Cinnamon Girl

Source: http://www.nylonmag.com/articles/lana-del-rey-november-cover
 
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Photo Shoot:
 
 

really just waiting for tropico so i can unfollow shaun tbh 

Same.
I ended up cancelling the pre-order to buy Visions instead.  
 
I'm still going to Best Buy tomorrow to get it on CD though. 
 
In other news, RIBS IS THE NEXT US SINGLE. 
EDIT: It's actually the free Single of the Week!

Pure Heroine starts with "Don't you think that it's boring: how people talk?"
 
And it ends with "Let them Talk".
 
That's all one needs to say when analyzing the whole album thematic and plot. I love how teenage this album is.
Every teenage who expects lots from the world and the future, myself included, tends to speak and look mature in front of this whole runway. But in reality, we're talking and blabbering about the same things: How fearful we are against the homogenic non-escaping grayscale of the society's expectations and lifestyle we're meant to follow.
 
So most people just sexify it. Some people play bizarre and go air-canning their hair with colors. Some people over-dramatize the pain...
But that's all there's to it. It's an escape to the society that you can't help but need and sadly, in the end, draw upon. I love how she expresses it. She's not saying nothing new, but she's finding a new and blatantly, straight-forward, minimalistic and blunt way to say it. How teenage days hurt. How accepting the plain boredom of adults' life pains...
 
This album is amazing.
 
Pure Heroine 9/10: Some people think that a whole album "sounding the same" is something bad. But I like to see it as a whole story, like something really coherent. In this actual case, I just love it. It's sad there's only 10 songs in it. But it's enough, I guess, to make me happy.
 
Tennis Court 8/10: I still can't stomach the chorus. But the whole song, lyric-wise, specially, is just appealing. I love it.
 
400 Lux 9,80/10: The beat sledges in a, I'd dare to say, so sexy and heavy way. The lyrics are fantastic. This whole song is genius. Needs to be a single.
 
Royals 8/10: I don't believe at all in this song. I still can't understand why it was Lorde's launchpad to recognition. I think it's kinda hypocritical. But the way harmonies work in this song is pretty slick. It's nice to listen to.
 
Ribs 10/10: Sonically, it's one of the best things I've ever listened to. The production is so exact and perfect. It's so neat. It sounds like nothing you've heard, and beats it all. The lyrics are really endearing. I love lyrics about friendship. And I hate the idea of growing old. This song is the best song in the album. This and 400 Lux are the best things I've heard in a while, maybe.
 
Buzzcut Season 7/10: The song is boring and this is when Lorde starts to sound repetitive, and not magical. The lyrics sound as if she said "Oh, they like how I write!" and started overdoing it.
 
Team 9,50/10: It's amazing. It's so catchy, it needs to hit the radio now. This should be the first big video-performance-promo single now.
 
Glory and Gore 9/10: Sonically, it's not that captivating. But lyrics-wise, it's delicious. This really showcases and highlights Lorde's song-writing capacities.
 
Still Sane 8/10: It's like a pause from the whole album sound-style. It still sounds coherent. The lyrics aren't that great.
 
White Teeth Teens 9,20/10: This is pure auto-pitiful rebel Lorde. The lyrics are sensational, and it sounds beautiful and re-singable. Lorde is so easy to relate to. She does a good job representing a whole generation.
 
A World Alone 9,50: It's fascinating. The chorus is just heavenly. The lyrics are beautiful. Perfect album closer.
 
 
This album is one of the best releases I'll ever witness. It's gorgeous. In every meaning, in every word.

**smiles and turns to camera**
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honestly i doubt its going to premiere tomorrow. if it were purely an internet release, maybe, but its supposed to premiere at physical locations so if she actually wanted people to like, show up she'd need to give some sort of notice in advance, no? i don't live in LA and so i'd personally need to plan ahead. if she randomly decided to have the premiere at the cemetery tomorrow night i'd kill her 
 
bitch needs to get a fucking calendar. either that, or stop LYING
 

Video of her arriving at the airport here.

i saw october 10 on twitter lol

Lana leaves Barrie for Lady Gaga - says Gaga is "more manly".

Lana's gynaecologist urges star to reduce carbonated soda intake.

Saw this on Twitter and I thought it was new, which lead to a very loud reaction in my car after school. But it's from May, before she claimed hiatus
 
Thought I'd post anyway.
 
 
Source: http://www.puntorecstudios.com/eng/news_dettaglio.php/154/

Hollywood.
It's up there with Blue Jeans, Blue Velvet, Hollywood's Dead and Video Games for me. The 80s movie soundtrack feel, the Goldfrapp-esque synths in the chorus, but my favorite moment is the 2nd part of the bridge "Oh-oh, oh-oh c-can you feel that? Oh-oh, oh-oh my heart shakin' fast, I can feel that you're the one for me- you'll be my first, you'll be my last"  and then glides right into the chorus I just...
 
The entirety of Blue Velvet, instrumental, vocal, outro, and that "hmmmm" in the beginning
 
Sometimes when she does MDM live, she says "I'll follow you down, down, down...like, anywhere, anywhere" and that little "like" is so cute
 
The high note in the middle of v2 of Come When You Call Me, such a sexy, soft core porn, cheesy, wonderful mess of a song.
 
"Geronimo!" in DICWB's video version, i think.
 
Body Electric pre-Paradise live. That heavy piano and her voice cracking, just
 
St. Tropez, "maybe we could dot dot dot...lose control" lol. I love the 90s island pop feel of that one and on Paradise with the "DOPE, THAT'S SICK" bridge
 
There are so many more

Most of Velvet Crowbar, she just feels it, here voice is so mature The ending of Yayo form AKA is absolutely hypnotizing The "Don't Tell Me It's Over" from Hollywood's Dead always gets me Maybe it's stupid, but in the beginning of Blue Velvet, with the music, she does that soft "mmm..." MAN that always melts me! On the beautiful Oh Say Can You See, when she sings "The voice of Nirvana says, come as you are, an I will, Night time is almost ours" - so hauting At parts in Is It Wrong she sounds so sexy and mature I just love it LUCKY ONES When she hits the high note on Cola - "come on come on woah oh uh uh uh wo hu ha ho ho ho huuu haaa yeahhhhhhh" MAAAAN When she hits the low note at some parts in Body Electric (especially whem she sings it live) NOIR Kinda Outta Luck - "can you be my SAVIAH!" - Iconic Dangerous girl - "Do you love me? Yes yes. HELL YES!" I love it ^^ ~~Million Dollar Man live~~ And, of course, her live performances of Heart-Shaped Box are beyond beautiful, she gets so emotional, and that 30 seconds when she holds that note... I just can't. 2:03 - 2:29 *_* I probably forgot a lot, those are the few that came to my mind

omfg i can imagine like a one hour long music video with a monologue of them both talking about how tragic~ their lives were until they found true love in each other 

maybe kassidy doesn't understand true music like lana and barrie </3

Re: Steven Mertens, I can't remember if someone has found this yet.  Interview with Spacecamp, which Mertens played bass/vocals in
 
SPACECAMP: Ok this is an awesome question. You know that girl Lana Del Ray? She has about 6,455,290,001 hits on Youtube with her song "Video Games." Well, we were her back up band once cuz her and Steven used to make-out sometimes, for like a year. Well, turns out it wasn't him, it wasn't him, it wasn't all for him cuz she wanted to make-out with someone else one week. I mean look at her. If you had those lips you would want to press them up against a lot of stuff. I would too. So one day Steven comes to practice and tells us he's a bit down cuz he's wondering where she and her mouth had gone off to the night before. I told him he didn't want to know. He agreed and we all started laughing and jamming and we wrote that African influenced song Alibi about Lana and Steven. They're friends now and laugh and joke about where their lips have been.
JK, it's about our friend Lizzy who is a friend of Carly's. She's been looking for an apartment for about three years and her parents are starting to get worried. So we wrote a song for her parents.
http://www.syffal.com/interview-spacecamp

wow! this is a huge breakthrough! as always, i bow down to thee, @@evilentity !
so, yet another link to jeff buckley: steven mertens is friends with & played with parker kindred, who also played with lizzy (http://web.archive.org/web/20081009165342/http://5pointsrecords.com/index.php?pg=31&artist_id=101 ). parker was jeff buckley's drummer circa the "sketches for my sweetheart the drunk" era. steven also played with joan wasser, jeff's last girlfriend. we all know jimmy gnecco briefly met jeff and was profoundly influenced by him, to the point of homage (in sound and in dedicated songs), and her infuatuation with JG is legendary. i'm thinking lizzy was just as obsessed with jeff buckley as i was!   the fact that reeve carney is gonna play jeff in a biopic is just full circle. she also loves many of JB's cited favorites, and aims to live her life with GRACE  and what is the first song in buckley's "grace" album? "mojo pin", whose chorus ends with "black beauty, i love you so"...and now, we have LDR's "black beauty". apart from her vocal inflections live, especially in her lizzy era, we can see that jeff buckley's influence on our dear lana is ongoing ♥

