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Radiohead - Creep
I would give anything to hear her cover this song, it would be perfect.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

It's so bandwagon to hate and hate on the Kardashians.
Like, for real though, and they're not even that bad.
 
Lana was obviously enjoying herself.

"these people" that sounds ridiculous, what have they ever done to you or anyone else? 
 
Stop being hateful and jealous for no reason. They didn't hire her as an accessory, they hired her because they love her music. 
 
I'm sure Lana was actually really happy to do this especially since she's a fan of Kanye and I'm sure the whole clan treated her really well and made her have a good time. I imagine it's a really good feeling when someone wants you to perform at their wedding (or pre wedding party)

I don't really get all the hate...

Tennis Court, and her favorite Lana song is Born To Die... seems like she only listens to the first song of every album! 
 
I just saw her at a free show at Urban Outfitters, the mini concert was short and stuff but she was super amazing and energetic, she was like in the crowd and going up the stairs and walking around and shit, it was amazing. It also made me really love some of the songs I didn't really like, also her braid game is so strong, I get whiplash everytime she swings her braid around. She also looked at me a couple of times I think because I told her via her Tumblr ask this morning to look out for an Asian kid in a hawaiian shirt   and when she was walking back out to do the signing she was like IT'S YOU!! and then I gave her a little note and she signed my vinyl. I showed her my MØMØMØYouth poster I did a few weeks ago and she was like OMG you made it? She's super sweet and she got so excited she said she wanted to make it a poster for her tour or something like that.
 
ME + MØ
 
 
 
 
Anyway, GO TO HER SHOW! She's so sweet!

God I love her 

I asked about her old bands/projects and also about tracks such as Woman of Babylon, No More Seconds and Longing Bird. Ignored. I've asked her about Woman of Babylon before and she ignored me that time too. I wonder why? I want actual information about her music! I don't give a shit what her favourite Lorde song is... 
 
I am SO done with her Q+A's 

Wow, this is really one of the most revealing interviews EVER. And one of th best overall. FINALLY
  Talking with John Ehmann at interscope since Diet MTN Dew was uploaded More stills from Born To Die video need to leak ASAP… Period of writer’s block while touring after Born To Die  Her mom taught at the school she attended Mr. Campbell name drop "Nina Bella" tattoo is actually "Nina Billie" after Nina Simone and Billie holiday Rented trailer halfway through college for $400 a month "don't have a reference for where I was coming from even before that. I was always singing and always changing - the timing of it hit when I was in a particular phase. It could have hit three years before that, and then they would have been going back to the era when I wasn't platinum, and I was in my natural hair colour.”
Lizzy Grant and Sirens tease  "there are pop stars who are regarded as really authentic and innovative who spend hours putting their outfits together".
Even some “shade”  [smoking] "It's part of my process, unfortunately," she apologises. She took up smoking at around the same time she gave up drinking, when she was 18. "I used to drink a lot and now I don't drink at all," she says. Was there a catalyst for that decision? "My whole life was the catalyst. It was a mess." She thinks for a moment and says, "I did lose my car, my family's car. That was not a good thing. I guess that was a catalyst." I wonder if this is a euphemism for crashing it, but it's more prosaic. "I forgot where I put it." She sighs and smiles ruefully
I wouldn't trust Lana when it comes to describing ages 

Hello everybody, I found an interesting and recent  interview with Lana. If this was posted on LB before I ask the mods to delete this topic. I really enjoyed this interview. Discuss
 
 
Few pop singers divide audiences like Lana Del Rey. Just what is it about the sweet-voiced, doe-eyed chanteuse that attracts such extreme opinions?
 
When I meet Lana Del Rey at a cavernous rehearsal studio in Hollywood, the 27-year-old singer is dressed all in denim, wearing torn blue jeans and a western-style denim shirt with canvas sneakers. Del Rey has just finished a day of rehearsal for her upcoming tour, which begins in Las Vegas and takes her across the US and Europe. Her hair is dyed a dark reddish-brown, pulled back from her face, and she pulls absent-mindedly at long strands of it as she speaks. Her face is free of make-up, and her pale skin has an enviably healthy glow, even under the dreary light of the rehearsal space.
 
