if you've been following her on Instagram, it was pretty clear she's been hanging out with a VERY non-Nashville crowd of late. I bet this is just the tip of a very different iceberg.
The mock-up of the vinyl of her website looks like it is a single LP. Trying to cram 15 songs onto a single LP doesn’t sound like a good idea. When I first heard that the album was 15 songs, divided into three “acts,” like a tragedy, apparently, although Shakespeare’s tragedies are typically divided into five, if I recall correctly, I assumed this would be pressed on a double LP, with five songs a side over three sides, and an etching or something on side four.
What concerns me more than her “going pop” is the hints in the video trailer that she thinks her divorce is some kind of cosmic, universal tragedy. Not every album has to be or can be Blood on the Tracks. That’s a difficult trick to pull off.
Given she was an incredibly stunningly beautiful girl.....I'm not sure where she's going with the lips etc but it does her no favours
The singles better than I expected though.....although I thought most (50%) of Golden Hour was abysmal.
I find the single and the video all a bit confusing, and thinking, 'huh?' It has some 'Moulin Rouge' vibe going on, but I'm not buying into what I'm seeing and hearing so far..... Based on this, it seems she's drifting away from her base and exploring which is cool, but I can't see myself along for the ride this time. We shall see....
I played the video for my wife, who is far from the total music obsessive I am, and who doesn’t keep up with the inside baseball about every new album, and her reaction exactly mirrored mine, which was “WTF?”. From the gothic font of the album title, to the way over-the-top drama of the video, to the overall vibe that her celebrity personal problems have some sort of cosmic significance, this would appear to be her parallel to Taylor Swift’s Reputation.
Count me in the minority that love the new song... definitely unlike anything she's recorded before...
Judging from her recent press and the song titles and the whole divorce album framed as a Greek tragedy construct, I don't have a good feeling about this one. And I say that as a fan who's got everything she's put out since Same Trailer and have seen her live numerous times. I hope it will be a bit more nuanced than it appears from what we've seen so far.
100%. The whole narrative comes off as a bit too self-serious and raises concerns for me that the music won't be as good as Golden Hour. I really hope to be proved wrong
Yeah, I’ve seen her in concert, have all the albums, love her, but I have a bad feeling about this one. I think she may have drunk her own Kool-Aid a bit here.
Really with some of the comments: doesn't it seems like her divorce would be a big deal to HER? If she wanted to write an expansive dramatic album about it, let her. Who knows what great art may come of it? Or comedy... She's not an Ivy League Classics scholar, don't be surprised if it is a bit lowbrow. She's a young woman who writes about her life and trailer parks and getting high with John Prine
Her job as an artist is to make it a big deal to us. Judging from the trailer of the bat**** crazy promo video for this album, she may have written a comedy, not a tragedy.
I hope that she made the album that she wanted to make and not the album that YOU wanted her to make. I don't think I care about your artistic vision, quite too much. No offense.
At least someone gets it. You definitely can't say she's taken the commercial route, and for that I applaud her.
New song "Justified" is a lot more conventional and likely will win over a lot of fans who were skeptical about that album trailer. Whether you like the video content or not, the music is still sublime.
