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I have such an appreciation for the Brite Lights video and wow I hope I'm not alone in this. I am that awkward teen who dances and sings raps in her room. I pull those kitsch dance moves and seeing her doing that tells me she loves what she does, even if it wasn't necessarily intended for our eyes. There's something very innocent about that. She can't shake it like The Pussycat Dolls but isn't that great? This woman who we idolise and talk about on an internet forum for hours is so human.

What a great thread, can't believe I'd missed it. The problem is that it's dangerous for me to start thinking about these sort of things because I tend to get so obsessed.. Had to stop myself after 4.5 h of straight listening to favorite musical moments, as my life beside Lana Del Rey suddenly called for attention.
 
Anyway, here are my (at the moment, at least) top 20 Lana Del Rey musical moments:
 
 
 
 
I hope that at least someone has the energy to read and consider this list, since it took FAR to long to finish it

What a great thread, can't believe I'd missed it. The problem is that it's dangerous for me to start thinking about these sort of things because I tend to get so obsessed.. Had to stop myself after 4.5 h of straight listening to favorite musical moments, as my life beside Lana Del Rey suddenly called for attention.
 
Anyway, here are my (at the moment, at least) top 20 Lana Del Rey musical moments:
 
 
 
 
I hope that at least someone has the energy to read and consider this list, since it took FAR to long to finish it

What a great thread, can't believe I'd missed it. The problem is that it's dangerous for me to start thinking about these sort of things because I tend to get so obsessed.. Had to stop myself after 4.5 h of straight listening to favorite musical moments, as my life beside Lana Del Rey suddenly called for attention.
 
Anyway, here are my (at the moment, at least) top 20 Lana Del Rey musical moments:
 
 
 
 
I hope that at least someone has the energy to read and consider this list, since it took FAR to long to finish it

Had my greatest encounter with Yayo so far yesterday, now I feel like disqualifying myself for putting it "only" in third place here.. I mean, Ride is great and all, but Yayo plays in another division tbh. Should've been alone at the top.

This was my same thought as i was reading that. Maddy is the ~ iconoclast ~ of LanaBoards.
 
Here's another question to add to this great thread: Should Back to tha Basics have been on Born to Die since they both have "to" in their title???????
 

Finally a cover showing Lana being happy.

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

I actually think she looks her best in candids, she always looks so cute
I love these from Germany.
 
 
 

Yes, how dare she have privacy.

Amen!

Well, I agree that she needs to be present in a certain way with her fans through her social networks. But it's her choice whether we like it or not (Personally to me it doesn't matter. I still support and love her).
 
But don't being ridiculous about that. I clearly remember that she said in a interview that she uses her social networks as a tools (to comunicate about her career not her personal life).
 
How can someone be mean with her knowing the way she treates their fans? She treat them like a friend she knows for a long time not as a stranger (and not via internet like a lot of artists that shows fake love with fans to create a humble image that no one believes).
 
I've seen a lot (and I really mean a lot) of videos and photos with her fans and she looks so sweet, humble and down to earth with them (It does't look fake at all) hugging, crying, kissing, signing things, taking pictures with them, etc. That's what I admire of her that she is normal with fans and treat them with love and respect (She doesn't have that stupid and superior attitude that most of artist have when they ask for a pic or something and only seen the fans as a pocket full of money to waste on him/her)
 
I prefer the Lana that is shy through internet and a sweet person with fans (face-to-face). By the way, sometimes she responds comments on her YouTube account

Nah if they wanted to write a sex article about Lana it would be "GET THE PEPSI COLA PUSSY YOU'VE ALWAYS DREAMED OF"

I was sitting at my kitchen table having some tea when i looked across the way over at a tall tree. I noticed a little bird, a cardinal, high up in one of the branches. It was speaking to another bird, a little finch, and it said, "Just because there's a Thread for Minor, General Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread doesn't mean the search function is now obsolete." It was the damndest thing. Anyway, my tea is getting cold, i better go.

