It may sound like an oxymoron, but there's no better term for a track that sounds like a bop and has heartbreaking lyrics that are what "crying in the club" is all about. Lykke Li)Ī handful of pop artists in recent years have turned a blind eye to bubblegum music and shifted their focus to sad bangers. ![]() "Late Night Feelings," Mark Ronson (feat. Where her past releases might have sounded like perfect tributes to the icons whose feet she falls to, she became her own icon on Norman Fucking Rockwell! It's a vision we can all turn to in one way or another, her call to not let the fire overcome us and the culture. As the song starts to end, the piano fades to none as if it's a to-be-continued: She's not ready to give up on her dream yet, and she's inviting us to join her exhibition to make tomorrow great. In part, it's what she comes to realize on "The Greatest," singing, tongue-in-cheek, "The culture is lit, and if this is it, I've had a ball." The entire song likes a blissful homage to her dreams for a nonsensical, whimsical world of yesteryear brought to today - her words poignant, nostalgic and like she's throwing her arms up in the air, laughing without a care as a '70s Laurel Canyon-like guitar plays. The American Dream and the Hollywood fantasies that singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey writes about and pine for are starting to go up in ash, and even she is struggling to put out the flames. ![]() ![]() LA is literally on fire, and the rest of the world may as well be, too.
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