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Lana Del Rey will be headlining Hangout Fest in Gulf Shores, Alabama in May 2024.

This pic she just posted cured me x

Did you know that there's a 2023 Lipsters Awards on LanaBoards.com? Well, now you do!
 It's that time of year again! Our annual Lipsters Awards is our site's own awards ceremony where we all come together to honour all the members, music, moments, memories, and messiness that make our community what it is.
I look forward to hosting this year's annual ceremony with you all again! I always anticipate to our Lipsters Awards every year as it's one of my favourite things we do here on the site. I love how we can all come together to have our own special day all about us. Wishing everyone lots of love and luck! x
 
 

Red Carpet: page 34
Awards Ceremony: page 45
After Party: page 78
 
 

Even without our notorious “Time Online” tracker that is now but a distant memory, at this point I’m sure we all can recognise who our most recent visitors are! The Most Active award will be bestowed upon the member that frequently blesses us with their posts. Also thanks for boosting our AdSense revenue xx

Winner: @Embach
Runner Up: @Surf Noir
Other nominees: @taco truck, @That Venice Bitch, @Veinsineon
 
 

Sometimes a thought isn’t worth a thread post, and that’s okay! The recipient of the Status Updater award is the one who makes the best use out of our Status Update feature to let us know their thoughts for the day, their favourite new tunes, their drunken rambles, and the like. (& with the abundance of new random threads being created, I thank the ones who utilise this feature when appropriate instead.)
 
Winner: @Surf Noir
Runner Up: @Mer
Other nominees: @Elle, @Embach, @honeymooncd
 
 

Whether it be a Lana reference or pun, an iconic song title, or just a purely imaginative name, we all have that one member whose name makes us smile, and the Best Username award is for that special someone.
 
Winner: @mindofyouwithmeTHANKU1moretime
Runner Up: @Stoned Mary in the Garden
Other nominees: @lizzyology, @Surf Noir, @Veinsineon
 
 

For Worst Username... well.. we will just assume your first option was already taken.
 
Winner: @Nectar Of The Puss
Runner Up: @CoochieSwirlC
Other nominees: @fl0ridakil0s, @lanaismamom, @Psychedelic Pussy
 
 

Our first new award for this year's ceremony - and one I can't believe we didn't already have! Members are allowed to creatively express themselves through their profile picture, and our new Best Profile Picture award will honour our favourites. Whether it be a beautiful photograph of Lana, an image of their lovely self, another iconic artist, a stunning artwork, or just an aesthetically pleasing image, let's show some love to the little square images we all associate our members with.
 
Winner: @Elle
Runner Up: @Veinsineon
Other nominees: @prettywhenimhigh, @Psychedelic Pussy, @watercolor eyes
 
 

With the best must come with the worst. To oppose the previous award, our new Worst Profile Picture award will honour the profile images that give us all a little jumpscare when we see them. Perhaps it's time for a change.
 
Winner: @ivory almond
Runner Up: @The Stargirl Pinky
Other nominees: @111, @Americen Whore, @Nectar
 
 

The Best Taste award is to honour the member who is the embodiment of true taste. Let’s discuss this – they’re disgusting, you’re delicious.
 
Winner: @Surf Noir
Runner Up: @Veinsineon
Other nominees: @Embach, @Mer, @taco truck
 
 

Well, you can’t agree with everyone. Opposite from our previous award, the Worst Taste award is for the one whose opinions leave others questioning. We’re sorry, but we still love you anyway.  
 
Winner: @Xenoblade 3
Runner Up: @Terrence Loves Me
Other nominees: @baddisease, @Jared, @Lindsay Lohan
 
 

This award is reserved for our own America’s Sweetheart who always keeps it sugary sweet. Let’s show our appreciation for those who make LanaBoards an enjoyable place to be with the Nicest Member award.
 
Winner: @Elle
Runner Up: @Embach
Other nominees: @fishtails, @taco truck, @Surf Noir
 
 

No negativity on this site, thank u. But it happens sometimes. This award is for our feisty pitbull who has no shame in digging their claws in every now and then. Take your Rudest Member award and then maybe chill out.
 
