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Well everyone… the time has come. Welcome to the LDR9 Pre-Pre-Release Thread - Annual Discussion & Meltdown! Lana Del Rey has revealed to W Magazine that a new, still untitled album is in the works. "I’ve been practicing meditative automatic singing, where I don’t filter anything. I’ll just sing whatever comes to mind into my Voice Notes app. It’s not perfect, obviously. There are pauses, and I stumble. But I’ve been sending those really raw-sounding files to a composer, Drew Erickson, and he’ll add an orchestra beneath the words, matching each syllable with music and adding reverb to my voice. For this new music, it’s more just like: I’m angry. The songs are very conversational. For the first song, I pressed record and sang, “When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags, I think I wish I could extrapolate some small intention or maybe get your attention for a minute or two.” It’s a very wordy album." What we know so far: - Lana is working on an untitled album with a completed opening track, confirmed in her interview with W Magazine in May 2022 - Lana is collaborating with composer Drew Erickson, confirmed in her interview with W Magazine in May 2022 - Jack Antonoff has at least one song on the record completed in April 2022, confirmed in his interview with The New Yorker in May 2022 Speculations - Her father may be involved with the record as he shared photos in Jack Antonoff's studio in March 2022 - The record may be a digital-only release, per her statement during an Instagram Livestream in October 2021 - Lana wore a custom-made jacket by the director of LDR Village with a patch that said "DNC" that may pertain to the record in December 2021

