Groupie Lover

DID YOU AT LEAST READ THE INTERVIEW AT THE START OF THE THREAD

DID YOU AT LEAST READ THE INTERVIEW AT THE START OF THE THREAD

um..............

lana did wanted black beauty to be the lead single, but there are rumors that the track was leaked by her own label in order to prevent that from happening so lana would be forced to release it as a bonus track. 

sorry girl its my first time starting a topic

Hello everybody, my name is Gonzalo, i'm @lanastarboy on instagram, i decided to start this topic because of the weird story of Lana's second LP "ULTRAVIOLENCE" 
Here is what i have for discussion !:
 
1) Rolling Stones Interview with Dan Auerbach ( http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718 )
 
1.1) 
"There was a lot of bull:) I'm not used to," Dan Auerbach tells Rolling Stone
 
 "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me.  Really rubbed me the wrong way.  I got really defensive because I thought it was bull:).
 
"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"
 
 
Del Rey acknowledges a six-week period this past spring when Ultraviolence was in limbo. "I mean, I think there were people they wanted me to work with," she says. "I don't know who they were. When I said I was ready, they were like, 'Are you sure?'" She laughs. "'Because I feel like you could go further.'"
 
 
"On this album, in my opinion, you didn't want her to try to do something," adds Janick's predecessor, Jimmy Iovine. "I felt she hit a bull's-eye. Everybody's saying to me, 'We need a single,' calling me from Europe. I said, 'You don't need anything.' It's a very coherent body of work, and thought any other conversation was a distraction."
 
 
Janick and Jimmy Iovine are both Interscope Chiefs and they were the ones who defended Lana against the main label in Europe, also when they said 'We need a single,' they wanted Lana to make a pop hit like in 2012.
 
2) http://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-114-1245121
 
2.1)
He adds: “She impressed me every day. There were moments when she was fighting me. I could sense that maybe she didn’t want to have anybody think she wasn’t in control because I’m sure it’s really hard to be a woman in the music business. So we bumped heads a little bit, but at the end of the day we were dancing to the songs.”
 
3) http://radio.com/2014/06/12/lana-del-rey-interview-maleficent-ultraviolence/
3.1)
LDR: Dan said that everything on the record, all the songs have this kind of narco-swing. So whereas the beat and the verses on “West Coast” were really direct, the chorus naturally slipped into this half-time beat. I just remember everyone at the label being like, ‘God, it’s getting slower at the chorus?’ And we were like, yeah!
 
4) Also years ago there was an image floating around of a music video  that was intended for the UV Era but was scrapped, the music video included the water girls that we have now seen in the MTWBT AND FREAK Music Video, these girls also appeared in Neil Krug's 2014 Photoshoot named "Pale Fire", this photoshoot was allegedly for an upcoming single of the album but in ended up being scrapped off the record.


 
5)The original music video for the song "Ultraviolence" was the Freak Music Video that they recycled for the Honeymoon Era, sadly it was rejected because it would be controversial due to the fact that it was a tribute to the Jonestown Massacre, Interscope permitted Lana to recycle the material along the song Freak when there was not a lot of buzz surrounding her image.
 
6) Scrapped Homemade Video for "West Coast" and "Pretty When You Cry"
 
 
 

what

that guy is a trip lol

um hun brooklyn baby was just a promotional single just like radio in born to die, there is no ways that it could have gotten a video.

Hello everybody, my name is Gonzalo, i'm @lanastarboy on instagram, i decided to start this topic because of the weird story of Lana's second LP "ULTRAVIOLENCE" 
Here is what i have for discussion !:
 
1) Rolling Stones Interview with Dan Auerbach ( http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718 )
 
1.1) 
"There was a lot of bull:) I'm not used to," Dan Auerbach tells Rolling Stone
 
 "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me.  Really rubbed me the wrong way.  I got really defensive because I thought it was bull:).
 
"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"
 
 
Del Rey acknowledges a six-week period this past spring when Ultraviolence was in limbo. "I mean, I think there were people they wanted me to work with," she says. "I don't know who they were. When I said I was ready, they were like, 'Are you sure?'" She laughs. "'Because I feel like you could go further.'"
 