 
The overall dressed-down effect is offset by a huge set of false eyelashes, left on from a photo shoot with a French magazine the previous day. This contrast seems somehow of a piece with the disjunctions that define her style, a mix of innocence and artfulness, childish naivete and knowing glamour which she's described as "gangster Nancy Sinatra" or "Lolita got lost in the 'hood".
I've showed up ready to believe the rumours (which she denies) about the plastic surgery that produced her remarkable pout, but she looks convincingly natural. She has a model's face, more subdued in life than on film, where the camera throws her clearly defined features into sharp, exaggerated relief. The standout feature is not her much-discussed lips but her big, kohl-lined eyes, with their unusual dark-forest-green colour.
 
 
Del Rey speaks in a low-pitched voice with an upstate New York inflection, and talks in hesitant, wandering trains of thought. She didn't do press for two and a half years, she says, exhausted by what she saw as persistent misrepresentations of herself and her story. "Read everything and assume the opposite, then you'll really know who I am." She gives a thin smile. "It really doesn't matter what I say." Tattooed on the side of one hand is the word "Paradise" - a recurring idea in her work - on the other, "Trust no one".
Lana Del Rey's sharp rise to fame began in mid-2011, when her melancholic love song Video Games attracted millions of views on YouTube in a matter of weeks after she posted it. The self-produced video mashed together nostalgic archival film with other found footage and webcam film of Del Rey, with her big eyes and sad, beautiful, blank face evoking an updated Valley of the Dolls.
She was born Elizabeth Grant, and had performed for years as Lizzy Grant, playing small venues and open-mike nights in New York; she recorded an album with producer David Kahne (Paul McCartney, the Strokes, New Order), released in 2009, which didn't sell. Titled Lana Del Ray aka Lizzy Grant, it shows her beginning to experiment with the artistic persona that she brought to fruition a couple of years later, with the release of three tracks on YouTube that consolidated her moody, retro pop sound and distinctive visual style: Diet Mountain Dew, Blue Jeans and Video Games. "I didn't have any offers," Del Rey tells me, "and then I got all the offers on one day - on the day Video Games was played on the radio."
 
 
She'd already been in conversation with John Ehmann at record label Interscope, who had championed her since seeing the video for Diet Mountain Dew on YouTube well before the huge success of Video Games, and she signed a joint recording deal with Interscope, Polydor and Stranger. Her subsequent album, Born to Die, debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard charts in February 2012.
It is common for performers to change names and play with personas - one has only to think of Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman), David Bowie's many incarnations, or more recently, Lady Gaga. But something about Lana Del Rey's self-presentation, straddling pop accessibility and indie artistic aspirations, struck a nerve, and she was quickly accused of being a fake, a manufactured pop product, with no authentic agency of her own. Somehow it was impossible to believe that this young, preternaturally beautiful woman could actually be "in the driver's seat", as Ehmann describes her role. "The vision is all hers."
 
 
Ehmann plays me some of the tracks from Del Rey's new album Ultraviolence, out later this year, at his Santa Monica office, where a large picture of Del Rey seated on a throne, flanked by tigers, hangs over his door (it's a still from the video for Born to Die.) He scoffs at the widely held belief that Del Rey's contract was arranged and bankrolled by her father, Robert Grant. "The first time I met or spoke to her father was roughly six months after I signed her, at one of her first shows," he tells me.
 
 
The criticism reached new levels of intensity after Del Rey's appearance on Saturday Night Live in January 2012, with clips of her clumsy performance circulating widely online. No other performer inspires a comparable level of animosity. Feminist website Jezebel asks, "Why do you hate Lana Del Rey? I do not know why I hate Lana Del Rey." In a carnival of schadenfreude, the website Buzzfeed compiled "Twenty-six Meanest Quotes from Reviews of Lana Del Rey". Sites on Tumblr such as I Hate Lana Del Rey subscribe openly to the idea that the singer's success is due to canny promotion of her sex appeal: "Cash comes quick when looks can kill," explains the heading of another Del Rey "troll" blog.
 
