How NFR! Cemented Lana Del Rey's Legacy

[@EljohnMacaranas]

What was your fave track off NFR!

[@edgar4696]

California! Or VB

[@davidvalbuena1997]

Terrible question but i guess How to disappear really struck me along with The Greatest

[@abeeminor3906]

Venice Beach, NFR and Love song!

[@joshmomo2917]

How to Disappear,Mariners Apartment Complex,NFR,Cinnamon Girl

[@etienne275]

Mariners, NFR, the greatest, VB, California Honorable mentions: Cinnamon girl, TNBAR

[@stepanhybl9017]

I can’t even put in words how this album make me feel 😩

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The album feels like an old friend you can’t exactly remember when you met but you always have the time of your life with them when you can… like I spent the last 2 weeks listening to it and it genuinely kept me sane the whole time 😭

[@mattia51296]

I know right????

[@lukeessman8030]

@@EljohnMacaranas love how you said that so beautifully, got deja vu reading it too weirdly, on some spiritual shi 🧿

[@steviemack6969]

Lana ABSOLUTELY deserved the Grammy. Robbed yet again.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Hands down!

[@arthur1161]

This album is the Joni Mitchell’s “Blue” of our time. I am absolutely certain that it will age like fine wine and become a classic in music history. What an album, 10/10 !

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The Blue comparison is one of the highest honors an artist can receive, like true!!!

[@philipksick6810]

The fact that The Greatest came out on Labor Day weekend ending the last summer before the pandemic is life incredible cosmic timing and coincidence

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Lana is the modern day Cassandra

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Well, we did it Joe! We did a NFR! video essay 😭

[@Hottest_Bardi]

I feel like the NFR era was when the media and locals took lana serious btw this album has no skips Edit:how to disappear is my fav song to 😭

[@EljohnMacaranas]

How to Disappear is such a good track like it’s so simple and clean but so well-executed like the way the construction of the verses then the solo 😭

[@warrenmacdonald3463]

this album is just amazing, and it will age fantastically as well. She definitely solidified her legacy with this one critically, culturally and commercially too. I see myself continuing to listen to it for years to come. In my opinion her lyricism improved by leaps and bounds on this record and the more stripped back production allows it to shine and also has a timeless feel. it is also the album that finally got me into her music and came at a very tumultuous time in my life when I was just starting university (my music taste was very limited in high school), then I really got into it at the start of the pandemic and its palpable emotion and dreamy escapism really has helped me over the last few years.

[@therobotdevil2284]

I totally agree, this era was so gratifying as a long time fan who had to deal with her talent being written off for so long. People finally GOT IT! Such an incredible record.

[@billieandhermic]

This album literally a top ten, like a perfect score.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

TRUTH

[@jrarzolameking1669]

I fell in love within this album on my first listen. My faves are the title track & The Next Best American Record ❤

[@EljohnMacaranas]

OK but those first lines and the piano and the instrumental... the world stopped for a moment!

[@indiatastic]

i'm taking off my bathing suit

[@adonisarmanazi5346]

Lana's last album with intensive world building and melodramatic poetry 😢

[@davis8326]

that’s so wrong 😭

[@adonisarmanazi5346]

@@davis8326 she said that herself

[@meretc]

@@davis8326 while I really love Chemtrails Over The Country Club, this comment is right actually

[@dpsquirtle21]

@@meretc ocean blvd is right there

[@davis8326]

something i didn’t hear mentioned was the fact that in “get free” (closing track of previous album) she sings the lyrics “out of the black, into the blue” and the opening track of NFR (the follow up) she repeatedly sings the word blue

[@raresg9637]

This is probably my fav album of all time, the fact that we are still in 2023 and I'm still discovering new elements in each song, literally a skipless project, deserved album of the decade

[@matteu49]