Lana Del Rey graces the cover of W Magazine’s May 2022 Vol. 3 The Music Issue. The issue will hit newsstands on May 24th. The covers and spread images were photographed by Jamie Hawkesworth. Lana Del Rey Unfiltered With new music on the way, the singer-songwriter sits down with Gucci’s Alessandro Michele to discuss her unique creative process. Sands Point, the tip of a peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island, was the inspiration for East Egg, the fictional Gold Coast setting of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Once a rural retreat for robber barons, it’s now a nature preserve that abuts a New York City suburb. But a few Gilded Age mansions still remain along the shore, among them Castle Gould, an imposing stone pile modeled after an Irish manor. These days, from the beach, instead of a mysterious green light, one sees the high-rise buildings of downtown New Rochelle. Where champagne-fueled lawn parties might once have taken place, there’s now a dog run with a chain-link fence. A castle in the suburbs feels like a very Lana Del Rey sort of place. Throughout her career, the 36-year-old musician, born Elizabeth Grant, has turned a hazy but unflinching lens on the concept of Americana, peeling back the sunny veneer of the American dream to reveal what’s really there. On her album covers, she’s a flower child in front of a beat-up pickup truck or a passenger on a sailing yacht, reaching out for help with acid yellow nails as the shoreline burns behind her. Even the titles of her records—Chemtrails Over the Country Club; Norman Fucking Rockwell!—hint at elements of the mundane or even sinister beneath a glamorous ideal. It’s clear that the world Del Rey builds in her music is the one she inhabits. From the minute she steps out of a wardrobe trailer looking like a modern-day Jackie Kennedy in a black Gucci dress, holding a cup of Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, she imbues her surroundings with a certain charge. And she seems to literally radiate warmth: On an unseasonably cold, damp afternoon, as production and hair and makeup teams shiver in fleeces and anoraks, she wades into Long Island Sound in a sheer Valentino gown and emerges from the gray-brown water laughing. As she prepares to release new music—a still untitled album is in the works—we invited the musician to have a conversation with Alessandro Michele, the creative director of Gucci, who, like Del Rey, has an alchemical relationship with nostalgia. Friends and collaborators for years, they both have a talent for twisting and prodding at tropes and historical references, using them as grist for work that feels entirely fresh. Here, they discuss the creative process, finding inspiration in the natural world, and working from the heart. —Andrea Whittle Alessandro Michele: We met when we first did the Met Gala together in 2018, I think? I’m not good with dates. Lana Del Rey: That’s why we’re creatives. I remember talking on the phone years ago. I couldn’t believe it when you told me you had been listening to my record while working on a new collection. I think that you are going to remain forever in everybody’s mind with that Met Gala outfit—you looked like a goddess, like a saint. When you’re a creative person, it’s beautiful to be in touch with people like you, who are so delicate and sensitive. I’m still listening to your music, and I’m dreaming with your words. I think delicacy comes out of being in a world where people can be very rough. When someone is quick-minded and smart, it’s rare that they’re also really kind. Working with you, I could finally take a breath and let fashion be fun again, and try on different silk robes and remind myself why I loved it in the beginning. Because when I was younger, I always thought stepping into fashion would be like slipping on a gauze gown. With you, that’s literally what it was like. When we worked on my dress for the Grammys, it was a bold entrance into a bigger world, and I thought, Can I do it? Am I allowed to present myself in a beautiful way? And what I learned through you is that sometimes, stepping into beauty doesn’t provoke criticism; it invites more of an understanding, where your inside does shine out through your outside. Do you remember the shoot we did for the Gucci Guilty campaign, when Los Angeles was on fire? Ashes were coming into my car vent on the 405 highway because Bel Air was burning. We were in the Valley shooting a scene, and everyone was in gas masks, and the sky was orange, which somehow seemed perfect. It was so surreal, as L.A. is surreal. From that point on, I added fire to the hillsides in my music videos. I like the way you use elements of nature—not just fire, but water and weather—in your music and your videos. My dad is a deep-sea shark fisherman—he has been for 15 years—and he lived on a boat in Providence, Rhode Island, from the age of 15 to 18. He was also a storm chaser. In California, earth, wind, and fire are huge. All the elements are taken into consideration with my art, all the time. Which is funny, because people often ask why I sing about California. But I usually sing about wherever I am, and it just so happens that California is such a storm center right now. I mean, I’m from Lake Placid, the coldest spot in the nation. For me, the California landscape never gets old. In 2020, you released a book of poetry, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. When you’re writing poems, is your creative process different from when you’re writing music? There’s a big difference. First of all, to write poetry, I have to be in a really good mood and have nothing distracting or wrong going on. I almost have to be in a state of non-thought, and it can’t be forced. When a couple of lines come into my head, it’s like they’re completely channeled—I hate when people use that word, but I’ll use it. If I’m driving, I have to pull over and think, Well, where did that come from? I remember one time I had been sitting waiting for some food, and I started thinking: Violet bent backwards over the grass Seven years old with dandelions grasped tightly in her hand Arched like a bridge in a fallen handstand Grinning wildly like a madman With the exuberance that only doing nothing can bring... And I thought, Am I Violet? That is a family name. Is that a little bit of karmic lineage coming in? I definitely think that writing my poetry was the beginning of a more psychic, energetic opening to my family of origin. It’s also a little more nerve-racking, because the last thing you want to end up doing is sounding like Dr. Seuss. And no one can help you with it. The only person who every now and then sparks me to write is my friend Annie, because she’s so damn funny she makes me forget myself. And it’s through that act of self-forgetting