 
"None of it ever seemed to make any sense," Del Rey says, reflecting on the intensity of her reception, halting between words. "I'm not a provocateur. I love to write. The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have. I love rhyming and writing. For years my focus was on building a beautiful visual world and beautiful sonic world and yeah, having such a strong reaction was ... surprising? I don't know."
 
 
She went through a painful period of writer's block while touring after the release of Born to Die, "trying to write things that I thought would be more accessible," and for a while she doubted whether she would release another record. "It's this feeling that comes over you, like falling in love," she says of the inspiration to write. "You have to get that sensation."
That feeling returned when she met Dan Auerbach, of rock group the Black Keys, who wound up producing her new album. Del Rey had been feeling for a while that there was something missing from her sound, "a fuzzy guitar tone that I couldn't bring on my own". Upon meeting Dan, she thought, "Maybe this is my guy!"
 
 
The album has taken a while to put together - two and a half years - due to Del Rey's hands-on approach. "I'm involved in the process, from the mixing to the mastering. Every single part of it has to be right."
Del Rey was born in New York in 1986, and grew up in Lake Placid, a small town on the northern edge of upstate New York. "It's the coldest spot in the nation," she says. "It's very insular, very quiet. There were no main stores, we didn't have TV." Her parents, Robert and Pat Grant, had abandoned lucrative careers in advertising in New York City; Robert became a real estate agent and later an internet entrepreneur, while Pat became a schoolteacher. Del Rey was the eldest of three siblings, and her younger brother and sister, Charlie and Caroline, now share a house with her in LA. Caroline, an accomplished photographer, is responsible for many of Del Rey's most well-known images and cover art.
 
 
Lake Placid was a tough place to be a teenager with artistic ambitions, Del Rey remembers. "I really wanted to be a singer. It was hard because ..." She trails off and starts again. "I don't like to say anything bad about it because it's my home, but I love cities. Living in the Bronx was heaven. I lived in New Jersey, I lived in Brooklyn, and that was when I really came home."
By the time she was 15, she says, she'd started acting up. "I was misdirecting my energy. I started going out all the time and skipping school a little bit and yeah, I got in trouble." Conflict with teachers at school, where her mother also taught, led to her parents sending her to Kent, a private boarding school in Connecticut; her uncle had recently taken up a position there as admissions officer, and he helped to arrange financial aid.
 
 
"I was lonely," she says, but "I had this teacher who was my only friend in school. His name was Gene. He read us Leaves of Grass and we read Lolita in class, and it changed my world, which was a really solitary world. I didn't have a connection to anyone in class and when I found these writers, I knew they were my people." Gene was just a few years older than her, fresh from Georgetown University. "He would sign me out and we would listen to Tupac and stuff in his car," she remembers, "and he would teach me about old movies like Citizen Kane. He taught me everything."
 
 
Since then she's become a collector of early editions of classic books, including a signed first edition of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Names of her sources of inspiration are tattooed on her body, all in elegant copperplate: "Whitman" and "Nabokov", tributes to the writers Gene introduced her to, on her right forearm; "Chateau Marmont", the famous Hollywood hotel, on the other. "Nina" and "Billie" are on her left upper chest, for Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, her favourite singers. "I just like the idea of keeping them close. I like the idea of them coming on tour with me." She laughs. "It makes me happy."
After high school, Del Rey attended Fordham, a university in the Bronx where she finished a BA with a major in philosophy, but felt out of sync with campus life. "I had my own world going on," she says, "and it was really different from people who just go out every night."
With the $10,000 she received for her first record deal, halfway through college, she rented a trailer in the New Jersey town of North Bergen for $400 a month and dedicated herself to songwriting and video-making. Her parents, she says, had "traditional expectations" for her career that were "geared towards keeping me safe" after her troubled teens, so "most of my musical world was kept under wraps ... I don't want to say it was a frivolous prospect, but we have nurses in the family, and teachers, and that was more of a reliable profession."
 
