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[tali'zorah84]

I enjoyed Fucked My Way Up to the Top, but that might be only because it was the only track that seemed remotely interesting from the get go.

I don't see why people will go out and buy this because you could probably find a better way to put yourself to sleep elsewhere.

 

[twobear]

I'm keeping myself pure for ULTRAVIOLENCE's streetdate tbh.

 

[Vazduh]

The last Fargo episode was so intense, OMG, I wonder if I'm going to be able to handle the 90-minute finale ;_;

On a lighter note, Robin Thicke has announced the title of his upcoming album, and it's called Paula, as in his estranged wife he's trying to reconcile with.

He debuted the first single, “Get Her Back,” at the Billboard Music Awards last month. The heartfelt tribute was written about Patton, his wife of nine years and the mother of his son Julian.

The high school sweethearts announced their split in February. Thicke has been trying for months to mend their relationship, even dedicating “Lost Without U” to Patton at his recent shows.

He's so desperate, I can't

 

[Blood Diamonds]

lmao that's what he gets for writing shit like Blurred Lines

 

[Matt_]

drunk AGAIN I see

Perhaps, but the point still stands

Spoiler

I rewrote that like four times how did I spell everything so wrong

Still bopping to that we are superstars track the next morning

 

[twobear]

ddd she was clearly not as happy about that alleged 'open relationship' as we were assured

 

[You Know Nothing]

Currently listening to Blackout. What a timeless alber.

 

[Blood Diamonds]

So in the end who was Fucked My Way Up To The Top about

 

[tali'zorah84]

So in the end who was Fucked My Way Up To The Top about

I'm guessing Gaga, because after "Swine" on ARTPOP it seems a little convenient.

But it'll probably remain a mystery.

 

[twobear]

So in the end who was Fucked My Way Up To The Top about

lorde

 

[twobear]

my future with erik is all but assured

 

[Vazduh]

Junglepussy's album is on her Soundcloud. Having a moment.

I'm getting my life to this right now.

my future with erik is all but assured

Hope you get that dick, good sis <3

 

[Nemesis_]

 

[Vitanimus]

let's all take a moment to remember and appreciate this anthem

matt

 

[Vazduh]

Confession time no. 342432:

I unironically like Nothing In This World.

Dr. Luke, his power.

 

[Matt_]

let's all take a moment to remember and appreciate this anthem

matt

rude.

 

[Nemesis_]

Stars Are Blind and Jealousy are both okay too. Especially compared to that dog shit she put out back in October.

 

[Never Forever]

Lily Allen is offering a free download of Sheezus session track 'Bass Like Home' for anyone who's interested ~

It's house music, lol. Aight, I guess. Better than most of Sheezus, no surprise again.

 

[royalan]

Really, the entire Paris album slays.


Every time I turn around the boys fighting over me
Every time I step out the house they want to fight over me
Maybe 'cause I'm hot to death and I'm SO SO SO SEXY
All the boys all the silly boys they want to fight over me

 

[Matt_]

Lily Allen is offering a free download of Sheezus session track 'Bass Like Home' for anyone who's interested ~

It's house music, lol. Aight, I guess. Better than most of Sheezus, no surprise again.

Why was this not on my sheezus download tho
edit; o I think it was the unofficial world cup song she did

 

[SaintZ]

HDD: With their predictions

At this point, industry forecasters are predicting a debut for Interscope’s Lana Del Rey in the 175-200k range, with Capitol’s Sam Smith in the 125-150k range and Warner Bros.’ Linkin Park around 100k.

It could change but it's looking good :duca:

 

[Vitanimus]

Pretty good numbers for Lana, but I'm more surprised with Sam Smith. I knew he was sorta breaking into the US but I thought it was just through features? Slay I guess...

Also, Biophilia is the first app in the MoMA collection! Get that acclaim

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Sam Smith is the most overrated pop act in years for me, he's been touted as the next big thing over here in the UK. Can't stand his music.

Money On My Mind is one of the worst songs I've heard in a long time. That chorus is utterly heinous.

 

[Vazduh]

Aaargh, fucking football, everybody in my country is beyond excited for tonight's match against Brazil.

Stars Are Blind and Jealousy are both okay too. Especially compared to that dog shit she put out back in October.

