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It's just weird that how someone hates one record for being slow ballads, then loves another which is also just slow ballads with some new age sound (and some weird processed 80's guitar moment) slapped on to make it sound different. Granted, there is the odd melodically superior moment, and it's not bad, but LDR's voice makes me want to order a martini. Natalie's voice makes me want to order a Horlicks.

Album Rating: 4.0

It is weird indeed. What is you theory about this?

holy shit you are boring

I don't really think Lana has this image of a strong woman you see Eg but you are totally smitten

'obviously his style'

pop ballads in the Lorde style aren't my thing though

I've said I like two or three songs here (same as Born to Die and Ultraviolence) - this very mild opinion hardly has me thinking I have some pathological hatred towards the similarly mild charms of Lana Des'ree songs

this is the most beef I've ever received based on a 1.0 rating gap between two takes lol

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I dunno, maybe LDR isn't "profound" enough. Although I don't think WB lyrics are devoid of cliche or are so much better. Maybe WB is more dignified or something.

Album Rating: 4.0

*Doof demands profundity from his artists.*



Noting this in my log.

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"Doof and others just get confused with strong women"



Eg, I honestly don't think that's the case though.

LDR is more a contrived persona certainly

and the sound here is purposefully widescreen glossy and sometimes it's just too sickly for me - there's little subtlety on this thing, I do like me some subtlety esp in trad song writing

the worst thing about chart pop/mainstream pop albums is often clear filler material and again I find the traditional ballads to mostly be filler

Weyes Blood is more trad folk/soft rock flavours with a modern twist - it does seem a lot more artful to me but horses for courses

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>Eg, I honestly don't think that's the case though.



Oh trust me, it's textbook.

Why do you think they keep angrily bumping this thread if it's not therapeutic?

Lana is clearly a scapegoat.

it's one of the highest rated albums of 2019...

I spent just as much time talking about how underwhelming the new Tool is - I'm sure I was only there because Maynard has an authoritarian sound to his voice that reminds me of my father's and stirs up unresolved feelings. Textbook innit.

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I'm sure I was only there because Maynard has an authoritarian sound to his voice that reminds me of my father's and stirs up unresolved feelings. Textbook innit.



That may certainly hold true for people who enjoyed the album.

Freud would have a lot to say about a band named Tool

He would also have a lot to say about an album named Norman's Fucking Rockwell

So much to say

Album Rating: 4.0

Rockwell Fucking Norman

Even more to say

Fucking Norman Rockwell

Album Rating: 4.0

You can dislike Tool and Lana. That's just more issues.



Fogza, also note how these guys are super serious about this, like it's actually important.

However you dress it up there's some unholy fucking going down

nice edits

Eg I don't dislike Tool - because someone rates one album lower than another doesn't mean they now hate the band

I haven't entered a blood pact with every band I once rated highly to continue doing so

You blinded by thirst for waaaaaaaaar

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Yeah, I don't think this sounds quite as mainstream as you do (it's obviously not way out there), but I think it isn't playing in quite the same space as say a Demi Lovato. It was hilarious seeing that new song for Charlie's Angels and it's like the team who put that together obviously didn't know what to do with LDR. And I think I'm not that off base to suggest WB's latest can be read as quite ballad heavy.