The album that finally made me a true fan. It was released in a perfect time in my life and on my favourite part of year - late summer when it’s still warm, but not sweaty all the time. It just gave me that california vibe even though I’m 400km off the shore in the middle of Europe when I can only dream about such weather conditions. Yet, going though a city with my Headphones on I am magically there in California and I feel like I belong in there and no other place in the world exists. It’s the perfect album that will be always one of my favourites ever. It was a turning point for me in many ways, I started to listen and discover Lana’s discography and What is more, I realized that even I did listen to that kinda music a lot, it was that moment when I finally realised that this is What really suit my taste the best. For years I’ve been numb to high emotions, way to busy on stuff and been telling myslef that I don’t Have time for feelings in my life. NFR awaken something in me. I couldn’t help but feel. I wanted to Have someone to cherish this beauty of art with me, for the first time in my life I wanted something more. I’ll be Forever grateful for that record

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Omg YES! I found this album in a similar time of my life. Like it was an escape from a world I didn’t necessarily hate but like the California vibes were so immaculate I did pick up all my stuff and move there partially bc of the way she sings about it and while it isn’t always perfect, I get why she feels the way she does about the place!

[@missfaggy666]

not enough people are talking about how she said “bar-t-t-tendeeeer” in order to emulate the sound of glasses clinking at a bar…she’s a genius im sorry

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The use of onomatopoeia… she’s truly a poet! 😭

[@kittypaws1231]

My mother listening to this album on max volume in the house is one of the best memories I have with this album.

[@Javier-zw9sx]

NFR is objectively her best record, production and lyric wise is the most digestible one but still very Lana, it feels like an upgrade rather than just other side of her artistry. Even tho my personal fave is Ultraviolence i would still recomment NFR to anyone who's trying to get into her music.

[@jeslynlane]

I have been LIVING for these LDR album documentaries

[@raulreyes3063]

California is actually a song from a Last Shadow Puppets and Lana collaborative album, other songs from the album are dealer and Thunder from blue banisters and loaded from Miles Kane’s album Coup De Grace

[@EljohnMacaranas]

That makes sense! I wish we'd gotten that one!

[@quantumwitcher9376]

But isn't California directed at Barrie James O neiil

[@thearchane3749]

Your LDR essays are always so well contextualised and amazingly delivered, I wish this series never ended. Would you do unreleased albums, Lana's concept albums, unreleased chunks of songs? I would love to hear your thoughts on Melancholia, how UV was going to originally be a more religious experience until it became an album of catharsis for her. I don't know if this is 100%, but werent these songs all originally planned for Melancholia: Yes To heaven, Cult Leader, Ave Maria (instrumental), Dragon Slayer, Angels Forever and more? All with spiritual undertones. Anyway, looking forward to Blue, Chem and Tunnel!!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u so much! I love seeing your comments on each of these videos, your insights always illuminate the records for me after the fact! I’d love to talk about those but am sorta holding off bc of rumors I’ve heard regarding potential releases (at least for Yes to Heaven)

[@thearchane3749]

@@EljohnMacaranas thank you and that makes total sense. Look forward to all your insights. Hope you're enjoying Tunnel, I so am 🍀

[@caterinarey454]

Before NFR I loved Lana so much already, every new release always made me so excited about what side of her would she show us now, but THIS album went just... beyond every possible expectation I could have. To this day, there is not a single piece of music that makes me feel quite like NFR does. I remember being furious for like a week after she didn't win that Grammy :( I wanted EVERYONE to know NFR and listen to it and acknowledge just how magnificent it was. It'll always have a special place in my heart ❤‍🔥(btw thank you SO much for your amazing LDR videos!! I love them!!)

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh the way everyone would have had to listen to NFR had it won a grammy… like I genuinely felt like it still is required modern listening. It’s a perfect record.

[@glasstablegcrls]

nfr was defo a new peak for lana. her best era imo. the promo videos and (some) of the single choices were 🤌🏽. literally the album that made me a ldr fan. so sad it lasted short tho:( the greatest, venice bîatch, and cinnamon girl / hiab r my top 3

[@mercyydaddyy6173]

LFL better

[@con_is_brat]

this album is the perfect album, combining everything that she learned from her last eras. It reminds me of that idea about Taylor's midnights where these songs are scattered throughout her career but they are like vault tracks. The Greatest reminds me of an ultraviolence. Hope and Love Song feel like lost Honeymoon songs. Mariners and Venice feel like Lust For Life of Born To Die Tracks. My fav lana album and my 2nd fav album of all time. It has the feeling of happiness to it tthat feels like mystical and almost unreal which is why I connected with this album so much. I love Ultraviolence but the one thing it didn't have was poetic lines. NFR rly in my op has it all from her previous musical efforts, the aesthetics of Born To Die, Production of Ultraviolence, Lyricism of Honeymoon, and a balanced alt and pop sound from lust for life. (BTW HER POETRY BOOK IS SO GOOOOOOOOOD!!!! honestly may be 3rd best album ngl). But anyways the album had a good amount of visuals that Lust For Life didn't have and none of these songs I would skip. It's an album filled with hopeless happiness and leaving cult learder love and entering an emotion inside of her. Not an album derived of outside causes but internal emotions. The Recording Academy is actually going to pay for their sins not only for not giving album of the year to not NFR but also not giving it to my other top 3 albums of all time Red and Melodrama. Dear Recording Academy, we are breaking up for this toxic relationship. Please go find help and then maybe we can reconsider this relationship!

[@con_is_brat]

also ik ive alrdy said this but umm u should do melanie martinez cus like ya her album comes out the 31st of March and im soooo excited🥰🥰

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Oh the recording academy is notorious for really just following the hype and denying awards to winners based on perceived grudges and slights, to really win they have to “love” your story and they try to be calculated and clever over who wins… like the existence of committees in the past prove that one criterion they use is your willingness to perform at the ceremony 💀

[@con_is_brat]

@@EljohnMacaranas frr💀

[@BeckyLStoutWriter]

I like this album. I mean, how can I not? She name drops Dennis Wilson on it and he is the artist who recorded one of my favorite albums of all time, Pacific Ocean Blue. 🤗 Oh and "Mariners Apartment Complex" also inspired one of my favorite poems that I've written. So, yeah . . . 👍

[@EljohnMacaranas]

NFR is such an important record to me like omfg like she really made a canonical California record

[@gabriela7348]

I've been going through a really rough time in my life when that record dropped. Usually I can't go back to the music that kept me company during my lows, but with this one... I can literally come back to it everyday and everyday it'll make me feel stronger, more powerful and motivated. Listened to her music since my early teens, but the NRF was the moment where I literally fell in love with this woman. I can't say which track is my favorite as each of them creates that warm feeling in my chest. Some of them still makes me tear up, some of them makes me lose myself in dancing and some of them helps me calm down and relax. No playlist I make can top this album; it'll be my favorite record until the end of time!

[@lauriewebb1171]

I know exactly what you mean! Very well said.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

OMG you captured how I feel about the record being a comfort one you can always come back to 😭❤️

[@lavieenlavande]

NFR was perfection through and through IMO. I love her other work, of course, but this album hit me right at the right time and I couldn’t stop listening to it. It’s still a favorite on rotation for me. Love this series and thanks for taking us back through the many amazing LDR eras!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank you for watching, I really only do these videos for comments like these: to know there's others out there with nostalgia even for things that were like 4 years ago (probably 4 of the longest years in history to be fair!) And yes NFR truly was on another level.

[@brandonslomski1836]

So happy you final got to this album! I think my two favorite tracks are The Greatest and Venice Bitch but they’re all certified bangers. Big mood energy. I’m always down to listen to this album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It’s a timeless record for sure, like every artist worth their salt has an infinitely replayable record regardless of the time and weather and I think NFR fits the bill

[@TriiMoz]

without a doubt, my favorite album of all time. I just finished your Lana series and you definitely slayed. thanks for giving nfr a 10 btw

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u, Ocean Blvd review goes up today 🌊🫡

[@malenadraper8805]

I discovered this album in 2020. Boy, was I surprised. I didn’t listen to Lana’s songs in the 10s, only the hits when they played on the radio, but after NFR I became a fan!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Like honestly, these songs deserved radio play somewhere, NFR felt so vintage in the best way 😭

[@SugarcideAnimations]

Thank you so much for making this video essay series on Lana! This is definitely what I wanted to see, a whole analysis on her discography. Most video essays out their just talk about her early BTD persona

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Glad you enjoyed it! I feel like a lot of essayists only do BTD bc they want quick clicks or don’t want to touch on modern Lana and it’s like… modern Lana is genuinely an entirely different artist like… stop thinking we’re still in 2012 😭

[@PinkDesertEagle]

She will definitely Top NFR one day. She came pretty close with Ocean Blvd. And I think she'll get closer with each subsequent release!

[@Supernovaex]

This album is amazing and was definitely robbed of Grammy. I remember even crying when she lost the award cause she deserves it like no one else! Anyways love her so much and been a fan since 2012

[@LLOriginal]

Another amazing analysis! And I'm with you How to Disappear and Next Best American Record are my favorites. I can't pick one it just depends on my mood 🥰 I'm loving your analysis of her records leading up to her new record 🙌

[@EljohnMacaranas]

We love someone with taste!

[@chadmtatham]

u r easily my favorite lana analyst. thank you

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u sm! I honestly feel like Lana’s such a great artist, but so many ppl are careless about how she treats her work (which she carefully presents for us)

[@lauriewebb1171]

Love this album…it dropped in pieces & gave us time with each song- but I don’t seem to listen to it as a full “album” like I did the others, thou I do listen to these songs a lot still as singles!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Another commenter said she was contemplating not including the first few tracks so hearing it in chunks does make sense vs. people who found the album later on

[@erisenfloyd]

2:39 DUDE I FORGOT ABOUT BIRD WORLD 😭😭😭 that’s so fucking funny

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I remember it being the title for a hot minute and being so relieved when it wasn’t 😭

[@Noriqurtz]

3rd fav album of hers❤️

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Such a good album!

[@satansfilmnoir]

Thank you for making these videos! My top 3 of the record: Venice Bitch, Fuck it I love you and Bartender. NFR is for sure one of her best albums and eras💚

[@Go_go_dancerr]

This album and honymoon are Definitely my favorite, the fact that honeymoon and NFR are summer albums make me like them more

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Most of Lana’s discography works perfectly for the summer, I love her sm for that! Each a different period of Summer though BB feels more yearly than anything

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Can't even explain the brilliance of this album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Like it’s a greatest of all time record (I think even Rolling Stone listed it)

[@philipksick6810]

When this album came out I was on a Labor Day party weekend with my friends in another city. I laid on an air mattress on a bad acid trip playing bartender over and over again to calm down.

[@masonsturm9822]

such a good video

[@EljohnMacaranas]

thank u for watching!

[@stellamagdalene3521]

Love Song deserves recognition🥺.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It’s v underrated like I feel like it’s one of Lana’s best vulnerable unironic sweet songs to date

[@paulespinal2602]

thank you for all this lana content, it gives people who are intrested in lana’s music a place to have some context on her work. Great job.👍🏼

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u for watching! I feel like Lana’s history as an artist needs to be documented somehow! I’m sure one day someone else will do better but for now I’m glad to be doing it!

[@lilac9077]

the greatest is my top nfr song,as well as my favourite lana song of all time, although nfr is not my fave album (uv is)… alsooo i love your ldr series keep doing these videos istg every time i see that there’s a new one it makes my day.

[@con_is_brat]

the greatest is second but for me it is so like amazing. ANd it also has my favorite lyric "Kanye West is blonde and GONE" her and taylor swift were rly going out of the way to kill kanye and i was here for it.

[@patrickhart6280]

NFR is my album it literally cmeout on my birthday

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Blessed by Lana

[@billieeilishfanstck116]

love your videos! i was wondering if you could make a video explaining lana’s scrapped third album intended to come out in 2013 called Tropico & Melancholia, it had songs intended to go there such as yes to heaven, let me love you like a woman (when it was called pink champagne), old money, black beauty, hollywood, elvis, money power glory, etc. I think you might have a good explanation to it!

[@joshmomo2917]

I love NFR so much I don’t why but I always associate it with Water 🌊its like a splash of water from the ocean that cleanses and hydrates you!

[@AlbertoTrivizo]

loved your words at the ending, thank u for creating this space

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank you for finding it and participating! I don’t do these videos for myself, I do them for y’all!

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

I'm so Happy you uploaded today! Today I've been very stressed so this eleviated it.

[@thearchane3749]

Omg it's here!! Watching, this is fantastic

[@sweet_bitch8955]

Can't wait for your review on Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

She’s coming on Monday

[@Brooke-pr7kg]

What an incredible album!!! I was so devastated when she cancelled her london tour date

[@EljohnMacaranas]

genuinely am sad that her international leg for the tour was interrupted by well… 2020 😭

[@redsinsaneurbex7691]

Oh the end of the new album cements this for sure

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Taco Truck x VB is so good 😭😭😭

[@redsinsaneurbex7691]

@@EljohnMacaranas I know right-did not expect the ending but loved it!

[@fckitiloveyou]

I’m excited for all the LDR videos coming hell yes

[@EljohnMacaranas]

BB and Chemtrails are gonna be so fun, I really want to speak my peace as a Lana stan regarding the Question for the Culture moment… yeah it was a mess but like… ppl don’t get WHY she said it

[@fckitiloveyou]

@@EljohnMacaranas I’m glad you are going to discuss that chaos 😭 It really showed how the public has always had a polarizing view of her !!

[@Peterrdee]

When she added Venice bych to taco truck in her new album SLAYED

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Truly the ultimate victory lap!

[@xcoldxasxfirex]

The 'tetetender' is absolute musical ASMR

[@EljohnMacaranas]

On good speakers… it’s divine…

[@ldrfan27577]

This album should have won Album Of The Year.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

It could arguably be Album of the Decade like genuinely an infinitely replayable record

[@Seweal]

I love this album so much. I remember being so pissed when it came out because we already heard the half of it. But now I just love it and I keep listening to it almost daily. Bartender is my personal favorite, it's such a sweet song, beautiful melody, absolutely loving.

[@davidvalbuena1997]

just finished watching the video! 10/10 for you as well 🙏… personally, Honeymoon and NFR are pulling their wigs off for the 1st spot to be my fav Lana’s album so far… but we’ll see what Ocean Blvd can do. Looking forward to more of these series. If you can take Florence + The Machine into account i’ll appreciate it.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u for watching! I’m so excited for Ocean Blvd! It’s always NFR UV and Honeymoon fighting it out for me. I do want to do a Florence video one of these days, rather than album for album I might just do one giant career recap tbh.

[@davidvalbuena1997]

@@EljohnMacaranas That’ll work as well ❤️

[@shahzadi.zafira__]

Are you gonna make one for every Lana album? I would love to see what you think of Chemtrails next xx

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I will definitely revisit Chemtrails and BB but (after) Ocean Blvd (which might acc make those videos better if Ocean Blvd references them)

[@shahzadi.zafira__]

@@EljohnMacaranas omg I finished watching the video just now. Sorry I just realised you said it at the end 😭 I am loving the series, they made me discover your channel

[@jacquelineaguilera6271]

this album best UV for me. this album is everything to me.

[@PaleLittleGirl2]

Stunning perfect masterpiece 💕💜❤️ it still KILLS.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

One of the Great American Records

[@VEGAS-NERVE]

I really began to Stan Lana after NFR. Growing up I obviously heard stuff like Summertime Sadness and Young and Beautiful. Fast forward a couple years when NFR dropped I kept seeing girls sharing the album and single artwork on their insta stories but I just skipped by thinking oh I wouldn’t like that kind of music. Then a few months later I was listening to music with some people and someone played “California”. I wasn’t even paying attention but couldn’t help but notice just how good the song was. I looked at the screen and saw that it was Lana. I loved the artwork and overall vibe of it all. Fast forward a few months later and I was heartbroken, isolated, and super nostalgic about the past. I gave the entire album a shot and instantly fell in love . From that point on Lana has been my most streamed artist and I have absolutely come to adore everything about her and her art. Ultraviolence is also my fav now.

[@kringekardashian69]

best album ever made.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Deserved that AOTY Grammy! IT WAS ROBBED!

[@abeeminor3906]

been waiting for this

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thanks for waiting! I literally kept rewriting the script because I like kept changing my mind on tracks I wanted to talk most about!

[@davidvalbuena1997]

I’m here for this one! ❤

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u 🌊

[@kirittv]

Lol and then Did you know.... Came out and we find ourselves saying can she top this😅

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Literally I’m praying for Lasso to be a serve

[@emmathelovewitch]

I love nfr it’s my favorite Lana album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Spent the whole day yesterday looping Cinnamon Girl 💚

[@brynniefresh9746]

one of the biggest changes in her music is something that i think tells us a lot about her and her personal journey, and that's how she describes her relationships with men...she used to talk about the men like they were the star and she was pining after them, being the other woman if it meant getting any kind of love but there's a change in her more recent music i think specifically starting here that she realizes that she can be the star, the one wearing the pants or whatever, and she continues to talk about how the problem in the relationships tends to be the men wanting her in that smaller role, they expect her to be sad and weak, but also they don't want a woman who is more powerful and strong than them which i think is really telling of how she had grown...she describes herself as the 'man' cause she is taking on the more assertive role, she's the more stable one, the more mature one, the one who is guiding her partner and even tho her bf might kinda suck, she's a hopeless romantic as she's shown for many many years, so she'll stick it out for longer than she probably should lol i've always thought these things, even when i was like 13, i was like she's obviously not doing that great mentally if she sees herself this way (born to die and ultraviolence specifically) but other people in her life saw that and assumed she never changed from her early twenties as she said mariners apartment complex is about the guy she was seeing telling her they were good together because they were both damaged and sad, even though she wasn't feeling like that anymore and i think that changed her music a little, like she felt like she needed to accurately describe these dynamics (still not everyone got it tho...people still think her saying 'i'm your man' is a pov switch lmao)

[@imarandomgirl.]

NRF was my first vinyl 😋

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Iconic 🌊 my first modern record was UV 💀

[@thearchane3749]

NFR is Clarity 🙌

[@JacobW567]

Most people who loved this album are Taylor swift and Billie Eillish fans , when their idols expressed how they liked Lana, they all started listening to Lana and loving her... even the magazines... the critics too.... before NFR (although it is always Lana and the sadness/melancholy tones are always there) after NFR, they went and righted their bad reviews for her early albums and changed completely on Lana.... it's just after finding out that Lana's music has been an extension to what Taylor and Billie are now putting out, that everybody changed their opinions! that's silly

[@philipksick6810]

This doesn’t make sense. NFR is just a great album and it’s far past her early stuff in every way. More lyrically complex and better produced. It’s blows her older stuff away.

[@JacobW567]

@@philipksick6810 no....sorry! It is just a no... NFR better than Ultraviolence, you got to be high on meth or something...lol

[@thaolee3418]

I LOVE!!! NFR, but o feel like Ocean Boulevard, might be even be an even better album, but I don’t know yet… so let’s wait and see, This Friday ❤

[@Alteredphilosopher]

Lana is the brightest star in the sky ✨🫶🏼

[@EljohnMacaranas]

She is! She’s also the queen of Hollywood ❤️

[@tobitheuni8067]

i would love to see you covering florence + the machine as your next artist

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I def want to do a video on her for sure, a series I’m not sure I can commit to as this project drained me (still loved every step of it) but if I were to do one it’d probably be much longer and try to cover everything (maybe sans song breakdowns except my personal favorites)

[@Skorpio1121]

That would be a good artist to cover! I’m of the opinion that ceremonials was her magnum opus. A perfect album.

[@giovannibufalari9229]

fuck it i love you is my favorite track

[@EljohnMacaranas]

The way she uses the Lucky Ones demo drums and the way she sings over it… god, the Grammys robbed her so bad

[@violetlana]

I can go hours without skipping Venice Bitch, 9 minutes but every second is pure gold. So underrated.

[@brielle0808]

It be nice to have retrospective on an older, iconic artist music artist like Frank Sinatra, Madonna or Cher, but I don’t know how people will receive that. So maybe The Weeknd, his journey to where he, musically, is now is really interesting.