 
"On this album, in my opinion, you didn't want her to try to do something," adds Janick's predecessor, Jimmy Iovine. "I felt she hit a bull's-eye. Everybody's saying to me, 'We need a single,' calling me from Europe. I said, 'You don't need anything.' It's a very coherent body of work, and thought any other conversation was a distraction."
 
 
Janick and Jimmy Iovine are both Interscope Chiefs and they were the ones who defended Lana against the main label in Europe, also when they said 'We need a single,' they wanted Lana to make a pop hit like in 2012.
 
2) http://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-114-1245121
 
2.1)
He adds: “She impressed me every day. There were moments when she was fighting me. I could sense that maybe she didn’t want to have anybody think she wasn’t in control because I’m sure it’s really hard to be a woman in the music business. So we bumped heads a little bit, but at the end of the day we were dancing to the songs.”
 
3) http://radio.com/2014/06/12/lana-del-rey-interview-maleficent-ultraviolence/
3.1)
LDR: Dan said that everything on the record, all the songs have this kind of narco-swing. So whereas the beat and the verses on “West Coast” were really direct, the chorus naturally slipped into this half-time beat. I just remember everyone at the label being like, ‘God, it’s getting slower at the chorus?’ And we were like, yeah!
 
4) Also years ago there was an image floating around of a music video  that was intended for the UV Era but was scrapped, the music video included the water girls that we have now seen in the MTWBT AND FREAK Music Video, these girls also appeared in Neil Krug's 2014 Photoshoot named "Pale Fire", this photoshoot was allegedly for an upcoming single of the album but in ended up being scrapped off the record.


 
5)The original music video for the song "Ultraviolence" was the Freak Music Video that they recycled for the Honeymoon Era, sadly it was rejected because it would be controversial due to the fact that it was a tribute to the Jonestown Massacre, Interscope permitted Lana to recycle the material along the song Freak when there was not a lot of buzz surrounding her image.
 
6) Scrapped Homemade Video for "West Coast" and "Pretty When You Cry"
 
 
 

um..............

um hun brooklyn baby was just a promotional single just like radio in born to die, there is no ways that it could have gotten a video.

It wasn't fun the first time

lana did wanted black beauty to be the lead single, but there are rumors that the track was leaked by her own label in order to prevent that from happening so lana would be forced to release it as a bonus track. 

Hey guys i wanted to make this thread to have a space to share things like reworks, alternative versions, remixes, acapellas and things like that!
Today i made 2 acoustics versions of "Ultraviolence" and "Brooklyn Baby" and i posted them of youtube!
 
UV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr7ciJLZh-M
 
BB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRIXsQUW0bA
 
IF YOU HAVE ANY FAN MADE MATERIAL OR SOMETHING MADE BY YOU PLEASE SHARE BELOW!
 

lana did wanted black beauty to be the lead single, but there are rumors that the track was leaked by her own label in order to prevent that from happening so lana would be forced to release it as a bonus track. 

I WOULD DIE FOR SOME DEMOS OF UV AND HM  

I WOULD DIE FOR SOME DEMOS OF UV AND HM  

first of all. hi 
second, btd was the basic lana because of the lyrics, cliches, pop, bad boy with good girl. but unique vintage imagery and sound.
third, commercial because her label and lana wanted the album to have heavy promotion and hits so that they would establish and image for Lana Del Rey!, so that in later years as now she would have to to the same ammount of promo because she would already have an image in the mainstream catalogue and a determined public (all of us     ) that would always listen to her material no matter what!
fourth, basic and commercial are not bad things btw, they are just the "basics" to establish Lana in the music industry and scene

I WOULD DIE FOR SOME DEMOS OF UV AND HM  

Hello everybody, my name is Gonzalo, i'm @lanastarboy on instagram, i decided to start this topic because of the weird story of Lana's second LP "ULTRAVIOLENCE" 
Here is what i have for discussion !:
 
1) Rolling Stones Interview with Dan Auerbach ( http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718 )
 
1.1) 
"There was a lot of bull:) I'm not used to," Dan Auerbach tells Rolling Stone
 
 "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me.  Really rubbed me the wrong way.  I got really defensive because I thought it was bull:).
 
