Allie

You, wrapped up tight in silk 
 

100. Cash comes quick when looks can kill.

why don't you do your research before making such outlandish statements? A$AP Rocky has been working with ASAP Mob since 2007, his debut mixtape came out in 2011 and was extremely well reviewed. If anything A$AP brought Lana more attention from devoted hip-hop fans who would otherwise not listen to her. He has always had a lot of respect from the hip-hop community and to say that he owes his success to lana is frankly a little insulting.

I can relate to this. Both of my parents are Cuban, i am ethnically 100% Cuban. Though i was born in America, i was raised in a Cuban household, learned Spanish before English, was immersed in a specific Cuban community, but i really haven't felt any connection with Cuban culture since i was very, very young. I have essentially had an American experience, that is, i am culturally American. And i have certainly gone through times when i didn't necessarily feel American either.
 
When it comes to identity, for me personally, the truth is that, as a white, middle class, heterosexual, cisgender male, it hasn't been important, it's not really an issue. Of course that's because it's not a necessity to me, being that i belong to the demographic that holds the most influence and power around the globe. I am of the dominant, privileged group. It's often an uncomfortable thing to negotiate and reconcile with myself. Fortunately, i don't feel the need to blame myself for these things that i was born into, and i'm still figuring out the different ways in which to think about my position in society, in the world.
 
It would be insane to believe that the world is only what i see and experience. Despite the amount of time i spend on it, i really, really, REALLY dislike the internet. It depresses me, it overwhelms me, it makes me feel hopeless, etc. One of the biggest factors in my feeling this way is seeing how homogenous things have gotten and keep getting, and the way that it all becomes so oversaturated, and so rapidly. Sometimes it seems that everything is melting into one, that the same things reach everyone, that everyone thinks the same, that everyone is the same person. Then i remind myself that there are always specific things--ideas, places, people, etc. that i gravitate toward, which are contributing to and shaping my limited reality. I am only exposed to a very small facet of culture and life. Most of us are. Humanity is so diverse, the human experience so varied, that it makes my head spin.
 
What's the point of all this? To all of us: get the fuck off of tumblr.

perhaps i'm wrong, but i interpreted that fluorine meant that this type of appropriation that strips things of their true meaning is rampant in this tumblr day and age, not that it's OK for it to be so. it's fundamental that we question everything and not accept the status quo and and just give up and shrug and think "that's just how things are". no way! this is a great discussion because it helped a lot of people transcend their individual, possibly uninformed perspective on this and other matters. lana herself has appropriated images just because they're beautiful to her and by changing their context gives them a new "artistic" connotation. her glamorization of the mob is terrible, for example, when you think of the people who are subjected to the tiranny of the mafia in italy (and worldwide). i think it's worthwile to debate and give things real thought. that's what i love about this forum: through themes that stem from lana-related discussions, everyone reflects on important issues and shares their views and in that, we are mutually enriched by other's outlooks and personal experiences and sometimes reconsider previous stances. hopefully all of this can lead to broadening our horizons and transcending the limitations of our geographical and mental locations
 

This might have already been posted...
 
I think Burning Desire and Body Electric could be about K. They have lines that refer to a past relationship which ended a while ago, but she's 'going about the world like I'm having fun.' They remind me of Dark Paradise, she doesn't want to let go of what she used to have, so she just doesn't.
 
'We don't need nobody, 'cause we got each other, or at least I pretend'
 
The rest of the song ('we get down every Friday night' etc.) is just about what they used to do, or what she would be doing. The link with death being 'Heaven is my baby, suicide's her father, opulence is the end'. Her lover is dead, and she wants to be with him perhaps?
 
Burning Desire is Dark Paradise or Body Electric in a more sexual way. Again, it's fantasising about what she used to do or what she would be doing, she is trying to not only keep the memories alive but re-live them.
 
'I have to touch myself to pretend you're there...over and over again like my only prayer'.
 
I may be crazy, but I'm sure they link somehow. Again, sorry if this has already been posted somewhere!

