Late to this, but this is lovely.
Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
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I think it's time Lana had more of a radical change in her sound. This new song is really nice and actually does seem to add a bit to her music, but it doesn't sound like something that couldn't have been on any of the last 3 albums or so.
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I don’t think this is what she wants, or she’d have done it by now. She’s been playing in the same wheelhouse since before she was even Lana Del Rey.
On a surface level, sure, but to me NFR was the culmination of her sound. Since then, it’s just been a rehash of that with some slight differences. It’s still nice and pretty, but she used to write great hooks.
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Yeah, but again, that’s kind of what she’s been doing. Born to Die through Lust for Life were all diff shades on the same canvas. Just Lana refining her sound over and over. And while NFR! is more stripped back and entered into folk territory, that aspect was already introduced on the second half of Lust for Life, so it wasn’t that radical. She’ll add/remove subtle elements within production and maybe singing styles, but the foundation is the same as it’s always been.
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I disagree, I guess. Her melodies meander around, and they’re less song focused and more vibe focused. I think each of her first 5 albums sound different enough, and I’m not hearing the differences pronounced anymore.
I don't really buy the argument that the last three albums have been interchangeable anyway. Chemtrails is the furthest she's pushed her folk influence while peeling back the layers of NFR! and Blue Banisters was her most stripped back album with emphasis on her vocals/lyricism for the sake of creating the closest she's come to an origin story.
I think when artists are particularly influential at one stage of their career there's an understandable desire for them to continue that but she's just not that kind of artist. She isn't going to reinvent the wheel when she already did that at the start of her career.
I think when artists are particularly influential at one stage of their career there's an understandable desire for them to continue that but she's just not that kind of artist. She isn't going to reinvent the wheel when she already did that at the start of her career.
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Oh, well, yeah. She’s approaching her music in a similar way that a jazz musician would. But she’s been doing that since Honeymoon at least, which is when I remember these complaints first started popping up. Anyway, this is only one track. There’s enough new names in the credits (looking specifically at Jon Batiste) that has me interested in what she might be doing on the full record.
Whilst the bulk of her music is going to fit around the template she’s created for herself (and that’s probably not going to change), songs like White Dress, Blue Banisters and Dealer are three of the most arresting songs in her catalogue, so I’m happy for her to sprinkle in those kind of surprises into the sound she already has.
Oh, melody discourse? *puts on my Björk apologist hat*
I don't know if I'm in the same position as @Petty Mayonnaise in that my brain just wasn't in the right place to appreciate Lana properly for the last two eras, but this track has me back into full on stan mode for the first time since Rockwell.
I’m hoping the other tracks have some more sounds, yea! We’ll see.
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I might be speaking too soon but...is this the first era since Lust for Life that doesn't have any messy selfies or iPhone shots as artwork??