'Lauren (Track 2),' Prince Daddy and the HyenaĪlbany-based party punks Prince Daddy and the Hyena have made their rounds in the East Coast emo scene, playing insane gigs out of their friends' basements and DIY spaces. Dance to this song alone in your room after an evening out, and it might have you feeling regretful come morning. The title track epitomizes the record's mood: how an aching heart feels when the clock creeps closer to midnight, and the leverage it has over our actions.

It's what Mark Ronson and his fleet of co-writers/vocalists turned to for Late Night Feelings. It might seem like the songwriter/producer has little to cry about with his recent accolades for his A Star is Born co-contribution with Lady Gaga, 'Shallow,' but here he brings the melodrama of feeling shamelessly sad over love lost with simplistic, sage pop sentiments and gleaming production. 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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