Reviews (page 7 of 8)
man, fuck lana oh wait, she has alligator guy to do that now
Only ballads at the country club. Meh. Fun decidedly lacking. Album cover very much misleading.
Lana Del Rey makes boring ass DEPRESSING music.
If you are going to listen to a Lana album, listen to Born to Die and Ultraviolence. I've always found her later albums dull and lacking edge and this is a prime example.
that was so boring omg
Im very sad and tired after that. Why is that a great album? Nice voice though.
Really not very interesting I’m afraid All very breathless and warbling. Just not my cup of tea and I’m pretty convinced this belongs nowhere near this list. I didn’t actively hate it, so a 2, but only just.
Didn't love this one
Songwriting good, music variety poor. Too one paced for my personal taste.
Give it another listen in the future. It might just need to marinate.
Pimppiin puhaltelua lähes koko levyn läpi. Kuuntelihan tuota, mut ei toista kertaa, kiitos
this one is for the ladies. omg when the piano chords.. holyyyyyyyyy ja kun väärennös produktio rumpu teke bum.. bumtsika bum..... kiitos lanaaaaaa omg kitos.. saved my life... pelastit henkeni laanaa...... et ehkä koskaan lue tätä, jos et koskaan näe ei haittaa, varmaan kukaan ei lue tätä koskaan varmaan... mutta lana haluan yhden asian sanoa sulle: pystyn yhtymään tän musiikin kanssa niin hyvin omg... yhtäkkiä alkoi värisemääm hartiat, avanto kutsuuu huohhoijjakkaa... im dark maga rn... albumi parantuu loppua kohden. ensimmäinen puolisko sietämätöntä kidutusta. yosemite
Is Not All Who Wander are Lost ironic? I continue to think Lana is just alright. The songs I like I really like. The others I find really boring. dance till we die and let me love you good.
Not my favorite from LDR but still a decent album. Fav Track: Dark But Just A Game
почему в эту сраную книгу внесли именно ЭТОТ альбом Ланы?
Another album I've heard before! It's kinda dull, even for Lana Del Rey, who rarely ventures beyond her comfort zone. She does give a halfhearted effort a couple of times, but it doesn't go anywhere. And that's ignoring the general annoying rich girl vibes that permeate her music. I don't hat it, but I'm not far away.
Dullllll
This would work better as spoken word poetry. The lyrics are shoehorned into song structures that don't quite fit. It passed me by over a couple of hot mugs of tea. Nothing more, nothing less.
Her voice is pleasant enough. But every song just sounds the same. 2/5
Very one note, one trick. I was never hugely fond of that particular trick anyway, but I feel like I could maybe have given Born To Die a positive score, but not this. Got dull real fast and stayed there.
Y'know, I don't believe this album should be here. And it's actually not because of what I think about its musical content—I'll get there in a moment—but more its recency. Which, yes, I know, I'm not the first one to bring it up in the reviews on this website. I'm sure one of the top five rated reviews brings it up, or more; I don't feel like checking right now. Regardless, I stand pretty firm in my idea that albums under five years old should be disqualified from lists like this. Simply put, we've had no chance to see if they stand the test of time. Like, in thirty years, we could be looking back on this album as a complete wreck, if we even remember it at all. Of course, all the same, we could be praising it as the modern SGT. PEPPER'S or PET SOUNDS, but, goodness, give it a chance to stew for a second first. This album was only six months old when it got added to the book—in human terms, it probably couldn't even crawl yet. And as I write this, it's currently three-and-a-half years old—still probably shaking on its legs a little. Now, here's the thing: I'd maybe be willing to forgive all of that. I don't normally like talking about what should or shouldn't be in this book, 'cuz more often than not it's irrelevant to my reviews. I'm not here to talk about something's inclusion; I'm here to talk about the music. So, if you catch me bringing it up... Woof. Yeah, I'm sorry to the people in my group who were excited to hear this album; this thing's boring as shit. Like, I always had this assumption in mind that I wouldn't like Lana Del Ray, and finally actually hearing her for myself, yeah, I was right. I mean, maybe her other albums are better, but as an introduction, I don't think the randomizer could've picked a worse one. It sounds like so many other random pop songs I've stumbled across, with its cooing, baby vocals that I don't think she can really pull off, and all these atmospheric "vibes" instrumentals that nearly put me to sleep. And after, like, the first two tracks they all sounded the same to me. I only remember "White Dress" 'cuz of this bad vocal inflection she does, and because she tries to fit way too many words into one of the lines, and the title track... Well, I'm already forgetting it as I write this, so... Like, she really wants to call this shit "wild at heart?" This is as wild as room temperature milk. And it's not like I dislike modern music, either. That's an assumption I feel like I'd have, but there's a fair number of new albums, of new material, that aren't even five years old that I can safely say I love. Coheed And Cambria's VAXIS II, BABYMETAL's THE OTHER ONE, Gorillaz' CRACKER ISLAND... Hell, The Weeknd's DAWN FM, to bring up an artist who's popular in the mainstream. It's just that this sound is **extremely** not for me. People who're into this artsier sort of stuff... Sure. All this "art deco chamber pop nostalgia vibes" stuff. And I'm not even against vibes, but... Blurgh. I wanna give this thing a 2 just because I feel like a 1's too harsh. Like, that's the rating I reserve for shit like Kid Rock, or for convicted child rapists who make boring rhumba music for cruise line ads. Hell, I probably shouldn't have even given Limp Bizkit or MAXINQUAYE a 1. Like, this album's worst crime, speaking about its music, is that it bores me pretty badly. I'm sure if I knew more about Lana Del Ray's politics I could see how it influences my view of her art and **maybe** justify lowering the score, but honestly, I'd rather not. Like, honestly, the worst thing I can say about it is just what I started this review with: I don't think this album should be here. And as much as I'd like to say it's more for reasons of recency than for subjective reasons of "quality"—being 100, there's a good chance it's not.
💖 wild at heart 🗣️ 4️⃣
i like the last song
She has some decent songs. Not on this album though.
She's really talented and this is kinda nice background music - but it's pretty boring and minimalist - not a ton going on. Weyes Blood is great though.
So incredibly boring. If you aren't paying attention, it sounds like one long song until you hit dance til we die. Overproduced, whispery mumbles.
Maybe a 2.5. None of the songs are as interesting or magnetic as earlier projects from Lana.
Questionable to include this but hey there's
Idk. I like some LDR songs but this album highlights everything I don't like about her music
Bored
Lana Del Ray has a stunning voice and air to her performance but I'm not sure if this is the one I'd pick out of all albums to be on a list of 1,001. There's some interesting instrumental moments but this feels like an album for people who are already fans.
2.5/5
It's alright, not really my style. First song was good Will I listen to again: 1%
Not it.
Didn't hate it, kind of moody and croony and backgroundy. Cheryl Crow sleepwalking...
1/11, 9%
Another knew the name but none of the music…and not even 1/3 through the first song & I wish that were still true. I would think I would’ve liked this but…a bit too ethereal for my tastes.
It was okay wouldn't listen again
This kind of music really isn't my vibe. It's really indicative of what I don't like about late-2010s-20s music. It's far from the worst thing I've heard on this list, but also not sure it needs to be on here. "Wild At Heart" and "Dark But Just A Game" were somewhat enjoyable, but overall this is not for me.
