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I listened a lot to Honeymoon when it came out last summer and then dropped it until literally now. It's still just as visceral an experience! I'm glad Lana stuck to her guns and didn't sell out. This is the most quintissential "gangsta Nancy Sinatra hollywood sadcore" record ever created and I love every minute of it. But "Terrence Loves You" is the absolute highlight for me.

 
Yeah why can't the haters just not say anything and blunt my mellow?

I listened a lot to Honeymoon when it came out last summer and then dropped it until literally now. It's still just as visceral an experience! I'm glad Lana stuck to her guns and didn't sell out. This is the most quintissential "gangsta Nancy Sinatra hollywood sadcore" record ever created and I love every minute of it. But "Terrence Loves You" is the absolute highlight for me.

 
Yeah why can't the haters just not say anything and blunt my mellow?

it's been 8 months and people still take their time to type this stuff, move on stop listening to it

I first heard of her around the middle of Jan 2012 probably due to the Saturday Night Live fiasco. Who knew what epic journeys I would have with her music since? 

Craiglist is just about the creepiest thing ever.

One of my favorite LDR songs. I love the whole southern California feel of it. You almost think that Lana is some re-incarnated 1960s starlet who drowned in a swimming pool while smoking Parliaments.

One of my favorite LDR songs. I love the whole southern California feel of it. You almost think that Lana is some re-incarnated 1960s starlet who drowned in a swimming pool while smoking Parliaments.

"Kiss me hard before you go, Summertime Sadness" that opens "Summertime Sadness" "I would wait a mill-i-yon years" from Blue Jeans The beginning of BTD title track and how the strings swell during the chorus "Come take a walk on the wild side" as she goes into her higher register in BTD The chorus in "Off to the Races" in her uber-girly voice The chorus in "Lucky Ones" in her New York-ish accent  
All of Ride is a magnificent musical moment - should have won the Ivor Novello award that year, but especially the climax when she sings:
I 'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby So I just ride, I just ride  
"In the Lands of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked Hard" - holy hell Lana The delicate, lilting verses on "Bel Air" The opening of Cruel World, it's just stuck in my head all the time "We both know it's not fashionable to love me...." - oh Lana That moment in "Terence Loves You" when she quotes Bowie

"Kiss me hard before you go, Summertime Sadness" that opens "Summertime Sadness" "I would wait a mill-i-yon years" from Blue Jeans The beginning of BTD title track and how the strings swell during the chorus "Come take a walk on the wild side" as she goes into her higher register in BTD The chorus in "Off to the Races" in her uber-girly voice The chorus in "Lucky Ones" in her New York-ish accent  
All of Ride is a magnificent musical moment - should have won the Ivor Novello award that year, but especially the climax when she sings:
I 'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby So I just ride, I just ride  
"In the Lands of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked Hard" - holy hell Lana The delicate, lilting verses on "Bel Air" The opening of Cruel World, it's just stuck in my head all the time "We both know it's not fashionable to love me...." - oh Lana That moment in "Terence Loves You" when she quotes Bowie

"Kiss me hard before you go, Summertime Sadness" that opens "Summertime Sadness" "I would wait a mill-i-yon years" from Blue Jeans The beginning of BTD title track and how the strings swell during the chorus "Come take a walk on the wild side" as she goes into her higher register in BTD The chorus in "Off to the Races" in her uber-girly voice The chorus in "Lucky Ones" in her New York-ish accent  
All of Ride is a magnificent musical moment - should have won the Ivor Novello award that year, but especially the climax when she sings:
I 'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby So I just ride, I just ride  
"In the Lands of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked Hard" - holy hell Lana The delicate, lilting verses on "Bel Air" The opening of Cruel World, it's just stuck in my head all the time "We both know it's not fashionable to love me...." - oh Lana That moment in "Terence Loves You" when she quotes Bowie

The chorus on "Off to the Races", the opening and closing narration on the "Ride" video, the sultriness of her vocal on "Blue Jeans", her faux-Brookyln accent on "Lucky Ones", Big Eyes, her use of "gots" instead of "got" on Cola....

"Kiss me hard before you go, Summertime Sadness" that opens "Summertime Sadness" "I would wait a mill-i-yon years" from Blue Jeans The beginning of BTD title track and how the strings swell during the chorus "Come take a walk on the wild side" as she goes into her higher register in BTD The chorus in "Off to the Races" in her uber-girly voice The chorus in "Lucky Ones" in her New York-ish accent  
All of Ride is a magnificent musical moment - should have won the Ivor Novello award that year, but especially the climax when she sings:
I 'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby So I just ride, I just ride  
"In the Lands of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked Hard" - holy hell Lana The delicate, lilting verses on "Bel Air" The opening of Cruel World, it's just stuck in my head all the time "We both know it's not fashionable to love me...." - oh Lana That moment in "Terence Loves You" when she quotes Bowie

The chorus on "Off to the Races", the opening and closing narration on the "Ride" video, the sultriness of her vocal on "Blue Jeans", her faux-Brookyln accent on "Lucky Ones", Big Eyes, her use of "gots" instead of "got" on Cola....