They are so pretentious and I love it 

Invented beauty
Decadent Hollywood star, ingenue little posh or hoochie from the periphery, all of that fits in the persona Lana Del Rey created for herself. – By Harold Von Kursk
 
One video made with a collage of images on Youtube made her a sensation of the alternative music. And a super critized performance on TV turned her into an overnight pop star. If you think the path that Lana Del Rey, 26 years old, made until she came to the top was a little bit weird, you're very right – her universe is very strange, indeed. In the beginning of 2011, Lana was Lizzy Grant, a singer with bleached blonde hair (and lips way thinner) who circulated around the record labels seeking a contract. Until that, in june of that year she put on internet the ballad Video Games, along with nostalgic images she chose by herself. With her new name, lips and trendy retro look, she caught the attention of bloggers and journalists and her course started to change. Everything almost went down the drain in January, when her performance on the TV show Saturday Night Live, from NBC network, was crushed down by the critic. But the effect was the opposite: 15 days after, her album Born to Die, a collection of glamorous and dark songs, came to the stores and went right to the first place in charts of seven countries. She just released her 6th video from her album, Summertime Sadness (Lana now makes superproduced videos). And she is the face of the new campaign of H&M. Full of tricks or talented? GLOSS saw one of her shows in New York, in June and assures: both things. Fake, fragile, beautiful, bold, modern – she is all of that. Just not a conventional singer.
 
GLOSS: You became a celebrity overnight. How do you see this so immediate success?
LDR: I'm surprised! I didn't expect this, specially after being ignored for 6 years. I couldn't get my songs to be played and I had a lot of difficulty to settle shows. Everybody was complaining that my songs were too long and dark and that it would be impossible to commercialize them. They said that the video of Video Games was weird and scary [laughs]. It's very funny that now I have a contract [with Universal Music] and a team working with me.
 
GLOSS: You moved from Connecticut to New York at age 18 and went to study at Fordham University. How the experience influenced your music?
LDR: Being in New York was a very lonely experience, but also very stimulating in many ways. I met weird people, others wonderful and some not very nice. All of that enriched my music and what I wanted to say. I had to struggle to have my rent's money and to be able to afford others expenses. I know this sounds kinda cliché but that is what happened.
 
GLOSS: Do you still feel alone nowadays?
LDR: No, I feel better. I believe that, when someone finally has a success and people feel touched by your music, the sensation of satisfaction appears. But some of my songs still talk about the disappointment of finding an incredible person and things not working out. Being alone and not feeling deeply connected to no one isn't something easy to deal with.
 
GLOSS: By your lyrics, it seems that you lived some complicated break-ups.
LDR: It's hard to be with someone, waiting for something pretty to be born and then, suddenly, everything going wrong. I was with a person who I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with. We were clean and sober, and I needed someone who would respect that. But it didn't work out. When I thought I've had found someone who could take care of me and that I could take care too, I saw everything fall apart.
 
GLOSS: Are you shy?
LDR: I'm very introverted. I don't feel easily comfortable with people when I meet them and I get nervous when I start to talk.
 
GLOSS: Is that a problem when you sing live?
LDR: I think my shyness and my nervousness already became visible in some of my performances. I'm still learning how to deal with that. I keep telling myself to relax on stage, try to feel the music and not to think in what is around me.
 
GLOSS: Why do you think that, in a time of Lady Gaga and so many overstyled artists, people are critizing you so much for inventing a certain image for yourself?
LDR: Thanks for the observation! [Laughs.] I don't think I put a big effort on creating an image besides using dresses rather than exotic costumes. Sometimes the clothes are kinda retro, what matches my music and videos. And it's just that. I think my voice and and lyrics are provocative. But I don't get the rage level of some critics about me.
 
GLOSS: The music video for Video Games was the great responsible for the turning point in your career. Did you expect the material would have the impact it did?
LDR: I thought the images would catch attention and help me to have more followers on the internet. And that maybe it would be good when seeking a contract with some record label. I never thought it would be so watched [the video has today more than 60 millions of views]. I dedicated myself a lot to the material and it gave me a great creative satisfaction. So, I'm proud of people liking it so much.
 
GLOSS: Many people invented thousand of theories to interpret what the images of the video are meant to say...
LDR: The truth is that I had no money to make a video, then I started to make experiences with the images. I think it increased the impact of the music, but when I see the music video nowadays I feel like changing a lot of things, specially the images of myself. Now that I have a contract with a record label and money to produce, I'm very happy for not having to make my self videos. I participate in the process, but I love the fact of being able to work with real professionals. I prefer to concentrate in the songs.
 
GLOSS: Why is "Born to Die" the title of the album?
LDR: In childhood, I kind of freaked out when I realized that my mom, my dad and everybody I knew would die someday. I think that, somehow, this philosophical crisis stayed with me and reappeared in the time I had to give a title to the album.
 
