can you all honestly chill the FUCK out please...you're embarrassing yourselves through these petty arguments and its literally so fucking dumb. this isn't the BTD discussion thread, this isn't the Mariah thread, this isn't the UV thread (although its certainly getting rather ultraviolent ). take those arguments elsewhere and quit clogging up the thread with stupidity. thank you.
I'm really excited now - a new Lana album in 2015, unbelievable!
It seems that Lana likes to alternate her album titles - after a dark one comes a lighter sounding one - "Born to die" > "Paradise", "Ultraviolence" > "Honeymoon".
I hope the album will be a bit more uptempo than UV (but not too chart friendly)!
I'm really excited now - a new Lana album in 2015, unbelievable!
It seems that Lana likes to alternate her album titles - after a dark one comes a lighter sounding one - "Born to die" > "Paradise", "Ultraviolence" > "Honeymoon".
I hope the album will be a bit more uptempo than UV (but not too chart friendly)!
I'm really excited now - a new Lana album in 2015, unbelievable!
It seems that Lana likes to alternate her album titles - after a dark one comes a lighter sounding one - "Born to die" > "Paradise", "Ultraviolence" > "Honeymoon".
I hope the album will be a bit more uptempo than UV (but not too chart friendly)!
I'm really excited now - a new Lana album in 2015, unbelievable!
It seems that Lana likes to alternate her album titles - after a dark one comes a lighter sounding one - "Born to die" > "Paradise", "Ultraviolence" > "Honeymoon".
I hope the album will be a bit more uptempo than UV (but not too chart friendly)!
Hi everyone! Ok, I'm gonna try to revive this thread so here's the whole booklet now. It's still something like a beta version, so tell me what you think, your suggestions ... blahblah
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I made two designs for the last pages. I just can't decide which one looks better. I need your help!
I'll add credits on the last page later. Probably I'll use this source unless I find anything more reliable.
I also made two quick edits for the insert (part behind CD) but I'm absolutely not sure about it.
Thanks @@ilovetati for your suggested pictures and ideas. And of course a huge thank you @@Anthem for the whole project and all your effort. oh and thankies also to all of you who liked my creations.
all i know is that there *needs* to be some upbeat songs on the next album. we know that lana does them exceptionally well & in a style that's all her own. sometimes i listen to her unreleased songs & mourn for the hits that could have been.
So this is probably completely unnecessary but I was playing around with the album cover and tried to make it a bit more visually appealing without going overboard, my monitor is a bit off color-wise and I suck at text placement so I have no clue how it actually looks but I figured I'd post it anyway.
If anybody happens to want the full sized image (1425 x 1425) it's here.
I started translating the article, but everything may not be perfect, so… Be indulgent guys!!
The many shades of a young and beautiful girl
In a very short time, Lana Del Rey has become one of the most famous artists of this decade. For Grazia magazine, she remembers her strongest moments of 2014 and talks about the future, her next album and the madness of fame at the time of Twitter and Instagram. A very shy star.
There is something really strange in the eyes of this young lady, a flash of lightning that comes right to her hands, swallowing around her tattered jeans. This is the lightning of her phlegm, the way she moves and talks. Here she is, right in front of us, quiet and mysterious, and yet she seems to not be really aware of her terrible charms. Then it appears hard to explain exactly what she inspires to us - is she just a good-looking girl? To be fair, she’s far from this archetype. An assumption comes to our mind when she starts posing for the photographer: Lana Del Rey is gracious, yet obstinate. Fragile, but confidente. She is a shy star who fell on earth to possess (or even haunt?) the body of a 2010s pop star. And this duality is responsible for her unpredictable personality. She’s probably the only one who’d be ok for an interview in such a short time before the end of the year (when usually it takes months before getting a proper interview of anyone really famous). We had asked her last Wednesday by mail, and only a few days later we were on the way to meet her in a city similar to Los Angeles (where she currently lives), New York city (where she goes whenever she can) and Paris. Yeah, we’re talking about London. That’s it, the strange freedom of this singer made of paradoxes: being able to control every aspect of her career and suddenly deviate from her initial path if she feels the need to do it. Taking time for herself, and giving to the others, investing all her energy into her interlocutor’s comfort if she feels relaxed with them. Our meeting could have lasted one day, one night, one week, one month or one life-long, with Lana, we never know. While we were chatting, she recalled that, when we first interviewed her two years ago, we had noticed how long her nails were. She showed them up again and told us that she had just shortened them. Then she started drawing little palm-trees in the sketchbook that was laid on the table while playing us some extracts of songs she plans to record. She also asked us our respective birth dates and started talking about astrological signs and american writer Joan Didion… Despite all of this curiosity, Lana never revealed herself completly. That is probably what makes her such a modern woman. She still is under her thirties and wears all the typical features of her generation (which is usually called X, Y or even Z depending on who you will be talking to). And although she is a celebrity, she is very discreet when it comes to her personal life. And although she has millions of fans over the world, she remains true to herself. She chose to sing her love and her lovers, but keeps protecting her privacy. Well, at least she tries to keep protecting it… The conversation that follows is a rare insight into Del Rey’s perception of the various events that marked 2014 and the release of her newest album, Ultraviolence. This interview is the first she gave for a very long time.