Oh, God, that single. I have a feeling that Afrojack deliberately screwed her over with that shit song after they broke up. Can't believe he actually put his name on that! I would have said the same for Lil' Wayne, but he's been on so much sizzurp that it probably clouded his ability to think straight.

Really, the entire Paris album slays.


Every time I turn around the boys fighting over me
Every time I step out the house they want to fight over me
Maybe 'cause I'm hot to death and I'm SO SO SO SEXY
All the boys all the silly boys they want to fight over me

This is such a guilty pleasure, omg

 

[Bladenic]

HDD: With their predictions

It could change but it's looking good :duca:

OMG she's slaying. Not her possibly debuting higher than the vast majority of our faves' last albums. Queen.

 

[Soulscribe]

HDD: With their predictions

It could change but it's looking good :duca:

Really good numbers for Lana!

 

[Vazduh]

Craft Spells have just released their 2nd album called Nausea. Some of you loved their track After the Moment from the first album so I figured I'd share the new one. Here's the lovely hypnotic title track.

Craft Spells - Nausea

Sam Smith is the most overrated pop act in years for me, he's been touted as the next big thing over here in the UK. Can't stand his music.

Money On My Mind is one of the worst songs I've heard in a long time. That chorus is utterly heinous.

I also don't like Money On My Mind, I find the chorus grating. Thankfully the rest of the album is not like that, it's damn good.

Oh, and slay Lana! Quite deserved, honestly, it's a good album.

 

[Vitanimus]

Also shows how much she's grown from the 77k she opened with BTD

 

[Yado]

Also, Biophilia is the first app in the MoMA collection! Get that acclaim

Hew else?

 

[Ahasverus]

The album as a whole is not at BTD levels and really feels like the moody Sophomore it is (It reminds me of a Nelly Furtado case) but no one can deny it's quality music, if not pop.

 

[Wilsongt]

#dead @ The Atlantic Wire throwing shade

"Kelly Rowland Pregnant with Future Personal Assistant to Blue Ivy"

 

[Vitanimus]

The album as a whole is not at BTD levels and really feels like the moody Sophomore it is (It reminds me of a Nelly Furtado case) but no one can deny it's quality music, if not pop.

I'm really inclined to agree... I wouldn't stretch as far to say some tracks are fillers, but there certainly are a few that are complete snooze fests that seem like they're only on the album for thematic consistency than anything.

Also, let's predict the final metascore for Ultraviolence

I'm gonna say 71.

 

[Nemesis_]

Sam Smith is the most overrated pop act in years for me, he's been touted as the next big thing over here in the UK. Can't stand his music.

Money On My Mind is one of the worst songs I've heard in a long time. That chorus is utterly heinous.

Oh my god I didn't know who Sam Smith was. I realised he was the guy who sang on Latch which is a pretty good song but I'm also well past it since it was impacting here over a year and a half ago (why the fuck are you guys so slow) and all of his other music is annoying as fuck.

La La La is the biggest pain in the ass to listen to and then you see that annoying as fuck video clip and it makes me want to throw something against the wall. Stay With Me is another boring slow ass song in similar vein to that other piece of shit John Legend song. Money On My Mind sounds like a schizophrenic banshee on heat who begins to crescendo to fuck all

I just hate everything the guy has put out besides Latch and I didn't even know it was all from the same person. uggh. uggggggggghhhhh. You're so right.

The album as a whole is not at BTD levels and really feels like the moody Sophomore it is (It reminds me of a Nelly Furtado case) but no one can deny it's quality music, if not pop.

I have played Born To Die too many times to count and I have yet to finish Ultraviolence. It's just not meshing with me. Interestingly enough the store I work nearby actually has the album tomorrow. so I will be picking up a copy for a friend of mine for her birthday.

And I'll give her the flop postcards too

 

[cory64]

Trailer for Rihanna's next movie, Home

 

[Weapxn]

Trailer for Rihanna's next movie, Home

Well then. That explains why the movie was pushed back.

 

[cory64]

Well then. That explains why the movie was pushed back.

