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With this caption:
"So many songs left on the cutting room floor
but this was a special one I wrote in March called 'Roses bloom for you'
I don't film all my live takes but I'm glad I got this one because I was very excited about the beautiful chords my producer Rick Nowels found for this gem."
 
https://www.instagram.com/p/BU3uuroFcIk/
 
Pray for regional exclusives girls
 
Just 4 fun...

Hey Guys!
So, I've decided to upload all of my fan art creations to here, instead of opening tons of new forums all the time
Since I replaced 2 laptops, (one was mine for 3 years but it got internet problem, then used my brother's and I got a new one less then a week ago) I don't have all of my creations right now, so I will upload here everything I got!
 
Lust For Life (Edit):

 
 
Born To Die (Unreleased), (front+back), LQ:

 

Lana Del Rey (AKA)(with+without title):

 
 

 
Paradise (The Unreleased Edition):

 
 
 
Paradise:
 

Love — Released on February 18, 2017.
Lust For Life (feat. The Weeknd) — Released on April 24. 2017.
Yosemite — Confirmed during an accompanying interview with MistaJam on BBC Radio 1.
Tomorrow Never Came (feat. Sean Lennon) — Confirmed during her interview with Courtney Love for Dazed Magazine.
God Bless America — Confirmed during her interview for ELLE UK.
Beautiful People, Beautiful Problems (feat. Stevie Nicks) — Confirmed during her interview for Flaunt Magazine.
When The World Was At War We Kept Dancing — Confirmed during her interview for Flaunt Magazine.
Thirteen Beaches — Confirmed during her interview for Paris Match Magazine.
Cherry — Premiered during her set at the KROQ Weenie Roast y Fiesta 2017. May 20, 2017.
 
Without a doubt Lana will reveal more song titles in the upcomming interviews.  

Will The Gays ever stop speculating that each album is a farewell album of some sort? Stay tuned!
 
 
No hate though sis :~)

Omg some of you people should be ashamed....I'm assuming it's mostly the younger crowd being this way?
 
If you're an adult and acting this way, I feel so sorry for you...there's no excuse for harassing people (and it makes no sense because we have a release date....)
 
The album ain't coming til July. Get the fuck over and act like an adult. The majority of this forum can be so embarrassing.
 
Honestly seeing these posts is making me cringe. You can't even read through the thread to see if there's fucking updates because some members insist on shitposting 10+ pages in a row....or links to shitty artists songs...or shitposting gifs.
 
So much spam that you can read the threads. Might as well just follow the Tumblr tag and sift through the bullshit on there

I've supported Lana unflinchingly since becoming a fan a few years ago, but even I feel snubbed and disregarded as a fan by the way this has all unfolded. To tease and tease that the album is coming soon, in the spring, for MONTHS, and then dash all of that anticipation with a less-than-heartfelt, vague, practically sardonic tweet, followed by instagram posts of her literally giving us all the bird...I feel betrayed, honestly. Call it a childish meltdown or whatever, but I always looked up to Lana for staying classy and for always being sweet to the fans who deserve it. To see her be so dismissive of us this era is kind of heartbreaking. Especially since she has insisted that this one is "for the fans". I never thought I'd feel this disillusioned or let down by her :/  I hope I'll just get over it by July but idk...I can't keep holding a torch for someone who seems hell-bent on blowing it out in one way or another.  

I will be in denial for the rest of my days and nobody can change that. My grandchildren will ask me "Grammie, where were you when Lana Del Rey's iconic album Lust For Life was released, in the summer of 2017?" and I will laugh lightly, chiding them, "Oh, my children, that album came out May 26th of that year. In the Spring, like she said. Silly dears." Then I'll just get up slowly and start smashing everything in sight. And they'll just shake their heads and realize that this is why they were warned never to ask grammie about Lana Del Rey.

July 21 clearly a tribute to 1 day prior to 6th yr anniversary of nicole nodland born to die photoshoot.
 
which also reminds me. Born To Die album cover taken on Amy Winehouse's final day alive. a SPINOUT. This is cool trivia 

Shes going to say so much...
 