Not my thing.
Fannst þetta hugljúft fyrstu tvö lögin. Síðan leiddist mér. Síðan var ég orðinn leiður á þessu. Síðan var ég nálægt að slökkva. 11 muldrandi lög eru of mikið í einni atrennu.
Chemtrails over the Country Club is the seventh studio album by Lana Del Rey. Admittedly I've never listened to any Lana Del Rey prior to today. I remember her as this iconic figure all over Tumblr around 2012-2014. This might have not been the best place to start. The album's production is VERY sparse and airy. This combined with Lana's whispery vocals made the record get kinda boring after a while. There's really minimal variation between songs. The production does make a cool atmosphere, but it was only cool for like half the album, and the rest left me wanting some sort of switch-up. Lana's songwriting is ok on here, and I particularly like the Joni Mitchell cover, but overall this album didn't live up to my expectations.
Not unlistenable, but so boring in that ghosty wispy voice just didn't do it for me
Not my favorite Lana record, kinda got tired of the overproduced yet quiet mumbly lyrics.
Do you think Lana has ever had fun?
Meh, Lana has way better albums
I listened to 880 albums on the list before discovering the "Americana" music style, just to discover that I don't like it. Based on it, I think I'll not get all the hype about Lana del Rey, so I'll not try so hard.
Um, yeah, right out of the gate, annoying voice. Trite songwriting. I'm oscillating between one star and two stars. It's bad. I suppose she's committed to what she's doing, which says something, and it's musical... but boy, pretty terrible. I guess there's a song or two that isn't awful... but I really don't like affected voices, particularly breathy ones.
Just ok… wish I could say more
I recognize that her voice is incredibly powerful and amazing however the majority of times it was too much to me. The music in the background was definitely fit for her vocals however it was too mushy and slow for my liking. I completely understand how others would enjoy this however I did not.
Snore
Such a shame it was this one. I love a bit of Lana. I think this is my least favourite of hers. It’s breathy and slow and nothing much happens lyrically or musically. As it followed NFR, which I still have on repeat, it was a huge disappointment. I didn’t listen to The Grants as a result and then looped back to find that that was a brilliant album too. Just not sure what happened here.
Good moments, but mostly boring sound from a bored singer
Wow. I’ve heard the hype! It was pretty. Pretty dull.
I'm gonna spare the rant but was really considering a 1
She definitely has some good songs but this album was too down tempo for me.
Not really for me
A couple of repeatable tracks, nothing more
Just found it boring
It’s a mood. Not for me. Her talent is clear, the songs are ok. Maybe two songs grabbed me (Dance til we die).
Does Lana del Rey normally sound like this or is she usually more poppy? Kind of felt like she'd purposely made a stripped back album but it could be that's her thing. Seemed to be just piano versions of songs that would otherwise have more going on, didn't feel like bon iver or the xx or something that was more cleverly pared back. Consequently found it very dull and samey. Sad piano music for 45 mins. Not actively unlistenable but not worth listening to.
Appreciate her vibe is dreary, but this takes the piss a bit. Can write a song. 1 feels harsh, and I didn't mind Dark But Just A Game, so you can be happy with 2 stars Lana.
Lana Del Rey is definitely refining her sound with Chemtrails Over The Country Club, and her voice has never been prettier to hear. But this album sort of goes on and on with the wistful and blank-verse lyrics, California ennui, and sparse arrangements. (Pro tip to Lana: "business conference" doesn't make a good lyric [White Dress]). Nothing really stood out for me, and after half of the album, I felt like I got what there was to take from it. Nice to see some collaborations on this album with Weyes Blood and Nikki Lane.
bleh. Not bad but didn't do anything for me. gave up on the 3rd song
Meh.
lana is the modern standard bearer of what i often refer to, somewhar derisively, as "weepy music." like, it's fine, but it is extremely not for me, and i have a hard time imagining anybody not critically depressed wanting to listen to this front to back on any kind of regular basis also tolkien should get a songwriting credit on "not all who wander are lost"
My friend, who’s a huge Lana fan, warned me that this album would be mediocre or bad to prepare me for my first listen—and she wasn’t wrong. I’ve heard some of her other albums, and they were okay (not really my cup of tea), but this one is just boring, depressed teen music. I’m sorry, Lana fans, but this album doesn’t offer anything special..
kept waiting for something to happen
i have friends that love Lana Del Ray but i never listened because i thought i wouldn’t love it. this was even worse than i was expecting - so boring. im hoping her other albums are on this list and are better
only rarely does an album make me consider my mortality like this one does. 2*.
This album didn't make me feel anything
Laten we voorop stellen dat het prettig is om deze week even een sprongetje naar het heden te maken, maar dat betekent niet dat we nu ineens allemaal achten gaan uitdelen natuurlijk. Deze plaat schiet ook wel een beetje te kort om daar voor in aanmerking te komen. Door de albumhoes en de titel had ik een wat landelijkere Lana verwacht dan de dromerige city pop die ze normaal tentoonstelt. Echter bleef het bij enkele folksy elementen, en schuifelde de meeste nummers tegen bedroom pop aan. Ik vind dat ze een mooie stem heeft, maar dit was de eerste keer dat ik er voor een heel album aan bloot gesteld werd. Het verveelde me vrij snel, en ik had gehoopt op iets meer instrumentele verrassingen om het eentonige stemgeluid aan te vullen. Hoe vreemd dit ook is om als volwassen man te zeggen, ik begrijp wel waarom ze het zo goed doet bij tieners (lees: tienermeiden). De melodieën zijn melancholisch, en de 'coming of age' topics triggeren de juiste emoties. Ik vrees dat dit album net te laat komt voor mij om te levelen met die emoties, en blijf ik vooral achter met de vraag wie in godsnaam Lana Del Rey is op de albumcover? Ik zie er een stuk of 4. 6/10 Highlight: Wild At Heart
Toegegeven, dit album van Lana del Rey kende ik niet. Na deze luistersessie reken ik dit ook niet tot haar betere werk. De songs blijven klein, het is fragiel en het is ook zeker wel mooi. Maar is geen enkel moment speciaal of blijft bij me hangen. Shoutout naar Weyes Blood want: Highlight: For Free
If I was a girl 16-24 this would be my favorite record. It's got fall in love songs, breakup songs and even a dance anthem. I do like the middle bit of the record better than the rest: Love you like a Woman, wild at heart and dark but just a game. But since I'm a 50yo man it only gets 2 stars.
Meh
not great
Like taking a moonlit walk through a bog, but you’ve been shot with a tranquilizer.
Not my thing.
Nap time
There's often a nice atmosphere to her songs but it just doesn't speak to me at all. I guess I'm just too old.
The guys behind this list really doesn't know shit about music after 1999.
No idea why this album from Lana Del Rey is on this list... probably because the typical music press hard-on for a musician "changing" away form their popular/commercial stuff. Call me shallow but popular stuff is usually popular for a reason and in the case of Lana Del Rey I certainly like it better...