Winner: @Xenoblade 3
Runner Up: @111
Other nominees: @barttttender, @Fingertips, @Strangelove
 
 

Old is gold. This award is to honour our member who has continued to come back year after year despite the madness, the one who has become truly embedded within LanaBoards culture. Give a salute as we honour our favourite LanaBoards veteran with the Veteran Member award.
(Note: Only accounts who have joined before August 2018 are eligible for this award)
 
Winner: @Elle
Runner Up: @Veinsineon
Other nominees: @111, @HeadBitch, @PARADIXO
 
 

Old may be gold, but new can be diamonds! The Best New Member award is for our favourite new face, who thankfully hasn’t been scared away yet. We hope you stick around.
(Note: Only accounts who have joined after August 2022 are eligible for this award) 
 
Winner: @Embach
Runner Up: @Lanaparadiserey
Other nominees: @Black to Blue, @honeymooncd, @The Sun Also Rises
 
 

Everybody loves an underdog. The Underrated Member award is for the member who you feel doesn’t get enough credit around here and deserves their flowers. We won’t let you die an underdog in vain.
 
Winner: @hotshot2am
Runner Up: @stupidapartmentcomplex
Other nominees: @lizzyology, @Lanaparadiserey, @southbeachswing
 
 

Though I truly resent this award each year, at this point it has become tradition. As our member graveyard grows slowly but surely each year, the Best Banned Member award is to honour someone who is no longer here with us due to their own naughtiness. Perhaps a legend in their own right, pour out a drink for our fallen sisters with this award. (in b4 it’s all the same person in 5 different variants.)
 
Winner: @lustforlife
Runner Up: @the ocean
Other nominees: @lanaswildflowers, @May, @shadesofloveduthenandnow
 
 

The Most Missed Sis award is for someone who isn't necessarily a banned member, but for one who hasn't been around for awhile. Who do you miss seeing? Who do you want to have their comeback era? Let them know through this award. (Don’t let former user May gaslight you into thinking they’re dead though.)
 
Winner: @BlackoutZone
Runner Up: @COCC
Other nominees: @American Bottom, @Louise, @Tana Mongeau
 
 

Whether it be because of their huge Lana collection, their knowledge of Lana’s life history, their frequency at live shows, or just their general massive appreciation for Lana, the Biggest Stan award will honour the true ride or die (bitch.)
 
Winner: @Elle
Runner Up: @That Venice Bitch
Other nominees: @Embach, @lizzyology, @Surf Noir
 
 

“When will people be over her? I am a Hater.” Although this is a whole forum dedicated to Lana herself, we do have those members who give her a hard time, and that’s why I cross my fingers that Lana doesn’t visit here too often. Although I don’t endorse the hatred, perhaps the Biggest Lana Hater award can give a little hint-hint nudge-nudge to ease off… or just add more fuel to the fire.
 
Winner: @Xenoblade 3
Runner Up: @Jared
Other nominees: @barttttender, @Lustformoney, @Terrence Loves Me
 
 

Although this is a Lana forum, we have plenty of members who are here solely for our entertainment section, which makes up a huge portion of our site. So, who’s your favourite Angel? Your favourite Little Ferrari? Your favourite Diamond? Your favourite Crybaby? Your favourite Kuchi? The Hybrid Fan award is our special thanks to a member who continues to visit, even if Lana isn’t their primary reason for their stay. Everyone is welcome a seat at the table.
 
Winner: @The Siren
Runner Up: @TrashMagiq
Other nominees: @Mer, @SoftwareUpgrade, @XCX Archivist
 
 

It’s no doubt that LanaBoards can be a war zone, and this award is for the member who always tries to keep the peace. Whether it be a moderator or an unofficial officer, let’s honour the member who walks into the depth of the fire to put out the flames with the Peace Keeper award. I’ll also be taking note of these nominees as possible future mods, or those mods who deserve an extra pat on the back.
Appreciate ya.
 
Winner: @That Venice Bitch
Runner Up: @Elle
Other nominees: @fishtails, @NikoGo, @ultrabanisters
 
 

The Attention Whore award is to give a gentle nudge that this place is in fact LanaBoards, not ____Boards. No disrespect here, just honesty.
 