How was your year? I’d say unusual. I’ve been messing up everything: I toured, from april to june, before releasing the album, and then I did absolutely nothing. I was really happy with how Ultraviolence sounded; but now when I hear it again, I start thinking about hunches I got when I still was writing the songs. These things make me think I went too far. I’ve been in some awful situations, you know, situations that I couldn’t control, that I didn’t even want to create. Especially with journalists, the one from Rolling Stone and the one from the Guardian, and all the others who were always asking me the same goddamn questions… “Do you really wish you were dead?”, “Did you fuck with someone in the industry?” Obviously, when I wrote tracks like Fucked My Way Up To The Top, I knew such kind of things would happen, and I should have simply answered “no”, I should have moved on.
What is your state of mind now? I’m afraid this album will be forgotten. I’m always afraid good things will be forgotten, burried. Musically, I’m still looking for something different, with majestic choruses, beautiful orchestrations, a type of 50s vibe with a bit of soft grunge. Since march, I’ve been writing a lot of new songs, in a more conventional way -the verses, then the refrain, with a strong jazzy influence. I’m having a lot of fun with all of that. And next year, I’ll tour across the USA. I’ve been doing it only once before and I was really moved, especially in Detroit where I could feel the weight of its History. So, that’s why I decided I wanted to do it again, this time with my friend Courtney Love, for two months. My new album will come out after, maybe for late-august.
Did you writing style change for this next record? My lyrics are very similar to me, who I truly am, but I must admit that I’m currently trying to do some new things. It’s a bit surrealist, full of colors. I feel much more inspired by people like Mark Ryden, Fellini or Picasso… Oh, I’m totally fond of this documentary: “Fellini : I’m a Born Liar”, which explains that the film-maker was in love with his hometown, and each of his movies is like one of its facets. I like his idea, the fact that truth should never impede to a beautiful lie… (she smiles)
You seem to like evoking the 50s imagery in your songs: the golden age of recording studios, ladies singing late at night with their big band… Yeah, I love it. I love nightlife, the mood that comes from it. That’s why I wanted to meet Mark Ronson: I played him ten songs I just composed for this next album. Not so much that he added his usual signature, soul and funk, but rather it explores a sound close to the golden age of jazz. I wasn’t even born in the 50s but I feel like I was there. And when I still was living in New York, I was looking for this dream, maybe some other girls had the same, to live as a singer in a jazz club where I could sing some standards, but my own compositions too. I had a very ‘romantic’ vision of what a singer’s life should be. I daydreamed about tours in Europe, just like Chet Baker did, for example.
You like drama, right? You find it attracting? I don’t. I came in [the music business] without any drama in me. But immediately, things started to get heavier.
Isn’t it strange to be nostalgic of an era you never lived? Yes, yes it is and it might be the reason why I never really had a lot of friends -only those who feel, just as me, connected to the past and the future at the same time. And we are not many out there. I’m firend with James Franco… He’s one of the very few people I feel like really linked to the past, the actors of the past, the California of the 60s, and the New York of the 70s.
