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When You Wish Upon A Sitar (LanaBoards Version).mp3

Original:

 
 
UV Booklet:
 
 
 
Might be farfetched, but there's something going on with those damn long trees and that filter. On other hand, I do recall seeing them in the music video for "Summeritme Sadness" as well... But that's a thing I've been picking up a lot lately. Another visual aesthetic move? Or just my paranoia? 

Original:

 
 
UV Booklet:
 
 
 
Might be farfetched, but there's something going on with those damn long trees and that filter. On other hand, I do recall seeing them in the music video for "Summeritme Sadness" as well... But that's a thing I've been picking up a lot lately. Another visual aesthetic move? Or just my paranoia? 

From IMDB: The Source Family was a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. Their outlandish style, popular health food restaurant, rock band, and beautiful women made them the darlings of Hollywood’s Sunset Strip; but their outsider ideals and the unconventional behavior of their spiritual leader, Father Yod, caused controversy with local authorities.

Before we journey down the rabbit hole that is the Source Family, their leader Father Yod and the influence all of this may have had on Lana Del Rey and her album Ultraviolence, here is some background information of who they were and what they did:
 





There are also many excellent articles on Jim Baker, Father Yod and the Family available online. While I will be linking some of them here as references, I will mostly be focusing on the Family and their own personal interpretations of what was going on during the time they were active as I believe this is where Lana gathered most of her inspiration from. There are a lot of negative articles written about what actually was going on behind closed doors at the Family homes and while I'm sure some may be accurate, and will lend support to some theories, the writers of the articles were not a part of the Family and did not experience first hand what went on. While most former Family members do have criticism toward Jim Baker, the man, they speak very highly of Father Yod as their Earthly Spiritual Father, enough so that I don't doubt they would embellish. I recommend reading all evidence and articles with a grain of salt as all of it is personal anecdotes and there is no solid facts to back up any claims made.
I encourage every member of Lana Boards to dig in and discover any other pieces of evidence you may find regarding this topic. I will add to this post as new evidence is found with credit to the finder!

Here is the original post that I made in the Ultraviolence lyrics thread so please have a look at that for an idea of what started all of this:

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4684-ultraviolence/?p=198053

So hopefully now you have an idea of the Family, we'll jump into the evidence we have. Some of it will be stuff that I and other users have already posted on the UV thread, some will be new. Please note, this section will be updated as more info is discovered.

The Source Family and their Influence on Ultraviolence

General Evidence



Lyrical Evidence
While I believe some songs on UV are inspired by the Source Family, I don't think that all songs were inspired by them. So you won't see Old Money on this list for example, as it is clearly written for the Great Gatsby, inspired by the character of Daisy and written as an epilogue to Lana's Young and Beautiful.

I also believe Lana is inspired from many different things and she weaves them into her own story, either by becoming who she is writing about or imagining herself in a similar situation. She has said before that is in the habit of writing about several things in a song and tying them all together. For example, Video Games being about two different men, etc. So while some lyrics fit the Source theory, others will not as they are probably influenced either by her life or something else.

Cruel World



Ultraviolence



Shades of Cool




Brooklyn Baby



Aesthetic Evidence
This section is about the pictures used for Ultraviolence vs pictures from The Source Family Archives as well as the soundscape Dan Auerbach and Lana came up with. Lana had stated that her new take on the UV album was "Unlistenable" with many different sounds, tempo changes, etc. Some of the Ya Ho Wha recordings sound very similar to how Lana re-did UV with the layered sounds, experimental vocals and tempo changes.

Sound



Visuals



As I stated above I will continue updating this post with more evidence as I find it. Please feel free to post any similarities you might find and I will happily add it with credit to you!

gr8 thread! hope we get just one more...
 

When You Wish Upon A Sitar (LanaBoards Version).mp3

This show!

[table]LANA DEL RAY

SONGMEDIA
Kill Kill[/td]
Queen of the Gas Station
Gramma (Blue Ribbon Sparkler Trailer Heaven)AV
For K, Pt. 2*
Jump
Mermaid MotelAV
Pawn Shop BluesAV**
Brite LightsAV
Put Me in a MovieAV
YayoAV [/table]
 
[table]BORN TO DIE

SONGMEDIA
Born to DieAV
Off to the RacesAV
Blue JeansAV
Video GamesAV
Diet Mountain DewAV
National AnthemAV
Dark ParadiseAV
RadioAV
CarmenAV
Million Dollar ManAV
Summertime SadnessAV
Without YouAV
LolitaAV [/table]
 
[table]PARADISE

SONGMEDIA
RideAV
ColaAV
AmericanAV
Body ElectricAV
Blue VelvetAV
Gods & MonstersAV
Burning DesireAV [/table]
 