Winner: @111
Runner Up: @ivory almond
Other nominees: @Strangelove, @Wait For Life, @Xenoblade 3
 
 
 

 
LanaBoards houses so much talent within our member base, and the Big Eyes Award - for Best Artist honours our true artists – whether it be for their physical or digital art, we truly have so much talent here. Will also be taking notes for future site theme design help xx
 
Winner: @kallumlavigne
Runner Up: @Embach
Other nominees: @palemoonbaby, @templeoflana, @The Sun Also Rises
 
 
 

 
We have talent of all kinds here, including those who are masters of audio art! Whose remixes have tricked you into believing a demo of a Lana song leaked on the site that shall not be named? Who do you wish will be Lana’s next core producer? Let them know with the Jack Anti-noff Award - for Best Audio Artist, and perhaps you could rival Mr. Antonoff for production credits on LDR10. 
 
Winner: @plastiscguy
Runner Up: @Veinsineon
Other nominees: @Actor, @bigspender, @ivory almond
 
 
 

 
If LanaBoards had a dating app, who would be your super like? Who has you drooling in the Pictures of You thread? The Be My Daddy Award - for Hottest Member is to honour the hottest of the hot, whether you’re a daddy, mommy, or sexy enby.
 
Winner: @Elle
Runner Up: @mssainttropez
Other nominees: @Mer, @one time beauty queen, @PARADIXO
 
 
 

 
As I do have to pay extra to keep the Blog section alive, you bet damn well I’m going to honour the members who actually use it. Perhaps the Self-Loathing Poet Award - for Best Blogger may even inspire others to make their life their poetry, aside from their lovemaking being their legacy (or whatever you like to post in there.)
 
Winner: @Mer
Runner Up: @Liz Taylor Blues
Other nominees: @kraljicabenzinske, @The Siren, @williamprb
 
 
 

 
Whether it be someone who has a meltdown over every single Lana notification or just simply cannot hold themselves back from falling apart all over the boards letting their head spin like a ballerina, the Queen of Disaster Award - for Biggest Drama Queen is for them. A little extra dramatics never hurt anyone. Most of the time.
 
Winner: @111
Runner Up: @CandyRaye
Other nominees: @ivory almond, @Strangelove, @the ocean
 
 
 

 
Which member’s posts give you continuous war flashbacks, the same kind of feeling you get whenever you see a picture of a typewritten message posted on IG? The Q.F.T.C Award - for Most Problematic Member is for them, and I hope their own QFTC proclamation awaits.
 
Winner: @111
Runner Up: @Xenoblade 3
Other nominees: @ivory almond, @Strangelove, @wilting daisy
 
 
 

 
Perhaps this is a member who is no stranger to the mod queue or one that maybe you think deserves to have their unhinged posts moderated before public view. (Disclaimer that the winner of the Mod Queue Award - for Most Annoying Member award will not actually receive mod queue for it lol. At least not yet, anyway.)
 
Winner: @Strangelove
Runner Up: @Xenoblade 3
Other nominees: @ivory almond, @Jared, @lanaismamom
 
 
 

As Lana proclaimed at the 2015 Golden Globes Awards, “Well, I love drama!” Whether it be site-related drama or Lana-related drama, there is never a dry day in the Lana Fandom. The Drama of the Year award is for the little extra spice within the fandom that took the cake this year.
Note: Please only nominate drama related to Lana or LanaBoards. Do not nominate any off-site drama, even if it involved our members.
 
Winner: @That Venice Bitch's "The Miss Daytona Collection" getting taken down
Runner Up: @Quincy vs @CandyRaye in the Mental Health Thread
Other nominees: Multiple Accounts Thread leading to the ban of @shadesofloveduthenandnow& @wilting daisy, @ivory almond's fake A&W lyrics on Musixmatch, "Unreleased Syndrome" - a @Strangelove conspiracy
 
 
 

Every year, there is always one certain thread that gives us that lust for life that keeps this site alive. The Thread of the Year award is to honour that thread and all the chaos and wonderfulness that ensued within it. We wouldn’t be without it.
Winner: Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - Pre-Release Thread
Runner Up: December 2023 Leakfest Wishlist
Other nominees: It was all a lie... exposing Lana Del Rey, Multiple Accounts Thread, Who's the Ultimate Insider?
 