I am not really a fan of Lana Del Ray - In my opinion her songs are very dry and boring and they all largely share the same sound/feel. I generally find her voice unappealing. The last couple songs on this album were a little catchy, but not really something that I would find myself listening to on any regular basis. Not my favorite.
youngmeninmusicbusinessclub - can't do it. I haven't bought into this artist to appreciate singing in polyrhythms or whatever is happening in here
Thoughts before listening: Well this is the most recently released album I've gotten so far. I know that people go crazy for every Lana Del Rey album, but I don't really understand the hype. I enjoyed parts of Norman F'n Rockwell, but everything just sounds the same to me...mid-tempo, laid-back pop music which never really draws me in. Review: Man this is so slow...and the whispered vocals are very hard for me to get into. This is like a poppier, female Bon Iver...who I feel the same about. I can understand why people like this, but it's not something that I'm going to go back to very often. 2-stars.
I knew 2011’s Summertime Sadness, but nothing from this album. Similar sound to track mentioned.
Opener wow! Rest boring as hell…
I don't get the Lana Del Rey vibe, naver have. This is just a whine/drone/white noise generator for people who think they like the 1950s style idea of America that never was. Anthems for day wine drinking bored housewives who can't manage the cadence for the anti-melodic lyrics like "Down at the Men in Music Business Conference" I only mention it 'cause it was such a scene.
why is this on here doe.
Do not like. Maybe I'm old.
By all measures, I should like this. But I don't. I should probably give it a couple dedicated listens. But I won't. 2.5
She sounds sexy but it's just a bit boring sorry lana
Very bland Lana album. Nothing special here.
Blind album, know the artist by name. This lady gonna put me asleep behind the wheel. This whole album put me to sleep and was very uninteresting.
Like listening to a glass of tepid water
Can't really get into this album. A little too mellow for my liking. I wanted to figure out why she has such a huge following, but this album doesn't help me understand too much. Her voice is soothing. I like the song with Nikki Lane.
It just sound so insincere. Trying so hard to be soulful, but purely for the sake of it.
It was fine. Unnoteworthy. No need to revisit.
Lana Del Rey is a fantastic vocalist. Her singing is melodic and enchanting in a way. I enjoyed the skills being shown but I wish there was more going on with this album. Each song was slow. Almost like the music itself is meant to be a blank canvas for her singing to stand out. Which it does. It just feels one dimensional. Compared to her breakout hit Summertime Sadness, I would have preferred her to pick up the pacing on this album rather than slow it down.
Pretty boring. Kept forgetting it was on. Heard so much about her that this was pretty disappointing to be honest..
Oudere albums leuker
Weird choice, I thought this wasn’t a super well reviewed album of hers and kind of forgotten. Born to Die and NFR I thought were considered her at the height of her powers. This was ok but I know there is better Lana out there.
This washed past me in a drear, and I think ‘NFR’ is a smashing record (thanks Si). Chemtrails over the Country Club is a cleverly evocative title and I don’t doubt there’s some similarly wrought words within (groan-baiting millennial nostalgia reference to Kings of Leon and White Stripes at the start aside), but I’m a lyrics-optional listener: the music has to invite me in, unless the words are exceptionally good or bad. After three background plays, my alt-title of this is “Misery: Selfie”. Or “Get Off My Lawn, Heidegger!” Later: I skimmed the Wikipedia and see there’s a Joni M cover in the mix, which makes sense as there was a moment when I wondered if LDR was impersonating JM. Am not going back to check if it was indeed that track, tho - I shall pretend that it wasn’t.
Man, I found this to be really slow and pretty boring. I was even asked if I was listening to "church" music. She's pretty decent, but just seemed to be the same song over and over again. I found myself tuning this album out abs thinking, can you speak out please? Anyway, this wasn't for me and I won't revisit. I did think it was cool she has Del in her name. Though of another de La, as in Rocha. I thought of RATM, so bonus point. 2
2 I feel like this list needs to learn that just because a well-received album was released in the last two years doesn’t mean it automatically equates to an all-time great or a must-listen. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the fact that it’s taking a stab at highlighting more recent stuff, and I totally get that it’s hard to predict what will ultimately prove to be influential years from now, but rather than doing that, I wish the listmakers would have leaned more into either landmark, pop culture-shaping releases or acclaimed, but lesser known indie releases instead of safe, middle ground popular stuff like this. I mean, it’s only been two years since this album came out, and I already feel like it’s been largely forgotten about. Anyway, rant over, shifting gears to the actual album - Lana Del Rey has a beautiful voice, and for a woman of her talent, I respect her efforts at writing slow, impassioned ballads instead of radio pop hits, but goddamn this album is so one-note and boring. I actually really liked the opening track White Dress, but the fact that every song that followed just felt like a minor variation weakened it a bit for me in hindsight. As a result, everything here just kind of blends together, and while I want to say it gets worse as it goes on, it’s also likely I was just getting more and more sick of hearing the same thing over and over. I didn’t find any of the music or lyrics to be particularly great, with her voice probably being the only positive note I can say about this - and even then to say her vocal performances is varied here would be a lie. The ambience of this album is the kind of thing I would have liked to have vibed with, but unfortunately, it ended up being the kind where I found myself constantly checking in to see how close I was to finishing it. I definitely wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it’s also definitely not that interesting - I would say it’s possible I revisit a song or two in the future, but likely not the full thing again anytime soon.
Just all a little bit dull and boring isn't it?
I was excited to actually listen to one of her albums after hearing some stuff I liked on the radio. Unfortunately I think she’s just going to be a listen to the singles artist for me. She’s at her best when she’s alternative and a little unexpected. This was mostly just plodding singer/songwriter ballads with no real spark. The exception is Dark But Just a Game, that was a good song
i like LDR, this album was ok
I liked Dark But Just A Game a lot and there were a few other decent tracks, but the unrelenting slow sleepiness of this album was way too much for me.
Dark But Just A Game was the only song I'd tell other people to listen to off this album. Too many sleepy ballads all in a row does not make for an engaging album.
nah
Like being haunted by a low energy ghost.
I don’t know why they chose this album, it’s nowhere near as good as her earlier stuff
Oh sorry, I fell asleep. Did you say something? I don’t know what it is, I just feel like Del Ray’s putting on a front here. I always feel that way. There’s a hint of inauthenticity or pretentiousness, maybe both? And that’d be fine if the songs were at least interesting, but after the third track of straight breathy vocals, I kind of faded out and focused on something else. And that’s not to say there’s anything wrong with slow records; they can be beautiful (looking at you Carrie & Lowell). Lana even has a few tracks that are remarkable, they’re just not in this album.
I’ve done it, I’ve finally done it: I found the cure for insomnia!
About six months or so ago, an excruciating pub singer apologised to an entire bar full of people by saying "I might not have the right crowd for this, but my next song is a cover of an artist you might not have heard of - she tends to appeal to a younger crowd - Lana Del Rey". It's official, I am too old to appreciate Lana Del Rey. Whether it's because I'm too old - at the fresh end of generation X - or simply because I have ears, I don't know, but appreciate Lana Del Rey I do not. I can see past the outrageously over-camped breathiness, but I can't see past the fluttering warble of someone trying to in in a register higher than her voice can properly manage. It's not offensive beyond uninterested boredom, but is it worth shunting Franz Ferdinand off the list? Nope.
I put this on in the car and Albie instantly fell asleep and I think I agree with that assessment
Surprised to get an album this recent. Anyway, I gave it a listen and found it quite boring.
I listen to this album day it came out, hadn’t felt the need to listen to it again until now, it’s not a bad album but LDR has better, don’t think this one should be on the list.
