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Amen. It's quite clear to see that these moments weren't intended for us to look at or judge (yet here I am ). The fact that she's not perfectly poised and wearing whatever dress she could find just seem to be a sign of her being in "vacation mode" which is a healthy thing. And good for them that they can relax like that around each other even with the paparazzi creeping.

*logs out for a few hours and the forum explodes with news* I swear she's the most productive bitch in the industry when it comes to writing and recording!

Great thread! Been listening to "Among My Swan" a lot lately. I like how hypnotic and soothing it is even though the songs all sound like each other. Fun Fact: I discovered Mazzy Star because people were comparing Lana to Hope Sandoval, then i heard Fade Into You and fell in love. Back then I didn't really get the comparison but especially after Ultraviolence it actually makes sense to me.

Maybe it's still new to them to be out and about in public together with papparazzi and everything.

I Can Fly Ride Brooklyn Baby

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For real? Or are we assuming based on her love of JFK?

New favourite moment: The high note in the bridge of Ride. I never really thought that much of it, but last night I listened to Ride while extra super high and I really had a moment with that one note. The way she strains her voice on "I just" and then sends "RIIIIIIDE" out into the stratosphere. That note is made of everything good and beautiful. I could live inside that note. I feel like we bonded, and now I'm legally obliged to marry it.

Oh well, Lana flunked SNL and look where she is today. Poor girl though.

Ultraviolence works better as a coherent album than Born to Die, though Born to DIe still has some of my favourite tracks.

Maybe it was just the few songs I heard, but to me she sounded really out of breath. There were more than one performance though, we might have heard different ones.

Her vibrato always puzzled me too. Like on The Man I love she has this crazy broad vibrato: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqF9SsMi9Us But it's not really present on other tracks from that era. It's like she's capable of a lot of technical feats but has very little control over it. She can't do it at will. I'm no vocal coach but her breath control seem kinda off sometimes, maybe because of stress, sickness or nervousness, hence the performances like the recent "Rock an Seine" where she sounds much worse than usual. I totally agree with those who said that her strength lies in the atmosphere and emotions she can create with her voice. In that regard her range is ridiculous. Just think of the span between "Pretty When You Cry" and "Off to the Races" in terms of emotional colouring. That magnificient woman

Lana must be quite sad as well. I recall her mentioning Lauren Bacall as one of the most elegant women or something. RIP:(

No, she just mentioned it in the audio commentary. http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5128-ultraviolence-audio-commentary/ Justice 4 @ . I did wonder if no one else had thought of this, I'm glad to know I'm not crazy.

Just a stray thought, but I noticed the "Lay me down tonight" part in Ultraviolence at 3:39 for the first time today I really wondered why she decided to put that line in, but then it hit me (and felt like a kiss): The line fits way better into Ultraviolence than it does in FMWUtTT where it feels out of place in my opinion. Could it be that after she rewrote Melancholia into Ultraviolence, she liked the phrase so much that she wrote a new song based on it or simply spliced it into FMWUTTT? The latter seems quite likely to me, What do ya'll say?

I really like it though

Didn't she switch up the director midways or something? I feel like this video had a lot of potential that got lost in the process.

She does that gliding up and down the notes a lot. Like "Swinging in the baackyard, pull up in your faast car" and "feeet don't fail me now". I don't think she had Hallelujah in mind, but I definetely think she is inpired by him in some ways.

Slightly off topic, sorry: I agree with you! Video Games is untouachable and very unique. I often wonder why her other songs co-written with Justin Parker never reached the same level, even though they're great in their own right. Maybe it's the Robopop production that really set it apart? It's kinda weird that she never colIaborated with them again. It could also be that there's this collective mythologization of Video Games because for a lot of us it was the first Lana song we ever heard.

But she didn't react negatively to those questions though. In fact she told more openly about her past than in any previous interview and actually laughed off the whole "1-10 scale" question. To me the interview actually reads like Lana had a decent chemistry with the interviewer. It seemed to be the questions about SNL and FMWUTTT that suddenly triggered her shut down, where she didn't mind the other risque questions. I don't expect any logic from Lana (she has her own universe) and I don't think most fans do, but from the perspective of the interviewer it must be a little confusing.

Woo, one month or so to go! I hope Fistcuff will be producing again. Sail Out was like crack to me.

You basically said everything I was thinking but better formulated. It's her non-linear thought process and her insistence on being iconic (whet ever it's concious or not) that makes her the brilliant artist she is, but also makes her come across so badly in interviews. At this point I have fully accepted that it's always gonna be a mess (and a mess that potentially hurts Lana) but on the other hand I really enjoy getting these glimpse of what is going on in her mind, so I hope she finds some way to give interviews without loosing all interest in staying in show business.

I'm just wondering why the long break between the singles? It'll be like 4 months between them, isn't that unusual? I know her whole PR management is a mess but still.. She's very lucky to not really need much promo at this point.