But have you really given the older songs a fair chance then? I mean, I found BTD and Paradise very easy to "get into" and I loved them instantly, while aka and many of the other older songs grew on me slowly. I listened to them over and over again since I was quite obsessed and needed to make sure that I wouldn't miss out on any single hidden pearl in her previous works. And every time I went through that long list of songs, I found at least one previously hidden pearl
 
What I'm trying to say is that many of her older songs demand more of the listener than BTD and Paradise does, but they can also be even more rewarding when your mind opens up to them.
 
Obviously I don't know how much you have listened to them. If you have given them a fair chance and still don't like them, I apologize for this rant..

So often when i read interviews with her i get this image of someone gawking at her with furrowed brows, probing her with a stick, looking underneath her, turning her over, spinning her around, tapping her, asking aloud, "What is it? What do we do with this?" I find the underlying attitude toward her in a lot of interviewers really tiring. Maybe i'm just misreading them though, i don't know. Does anyone get this impression?

I'm pretty sure she was considered for the latest Bond theme song but was put aside because of the controversy around her back then. I still think Million Dollar Man would have been perfect.
 
Other than that, this interview is pretty generic, the questions have been asked dozen times before.

You voted and you waited and now finally... here are the final results!
There are a lot of tied positions but only 100 songs made it (out of over 150!)
Thank you to everyone that voted!
 
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I guess it's because she celebrates the light and dark side of life in such a balanced and glamorous way. There's hope, but also despair. It's a real interesting contrast between some of her songs, as some can bring me to tears and some can make me smirk. Her style just speaks to me, it's like a missing puzzle piece: after years of looking for the artist I finally found music that just really leaves me wanting more all the time. Most of the time I get tired of music after listening to it non stop, but born to die has been played to death for the last year, and I still find myself re-discovering songs that I just love more and more, both old and new ones.
 
I guess her mysterious past and shy nature is a part of it too. She just leaves of trails and hints of her back story, and that leaves us fans crazy. How? Why? When? And what?! I don't know the answers, I just freaking love her music

I have gotten my 13 year old brother semi interested in Lana. He asked me the other day: "Does pussy really taste like pepsi cola?" And I just went all :omgha: :ohreallygirl:
He just finished the conversation with a , and then left the room. Probably went off to do some serious googling. LMAO.

I can’t REALLY explain to you why I love her so much unless you have ever felt like you wanted to die or that you were useless or not good enough. Because for years i have felt lost and alone in a world full of opportunities and chances, but none of them have lit the spark inside me that makes me WANT to achieve. Lana Del Rey, through her music and thought concept in general has made me realise i have a purpose in my life and that i CAN and WILL be happy. i don't need to impress other people and i don't need to be another standard figure in society. i can climb onto the back of a motorcycle and ride into the desert sun with my best friend hand in hand screaming and escaping reality. i can be wild and free and crazy and just not give a fuck and i thank Lana for making me realise that she makes my dreams seem real and true.
 
she survived a battle with alcohol and rose out of it to become a worldwide controversial icon. she is my role model for every aspect of life. she has been lost and terrified and uncertain of existence just like me and i relate to her so much and if she can pull through all of that shit then so can i.
 
i was sad and lonely and depressed at the start of this year and now, but then i discovered Lana and now 11 months and 108 songs later I'm happier and more certain than i have ever been in my whole life. Lana has filled the hole in my heart that nobody could ever even attempt to fill. she is an angel and has inspired me more than you could even imagine. i live for Lana and i would sacrifice everything for her she means the whole world to me and nobody has ever changed my life as much as she has.
 
so maybe i am a little over obsessive and pathetic but i dont care because i’m happy and free and it’s all thanks to one amazing goddess; Lana Del Rey

Voted! Most difficult thing I've done in a couple of weeks. Having to leave out some favorites made me feel