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Just for clairificarion, since Heroin is 5 minutes, it's not a Velvet Underground cover since their song is 7 minutes.
it could be shortened?
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What kind of speaker system are u guys gonna listen to lfl on, I'm either gonna listen on earbuds or a pair two medium sized speakers I can't listen on earbuds for long tho because after a while they start to get irritating
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Wait she said "my new VIDEOS contain references to magic and occult science" that means there might be more music videos with similar aethetics to the album trailer!!Just gonna post the first part here, I couldn't do much actually since I something interrupted me and I can't stay too long anymore. There's still 1 and a half pages left
Please excuse me if the translation is not 100% correct, I only have B2 level in French
You haven’t released anything since Honeymoon in 2015. How do you know or feel when you are ready for a new album?
My problem is not to begin, it is to stop. Even when I think I am done with an album I continue to create, I always want to add one more song, and again one more. If I am not occupied with mixing in the end of the creation of an album, I continue to write. For example, two songs from the new album were composed during the finalizing of the predecessor. I can’t stop myself from working, I adore being in the studio, it makes me feel good. It has been like that for five years in the same place, in Los Angeles, where I work with the same small equipment at the studio of producer Rick Nowels. We spend our life there, as a gang.
So this means you have never known the fear of a blank sheet?
It was a fear which overwhelmed me before I started to record real records. It was very present during the period before my success when I recorded simply for my own pleasure, when I wrote only for myself. I had the certainty that inspiration was gonna slip away and it was like that regularly, sometimes I was incapable of composing for six months. But for 10 years now, I find inspiration easily – or it finds me. I have learned to be stimulated by it. Especially refusing to be lonely, I meet friends, I observe what is happening without any stress. I use my phone non-stope in the dictation mode, I have recorded countless melodies and words… It’s a bit scary, I must have 700 rough drafts of songs on my phone. I know the experience when a melody pops up in my head, I run towards my phone to record it, even if it is in the middle of the night. A good melody does not knock twice on your door. If you don’t welcome it, it’s gonna show up at another door. For example, during the recordings of Honeymoon, I always heard a melody inside my head which tortured me and which I did not capture. It sounded like the music of the Renaissance… I hummed this melody for months before it ultimately became Terrence Loves You (Sings for a long time)
Teenager, you have the reputation of being a dare-devil. How does this express itself nowadays?
My challenges are not physical, I take different risks. When I was 18, I drove like I was crazy, I was on sprees for days and nights without sleeping. I was more free, more spontaneous, I didn’t care much for the consequences… I have a lot of responsibilities today, towards my relatives, my partners… I am obligated to, for example, be on time. In the past, I had enough work to do with myself, just to maintain a living, before I could find time to occupy mself with others. In 2017, the risks I take is the level of melodies, my musical choices. But I think I have passed the dare-devil part and I am more of a nerd now (laughs)
What do you mean by “musical risks”?
The co-existence of different songs on the same album, like the very complex Lust for Life with the desert-like Yosemite, it is not very reasonable. One tries to put me off, one tells me the contrast is too extrem, but I love the two songs too much to exclude one because of the other one. These are the songs which make me life, and more than that, as well: they have some experience.
Have you become more patient the older you got?
I did. I allow myself much more free-time nowadays. I can go to the studio at any time, I don’t have the pressure of a deadline anymore. Of the blow, I have let myself go a little with the song Lust for Life… I have worked on it on multiple days a week for one and a half year. It has passed every stage, it has started with a futuristic and dark vein like Blade Runner. Also, I have decided to return to a radiant Shangri-La like style… After working for some months, Abel (The Weeknd) joined to add his part. This song became my baby, an unmanageable and maleficent baby which made me crazy. I quickly understood that this album would sound like a trip, a mix.
Working with The Weeknd, did you learn new methods to work in the studio?
I already once learned that I love to play with the buttons, the reverb, I feel more and more comfortable on the other side of the window. I can pass hours with a sound, it captivated me. Also, I spend time with the console in the studio, it doesn’t seem like working; it’s fun, exciting. I even read technical reviews, I’m a true geek (laughs)… Technically, nowadays, I would be capable of producing for other artists. The real question is, however: Even if I can, should I? Often when I jam with my friends, I can hear how the studio version would sound like. Maybe that’s my future. There is a serious lack of female producers in the music industry!
Your last two albums, Ultraviolence and Honeymoon, were made on the West Coast and were influenced by it. How about Lust for Life?
Four songs on the album reference Los Angeles, but the mood and aesthetic are definitely not West Coast like. I drove myself to remove this blurry, dreamy atmosphere. Songs like Tomorrow Never Came and Yosemite pick up the sounds of 70s folk, and if I would have to create an album concept in a day, it would surround the legendary Laurel Canyon particularly.
One of the strong songs on the album is called God Bless America. How do you feel about the US nowadays?
Around me, in the artistic milieu, we all share the same feeling of uncertainty, of fear, and the talk which arises. Women the subject of this song, are the most affected, the most referred to by the arrival of Trump. I have written this song prior to the big marches which seemed inevitable to happen. This rhetorical hate is not dignified for a head of state. The day after the elections was one of the hardest days in my life. I went to the studio nonetheless, to talk to the others. I want to be informed by reading everything, and see if I can get anything at all. Unfortunately, I can’t find anything that convinces me. (?)
You have tweeted magical recipes to get rid of Trump…
It was a joke. I read how witches of the entire world tried to federate at these dates and times to put a spell on Trump, I just relayed. But wha5t is true is that my new videos contain references to magic and occult science. With the more cheerful, less dark side. I know people who converse with what is beyond. My music has relations to ghosts. But I don't
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I wanna buy LFL on vinyl straight away but what if there is a deluxe version?
I was thinking the same but w CD bc I don't have a vinyl player lol
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How many first week sales do you guys think the album is going to get? I'm thinking 75-90k, as much as I want it to get more I'm not sure if its possible unless Lana starts doing massive promo out of nowhere... What do you guys think?
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I can just imagine Ben's Instagram becoming most dm'ed and most commented on account if the album forget come on the 21st
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BR can choke, it's okay but not my favorite. Dance in The Dark should've been the lead single tbfh
Dance in the dark is so underrated with the gp
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y isn't bad romance on that listuhm...
1. dance in the dark
2. mary jane holland
3. monster
4. paparazzi
5. angel down
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Sorry off topic but:lmao i like how there's lodes of users telling people to stop posting your top 10 lana songs and there's still people blatantly ignoring it
i love ya'll <3
7. Just dance
6.artpop
5. Dance in the dark
4.paparrazi
3.born this way
2.poker face
1. Bad romance
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Hey, that snippet was pretty good. I've been interested to hear this song from the snippet she posted on insta, my reservations about the title aside. The snippet has whet my appetite even more.
Bon Appetit.mp3
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Is the snippet leaking a sign that the song should be coming soon or we should just expect to hear the song on July 21 and forget about it until then?
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What time zone is that website?
Lust For Life - Pre-Release Thread
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this is what you call art