that feels like an alt and not a lana stan tho tbh

"suddenly there's this person who gives the lowest score as a minority"
now why does that seem like a familiar counter-crit for LDR hmm
please ignore this obviously negatively intended review and listen to the album on your own, form your opinion, think critically and stay free of the influence of "journalists" who try to interpret art they dont undertsand [...] COTCC is a masterpiece and Lana keeps creating flawless pieces of art

Album Rating: 2.0

Not really related, but I didn't know that "philistine" was a word outside of the biblical Philistines. You learn something new every day.

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

"https://old.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/ma99di/the_ldr_army_prepares_for_battle_as_a_music/"



lol, is this gonna be the next BTS war?

Album Rating: 5.0

The thing with this review (and I say that as a non Lana fanatic) is that it indeed sounds really unfair and disproportionately negative as others mentioned because it oversees the fact that every artist who makes themselves vulnerable and pours their soul into an artwork (an album in this case) deserves credit just for this honesty and authenticity.



Giving a 1/5 is practically implying that the album is completely empty and all her effort and personal expression is without meaning, when this is clearly not the case. The songwriting is so personal and raw, for this alone she doesn’t deserve this score.



Personal opinions in art will always vary from each other but there should also be some independent criteria according to which we value art and Chemtrails meets many of them, like artistic honesty and truth. And if an artwork has at least some form of truth in it, it deserves for that alone praise and recognition. And yes everything else beyond that is a matter of personal taste but this is by no stretch of the imagination a 1/5 album after so much work she clearly put in it.

i just rate albums based on if i like it or not

Album Rating: 1.0

You're implying that what you value in music is what everyone values in music which is incredibly stupid

sounds more like a 1.5 to me. disappointing

"Personal opinions in art will always vary from each other but there should also be some independent criteria according to which we value art and Chemtrails meets many of them, like artistic honesty and truth. "

lmfao

i like justjoes rating criteria

i try to keep it simple for myself in order to avoid confusion

😎

every artist who makes themselves vulnerable and pours their soul into an artwork (an album in this case) deserves credit just for this honesty and authenticity
1) agreed, but this does not mean their music does too 2) associating ldr with honesty or authenticity is very much your choice and not mine
Giving a 1/5 is practically implying that the album is completely empty and all her effort and personal expression is without meaning, when this is clearly not the case
agreed. that is why this review is scored 1.5/5 with a sizeable paragraph of concessions
this is by no stretch of the imagination a 1/5 album after so much work she clearly put in it
a lot of time and *money* went into this album and the lyrics are high school standard, yes

Album Rating: 2.0

"triumphant Reddit reddemption arc from Caliggy"



"reddemption arc from Caliggy"



"reddemption arc"



"reddemption"



Fuck you

this review is very bias and unprofessional

Album Rating: 1.0

consequences will NEVER be the same!

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

"Lol the guy's name is basically Huge Puddles



Bet he's a furry too."



lol nice

every artist who makes themselves vulnerable and pours their soul into an artwork (an album in this case) deserves credit just for this honesty and authenticity

I disagree. This may have been true up until the early 2000's, but now we live in the era of noise. People say too much and expose themselves too much. Art isn't necessarily a better alternative to silence.
Not saying art isn't valuable anymore, just not intrinsically more valuable than just stfu.

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

The private person themselves and an ‘artistic persona’ are often very different



Sure the artistic persona/public face can be critiqued or even lampooned as that is wrapped up with the art - e.g see Father John Misty



If an ‘artist’ revels in or makes extra money due to cheap/phoney celebrity culture even more so? Fair game, always has been.

Album Rating: 1.0 | Sound Off

If an artist is using a ‘stage name’, has social media accounts that are branded with the said name, and then they frequently employ people to put up content then effectively if that’s not part of the artistic context for whatever they release then it’s still some form of closely linked marketing anyway that’s hard to separate from the ‘artistic package’ of their work.



Kanye for one is a genius with this, his albums are always released with the context of the bigger picture of what he’s been saying/where his head has been at recently.

gotcha moment

bet that will teach them