There's no melody in her voice at all and the album screams forced nostalgia which I guess is in with the kids at the moment. 1.5
4/10. Mopey dopey
So boring! Where are the drums?! Why does it sound like she doesn’t care at all?!? Why is every instrumental exactly the same??!? Does anyone relate to this affluenza schtick?!??!??! Artists with better albums released in 2021 that are not on this list include: Tyler the Creator, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Silk Sonic, Little Simz, hell even Clairo and Kanye had better releases that very same year! If we expand the range to the past 10 years it’s pretty laughable that this ended up getting a nod. 4/10
This confirmed the arbitrary nature of the list because why this one instead of Born to Die or Norman Fucking Rockwell!? Say what you want about them, but if you're going to include a Lana album, at least choose something that was actually influential. This wasn't even good so now I'm confused and upset.
This is the music that 15 year old suburban white girls slit their wrists to while they cry in the bathtub.
I tried with this one but it was so boring and I didn’t really like her singing 2/5
Meh
Pretty boring. Good voice.
I did not hate this like I thought I would. Definite 2.75.
It did not move me.
répétitif et chiant
Surely there must have been a better pick from her than this, right? I mean, I get that they have to sell the book by putting modern albums in there even if they don't deserve it, but there has to be something better from her. I don't really know anything about Lana Del Ray, as a disclaimer, but I know people want one of her other albums on here instead. Also, I'm not really a production snob, but I've noticed that the production on most of the popular modern albums I've gotten bothers me. It bothered me on Melodrama and 1989 and it's bothering me here. Don't know if I'd like the music more with different production, but something of note. Overall, I just don't usually like modern music for some reason. Anyway, tangent over. This is okay. Her vocals on the first song had me scared for the whole album, but it wasn't that bad. I guess it was nice that it was pretty mellow, and I think it got a bit better towards the end. Forgettable album though. My favourite song was Dark But Just A Game.
Boring
What an easy album to grade. It's highly polished somber ballads. Lana Del Rey has a great voice inspired by her dark electropop contemporaries, and she expresses it a little here, but it gets pretty repetitive. Despite being "Americana", the acoustic guitar adds nothing other than a country tint. It's just very boring and generic, with no reason to revisit half these songs. Favorites: White Dress, Dark But Just a Game, Dance Till We Die
I expected to like this more. It was pretty dreary.
Lana Del Rey’s 2021 album didn’t provide much significant material to her discography, but it had a consistent sound that showed Lana trying something new, albeit the tracklist could’ve used more versatility. Best Track: Let Me Love You Like A Woman Rating: 5.5/10
Lana Del Rey must have a recording booth in her 2 bedroom with her roommate, Tim. Tim works nights and has a short temper. Lana knows this so when she records her latest record she sings so breathily and minuscule to not wake him and incur his wrath. Seriously, she uses 90% or her air for the breathy sounds leaving the last 10% for sound. She throws in pop culture references to keep the listener just awake enough to ride out the high from the painkillers they’re obviously on otherwise they’d be listening to something, nay, anything else. This has no place on this list. It doesn’t even belong on the 9,001 albums you should listen to list. 5/5. Great stuff.
Besides the track opener, the rest of the album is a slog. Also just can't get past Lana's descent into conspiracy-land - and with an album that has 'chemtrails' in it's title, just irks me. This album is simply not good enough to allow me to separate the art from the artist, so down it goes.
Not as terrible as I expected but still somewhat of a drag - aside from some fun guest spots, there’s little to distinguish one track from another instrumentally, melodically, or vocally. Some of Rey’s vocal inflections and rhythms here are annoying as hell, but these grating bits are usually scattered enough to make her singing tolerable and at times even interesting. Wish we could get some 2020s-era LPs representative of the decade’s explosion in genre-bending and other creativity, though, rather than the albums that sold the most because they made the best tiktok tracks or had the largest cult of personality surrounding them.
Technically good, but it was not for me. Overall, the album sounded mournful
Jamie Loftus is an LA-based comedian and audio producer. A while ago, she did an epic audio series exploring Lolita – the book, and how its complex legacy has evolved (and has been contested) over the last half century or so. It's a complex, nuanced and fascinating listen. (It's also 11 hours long.) It also reserves a special place in hell for two people, Adrian Lyne and ... Lana Del Rey. The first is understandable, even though I think he ought to be given a right of reply, if not necessarily the benefit of the doubt. You had to be in the 80s to understand the 80s. Not to justify any of the very many excesses of the decade (and his enabling hand in some of them), but at least to see them in context. One of a number of British Ad Men who transitioned to Hollywood filmmaking in the seventies and eighties, Lyne as a creative is (I think) both a prisoner of his time (unreconstructed) and his original profession (borderline unconscionable a lot of the time, even though this is dressed up along the lines of giving the audience what they (don't yet know that they) want.) (Lyne's cinematic output: Foxes, Flashdance, 9 ½ Weeks, Fatal Attraction, Jacob's Ladder, Lolita; Unfaithful; Deep Water. The semi-colons mark lengthy career breaks. I've watched them all. Jacob's Ladder – a fascinating and unhinged film – aside, there is an identifiable motif in his work. First time happenstance, second coincidence. The third time is enemy action etc etc.) There is an element of agency attached to choosing to make flashy erotic dramas – films that sometimes bordered on soft porn and often objectified their female leads. (Karina Longsworth's equally epic mini series about the Erotic 80s, for her film podcast You Must Remember This, explores this complex and beguiling swamp in exhaustive and engaging detail. Recommended.) Anyway, the point is that Lyne's hands aren't clean. His Lolita, in Loftus's eyes, was a crime against literature, filmmaking, and moral sensibilities. It is also worth pointing out that he did nothing illegal, and that he was the public face of the much larger collaborative effort that enabled the film. If anything, I'd argue that his Lolita forced (or at least accelerated) the end of a sometimes discomfiting film genre (one which, in the spirit of full disclosure, I acknowledge actively enjoying as a teenager), by taking it to its logical (and deeply illogical) conclusion. Del Rey? Loftus's ire derived from what, at length and repeatedly, she taxonomised as the commodification of a certain aesthetic, for personal (and commercial) gain and with no interest in the wider consequences. It's a complicated argument. I had had lots of thoughts about Del Rey before listening to The Lolita Podcast, many of them ambivalent. I hadn't thought about her as a spiritual enabler, though. I wonder whether Loftus credits her with more intelligence than she has, or with less intelligence. (Both measures are relative to Loftus's position. I have no claims to any knowledge about Del Rey's intelligence.) Anyway. As a voice and perspective of a generation now some way away from me, Loftus came across as...far removed from the stereotypes appended to "Millennials" (I don't subscribe to the Generation Game, but it is there so I shan't ignore it). The Lolita Podcast (my time suck caveat aside) is worth listening to as a piece of invested literary and social analysis. As for Chemtrails. Like I said, I've thought about Del Rey's output a lot over the years, mainly from the perspective of an enduring paradox: Del Rey as a manufactured product, yet with undeniable talent. Style is a lot to her. But there is a lot of substance. A bit over a year ago, I listened to all her albums in chronological order. (Streaming does have its uses). This, by a margin, was the least engaging. Some framed it as part of her evolution into a grown up entertainer. I found it untethered, a concept without a proper vehicle.
There is a large contingent that loves Lana Del Rey. I am not one of them.