 
The shift in style between the blonde Lizzy Grant days and the auburn Lana Del Rey is disconcerting to some people, who suspect it was engineered by others. But people who only compare Lizzy Grant with Lana Del Rey, she says, "don't have a reference for where I was coming from even before that. I was always singing and always changing - the timing of it hit when I was in a particular phase. It could have hit three years before that, and then they would have been going back to the era when I wasn't platinum, and I was in my natural hair colour." In that case, she guesses, the critics would have said, "Now she's trying to be Marilyn; she's performing in cherry earrings and high heels."
Del Rey's retro-glam style may appear consciously crafted, but "I don't really feel that way," she says. "I wear jeans every day, so I won't wear them on stage." She rejects the idea that her style is dictated by anyone. "I'm a very independent agent. I run my own show, it's my world. There's never that many talks about, you know, 'When you go on tour, what are you going to look like?' because they know it's going to be as it is - I'll put a dress on, I'll do my hair. My public perception is different from my personal life, which is a very easy, natural way of going about things." Meanwhile, she says, "there are pop stars who are regarded as really authentic and innovative who spend hours putting their outfits together".
 
 
Authenticity, the issue that obsesses her critics, "isn't an interesting concept for me," Del Rey explains. "It's interesting that they're not asking that question of people who don't even write their own stuff." The truth is, she says, "I've always been really at home with myself and maybe that turns people off. Maybe that's a problem for people. It's funny - I ended up following my gut instinct and that's led me to where I am."
At her San Francisco show a week later, palm trees, giant floral arrangements and gothic candelabras adorn the stage. Del Rey strolls on in a short, white baby-doll dress, wearing flat slip-ons. She kicks them off at one point and performs the rest of the show barefoot. She runs her hands constantly through her hair, which she wears in natural-looking waves. There are no costume changes, and the presentation feels less slick and choreographed than most performances on Australian Idol. The 7000-seat auditorium is filled with young men and women, many of the girls wearing flowing dresses and flower garlands in tribute to one of Del Rey's defining looks. They know all the lyrics, singing along in an eerie backing chorus to every track when they aren't screaming in excitement. "This is f...ing awesome!" Del Rey calls out. "I really feel a connection!"
 
 
Towards the end of our conversation in LA, we head outside to the car park for a cigarette break. "It's part of my process, unfortunately," she apologises. She took up smoking at around the same time she gave up drinking, when she was 18. "I used to drink a lot and now I don't drink at all," she says. Was there a catalyst for that decision? "My whole life was the catalyst. It was a mess." She thinks for a moment and says, "I did lose my car, my family's car. That was not a good thing. I guess that was a catalyst." I wonder if this is a euphemism for crashing it, but it's more prosaic. "I forgot where I put it." She sighs and smiles ruefully.
While she was getting sober, she says, "I spent a lot of time figuring out my life's path, which was being of service to people around me. It's still a part of my life." She lives on the edge of LA's Koreatown, she tells me, where a lot of homeless people need help getting their lives back together. "My time [off] is spent doing outreach-type things. I don't often go into it because it's yet another facet that's so kind of jarring," she says, referring to preconceptions of her as a person whose head is filled only with "vintage dresses". "I've learnt to keep things I actually do sort of to myself."
 
http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/lolita-in-the-hood-20140505-37r6n.html

I kinda like it, she looks gorgeous. Tbh I'm glad it's not something try-hard like that cigarette pic, this one is simple but sort of nice.

I don't think Black Beauty should be included in the "no remakes" mentality. All we heard was a rough demo, not to mention the fact that we weren't meant to hear anything at all. It was never supposed to be seen as an 'old song reworked', if it hadn't leaked, no one would be saying anything right now.
 
