PrettyBaby

Oh my god.
I heard this initially too! I always thought it was It's a real killer until I read the lyrics someone posted, then I listened closely and I heard Sweet serial killer too. I like the way It's a real killer sounds better, but the latter makes more sense in the overall song.
Ugh, don't you just HATE it when you're listening to a song and the artist gets the lyrics wrong? Sheesh.

Everyone else in the world seems to think these highlighted lines are "Sweet serial killer" too, but I can't make myself hear it that way. Does anyone else hear "It's a real killer" at these spots? I know I'm not losing my mind, there's only five syllables there... right?
 
Thank you!!! This is the first plausible interpretation I've heard for the spoken portions.

hahah obviously, i made it :smiles:
 
 
 

Try Tonight is one of my favorites from Sirens.

I don't think there should be an NHB or Stan Wars area because it's basically an excuse for people to get nasty with each other over opinions. I really doubt people can handle a place like that without getting offended or offending someone else. We don't need to create a place in this forum for people to make enemies and get away with being rude/disrespectful.
 
Anyway, here are some additions I'd like:
MOAR EMOTICONS.
ANOTHER ADMIN OR TWO BECAUSE THE UPDATES TO THE FORUM ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN.
MOAR EMOTICONS.
AN INTERVIEWS SECTION.
A DOWNLOADS SECTION, FOR WHENEVER DOWNLOAD LINKS BECOME ALLOWED.
ANOTHER ADMIN OR TWO BECAUSE WE DON'T UPDATE OFTEN ENOUGH.
MOAR MEMBERS.
THE ABILITY TO COMMENT ON STATUSES FROM MOBILE.
AUTO-BANNING FOR PEOPLE THAT DISLIKE LUCKY ONES.
STRICTER RULES FOR THE DOWNLOADS SECTION IF IT EVER BECOMES AVAILABLE.
MOAR IDEAS FOR UPDATES.
THANK YOU.

I'm hesitating between The Man I love, Try tonight and Pride

It's from the GQ UK shoot.
http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/203-gq-magazine-interview-and-photos/
 
(And the one I used for Velvet Crowbar is from a 2011 Nicole Nodland shoot.)
http://lanadelreyonline.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=186&pid=2975#top_display_media

Congratulations, Lily!

"Paradise" is a great song!

i love grimes! a great 2012 discovery (for me). "visions" is awesome!!!
have you guys seen this? she is a one-woman show ♥

In "Yayo," I could have sworn she was singing "You have to tape me right now from this dark trailer park life now"

All that's real to me is the Paradise Edition deluxe box set :sigh:

led zeppelin- hey hey what can i do

None of our basic business tbh.

If someone told me to download Lana Del Rey's lead single "Born 2 Die" off her new album Do U Luv Me Yet?, I would have told them to fuck off.

HDB, check these out. I wanted to give you something more tangible rather than a rambling post.
 
Here’s Wouldn’t It Be Nice by The Beach Boys in mono (how it was originally mixed in 1966) and a modern stereo mix of the song.
 
First Stereo:

 
Make sure you do NOT turn the volume all the way up, leave a little room to play the mono back louder. Listen to the clarity and separation. You can pick certain instruments apart. In this mix you can actually hear that, yes, indeed, the driving force of the backing track is two accordions! Listen to how the background vocals pop out and shimmer. Listen to the bed of horns and all the percussion. You can hear different parts weaving in and out and you feel the sound sort of enveloping you from all around, like you're in a pool that's filled with the music rather than water. The song has a certain elegance in stereo.
 
Now Mono:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E4FRtrD9aQ
 
Turn the volume up slightly louder than you did the stereo mix. All of the aforementioned is gone. Everything blends. It’s like the whole song is one big well-oiled machine, all the parts indistinguishable from each other, coming together to create a whole. It’s not about the details at all (many of which are lost!) but rather the big picture. If everything before was a collection of separate sounds, this is just one big mass of a single sound, but listen to the power that it carries. It’s like a train that’s coming straight at you and it’s going to rip your head off.
 
 
Is one "better" than the other? Of course not, it comes down to personal preference. But it also doesn't have to be about one or the other. To me, they're BOTH essential, they both have their own value for totally different reasons. When i listen to the stereo mix, i marvel at the intricacies of the composition, arrangement, and production and i think, Wow, Brian Wilson was not of this earth. How the fuck did he compose, arrange, produce, and sing this? When i listen to the mono mix i just FEEL the song and it makes me want to cry.