I totally overlooked the "eight years ago" part at first ( at a possible reference to Sirens or her other early recordings) but I'd been meaning to contact Steven Mertens for months since @@Trash Magic and I put some things together about him (which perhaps belong in Lanalysis). When I saw she mentioned him by name in this article, I got on that immediately and sent him an e-mail. I'll report back any response, but please don't bother him in case it interferes with my attempts to correspond with him.
 
In addition to sharing the bill with her at a Cross-Pollination show, and playing in her backing band as TPD noted (he's the guy that looks sort of like McNulty from The Wire in the Canal Room videos), Mertens has actually been referred to in at least two other interviews with Lana. Remember that Megan and Menace in the Mornings interview?
(You can listen here at around 5:20.) Regina Spektor (who TPD notes Mertens also played for) is married to Jack Dishel who was in a band called The Moldy Peaches. Guess who else was in The Moldy Peaches? Steven Mertens. I wasn't completely convinced at first that that's who she was talking about (I thought it was more likely another Moldy Peaches member, Adam Green, since his initials are AG, likely a red herring) until @@Trash Magic pointed out something I'd missed-- in that Mizrahi interview she said:
A little digging shows that Steven Saint = Steven Mertens (see here and here).
 

I think K was just an older man who helped Lana financially. I imagine her parents cut her off after she relapsed/ wouldn't fund her lifestyle, so she did what she could to continue in music.  And maybe she loved him as a person but had ~true~ love on the side (or so she thought) w/ her punk rock boyfriend. (maybe this is the guy that did drugz) Golden grill = Escalade, Bugatti, etc.  I could imagine that the reason she listed all these cars is because maybe he was a collector.  Baby, you'll never grow old in my eyes= he's saying he's too old for her, she's saying she'll never see him as old, if he's got the cars & $$, she'll always be there, he'll never be old to her ~~ etc etc. Possible that he worked in politics? Where she got the JFK references.. and dealt on Wall Street (Boarding School) embezzling money and such and that's how she saw him as ~gangster.. it's possible he served time for that. And possible Mafia ties~ as Cipriani's basement and other lyrics suggest. I'm reminded of the HDB video. Maybe Lana was a kept girl and the guy that was in politics/wall street mafia man was married so they kept it on the low ~she was born to be tha other woman~ 

So I read through Every Man Has His Wish's lyrics again and thought about what came up when we were talking about Lana fibbing about her age. Maybe Lana went away with K for a year after graduating from Kent and Every Man Has His Wish is about their final road trip together? Maybe it's not about K going to prison.
 
Baby, you’ll never grow old in my eyes
With your golden grill, true love never dies
He's never going to grow old in her eyes because she's never going to see him again and even though they're breaking up, their love is never going to die.
 
We’re forever young in paradise
As long as we got the Chevrolet, I will ride
Paradise could be the place(s) they spent the year together
 
We’re gonna party like it’s 1949
We’re in that Chevrolet from July to July
Gonna see it all before he says goodbye
Every man deserves to see the sunrise
Lizzy's starting Fordham in September so their road trip takes place in July so Lizzy has enough time to get ready for college.
 
I learned how to make love from the movies
He found me waitressing at Ruby Tuesday’s
They met while Lizzy was waitressing while at Kent/in Lake Placid?

he doesn't drive at all, sugar mama does that 
 
sounds plausible to me 

I don't buy for a single second that American is about Barrie. It just doesn't make any sense to me.
Dude's white af, his skin certainly isn't 'golden brown'. He also doesn't seem like the type of guy who'd listen to Crystal Method or drives fast around LA flirting with random girls, he actually seems like the exact opposite of that. 
 
 
And am I the only one who thinks Bel Air is simply about / inspired by Axl Rose? It's full of GnR references (run to heavens gates, sweet child of mine, idol of roses iconic soul) & this line - You've got a flair for the violentest kind of love anywhere out there - also fits. Besides, well, it wouldn't be the first time she wrote about him, would it?

my number one Lana question " why does she still have a blackberry" lol

this is the best she's look in a long time imo 
 
but what's up with those extensions girl