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I'd be happy if it has a mix between AKA and Ultraviolence.
Hell I'd love some rock/blues tracks.....like the way Led Zeppelin did.

I agree wholeheartedly! <3 I think this album (and the people who worked on it, including David Nichtern!) have never received their due. So, I was so happy to be able to start this thread, so as you said, we could coherently gather information and spread the love for AKA! Also, kudos for finding that article! It's certainly one of the most informative out there about this period in Lana's history. You're too sweet
 
I agree too about AKA's artwork-- while I've grown to love it in association with the album, it was not executed well at all. Even Kill Kill's artwork, while not perfect, looks a lot more inviting and evocative of the music than AKA's. Honestly, despite only being released 6 yeas ago, I think AKA was a bit ahead of its time in some respects. Lana was definitely making music that was hard to define, but with more genre-hopping mainstream artists these days (think Marina & the Diamonds or Melanie Martinez, whom I often see grouped in the same circles as Lana),  AKA could be better marketed and received if it were released today, imo. 

regarding the mystery of AKA's lack of sales or repercussion, i can't say i'm dumbfounded: her music was hard to classify, and thus was poorly marketed (5 points definitely didn't excel at that), starting by chuck's hideous artwork and the amateur design and fonts*. i think she would've found her niche with time, but it's hard to fathom that without the whole persona to accompany the sound she would have been the worldwide phenomenon she has become.
 
*they are now endearing to me, but objectively i don't think they are on the same level of quality as the music, and i can't imagine people being drawn to the album at a record store without prior information on it. whether we like it or not, aesthetics do play a part in intriguing you enough to reach for something unknown (hence the later success of LDR).

AKA is such a special album, her best work for sure.The songs are magical - they're like drug induced sparkly Nevada lullabies.

I listened to Lana Del Ray again tonight, for the millionth time-- my feelings haven't changed. This album is genius, and it definitely saddens me that Lana will likely never return to this set of aesthetics and style of music.
 
However, the genius of AKA is not *just* Lana. I give a sizable part of my respect for the album to David Kahne, as well. While Lana created killer melodies, lyrics, and concepts that would work extremely well under the guidance of any producer, Kahne had the perfect touch to push the songs from "excellent" to "god-like", in my opinion. 
 
It definitely deserves repeat listens-- some subtle flourishes Kahne brought in are best noticed after you've been bowled over a few times by Lana's handiwork with the stories told and pictures painted here. To me, the perfect example of Kahne's "Midas touch" on AKA is "Pawn Shop Blues". As evidenced by a live performance and a demo, PSB was a staggeringly beautiful, tender, and poignant track when Lana was doing it on her own. However, Kahne took it to another level-- while PSB in its raw state is mournful and brimming with sadness, Kahne's instrumentation gives it depth-- it goes from being a "sad" song to something better described as "bittersweet". With the angelic echoes and trembling guitars, Kahne doesn't detract at all from Lana's lyrics-- instead, he gives them deeper meaning and manifold facets. Pawn Shop Blues becomes, all at once, a hopeful look at living for a purpose outside of yourself, a melancholy assertion on the nature of love and loss, and a somber reminder of how one can lose it all for nothing. With these extra dimensions, the track becomes infinitely interesting, as it's hard to tell where the hope begins and the desperation ends. 
 
I'm rambling-- my point being, AKA is an absolutely genius record that I'll love 'til the day I die, and both David Kahne and Lana are geniuses for putting just the right elements in just the right places to create an album that is cohesive yet kaleidoscopic, and that has so many facets and subtleties that it demands repeat listens. Fabulous. Please continue sharing info and thoughts on AKA here, because it means the world to me and I want to know all there is to know about it!
 
Thanks for reading all this 

I love the album Sirens.

I prefer LDR AKA LG over BTD (If that's an unpopular opinion)

Lowkey wish she would get out of LA and back into NYC.. Or somewhere else to get inspiration for her next sound.. i just wish for some good bass, nice beats, great production, different sounds, AND I really hope she uses her different voices (Baby doll voice, Agressive rock voice, soothing Black beautiy voice) Idk i just want her to put a lot of work into this one.. and maybe more time 

Something like the bridge in shades of cool  

Lizzy Grant + May Jailer + Ultraviolence + Guitar Solos

I'm stoked that she's been hanging out with Jonathan Wilson and Father John Misty lately, it's giving me (very false) hope for some Laurel Canyon psychedelic folk-rock

I disagree. I don't think she was ever comfortable in the rock idiom. She's a jazz artist at heart.