"Whens the album out?"
"Soon"
 
"Whens the video out?"
"Soon"
 
"When is Cherry out?"
"Soon"
 
"How many fingers am i holding up?"
"Soon"

Made this for fun   Hope you like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlG476n3dPI&feature=youtu.be

“When the world was at war we kept dancing.”
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzU9OrZlKb8
Aw she finally wrote a song inspired by Britney. It was time!

Translated by me!
 
Lana Del Rey lounges on the divan.
She hasn’t left her false eyelashes, but she has gotten rid of her sadness. After two years of absence, the diva of “sad pop” comes back with a “Rage de vivre” translation of “Lust for Life” her fifth album which comes out July 21st and “Love” her single, which has already passed 50 million views on YouTube. Same hypnotic voice, same poetic universe for a woman who now has a certain taste for happiness. Since her debut in 2012, on the internet, with Born to Die which made her one of the biggest stars in music, Lana tells us in mind-blowing songs and beautiful music videos of her fragile life as a young girl haunted by death and failure. Today, she says that she has overcome these demons and her toxic relationships. Single, maybe, but a little more light-hearted.

For her, it’s already history. At 17 years old, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant wrote her own songs and made her own music videos: “I took a lot of photos. Then I started to record myself, to use my image.” After seven hellish years of singing in Brooklyn bars, her music video “Video Games,” posted in 2011 and has since been viewed 155 million times, which thrusted in a few minutes, the young American into an unforeseen notoriety. She evolved into Lana Del Rey, Lolito 2.0, fan of the sixties who over the course of her songs tells a sometimes indecent and provocative story but always sensual. “I am connected to the future and the past at the same time… That’s why I have few friends…” Today, she sings “I’m young and in love”. But confides that she has found happiness… since she is no longer dating. “I’ve never been lucky in choosing boyfriends”.
She always loved putting on a show: “As a child, I loved making my life a work of art.”
“My passion for beautiful films might explain my aesthetic” says the woman who would have loved living in the Flower Power of the hippy years.

“Kids. Friends, all that’s a bonus. My dream is simply to be happy.”
 