Meh, not a fan of this whispered weird voice
It did get dry after a while I didn’t the lyrics were anything special white dress was very cool
Highlights: Chemtrails Over The Country Club, Tulsa Jesus Freak
I try not to discount these youngsters and engage in their sounds but just sounded like grumpy pop to me
Mmm
Vilket sömnpiller.
I guess I’ll give this a shot Yeah that ain’t it.
Don't enjoy listening to Lana's singing and dislike the overdramatic feel throughout the album.
Overly Breathy soft pop. Not for me
fine. Feels too new to really appreciate on the list? Maybe that's my issue to sort out.
A waste of great Antonoff songs (plus one from Joni Mitchell). Lazy whisper singing on every. damn. song. She's got a great change-up but no fastball. Best track: For Free
Flat, bland, vanilla and a 1 trick pony.
Tiring
Moody, broody and a little boring. One is made much less breathless by this material than LdR is. One accepts that one may not know the oeuvre well enough to appreciate the intertextual subtleties, but she seems an obvious and oversharing sort of writer – and not nearly as good as one suspects her most devoted followers think she is. There are a few good lines. “It's hard to be lonely, but it's the right thing to do”) but an equal number of clunkers(“I don't wanna live with a life of regret / I don't wanna end up like Tammy Wynette”). It would be too obvious to say she’s Alanis or Fiona A lite or simply an extension thereof, but one finds it hard to avoid thinking it.
Very low and sad mood. I guess she went through something difficult while she wrote these songs. The basic pattern is redundant, but that’s her style. I hope she finds joy and has fun at one point.
I also don't get the hubbub over LDR. Although, maybe the hubbub was brief and fleeting, as it's been 10 years since her breakthrough with "Born to Die" and I had no idea she had come out with 7 more albums over that time. Most of her work in that decade seems to have come out with much less fanfare, though maybe I just don't pay enough attention to pop music. Sorry, "alt-pop." LDR's sultriness just always seemed like an overdone act to me from my limited exposure, and nothing on "Chemtrails" dissuades that take. Case in point, all the breathy whispers on this album are the worst parts. The best parts are just Taylor Swift-lite, and as they've both used Jack Antonoff as producer lately the similarity comes as no surprise. However, Antonoff's reputation for hooks and hits is let down by "Chemtrails."
I dislike when she sings in her high register with that breathy whisper (most heavily featured on White Dress but in other songs too), it is unlistenable. Overall I am not sure what the fuss is about with Lana.
Still don’t get what all the hubbub about her was for a minute.
one of 1011? joking?
Rating: 3.0 Best Track: Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Same old, same old from Lana. How long has she been doing this now?
Mundane
A very basic Lana album, I’d like her to do something different
The first track was beautiful The rest of the album was very quiet and slow, with not much variation
I casually enjoy LDR but hadn't listened to this one yet. It's pretty solid. I still think that adding an album to this list a year after release is ridiculous though. It's simply too soon to call it an album you MUST hear before you die. Viewing it through that lens is less favorable unfortunately.
-"White Dress," "Chemtrails Over The Country Club," and "Tulsa Jesus Freak" all sound like the bridge, intro, or outro to a song, but for the whole time. Basically I felt like the song needed to transition to something better/different the entire time. Not a good start to the album and especially not a good sign since that was 3/4 of the singles for the album. -"Let Me Love You Like A Woman" and "Wild At Heart" were a bit better with some more harmonies on the singing and more interesting music pieces -Yo "Dance Till We Die" suddenly turns into a blues-y rock-ish song for a second. That part was the best part of the album so far -Yeah overall very slow and generally same-y album. Didn't even have the desire to re-listen to see if I missed anything because I didn't see it being enjoyable
Born to Die should be on the list instead. Lightweight and dreary.
Well, at least no one can accuse Lana Del Rey of being to versatile. I find it hard to distinguish the songs, they all sound the same, not only from a compositional standpoint, but also production-wise. Whoever produced this must have thrown everything he/she knows about producing pop-hits on a wall to see what sticks. And Del Ray's vocal style is disappointingly similar to every other contemporary female pop singer/sonwrighter. This is one of the best albums that 2021 had to offer?!? Oh, come on ... 1.5/5
I thought I liked Lana Del Ray. Apparently, I don't. This album started off terrible. The choice to sing as if you'd lost your list was a poor one and the music went terribly with her voice. It got marginally better through the rest of the songs.. at least the music started to work with her voice. And then it got bad again at the end. Wouldn't recommend.
kjedelig
E9 i at da e kjedelig. Huske eg såg ein video ein gang av at Lana sang For Free, også kjeda ho seg så masse at ho glemte å synga. Så måtte backingdamene poka ho og minna på at ho spilte konsert
Not my cup of tea
I feel like a traitor to my sex because I’ve hated on every female album, but for the most part I was bored. White dress - I did not believe this person ever listened to the white stripes or rocked to kings of Leon. Two decent songs were Wild at Heart and the title track - I enjoyed the piano especially on the latter, but I thought it was funny both feature songs about being wild, sung in a drowsy monotone. Breaking up Slowly actually touched me in a way none of the other album seemed to break through. Dance Till We Die had enough of a beat to wake me up, but didn’t feel fun or different enough to capture my attention.
It's OK, her voice is only tolerable and her songwriting isn't great
Only made it a few tracks in. Dreamy lofi pop slow songs. Just ok.
Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhh
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When I heard Lana's Video Games back in 2012 I was immediately captured by her haunting vocals and lovely arrangements, so I had high hopes for her. Unfortunately after 10 years she is basically putting out the same material and this album really failed to capture my attention as all the songs flowed together into one schmaltzy mass. Its interesting to see the debate about why an album that came out in 2021 shouldn't be on this list. I have no problem with that because brilliant albums are released every year. But based on merit, I was say no to this one. This is slightly better than yesterday's Tori Amos, but only barely.
Not bad, just incredibly boring.
Dance Till We Die kinda cool
Mir zu seicht für ein Lana del Rey Album, "Dark But Just A Game" habe ich aber gespeichert. Vielleicht muss ich es noch öfter hören.
Have you ever had Pirate's Booty? The little puffed corn snack food? You eat a handful of it, and you start to feel the flavor coming on and then it's gone. Like biting into a Cheetoh only to have it turn into nothing more than air. That's what this album is the equivalent of. It sounds like it's going to be something but then it's just air. Nothing there. Gone. I hated her mumbly, just-ate-a-handful-of-Ambien cover of Doin' Time, but that's the only song of hers I can even point to and identify as a Lana Del Rey song. This album might as well be a green room that Lorde was in the night before after stopping at Taco Bell - the lingering ghost of a thousand farts from someone more memorable.
I really liked Lana Del Rey's first album (2012), and I like her second album (2014) even more. However, since then her music regressed to focus more and more on that retro/nostalgic image Del Rey has, by then, established. The problem is that this regression comes at the expense of the music. It's like she fell for her own marketing; the brilliance and originality of Born to Die is gone, and all we have instead is a fake facade. P.S. I totally approve of a 2021 album making it into this list (even if I don't particularly like this particular choice).
We can't see the forest from the trees. Yet. Maybe it'll grow on me. Parts of it feel like they'll age well. But it's a bit of a snooze. And an annoying snooze at that. It felt like a watered down version of Taylor Swift's two Pandemic albums. Actual rating is 2.5.
