Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019)

No need to talk to Enochroot like that

Ross, <3 u man but this doesn't seem worthy to brawl about. Use a bookmark and the thread won't load all 1000s of messages.

Okay cool no sweat

In my defence I created a thread for the new Florence album after ceremonials thread seemed irrelevant. Didn’t know that there are some Ilx rules I didn’t understand about general threads for artists.

et tu, Bateau?

― imago, Wednesday, September 19, 2018 10:05 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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Imagine there's only one Radiohead thread
I wonder if you cann

If there was only Radiohead thread, then I assume it would be this one:
Radiohead LP9 Anticipation, Fangirling and random Cheesecake Thread (Do not read if you hate Radiohead or us)

well, i actually didn't know about bookmarks until just now, so i guess thanks bateau for being a jerk?

(but seriously, expand all the posts on the "pitchfork is dumb" thread, scroll to the bottom, and tell me your browser doesn't crash)

I'm not anybody's mom or anything, but one generic LDR thread seemed to be handling the discussion of this not yet released album just fine, and will do fine after it comes out as well.

It's a good idea for the album to have a thread after it's been released or there are more tracks to discuss, this thread launch is maybe a bit premature, that's all.

I'm p sure I wasn't a jerk, Enochroot. It was just a tip. Beyond that, I feel the original Lana thread served all our Lana purposes, and I didn't and don't see the need for anew thread. Also because the original Lana thread tracks her evolution - and ours, reaction to it - so succinctly.

album title alone deserves its own thread

gay album title imo

picturing mr roper bangin the dude who sang somebody's watching me

Dammit. I was just about to make that same joke.

gay album title imo

― rip van wanko, Wednesday, September 19, 2018

It's not called Get Thee Behind Me, Sailor

Except with the guy from Psycho instead of Three's Company.

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.

also: fucking jack antanoff. this guy is probably my favorite working producer now (neck and neck with inflo). funny because his own music does nothing for me, but every other album he works on sounds amazing.

Is she using more falsetto than normal? I find it wearying.

mainly on the opener iirc?

i like the raspy thing she does on it

Yeah I love the way she sings the word "OrLANdo" on that song

Falsetto's all over the album.

It's only really grating on the first track, though. I almost bailed out.

there is a lot of falsetto but most of it is layered, multi-tracked vocals, which she hasn't done quite to this extent before. I like it.

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?

Like, wow Tulsa Jesus Freak; comfortably in her top few songs ever list.

I'm stuck on the title track, which I managed to not hear until now. It's really amazing. I wish the video for it werent so cheesy

does she have any music videos that aren't really?

Excited to listen to this album with all of my rapper friends.

Starting listening to it. Really like the first track.
Shouldn't there be a new thread for his album ?

I adore this.

at this point she makes Pretty Good Lana Records and Really Good Lana Records. I think on balance this is a Pretty Good Lana Record.

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!