From our colleague in Los Angeles Karelle Fitoussi.
Paris Match. We knew you as somber and melancholic, singing your stories about tormented love. You’ve come back with two songs that exude a lack of worry and a joie de vivre. What happened?
I haven’t been dating for a year and a half. Apparently, that has done me a lot of good. [she laughs] I learned how to say no and to listen to the little voice in my head that tells me to do one thing or another.
You have “Trust no one” tattooed on your index… Have you often been betrayed?
Yes. I’ve never been good at chosing friends. But now it’s better, I know how to go about it. I’ve learned one thing, and that’s that people show you really quickly who they really are. You have to listen to them, and pay attention to the signs. In the past, sometimes I’ve had lovers who’ve told me strange things, things I should have found unacceptable, but I closed my eyes. That doesn’t happen to me anymore. At the smallest indication of something strange, I get out. A love story that doesn’t do you any good is toxic. I finally understand that.
Are you not afraid that your newfound happiness will ruin your inspiration?
No. When I was writing Born to Die, I was living in London, and I met a lot of new people, I didn’t know what was going to happen, but I was full of hope. I saw myself evolving into this type of avant-garde artist and this excitement made creating simple and easy. When the critics starting being really harsh, when things started becoming more violent, that’s when that magic left me. So happiness is obviously a good thing. I’m not afraid.
The New York Times said that you were a “nightmarish reflection of cynicism and of American fakeness.”
An interesting start to someone’s career, isn’t it? [she laughs] It was horrible, completely horrible. I really must have loved music to have continued after that. But I should’ve stopped. Thankfully, things have changed. I won’t ever change myself to make myself more popular or to make someone else happy.
People have really have shamed you for your heavily constructed public image. Some people even said that you’re a puppet.
For a longtime, I didn’t understand these reactions. Of course, I paid attention to my look. I had long styled hair, but I was too preoccupied by the music to understand why they talked about me like that. I was waiting for people to figure out for themselves that I was smart… I really had to question myself, to ask why people reacted to me like that. A question of energy, maybe. With a bit of space, even if I find [what they’re saying] ridiculous, I can understand.
If, with a wave of a magic wand, you could start all over, what would you change?
Everything! I don’t even know where to start!
You wouldn’t be a singer?
I love music, there were times where it saved me from my own demons, but it’s a double-edged sword. If I had the opportunity to take a simpler path, I would do it, without hesitation.
When you were younger, you dreamed of being a writer…
Yes, but after having tried from a young age, I knew that I didn’t have the writer’s soul. I tried to write short stories, but they were terrible. So, I tried to do poetry… but it still wasn’t for me! That’s how I decided to write music. [she laughs]. The next step would have been Haikus!
Between two records and two tours, what do you do?
I go to the beach. I swim once per week, I work out with my sister who shares my house with me. I take advantage of the sun and the wonderful Californian nature: with my girlfriends, we go to Big Sur or to Carmel… I never get over seeing the bright light from 7:30 in the morning. For a New Yorker like me, every time it’s still enchanting. Yes, I am that girl you can constantly talk about the time and the weather! But above all what I love the most in Los Angeles, is that there are so many musicians. Every band from London to New York have moved here! Artic Monkeys, The Last Shadow Puppets, Father John Misty… They’re all here in L.A.!
Have you finally found the community of artists you’ve always dreamed of being a part of?
Yes. And when I go on tour, after four months on the road, they’re like me. They want to pick up where we left off. My friends who don’t do music, they’re lives have moved on.
How do you deal with living in the constant view of the paparazzi?
I wrote a song called, 13 beaches which talks about how I do it, last summer, I had to go to 13 different beaches before I could find one without paparazzi, where I laid down with a book. But we can get used to anything. And then maybe it’s worth it. What I can’t get used to, is systematically finding my songs on the internet before they’re supposed to come out. It takes so much time to make a record… a year and a half! When leaving the studio, I always have to hope that they’re secure.
Why do you impose this cycle of every two years for an album?
It’s the time needed for reflection and contemplation. My records are like love letters to myself.
And will you have kids?
When I have kids… I’ll take them on the road with me. Muse’s or Chris Martin’s boys do it well! I have the feeling it’ll workout, whatever I decide to do. It’ll be a nice surprise. Yeah, I would love to have a family.
Is it on your agenda?
[she laughs]. It’ll happen one day. Without a doubt within the next five years. Kids. Friends, all that’s a bonus. My dream is simply to be happy. Which I am right now.

i was rly in an acoustic demo mood with a melancholic feel, so why not create an album centered around lanas BEST ACOUSTIC DEMO (LYRICALLY AND VOCALLY) and give it a LFL look

