Wait she said earlier in this album cycle that she didn’t hbe a “persona”? Sry i missed this.
Interesting.
― treeship., Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
fake it so real i am beyond fake
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:35 (four years ago) link
“If he’s a serial killer then what’s the worst that could happen to a girl whose already hurt? I’m already hurt.”
There’s no irony in this? It’s not playing with the idea of lana del rey and archetypes of femininity? It’s not provocative?
― treeship., Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:39 (four years ago) link
Come on lana
treesh
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
lol so I hate the album now right?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
*U not I
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
No it’s fine. I’m just confused about what kind of art pop this is.
― treeship., Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:44 (four years ago) link
giving this threadbump 5 bags of popcorn and a web browser full of lana del rey interviews
― imago, Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:45 (four years ago) link
It’s just funny watching you go through diving into the record and then getting to the interview and backlash in real time itt
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:47 (four years ago) link
Isn't this what Facebook and Twitter are for?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
i mean maybe i'm the only one but i find her statement about persona both objectively falsifiable and completely truthful.
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:54 (four years ago) link
Maybe Father John Misty can clear this up!
“There’s something innately false about performance. I wanted to be authentically bogus rather than bogusly authentic.”
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:55 (four years ago) link
Thats good. And yeah, i dont think there is authwnticity on the one hand and “persona” on the other
― treeship., Thursday, 17 October 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
I'm not going to open up this huge thread to find the answer (because I no longer care what people's opinions are on this album, no disrespect) but I do want to be reminded what Simon H's preferred track order was so that I can try it.
Simon?
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
Off the top of my head it's something like:NFR / Cinnamon Girl / Doin' Time / How to Disappear / Love Song / Fuck it I Love You /Happiness is a Butterfly / Mariners Apartment Complex /Bartender / Venice Bitch / Looking for America / The Greatest / Hope is a dangerous thing...
― Simon H., Friday, 6 December 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
thanks.
such a badly sequenced record!
― Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Friday, 6 December 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
father john misty was authentically boring as shit when I saw him live
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 December 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
well yeah. he’s got some tunes but they’re all pretty samey
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Friday, 6 December 2019 05:46 (four years ago) link
Just unbearable, swanning around onstage like oh this is so post modern ok dude you're wearing sunglasses inside congrats on the half loaf soggy nilsson
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 7 December 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
the more i listen to this, the better it gets
― treeship., Tuesday, 31 December 2019 14:06 (four years ago) link
her season of the witch cover verges into self parody
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
her what now
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link
These days whenever I listen to LDR I keep hoping she'll do a Wonder Woman spin and transform into:
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/SomberShockingArkshell-size_restricted.gif
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
nah, that cover is good
― treeship., Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
By "good" do you mean "bad and boring"?
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
if you don't like Her General Thing, I can't imagine soundtrack loosies are gonna change one's mind
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
Obligatory: 'but isn't self-parody her whole shtick?'
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
original is pretty crap too tbrr
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
did I ever mention I saw her on tour recently? me and my friend, both of us 40ish years old
it was pretty ok? the stage dressing and framing was so-so
― babu frik fan account (mh), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
kinda burnt myself out on this album so I took a long break and it's still great and not in some corny "predicted the 2020 vibe" sorta way. I confess however that I slightly preferred the gonzo "cuts on his face 'cause he fucked too hard" to what I only just realized is the actual lyric, "fought"
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Sunday, 26 July 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Yeah I still love this album. and that song !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 27 July 2020 04:53 (three years ago) link
also I thought she was releasing a "spoken word album" but it turns out to be the audiobook version of a poetry collection? for some reason though the concepts are sonically identical, this configuration irks me less
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 05:03 (three years ago) link
wait, sorry, also does this mean pitchfork is going to review an audiobook
― the quar on drugs (Simon H.), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 05:18 (three years ago) link
yo this album is fucking beautiful
― treeship., Monday, 28 September 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
i spent a long time today looking at the sleeve before playing it on my crosley suitcase player. (need to fix my better turntable). it's a really interesting image--the sky looks painted, with thick brushstrokes, while the rest is a photograph. LA is burning in the background.
― treeship., Monday, 28 September 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
I'm ashamed to admit that I never looked at it closely enough to see that it was fire and smoke in the background. In my mind I just imagined it to be the orange of a sunset in the background.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 28 September 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1YiArMDfg
this might be my favorite track
― treeship., Monday, 28 September 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
Last year at this time, I took a long drive listening to this for about the dozenth time, and got a strong prophetic feeling about this record being the last glimpse of a crumbling society before a worldwide disaster. Fortunately 2020 has been completely eventless.
― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:05 (three years ago) link
this album manages to take on the idea of america as not just a declining empire, but one that is already over, we're like living in its corpse. somehow the album sustains this big idea. it doesn't collapse under it.
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
The culture is lit and if this is it, I had a ballI guess that I'm burned out after allI'm wastedDon't leave, I just need a wake up callI'm facin' the greatestThe greatest loss of them allThe culture is lit and I had a ballI guess that I'm burned out after all
― treeship., Tuesday, 29 September 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
Bought this a couple of months ago, played it in the car two or three times through. The thing that most struck me was how front-loaded it was--the first three songs were easily the best, I thought.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 03:22 (three years ago) link
last is a doozy tho
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 30 September 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
new single not so hot :(
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, 16 October 2020 09:04 (three years ago) link
she's kinda descended into self-parody on it :/
― ufo, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, pretty bland.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:51 (three years ago) link
like the melody is extremely ldr by numbers and there's not really anything else going on
― ufo, Friday, 16 October 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
Usually she's very good at melodic hooks but... not this time.IT's a weird choice for a single.
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 16 October 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
it's ok. not really single material.
― akm, Friday, 16 October 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
MOJO
― piscesx, Thursday, 18 February 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link