Since you r almost done with tracks on the album, I highly recommend watching the short films and MVs in this era, it's such an experience, especially Ride and the damn deep monologue 🔥🔥🔥
Lana does talk about her lyrics, poetry, melodies, composition, production, videos, aesthetic being intentional and not just there for no reason, so yall might be onto something with her voice changes representing that. Kendrick Lamar does this too, change his voice and pitch to represent something. She is not someone that explains her intentions or reasoning and i think that is why she is so difficult to understand sometimes, every analyzation of her work is valid because she is so private and mysterious, specially about her personal life unlike someone like Taylor who we know so much about in her own terms. Lana seems so random and out there as a result, like you can find her in most unexpected places doing the most unexpected things, very unpredictable. Very carefree and wild, ready to experiment anything. But that is also part of her allure. Every analyzation of her art is always left with a question mark, we can only guess. Although she has said things that explain her music, like using her lower register in the beginning of her career to be taken more seriously and then saying "fuck it im a soprano so ill use my high register" later on when she got more confident in her position in the arts. This is one of the things she has commented on. Love your reactions btw! hopefully yall react to her MVs and her shot film Tropico released during this era. And eventually read or preferably listen to her poetry book! Good Luck with your podcast ladies🤍🖤💙
I think the best example of what you're saying about her singing in her higher register here 16:30 is Off to the Races. Because in the verses of that song she has a deeper voice when she's talking ABOUT her man, but in the chorus when she's talking directly TO him she sings in that really high pitched babydoll voice. Like she's putting on this show of being demure or submissive for him.
You definitely should check out her unreleased stuff like “Boarding school”, “Queen of disaster”, “Trash Magic”, “Be My Daddy”, “I Caught You Boy”. She has so much good stuff that has lost to time.
I highly recommend the music videos from btd/paradise, they’re definitely her best and the ride mv is ridiculously good! And the tropico short film goes with the paradise ep highly recommend checking that out!
In an interview last year for Interview Magazine Lana talked about Cat Power being an inspiration : "I was a high soprano, which you can kind of tell in the way that I talk, but her low tones, I would practice them the way she sang that song where she’s like, [sings] “Bay-be-doll.” I was like, “Oh my gosh, I could sing like that.” I realized I had a low register too." I'm also pretty sure Lana said somewhere that she used to use her lower register back in the days cause people would take her more seriously. I do think these days she uses her higher register in a more emotional and vulnerable way but that's just my personal opinion.
Yes, she is definitely a soprano on default. I know she was just a teenager, but on the May Jailer Sirens album her tone is soo light and bright. You can still hear it today sometimes even though her voice has matured with age and she has trained her low register so exceptionally. I think it is really cool that her voice is flexible enough for that, not everyone is able to train the opposite end of their natural register. For people who understand vocal technique, it is known that to do this without damaging your chords is quite a feat. Reciprocally, Britney Spears was told to halt her alto, belting ability in favor of the breathy, babyish tone she took on in her pop career. On her first record she is still singing the way she could as a child, with a voice almost too large to be coming from such a small girl! Unfortunately, her record label’s preference really damaged her vocal chords. This is not a knock to Britney, I LOVE her, I am just trying to emphasize how impressive it is that Lana has trained herself out of her natural tone, and can sing much lower now, but has retained her light soprano sound when she wants to use it. It still sounds healthy and bright!
She actually uses her tone to convey a feeling or a mindset a lot her music, like for example in Off To The Races, she uses her low range to make the listener understand that she's thinking all of that, while the high baby voice is the way that she speak with older men who are attracted to more high pitched and feminine voices, contrary to the verses in the song. She uses her tone to describe a feeling, a mood, or a space of mind, like Dealer, Fingertips, Paris Texas, Wildflower Wildfire, etc...