California Dreaming - FULL INTERVIEW
Does Lana Del Rey really live right inside the middle of the 'H' of the Hollywood sign and spend most of her nights perched high above the chaos that swirls within the city of angels below, as the teaser for her new album, Lust For Life, suggests?
Or does she rent a house in LA's Santa Monica or Silver Lake or someplace else she's not about to divulge, in case, having taken a cryptic February tweet of hers literally, a posse of her 6.3 million well-meaning Twitter followers showup on her doorstep with the "magic ingredients" to cast spells on President Trump?
Does she really only dip her toes into the muck and the mires of the city every now and then, as she says in the album's trailer? Or does she go out quite a lot actually, as she tells me when we meet, and spend her nights having fun with a tight crew of mainly musician mates, dancing at house parties, going to gigs and occasionally wrestling the microphone from her male friends to sing Hotel California in karaoke bars? In this post-truth world, it feels pedantic to care too much either way.
The 'real' Lana Del Rey is a 31-year-old woman called Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, born in Lake Placid, New York. She's close to her younger sister Chuck, a photographer but less so to her parents, Patricia and Robert, and her little brother, Charlie. They're a family of individual she tells me: "It was natural that we all went down our own separate paths, and we've all stayed there."
We are sitting next to each other on a sofa in the Los Angeles recording studio where she has been creating her most musically accomplished work yet the aforementioned album, Lust For Life, is destined to be the sound of this summer. Lana is fully present, smart, funny, engaging and refreshingly able to laugh at herself. She wears jeans and a vintage shirt, and she talks softly but with a compelling certainty. I like her all the more for the fact that no amount of everydayness negates the magic she exudes as a performer. To her fans, Lana exists in flickering Super 8; the Manic Pixie Dream Girl who comes with no baggage or bad days, but is here only for you in a Valencia-filtered fantasy. She's an idea of a woman who didn't grow up anywhere, but emerged fully formed from the elevator at the Chateau Marmont Hotel. She's a montage of Americana, finished with a flick of black eyeliner.
Both the reality and the fantasy of Lana Del Rey make up a fully formed, albeit exceptional, human being. But, as Lana tells me, inhabiting these two worlds hasn't always been easy: "I know that if I had more of a persona then [when she released her breakthrough hit, Video Games, on the internet in 2011] I have less of one now. I think it comes down to getting a little older. Maybe I needed a stronger look or something to lean on [back then]. But it wouldn't really be hard for me today to play a mega-show in jeans without rehearsing and still feel like I was coming from the right place."
I suggest that the scrutiny Lana was put under by the media for having a melancholic persona was unfair. Everyone, to some degree, presents a different side of themselves at work, right? Plus, she's hardly the first artist to change her name or cultivate a distinctive stage look. Yet, countless conspiracy theories called into question her appearance, talent, and family background around the time her second album, Born To Die, was released in 2012 but Lana is remarkably understanding.
"Looking back now, I get a little more of what they're saying. When I was in the mix of a lot of reviews and critiques, I was kind of like, 'What? I do my hair and my make-up just like everyone else for my pictures and my show, and yes my songs are melancholic, but so are whoever else's.' So to see a couple of other female artists not get criticised made me think, 'What is it about me?'"
In hindsight, she says, she understands what the criticism and intrigue over her authenticity as an artist was about: "I think it comes down to energy, I really do. It wasn't overtly saying 'I'm unhappy' or 'I'm struggling' in my music, but I think maybe people did catch that and they were saying, 'If you're going to put music like that out there, you better fessup to it.' But I don't think I really knew how felt. Then when things got a little bigger with the music I was still figuring out what was important to me."
I get the sense that she's done a lot off figuring out in the past few years, like many of us now in our early thirties probably have done too. The difference with Lana, of course, is that all her experimentation, mistakes and regrets were fodder for public consumption. I mention that sinking feeling I get when I stumble across an old diary or a Facebook post that feels like it was from a totally different place to where I am now. I ask if she can relate.
"That applies to me," she says. "I have cringy moments. Certain things I have said and songs I have done, but mostly the ones that were leaked... I mean, they're not my finest."
She's talking about her computer being hacked in 2010, when hundreds of unfinished songs were released online, without her permission. It was a horrible invasion of her privacy, and it leads on to a discussion about vulnerability though interestingly, it's not a word she says she has ever applied to herself.
I ask her what performing on stage takes from her emotionally and what she gains from it, her amphitheatre shows usually hold up to 24,000 people at capacity. She fixes me with a not-at-all vulnerable look and says, "Well, it depends on the day. If I'm having a good day, it still takes a lot, but so much of it is physical. I try to take strength and sing from my core, so I have to actually feel good and get a lot of sleep. Of course, it also helps if my personal life is even; when you're on stage for an hour and 40 minutes, you think while you're singing. I don't like my in-between thoughts to be restless, or worrisome, so I can focus on the crowd."
After a show, she feels reflective and needs time to process it. "It's not like you do it and it didn't happen; it's a real experience. I know rock bands who say they fucking love it that they would [perform] every night and wouldn't do anything else. I don't know if it's as emotional an experience for them [as it is for me]
Back to that need to feel good and have an 'even' personal life, Lana has lived in both New York and London, but says Los Angeles is starting to feel like home, and that's a big part of what's making her happy right now. "I'm growing my roots and meeting a lot of other friends, so I feel a little more settled." In her downtime, she loves swimming in the ocean. "I have a friend called Ron who likes to swim with me. So every now and then, we find an empty beach, jump in and swim the length of the coast, from one side of the cove to the other."
Hey friends are her family, says Lana and that's why she can't accept anything less than total honesty and trust from them: "The fact that l know that now everything a lot clearer. What's interesting is how unsafe we [could] feel among each other if we weren't able to express how we really feel. It's hard knowing that if you tell someone exactly how you feel, like if you're happy or unhappy, that could be the end of the relationship because they don't feel the same way."
We speak about the crews you pick up through your life and agree that, in your thirties, you are much better at surrounding yourself with people who make you feel good. "When you're in your twenties, you let this cast of characters [into your life], especially if you're in the arts,' she says. "It didn't matter what they stood for or what they thought was important. But as the years went on, there were things that I saw in people that I didn't like."
Lana is enjoying being part of a music scene in LA where her friends include photographer Emma Tillman (also the wife of
