The Siren

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'.         
 

She's obviously talking about Cynthia Germanotta  

 

Thank you & Acknowledgements on the last page of the booklet 
 
Thank you Ben Mawson and Ed Millett for everything I have.
Thank you Lee Foster for giving me Electric Lady Studios and helping me make the beginning of the record and being my confidant.
Blake Stranathan - my trusted guitar player - you set the tone for the whole record with Cruel World and Pretty When You Cry.
My Friends At Polydor especially Ferdy Unger Hamilton, Liz Goodwin, and Semera Khan.
My Friends at Interscope - Jimmy Iovine, Larry Jackson, John Ehmann, Steve Berman, John Janick, Jurgen Grebner, Tom Land and Matt LaMotte.
Thank You to my friends at Universal Germany.
Neil Krug and Chuck Grant for changing the way I see things.
Thank you Dan Auerbach for bringing fire back into my life.
Thank You Jane Powers for being my Living Legend.
Cynthia - while i was doing this - i wished i could’ve been there with you.
 
     

Overblown I think that this cover is very weak and badly produced.
I can understand that she likes Nina and her songs, but let's be honest she can't deliver it at all...
Compare to Nina's voice she is flat and these "Aaaah Haaaa Ahhaaa" are so "trying hard"
Maybe if production was different BUT MAYBE, it could be better....but this...

Lmao Lorde is so dumb, what is wrong with being a hopeless romantic and having a great love story??? Life's too short for mediocre love bye. (and that's before Lana dissed feminism)
 
I stayed up until 3am to listen to the album and I need more time to make my opinion on it but IT'S SO BEAUTIFUL OH MY GOD. Fave songs so far are Florida Kilos, Fucked My Way Up To The Top, Ultraviolence, Sad Girl but I love everything else a lot too.

FIRST LISTEN SO OVERWHELMING CRUEL WORLD HELP I AM SLAYED AND I CANT GET UP

ok
so my opinion
 
1st I'm so damn happy that ''fucked my way to the top'' is not about Lady Gaga as everyone was saying. I knew it was not... Now everyone clarly know it's for Lorde. She ''copied'' her and called her patethic.
 
2nd Cruel world isn't thaaaaaaaat amazing, but i love it, maybe with time i'll enjoy more.
 
3rd Brooklyn baby was the one i didn't like (before having all songs ), but I AM IN LOVE WITH IT.
 
4th Black Beaty with rock version IS AMAZING
 
5th Old money must be the anthem in this album, don't you agree??  
 
6th I believe Guns and Roses is the one not that good, compared with all ...
 
7th Florida Kilos just makes me remember lizzy, just like everyone says HAHAHAHA ISN'T IT FUN?LOOOL
 
 
 
My Top for now:

1. Old Money
2.Money Power Glory
3. Shades of Cool
4. West Coast
5. Cruel World
6. Fucked My Way To The Top
7, BRooklyn baby
8. Ultraviolence
9. Sad Girl
10, Pretty when you cry
11The other woman
12. Black Beaty
13, Yayo (loool) Florida Kilos
14. Guns and Roses

This album was everything I expected it to be and not to be in the best way possible. I listened to the album without skipping any tracks, and it felt weird knowing four of the songs in a row after Cruel World, so that was a little weird. I'm not sure if I'm the biggest fan of Cruel World, and I'm not exactly feeling the narco-swing in Cruel World but more in other songs, I think it's because I expected the "let the light in..." part at the end of the track, but I guess not. Brooklyn Baby and West Coast are amazing but we already knew that-- the production of Sad Girl was amazing but the lyrics and the chorus felt a little lazy for me, but I still really like it.
 
My favorite tracks were definitely Old Money, Money Power Glory and Black Beauty. Holy shit I knew I was going to love Old Money and damn, did I fall in love with it againa after listening to the snippets. It's so simple and beautiful and it reminds me so much of The Great Gatsby and a part of me wonders if this was the song she wrote for the film alongside Young and Beautiful.
 