I honestly think the entire music industry still does NOT get Lana and what she's about. Thank god she's able to find talented collaborators.

Finally a reviewer that GETS IT!
 
http://www.hitthefloor.com/reviews/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-album-review/
 
 
I like that. She "swims in her own lane". Just like Kate Bush did.

This is a pretty good review: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/music/backbeat/2015/10/07/have-another-helping-lana-del-reys-catchy-gloom-pop/73514522/

Finally a reviewer that GETS IT!
 
http://www.hitthefloor.com/reviews/lana-del-rey-honeymoon-album-review/
 
 
I like that. She "swims in her own lane". Just like Kate Bush did.

I honestly think the entire music industry still does NOT get Lana and what she's about. Thank god she's able to find talented collaborators.

I honestly think the entire music industry still does NOT get Lana and what she's about. Thank god she's able to find talented collaborators.

Lana is for freaks like us all over the world. Our voice so to say and as my signature says, Lana is our Edith Piaf.  Edith more than anyone was not in any way the typical looking or sounding star and the odds of her doing what she did...yet when she died, they say traffic in Paris stopped and tens of thousands or more lined the streets.)
Though some here are referencing the 90s,(and nothing wrong with it, as many are from that time), it goes so much further back than that.
 
Kate Bush (and I think among other reasons, Lana brought back the creative spark to Kate,a it would be hard to think otherwise, with her two albums and almost 50 concerts first in 40 years
all in the same place last fall/winter in England. Almost as if Kate is saying, remember me? remember 40 years ago? (and to those not in the US, Kate was a niche artist, with almost no sales
and no chart action in the USA.)
 
but before Kate, there was Edith and there was Marlene Dietrich. Unique all 3, unique like Lana.
 
But, the one difference between Lana and everyone else today is, Lana is coming from it as one of the boys, and doing something no current person is doing, which freaks out the critics
but has the record companies wanting Lana Like but with new artists who will do everything they tell them to do and once those artists don't, will find another copy cutter (nothing wrong with that,
that is what record companies and movies want (which is why historically when an actress reached 30 there were no more roles and they found another 19 year old they could mold into a star for a year or two before finding another.
Lana is doing it "her way" and she should one day 40 years from now, as a lark sing "My way". It is the perfect song cover she could do.

This is a pretty good review: http://www.thespectrum.com/story/entertainment/music/backbeat/2015/10/07/have-another-helping-lana-del-reys-catchy-gloom-pop/73514522/

"Kiss me hard before you go, Summertime Sadness" that opens "Summertime Sadness" "I would wait a mill-i-yon years" from Blue Jeans The beginning of BTD title track and how the strings swell during the chorus "Come take a walk on the wild side" as she goes into her higher register in BTD The chorus in "Off to the Races" in her uber-girly voice The chorus in "Lucky Ones" in her New York-ish accent  
All of Ride is a magnificent musical moment - should have won the Ivor Novello award that year, but especially the climax when she sings:
I 'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby So I just ride, I just ride  
"In the Lands of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked Hard" - holy hell Lana The delicate, lilting verses on "Bel Air" The opening of Cruel World, it's just stuck in my head all the time "We both know it's not fashionable to love me...." - oh Lana That moment in "Terence Loves You" when she quotes Bowie

"Kiss me hard before you go, Summertime Sadness" that opens "Summertime Sadness" "I would wait a mill-i-yon years" from Blue Jeans The beginning of BTD title track and how the strings swell during the chorus "Come take a walk on the wild side" as she goes into her higher register in BTD The chorus in "Off to the Races" in her uber-girly voice The chorus in "Lucky Ones" in her New York-ish accent  
All of Ride is a magnificent musical moment - should have won the Ivor Novello award that year, but especially the climax when she sings:
I 'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby So I just ride, I just ride  
"In the Lands of Gods and Monsters I was an angel looking to get fucked Hard" - holy hell Lana The delicate, lilting verses on "Bel Air" The opening of Cruel World, it's just stuck in my head all the time "We both know it's not fashionable to love me...." - oh Lana That moment in "Terence Loves You" when she quotes Bowie

Let's agree to disagree MonsterGod. Not every video needs to have a strong narrative. The fact that first 2 videos are narrative-free leads me to believe the next one will have one.

I consider the full "Ride" to be the "Holy of Holies" at this point. But this is up there with the rest of her merely "great" videos.