That high quality animation

 

[Vazra]

That high quality animation

As high quality as Rihanna's albums. :ahh:

 

[Dr. Malik]

Trailer for Rihanna's next movie, Home

I screamed at her threatening the alien with domestic violence &#128128;

 

[Matt_]

Trailer for Rihanna's next movie, Home

Looks like trash tbh

 

[Never Forever]

Ultraviolence has a wonderful opening five, but after West Coast it begins to draaaaag. PWYC is especially intolerable. It picks up again at FMWUTTP, Old Money is magical and The Other Woman is an excellent vocal showcase. Then idk how to count bonus tracks, do I count them or not? Black Beauty and Florida Kilos are excellent, Guns and Roses is a bit more forgettable.

I like moody and atmospheric, but it becomes far too conceptually and sonically similar in the middle. I'm not sure whether it's just because I'm already really familiar with tracks 2-5, but I definitely think the opening is the most varied.

Sam Smith is boring and I hope he has international success so he goes far away from here.

And at this point in time I shall ignore all Rihanna's dabbling in other endeavours, in the faith that R8 will be the best thing ever.

 

[cory64]

I screamed at her threatening the alien with domestic violence &#128128;

omg &#128128;

A mess.

 

[SaintZ]

Lana has given some more interesting interviews. She sounds really depressed though, poor ha.

NYT: Lana del Rey Still Stir Things Up with "Ultraviolence"

She gives a more elaborate answer about feminism here:

A recurring criticism was that her songs about being swept away by love were anti-feminist in their passivity; she contends that she was writing about private, immediate feelings, not setting out doctrine. “For me, a true feminist is someone who is a woman who does exactly what she wants,” she said. “If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship, I don’t think that’s necessarily being anti-feminist. For me the argument of feminism never really should have come into the picture. Because I don’t know too much about the history of feminism, and so I’m not really a relevant person to bring into the conversation. Everything I was writing was so autobiographical, it could really only be a personal analysis.”

The Guardian: Lana Del Rey: 'I wish I was dead already'

"I wish I was dead already," Lana Del Rey says, catching me off guard. She has been talking about the heroes she and her boyfriend share – Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain among them – when I point out that what links them is death and ask if she sees an early death as glamorous. "I don't know. Ummm, yeah." And then the death wish.

Gaga needs to send the Born Brave Bus ha way

They also reviewed Ultraviolence and gave her 4/5 stars.

Radio.com: Lana Del Rey Goes From ‘Maleficent’ to ‘Ultraviolence’ Up to the Top

She gets asked about her comments on Metaphysics and Fucked My Way To The Top lmao (she dodges the FMWTTT question tho).

In an interview with Grazia in Germany, you inferred that it was in part a response to another popular female artist who’d said derogatory things about you in the press.

What do I say… I put so much time in putting a narrative to the track listing together, and then I’m so stupid because I should just know that it’s totally gonna be disregarded because I just set myself up. Let me put it this way, every track that I put on there and every track name and the order that it’s in tells a story that is important to me. In my mind, the narrative for this record ends with the last track, not the bonus deluxe stuff, all that business. It ends with the cover of Nina Simone’s “The Other Woman.” And without even really saying more about that, the decision to end with a cover of a jazz song and the content within that, it’s kind of telling in its own way.

And so is “Having F—–d My Way Up To The Top” being toward the end of the track listing. I would say the track having more of a hip hop heavier beat, whereas the rest of the album is live and organic…it kind of drives this one particular point home. It’s hard when you’re doing something in the studio, you kind of feel like your story about it is going to end there, but then in interviews you’re never really sure how far to elaborate…there’s not much I can really say about it that’s going to help you understand. I’ll just wait for you to listen to it.

 

[Vitanimus]

Reading that Guardian article was really depressing... makes me feel like being a stan is the worst thing she could ask for

 

[RubyFaith]

That Dreamworks movie looks a bit....like it's trying too hard. It's like the ratchet version of Lilo and Stitch.

But no thank you.

 

[Matt_]

Miserable Without Your Love is just so so good
It should be a single, why has it been relegated to a deluxe track?

 

[Vazra]

Rihanna and her impact.

 

[Leona Lewis]

Listening to Ultraflatulence

 

[Vitanimus]

 

[Dr. Malik]

Hot girl, hands off, don't touch that
Look at it, I bet you wishing you could clutch that

 

[7echnicolor]

Rihanna and her impact.

&#128128; so messy