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She tried to get Mark Ronson to produce it but he was too busy. Something like that.

Now I know why I stopped listening to radio a long time ago... (too hectic)

I actually stayed up for this?????

She tried to get Mark Ronson to produce it but he was too busy. Something like that.

Sorry about the delay, it took me like three hours to translate this !  The guy, although being super interesting, talked SUPER fast ... Anyway, here is my translation ! 
 

Lana's sound changes every album, so I think it's time we give up our dreams that she'll make BTD-type stuff again. I keep praying for Lana to make another Off To The Races, but I think it's time to let it go.   I think what people love most about BTD is the fact that most of the songs were catchy. You didn't have to listen to them several times to let them grow on you, like a lot of people had to for UV and now Honeymoon. I want Lana to make catchy songs too (and Honeymoon has a few of them actually) but I've accepted that she's into slower music now.

Actually, I think Ultraviolence is better than BTD.
 
See, I think that is the point why she is losing fans. Some of you guys are not at her point in her life. She is gettin older and she has matured. She is not craving for style only anymore or an emotion, a production that screams "relatable" to a teen or an early twen. 
 
You also get the difference when you read or listen to her interviews now. 

Mmm but why are these people praising Born to Die and Ultraviolence appearing out of nowhere on Honeymoon's release eve?

YES. Finally someone gets it! Born To Die was amazing and people have to stop acting like it was shit. Its an amazing album. Its on a whole other level. Yes it had beats and yes it was pop. I don't know why people act like something is wrong with liking this album. its my favorite and always will be 

I think you need to get older and see how priorities change in life. Being in your teens and early twenties, so many things are different than in the years to come. Perceptions change, goals change, and how people look at you changes. You learn that beauty is not for forever. 
 
You also realise that all you wanted from love, the men you craved for are not good for you. 
I was at that point in my life after I hit my late 20's.
Also something like "death" that didn't exist in your daily vocabulary becomes very real when you see a parent or an old friend die. And when you see yourself getting older.
 
And I think that may be the breaking point between many Lana fans who are extremly young and herself. She is 30. She sees life different than somebody half her age. From now on, that won't change.

Good reviews: Honeymoon is haunting, ethereal, ghostly, mesmerizing, beautiful, lush, cinematic. 
Bad reviews: Honeymoon is boring, slow, "limousines" and "soft ice cream" lyrics are ridiculous, it's the same from Lana, the shtick it's getting old, she mumbles the lyrics.
 
After being obsessed with Lana pieces I arrived at the point when I don't give a shit about the reviews because they are incredibly boring and cliche-istic. From some time I have the feeling that I read them before. I'm beyond the cringe worthy status when I'm reading some clueless writer's discovery of her story, having the big "revelation" that her real name is not LDR   or babbling about her non-authentic persona. I uber cringe when they are misspelling her stage-name to RAY (I always wondered if that is intentional) or calling her, in a patronizing mode, Lizzy Grant or mentioning SNL    . 
 
I expect something around 60-65 (there will be 3 or 4 scores in the 30-40 range Jim Farber NYD, Chicago Tribune, AV Club and a random idiot like last year 405 reviewer of UV Derek Robertson (Carl Williot from Idolator hates HM and the Baeblemusic blog has a negative campaign against her lately but I don't think that they count towards the MC score). Most of the reviewers will wash their hands with a 55-65 score and there will be some stans who will even out the hater scores. Really,"the same old" accusation it's more fitting to these writers than to Lana's music. I almost forgot that Youtube buffoon Anthony Fantano who will give Honeymoon a 0 score while singing mockingly the chorus of Salvatore.
 
Have "fun" I guess reading that BS, mostly the pieces where you have the clear impression that the critic didn't even bothered to listen to the album properly lifting out a word or a sentence to trash the entire lyrical content of the album. Most of the writers are misogynistic pricks, failed indie musicians who are jealous of her "undeserved" success or feminists who are cringing at her music and I'm frankly amazed, given the divide between her and the critics, that she has a respectable overall score on MC.

i'm so conflicted. i love honeymoon, but what it suffers from is a lack of variety. the songs on their own are great, but the album is all so slow/barely mid-tempo that it becomes laborious to listen to the whole thing at once. all of the songs have a similar 'feel' to them. the thing is, i like that 'feel'! but those songs don't get to shine in an album that lacks variety. we can't appreciate the slow, sensual moments as much because the entire album is that way.
 
let's think about ultraviolence. i've heard so many people say that was an album of sleepy songs. but we also had songs like west coast, MPG, FMWUTTP, & florida kilos to break up the monotony, you know? 
 
this is the first time i really feel like the lyrics are besides the point. they are more a vehicle for the melody than anything. she was right when she described HM as being more "surrealistic" and less personal. 
 
that said, i can appreciate pretty much anything lana puts out. i am here because of her voice & that has never disappointed me. on this album her vocals are even more self-assured & fluid & reach new heights. i'm glad she stopped trying to change her natural vocal range. 
 
the album highlights for me are the blackest day ( perfection), salvatore (get out of my head!), freak (hot), terrance loves you (watch me cry), & music to watch boys to (  )

Nnnnnn goodbye @ the Ride song/video hate in the HONEYMOON thread, I still tear up when I watch that video

i hate it when people say the Ride music video is pretentious, ITS A MUSIC VIDEO!! what do you want her to do?? strip and shake her ass like other artists??
the monologues are lana as an artist and lana has said many times that this is her and not pretend, lana is elizabeth grant. the music video and her persona are inspired by americana and scenery and beauty. honestly if yall think its pretentious, then all art is pretentious because all she is doing is expressing herselft through poetry and imagery. write a poem, take an art course or two, go to a museum and look at all the "pretentious" work done by artists who live by their art and make their life a living work of art.

seriously??!
 
Ride is BY FAR the best song/video she's made. It's fucking perfection.

Here is Salvatore download 320kbps, instead of low quality 128kbps. And cool cover art!
http://picosong.com/JDWn/

Regarding the critics, no one should take them seriously anymore regarding Lana. Some of them are pissed because they didn't received the cd before release day and her label played the record at UO. Half of them don't even listen to her album anyway they just blurt out their preconceived ideas about her (and they are boring as fuck because they just plagiarize that was written already before). My advice is to not even bother to read their pieces. The music is exquisite, it's not immediate, you need to let some songs grow on you but most of the critics won't even try. There are some cute lyrics like "Soft ice cream" and I saw some idiots saying already "what a lazy/stupid lyric" when we know that Salvatore is an ode to her first vacation in Portofino with Francesco (we even have that picture when she eats ice cream). TLY is about her breakup with Barry etc., but how many critics would observe such personal underpinnings of her lyrics: no one.
 
On the side note I have a feeling that she's happy and energized with this signing in London. I still have hope that we'll see her performing soon

No, it's just an UO recording.

My download's already done (Premium account at Uploaded and I just clicked into two new songs which were full of backgropund noise of people talking so I guess they are the UO recordings.

Actually I like MTWBT a lot! The refrain is a killer. And although it's another rather slow song it has an awesome dark and moody atmosphere.

At the moment MTWBT is my new favourite from Honeymoon!

Actually I like MTWBT a lot! The refrain is a killer. And although it's another rather slow song it has an awesome dark and moody atmosphere.

Actually I like MTWBT a lot! The refrain is a killer. And although it's another rather slow song it has an awesome dark and moody atmosphere.

At the moment MTWBT is my new favourite from Honeymoon!

MTWBT > HBTB > HM >>>>... >>>..>>...>> TLY