that my channel is open again. All of a sudden, the first few lines of a poem will come, and I’m reminded, Oh yeah, you work well when you’re having a good time. You can’t push it. It’s a reminder to stay serene and balanced, which is really my priority: that psychological, spiritual preservation. Are there any poets who have been important to you? When I found out that Allen Ginsberg wrote Howl in a few days, and then I saw Lawrence Ferlinghetti reciting Loud Prayer, I realized that I didn’t have to go slowly to have something be good. I could work fast if I wanted to. I also relate to some of the sentiments from Walt Whitman’s work, and Sylvia Plath’s—she wrote with blatant honesty about the experience of being a woman, and the history of hysteria. In the past, you’ve used colors and certain words to describe your records. Are there words or colors you’re using to describe your new music? I’ve been practicing meditative automatic singing, where I don’t filter anything. I’ll just sing whatever comes to mind into my Voice Notes app. It’s not perfect, obviously. There are pauses, and I stumble. But I’ve been sending those really raw-sounding files to a composer, Drew Erickson, and he’ll add an orchestra beneath the words, matching each syllable with music and adding reverb to my voice. When I’m automatic singing, I don’t have the time and leisure to think about things in terms of colors. It’s very cerebral. In Honeymoon, there were so many color references: “Sometimes I wake up in the morning to red, blue, and yellow skies. It’s so crazy I could drink it like tequila sunrise.” For this new music, there’s none of that at all. It’s more just like: I’m angry. The songs are very conversational. For the first song, I pressed record and sang, “When I look back, tracing fingertips over plastic bags, I think I wish I could extrapolate some small intention or maybe get your attention for a minute or two.” It’s a very wordy album. So there’s no room for color. It’s almost like I’m typing in my mind. I remember during the Gucci Guilty shoot when you started to sing. Your voice is so evocative. I would say when I listen to your music, I don’t know why, but I get the color white. It’s like there is no color for me; it’s just light. I’ve been told that I am a very black and white thinker, and I’m actually working on that, because I think it’s born out of being in survival mode. With Drew, as I send him my songs, I can see that my thought process is either very joyful or very “Look, this is how it is.” Do you remember your dreams? Do you ever use them in your work? I’ve only recently started having dreams that are not stressful. My dream life is this intense other life. I think that’s why I’m tired during a lot of the daytime, because my dreams are so intricate. They’re obstacle courses, and I never use them in my work. In my work, if anything, I might even be trying to calm myself down from the way my mind is churning 24 hours a day, by just talking it all through. Do your dreams dictate your creations? Not really, but I think that using creativity in a very dreamy way is something we have in common. I dream a lot every night. Sometimes I try to write what I dream in a book, and I love when I feel myself wild and free, because the unconscious part of us is beautiful. I think that when you use creativity, you are in touch with your unconscious parts. I’m a big studier of Carl Jung, who says that the only opportunity that the unconscious has to speak to you is through your dreams, or through automatic writing, which is similar to what I do when I’m singing into my phone in the mornings. He even suggests you write with your left hand if you’re right-handed, so you can see what comes up first. Because you have to write so slowly, you might end up writing, “Help!” Whereas with your right hand you might say, “Today went well. I took out the garbage, I did the laundry, I did phone calls,” and then suddenly you say, “And I really miss him. I really, really miss him.” And then you think, Oh, I just got to the heart of it. In the beginning of your career, you would write lyrics on the subway late at night. Where do you write your songs now? Well, I probably have the lowest sleep drive of anyone I’ve ever met. I have zero desire to sleep. When I lived in the Bronx, we were about maybe a half mile from a D train stop. It was always running, and you could take it to Coney Island and back. I come from a town of 700 people, and I couldn’t believe that I had the opportunity, when I wasn’t tired, to take a long walk, get a decaf coffee and a banana, whatever I could afford on a college budget, and take that D train. Now there are so many fewer words that come to me when I’m alone. I seem to need to be sitting with someone. It’s a little frustrating, because for so many years I was rich with ideas. Now I need someone to force me into the studio. Ideas don’t even come to me in the car anymore, my favorite place. One thing we share is a love for Old Hollywood. What is it about that era that inspires you? Everything. When I was younger, my grandparents would let me watch their old movies, and I related to the subtle nuances of the female characters. Not much needed to be said; a lot was inferred between the lines. When things got bigger for me and my career, I always assumed that just by me speaking and being myself, people would know who I was inherently. I learned that was not true. You had to really spell things out, and that was very hard for me. When are you happiest? When I trust my gut and follow through. I’m happiest when I see my brother and sister thriving. One of my goals is to make sure that my siblings and I are always safe. I’m happiest around my three girlfriends, Candy, Jen, and Annie, because they make me feel understood. I’m happiest when I’m lying down in the park, and I look up and I think to myself, Isn’t it beautiful that just lying on the grass and feeling the support of the earth underneath me is enough for today? I spent so much time trying to ask myself, “Why me?” and “Why this?” It’s so nice to be over that. I also love to dance. Joan Baez has a dancing party every Saturday night on Zoom, which I’m so grateful to be invited to—there’s something beautiful about dancing with very down-to-earth people. Which song makes you cry? “Swan Song.” It’s on my album Honeymoon. It’s the antithesis of hopefulness. It’s about trying to find beauty in giving up. If I had my way, I would continue to persist in all areas of my life, but it can be quite challenging because I can be too trusting too soon. The burn that can come from that really can incinerate your whole thinking life and your daily processes. At the end of every album, I say goodbye and thank you—very Old Hollywood style—and yet I cannot help but just continue to write. Gallery:

BITCHHH.. at the UV church too oh my god

UV/HM STANS JUST GET TO RECEIVE

GALORE 2014 YEPPP

I don't really know where to post this, so it's here, but mods if you can find the right place, help a twink out? This article just came out, before the new Black Keys album releases tomorrow and Dan talks about working on UV and being open to working with Lana again in the future. Here's what was said and I'll link the article here as well:

Earlier today, Lana Del Rey had her portrait sketched in Central Park, New York City. Yesterday, rumour broke loose that Lana was in New York for a photoshoot to cover W Magazine.

When I look back Tracing fingertips over plastic bags I think I wish I could extrapolate some small intention Or maybe get your attention For a minute or two Lyrics confirmed to be from the first song of LDR9 in W Magazine

This is tooo good she seems in such a good place recently. And the fact the shoot is at the National Anthem music video location… she’s been so immersed in her past lately. Returning to NY, shooting at national anthem location, singing God Knows I Tried at the Ultraviolence church, multiple mentions of honeymoon, singing young & beautiful and dancing to summertime sadness. Reuniting with Anna and Pam. She says she can only write when she’s happy so I’m sure she’s blackening those pages rn! Can’t wait to pick this up, such a great cover and shoot

Same vibes

Some pics x also adjusted the thread’s title to give more info x

'Lana Del Rey and Chuck Grant are the Chillest Sisters at the Gucci Cruise Show' On the outskirts of a star-studded castle in Puglia, our editor-in-chief Mel Ottenberg caught up with Lana Del Rey and her sister Chuck Grant to discuss cleavage, cauldrons, and the wickedly eclectic looks at Gucci Cosmogonie 2023 cruise show. Mel Ottenberg: Ok, I’m with my two favorite sisters at the Gucci show. Chuck Grant: I’m with my favorite daddy. Ottenberg: [Laughs] What are your names? Lana Del Rey: Chuck and Lana. Ottenberg: We’re at the castle right now. What did you guys think about the Gucci show? Lana Del Rey: Everything. Ottenberg: It was everything. Lana Del Rey: You don’t know what to expect, and then you get it all. ‘20s, ‘40s, contemporary. Ottenberg: ‘80s—lots of ‘80s. Lana does not want to talk about the ‘80s right now— Lana Del Rey: I know. Ottenberg: —But I do. I wanna talk about it, Lana. Lana Del Rey: It reminds me of when Johnny wanted to talk about the ‘70s, and I said, “Okay, okay, okay. Hold on. We’re doing ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s.” And then all of a sudden, we moved to Laurel Canyon and it was straight ‘70s for years. ‘80s are amazing. What would you call Chuck’s look? Ottenberg: I think this is giving ‘20s. Lana Del Rey: Right, with the velvet ruffle. Ottenberg: And then the shoe is ‘40s. You’re right. But your outfit—well, this isn’t part of the show—but the dress is ‘20s, the shoes are ‘40s… Lana Del Rey: Right, so ‘20s and now. I feel so much gratitude to be able to enjoy fashion again. This show reminded me of the early days when YSL was starting, when Ferragamo began, when Gucci began, it was a lifestyle. It seemed like for a few years, we couldn’t even enjoy the lifestyle. But now—I mean, there are so many amazing people in attendance tonight, and I feel like fashion can actually be cheerful again. That was always my thing—can we bring the joy back into it? This show wasn’t just about joy. It was something we’ve never seen before. Ottenberg: It was sensual, it was beautiful. It was a real effort—we’re in a medieval castle in the middle of nowhere. Lana Del Rey: I think it’s the effort that I appreciated. It kind of makes you actually evaluate where you’re putting effort into your life. Chuck Grant: I was thinking that too. They fully carried us through this entire experience. Lana Del Rey: The tech crew, every gaffer was like, holding each other afterwards. Chuck Grant: And the cauldron! We thought it was real. Ottenberg: Yeah the cauldron was amazing. Chuck Grant: It’s fake! Ottenberg: Oh, it’s fake, it’s hot. Also, you guys look amazing. Lana I’ve styled before, but off-duty, you guys are two of the chillest California girls I know, and you’re really turned out for this thing, huh. Chuck Grant & Lana Del Rey: Yeah. Ottenberg: Okay, any favorites—a favorite accessory? We love the pearls. The long pearls, the choker pearls. Lana Del Rey: I liked the double pearls. Chuck Grant: The fishnets. Ottenberg: I liked the strawberry. Lana Del Rey: I think fishtails—we’ve been talking about fishtails— Ottenberg: Yeah I’m done with a train, I’m down with a fishtail. Lana Del Rey: I appreciated the sheer trains, because you can’t have a show without it. Ottenberg: That train was cool. It was like a naked, invisible dress. Lana Del Rey: I’m trading trains for beading with nudity. Ottenberg: You’re also into boobs tonight. You told me last night that we were getting cleavage, and I’m really into it. I think the cleave is back. Chuck Grant: Hell yeah. Lana Del Rey: I mean, you have to work with what you have.