 

Though a controversial topic at times, leaks are undoubtedly a part of Lana stan culture, and we had quite a bountiful year this year! Which locked-away masterpiece that broke away from its chains wowed you this year? Whether it be a song we had been counting down the days for or a complete surprise, it’s only right that we honour these previously hidden gems with the Leak of the Year award.
*Please nominate up to 5 of your favourite Lana songs that were leaked this year. The top 5 will continue to the next voting round.*
 
Eligible Songs:
 
Winner: Pink Champagne
Runner Up: Cry Kill Die
Other nominees: Come With Me, Hollywood's Dead (Final Version), Madly
 
 

With a myriad of collaboration, droplets, and wonderful new album that held a number of masterpieces, with one that even was nominated for the Grammy's SOTY award, it is time to honour the best of the best with our own Song of the Year award.
*Please nominate up to 5 of your favourite Lana songs that were leaked this year. The top 5 will continue to the next voting round.*
 
Eligible songs:
 
Winner: A&W
Runner Up: Fingertips
Other nominees: Candy Necklace, Let The Light In, Paris Texas
 
 

A new grand award! Not only did Lana release her own album this year, but she also appeared on a few other artists' albums! We always appreciate the new music however or wherever it comes, so we must thank the other artists for allowing her to bless their tracks with  the new Collab of the Year award.
*Please nominate up to 5 of your favourite non-album Lana collaboration songs that were released this year. The top 5 will continue to the next voting round.*
 
Eligible songs:
 
Winner: Lost at Sea (with Rob Grant)
Runner Up: Snow on the Beach - More Lana Del Rey Version (with Taylor Swift)
Other nominees: Hollywood Bowl (with Rob Grant), Life Lesson (with Jon Batiste), Suburban House (with Holly Macve)
 
 

 Another new grand award! (and another one I can't believe we didn't already have.) Lana not only blesses us with her beautiful voice, but also her beautiful self. As an individual who is beautiful both inside and out, let's honour our queen's outer beauty with our new Photoshoot of the Year award.
 
Eligible photoshoots:
 
Winner: Interview Magazine (Nadia Lee Cohen)
Runner Up: Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd - album (Neil Krug)
Other nominees: Harpers Bazaar (Collier Schorr), Rolling Stone UK (Chuck Grant), The Hollywood Reporter (Chuck Grant)
 
 

 Not only do we stan an icon, but this site itself is iconic in its own right. Whether it’s something Lana herself did or something that happened on LanaBoards, the new Iconic Moment of the Year award will honour that top memory of the year that will forever live down in Lipster history.
 
Winner: Lana working at a Waffle House in Alabama
Runner Up: A&W + Interview Magazine on Valentine's Day
Other nominees: Elle meeting Lana at a Dillard's in Alabama, March Leakfest, Lana getting 5 Grammy nominations
 
 

This award is for our true living legend. Who truly made LanaBoards what it was this year? Let us bestow our honour upon this sacred member through the coveted Lipster of the Year award. We'll never forget you, like the tunnel under Ocean Blvd.
Winner: @Elle
Runner Up: @Embach
Other nominees: @Mer, @Surf Noir, @Veinsineon
 
 