The still used for the stereo mix YouTube video makes me wonder what auto-tuned animal noises Emile Haynie would have put on an album entitled Pet Sounds. Or imagine "Good Vibrations" with auto-tuned loon instead of an Electro-Theremin.
 
The mono mix brings back memories of when I first fell in love with pop music during my oldies phase in grade school. After I'd go to bed, I'd turn on my crappy alarm clock radio just loud enough to hear it well and just quiet enough to avoid my parents' detection. I'd listen late into the night, marking off songs I'd heard on a Top 1000 Oldies list printed on an advert in the local paper for the oldies station, checking them off one by one by the light of a flashlight hidden under my pillow. Ah, memories...

There's been a lot of drama over comments in status updates about the line "I'm a fan of pro-ana nation." I think it's an interesting subject, and would like to discuss it here, if we can avoid the drama.
 
While I agree with people critical of the line that it would be problematic if Lana were advocating anorexia, and I see the potential for anorexics to latch onto this, but I don't think that's what she's doing here. To the contrary. She's no more advocating anorexia than she is advocating drugs, drinking, getting beaten by someone with tats on his ass, or fucking your teachers. She's painting a picture of how fucked up she or other girls were in boarding school. The song is written from that perspective, but portrays that perspective as something fucked up.

I did this too (until I hid it). Unfortunately, it had a very different effect on me than Maru probably experienced.

What if it was a Diet MTN Dew demo, but recorded with the Phenomena?!
 
Thanks
 
 
Indulge this theory for a second, please, I'm feeling pretty good about it:
 
Lana has gone on record saying that her first three singles--"Video Games", "Born to Die", and "Blue Jeans"--are a trilogy. As a fanbase, it's our job to read really far into this. A safe point to jump to is that these songs are a trilogy in the sense that they're all about the same love story. I readily accepted this for a while and assigned this trilogy to her criminal love story, K. "Blue Jeans" has the most detail of any of these three songs, specifically relating back to "For K", so this as a logical jump of intuition. But if you think about it, really think about it, these songs don't have any particular details in common. Sure, they're all mournful. But it ends there.
 
Just recently, some stalkers insiders made it vaguely apparent that they were positive "Video Games" is about Mike Mizrahi. Mike's story doesn't cohesively fit with the mysterious K's, so we're all left in the dust of that trilogy theory. But that's how Lana herself described it--a trilogy. So what if these three songs aren't a trilogy in the sense that they all connect back to one guy, but that they connect to three separate things she holds dear. For instance, what if this trilogy is about the three most important loves of her life?
 
It makes sense, doesn't it? She cast Bradley Soileau in "Born to Die" based on his appearance, which bears some striking similarities to Jimmy Gnecco's. And just reading this thread, it's impossible not to get the sense that these were Lana's most important relationships--held above Bill and possibly Chris and whoever she dated as a teenager. "Video Games" being about Mike, "Born to Die" being about Jimmy, and "Blue Jeans" being about K.
 
Problems with this:
- Born to Die. Very K, right? Wrong. Who's to say that she means die in the literal sense? She sings last thing I saw before I died, and lo and behold, she's not dead.
- Bradley Soileau, the model equivalent of Jimmy Gnecco, is also in "Blue Jeans". So that song must be about Jimmy, right? Wrong. See, she was already in a professional relationship with Bradley at that point, and maybe even a less-than-professional one. People were fascinated with his image. Business-wise, casting Bradley was a natural move. She originally cast him for "Born to Die" based on his looks--but did she ever say the same for the decision in "Blue Jeans"? As far as I know, the answer is no.
 
Shower me with praise or comments.

I'd totally do A$AP, but I'd tell him he'd have to shut the fuck up.

"You Can Be the Boss"

They suit the videos well, but A$AP and Bradley are just.. erghh you all know what I'm going to say.
 
Josh seems sweet.

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o
 
 
So who's the better melodist, Lizzy or Jimmy? Gonna have to give it to Lizzy in this case, hands down.
 
By the way, the metadata on the "No Kung Fu" version of Little Girls has always been tagged as 2007. Hmm...