I think it's better that the fans leaking the song didn't force Lana to leave it off the album, especially considering how much it apparently means to her (she was mentioning it in interviews long before the album was even announced, and out of the batch of songs that leaked last summer, it seemed to be the only one that really upset her).

Song visuals for Slow Love
 

Song visuals for Slow Love
 

Song visuals for Slow Love
 

i think we should all abide by a great rule:
 
stop posting meaningless shit for the sake of posting 

I'm sorry if this has already been posted but I've found the whole translation of the interview on this blog on Tumblr and wanted to share it with you guys.
 
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Lana Del Rey, American icon, seems to be tired of her vintage looks of pin-up dolls from the 50s. This ultra-feminine vibe that you can feel through her album covers. For the very first photoshoot of a huge promotion to come, she doesn’t want to seem very arty and wears clothes from her own wardrobe, from some local vintage shops. We’re back in the 60s/70s, retro vibe, more like Janis Joplin than Patti Smith…
“I have seen so many photographs of me that made me feel uncomfortable. It was too much. But the medias wanted that,” she says, while crossing her big fake red nails.
Cigarette in her hand and iPhone on, playing some reggae music, she says she prefers working with a loyal team. She’s herself very surprised to work with a very new director, the famous Dan Auerbach, leader of the Black Keys.
“I met him in a strip club in Queens. They played one of my song, we danced together. One week later, I went recording some songs with him, in his house in Nashville. Dan is stubborn, a dominant man who likes testing his own ideas first. In fact, it usually sounded exactly like I wanted to. About me, if I am a dominant person? Yes, but only when it’s about my work.”
She is special when she talks, she reminds me of Marilyn – she even tried to imitate her in an old homemade video, Kill Kill.
She tries to find the right words, takes her time, stops the conversation with big peals of laughter. It’s a mix of shyness, apprehension and peace.
Three years after the storm – that sudden recognition, we all were wondering how she was going to face up to the upcoming wave… Except about her look, it will be a big chance because it’s never too late to star a revolution. The hip-hop beats of Born To Die, its strings and legendar violins are gone… Guitars, rock ‘n’ roll and soft jazzy vibes –Ultraviolence is here. Her favourite track is Cruel World, which is about virulent love.
“Ultraviolence is about the male that meets the female. But before the actual sense, I just like the word. It has become the space of a sonorous world that I wanted to make.”
In the record, Lana Del Rey sings about enjoying life and re-becoming wild with the fear of not succeeding.
“When I write, I think about the freedom I had when I was 17, about the life that makes me dream, too. My main influences? The music I listen to and the movies I watch.”
She quotes Jeff Buckley, Nirvana, Nina Simone and adores Kubrick, Tarantino and Lynch.
A cigarette between her lips, Lana Del Rey looks at the landscape and turns her back to a pond full of Chinese carps, all white and orange. Not far away, there’s a beige Rolls waiting to drive, in the garage.
“I do interviews and photoshoots, but I live in real world, I’m solitary. Here, it’s all about me but at home it’s all about my little brother, my little sister and James, my fiancé.”
Lana Del Rey is getting to Los Angeles where she lives now, after living in Lake Placid, her hometown near NYC. She’s the oldest child, and that makes her quite maternal. People used to say that her father was rich, he’s a realtor.
“They pretended he bought my career. But all the labels don’t need money, they want artists. Those attacks were the weakest.”
Unprofessional singer for 7 years, she used to hang out in Brooklyn. She has always talked about her old alcoholism and the way she got over all of this.
Her voice was everywhere in 2011 – the impact of Video Games. Then, everyone was imagining her as a diva, a huge performer. In fact, we all found out who she was – a shy girl. We ask her “Do you enjoy being on stage?”.
She replies “Sometimes…” only, she admits.
Lana Del Rey is unusual, she doesn’t read anything that is about her, “Too mean,” she says, she even avoids social networks.
“I’m still stuck in two worlds whenever I have to talk about fame. In the US, you never see me on TV, I don’t know any famous celebrity and I’m not often outside. In my house, everything is always on – television, radio, lights… It helps me to sleep. I’m nervous every time I have to sleep… What I love? Driving. It relaxes me.”
An aura, sometimes naive and sensual, even sexual, emerges whenever you see her.
“You are sure about what you should reveal, especially when you are an artist. I’m coming from a simple family, quite quiet. I need to feel the situations and manage everything that’s around me. If you say too much, people might misundestand you. And if you stay quiet, they might imagine what they want to.”
She almost stopped everything, so many times, but she decided to stay, while some big celebrities run the music industry, like Lorde, Grimes or Miley Cyrus. The Young country girl, superstar, covers Summertime Sadness on stage.
“I know about it. It surprised me. We are so different. She is bigger than life, without any limit. The main difference between us is probably that I’ve never wanted to do any provocation because I know the risks. I’m quite confused. It disrupted me.”
Lana Del Rey feels like she has lived three different lives, “before the storm, the disaster and after”.
Irony, obviously… But then, she says, in a serious way “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Personally it just deeply hurt me. I’m so tired of it. Luckly, when I write, I don’t think about what people are going to think about my work. I just hope all of this won’t happen again.
Have you already read something good about me? In France, maybe. All the journalists tried to understand what I was doing. Maybe because here, you have a real artistic and romantic culture. I feel understood in your country. In some other contries, what they write isn’t even about my music. I don’t even know why… But that’s life.”
She’s standing here, wearing her torn jeans. Lana Del Rey has understood that she is in conflict… Hopefully, the controversy is going to stop with Ultraviolence, the 3rd Chapter of her career.
“It sounds like everything I listen to. Phil Spector has been one of my inspirations, honestly. The album has a Californian influence… With different effects and progressions, with a tough energy which makes me think of New York”.
Ultraviolence, Interscope-Polydor, end of June.

