Album Rating: 4.6
@Odal: yeah, those are fair points as well. And fwiw, I do prefer Melodrama to Pure Heroine. The way she combined the low-key electropop sound of PH with a more upbeat anthemic flavor... to me, the two temperaments were blended near-perfectly on that thing
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Album Rating: 5.0
if charli and lorde ever collab it better be charli feat lorde cause i might unalive myself if i ever heard charli sing over jack antonoff production
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Album Rating: 4.5
Hate that you even put that thought out there
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Album Rating: 4.0
ew lorde
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Album Rating: 4.6
Who's Anton, and why is he being jacked off?
(old joke, I know)
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Album Rating: 4.6
But yeah, it'd be nice if Antonoff stopped turning every collaborator's music into a thin, watery mush. The last two Taylor Swift albums might be the most egregious examples yet
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Album Rating: 1.0
"Pure Heroine didn't sound of its time; rather, it's the other way around. Other albums of the era sounded that way because of Pure Heroine"
This. Royals is the 2010s' Smells Like Teen Spirit.
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Album Rating: 3.5
So we are just going to act like Lana Del Ray didn't exist before 2013...?
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Album Rating: 1.0
Was Nirvana the first Grunge act?
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Album Rating: 3.5
My point is that we don't have to go back to grunge, but ye Lorde and Lana basically made grungy pop
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Album Rating: 1.0
Earlier acts like Lana already made the sound successful and popular just not mainstream. But it wasn't really until Lorde that the sound became more well-defined and exploded in popularity - as well as becoming basically the defining sound of mainstream 2010s mainstream pop (along with trap, of course).
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Album Rating: 3.5
This is why I hate arguments about 'originality' - there is so much goalpost shifting and bending over backwards to put specific individuals on pedestals for nonsensical reasons.
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Album Rating: 4.5
"So we are just going to act like Lana Del Ray didn't exist before 2013...?"
Yes
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Album Rating: 5.0
do people actually think born to die and pure heroine sound similar?? cause i most certainly don't
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Album Rating: 3.5
"do people actually think born to die and pure heroine sound similar?? cause i most certainly don't"
I do. As does most other pop records that dropped around that time. Lana's 'down to earth' aesthetic rubbed off on a lot people.
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Album Rating: 5.0
i have never once thought of lana as "down to earth" and especially not on that record hahaha
not to mention the instrumentals could not be more different. pure heroine has like a completely digital/minimalist aesthetic to it while born to die is... absolutely not that
not to say they didn't influence a lot of the same things but feel like they came from two entirely different places
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Album Rating: 3.5
*sigh*
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Album Rating: 5.0
Lana definitely helped pave the wave for Lorde but Lana didn't explode in the mainstream the same way Lorde did (other than the Summertime Sadness remix, and I'd argue that doesn't count)
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Album Rating: 5.0
damn its been a while but i still remember lana and born to die being like 80% as big at that time but that might just be me. i def remember the hype for ultraviolence being pretty crazy
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Album Rating: 3.5
Where I live, Video Games, Born To Die, and Blue Jeans were as inescapable as any other pop smash.
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