Many of these exquisitely narrated songs contain reminders that the trappings of masculinity—breaches in communication, emotional stiltedness, fear of vulnerability—come from the same toxic status quo as systemic patriarchy.

Of course, with the years and expansion of my music exploration, I can’t consider it my favorite album ever any longer, there’s music that is just even better. debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 chart, earning 104,000 album-equivalent units (including 66,000 copies in pure album sales) in its first week, [90] becoming Del Rey's sixth US top ten album on the chart.We as a society are fucked if we continue to let music like this be topping charts and topping the minds of young people. Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone noted the album's " Laurel Canyon '70s soft-rock fantasies", including references to Joni Mitchell and the Eagles. For Slant Magazine, Sal Cinquemani described the album as "a heady collection of psych-rock and piano dirges that pour into each other and rarely shift tempo from track to track" as well as "frank assessments of the psychic effects of a world spiraling into chaos. Wish they used different photos for the vinyl label though, it looks awful with the original artwork on it. And in this slow, glowering procession, she points more directly to her own personal history than ever—“spilling my guts with the Bowery bums” as a volunteer, FaceTiming her father “from beyond the grave”—and soberly she sings: “Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman with my past.

At first, I listened to what I knew most (pop) and got to explore a lot of releases I wasn’t aware of up to that time, I remember seeing the album cover and recognizing if from one of those songs I arrived to randomly in 2019 (Doin’ Time) and remembered how much I loved Lana’s music back in 2012. A.’s in flames, it’s a getting hot/Kanye West is blonde and gone/‘Life On Mars’ ain’t just a song/Oh, the livestream’s almost on”—and they feel on arrival to have existed forever. It does, however, contain the spoken word outro on "Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have - But I Have It". I see a lot of people saying that their copies don’t sound good, but in my opinion it sounds amazing !The song is so good it’s hard to believe that something even close is about to come by, and then Mariners Apartment Complex comes in, a song that is so compelling in its inherent beauty as a lovesong, it almost leaves you thinking, “is it even possible to make two songs that are this good and putting them back-to-back? Lana Del Rey's New Album Norman F*cking Rockwell Gets a Release Date, Tracklist and Retro Album Art". Radiating new dimensions of sensitivity and eloquence, “Mariners Apartment Complex” is a towering peak on Norman Fuckng Rockwell!

The Hollywood author Eve Babitz once wrote, “Once it is established you are you and everyone else is merely perfect, ordinarily factory-like perfect… you can wreak all the havoc you want. Del Rey takes her celebration and subversion of all things Americana -- blue jeans, Coca-Cola, apple pie -- on a loop round Laurel Canyon. You took my sadness out of context” and “They mistook my kindness for weakness” are bold refusals to be misunderstood. The songs are too long, the topics are more one-dimensional than a dot, and the production is abhorrently stomach-turning, courtesy of "renowned" and "forward thinking" producer Jack Antonoff. I can hardly think of a more lovely line than “You don’t ever have to be stronger than you really are, when you’re laying in my arms”, Lana doesn’t fall in romanticizing this man, she’s fully aware of his flaws, but still loves him deeply and daringly.Lana had been teasing the record since September 2018 when she dropped “Mariners Apartment Complex”. What a way to open a song, and the album even, is to portray your lover in such a pathetic way, and then spend a full album singing about how much you love him despite being fully aware that he’s a pathetic douchebag.