U guys are wearing black, thought we would see you listening to Ultraviolence today 😫 BUT, love this reaction and also love the podcast and the thoughts on TPD tracklist ❤
Love your reactions to Lana 😭😭😭😭 I’m so curious to see what you guys think of Ultraviolence… it’s one of my favs but I’ve realized most swifties don’t like that album so much… idk why 🤷🏻♀️
its a psychedelic alternative rock album, perhaps swifties are not keen on rock? Its also an album with heavy topics like domestic violence, hard drug use, suicide, infidelity and being the other woman, getting with powerful people through sex, using people said people, mental illness.... Taylor doesnt seem to delve into this topics (except for infidelity) so maybe theyre no into that? To be fair these topics are always present in Lanas albums so idk
@@tamironga i love UV btw and love that she delves into more taboo things she has explored in her life, some times she is not so obvious about those things and people often dont realize what shes talking about , shes not a matter-of-fact type of writer, she more abstract and poetic
@@bellami9605yes.. as I am watching swifties react to Ultraviolence, there seems to be.. almost a hesitance or, maybe, even an aversion shared among them about frank discussions of a woman’s sensuality. I may have perceived this wrong, so please correct me if I have. But Lana’s work is a great illustrator that it’s not, by definition, antifeminist to engage actively in your sexual appeal. She was not trying to make a political or sociological statement with her discography, (except some tracks on later albums), but her experience is an earnest one that should be accounted in feminist theory. An intersectional analysis requires it, and I’d argue feminist thought requires intersectionality in order to be productive. On the two past LDR album reaction videos on this channel, I have picked up hints of this kind of attitude, or perspective that sex discussion is not as artful as other topics. I’m using attitude for lack of a better word, but I don’t think it is like.. malicious. Just averted to it, and possibly unconsciously hostile… and maybe unfamiliar with exploring this topic in art. I think this is consistent with a strained feminist ideology that is sometimes embodied in Taylor’s discography; TS’s discography does not (until recently, and only kind of on TTPD) acknowledge that sex appeal and activity is enjoyable, and can be enjoyed by women *even* within the framework of a male gaze *because* the actor/appealer revels in it, by themselves and for themselves. A woman’s feeling sexual can be congruent with a patriarchal understanding of beauty without her, personally, appealing to the patriarchy for the contours of what empowers her. It’s counter cultural and reclaiming, honestly, for a woman to find oneself sensual and revel in it, and empower herself through her knowledge of this. It’s the inverse of the greater patriarchal schema, which rationalizes women’s degradation by virtue of her overt sexual appeal. It’s countercultural for a woman to know and benefit from this, and feminism is countercultural *by definition*. Though the sensuality Lana speaks on in BTD and PE often come in unbalanced relationships, I think some of what was missing in the TIWMUG reaction, for example, was the utter (yet mistakenly dangerous) confidence and unadulterated JOY a young girl feels dancing on the bar tables. Recalling that does not seem like a sad moment for Lana. The lyrics read like a longing acknowledging of being so recklessly confident, but she was not sad about the recklessness itself. She was sad because it had to end. This is such an artful recounting of a teens burgeoning understanding of her seductive power as she grows into a woman. As adults, we do not want our children to grow so fast and recklessly, but for an art perspective, me must recall that teens *really* want to grow up too fast, and are overjoyed when treated like they are older than they are. Contextually, the situation she described in that song IS sad because we know leering old men were undoubtedly part of the equation. But the lyrics to not imply that Lana is sad to have been displaced in adult spaces. We know it is sad that this chaos was what a young Lana identified her best times with, but her retelling is not sad at all about being subject to grown folks’ business earlier than she should have been. All of this considered, it seemed to me that a sadness was projected onto her in the song reaction; my belief is that this projection stems from a “acknowledgement of sensuality is harmful” attitude. But acknowledging sensual power not harmful. The context of that situation made it harmful, but feeling oneself is not in itself harmful, even if the context it happens in makes it *unwise*. I thought this also in the initial reaction of Cola. The opening line didn’t seem well received by these reactors, even though the excellent construction of the song won them in the end. But.. there is nothing wrong with a little cheeky sexy humor from a line like that. Sex is not, in itself, inherently degrading, and it’s not cheap art to talk about it. It’s an essential part of the human experience, and has been core to many of Lana’s formative experiences, both good and bad. It’s not antifeminist to objectify oneself when YOU want to do so. Self sex talk can be an acknowledgment of what makes you feel yourself and why. All of this does make me worry a bit about how Ultraviolence will be received, because it is a lot more frank about abuse, sex, religion, subsumption in relationship. Consumption in a relationship, actually. But it’s quite raw. She wears her heart on her sleeve. Will this be too taboo? I hope not. But it is well constructed, so maybe not. Also, maybe they will feel primed to engage earnestly in sexual notions and discussion without assuming it must be objectifying since Taylor recently touched the topic of masturbation on TTPD. Of course, UV will be a much less marketable exhibition of lots of “taboo”, but I do look forward to seeing how these reactors receive it. I do really enjoy the reviews, despite perceiving (maybe mistakenly on my part) a bit of aversion to certain subject matter. I feel like UV really deepened my understanding of a love that is wanted in the moment at the lover’s expense, a total stripping of ego. It is a powerful work, but it’s her most disturbing and dark. I really look forward to hearing their take on it! I am loving this series.
