The Siren

Happy 7 YEARS ULTRAVIOLENCE 
 
I may or may not periodically spam this thread because this era will never be dead to me
 

Well, release day for UV was yesterday in Germany and the box was sold out @my fav Saturn store - Lana got her own shelf again like 'BTD' had once - CRAZY!!! Had to go to Media Markt and there were only 2 available. Got one of those!
 
'Cruel World' is my absolute fav. It's Lana's coolest song besides 'Lucky Ones' & 'Live Or Die'.
 
This album is really amazing especially the guitars and drums are stunningly beautiful. Unfortunately, there aren't any lyrics, just smaller extracts. Sometimes it's hard to understand what Lana sings due to high notes.

Yaasss, dem bird sounds

Yep the catchy chorus is such an earworm. Old Money is just great <3

One of the most magical moment on the record is in Is This Happiness in the second verse, were she goes from high to low while she sing "you're fucking crazy as the day is long"...

wrote a blog about my first listen
 
http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/blog/120/entry-502-crazy-first-listen-emotions/
 
my favorite tracks (except for the known songs) so far are Sad Girl, Pretty When You Cry, OLD MONEY and Florida Kilos I guess...

Those "I'll run to you, I'll run run run" on Old Money are so haunting 

just listened to the album straight through again, this time including flipside and ITH.
 
it made me break down in tears. this album is so beautiful and personal. i can hardly relate to any of the lyrics, but the way that lana sings about her own life is so tragic, especially on ITH and flipside. oh my.

For some reason Flipside and Is This Happiness sound like the most personal songs to me. Funyn that they are the ones she only releases as exclusive tracks ...

I actually really love Guns and Roses too. the chorus is a bit weak but the first verse is amazing.
 
Flipside and Is This Happiness are really good as well, annoyed I won't have a physical copy of them though 

It's on the Japanese iTunes release

Is This Happiness and Flipside should've been on the delux instead of FK and GAR...

*17 (Radio Mix of West Coast )

Flipside is a great song. the guitars remind me of "The Yeah Yeah Yeahs" album "Fever To Tell"
Listening to the "ful UV" with 16 tracks feels more complete than listening to the 11, 14 or 15 track versions. Now it feels complete, like a completely told story, as it was with 15track Born To Die and 9track Paradise.

I cant get Old Money out of my head, I wake up singing it.

"Not a good look"
I hope flipside is FK pt2 or a rework of Go Go Dancer or something, just to see everyone upset at fun and the "endorsement of drugs and hedonism" (I don't remember what thread someone said that about FK in but, jesus loosen up) 

the florida kilos hate is nagl, you guys. someone deleted it?? do you not like fun?

I feel like a lot of you need to sit down and evaluate what's wrong with you that you don't like Guns and Roses. Especially the Lanalysists among you.

the ONLY things I don't like about UV are:
 
-Sad Girl was a bit of a let down. the verses are so sexy and sensual, but the chorus is weak. Lana fell into the trap of 'I'm a sad girl', which I was worried she would do, given the title of the song.
 
-Guns and Roses' chorus is lyrically weak. The verses are cool, but the chorus is so repetitive and boring. I would've preferred a remastered AFFA, similar to BB, in its place.
 
-The lack of the 'Let the light in/It's a cruel cruel world line' from Cruel World. It's only a minor issue, I can manage without it, it's just that I don't understand why Lana sang the lines if they weren't intended for the track.
 
apart from that, i'm in love, i'm in love, i'm in love...

did you just censor the word 'butt'?

Australia. The Linkin Park album is up but Ultraviolence is still listed as a pre order.
Oh wait! NOW its up, YESSSS! UV in hq here i come!

I'm not a professional reviewer by any means, but if anybody's interested, here's my look on the album: http://bloggingnickster.blogspot.com/2014/06/ultraviolence-lana-del-rey.html
 
(If you don't want to read track-by-track analysis, scroll on down and there's an "overall" outlook on the album.)

That was a cringe-worthy personal attack disguised as an album review. They didn't even bother discussing the songs.

still laughing about this part of the guardian's review:
 
"It takes 50 seconds of Ultraviolence for the first bad-boy boyfriend to turn up – "you got your gun and you like to party" – and 80 before our old friend the red dress hoves into view."
 
our old friend the red dress

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/lana-del-rey-new-album-bad-article-1.1826941
 
How the fk can this be called a review and be added to metacritics ? Its written as tabloid news, worse than Wendy Williams show. Even the title: Lana Del Rey: Femme Fatale or Fraud? The wedding singer for Kimye returns with a two-star album, 'Ultraviolence'.