More gansta Sinatra, hollywood sadcore!
 
I want more songs that mention the old Las Vegas, Wilshire Blvd, Hollywood. Maybe she throw in some NoCal.

I think Lana's jazzy tangents are beautiful, the only problem is that they're too short and often just tacked onto slow or boring pop songs in an attempt to liven them up. If Lana would really follow through with an attempt at jazz I think it would sound amazing. Her free-form vocals are by far her most emotionally genuine and rarely fall into this monotonous 'I'm too cool to give a fuck' tone that she often does.

What if she remade some of her best unreleased. And then the title of the album could be "The Greatest Story Never Told". With hits like Velvet Crowbar, Hollywood's Dead, and meet me in the pale moonlight

Yesssssssss. I'm so ready.

100% self produced, with just a little side help. More orchestrations. As much Once Upon a Dream like as possible.
 
Keep on keeping on with the same sound.
 
And keeping sure to make the entire album another concept album like Paradise, Ultraviolence and Honeymoon are.
 
where one needs to listen in the precise order, then listen again.
 
A separate box set on older and live stuff would be great, and some more one off duets that are not on the proper album, and soundtrack stuff.
 
all those examples people are giving above are other artists (to me meh) stuff. Why would anyone want her to copy (meh stuff) from other artists that already has been done. Lana's stuff should be the stuff other (meh) artists copy down the road when their handlers tell them they want something like Trailblazer Lana does, and not their normal (meh) stuff.

Something with brass, I liked her voice combined with them in Big Eyes

lizzy grant trailer park stuff makes me smile 

This thing about wether or not to post info is really driving me insane. I want to know everything, but at the same time it's kinda mean. :imbeingsarcasticbitch2:

i have them all saved in a bookmark folder on my computer but i just never watch them haha. I've only seen a few. I DID WATCH TROPICO MULTIPLE TIMES THO!
 
awe! that's awesome though <3 I have soooooooo many bookmarked live performances but i never watch haha but i download the songs and listen to live versions all the time.
 
the awkward moment when you sing the "live" version of her songs while a recorded version is playing is what gets me. haha

i have them all saved in a bookmark folder on my computer but i just never watch them haha. I've only seen a few. I DID WATCH TROPICO MULTIPLE TIMES THO!
 
awe! that's awesome though <3 I have soooooooo many bookmarked live performances but i never watch haha but i download the songs and listen to live versions all the time.
 
the awkward moment when you sing the "live" version of her songs while a recorded version is playing is what gets me. haha

i have them all saved in a bookmark folder on my computer but i just never watch them haha. I've only seen a few. I DID WATCH TROPICO MULTIPLE TIMES THO!
 
awe! that's awesome though <3 I have soooooooo many bookmarked live performances but i never watch haha but i download the songs and listen to live versions all the time.
 
the awkward moment when you sing the "live" version of her songs while a recorded version is playing is what gets me. haha

I don't know if this is the right thread for this or not, but I wanted to say this somewhere (and my status isn't enough room)
 
I was re-watching this performance of "Video Games": 
 
 
Seeing Lana break down and cry like that gave me so many feelings. Despite the fact that this heaux has made a lot of artistic decisions I don't care for, and doesn't always do the things I wish she did, I am so proud of her, and I feel like I can't criticize too harshly, because she has worked so hard to get to this point. I bet the girl who was drinking and hangin' around in Lake Placid, or the girl who wrote songs in her trailer in New Jersey, or the girl who played songwriters' competitions and local clubs never, ever thought she'd reach this point. When she was singing "you're gonna love me, I'm gonna make you," did she know how true that was going to be? Did she know she would cover magazines and perform at festivals and have crowds and crowds of people cheering her name? When she took the stage for the first time and sang, did she know what was to come? Thinking about all of this is what makes me love her so much more. She's not perfect, she's certainly flawed-- but she is living her dream and I am so happy for her. I wish the Lizzy Grant of ten-or-so years ago could look forward to now and see what she's become-- I think she wouldn't believe it. Even if her music were to go down the drain, I'll always believe in the artist Lana Del Rey is, and forever be proud of her for having a dream and seeing it through. 

sometimes I like to think that I am this super famous popstar and I wrote and performed all the songs that lana wrote. I would talk like her and I would make all the music videos she made but she didn't exist and I looked like myself. I think her music is so brilliant and I just want to be able to say that it was all me. I feel so guilty about doing this