Okay, so I really needed Chillin' W/ Max for so many, many reasons; and after doing some searchin', I found and got in touch with Slow Hand Motëm, who produced CWM, YO YO, and SECRET:


And after some conversation and a few days of patience, about an hour ago, if that, he messaged me this fucking great gem.



LYRICS:

And honestly, I really had to show that message because this is how old projects should be handled, it should be something for everyone.  This was my first time having a successful sleuthing experience with unreleased tracks, and awesome people like Slow Hand Motëm make me so happy. His music is so fucking chill and awesome. I love him and his generosity, and I love this track.

He might still be looking for SECRET, but he did tell me he would let me know for that one, too!

Enjoy, guys!!!

And here's his tumblr: http://gebbzsteelo.tumblr.com/

Just, seriously, this guy is so fucking pleasant and he really does produce and release some dope stuff.

The Radio Edit is alright, however, the song loses it's essence. The original made me subconsciously sway and gave me the urge to grind with someone, but I just don't get that with the new version. I'm trying not to pick it apart too bad but all of the elements that made me love the first one are gone (except the lyrics) and the almost haunting feel and sound of it is also gone.   

the new version is nice -- i actually like the way she sings the verses but the chorus completely lost its power. it doesn't compare to the original in any way; its just... cute (whereas the original was like fucking supernatural on some level)

I'm not too fond of it either. It's fine, I guess, but it completely loses the atmospheric quality of the original. I couldn't care less about radio success...they should have just stuck with the one great version they had.

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NMTF has been out long enough to give me a fair judgement on all the songs so I thought I'd finally make a list in the order of my favourite to least favourite.

 

No Mythologies To Follow

Maiden

Never Wanna Know

Fire Rides

Glass

Slow Love

XXX 88

The Sea

Gone and Found

Don't Wanna Dance

Red In The Grey

Dummy Head

Waste Of Time

Pilgrim

Walk This Way

Dust Is Gone

Cool article that gives us a bit of insight into Karen's childhood! http://noisey.vice.com/blog/scrapbook-m-flips-through-their-old-photo-albums
Featuring some very cool photos