GLOSS: In some interviews, you said that music isn't the most important thing in your life. Is that true?
LDR: I like music and composing, it's just that it's not the fundamental point for me. I have interest in many things and I don't see my life only spinning around music, although I'm super-involved with that at the moment. But I'm very happy with my album and even more to know the amount of people that like my songs. I guess I should think about that and don't worry about nothing else. I would like people to think about me as a good person. Maybe it's ingenuity of me saying that, but that's what I am.
 
Building Lana
Where the singer went to find inspiration to create her cool visual
VERONICA LAKE
From the femme fatale from the 40's, Lana took the attitude and the hair
BRIGITTE BARDOT
The thick and slightly open lips are the mark of the french actress
AUDREY HEPBURN
Lana adores eyes well contoured with black eyeliner
PRISCILLA PRESLEY
Every now and then, Lana appears with the hairstyle that Elvis's ex used in the sixties
MORTICIA ADDAMS
One more embellishment of a femme fatale: huge nails!
KANYE WEST
Necklaces, rings and sneakers complete the visual

Recently, in a manner of vagueness we've come to expect from her, Lana Del Rey announced "The Dreamland Sessions"--what appears to be another photographic collaboration with her sister, Chuck Grant. Both have posted about it and we've gained these pictures:
 
 
 
 
Dreamland was once "an ambitious amusement park at Coney Island", known to put on many freak shows. An appropriate enough photo shoot for the Queen of Coney Island. Will it be more than photos? Why are they so vague? Will there be backlash for her Indian-inspired boots? Do they support her frame?! We shall see.

she's beautiful, strange, and wraps herself in american flags. i'm pretty sure the japanese feel positively about her

http://youtu.be/ybMGZ168_Jo      
 
http://youtu.be/2YSjVQ6OBxo      
  Cuteness overload      Somebody please send her the link of lanaboards   

http://youtu.be/ybMGZ168_Jo      
 
http://youtu.be/2YSjVQ6OBxo      
  Cuteness overload      Somebody please send her the link of lanaboards   

He's disgusting and needs to eat a burger. Boy got manorexia
 
Would rather get fucked by dem fat bikies from ride than this tattoo forehead cry baby.

It was a radio interview some months ago , really can't remember which one but she confirmed both videos.
 
Why is everyone hating the perfection Dark Paradise is ? Its so beautiful , melancholic , heartbreaking.
When your in a situation where the person you fall for doesn't loves you back its the best song .

I rieterate:
 
The blog that leaked the song is the only reason why anyone even thinks it was intended for release. There is no evidence ir "receipts" that it would have been on the EP, so don't think it was. "Paradise" was recorded in early 2011. It's still a great song, and I prefer it to any of the ones from the PE I've heard, but it's in a completely different level of lyrics, theme, and production.

There's a solo Lana demo, the KickDrums said it came about from recording a whole song with Lana and then deciding to take bits of that song and putting it in a collab with A$AP.

please someone tell us we do have 

What I liked the most is that you were able to get the whole atmosphere of the album in the booklet. The images you used for the pages 3 and 6 really fit the songs. Yayo looks great and so does the inside cover.
 
Congrats on your great work and thanks for sharing 

I think she's going to use Dark Paradise mostly because of the meaning it has to her. Ya know, that "honour love even when it's lost" thing.
 
I'm excited for anything, collage or professional video for DP.
When it comes to Cola, I agree about her pepsi cola pussy demanding professional treatment     

Fifth

Okay, I need major sources for this news of a video for Radio and a video for Dark Paradise directed by Woodkid. That would be fucking flawless. I feel like I do remember hearing that- maybe during her interview with Ferne? Maybe I'm just pulling shit out of the sky... idk. Honestly, she should make videos for all of these before she ends Born to Die:
- Cola
- Dark Paradise
- Off to the Races
- Radio
- American
- This Is What Makes Us Girls (I have SO many ideas for this one- a short slasher horror film would be incredible)
- Body Electric
- Yayo 

And with her doing so much film work now and perhaps taking time away from planning a third (second?) album, she SHOULD really delve into making videos for these songs. I would actually really be happy if that became a focus for her for a while. Really fleshing out concepts for videos and working on some editing. I'd love homemade versions (like Carmen) for all the songs because i think they offer such an in depth Lana-unique perspective to all her songs. When she makes those videos, they are made of the clips, colors, images, themes that SHE sees in those songs. I think thats amazing. Thats what captivates me about the homemade videos. I think Carmen is my favorite.

When she announced the video for Dark Paradise she said its directed by Woodkid , the director of Born To Die and Blue Jeans.
She also said that she wants to make a homemade video for Radio.

if this is true, i hope to god it gets homemade
 
but not cola. her pussy deserves professional treatment