Lana is has her moments, but more often than not I find her songwriting to be grossly formulaic. It's her voice/intonation that pushes some of her work to that next level for me.
I'd say this is fairly accurate description of most of Lana's work:
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Originally posted by PoisonPill
clumsy sexual innuendo + reference to hipster-approved brand of booze + thinly veiled drug reference + reference to vintage car + reference to old Hollywood + reference to something classic and glamorous
Taylor's work on Red is impressive ( though I'm not a fan of her songwriting pre-Red), so her I guess.
The only songs these girls can attack are WANEGBT and Mean.
Lemme see if they can compare The Lord's other hyms.
Right and it's not like either of the songs are devoid of wit like say, National Anthem. The second verse of WANEGBT is amazing and Mean is all around perfect so I don't know why they're trying that.
If they wanna drag a Taylor song, they could at least come for Today Was a Fairytale or A Perfectly Good Heart. But somehow even those are better written than 75% of Lana's discography.
well if Lana had those accolades you would be using those in your arguments aswell, but she doesnt.
Aehm, Lana has an Ivor Novello Award for songwriting, it's quite something for someone who is 1 year in public and it's quite something who know about music.
Lana is the best song songwriter of our generation.
Taylor is good too but she doesnt compare to Lana
and why are people here acting as if Cola and National Anthem are the only songs Lana wrote?
Video Games, Dark Paradise, Born to Die, Carmen, Bel Air, Off to the Races, Radio, and Blue Jeans are all better than any Taylor song