I luv when she references herself x

lana calling critics “jerk-offs” is my favorite thing in the world right now

Pop’s greatest enigma opens up about God, Glastonbury, her private life — and answers her ‘jerk-off’ critics by Jonathan Dean
Lana Del Rey’s great-uncle Dick was so dazed the night before he died that he accidentally grabbed the singer’s wrist and coughed into her hand. “I just cried,” she recalls in her soft, airy American twang.
She was at his home at a vigil alongside 30 members of her extended family. “I shouldn’t have been the one crying,” she says. “The people around me were his children — I’m just this star who walked in.”
Then suddenly everyone started singing the old folk song Froggy Went a-Courtin’ — once covered by Bob Dylan — in a 13-part harmony. “It was a pivotal moment because I realised that they could sing as well as I do, but I just happen to be the one who made it. That was the missing piece I needed. I felt part of a very wide network, a grain of sand on the beach.”
So did the experience bring this star back to earth? “Yes!” she says. She laughs loudly, before slipping into the third person. “And for Lana Del Rey to be levelled out is a f***ing miracle!”
It is evening when I arrive at a sweet suburban house on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. This is where Del Rey comes to “decompress” after touring, instead of at home in Los Angeles. The singer, whose ninth album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, is our album of the year, welcomes me with an explanation of the overpowering scent inside: “I have burnt a heavy sage!” She really has. This quiet sanctuary, filled with guitars, vintage chess sets and magazines about Jackie Kennedy, smells strongly of the herb that people use for good energy and relaxation. Her sitting room is certainly full of the latter.
Darkness falls beyond the candlelight as Del Rey, 38, settles back on the sofa, wearing a white cardigan, crucifix necklace, tight jeans and cowboy boots, smoking a vape. It all feels very intimate as our conversation meanders. She talks about her ancestors in the American Civil War — “It didn’t go well for them” — and a close relative who died just before Del Rey had to sing privately for the Prince of Monaco. “I invite his spirit every night to come sit next to me,” she says. “I think that’s real …”
I leave more than two hours later, after a revealing, sometimes odd and frequently funny conversation with the 27th most-listened-to pop star on Spotify. Singing aside, what is she best at? Talking — “I’m rambling! — about life, death and fame. What is she scared of? “God, I see a spider!” What is she not great at? Ordering coffees on her app. One order is cancelled; another sits on the porch after she misses the notification. “Am I an idiot?” She opens the door to two cold coffees.
Del Rey is an anomaly. Those Spotify numbers mean she’s now more popular than Harry Styles and Beyoncé. Yet most of her songs are ballads hailing from a different era — Hollywood in the 1950s, say, or Mad Men 1960s. Her music is better suited for a sad journey home than a big night out. Just check out the video Elders Read Lana Del Rey’s Hit Songs on YouTube and watch pensioners enraptured by her songs — one old man says in awe: “Younger people are listening to that?”
What is more baffling is that her songs on Did You Know … are even further removed from the present crop of algorithm-led factory pop. Her latest tracks are complex, personal (Great-Uncle Dick pops up on one) and, frankly, incredibly long, often stretching well over five minutes. “It’s weird,” she admits of her ever-increasing popularity. “It’s not necessarily what I saw coming!”
Last month Did You Know … secured five Grammy nominations, while Del Rey was announced as the headliner for the 2024 Reading Festival, after the success of big gigs in London and Glastonbury over the summer, where the age of her devoted crowd ranged from teenaged up to, yes, a surprising number of seventysomethings.
To find out how Del Rey got here, let us go back to the start. Not to the open-mike nights in her early twenties — “awkward when nobody listens” — but to when Del Rey was 26 and her game-changing single Video Games was released. It was a song that drivers would pull over to listen to — a classic of love and longing.
Other hits followed quickly, but some people had an issue. Del Rey was born Elizabeth Grant and released music as Lizzy Grant before having the gall to change her name and adopt a new, sultry femme fatale persona steeped in the iconography of American pin-ups and the silver screen.
Many pop stars — Bowie! Elton! Eminem! — reinvent themselves, but purists fell over each to denounce the new-look Del Rey as a fraud, an industry construct and fake feminist. This criticism got to her. “I will never sing again,” she laments in Swan Song, released four years after the giddy heights of Video Games.
“When I hear Swan Song now I think, ‘Oh girl, they brought you to that point. That sucks for you,’” Del Rey says with a sigh. “I get dressed up for my shows while some folks don’t. For some reason that was a problem. I had books thrown at me in San Francisco by liberal female groups. I’ve been punched in the face in Brooklyn. Ten years ago, mentally I badly needed some beauty to come out of the chaos. For something to make sense.” She sighs again. “I’ve been on guard for so long.”
On guard from whom? “Jerk-offs!” she yells. “F***ing narcissists! Take that cotton out of your ears and stuff it in your mouth.” Naysayers insisted Del Rey did not mean a word she sang. “Listen,” she says angrily. “You can hear I mean it. You might not know what I am getting at, but wouldn’t you be curious to know? Maybe you could learn something? Or just listen to someone else.”