I know of Lana Del Rey but never heard any of her songs before. I thought she was pop but the cover is strange. Is this gonna be irony? Ok it's a really soft affair. Seems the main instruments are acoustic guitars, light synth/strings and voice. Wiki lists it as folk and country, but the kazillion-dollar production kinda marks it as something else. Not usual pop though. I guess it sounds like Lorde? Or Taylor Swift now that she's conveniently reinvented herself as a folky hipster? Lots of vocal harmony layers, she can definitely sing but never goes to town - it's very subdued, like Kate Bush without the shrieking. The lyrics seemed a bit dumb when I could hear them: in the first song she mostly mumbles then the words "business trip" really stick out, haha. According to wiki she's built a whole persona around Americana etc, but I couldn't really hear any of that apart from key phrases every now and then, like "making out in a parking lot" would stand out but because the rest is unintelligible there's no real context to it. Overall this was a bit boring and I can't imagine in 10 years' time it'd make the same list again. The author of this book has no real insight when it comes to modern albums from what I've seen - anything after about 2005 is just a lucky dip, as if he closed his eyes and threw a dart at the Billboard Top 100 for the year. 2/5.
Gran incógnita de inicio que desafortunadamente no soprendió ni gustó. No está mal. Todo el disco tiene un tenor melancólico, no es estruendoso y creo que hasta podría decir minimalista en sus arreglos y melodías. El foco está en la voz y estilo de Lana, aunque para mi, termina por sentirse plano y suena como una gran canción sin fin. Quizá no es tema de ella, sino del género pero salvo un par de canciones el disco en general no me transmite. No creo que sea mala música pero definitivamente no es para mi. Songs: Dark But Just A Game
Pfff este disco me cortó la racha. Es curioso haberlo tenido directamente después de Taylor Swift porque son dos caras distintas de un pop y de una época muy similar. La verdad es que este tiene detalles de producción y arreglos muy muy bonitos, delicados y bien cuidados, tanto que se siente hiperproducido. Como una pintura renacentista. Pero la verdad es que tanto adorno no le quita que se pone aburrido. Siempre nostálgico, lento, doloroso. Lo más explosivo llega a ser un coro de la penúltima canción pero de inmediato se calma. Por otro lado, aunque la voz de Lana es muy muy muy bonita, también cansa el estilo que usa en muchas rolas: casi un suspiro, casi disculpándose por subir el volumen. Bitch please! En fin, por todo eso y más, dos estrellas y a seguir con los discos.
2/5. Pretty-ass ngl. Lana do be toxic and have an annoying musical aesthetic and style doe 🤷♂️
Ok pop album. I can see how people like her music i as it’s melancholy and sometimes soothing. I don’t find the album as a whole that special. It felt like listening to another persons story that is uninteresting. 4.9/10
It’s alright
Not a fan.
I am bored by this
i knew lana del ray from earlier work so the style doesnt come as a surprise. you can like it or not. Meanwhile i think the lyrics are very cliche. It feels like with many of the songs they made up an edgy sounding title first and wrote the rest of the lyrics around it. Some of the lyrics almost sound like an AI got a mix of edgy feelings and country fed to come up with them. not really a fan of this album
Meh. Bit nothingy but inoffensive
All very samey - warbling soulful singing that never real went anywhere. Album felt very long too. Looking at the album cover makes you think you'll get some fun out of this album, but sadly no.
There were some things I liked but can't put my finger on. There were things I didn't like but can't put my finger on. There's a bit of Taylor Swift syndrome here ... it's like she's singing her blog. Could have used a good editor. Still not terrible. 2.5/5
Overall an easy listen. I’d go 3 stars if “just” and “lost” weren’t sung as “juoist” and “lohiest.” 2.5.
At the end of 2020, I found that I hadn't listened to much new music that was being released. So I made a resolution to myself to listen to one new 2021 album each week during the year. So trust me when I say I purposefully skipped this one to listen to the new ERRA instead. I don't like Lana Del Rey. This album is no exception. I find her voice grating and uninteresting. Sure, Jack Antonoff does good production and arrangement work. I think a lot of Del Rey's charm is in her lyrical work, painting these scenes with a certain feeling or aesthetic in mind. It's a shame those words are accompanied by her voice, which I dislike so much. Any other singer would've done this album good justice. For example, Nikki Lane features on the song "Breaking Up Slowly" and does a wonderful job. That's ultimately where I stand on Del Rey albums.
boring
First song thought: Unique voice. Very, very "breathy", is this how she sings all the time? It kinda sounds like she is struggling to him some of the notes with this voice. (Turns out this is not her normal voice on the rest of the record) Second thought: This came out in March 2021? Writing this in March 2022 - crazy it's on the list this soon. While I see it referenced as a "folk" record, it sounds thoroughly modern. For instance the production on Tulsa Jesus Freak is very hip-hop inspired and I think I can hear a little auto-tune too. Definitely a slick, modern sound here. It's fairly well done modern pop music. There are some folk elements but it's dressed up so much in modern sounds that I'd hesitate to call it folk music. The music seems to have some depth to it that is often missing in pop music so that's nice. Didn't really speak to me much but it's nice to hear in modern pop music.
I have heard of Lana Del Ray but knew nothing about her. Her high pitch and airy vocals were mostly pleasing and the music was ok for being folky. I dont see myself listening to more, but it was ok.
Even though I typically like slow stuff, I wasn't really a fan of this.
I'm certainly not the target audience for this, and I'm uncertain why this would be chosen over some of her other albums – albums I have liked, but feel blend into one.
Great voice, doesn't know how to use it.
Un álbum muy fuera de mi estilo. Tiene sus cosas buenas pero definitivamente no me convence; probablemente no lo escuche de nuevo
Meh
Yeah. No. Absolutely not for me. Literally couldn't tell when one song ended and another started. Just a drooooooooooooone and me wondering when she was actually gonna start singing instead of whispering.
More bland American pop, I get that she is extremely successful in a commercial sense but there is nothing here for me thanks.
This was pretty bad, almost unlistenable.
Man denkt, langweiliger geht nicht, dann kommt Lana und man merkt, doch das geht.
Pretentious like a counterfeit Louis Vuitton from a flea market. Low quality but looks ok from a distance.
Listening to this album felt like a chore. Not a single catchy song, or moment. She sounds bored, like someone is forcing her to be there and she can’t wait to go home. I do not understand the hype, especially since I’m not immune to enjoying some similar music, especially the sad stuff. This album is just so boring. Maybe her other albums have some redeeming qualities. Now let’s go see some alligators.
Welp, not a fan of this at all. I suppose this is marginally less insufferable than Taylor Swift's "folky" stuff, but it's still a tough listen. The music is so grey and depressed and subdued, and the lyrics are just pure cheese. Fave track: - Dark But Just A Game (not even necessarily a great song, but I feel like this is the only somewhat-musically-interesting track on this entire album?)
Never have I ever wanted to listen to an album on mute before, but here we are. 0.5/5.0: Absolutely Intolerable
Sanitised, soulless shite! The exact same "deep" ballad repeated ad-nauseam for however long I managed, all specifically engineered for soundtracking teenage girls' TikTok reels. A sad, sad waste of a space in the book and of my time.
Modern music is so basic and boring
Ew.