Money Power Glory is awesome, the chorus is absolutely everything. I felt kind of iffy about Fucked My Way To The Top when we first heard the snippet, but the song is really good towards the second half of it.
 
Black Beauty-- I heard the snippet and was let down since the verse sounded a lot like the demo we had, but what I got as soon as I got to the chorus... I can't explain it. I teared up and my jaws literally dropped, like @@SitarHero 's reaction, but a little more sane. That new production is so amazing I really wanted to cry. I fist pumped slowly to it and it was amazing.
 
Also Florida Kilos, I didn't expect a song like this to be in the album but it really worked as a bonus track-- it's just so Lizzy/Lana Del Ray.

Well the final version of Black Beauty is officially the first Lana song to make me cry my fucking eyes out omg
 
Like I had random tears in the verse and then it just SWELLED INTO MAGNIFICENCE and I was sobbing out loud
 
Only ones I didn't take an immediate shining to were MPG, FMWUTTT, and GAR...so we'll see how that goes

First listen: For me it's much more a coherent album than BTD. Like BtD and Paradise, the album has the same "feeling" or "vibe" from the start to finish, but there is no way to compare her vocal delivery in UV, it’s simply phenomenal – even though the lyrics are not really as good as some of her previous work the WAY she sings it’s much more powerful. It’s raw and honest, while I was listening to some songs like Carmen and MDM I felt like listening to a character, but in this album I felt like I can believe in every word she sings. It’s hard to beat individual songs like Off to The Races, Born to Die and Video Games, but UV works way better as a whole album.
 
My favorites: Old Money, Money Power Glory, Florida Kilos, Cruel World, Pretty When I cry and Black Beauty ( and all the other songs previous released);
 
Not really feeling at the moment: Guns and Roses and The Other Woman.

old money = axl rose husband + methamphetamines
 
and she's not just the 'Queen of New York' anymore....she's the 'Queen of New York City'

I'm getting my life to Cruel World 

Still crying at Black Beauty because it was clearly meant to be a single and now it probably wont ever get a video since it's a bonus track 

After old money (flawless) I ran to BB, and I was like....FUCK YESS!!! IT IS DIFFERENT!!!

This leak is gonna be messier that Paradise

ULTRAVIOLENCE HAS LEAKED.
 

 
Discuss the songs in this thread! Select your faves in the poll above!
 
iTunes link:
Ultraviolence (Deluxe) by Lana Del Rey

I watched it a month ago and I LOVED IT, I recommend everybody to check it out

I found this account last night and I'm in love ?
They do fan made mockup concepts for merch that snatch better than her real merch/album artwork. ✨?✨
(And no - before anyone asks, this is not my account in case someone thinks)
https://instagram.com/ldrsecretshop?utm_medium=copy_link

It's shocking and heartbreaking that there's an actual gay purge happening and people are being tortured and killed just for who they are. I can't believe that this has been going on for almost a month now – or even longer, but that's when media outlets started covering it –, yet no (western) politicians have actually done anything about it. 

I am shocked tbh that this sort of thing is still happening 

This year a documentary on this came out, Welcome to Chechnya. It depicts how activists literally helped evacuate guys from the region. I think it was on yt but it is only on hbo now. I could not even finish watching, too heavy. But shit is as real as ever, unfortunately

Not sure if you guys heard, but it's happening again (still?), and apparently it's not limited to Chechnya. Basically, a "kill list" website keeps showing up, and an LGBT activist called Elena Grigoryeva was killed in St. Peterburg a few days ago after her name appeared on that list. I'm so shocked and upset, especially because I thought "progressive" (for Russia's standards) cities like Moscow or St. Peterburg were somewhat safe for queer people. Like, I actually know gay people from Moscow and I'm so worried about them right now.
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/22/lgbt-activist-murdered-in-saint-petersburg

a gay pop star in Russia has apparently been tortured to death by police
 
 
    sorry this is so ugly but I really can't stand looking at this enough to format it nicer 
 

i'm a little scared about that tbh, aren't him and putin like bffs

It's 2017 people wtf