You grew up in a small town near the Adirondacks. Do you miss the places of your childhood? Yes… The house is full of memories. It’s hard for me to come back there… I did two weeks ago, I was coming from New York, for the first time in four years. My room hasn’t changed. There’s the same poster as ever pinned on the wall, but everything seemed much smaller to me…
You did a cover of ‘The Other Woman’, which was already famous for Nina Simone’s interpretation. The song is about a love triangle. But your version isn’t very clear: we don’t know which point of view, which ‘other woman’ you finally are in the song. So, I’m asking you: who are you? Are you the wife, the mistress, or even the husband himself? I always wanted to cover this song. I’ve been constantly listening to it for years. It’s interesting to see an ambiguity in the lyrics… (she starts humming a bit of it) I think I’ve always been ‘the other woman’ in a sense, well at least I always felt this way. I don’t necessarily wanna be at the edge of everything, but it’s a fact, I’m a kind of outsider. I’m always the one who stands outside of the circle. Even in my private life, I often feel like overwhelmed by what happens around me. That said, I already played the part of the normal girlfriend, the more ‘legitimate’ one…
Do you feel like you are the spectator of your own life? More and more. With the Internet, now, when you are with someone else, it’s very different. People do not know you only from what you chose to tell them, they know you from what they’ve heard, seen or read on the Web. This is undeniable, especially when I meet someone for the first time.
Even so, are you loyal? I want to be and I think I am in my heart. If I find someone I love, I will probably love them for ever. I am a very faithful person, emotionnaly, I offer all my trust. But I’m always careful. Because I always see like red flags around everyone new I tend to meet. Finally, I think I like people with a constant temper the best. I don’t want any more surprises in life.
Are you a control freak? No, not really… OK, I totally am! (she laughs) When I have a sound or a mood in mind, even for a very simple song, sometimes I have to fight to get precisely what I wanted. But I try to chill. Otherwise I’d be doing the same things over and over again… And that’s not what I like in music.
Do you think you’re impinged by your perfectionism sometimes? All the time. When I tour, for example… It’s painful for me to sing the same songs every night.
Did you ever want to give up, to erase all this and start afresh? I have often thought about that, but I can’t. I’m famous.
So, the fame is like a burden for you? It makes things more complicated than they used to be… I can’t do wathever I want, whenever I want anymore. Now even my hobbies, my other interests are planned. Apart from my private relationship with my family, everything is public. Even my phone calls: I can’t be sure they’re not listened to. You can’t even imagine what people already stole. Basically, excepting my memories and my imagination, there is nothing really private left to me! (she laughs before pausing for a moment) I am a very shy person, maybe even pathologically shy, and being famous doesn’t improve that. I like hanging out, dining in a restaurant, but it became almost impossible for me. Everyone has a phone or a camera… This is odd to say, but that’s what my daily life is made of. I’m always being photographed, even when I’m buying aspirin. Obviously I should have known better. But it is also true that when I started singing, when I was 20, the world was very different. It’s not easy to be quiet now. I never suffered from that; but I must be careful. There are many strange people out there. (she laughs again) I swim carefully in new waters.
Thank you, I'm happy you like it!
Yeah, the Gramma lyrics thing bothers me too but I don't really know how to improve this because I want the photo to be there. I tried puting the text directly on the photo but it's not readable at all so I decided to seperate the lyrics even though I'm absolutely not happy with this now.
Haha, thanks. This is actually my first more or less serious booklet design. I mean I once tried to make one for Sirens but...
Here are 3 more pages of the booklet. I'm not sure about the last one if the picture is fitting. Or should I take a pic of Las Vegas? Or something completely different? Another thing, I want to write something like "All songs written by Lizzy Grant blabla" on the last page but I'm such a flop fan that I don't know who actually wrote them...In general I'm not so sure what to write there. I need your help plz.
As last time just tell me what you think, if I should change something, what you don't like etc...
I don't know if you guys are still interested in all this but I also started creating a booklet. So, here are the first few pages (just click on the thumbnails to see it in HQ).
Basically you always see two pages as you would see them when opening a real booklet. So these are the first 8 pages.
If you have any suggestions, wishes, criticism for me don't hesitate to tell me.
No problem! If you use a place like UPS, try and find someone there who knows what they are doing. I met a girl who helped me out SO much and it really made a difference. I suggest looking up information on DPI and just learning about the printing process in general while you are working on it. And remember that the bigger the image the better as it can be scaled down to size. My prints are good, but they are definitely of a noticeable lower quality than the ones that came with the box set (except SS thankfully) if you look closely and a lot of that has to do with size and where you get it done at. I'd still shoot for a local print shop if I were you.
Good luck and please post yours when you get it done.
For those wondering, I'm going to make a jewel case guide when I make my own copy, which will hopefully be kind of soon.
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