singer-songwriter Father John Misty), Zach Dawes, who has played bass with the British super-group The Last Shadow Puppets, and musicians Jonathan Wilson and Cam Avery. They play music together, which is not something she's done with friends before. The first time she had dinner with the wholegang, she thought: 'Wow, this is great." She tells me: "Feeling part of something is definitely a nice feeling." The downside to rolling with a crew of fellow musicians is that karaoke becomes a competitive sport. "If I am with the guys, they're always on the microphone and
sometimes it's hard to grab it from them. Everyone pretends that it doesn't matter, but you can tell there are moments in the choruses when people are really singing."
We laugh and I feel pleased that I'm meeting Lana at a time in her life when, as she puts it: "All the tough things that I have been through - that I've drawn upon [in my work] - don't exist for me any more. Not all my romantic relationships were bad, but some of them challenged me in a way that I didn't want to be challenged, and I am happy I don't have to do that now."
I don't mean to rain on her parade, but I ask whether she feels that when she admits she's happy that something bad might be just around the corner? "Yes, sometimes. I have a little bit of that feel that it's a human thing to be superstitious. Sometimes I say to my friends, 'I don't want to jinx it.' Or if l'm on the phone I'm like, 'I'm so excited about this', and then waiting for that phone call the next day... but there's no such thing as jinxing it. Just let go."
The key to happiness, she says, is to ask yourself what will make you happy: "I try not to do anything that won't [make me happy] even if it's a show in a place that doesn't suit me. It's so simple: I always used to ask myself that, but never listened to the answer because I knew I was probably going to do it anyway. If someone really needed me to do something, I would probably be like, 'OK!'"
I wonder if we put too much emphasis on being happy and that in itself causes stress and anxiety, but Lana passionately disagrees: "No! I think happiness is the ultimate life goal. I think it's the only thing that's important. There are no mechanisms in place for routes to happiness, that's the whole fucking problem. I think people are unhappy in school - the education structure has been the same for a long time and kids are still not satisfied all over the world with their educational experience. And you don't have enough conversations when you're young about what makes for a satisfying mutual relationship. Those collective life experiences - your youth, your academic education and your education about business
marriage or relationship goals they all lead up to happiness. I think the emphasis is on the wrong things, and it has been for a long time."
Lana tells me she's more socially engaged than ever; her fifth and latest album is a mix of personal introspection and outward-looking anthems, such as God Bless America, in which she sings: "God bless America and all the beautiful women in it." She says that, with this record, she was striving for a feeling that we're all in this together: "I think it would be weird to be making a record during the past 18 months and not comment on how [the political landscape] was making me or the people I know feel, which is not good. It would be really difficult if my views didn't line up with a lot of what people were saying."
We discuss being constantly bombarded with news and other people's views in our hyper-connected world, and I ask how she reconciles her personal wellbeing with the collective feeling that we are all going to hell in a handcart.
"I think it's a balance, I really do. You are so fortunate if you have good health and high energy because it takes a lot to be a responsible human. Responsible to yourself, responsible to others, and to know when not to get too deep into the wormhole of news, but still be politically in-the-know and not be disconnected. In my life, it's like walking on a tightrope. I read the news, but I won't read it before bed; I won't read it when I get up and won't read it between my recording sessions. I have windows of time where I check in and catch up with everyone, but I keep my sacred things sacred."
And as for her paean to America's women? "I wrote God Bless America before the Women's Marches sprung up, but I could tell they were going to happen. As soon as the election was over, I knew that was going happen. People were way more vocal and more active on social media and in real life, so I realised a lot of women were saying out loud that they needed support and they were nervous about some of the bills that might get passed that would directly affect them. So yes, it's a direct response in anticipation of what I thought would happen, and what did happen."
Predicting the Women's Marches must have taken a seriously smart, social instinct, or some kind of sorcery straight from one of her otherworldly Lust For Life trailers. Whatever you think, you can't deny that the pulse of the zeitgeist beats throughout Lana's new album, from her pop collaboration with The Weeknd on the title track to the moody duet with John Lennon's son, Sean,and my personal favourite, Yosemite, a beautiful song about the way relationships change over time.
After she plays me this track in the very room in which it was recorded, I can't help but ask what Lana is like as a girlfriend. "I'm amazing. I'm the best," she jokes, before clarifying, "I actually am the best girlfriend because I only get into a relationship if I'm really excited about it. I'm unconditionally understanding, very loving and like to be with that person for a lot of the time." After hearing Yosemite's refrain that she's no longer a candle in the wind, which to mean she's found a steadier light in her life, I wonder whether what she looks for in a relationship has also changed? "For me, the dream is to have a little bit of the edge, the sexiness, the magnetism, the camaraderie, be on the same page and all that stuff, but without the fallout that comes from a person who is really selfish and puts only their needs first, which is like a lot of frontmen if we're talking about musicians!" (Lana has previously dated Barrie-James O'Neill, the Scottish lead singer of alt-rock band Kassidy.) "I'm going to write a book one day called, 'The curse of the frontman and why you should always date the bassist.'"
Lana smiles, takes a sip of her iced coffee, and says: "I guess have a little bit of a fantasy that really great relationships, friendships, and romances can stand the test of time. Even though each person in the relationship or the group changes, they don't change in ways that would make the relationship come to an end."
"The chorus [of Yosemite] is about doing things for fun, for free, and doing them for the right reasons. It's about having artistic integrity; not doing things because you think they would be big, but because the message is something that's important. And then, it's about just being with someone because you really can't see not having them in your life,not because it would be 'beneficial' to you to be in their company. It's that concept of just being in a relationship for 100% the right reasons. Being a good person, basically."
Lana Del Rey is mercurial - just when you think you've got her she slips through your fingers like quicksilver - but in that hot second, I think I see her clearly: an artist who is rising from the ambiguity of youth and emerging into a woman with an authentic vision for her life and her art. Yes, that might one day fade like the barely there "Chateau Marmont' tattoo on her left wrist, but right now her power is in sharp, unfiltered focus.
Lana Del Rey's fifth studio album, Lust For Life, is out soon.