[table]ULTRAVIOLENCE

SONGMEDIA
Cruel WorldAV
UltraviolenceAV
Shades of CoolAV
West CoastAV
Money Power GloryAV
Fucked My Way Up To The TopAV
Old MoneyAV [/table]
 
 
[table]UNRELEASED

SONGMEDIA
Boarding SchoolAV
Hundred Dollar BillAV
Pin-Up GaloreAV
Serial KillerAV
Trash MagicAV
Us Against The WorldAV
You Can Be The BossAV [/table]
 
[table]COVERS

SONGMEDIA
Chelsea Hotel No. 2AV
Chet BakerAV
Dance Me to the End of Love
Goodbye KissAV
Happiest Girl in the Whole USAAV
Heartbreak Hotel
Heart-shaped BoxAV
I Love ParisAV
Knockin' On Heavens DoorAV
Only Yesterday
Roadhouse BluesAV
Ten Dollar RingAV
The End of the WorldAV
When I Fall in Love
Why Don't You Do RightAV
WonderwallAV [/table]
 
[table]MISCELLANEOUS

SONGMEDIA
Dayglo ReflectionAV
GloriaAV
I Like It Like That
IronAV
Love in Cars
Lover's Fate
Pretty Fix*
Young and BeautifulAV [/table]
 
Key: A=Audio V=Video
*Not entirely confirmed
**Partial video of the live performance
NOTE: Linked titles are songs we only have one video of (as in performance and not amount of recordings).

:swerve:

omg beemo i still sing the song this way 
 

Her male equivalent
 

He said he enjoyed Gramma and Yayo and those two are his favorites.

gr8 thread! hope we get just one more...
 

Lana recently caught a lot of attention from observant fans when she spoke in very precise terms about her leaked material. In an interview with The Guardian, she revealed the leaks this fanbase is so familiar with resulted from her computer being hacked in 2012 and exactly 211 of her unreleased songs being taken:
 
 
Unreliable leak blogs have previously reported ludicrous numbers like 700, but something about the exactness of this number is worthy of consideration. Surely we must be approaching 211 unreleased songs, right? But the interview made the same mistake many of us probably make--he lumped in unhacked material with this batch of 211. Indeed, "Black Beauty" was procured by other means, as were a good amount of other songs. So I decided to make this list to try to clear up discrepancies and see if we can't guesstimate which songs we have popped up from this 211. All four early albums/EPs are exempt, as they are sort of confirmed to be not hacked.
 
Songs not from the assumed hacked batch will be bolded and given sources, and troublesome discrepancies in red. Keep in mind this is all assumption-based! We do have to consider that Soundcloud finds were probably not within this batch because we (hopefully) would have gotten in better quality.
 
Referring to this thread, we can see several songs surfaced in 2011 and therefore cannot be expected to be from this batch. However, certain songs were later provided in higher quality and likely from the hack (I believe the list is "National Anthem (Demo)", "Hundred Dollar Bill", "On Our Way", and "Money Hunny," correct me if I'm wrong), so if you have any more precise, non-incriminating information about sources (particularly songs under 2011 in that thread), let me know!
 
BORN TO DIE DEMOS
 
 
 
LANA DEL RAY DEMOS

 
 
MISCELLANEOUS UNRELEASED
 
 
 
Without counting discrepancies that are less assuredly from the original hack, it appears we have...
 
113/211 Songs
 
Notes:
*The origin of this demo, fan-titled "No Kung Fu," is unconfirmed. If anyone knows whether or not it came from the batch, alert me.

@@Ben Mawson

Sad Girl

 
Old Money

 
The Other Woman

 

Super Smash Bros. for WiiU & 3DS.
Coming holiday 2014 & October 3rd, 2014, respectively.

became a fan after seeing her live yesterday! omg what a show. it was under a tent with lots of lights and it was one of the most intimate things ive been to ever. couldnt hear what songs she performed live though, but i remember hearing goddess and stick. both were rly rly good.
 
i love u, but i hate u. u feel me?

@@evilentity, do we know anything about Lana sharing the stage with Ron Pope? I saw him live last thursday, and in between two songs he mentioned that he once performed with her at a really small venue.

Roar by Katy Perry

*Inserts a  cheesy lyric with a different word to define how amazing it is*
Walking is an art, so is this booklet
​fabulous

For K Part 3

Lana had an interview with a major radio station in Sweden last week where she revealed that her first ever written song was called "China Palace" and it's about strawberry daiquiri!
 
Edited all the redundant stuff and here's what we got:


 
Transcribed version by yours sincerely:
 

someone invite these guys to lanalysis tbh