Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019)

lmao that she has another (very nice) new one called "How to Disappear" -- she really wants to keep baiting Radiohead huh

where'd that slip out to? youtube?

played live at some apple thing

https://youtu.be/m3tkGiOx85k

it's a tiresome and rockist observation, but still! seeing artists you like performing and corporate events is just depressing. it being apple she probably got $150k for an afternoon's work and I don't begrudge here

oops sorry, "at"/"her"

why? take the money and run

the majority of venues she performs at are owned by corporations, what is the difference?

audience

i feel like this and the 1975 record are never coming out

take the money and run

^^Her next slowcore cover.

this has been happening for ages, no? just more commonly recorded/broadcast online now

having to change "bitch" to "chick" in a room of adults, in 2018, is also a bit depressing

Been repeat-listening to "Mariners Apartment Complex" this week when walking through all the yellow/gold leaves.

does anyone not like "venice bitch" cuz i don't

"mariners apartment complex" is v nice tho

god bless lana del rey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY2LUmLw_DQ

another winner

For real.

apparently none of the released tracks is the "first single"

https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/lana-del-reys-recent-fan-tracks-reflect-some-of-her-strongest-songwriting-yet/

What's a single nowadays anyway ?
So by the time she releases the first single, we'll have at least 4 tracks from the album already ? Unless some (or all) of the 3 released tracks are off the album, as suggested in the article...

wasn't this supposed to drop today? where is it????

that was never officially confirmed and i'm not sure where that date came from to begin with

💔💔💔@LanaDelRey just tweeted out in a series of screenshoted notes that in an unexpected accident in the studio she lost the song files from her new album that was ready for release in the next few months. She says she doesn’t know if she can even promise a new record by 2021 pic.twitter.com/zfcVK4BuPk

— PopCrave (@PopDrave) March 30, 2019

So she's saying all the work was saved on a single Apple computer that could not be salvaged after one drop on the studio floor? Ok.

Sorry, my fault for not reading the replies. This is fake.

Two days early.

i hate stan twitter

PopDrave

So is this album ever going to happen?

She's gotta finish her Cherry Poppin' Daddies cover first.

lol damn

Doin Time is great it works so well as an idea.

seems increasingly albums are announced a few days before release or five tracks are doled out over a sic month period

i missed this sublime thing. jesus lana.

Ha I loved the sublime cover and would probably love a cherry poppin daddies cover if she actually made one.

I barely knew or cared about the sublime original; so that probably affects my feelings towards it.

Yeah I’d never heard of them, turns out they had one song in the charts, at number 71 for one week, in the UK.

ok cherry poppin daddies are fucking terrible we're not going to do revisionism on that bullshit. at least have enough self respect to say squirrel nut zippers

even if you are a "we stan a legend" Twitter weirdos there is a limit

She could do a 90s EP of "What It's Like" and a slow ethereal "All Star" and...

Can totally see her doing a sultry cover of Flagpole Sitta.

Fingertips have memories
Mine can't forget the curves of your body
And when I feel a bit naughty
I run it up the flagpole and see who salutes (But no one ever does)

Lana Del Rey announced ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell’ comes out in 2 months pic.twitter.com/XZyWZjSHLI

— Lana Del Rey Mafia (@delreyxmafia) June 22, 2019

album 'out in two months'!

glad to have some news at last

I was beginning to get concerned that the record company was squashing it or something.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EA0O9gtVUAA2jh-?format=jpg

Out August 30th

oh man, that cover is dumb. first dumb album art from her too

I love that they probably spent a ton of time making it look like it was done in 10 minutes in Photoshop.

fucked her way to the shop

her best album cover by a long shot imo

is Cinnamon Girl a cover?

also doing a Charlie's Angels thing w Ariana Grande and Miley Cyrus, which.....sure

Needs a bit more Lichtenstein.

she only has three albums i'd rate as 'pretty good' or better and this one is 'really good' to me

pls save me from a new fleet of thinkpieces about ldr jesus christ

reaction to this one seems much less hyperbolic and overwhelming compared to NFR (or BTD) so you may get lucky. This seems to be nestled into a Honeymoon sort of PR rollout.

The Pitchfork review makes it sound like a mere undergraduate degree in semiotics is not sufficient to fully appreciate this artist or album.

^ha ha... well, ok man. I actually think that all of Pfork's LDR reviews are pretty solid; including when they make critical judgments (and even if I don't necessarily agree with every take or point of emphasis).

This album has grown on me, in the months that I've been listening intensively to LDR's catalog. At first, I thought it was too soggy, soft-edged, and overlong; and that it suffered in comparison with the albums that followed it. But I find that when you're in the mood for the ~vibe~, it really is impressive. (I would still probably lose "Bartender"... it feels "songwriter-y" in a way that doesn't work for me, and I think it intrudes on that final stretch of songs.)

This is very minor errata… but the instrumental bridge section of “How to Disappear” sounds a lot to me like “Wild at Heart” (which allegedly was intended for NFR!, but cut from the final tracklist).

Can someone with a better ear confirm if it’s the same chords(?)

it's weird that she repurposes so much of "how to disappear" for "wild at heart" but i think "wild at heart" ends up being an improvement?

― ufo, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 11:41 (two years ago) link

I'm sitting in a coffee shop that's playing through this album. I forgot how good it is, I still think it's her best.

yeah it is

still don't know why O.B. from Hollyoaks is on the cover

xxxp Thanks, I missed that!