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I'm happy for the Americans with this tour as they've been waiting for so long. Live for the applause, you guys!

Lana's a popstar. She should know that image is extremely important. She needs a stylist.

This thread makes Lana look like a terrible songwriter.

It'd be interesting to see how Ultraviolence performs. I feel a lot of Born to Die was sold off the back of Video Games which was a massive hit, culturally, even if it didn't exactly ignite charts. Lana has an obligation to fulfill, the label is not going to let her suddenly go 'death metal'. Whilst she may talk about it being "unlistenable" this seems to be more lyrically-based than auditory, some people have taken this too literally. She's going to come back with something similar to her original song. Ride seems to be a song to sell Paradise, as it sounds foreign to the rest of the work on the album. The label will keep her in check, as much as we want to think she has complete control, the label will force her into doing certain things. She's definitely not Madonna, and even Madonna has a boss. Even if we think of Lana has having freedom, she has enough freedom to be the artist she wants to be without the limitations that plague artists of great success, such as the Gaga and Katy, where they have a niche to fill. She's lucky in that respect. She'd be foolish to completely change her sound, and I think that even though Dan, or Emlie, or whoever, is working on this album we underestimate that Lana herself has a specific sound and she's savvy and knows (and wants to sell records) that it'd be catered to HER sound rather than whatever producer she's working with. Even Ride with Rick Rubin is one of the most Lana-esque tracks. I'm most interested to her Giorgio Moroder but ultimately, I think we know she's stubborn in the studio. But Interscope, and every label, want her to sell.

Giorgio Moroder is pretty much confirmed. Interesting!

It sounds like it has cinematic strings, thus "exquisite" and "beautiful" with dark, so wrong lyrical content. I'm excited for that. People who have heard the album are going to hype it up to high heaven. If the album is indeed finished, surely it's coming out fairly soon rather than an end of the year release? I'm sure she has to tweak it, the label has to be happy, and she never seems to stop recording songs, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lana randomly just announced a single and it was out within the next week of that announcement with a video following YEARS later. If she was recording in Nashville, I wonder if she has some country-twang to it, too.

How much do you want to bet that she's re-written some of the lyrics to include diamonds, pale moonlight and Elvis?

I think Pharell is there because it's fairly recent, the song became a hit during the start of the year, so it's fresher in the minds of the voters. Young and Beautiful was over six months ago now.

The U2 song is only there because Mandela died.

To be fair to Juliette, who I don't really like, didn't she later tweet in the following days that she looked up Lana's music and changed her mind on her?

I think the album will be out by Coachella, so she'll play new songs.

Gaga looked exactly like Lana when promoting the Fame fragrance. Brunette wig, big false eyelashes. I liked it.

I see no lies about Tropico there. *runs*

Living Legend sounds similar to Body Electric from the title but I hope it's not. She really needs to diversify her lyrics otherwise it will get so old. Referencing a bunch of names is not songwriting, Lana!

The pushed back release date of Gatsby means it could have been written long before, for the film, and then dumped by Baz and re-instated into the film. I haven't heard the demo but Gatsby was supposed to come out in December 2012 for the awards season so who knows when he asked Lana to be included in the soundtrack. She could have then re-written it, took it for herself, put it on Paradise, then re-written it again for the film, who knows? We have no idea of the journey of the songs but I'm glad that it is eligible because it does deserve to be there. "Please Mr. Kennedy" is not on the longlist for Oscars so Y&B is definitely eligible. I don't know how the Oscars would even prove whether it was written for the film or not.

To me, Young & Beautiful should have a better chance of being nominated because it's used a lot during the film. It's really embedded into the movie, I laughed when the chords were played for the 8th time. It really is the 'theme' in a way that a lot of songs written for these films are not. Plus, come on, you don't want to see Lana get the Oscar? I'm a pop fan for myself so any of our 'girls' being there amongst the stuffy elite is good for me.

So weird.

That review is just bitchy and pathetic.

She does sound great in that clip but the table in front looks bored as hell.

Lana SAYS she doesn't care about charts but all artists do that, they just say that to appear to be 'all about the music' in an organic way. Look at Lady Gaga recently, "I don't write for the charts" and then got upset when her material began to underperform and got mad at Billboard (I love Gaga, just an example) and there's also plenty of "unsuccessful" indie artists like Santigold who claim that their music is somehow 'raw' and 'deeper' than the mainstream when it's not and you know she would kill for a #1 single. It's obvious that Lana cares more about being successful and being accepted than a lot of people, she wants the #1 albums, even if she claims she doesn't and I wouldn't be surprised if Interscope got on at her for producing a second album. Didn't Paradise sort of underperform for what was essentially a new album? I'm expecting Ultraviolence to release in the first quarter of next year. Interscope want those receipts.

Apparently Young and Beautiful wasn't eligible so it won't be getting an Oscar nomination either. I don't know if this is 100% true because the way Interscope said it was being promoted for "awards season" implies they thought it was but I blame Lana's big mouth talking about the song being written for other films on the radio. Had she said nothing, she could have got away with it and rode her Harley to the nomination and probably would have it. It was definitely in contention. It would have been good for her legitimacy in the US, helped turned the critics around a little, but oh well. The sad thing is I doubt she'll get this close to an Oscar again and it would have done wonders for her legitimacy in the US, but then she never gets close to any awards, except the Brits (because we have flawless taste).

No Golden Globe nomination for Lana, guess she won't be getting the Oscar now.

Am I the only one who thinks Lana and Lorde (the Lana imitator, yes I went there!) in the same category will split the votes between the two of them and cancel each other out? They're both similar. I'd love to see her win but it's kind of amazing that they even remembered Paradise and that she's there in the first place.

From the way she announced it, she seemed like it was already half-finished or done. I know it's Lana but she had no real reason to announce the title otherwise she could have just said 'my new album next year'.

Is it me or is the lack of reviews worrying? Haha. Like "oh, it wasn't that good *moves on with life*"