Can't wait for ULTRAVIOLENCE reaction😭😭💗
Since you r almost done with tracks on the album, I highly recommend watching the short films and MVs in this era, it's such an experience, especially Ride and the damn deep monologue 🔥🔥🔥
Simmm
I'm waiting for the next lana del rey Album reaction😩
Before you move on to the next album, please watch all the MVs from this album. It’s super beautiful and so good!
Lana does talk about her lyrics, poetry, melodies, composition, production, videos, aesthetic being intentional and not just there for no reason, so yall might be onto something with her voice changes representing that. Kendrick Lamar does this too, change his voice and pitch to represent something.
She is not someone that explains her intentions or reasoning and i think that is why she is so difficult to understand sometimes, every analyzation of her work is valid because she is so private and mysterious, specially about her personal life unlike someone like Taylor who we know so much about in her own terms. Lana seems so random and out there as a result, like you can find her in most unexpected places doing the most unexpected things, very unpredictable. Very carefree and wild, ready to experiment anything. But that is also part of her allure. Every analyzation of her art is always left with a question mark, we can only guess.
Although she has said things that explain her music, like using her lower register in the beginning of her career to be taken more seriously and then saying "fuck it im a soprano so ill use my high register" later on when she got more confident in her position in the arts. This is one of the things she has commented on.
Love your reactions btw! hopefully yall react to her MVs and her shot film Tropico released during this era. And eventually read or preferably listen to her poetry book! Good Luck with your podcast ladies🤍🖤💙
I think the best example of what you're saying about her singing in her higher register here 16:30 is Off to the Races. Because in the verses of that song she has a deeper voice when she's talking ABOUT her man, but in the chorus when she's talking directly TO him she sings in that really high pitched babydoll voice. Like she's putting on this show of being demure or submissive for him.
You definitely should check out her unreleased stuff like “Boarding school”, “Queen of disaster”, “Trash Magic”, “Be My Daddy”, “I Caught You Boy”. She has so much good stuff that has lost to time.
I highly recommend the music videos from btd/paradise, they’re definitely her best and the ride mv is ridiculously good! And the tropico short film goes with the paradise ep highly recommend checking that out!
Yeah they introduced the Jaguar F-Type in Paris back in 2013 with that song and she was there too and performed it
In an interview last year for Interview Magazine Lana talked about Cat Power being an inspiration :
"I was a high soprano, which you can kind of tell in the way that I talk, but her low tones, I would practice them the way she sang that song where she’s like, [sings] “Bay-be-doll.” I was like, “Oh my gosh, I could sing like that.” I realized I had a low register too."
I'm also pretty sure Lana said somewhere that she used to use her lower register back in the days cause people would take her more seriously. I do think these days she uses her higher register in a more emotional and vulnerable way but that's just my personal opinion.
Yes, she is definitely a soprano on default. I know she was just a teenager, but on the May Jailer Sirens album her tone is soo light and bright. You can still hear it today sometimes even though her voice has matured with age and she has trained her low register so exceptionally. I think it is really cool that her voice is flexible enough for that, not everyone is able to train the opposite end of their natural register. For people who understand vocal technique, it is known that to do this without damaging your chords is quite a feat. Reciprocally, Britney Spears was told to halt her alto, belting ability in favor of the breathy, babyish tone she took on in her pop career. On her first record she is still singing the way she could as a child, with a voice almost too large to be coming from such a small girl! Unfortunately, her record label’s preference really damaged her vocal chords. This is not a knock to Britney, I LOVE her, I am just trying to emphasize how impressive it is that Lana has trained herself out of her natural tone, and can sing much lower now, but has retained her light soprano sound when she wants to use it. It still sounds healthy and bright!
She actually uses her tone to convey a feeling or a mindset a lot her music, like for example in Off To The Races, she uses her low range to make the listener understand that she's thinking all of that, while the high baby voice is the way that she speak with older men who are attracted to more high pitched and feminine voices, contrary to the verses in the song. She uses her tone to describe a feeling, a mood, or a space of mind, like Dealer, Fingertips, Paris Texas, Wildflower Wildfire, etc...
Strongly recommend watching Tropico and the Ride & National Anthem MVs at least before moving on to Ultraviolence. Loving the reactions! 🥰
Highly recommend you watch the tropico short film!
U guys are wearing black, thought we would see you listening to Ultraviolence today 😫 BUT, love this reaction and also love the podcast and the thoughts on TPD tracklist ❤
Same😢
You guys have got to see the music videos from this era. Really stunning cinematography.
You have to react to Young and Beautiful please 🥺
It is still in the Paradise era and clearly her most beautiful song ever ❤
ultraviolence takes such a turnnnn!! excited for the reaction!!
Ultraviolence is quite dark but it is tied for my favorite album of hers.
When you get to Ultraviolence pls do the deluxe version ♥️♥️♥️
the national anthem short film is soooo incredible!! you have to watch it before moving on! asap rocky is on it
Love this reaction. Love this song. Love you ladies ❤
No puedo esperar por Ultraviolence y Honeymoon ❤️
Ultraviolence has a total of 16 songs
Please more lana
trust me when i say that yall are NOT ready for the album that is ultraviolence
DO THE MUSIC VIDEOS from btd and paradise before u get on to uv PLEASEE theyre so deep and good
Love your reactions to Lana 😭😭😭😭 I’m so curious to see what you guys think of Ultraviolence… it’s one of my favs but I’ve realized most swifties don’t like that album so much… idk why 🤷🏻♀️
its a psychedelic alternative rock album, perhaps swifties are not keen on rock? Its also an album with heavy topics like domestic violence, hard drug use, suicide, infidelity and being the other woman, getting with powerful people through sex, using people said people, mental illness....
Taylor doesnt seem to delve into this topics (except for infidelity) so maybe theyre no into that?
To be fair these topics are always present in Lanas albums so idk
@@bellami9605 idk but what you said makes sense
@@tamironga i love UV btw and love that she delves into more taboo things she has explored in her life, some times she is not so obvious about those things and people often dont realize what shes talking about , shes not a matter-of-fact type of writer, she more abstract and poetic
@@bellami9605 💯 agreed
@@bellami9605yes.. as I am watching swifties react to Ultraviolence, there seems to be.. almost a hesitance or, maybe, even an aversion shared among them about frank discussions of a woman’s sensuality. I may have perceived this wrong, so please correct me if I have. But Lana’s work is a great illustrator that it’s not, by definition, antifeminist to engage actively in your sexual appeal. She was not trying to make a political or sociological statement with her discography, (except some tracks on later albums), but her experience is an earnest one that should be accounted in feminist theory. An intersectional analysis requires it, and I’d argue feminist thought requires intersectionality in order to be productive.
On the two past LDR album reaction videos on this channel, I have picked up hints of this kind of attitude, or perspective that sex discussion is not as artful as other topics. I’m using attitude for lack of a better word, but I don’t think it is like.. malicious. Just averted to it, and possibly unconsciously hostile… and maybe unfamiliar with exploring this topic in art. I think this is consistent with a strained feminist ideology that is sometimes embodied in Taylor’s discography; TS’s discography does not (until recently, and only kind of on TTPD) acknowledge that sex appeal and activity is enjoyable, and can be enjoyed by women *even* within the framework of a male gaze *because* the actor/appealer revels in it, by themselves and for themselves. A woman’s feeling sexual can be congruent with a patriarchal understanding of beauty without her, personally, appealing to the patriarchy for the contours of what empowers her. It’s counter cultural and reclaiming, honestly, for a woman to find oneself sensual and revel in it, and empower herself through her knowledge of this. It’s the inverse of the greater patriarchal schema, which rationalizes women’s degradation by virtue of her overt sexual appeal. It’s countercultural for a woman to know and benefit from this, and feminism is countercultural *by definition*.
