a waning summer over Venice Beach, teary backseat arguments, and vaguely witchy Laurel Canyon parties, all distinctly American scenes rooted in Del Rey's knack for braiding minute details into achingly ornate renditions of the U.S. flag. Normal ******* Rockwell! isn't Del Rey's first masterstroke, but it is the album that converted some of her steeliest critics, who finally resigned to join the singer's new refrain of "**** it, I love you!" — https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/greatest-albums/the-300-greatest-albums-of-all-time-2 Quote She paints with sincerity and satire, and challenges you to spot the difference. Tucked inside Lana Del Rey's dreamscapes about Hollywood and the Hamptons are reminders—and celebrations—of just how empty these places can be. Winking and vivid, Norman F*****g Rockwell! is a definitive riff on the rules of authenticity from an artist who has made a career out of breaking them. She paints with sincerity and satire, and challenges you to spot the difference. The album's finale, "hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it," is packaged like a confessional—first-person, reflective, sung over simple piano chords—but it's also flamboyantly cinematic, interweaving references to Sylvia Plath with anecdotes from her own life to make us question, again, what's real. When she repeats the phrase "a woman like me," it feels like a taunt: She'd spent the last decade mixing personas—outcast and pop idol, debutante and witch, pinup girl and poet, sinner and saint—in an effort to render them all moot. Here, she suggests something even bolder: The only thing more dangerous than a complicated woman is one who refuses to give up. https://100best.music.apple.com/us/album/79 Quote Lana Del Rey became a music-blog sensation playing the poker-faced millennial Nancy Sinatra on her debut single, "Video Games." She kept growing as an artist, and on her wonderfully titled sixth album perfected her epic vision of doomed, decadent, Seventies-steeped California romance on songs like "Mariner's Apartment Complex" and the nine-minute crusher "Venice *****." Del Rey dropped references to the Eagles and Graham Nash, merging her own music into the Laurel Canyon canon. No less an authority on Seventies greatness than Elton John called the album's songs "timeless." https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/elvis-presley-from-elvis-in-memphis-2-1062911/ Quote These songs cut deep and don't heal, NFR is an ESSENTIAL album (literally for us), you should all own it. Like Joni's Blue this record will be a call to arms for women for generations to come. To be honest it is probably the best LDR record, but Ultraviolence has been in my life longer. https://blog.roughtrade.com/gb/ranked-lana-del-rey/ Edited August 30 by NOW
NOW Posted August 30 Author Posted August 30 Being labelled a 'sad girl' isn't something that really bothers Lana though. "Honestly, now I think it's funny," she says, gazing out of the French doors. "I'm not just one thing. I'm not cheerful all the time. But being able to express my sadness sometimes makes me actually more cheerful than some people I know, because I gave myself permission to have a lot of colours." Quote Happiness (or lack thereof) has been a constant theme in Lana's story, partially because sadness features so often in her songs. It's also because the world's obsession with figuring out her mental state always rears its head when she puts out something new. "Always. Always," she agrees with a little eye-roll. "But I can't be totally naïve and say, 'Why? Why do they [do that]?'" https://www.nme.com/big-reads/lana-del-rey-interview-normal-rockwell-big-read-2544895 Quote And if the Lana of five years ago radiated significant Sharon Tate circa Valley of the Dolls energy, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter has more of a Summer of Love thing going on now. The songs she has previewed from her fifth album, the exquisitely titled Norman ******* Rockwell, are far more Newport Folk Festival than femme fatale — meandering psych-rock jam sessions and slippery piano ballads that shout out Sylvia Plath. The narrative thread throughout all of this can lead listeners down an endless rabbit hole of references, but you can sum it up like so: The music Lana Del Rey makes could only be made by Lana Del Rey. https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/lana-del-rey-billboard-cover-story-2019-8527901/ Quote But, Lana, you recently tweeted, "Never had a persona. Never needed one." What did you mean by that? LANA That's what I believe, that I've never had one. I believe I wear my hair high, and that's kind of the end of it for me. I mean, I like to get dressed up and everything, but no one ever said that Elton John was a different person from Reg [Dwight] or whatever. It's like, just because I wear a babydoll dress onstage or high heels . . . I really don't need a persona. I'm at the dog park, I'm at Valvoline freaking filling up my own gas tank, and I don't pretend not to be. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/elton-john-lana-del-rey-musicians-on-musicians-cover-902354/
NOW Posted August 30 Author Posted August 30 (edited) Grammy - AOTY 2020 (Nominee) Grammy - SOTY 2020 (Nominee) NME Awards - Best Album in the World Rolling Stone - Greatest Albums of All Time (#321) Rolling Stone - The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s (#32) AllMusic - 200 Best Albums of the 2010s NME - Greatest Albums of the 2010s (#89) Noisey - The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s (#62) Paste - The 30 Best Pop Albums of the 2010s (#17) Paste - The 300 Greatest Albums of All Time (#151) Pitchfork - 200 Best Albums of the 2010s (#19) Slant Music - The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s (#3) Stereogum - The 100 Best Albums of the 2010s (#67) Uproxx - All the Best Albums of the 2010s (#15) Apple Music - 100 Best Albums (#79) -- #1 debut in 7 countries Certified Gold or higher in 9 countries 5 tracks certified Platinum Currently her 3rd most streamed album on Spotify with 3.5B+ streams Currently the 3rd most streamed female album of 2019 daily on Spotify -- YE List Uproxx (#1) The Ringer (#1) Stereogum (#1) Gorilla vs. Bear (#1) The Washington Post (#1) OOR (#1) Fresh Air (#1) Pitchfork (#1) Slant Magazine (#1) Q Magazine (#1) The Guardian (#1) The Music (#1) Idolator (#1) Dazed (#2) Los Angeles Times (#2) Noisey (#2) Gaffa (#2) The Independent (#2) Sputnik Music (#2) Spectrum Culture (#2) Brooklyn Vegan (#2) The Young Folks (#2) Rolling Stone (#3) PopMatters (#3) NME (#3) SPIN (#3) Yahoo Entertainment (#3) TIME (#4) USA Today (#4) Thrillist (#4) MondoSonoro (#4) Uncut (#5) Albumism (#5) Double J (#5) Flood (#5) People (#5) Northern Transmissions (#5) No Ripcord (#5) NY Times (#7) Paper (#7) GQ UK (#7) Norman Records (#7) Crack Magazine (#8) Les Inrocks (#8) AV Club (#8) The WIld Honey Pie (#8) Consequence of Sound (#9) Us Weekly (#9) Entertainment Weekly (#9) Gigwise (#10) Music OMH (#10) Edited August 30 by NOW
Mr. Peanutbutter Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Her best album and one of the best albums of all time
Lose My Breath Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Still brilliant and probably one of the very best albums of all time.
G.U.Y_Del_Rey Posted August 30 Posted August 30 A masterpiece, her best album and one of the best ever
Loca Posted August 30 Posted August 30 The title track, Venice ***** and Hope is a Dangerous Thing are very good. The rest are rather regular.
NOW Posted August 30 Author Posted August 30 5 minutes ago, shookspeare said: Bartender will get ha moment one day If White Mustang can start smashing out of nowhere, anything can happen. Grandpa Nowels always wins somehow.
BrokenMachine Posted August 30 Posted August 30 That whole album defined the way I lived back in 2019. What a moment
PoisonPill Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Still my most regularly played album. A career defining, life altering body of work. 3
TouchinFree Posted August 30 Posted August 30 She'd truly retired with a BANG with this album. Was OBSESSED when it came out. Still am. Cinnamon girl is one of thr best songs ever. 1
bielneira Posted August 30 Posted August 30 A classic masterpiece. Her magnum opus. One of the best albums of all time.
Wicked Posted August 30 Posted August 30 It's gonna go down as a classic. Cinnamon Girl is my favorite song. 1
creativity. Posted August 30 Posted August 30 Easily one of the greatest albums of all time and possibly the greatest demonstration of songwriting EVER. A once in a generation contribution to music. 1
YourFavoriteWeapon Posted August 30 Posted August 30 One of her best albums even though I hate Bartender. Let me turn on Cinnamon Girl
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