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Remember the Bel air description about TROPICO "I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and have my youth". Now that we have these set photos of her as a stripper this phrase makes sense now.

Remember the Bel air description about TROPICO "I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and have my youth". Now that we have these set photos of her as a stripper this phrase makes sense now.

Remember the Bel air description about TROPICO "I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and have my youth". Now that we have these set photos of her as a stripper this phrase makes sense now.

Remember the Bel air description about TROPICO "I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and have my youth". Now that we have these set photos of her as a stripper this phrase makes sense now.

JustJared just confirmed it is Tropico http://instagram.com/p/bM82ZZhQA7/

Actually I think BJ is one of her best videos to date. Woodkid and Lana together can do no wrong. While we know how trashy she can be ( just listen some of her unreleased songs) I don't know if this image fits in this  Lana  presented to the public - a singer who is associated to the old hollywood glamour, singing about a wealthy lifestyle. I know that since Paradise ( and specially Ride video) she's been trying to disassociate her image from this "Glamour girl" thing and has been more "relaxed" about it, but there is a reason why H&M and Jaguar hired her and that's because this style fits her more than anyone. Not sure if a totally image change would be good now, but anyway I'm really excited about it

Actually I think BJ is one of her best videos to date. Woodkid and Lana together can do no wrong. While we know how trashy she can be ( just listen some of her unreleased songs) I don't know if this image fits in this  Lana  presented to the public - a singer who is associated to the old hollywood glamour, singing about a wealthy lifestyle. I know that since Paradise ( and specially Ride video) she's been trying to disassociate her image from this "Glamour girl" thing and has been more "relaxed" about it, but there is a reason why H&M and Jaguar hired her and that's because this style fits her more than anyone. Not sure if a totally image change would be good now, but anyway I'm really excited about it

Actually I think BJ is one of her best videos to date. Woodkid and Lana together can do no wrong. While we know how trashy she can be ( just listen some of her unreleased songs) I don't know if this image fits in this  Lana  presented to the public - a singer who is associated to the old hollywood glamour, singing about a wealthy lifestyle. I know that since Paradise ( and specially Ride video) she's been trying to disassociate her image from this "Glamour girl" thing and has been more "relaxed" about it, but there is a reason why H&M and Jaguar hired her and that's because this style fits her more than anyone. Not sure if a totally image change would be good now, but anyway I'm really excited about it

http://instagram.com/p/bKEk1CIdQp/
 
The girl wrote "Jesus totally photobombed us" so I guess the albino guy it will be her lover in the video

So do I.  Impersonators, strippers, tattoo... it just too trashy. It seems that she wants to recreate the vision she had some years ago as Lizzie, this white trash american way of life from beat culture, not really sure how I feel about it. But I do hope it will turn out in something good

We can talk about Shaun, i don't think (at all) that she chose him because of Katy Perry's clip. He was featured in LIGHTS (a short film by Yoann Lemoine) in 2009, he must have recommended him to Lana.
 
http://vimeo.com/11779438

Lana Del Rey films new music video at strip joint.
On June 28th, Lana Del Rey stopped by Chatsworth California’s “Candy Cat One". The Candy Cat offers "exciting exotic entertainment " courtesy of "beautiful topless dancers" … Who’s excited!
 
http://www.thecandycats.com/

I think the ending of the A.K.A. version of Yayo deserves a mention.

i hope that i'm not stressing people out. it seems as if i like to talk about things people don't always seem to be comfortable talking about. the "underbelly" of humanity, i suppose you could say. its interesting, but can get a bit draining i realize. so please don't take what i'm saying too seriously -- these are merely my own observations and attempts at understanding her peculiar behavior, and why she lies and acts out in the way(s) she does. and its nice to generate discussion on lana in a more theoretical sense i guess =p 
 
i think we should revive @@Moniker's thread about whether or not she'd be as loved if she weren't so beautiful. because i also wonder -- would she be as crazy if she weren't so beautiful? so histrionic (re: lip licking)? so vain and narcissistic (re: lyrics)? so paranoid and pessimistic (~anti me)? i kind of feel like the root of her insecurities / neuroses / eccentricities stem from the seemingly vast disconnect between her outer appearance and her inner world -- and the resulting disconnect between the way people perceive her and the way she actually is. i think this interviewer puts it best: 
 
"she is capable of shifting swiftly from a kind of coltish innocence (*2) to vampish knowingness (*1). It’s a quality that is hard to pin down ... a kind of doubleness, a sense of duality and merging contradictions. She is a person into whom you can read a lot."
 
