Summersault

I've never heard Lana speak with a New York accent, but it can be heard in her singing.  For example, the way she says "dirty" in "Behind Closed Doors" is straight out of NYC.  (I worked there for three years.)  In the fadeout at the end of the song (behind closed doors, doors, doors, etc.), she clearly says "doas, doas, doas" with the almost silent "r", which is common to various degrees all over the northeast.  (For those outside of the U.S., there are many, many accents in this country.  If one drives up I-95 from NY to Massachusetts, the accents are much different and easily identifiable.  Accents in Houston and Dallas are different, too.  No one on the TV show "Dallas" sounds anything like they are from Dallas - not to me, anyway, and I've lived there.)
 
Lana has great control of her voice, and the southern inflection she injects into some of her early songs is pretty much perfect.  She doesn't overdo it, so it sounds smooth and natural.

The universal critical acclaim, unexpected commercial success, and the two incredible live performances are so much more than we could have asked for. So happy for her.
 
Really hoping that this album earns Lana a high MetaCritic score and a few Grammy noms...maybe even a win for one of the rock categories.

We seriously need a @@Monicker analysis of the production.

You summoned me?   
 
I can't speak for anyone else, but yes, I am. I never cared much for the hip hop beats or overused samples on BTD, and at times even the felt the orchestral arrangements sounded overproduced. I really felt they over-egged the pudding as the Brits would say. Worst of all, I felt like the whole album was confined in a straightjacket, as if there was some BTD filter applied to each song, whether it fit the song or not. But I've often mentioned my affinity for the more jazzy, bluesy, or alterna-rock oriented songs in Lana's oeuvre—"Pin-up Galore", "The Man I Love", "Tired of Singing the Blues", the live rock versions of "Yayo" & "Brite Lites"— so it should surprise absolutely no one that I love this and the direction it augurs for her sound on Ultraviolence. The drums fills, that groovy syncopated guitar riff, those tempo changes—all great stuff.
 
Some more specific thoughts as I listen for the bajillionth time:
 
I love the creakiness/croakiness in her harmony on the first "then you're not playing" and later on the first "your love". As others have noted, it has a lot of resonances with other songs, um, lyrically and sonically. "You've got the music in you" is a lyric from the New Radicals song "You Get What You Give" (which Rick Nowels co-wrote). It also reminds me of the line "we have the music" in "Chelsea Hotel #2". The "don't you" even reminds me a little bit of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain". The line "it all could happen" makes me think of the lyric "it's all happening" from "My Best Days". Those high harmonies in the pre-chorus sound a lot like "Burning Desire". Then there's the "And I Love Her" riff, slowing things way the fuck down, with a guitar chord reverberating in the background like something out of the intro to "She's Not Me". The high harmonies during this slow chorus are absolutely gorgeous. "Parliament's on fire": although almost certainly a reference to the cigarette brand, I don't think the double meaning evoking an image of revolution isn't deliberate, especially taken with the line "his hands are up". Taken with "on the balcony" it reminds me of the line from "Butterflies", "We're sippin' cocktails lookin' down upon the riot" (if that is indeed the lyric and not "Rhine"). "Ooh baby, ooh baby" borrows the rhythm and melody of those same words in Stevie Nicks' "Edge of Seventeen". The high "Oooo-oooh" after swaying is so haunting. It reminds me of similar harmonies in a couple songs by my other current fave Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, "Young Dumb & Drunk" & "Shadow Boy". "Golden god" is possibly a reference to Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant's claim about himself (or the line from "Almost Famous" based on that). I love the whispered "ah, ah, ah, ah" over "ooh baby, ooh baby" the second time through the chorus. And that synth tone that comes in over "move baby, move baby" reminds me of the synth in Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar" or some, uh, west coast G-funk era rap.
 
I did this exact same thing before I even read this. Great minds.

Isn't it a sadly welknown fact that the official lyric booklets always get it wrong?

My summer jam, just like predicted. The sound was unexpected, but expected at the same time, if that makes sense?

when the chorus hits, its like being swept over by a fucking (~coastal) wave. also, the synth at the end is rather ultraviolent
 
i really love how its divergent from her past releases, but still fitting under the umbrella of "hawaiian glam metal"
 
FUTURE LEGEND 

when I heard her say 'golden', I was so sure that she was gonna say 'grill' after that

Right? First time I listened I felt like the fabric of time was melting or something, like when you've been smoking and it suddenly kicks in.
The production is really on another level.

Isn't it a sadly welknown fact that the official lyric booklets always get it wrong?

Right? First time I listened I felt like the fabric of time was melting or something, like when you've been smoking and it suddenly kicks in.
The production is really on another level.

just got back home~
 
i dig the song a lot! the way it slows down is fucking dope as hell. the sounds at the ending as well omg. yayo aka genius. if this is what they meant by unlistenable im down.
 
only thing bothering me about the release is all the talk about charts like   #sorrynotsorry

She coudn't have given us something better than this, remembers me when I first heard Ride, I was expecting something very radio-friendly to get her up in the charts, instead I got that beautiful ballad, because we all know Lana doesn't do it for the charts but for the art. If Aka ever got reworked it would sound like this, the chorus it's like an evolved but still different version of Kill Kill,  it's like drinking under the stars in the cold night very atmospherical music. It's amazing to see she's evolving but hasn't forgot her roots, Queen of the Gas Station, Mermaid Motel would fit here so perfectly. I really hope there's sexy songs like those in Ultraviolence 

FIRST OF ALL THE DRUMS OH MY GOD I LOVE THE INSTRUMENTAL         
 
second of all "cubano como yo" means "Cuban like me".......is this white girl claiming to be Cuban now or??? Maybe she spiritually identifies with the Cuban people idk I can't wait for all the cultural appropriation rants on tumblr 

:monicker:
 
:oprah2:
 
#MONALYSIS

it's being rush-released tomorrow in the UK because of popular demand and fantastic reception!!!!!! this could also mean a European release as well

Made a west coast/California centric playlist because I'm obnoxious tbh + to accommodate West Coast. But it's really good! Unfortunately I couldn't convince myself that On Our Way belonged even though the sound fit perfectly. It just doesn't mention CA
 
Anyway, it's called CALIFORNIA PROUD
 
1. Ride (Video shot in Vegas was enough to convince me. It sounds very western idk)
2. Summertime Sadness [Extended Radio Mix] (Cruising down the coast, going 'bout 99)
3. Burning Desire (Cruising down the street on Hollywood and Vine for you, baby)
4. West Coast (Down on the west coast etc etc)
5. Gods & Monsters ("the land of gods and monsters" = LA thx to Tropico)
6. She's Not Me (Cruising down Santa Monica Boulevard; When you take her to Chateau Marmont)
7. Radio (Now I'm in LA and it's paradise)
8. Hollywood's Dead (Self-explanatory)
9. Dum Dum (I'm a star child, big smile, living in LA)
10. Heavy Hitter (I was lounging at the Chateau Marmont)
11. Breaking My Heart (What do you expect from the Hollywood lifestyle?)
12. Afraid (I'm going back to Santa Monica, New York to LA)
13. Never Let Me Go (LA's gonna look real good)
14. American (LA, I don't even have to fake it now)
15. Yayo [AKA] (It only takes two hours to Nevada - a potential stretch tbh)
16. Angels Forever, Forever Angels (You are California proud)
17. Young & Beautiful (Diamonds, brilliant, and Bel Air now)
18. Bel Air (Taking some assumptions that she's talking about the city, not the car...)
19. Hollywood (Self-explanatory)

I'm so glad she released West Coast. It may not be super radio friendly but it definitely showcases Lana's variety and the fact that she's not a one-trick pony

oh my fucking GOD GUYSSSSSSS     
what the fuck is this perfectionnn!! WOWW! I was so sure it would be dope, but this exeeded my fucking expectationssssssssssss!!
 
LANAA!!   

beach, summer breeze, cigarette (I dont smoke) and sun is all this song needs!

I just wanna lay in the sun at the beach with this song roaring in my ears.

I haven't actually genuinely been excited about Ultraviolence until now.

WEST COAST.

oh at parliaments being a cigarette brand
 
I envisioned Lana's man standing in the smoking ruins of his kingdom as the government collapsed, lol

These lyrics, simple and Lana-typical as they are, give me life