"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"
 
 
Del Rey acknowledges a six-week period this past spring when Ultraviolence was in limbo. "I mean, I think there were people they wanted me to work with," she says. "I don't know who they were. When I said I was ready, they were like, 'Are you sure?'" She laughs. "'Because I feel like you could go further.'"
 
 
"On this album, in my opinion, you didn't want her to try to do something," adds Janick's predecessor, Jimmy Iovine. "I felt she hit a bull's-eye. Everybody's saying to me, 'We need a single,' calling me from Europe. I said, 'You don't need anything.' It's a very coherent body of work, and thought any other conversation was a distraction."
 
 
Janick and Jimmy Iovine are both Interscope Chiefs and they were the ones who defended Lana against the main label in Europe, also when they said 'We need a single,' they wanted Lana to make a pop hit like in 2012.
 
2) http://www.nme.com/news/music/lana-del-rey-114-1245121
 
2.1)
He adds: “She impressed me every day. There were moments when she was fighting me. I could sense that maybe she didn’t want to have anybody think she wasn’t in control because I’m sure it’s really hard to be a woman in the music business. So we bumped heads a little bit, but at the end of the day we were dancing to the songs.”
 
3) http://radio.com/2014/06/12/lana-del-rey-interview-maleficent-ultraviolence/
3.1)
LDR: Dan said that everything on the record, all the songs have this kind of narco-swing. So whereas the beat and the verses on “West Coast” were really direct, the chorus naturally slipped into this half-time beat. I just remember everyone at the label being like, ‘God, it’s getting slower at the chorus?’ And we were like, yeah!
 
4) Also years ago there was an image floating around of a music video  that was intended for the UV Era but was scrapped, the music video included the water girls that we have now seen in the MTWBT AND FREAK Music Video, these girls also appeared in Neil Krug's 2014 Photoshoot named "Pale Fire", this photoshoot was allegedly for an upcoming single of the album but in ended up being scrapped off the record.


 
5)The original music video for the song "Ultraviolence" was the Freak Music Video that they recycled for the Honeymoon Era, sadly it was rejected because it would be controversial due to the fact that it was a tribute to the Jonestown Massacre, Interscope permitted Lana to recycle the material along the song Freak when there was not a lot of buzz surrounding her image.
 
6) Scrapped Homemade Video for "West Coast" and "Pretty When You Cry"
 
 
 

100 % agree.
 
I understand if you are not a fan of the musical style/production. However, the lyrics, if you take the whole album into consideration, are definitely some of the best she has ever written. I also wouldn't call it commercial, because you have to remember that at the time Born To Die was released, there was absolutely nothing like it. This was before artists like Lorde, Halsey etc. were around, and the sound of Born To Die was completely new and unique, meaning that because it wasn't following any trends, it could as well have flopped. I do have to admit, though, that Born To Die is easier to listen to and to "get into" than Ultraviolence or Honeymoon.

Hey guys i wanted to make this thread to have a space to share things like reworks, alternative versions, remixes, acapellas and things like that!
Today i made 2 acoustics versions of "Ultraviolence" and "Brooklyn Baby" and i posted them of youtube!
 
UV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr7ciJLZh-M
 
BB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRIXsQUW0bA
 
IF YOU HAVE ANY FAN MADE MATERIAL OR SOMETHING MADE BY YOU PLEASE SHARE BELOW!
 

first of all. hi 
second, btd was the basic lana because of the lyrics, cliches, pop, bad boy with good girl. but unique vintage imagery and sound.
third, commercial because her label and lana wanted the album to have heavy promotion and hits so that they would establish and image for Lana Del Rey!, so that in later years as now she would have to to the same ammount of promo because she would already have an image in the mainstream catalogue and a determined public (all of us     ) that would always listen to her material no matter what!
fourth, basic and commercial are not bad things btw, they are just the "basics" to establish Lana in the music industry and scene

Hey guys i wanted to make this thread to have a space to share things like reworks, alternative versions, remixes, acapellas and things like that!
Today i made 2 acoustics versions of "Ultraviolence" and "Brooklyn Baby" and i posted them of youtube!
 
UV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr7ciJLZh-M
 
BB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRIXsQUW0bA
 
IF YOU HAVE ANY FAN MADE MATERIAL OR SOMETHING MADE BY YOU PLEASE SHARE BELOW!