(1) -- at 2:20 ... after the guy 'woops' at her, notice that knowing little "ha" she does. it didn't require any thought, and it barely phased her. it was rapid, like a reflex. she knows what she does to people -- men in particular 
 

 
(2) on the other hand ... if you listen (to the interview below) from the beginning you sense that their interaction is full of sexual tension. not surprising since she's cooing more so than speaking. he's pretty forward at one point, asking if she ever takes people back to her room after shows or something (1:50) and lana like, yelps in surprise lmao. but then a few minutes later... he's like, oh, well i love the visuals and the palm trees on stage; so much so that i spent an entire song watching the screen instead of you (5:45). she's like ... oh, yea, yea, ok, blah, sonically, blah ... its good that they're there cause ... it... they... uh... [sad voice] you can look at them instead [/sad voice] 
 
http://www.novafm.com.au/video/tim-blackwell-interviews-lana-del-rey
 
so on the one hand she's a true fucking vixen, on the other she's like a fragile ceramic doll. she needs to be loved, admired, adored. at the very least, she wants your eyes to be on her, it seems. how do you reconcile those two characters (jessica rabbit vs. dolores haze) into one person? i mean, i honestly believe that those are both parts of her true personality, and not some character that she puts on. but like i said before -- how must people in her everyday life perceive her? how do you trust that person when you can't understand or process their fundamental energy? if you notice, some of her lyrics are narcissistic praises of her own beauty right before she tosses some acid in 
 
 
 
 
a large portion of her lyrics are heavily rooted in her beauty and how others perceive her beauty. it kind of shows how powerful / sickly pervasive that aspect must be in her life. on the one hand, its why some people are so drawn to her. on the other, its why some people are so repelled by her. its not like she has some obnoxious personality -- she's usually pulled back and rather reserved in her demeanor. so its like, how do you deal with that kind of hate? having a genuine ~anti me perspective? no wonder she seems bipolar -- adoring and grateful with fans when she's being admired vs. arrogant, elitist, and pessimistic when she's being criticized. on the one hand, she has to wonder: do people -love- me for my talent or my beauty? will they still love me...? or, do people -hate- me because of my beauty, in spite of my talents? (this has definitely been the case, especially in the beginning of her career)... she must wonder -- if they don't acknowledge my singing or songwriting, is it because they can't look past my face? or is because i don't even have talent? this might sound reductive, or shallow even, but i think there's a bit of truth along these lines. because like i said before, people seem to be ruled by their emotions and their emotions are rarely fueled or supplemented by logic. and nothing can surpass your brain and hit you in the stomach (or nads) faster than a beautiful person. and sadly, beauty tends to garner a disproportionate amount of interest (both positive and negative), and that happens to be a culturally / temporally transcendent fact
 
all i'm saying is, it must be stressful to draw such vitriol from people for no reason other than how you look. it must be painful and irritating to have your talents refuted for reasons other than an actual lack of talent. i feel like she has to downplay her focus on looks because people will automatically deem her to be superficial. there are lots of things she has to be careful about doing or saying -- because like the interviewer says; she's the type of person you can read a lot into. people are going to be quicker with their snap judgements. and if you're uninformed or unfamiliar with her or any of her work, you're likely to hold a very wrong opinion
 
TL;DR -- beauty spurs a wide range of emotions in people. can it play a negative role in a person's development? distort perceptions of themselves and the world around them? fragment your personality? am i stressing people out?

Yeah, expecially that thousand songs about getting rich daddy and let him play with her.

I don't know if you guys have already listened to this interview ( and I coudn't find a topic for this) but when she responded a question about her song Puppy Love she literally said that is a good idea to release an album called "the leaks". YES LANA IT IS GREAT IDEIA, PLEASE DO THAT
 
http://www.kdge.com/pages/diva.html?feed=136969&article=11349400

I don't know if you guys have already listened to this interview ( and I coudn't find a topic for this) but when she responded a question about her song Puppy Love she literally said that is a good idea to release an album called "the leaks". YES LANA IT IS GREAT IDEIA, PLEASE DO THAT
 
http://www.kdge.com/pages/diva.html?feed=136969&article=11349400

I don't know if you guys have already listened to this interview ( and I coudn't find a topic for this) but when she responded a question about her song Puppy Love she literally said that is a good idea to release an album called "the leaks". YES LANA IT IS GREAT IDEIA, PLEASE DO THAT
 
http://www.kdge.com/pages/diva.html?feed=136969&article=11349400

Recommendation: kill yourself
 
Who even talks about GD except me?

I don't Wanna Go

luv this, the outfit kinda reminds me of penny lane. wouldn't really work on anyone but lana

So I guess she's gonna shoot like she did in Born To Die & Blue Jeans but now it's going to be a short film instead of separate videos. I wonder why she doens't work with Woodkid anymore? This project seems much more appropriate for him than Anthony Mandler. Anyway, I'm really excited for this because I do love each one of this songs

Here's an audio of Lana saying that she'll film a video for Body Electric, Gods and Monster and Bel Air :
 
 
http://www23.zippyshare.com/v/61150575/file.html

I am done forever. Goodbye world. Goodbye Lanaboards. I can't believe this. I'm hurting. I am so.. Ugh, I just.. Bye. Goodbye. 
     

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I redid the Young & Beautiful cover so
 
Young & Beautiful: