NewYearsDayProject | a song a day blog

Lana Del Rey's magnum opus, Norman Fucking Rockwell! was released in September of 2018 and earned the singer-songwriters the acclaim she had been laying the foundation for since 2012's Born to Die.   A year after her lackluster album/collection of good songs Lust for Life, she released the first single from NFR, "The Mariner's Apartment Complex" and quickly followed it with another single, the 9:38 song "Venice Bitch." She began building hype for the record, a cohesive record using the Americana formula Del Rey uses best, a year before its release. The singer awkwardly promoted the album in October of 2018, 11 months before its release, at an Apple Keynote event. The singer wasn't allowed to say the name of the her upcoming album or its single, which she played censored, "Venice Bitch," as Jack Antonoff played the piano. YOU DON'T EVER HAVE TO GO FASTER THAN YOUR FASTEST PACE. I remember a coffee table book we had, a warn spiral-bound c

Taylor pulled a Beyoncé  in late July of last year. Pulling a Beyoncé is a record industry term for releasing a studio record without any promotion or explicit social media hints. The term comes from in December of 2013 when Beyoncé released her self-titled album on iTunes without warning. The album quickly shot to number one, and so did Swift's folklore , an album written and recorded at home during quarantine. Swift worked on the project with producers Jack Antonoff and The National 's Aaron Dessner . For me on the first few listens, the album was underwhelming. I knew that there was something there, and I was pretty sure that this album would be a defining record of the new decade, but it was hard to get into the right mood for this album, much like other Jack Antonoff's masterpiece, Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell. However, the catchy ballad "exile" featuring Bon Iver was a good excuse to dive into the record today.   YOU NEVER GAVE A WARNING SI