So boring
Aggressively overproduced mediocrity
not type
Way too mellow for me
I agree with some of the reviews - how can something released so recently already be on the list? Even much more so considering how bland, uninspired and not innovative in any way this is - a strong 1 star!
I'm sure there are fans of her and her music and how she sings, buts it's not for me, it didn't catch me at all nor at any moment. It passed by, the songwriting is good, but I wasn't engaged with the album.
Is this watching paint dry? In slow motion? I've got more exciting things to do with my time, like watching grass grow or counting grains of sand. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - Nah, I ain't gotta add nothin'
Nope. I didn't like her vocal delivery, and the whole thing feels like she thinks she's more clever than the rest of us. It's all her whispering and singing at us, like she's trying to elicit an ASMR thing.
Lorde Olivia Del Swift.
First of all, I steadfastly believe this is too young an album to be here. I said what I said. And Lana immediately proves me right with "white dress," which is overflowing with the worst broken whispersinging. It says nothing and says it poorly. But then, what can you expect from an album whose title references both "chemtrails" and country clubs? Nightmare blunt rotation. That falsetto comes up elsewhere on thr album, and it is always bad, but never worse than the first song. There's a lot of trash here, but one thing that immediately rubbed me the wrong way was that there were two songs where "I only mention it because" is a major lyrical motif. This is a woman who has released books of poetry, which is either very bold of her or this is a major fall-off from that moment. It's not the only thing that bores me here (like Damon yesterday, she feels asleep or drugged... same Lana). It's the deeply childish idea of depth. It's the now-stale affectation without the semblance of edge that one could claim on Born to Die. Music to tradwife a redneck alligator farmer to. For the "not like other girls" girls for whom the thing that is not like other girls is their meth habit. My first 1*, I think, richly deserved. If I had to listen to another song again, i'd pick Dark but Just a Game.
Insipid. Boring. A feather could knock it over. If we’re putting a LDR record on the list, at least chose Norman Fucking Rockwell. 1/5.
Not for me
Every song is so slow and breathy. Would have loved just a single uptempo song!
Breathless whisper singing. No thanks.
Plodding and uninteresting 1 star
The very uninspired singing doesn't really do much for me. Also how can an album come out in 2021 and instantly be added to this list?
Okey, so... respectfully Hell nah man
I just don't know if there's anything she can do that can make her interesting at all to me
Another boring album by a manufactured artist.
Never listened. Expectations: Low - Verdict: Dislike - I know some of the big hits and I'm not keen but lets see. White Dress is pretty good. The title track isn't for me. I just find the sound boring I think. These songs all sound the same. Dark But Just A Game is at least slightly different. Dance Til We Die perks up a bit towards the end but these are rare points of difference in an otherwise dull landscape.
po achei esse genuinamente ruim prefiro 1100000x as eras anteriores da lana
Dreary durge. Very samey
I feel like she's trying to be Tori Amos but with less musical variety and fun. Every song is a breathy ballad and the album lacks variety in music styles. Look, I don't think that artists should veer from who they are, but I would like a little variety in tempo to get my heart pumping. Later in the album, I found a couple of songs that were alright, my favorite being Dark But Just A Game. My daughter really likes Lana Del Rey, though, and told me that there are other albums I should listen to instead, so I'll give her another shot. NFR! was Grammy-nominated for album of the year, so maybe that one will let me experience her best work, and perhaps she will be redeemed. However, with Chemtrails, I'm going to have to give it 1 star.
Songs to stare out a rainy window too.
Listening Notes Maybe listening to an entire album will change my mind on Lana Update: It did not Standout Tracks "Let Me Love You like a Woman" First time? Yes Will it go into your rotation? No
This sucked.
My least favourite album so far, bad song writing and terrible singing.
Incredibly dull
Nice easy Listening
I'll admit I wasn't looking forward to this one. The little bit I know of Del Rey, is that that's not her name, she's recorded under a few other names before this persona became a hit, and that she claimed to live in a trailer park until people pointed out she was actually from a fairly wealthy family. So, to paraphrase Pulp, she thought being poor would make her look cool. The opening piano bit had me thinking maybe this would be okay, but then the vocals started. God I hate "sexy" breathy vocals. Thankfully, she loses the breathy vocals on the later songs, but that didn't help my enjoyment of the album much. The music is alright, but bland. The lyrics are mostly terrible - "I love you lots, like polka dots"? Bottom line: crap I hope to never hear again.
Again, unforgivably boring. She has a nice voice but these are all the same slow song in the same minor key over and over.
This is shit
I thought her voice was alright before I listened to this album.
I cannot handle another full album of ballads without a single drum snare. Not my kind of music, couldn't think of a situation where one would listen to an album like this.
Do you love Lana Del Rey, or do you just love the laid back hoe energy she brings?
dont like it
Booooring. Nothing goes anywhere
In the words of James Dean Bradfield, this was all surface and no feeling. I get the juxtaposition between an old time sound and modern lyrics but there is really nothing ground breaking here. Give me duck stab over this packaged beigeness everday.
I can hardly stand her high pitched, breathed and whining vocals. Skipped nearly every track. 1,5
Trash, couldn't make it 30 seconds into any of the songs, I really tried. Same thing over and over, completely unrelatable.
Big No. Is ambient whining a genre now?
Utter wank. Where is the music in my album? Why is there nothing interesting going on in my eardrums? Not an ounce of talent was put into this. Boo I say.
Toss. My barber used to love this album and I stopped going.
Don't think I've ever heard music that sounded more like fingernails being scraped down a blackboard. Had to turn it off
Boring
background music at a funeral? ok. Otherwise, no thanks.
Too mopey. Could not finish.
Ah man, why do they do this to me. I can't help but be turned off by any album described as "Americana," mostly because if it was any actual style of music like blues, rock or something, then they'd just call it that. Dark But Just a Game is ok, probably the best track for me. The others were very forgettable. 1/5
Not very good at all. Sorry Lana, you are cute but a terrible singer
Lana del rey belongs on the list of 1001 artists whose music is used for torture at guantanamo bay
Lana Del Rey seems very talented but Jesus this was a boring album
Boring depressing trash. Half the songs have the same three piano chords.
Snooze fest
Snoresville. The tunes just go nowhere at all.
This is a recording of a woman playing root position quarter note chords on a piano while singing personal non sequiturs which would be better shared with her therapist. I used to have a wife like this.
The creator of this book/website/idea have totally opposite tastes
Complete crap! 45 minutes of the same boring dirge with shitty whisper-singing over the top. This was absolute torture to sit through.
I imagine the vocals are meant to sound breathy and dreamy, but they come off as bored and inconsequential. The same can be applied to the entire album, eleven tracks of plodding and sparse instrumentation with dull vocals that go straight to the "background music" part of my brain. As this car crash of an album continues, what was once just annoying becomes pure torture. Hence one star from me; this was just awful.
Thanks, I hate it.
Still waiting for something interesting to happen.