THE GLAMOUR??? THE BOOBS??? THE INFORMATION???? THE HAPPINESS??? GUYSSSSSSS IMMMMMMM???? ALSO FINE CHINA VIBES SORRRYYYYY

Well I now know why her hair and makeup are serving past-era vibes… they were done by her OG hair and makeup artists Pammy Cochran & Anna Cofone! She switched hair artists in 2018 to Sheridan Ward and her makeup artist to Etienne Ortega in 2020. The classics are back! x

Yesterday, Lana Del Rey was seen arriving to Churchome in Beverly Hills, California. Churchome is a church frequented by celebrities that Lana has been attending since 2019. More photos:

Album coming 2037

I can see the next Jack debate coming already

her trip to Italy is like a gift that keeps on giving

her voice has become too powerful i'm ready for lofty cathedral vocals on ldr9 manifesting hymn-like tracks abt getting fucked on the countertop

Holy shit she's in New York

people get so worked up over sky and she isn’t even doing anything………….!

You can say a lot of shit about Jack Antonoff, but he does have his finger on the pulse of his best music with Lana. He said The Greatest is the best song on NFR and White Dress is one of their best songs, and he was..not wrong. I trust him about this new track being on the same level.

HI YALL

Tonight, Lana Del Rey met fans while dining at Da I Gemelli in Portofino, Italy. She posted to her Instagram a video of her dancing with a fan while there.

Sooo beautiful! God Knows I Tried is my favourite song from Honeymoon, and she apparently told a fan she recently followed the other day that it’s one of her current favourites from the record as well along with the title track & TBD. I really hope the footage that Chuck appears to be filming is shared one day x (I also adjusted the title of this thread to be more complete)

I get the feeling she's been very inspired by Honeymoon lately. The last post on her main was from the HBTB music video, she returned on her Honeymoon account, she sang God Knows I've Tried in Italy (she did also sing BTD songs, but only with fans, this was the one time we know of where she chose one song to sing of her own accord), and she mentioned Honeymoon several times in the W Mag interview. Not sure what this means/how it relates to her new sound or lyrics, but those are my thoughts.

Earlier tonight, Lana Del Rey attended i-D's Heaven by Marc Jacobs event held at the Good Room in Brooklyn, New York. The event featured performances by Bladee and Ecco2K and special DJ sets.

Streets are saying they had the album ready for a surprise drop tonight but Sky didn't feel it was right for her international fans who've waited all this time to not hear it in their mother tongue so she's going to re record it in all 7,100 languages (even the dead ones) to give it international justice. She just needs to learn them first…

A new vinyl is set to drop tomorrow! It was briefly uploaded to her Australian store but has since been removed. Here's the mockup that was listed before it was taken down -

Yesterday, Lana Del Rey, her sister Chuck Grant, and Chuck's boyfriend Jason Pickens went out for shopping and dinner in Portofino, Italy. More photos:

A wordy and angry album with the aesthetic of the W magazine shoot would be right up my alley tbh

Even if it's still untitled she's refering to it as an album already instead of talking about "a collection of songs she has so far" so it's probably coming this year right? Maybe not in the summer but I can see it coming in the fall

not us making ldr 9 predictions with random nature shots by Lana’s father

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdChmoJDcI-/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

lana’s met gala looked just dropped. LDR9 dropping May 2

from reading the mag, i fear this could be the longest pre-release thread in lanaboards existence but i hope i'm proven wrong anyways, happy pre-release era, besties!

of course she just HAD to mention her karmic lineage 😭

Hmmm interesting she mentioned honeymoon quite a few times But seriously, everything about this shoot is so beautiful !!

if you save this you owe me a birthday present

ANTIDOTE photoshoot is one of her best OMFG

When they fell in love and Elon buy Capitol Records for Sky and she will be getting her revenge on the executives (And releasing Masochism with a big budget movie)

When we discover the lyric „Once a bad girl, always“ on LDR 28

omg did I miss something LDR9-related *clicks link*

Last night, Lana Del Rey attended LA Family Housing's 2022 Awards event held at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, California. LA Family Housing is a non-profit charity that assists those facing homelessness and poverty. While attending the event, Lana posed with singer Ellie Goulding and danced along to her live performance of 'Love Me Like You Do.'