#i just thot it was a neat connection. and a little cool to make an insectoid connection to a very mammalian creature

[misterradio]

cicadas have three dots between their big eyes, called ocelli, and are used to detect light. this reminds me of furbies who have a three-bumped cloud shape between their eyes which is a light sensor. that is all

#i just thot it was a neat connection. and a little cool to make an insectoid connection to a very mammalian creature #original nonsense #was studying pics of cicadas and was like ummm why do the ones using flash have little glowing dots o_o #well that would be their simple eyes babyyyy !!!

[facceshopping]

u guys don’t care but i need to organize my thoughts on new lana album

white dress- this one is soooo gorgeous and i really love the sped up line in the second part of the chorus although some ppl will probably hate it. also the little hum she does after she says “i felt seen” was so beautiful. love the higher register here. also “kinda makes me feel.. like maybe i was better off” didn’t make me CRY but i did tear up. wasnt crazy about the verses at first but the weird interval at the beginning grew on me. also pretty sure one of the sounds in the production is lana ripping a juul, someone tell me if u agree

chemtrails- this was already one of my fave songs recently and i think it’s even better within the album. career highlight material. she was crazy for this one. wish she included the vocalization from the outro that gets used in the video though.

tulsa jesus freak- one of my new fave lana songs and my immediate favorite on this album. the autotune they put on her throughout this track gives it such a unique quality that interacts w the melodies so well and the VOCODER at the end??? she surgically removed charli’s bob w that one. love the line “you should come back to our place baby, don’t be afraid of our love” the talking layered over the outro is one of several rly cool production touches. lyrics give me religious cult type of vibes so ofc it’s my favorite

let me love you like a woman- i thought this was mid when it got released and it’s still one of my least faves on the album but it’s grown a little. vocals in the bridge are great. i think my main issue is with the melody in the chorus, it just doesn’t do it for me. love love love when the words “want” and “need” overlap in the second verse

wild at heart- this one is also one of my favorites. she does that thing again in the second verse where she speeds up a line & keeps the rhythmic scheme pretty loose which i really like and find really expressive. harmonies towards the end are divine and the melody in the chorus feels like a classic. my one question: did she say “insta thots” in the first verse shdknsosneidixj it might have been “dots” but i’m not sure what that means. also this pretty heavily samples how to disappear from NFR which i think is neat

dark but just a game- YESSSSSSS this is such a serve the minor key ultraviolence type beat in the chorus juxtaposed with the bright 60s kind of beatles sounding harmonies in the chorus is SO cool. it’s like the verses are the dark and the chorus is the game. “no rose left on the vines” lana sees the power of fame and toys with it because it doesn’t scare her! what to others is an all consuming state of being is to her simply a game!!

not all who wander are lost- this is definitely my least fave on the album. not a bad song but definitely not as good as the others on here. the invocation of the word wanderlust had me rolling my eyes a little but in an affectionate way. i’m probably too irony poisoned for this song. i like the opening line “i’ve been wearing the same damn clothes for three damn days” though

yosemite- to me this song feels like the last one before the third act of the album and i rly like how it connects to earlier in the album (“no more candle in the wind” from tulsa jesus freak (and also mariners apartment complex now that i think abt it)) and later in the album (“we did it for free”) the chorus is really good and the spoken word interlude in the bridge is one of my fave moments on the album. love how she says “television static” also listen for that distinctive rick nowels million dollar man sound effect

breaking up slowly- probably the most traditional & familiar track on here but god does it hit. nikki lane is a great presence on here (even though i thought she was miley cyrus at first LMFAO) it’s short and sweet & the harmonies in the chorus that nikki and lana do together are really great especially when they say “don’t send me flowers.” nikki’s second verse EATS. “are these my good years or do i have none? / are there really good years for everyone?”

dance till we die- not one of my faves but still really good. the invocation of all these older women who r all musical legends definitely highlights how lana has kind of ascended to that plane. the BRIDGE however is a really pleasant surprise! i saw someone say she’s kind of giving alanis morrisette on the bridge and i agree. “court almost burnt down my home” is she talking about courtney love. please tell me she’s talking about courtney love

for free- one of her best covers for sure!! zella day sounds a lot like lana on the first verse, but weyes blood on the third verse is transcendent i love her. this being at the end rly drives home what i was talking about in the last track of lana kind of becoming one of those legendary figures. harmonies all the way through are insanely good

overall: one of her best albums for sure, i feel like it may be number 3 for me but that changes a lot. was worried this was gonna sound too much like NFR but she definitely carved out a specific sound for this one. really folky but with some light beats throughout which works for me & suits her voice & writing well. i will develop a full take on what this album MEANS as i listen to it more but for now i rly dig the themes she gets into here. her best vocals in a while (maybe ever) and maybe her most genuinely personal stuff as opposed to the embellishment & romanticization of her earlier stuff (which i love obviously don’t get it twisted) i called in sick to listen to this and didn’t regret it at all

#lana del rey #chemtrails over the country club

[nelfs]

hmm ok here’s my thots on Promare since i FINALLY was able to see it (thank you to grant for streaming it for me, u da bes)... admittedly i was feeling very sleepy and unfocused when i watched it

-the visuals are awesome, never seen anything quite like it before. though I actually don’t think they’re quite my style as i found them a little hard to get into, felt kind of like i was watching a feature-length music video or something. like objectively they’re very cool and impressive and experimental but too geometric and flat for me personally, don’t catch my eye like I want them to

-the plot was v cool, kinda Zootopia-y, though I couldn’t really forge an emotional connection w the characters, felt like we didn’t see enough of the Story and the Character, mostly spectacle. i think it was because i was tired but i couldn’t absorb it like it wanted to. i remember lots of shapes and cyan and magenta anddddd.... yeah

-i love lio fotia’s gigantic dragon flame because of course i do

-smooch...

-we finished Gurren Lagann like a month ago so the tribute this paid to that was crystal clear!! like, Galo de Lio? more like... Gurren de Lagann...... it really kind of felt like an AU take on GL which was neat. Galo almost makes a better Kamina than Kamina did

I guess my take on it is that it’s very cool, worth watching, but maybe just not quite my style PERSONALLY. have been noticing more and more that action scenes in things tend to make my eyes glaze over and i lose interest in what’s going on. also wish there had been more of a break from the super saturated color palette, it doesn’t have the same smack when it carries through every shot in the film ig