HollywoodHills

Retrobaroque Electro mixed with Medievaljazz-Heavy Metal and a touch of Renaissance-HipHop and psychodelic alternative future Pop

Flipside tho

the "Bernie Moydoff" joke from @@evilentity had me screaming

I'll be delivering a groundbreaking Sirens packaging concept within the coming days!
To celebrate me being unbanned from lanaboards.com

https://store.lanadelrey.com/products/lana-del-rey-journal
 
This time including pictures and lines of the Honeymoon album. And, of course, it is BLUE now instead of green.
 
Posted it in case some of you wanna buy it (because I did)

If you just mean diversity in tempo there's no argument, but diversity in color and mood there's certainly variation in HM. TBD, HM, SS (my top tier) don't seem alike to me. F,AD, R, S, TBD, 24 (a consecutive stretch) seem pretty varied. HM and TLY have varied production (as only TLY is really stripped back). But again if tempo's the lionshare of diversity for you there's no arguing that. It's more useful to compare her to others and ask if the amount of diversity she shows (even in tempo) is less (or more). So how diverse is she relative to Adele, White Lung, Bat for Lashes, to pick some random examples from my pop music consciousness?   Ella Fitzgerald is an interesting artist to compare LDR/HM to, given LDR's posturing as a "jazz singer". So, for instance, I have a "best of the songbooks disc 1 CD of Ella, which has some slow, saddish, songs and fewer uptempo ones, and it's on spotify (as well as HM of course). If I create a playlist that alternates songs from that CD and HM, the songs mesh well, imo (can't remember if I altered Ella's song ordering a bit to do that, but it doesn't seem like I did much). Considering Ella is one of the greatest pop/jazz singers of the 20th century and had some of the greatest songwriters behind her (Gershwin, Porter, Ellington), I stan for LDR quite well to say that even if she doesn't blow Ella away in terms of singing or song quality; neither is she blown away (i.e., the plot of Rocky I). Of course, your opinion may differ, but my main point is that it's an interesting comparison (i.e., possibly relevant to LDR's artistic intentions) for determining how much variety (or quality) there is in HM songs.    Here's the playlist, if you'd like to do your own assessment of cross-generational singing. They don't always alternate as sometimes there'll be two shortish tracks of the same artist preceding a longer track of the other. Some of the transitions seem conversational (e.g., HBTB and Miss Otis Regrets are both revenge songs).  Also there are provocative lyrics across *both* generations on some songs (Love For Sale, what the heck is that about?)   Something's Gotta Give Love Is Here To Stay Honeymoon Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered Music To Watch Boys To I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Terrence Loves You The Lady Is A Tramp God Knows I Tried I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) High By The Beach Miss Otis Regrets Freak 's Wonderful Art Deco Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea Burnt Norton (Interlude) Religion Love For Sale Salvatore They Can't Take That Away From Me Midnight Sun The Blackest Day Hooray For Love 24 Why Was I Born? Swan Song Cotton Tail Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye

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what about it

Welcome to my crazy visions! I finally finished some edits I've been working on for like a week straight. Daytona Meth is one of my favorite songs. I wanted these edits to demonstrate the psychedelic, dark, sexy sides of Lana's voice. I went for an electric trailer park / Steven Klein theme. No negative comments please, I know these aren't perfect! I also take requests. Thanks
 
uploaded courtesy of your bff @@Elle (;
 

Bad Disease, of course

From her released material, I would definetly say: Carmen (doesn't get the love it deserves ), Bel Air (Masterpiece), Swan Song, Is This Happiness and Flipside! (Top 5 tracks in UV)

90% of the people disliking the HM boxart are just doing it for the sake of it. It's not as "terrible" as everybody is constantly saying it is. 

Diet Mtn Dew would have been her biggest hit US & worldwide if she had released it as a single.
 
Put Me In A Movie is a career highlight.

The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis

HEAVY HITTER

You all been waiting with bated breath (meaning just @)
 
So here's where I'm @ with my Lana library right now.
 
 
 
 
All very cute. Should account for placement of Joshy and I, 1949, Roses, and Caught You Boy. They stayed conceptually the same but I tried to go even more "album-y" with all of them lol. For instance, I tried to pair songs from the same songwriting sessions within the same albums where possible (but Justin Parker contributes to too many disparate types of songs smh--tell me how I'm supposed to have an album with Dum Dum, Puppy Love, and Velvet Crowbar all in one). Tell me your recommendations and shit.
 
A handful of songs are missing bc of my other major revamp in the last round of leaks: I wanted to give the demos some more attention than just shoving them in an unorganized demo album. First, I came up with this three-discer that goes through chronologically, but in hopefully a compelling way:
 
 
 
 
And yes, all my B-sides covers are incredibly off lol, but I don't have the ability to make new ones to my standard and no one just makes a simple companion cover these days.

ok so i recently revamped my lana collection w new leaks and 320 versions and i did a complete overhaul of my albums. basically before i incorporated like every single unreleased song meaning some albums were like 23 tracks and basically a mess
so this time i basically just kind of did the songs i like and have a ~`-~chill ~~~vibe
also slay i guess @ trash for owning the covers