“I don’t need positive feedback,” she continues. “But you cannot just make things up.” She mentions wealth. An early column in The Guardian called her father a millionaire — something she refutes. “It’s crazy if you say something that’s tabloid-psycho untrue about me but I can’t get a word in? Congratulations! You’re going to ruin how people listen to my music.”
There is a lot of talk today about pop stars and their mental health. How did she cope when it wasn’t much discussed ? “Well, you really have to take care of yourself,” she says, somewhat sadly. “Because putting your faith in the public is like building your house in the sand. They’ll turn and turn. I’ve experienced that in all parts of my life. People reveal sides of themselves years after you meet, so you have to ground yourself all the way down to your knees …
“But, back then, it is no wonder I felt I did not have a voice in a particular movement — they quieted me.”
Does she still think she would not be taken seriously if she wanted to speak out or get political? “That was then,” Del Rey says firmly. “I couldn’t do anything. Singing about a boyfriend, playing a video game and chilling out? That’s a joke, dude. I’d have looked stupid. Now I would feel pretty confident, and I do feel passionately about Black Lives Matter and women’s issues. Now I’m not afraid. But I was. I read what they said about me: ‘Do not step forward. Do not pass Go.’ ”
She shrugs. “But I’ve been trying and trying,” she says about writing more political songs. Four years ago she wrote a one-off single, Looking for America, with her regular producer Jack Antonoff, in response to a spate of mass shootings in the US. The impact of the shootings “just hit us”, she says with a nod. “We all sat at the back of cinemas for a while so we could be by the exit.
“And there were seven political songs on one album and nobody cared,” she adds, referring to 2017’s Lust for Life. “For instance, When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing. I talked about Trump and the worry of him having his finger on the red button. But the problem, right now, is there is just such a lot going on.”
Did You Know … largely skips politics, and writing it made her nervous. The lyrics deal with death, ageing and when she might become a mother. (The singer’s relationship status remains something of a rumour.) Throughout you can hear her early detractors, who wondered how “real” she was, being forced to scoff humble pie. It plays like autobiography. The singer is remembering people, while wondering if she will be remembered.
Del Rey was born in Manhattan and raised in Lake Placid in upstate New York. Her father, Rob, worked in various businesses before finding his success with domain names. Her mother, Patricia, was a teacher. It was a Roman Catholic family and Del Rey, one of three siblings, was a worried child. Indeed she was so concerned about the meaning of life and death that she studied philosophy at university. “I was trying to help myself,” she says of her degree. “I was constantly reading and applying what I learnt to figure out how we got here. That has been in me since I was three!”
“There were things that bothered me at a young age,” she continues. “Like what does it mean if people come into the world as quadriplegics while people say that everything plays out the way it should? Or when you meet people who are severely sociopathic and think, ‘How’s God fitting into all this?’ I’m still trying to figure out the bigger questions.”
It is fast approaching midnight. “I’m not saying I’m going to answer,” she begins, mischievously, as we start wrapping up, “but did you have a horrible question you were going to ask me?” Not really, I say; we’ve covered enough. “You could’ve said, ‘Are you married?’ Why didn’t you?!” Do you want me to ask? “No!” She takes a beat. “But no, I’m not!” She bursts out laughing.
I ask about Glastonbury. Booked to headline the Other Stage this year, Del Rey turned up late and was cut off before she could even play Video Games. On stage the singer said her hair took a while to perfect, while the crowd were left stunned and disappointed.
“I’ve heard of curfews before,” she explains. “But I didn’t know they actually turned the lights off! I didn’t feel great about it, but I was a little confused because I don’t think I was ever in a position where somebody said, ‘If you do not finish by this time, everything will go out.’ I was only 15 minutes late.”
She will simply have to come back another year to headline the Pyramid Stage, because, for someone obsessed with her own legacy, it feels as if she is edging closer to her idols, who now talk of her as a peer. Stevie Nicks adores her. Joan Baez invites her to dance parties on Zoom. “She just creates a world of her own and invites you in,” Bruce Springsteen gushes.
Did You Know … is a beautiful but intense album — like having a therapy session on a Californian beach. But what comes next for her? “I’m tired now,” Del Rey admits. “So keeping it simple is probably the way that it’s going to go. I dug around a lot writing this [album] and don’t think I have to go there again.”
As such, she has plans to write an album of standards — classic, simple songs that could reach even more people than she does now. A bit like the gorgeous, piano-led cover of Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver that she released on Friday, or the Elvis Presley version of Unchained Melody that she recorded at Graceland for a Christmas TV show. She is a star who not only finally feels understood, but also finally understands.
“That’s why God didn’t give me children yet,” she says tenderly about what may or may not come next. “Because there is more to explore. I know people who’ve tested every water. It’s burnt them, like Icarus. But I’m willing to go there. I see it coming for me. We’ll see.” She is speaking quickly now, excitedly. “We’ll see what melts the wings.”