Source: http://www.flaunt.com/content/people/lana-del-rey

On the bright side – everybody is going to love Honeymoon from now on.

I just want her to make a completely surf rock album, like a mixture of UV and AKA, no collabs, stunning visuals, with contrasting moody/lighter songs. I want lyrics like trash magic and cruel world combined, something messy and American and hot and quietly passionate.
 
I know I will get nothing like this in LFL, and I'll probably love some songs on the album, but so far none of the new songs have blown me away (except for BAR, but it sounds unfinished). Honestly, might be because I'm always so sad but the music is so happy, its sickeningly sweet and annoying to listen to.
 
And in my opinion, there's a striking lack of bold confidence in these few songs which makes things worse for me. Just the difference between "my boyfriends pretty cool, but he's not as cool as me" and "my boyfriends back and he's cooler than ever" it's cute and all but not what I listen for. This is why I like BAR so much, "you did it all for fame" is so accusatory and solid, idk I'm still excited for the album but it's going in the complete opposite direction to where I want it, and it doesn't help that Lana says absolutely nothing about it

Sometimes I just miss Barrie 

Kathy could NEVER.

Also lol it's not 2011/2012 anymore, it's not "cool" for press to make fun of/mock Lana anymore (not that it ever was to begin with, but it was definitely a common trend.) I remember last month MTV even posted an article titled "What Was Our Problem With Lana Del Rey?" addressing all of the undeserved backlash she would frequently receive 5 years ago.
Bashing Lana in 2017 just makes for an embarrassing article tbh.. and not for Lana, for the writer/publication.

I thought this side of her was gone. So happy it's back. 

Spin doesn't deserve her kind words.

i always have a dream of lana x blake being together 
 

Now that this is 'confirmed' I suddenly like Francesco  

Comparing Halsey and Lana is offensive