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    Lana Del Rey's new album, Ultraviolence, qualifies as a radical statement from a pop star in 2014 – it's mostly produced by Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who relies on electric guitar and other live instruments, and none of its eleven tracks sound much like a potential radio hit. And as Auerbach reveals in Rolling Stone's new Del Rey cover story, her major labels (Interscope and the U.K.'s Polydor) were initially resistant to the idea of releasing it.


     


    "There was a lot of bullshit I'm not used to," Auerbach tells senior writer Brian Hiatt. "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they fucking hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me.  Really rubbed me the wrong way.  I got really defensive because I thought it was bullshit.


     


    "The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"


     


    Del Rey acknowledges a six-week period this past spring when Ultraviolence was in limbo. "I mean, I think there were people they wanted me to work with," she says. "I don't know who they were. When I said I was ready, they were like, 'Are you sure?'" She laughs. "'Because I feel like you could go further.'"


     


    "I had heard about some back and forth regarding the music," responds Interscope chief John Janick.  "But from the moment I met Lana, I've been of the mindset that she has an instinct that is pretty dead on and as an artist, she is fully formed.  She knows her vision and her audience, and it's up to us to follow her lead on that."


     


    "On this album, in my opinion, you didn't want her to try to do something," adds Janick's predecessor, Jimmy Iovine. "I felt she hit a bull's-eye. Everybody's saying to me, 'We need a single,' calling me from Europe. I said, 'You don't need anything.' It's a very coherent body of work, and thought any other conversation was a distraction."


     


    In any case, the album debuted at Number One in June, selling 182,000 copies – and Auerbach is now a huge fan of his collaborator. "Every criticism that I'd ever heard about her was proven wrong when I was in the studio with her," he says. "From how great the songs were to how confident she is as a musician to her fucking singing every song live, with a handheld microphone and a seven-piece band. I mean, get the fuck out of here, who does that? Nobody does that, there hasn't been a number one pop record that was recorded like that in forty, fifty years."


     


    Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718


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    Here's what I came up with.

     

     

     

    My baby lives in shades of blue

    Blue eyes and jazz and attitude

    He lives in California, too

    He drives a Chevy Malibu

     

    And when he calls, he calls for me

    And not for you

     

    He lives for love, he loves his drugs

    He loves his baby, too

     

    But I can’t fix him

    Can’t make him better

    And I can’t do nothing about

    His strange weather

     

    But you are invincible

    I can’t break through your world

     

    ‘Cause your livin’ shades of cool

    Your heart is unbreakable

     

    My baby lives in shades of cool

    ??? and hands and aptitude

    He lives for love, for women too

    And one of many want his boo (???)

     

    And when he calls, he calls for me

    And not for you

    He prays for love, he prays for peace

    And maybe someone new

     

    But I can’t help him

    Can’t make him better

    And I can’t do nothing about

    His strange weather

     

    ‘Cause you are invincible

    I can’t break through your world

     

    ‘Cause you’re living shades of cool

    Your heart is unbreakable

     

    ???

     

    You are unfazeable

    I can’t break through your world

    ‘Cause you live in shades of cool

    Your heart is unbreakable

     

     

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    Lana was recently interviewed (if you can call it that ... it's very short) live on Kiss 95.7.

     

    The full audio clip can be found here:

     

    http://www.kiss957.com/onair/munchie-41790/12337716

     

    Interview transcribed here by @@Rafael:

     

     

     

    It's Munchie joined by Lana Del Rey. Welcome to Connecticut!
    Thank You.

    Is this your first time here in Connecticut?
    No, I went to school in Connecticut for three years. So, I-- I am familiar.

    Let's go back for a minute. You were playing shows around the New York area and you decided you were gonna upload this song "Video Games" to YouTube, and that really kinda opened the world's eyes to Lana Del Rey. 
    More or less yeah. I mean it got, I guess it got lil' bigger after that.

    Now you got a sold out tour on your hands. Do you remember how things used to be back when you were struggling?
    Uhm, honestly it's kinda hard to even sort of remember the way that the things were because they're so different now in the way that it was hard to even get anyone down to the clubs on the Lower East Side I guess seven or eight years ago. So I mean that a tour would sell out is amazing, 'cause when I was younger like my goal was to be a touring artist and you know and not just in America, but you know maybe if I ever wanted to travel abroad that that would be a possibility. So, I mean it's... Yeah it's an honor. Especially, you know, thinking about it now that I get to do the music exactly the way I wanna do it so it's very cool.

    I take it like everyone else you read The Great Gatsby in high school?
    Yeah I did--I did read it in high school.

    When you got that phone call that they wanted to make you a major part of the soundtrack for the movie--that had to be pretty exciting.
    I mean it's a big deal. Like it's a big deal for anybody, but it was especially a big deal for me, 'cause I've had a kind of an upward battle the last four years. So I mean when Baz Luhrmann really really wanted me to kinda be the featuring of Great Gatsby I thought you know that was an honor and definitely not something I expected. So... I mean that--that kinda helped me out you know?

    You've got a great new song "West Coast". The video is amazing too. You can check that out at Kiss 95.7 keyword "Munchie". What was your mind set on this project? 
    So, it's been so cold in New York the last few years. So I just, I dunno I enjoy how casual the west coast is. Like I go down to the beach I swim. I swim every day and Venice Beach is so great. I dunno. There's something very, something very, uh, mysterious about the west coast to me, so--'cause I know New York like the back of my hand. So it's nice to be in kind of uncharted waters.

    One final question before I let you go Lana Del Rey: You've got a song called "Diet Mountain Dew". Where does that title even come from? 
    Uh, me and my dad. That's our favorite drink and I had a boyfriend, uhm, actually from Connecticut and that was--that was his favorite drink too. So, it was a little ode to caffeine, green caffeine. [laughs]

    I know I said that was the last question and now we're off the air I gotta ask you one more question really quick! For the guys, do you prefer clean shaving or do you like a guy who'd rock a good beard?
    I have to go, generally, with a bearded guy. [laughs] Yeah.

     

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