I’ve listened to this shit probably 20 times already lol I remember singing this in the car with my dad when I was little and crying in the car grown up to it when he passed away. So special hearing my favorite artist sing something so dear to me. 

Anyway this feels exactly like last year with Tunnel title track Right at the end of the year when your guard is down she surprise drops the lead single and begins the new era.. letting the excitement cross over into the new year. It's so fun

why the hell would this song be a doin' time kind of serve stop being a dumbass 

super random post and probably wrong but was the tunnel album cover font a hint to country roads? it's the same font on the single cover, since we all know she likes references

Two of my best friends covered this song at one of our karaoke outings earlier this year, and they just got married exactly a month ago… they somehow manifested this, I’m convinced x
 

I actually can’t handle this rn, this is so out of nowhere.. as we exit the month of giving thanks and enter the month of giving gifts!! November/December has been very fruitful for us Lipsters

Covers album this Xmas, delusion going strong
 
 
 

Lana Del Rey will be releasing a single for her cover of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" tonight at midnight local time.
 
 

November has been so bountiful for us Lipsters.. the month of giving thanks indeed ma’am 

heartbreak hotel is finally coming
fun-fact: she performed a jazzy version of heartbreak hotel on october 24, 2008... forget cola (demo), WE NEED THIS!
 

Lana will be joining artists like Post Malone, John Legend and Kacey Musgraves at the "Christmas at Graceland" NBC special, performing a cover of an Elvis Presley song live! 
https://people.com/christmas-at-graceland-nbc-holiday-special-performers-john-legend-lana-del-rey-post-malone-8402187

Interview aside (really did not care for the constant musings on Lana’s “authenticity”), most of these pics are stunning!! Living for the Honeymoon vibes in the bangs and jewels pic. She’s giving us so much lately 

now this is a LOOK your honor oh wow

Lana Del Rey covers Harper's Bazaar December 2023/January 2024 Art Issue, photographed by Collier Schorr.
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The fact that it's one from the ultraviolence shoot + the Black Beauty BSide is so special and confirms that she always placed it to that era, even though she tried to make it work for others.
I really hope she's thinking a lot about it and hopes to release Fine China + other Ultraviolence unreleased tracks. Maybe she will actually give a shit and do something for its 2024 10 year anniversary. Maybe an Ultraviolence expanded re-release. Now THAT will steal my money.
 

The photo is an Ultraviolence outtake by Neil Krug: 
 

 
In the same series as this one, which I was really hoping would be on side B but isn't: 
 

 
And this one: 


 
So many missed opportunities for side B  But it's still gorgeous 
 
Lots of people think Lana must think of Black Beauty as a sister-song ... it's just the standard version, but I'm quite happy because my Ultraviolence vinyl doesn't have Black Beauty on it and it's one of my favourite songs. I will forever question the decision to just make it a deluxe bonus track 
 

Omg it arrived! 
 
As confirmed earlier, it's the same photo on both sides which is a bit disappointing. But it's really beautiful 
Apologies in advance for the photos with awful lighting ... it's prettier than it looks here 
 

Lana will sing a cover of a "popular early to mid-twentieth century song" on the Jack Antonoff-produced soundtrack album!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2023/11/the-new-look-christian-dior-coco-chanel-drama-premiere-date-trailer-1235612245/amp/
 

Pity :-/ I was sure we'd get a 2nd Pic because they also had 2 on CN, but should have known Lana's release strategies don't follow any logics, lol.
 
Maybe we get an AW 7" picture disc for the Grammies. 🥰 (Split on 2 sides, Jimmy Jimmy on one and AW on the other side)