Though the sensuality Lana speaks on in BTD and PE often come in unbalanced relationships, I think some of what was missing in the TIWMUG reaction, for example, was the utter (yet mistakenly dangerous) confidence and unadulterated JOY a young girl feels dancing on the bar tables. Recalling that does not seem like a sad moment for Lana. The lyrics read like a longing acknowledging of being so recklessly confident, but she was not sad about the recklessness itself. She was sad because it had to end. This is such an artful recounting of a teens burgeoning understanding of her seductive power as she grows into a woman. As adults, we do not want our children to grow so fast and recklessly, but for an art perspective, me must recall that teens *really* want to grow up too fast, and are overjoyed when treated like they are older than they are. Contextually, the situation she described in that song IS sad because we know leering old men were undoubtedly part of the equation. But the lyrics to not imply that Lana is sad to have been displaced in adult spaces. We know it is sad that this chaos was what a young Lana identified her best times with, but her retelling is not sad at all about being subject to grown folks’ business earlier than she should have been. All of this considered, it seemed to me that a sadness was projected onto her in the song reaction; my belief is that this projection stems from a “acknowledgement of sensuality is harmful” attitude.
But acknowledging sensual power not harmful. The context of that situation made it harmful, but feeling oneself is not in itself harmful, even if the context it happens in makes it *unwise*.
I thought this also in the initial reaction of Cola. The opening line didn’t seem well received by these reactors, even though the excellent construction of the song won them in the end. But.. there is nothing wrong with a little cheeky sexy humor from a line like that. Sex is not, in itself, inherently degrading, and it’s not cheap art to talk about it. It’s an essential part of the human experience, and has been core to many of Lana’s formative experiences, both good and bad. It’s not antifeminist to objectify oneself when YOU want to do so. Self sex talk can be an acknowledgment of what makes you feel yourself and why.
All of this does make me worry a bit about how Ultraviolence will be received, because it is a lot more frank about abuse, sex, religion, subsumption in relationship. Consumption in a relationship, actually. But it’s quite raw. She wears her heart on her sleeve. Will this be too taboo? I hope not. But it is well constructed, so maybe not. Also, maybe they will feel primed to engage earnestly in sexual notions and discussion without assuming it must be objectifying since Taylor recently touched the topic of masturbation on TTPD. Of course, UV will be a much less marketable exhibition of lots of “taboo”, but I do look forward to seeing how these reactors receive it. I do really enjoy the reviews, despite perceiving (maybe mistakenly on my part) a bit of aversion to certain subject matter. I feel like UV really deepened my understanding of a love that is wanted in the moment at the lover’s expense, a total stripping of ego. It is a powerful work, but it’s her most disturbing and dark. I really look forward to hearing their take on it! I am loving this series.
I love watching you girls 🥰
Honeymoon is coming 😍
def listen to young n beautiful from the Gatsby movie before moving on to the next era!!
Oh what a missed opportunity to watch the music video
5:10 o meme da Nazaré kkkkkkk
sim kkkkkk
oh my god you HAVE to react to ride music video and tropic short film and like her music videos in general like please please please doooooo
Thank you 🙏🏽
5:26 "Spineless in my tomb of silence~"
This was fun to watch! I would love it if you reacted to some of Lorde's works as well !!
whens ur ultraviolence reaction cominggg
i read somewhere that she sang in deeper voice also during live shows because she wanted to be taken more seriously
Young and beautiful ❤❤
Eternal Sunshine reaction
next vid for ultraviolence please🥲
Listen to ride monologue
pliss react to more lana i can`t wait
Mvs next
please react to eternal sunshine album of ariana grande✨