Just not my thing, cheesy lyrics that are whispered with boring instrumental backing. I can see how some like this but don't most Lana fans like Norman Rockwell and some others more than this one? Another swing and a miss with the recent albums. Some points for having Weyes Blood on it. Titanic Rising shits on this album, where's it at? Rating: 1.4
Pre-listening thoughts: UGH GOD I hate Lana del Rey. One trick pony and it’s a boring ass trick. She just sort of moans her way through her music. Do not understand why people worship her like she’s an iconic pop star. She cannot sing. Hate her hate her. Post/during listening thoughts: this did not change my opinion on Lana del Rey. In fact, it only emphasized my points. She spits a mouthful of words that don’t fit on a beat that drones. Like the National but for femcels. UGH UGH UGH 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: NO Fav tracks: actually rolled my eyes thinking of having to add something of hers to my playlist and Spotify now recommending me her stuff NO Least fav tracks: I actually cannot believe this made the list. Fuck off
I’ve decided this is called waifcore. There’s no doubt she has s decent voice, sounding at times like Joan Baez, but it’s all a bit maudlin for me.
Her 7th album. In order to rescue eleven monotonous dirges of tracks that have a whispy voice singing standard lyrics, the producer way over compensated and made this poor album even more distant. Female artists have told me their stories and struggles elsewhere with far more soul and spirit. I don't believe you Lana.
Sounded like one continuous track throughout, extremely boring and forgettable.
Ugh. 45 minutes of breathy, whispering vocals layered over soft keys. Lana leans super hard on production here. Not every track needs chorus, jesus. I'm heard more track variance on stoner doom albums than this. It's currently 2025, whomever submitted this album needs to take a reality check. When I think of how fucked everything was in 2021, this album just comes off as vapid. There were people writing music about our institutions crumbling, our leadership failing us and their loved ones dying all around them. Good thing Lana was singing about "remember when we listened to Kings of Leon on the radio?" Who gives a shit. Similar to Taylor Swift, Lana has that same "shoot for the middle" approach that makes her music come off as dull and and safe. It feels like music made with focus groups. The most offensive thing art can be is inoffensive.
This should be album 1001 because you die from boredom. How did this even make the list? Was there nothing more relevant? The deeper down the list I get, the more I am convinced that this list was created by a bunch of dorks on a room just listing albums they've heard of. You do no need to hear this album before you die.
The production is not ambitious. Very little differentiation between the songs, which is a shame because as ballads they all need a bit more of their own personality to make the album bearable. The result is a very boring album. One of the most boring albums I have ever heard.
A popstar cosplaying as a blue collar woman sings sad songs during the pandemic, locked away in her estate. Vain, dull, redundant, trash. 1/10
Chemtrails Over The Country Club ist das siebte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Sängerin und Songwriterin Lana Del Rey. Die Produktion fand in verschiedenen Aufnahmestudios in den Vereinigten Staaten statt, unter anderem in Los Angeles und New York. Die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Produzenten Jack Antonoff, der bereits an früheren Projekten beteiligt war, prägt den Klang des Albums spürbar. Musikalisch bewegt sich das Werk im Spannungsfeld zwischen Alternative Pop, Folk und einem zurückhaltenden Indie-Sound. Viele Stücke sind von ruhigen Arrangements und introspektiven Texten geprägt. Klavier, akustische Gitarre und dezente elektronische Elemente schaffen eine melancholische Atmosphäre, die Lana Del Reys charakteristische Stimme untermalt. Inhaltlich greift das Album persönliche Themen auf, etwa Vergänglichkeit, familiäre Beziehungen oder ein Gefühl der Entfremdung. Songs wie „White Dress“ oder der Titeltrack „Chemtrails Over The Country Club“ geben Einblicke in Selbstwahrnehmung und die Auseinandersetzung mit öffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit. Auch „Tulsa Jesus Freak“ und „Dark But Just A Game“ bleiben durch ihre reduzierte Instrumentierung und stimmungsgeladene Texte im Gedächtnis. Die Produktion verzichtet weitgehend auf opulente Klangbilder und setzt stattdessen auf eine eher zurückgenommene Gestaltung. Dies verleiht dem Album einen ruhigen Fluss und lässt den Texten Raum zur Entfaltung. Die Handschrift der Interpretin ist dabei durchgehend erkennbar, sowohl in der Auswahl der Themen als auch in der Ästhetik. Chemtrails Over The Country Club ist ein introspektives Album, das auf stilistische Zurückhaltung setzt. Es richtet sich an Hörerinnen und Hörer, die eine ruhige, textzentrierte Klangwelt schätzen und Lana Del Reys Erzählweise bereits aus früheren Werken kennen.
Her voice is pretty, she has an interesting way of including American pop culture into somewhat deep lyrics. But as an album its just too much. Too much breathiness, to much melancholy, too much slow guitar, too much complaining about nothingness, just to much of everything. Also when you really listen to the lyrics they are not that deep or earth shattering. She just sings them with such a pretty sad emotional voice everyone thinks she is talking about such deep things. Breaking up Slowly was my favorite song, because of Nikki Lane, not Lana. I don't know if this all a defense mechanism, saying I like all the bad and then bragging about all the great things you have going on. For me its just whiny in an entitled way, not really deep or emotional. Just I have money, I like when my boyfriend drinks so I can do what I want, and I wander because I want to. You can get slightly sucked in but if you listen its just blah
So boring it's almost painful. I didn't especially enjoy the songwriting. Instrumentation is so sparse you might as well put a few pins dropping between the verses because that would be better than these choruses that are totally void of any sort of catchy melody. Maybe I just don't get it. Sometimes an album is pretty bad but in some over the top way to give it some creativity and I'm like "well at least that was different" I'll give it a 2. I'm just saying... At least AKF twigs had interesting sound textures. This is just one boring song after another so it's a special kind of sucks. Wild at Heart? please. this album is so tame it's one big beige lullaby. Not All Who Wander Are Lost. ya. That's a Tolkien quote. I doubt Lana has read a single Tolkien book because none of these songs are about wizards or rings. She just saw it on Instagram. Dance Till We Die? I'd love to but none of these songs are danceable so I guess that just leaves the dieing. Songs as vapid as Chemtrails. For more information, join a Country Club.
Lana Del Rey's music has always kind of annoyed me. I tried to brush that aside to give this an unbiased listen. Conclusion: gag me with a spoon. She's a talented lyricist, but the album feels like one big song that's slow and sad and painful to listen to. It was an excruciatingly long 45 minutes. The only part I found interesting was about 10 seconds of Dance Till We Die around the 3:00 mark. I don't get her appeal. Usually if an album at least sounds like music to me, it gets an automatic 2, but I was incredibly annoyed by the time this was over.
I really hated this. I hate her weird whispery voice, it was so boring it was aggravating. Barely any sound at all. Blech.
Her voice is interesting, but not my thing.
Basically one lullaby after another. I need some more coffee before I listen to another Lana del Rey album. The whispery and mumbly vocals got annoying after a while. Every song sounded the same, I can't distinguish between them at all. Exact same tone, peace and subject matter.
I guess she's popular because she's pretty
Not good. LDR ain't my jam. 1.5/5
gay gay toxic lesbian shit fucking whatever. her vocabulary was, like, whatever.
1.5 just not made for me
No. I know you are supposed to listen the whole album, but only managed three and a bit. Full of self-inflation and -importance, wannabe deep and thoughtful, in all the wrong ways, for me.
I don't tend to like modern music and this explains it. Maybe it's because I grew up listening to this garbage but it's probably just because it sucks. Boring lyrics, boring instrumentals and WAY too much whispering. I'm glad other people can manage to enjoy it but NOT ME!