[@jojoaugustus1383]

I've been watching all of your Lana's vidéos. They're great. Good analysis and comments. I don't always agree with what you said, but hey, that's life :) haha. One thing though : sometimes the background music is a bit too loud, it almost covers your voice :(

[@martycorrigan7863]

Happiness is a butterfly is my fave

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Such a beautiful track, the meme with Emma Roberts made me love it even more

[@heythere2285]

nfr really deserved the aoty that year, if only the academy didn't value the art based on its sales

[@EljohnMacaranas]

i also blame the way campaigning goes, i'm sure lana did campaign to the best of her ability but it's very much a game of collecting the votes you need

[@danielnikolic]

This album has some cohesion. The first 7 tracks are optimistic, the singer is confident, "your man" etc. The second part is darker tones: the greatest LOSS of them all, 24/7 Syvia Plath, she wants to disappear (the only thing that doesn't fit is The Next Best American Record; the album should have it as the first or second song.) At the end, everything is lost, but there's still some hope It starts softly, picks up speed, and ends softly (but in a different emotion). Also, each song has the f-word in its lyrics, and obviously the album title has it. There's maybe a song or two too many imho.But, overall, it's an outstanding, almost perfect album... She references Joni Mitchell directly or indirectly in many songs, but I find this more convincing and more listenable than Joni, tbh

[@shemar4523]

i hope we get this series right up to Ocean Blvd

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I def will hit all the albums!

[@sharmiladelrey5259]

Obsessively following this ❤

[@kate1950]

I would love a video covering marina!

[@islabridget4320]

nfr not winning the best album grammy is the biggest slap in the face ever

[@EljohnMacaranas]

They did it again with Ocean Blvd

[@heythere2285]

i live inside this album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Living in LA, I legit will always spin this when I drive around town

[@evil.connor]

beautifully said

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u 🌊

[@omarrivera1667]

omfg so excited for DYKTTATUOB (i’m not typing that whole shit out)

[@EljohnMacaranas]

i hope the tour name is shorter

[@omarrivera1667]

@@EljohnMacaranas praying!

[@Calebasf]

Amazing review

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thanks! 😭❤️

[@honeymoonslife]

It's been roughly 2 years since I started to become a casual listener of Lana and a Stan soon after and when I first heard NFR! fully (only knew Doin Time from that album) and holy fuck my reaction was so speechless I talked to myself how tf was I sleeping on her!?!?! I always loved her and resected her before but I wasn't like a big fan like I was with Avril Lavigne and Taylor swift (Still waiting for Avril Lavigne related videos Chile she deserves her flowers shhhh) But the point is, this record became my all time fav, like No record I've heard so far has taken me in such world like NFR! did It is pretty close tie between it and Blue banisters for me but NFR! just hot that nail hard and threw that hammer out of the window... It's too perfect, I can't describe it rn I'm literally baffling every word I can describe it..... It's too hard for me to choose a specific favourite cause whole album is a fucking masterpiece 😭 like I can't If I think of a song like How to disappear then cinnamon girl Pops up, then the greatest, bartender, mariners apartment complex, Venice bitch AND HOLY FUCK I CANT WHOLE ALBUM IS JUST PURE PERFECTION but yes Billie I respect you but NFR! IS THE ALBUM OF THE CENTURY (come at me with your fav but this album has been touched by goddess herself)

[@martycorrigan7863]

I love these videos!!!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank u 🌊

[@Tr4ns3xual]

“The sort of record your grandma would have dusted off and reminisced about her long lost summer days” 8:15 me only like four years later OMG

[@markingjay7746]

And we all know what (non music thing) came after this 😭😭😭

[@EljohnMacaranas]

oh i plan to talk about it *whispers* a question for the culture…

[@BIGE2333]

You need to do The Weeknd as the next artist series!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Definitely thinking of it as I work on Ari’s series

[@RT-vz5xw]

3rd best album

[@EljohnMacaranas]

I won’t even fight that! It’s tough cracking the top 3 in such a great discography!

[@RT-vz5xw]

@@EljohnMacaranas Exactly! Lana has no worst album but my top 3 definitely are: UV, COCC, NFR

[@con_is_brat]

@@RT-vz5xw omg chemtrails stan we luv

[@ldrfan27577]

You should do a series about Florence And The Machine's albums.

[@EljohnMacaranas]

One day!

[@estebanromero3898]

great video!!!

[@EljohnMacaranas]

Thank you!! 😭❤️