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who are you trying to come at lmao. whenever you respond to someone on LB you write with so much anger and sass, you need to calm down and stop being so bitter lol 
and back on topic, when you think 'Lana Del Rey' , Video Games, West Coast, Born To Die, Ultraviolence, National Anthem, Ride, Blue Jeans, etc. come to mind because they are iconic. when you think 'Lana Del Rey' you pay no mind to HM because its the most useless thing that could ever happen to her discography, despite a few songs (around 3) theres no songs on HM that are career defining. HM is so bland it just becomes overshadowed by the greatness of BTD, PD, and UV. by iconic i meant songs that are career defining and you can recognize immediately. HM is just a bunch of demos with cheap beats and stolen uv visuals

Quite frankly if Lana wants to move on from the Honeymoon era already, I'm find with it.

I really liked your post. But I have to say that I don’t take seriously Lana’s interest in philosophy because besides some religious references and quoting some philosophical poetry she didn’t showed any interesting philosophical ideas in her work. Yes, she studied metaphysics but for me it’s more a misguided and superficial orientation from her, because, as she put it, she abhorred the idea of being involved in a regular boring activity, job. I respect Lana, she’s smart and talented but I don’t see her reading Kant, Hegel, Heidegger tbh. She’s more in the Rider Digest level of pseudo-philosophy, mysticism (she took out the RS journalist who interviewed her to a fortune teller). So a “philosophical manifesto” from Lana would be totally misguided as she would regurgitate all of these nonsenses in a burst of clichés burying her career for good (she’s not known for her lyrical subtlety). I have a slim hope for something close to the VG lyricism from her. Sound wise I just hope that she finds some energy, passion again in her singing. Depression and detachment is hard to listen to especially on several albums.

Lana should do more things with synths, her UV psychedelic vibes were so great imagine if instead of a stripped back rock sound it was sort of a tame impala "feels like were only going backwards" type of vibe

As long as she manages to make the next album exciting again, I don't care how she does it. Both BTD and UV felt special, had their highlights, a wonderful style etc etc
 
HM is nice but so f*cking unspectacular, especially since the tempo is dragging on after like Religion.

I listen to one or two songs and that's it. I constantly go back to Ultraviolence or Born To Die. After all this time I'm still not tired of those two albums.

I'm starting to think that Lana is really going to be making a BTD 2.0 next time around.
 
She has reclaimed her BTD auburn style in all of its glory.
 

 
And going out to events a lot more!
 
She was photographed with Justin Parker near the end of last year, probably writing new material for the next album:
 

 
And now she's with Emile Haynie again...

 
Plus, remember this from the interview in NME Magazine from December last year:
 
I know this is just speculation, but judging by all of this, I seem to have a feeling she might want to make a record more in the vein of Born to Die again. I mean, it looks as if she could be working with Emile Haynie and Justin Parker again, who both worked on Born to Die, she's starting to act more like her BTD self (going out to more events, posting more often, and so on) and even changed her hair back to that style, plus she even stated in an interview she could see herself making another New York record.
 
What do y'all think? Time to open up an LDR 5 (Pre-Release and Discussion Thread) already? 

basically its what i'd imagine would be an album that was between the AKA and BTD eras. not as bad as AKA but not as good as BTD. also it steals a lot of the UV visuals which bothers me a lot and just makes this album feel like she just rounded up demos from BTD and UV, wrapped it up, and called it an album

I need her to make a new album with BTD's majestic production, I don't necessarily mean the same sound but at least something with amazing production like the songs on BTD, although I would be here for a BTD #2 if it was as good.

Art Deco is trash. The chorus melody is bland and forgettable, and the lyrics are trite and horrific. You can attempt to pseudo-analyse her lyrics but the truth is "shining like gunmetal" makes no sense however you look at it. Most of the vocals are amongst the worst that Lana's ever done in her career - the chorus vocal is literally so dull and apathetic and bored and monotone and it doesn't even marginally work like on HBTB because the melody is uninteresting. The only real redeeming factor of the song is the production.
 
When playing Honeymoon (which I haven't listened to since December lmao) I usually skip Freak, Art Deco, and DLMBM

The more freedom she gets with her music the more we get these unpolished and incomplete songs. I do love Honeymoon though.

looks as if she's getting tired of having to leave the house so often 
 
 
 

I am sure she has something up very soon. All these events she attended, probably for a soundtrack. does weinstein have any movies coming up in the near future?

I'm so happy she's come out of hibernation

Lana suddenly making all these appearances and looking the happiest she has been in such a long time leads me to believe that she has cooked up an extremely beautiful album + Movie Soundtracks and has lots of surprises in store for us

I never thought of it this way but I think you're totally right. Not to say it's not good, but some of the songs are not polished enough for my taste. She could definitely improve at least 1/2 of the songs by retweaking parts IMO

the water scenes are not a metaphor to mass cult suicide but rather lana's career slowly sinking into the depths of the ocean never to see the light of day again. this video makes less sense than her old home made videos.

I feel like they dumped all this footage on us, unedited (otherwise why else are all the shot so long) so that fans can create their own UV videos.
 
I didn't like the video, but that's because it wasn't really a video for Freak. It was material that should've been for UV that was never used and instead sewn together to please fans.
 
Really, I feel mad that the UV video that should've been never was. Imagine if Lana dropped a video like this on us. The scene with FMJ taking the acid was great. The kool-aid (and the kool-aid dripping down her chin) was great. I died when they were dancing in the fog. And in appropriate doses, the water girls and sister wives could've also been great. But for some reason, UV didn't happen, and we got the lazy video of her sucking on Francesco's fingers and eating an orange. Maybe she's not trying now because she feels there's no point - her actual ambitious ideas were prevented from coming to fruition, so screw the label and screw the fans, I'll only do as much as I need to to get both of them off my back.
 
It's a real shame. I feel like maybe she should take a break... go to places other than LA and NY. In the meanwhile, fans will continue to make a million fanmade UV clips because this footage needs editing bad.

I can't get over how good she looked last night. She looked happy and HER AUBURN HAIR WAS BACK and her outfit wasn't amazing but it wasn't trifling either. I literally never thought we would ever get to see the return of the auburn hair again, but here we are. I love when she does things like dye her hair back and sing unreleased songs on tour. Unpredictable queen.

Lana is serving me fresh on the scene Born To Die 2012 looks.If she starts wearing her Ferrari jacket again, I'll die. She's such a beauty queen

I wish she released this as a music video for Ultraviolence with an actual plot, the footage had such potential to be one of her best music videos. Unfortunately it doesn't fit with Freak at all and the fact that she just edited a few random scenes in slow motion instead of including the rest of the footage is...    I mean, I would get it if there was to be something really controversial and the label wouldn't let her release it, but that's probably not the case since she released scenes with dropping acid and drinking kool-aid and I don't think the rest of the footage could be more controversial than that.
 
I hope that someone asks her someday why the original video was scrapped and how come she decided to use the footage for Freak. 

Although the I like the Freak video, knowing it was intended for something else at one point throws me off just a little. It makes me a little disappointed knowing that a brand new video actually written and directed to fit freak could've happened. Honestly so ready for her next era already......

FMJ is so overated imo, boring basic chord progression, lyrically he's like the "indie" version of Drake aka soft-funny-mysoginism, inconsistent arrangements & such obvious yet uninteresting repartee on songs like "the ideal husband". But he's got a good voice, charisma, ideas even though he can't translate them into full realization ; and he's a very very good performer. He's actually quite similar to 2015 Lana Del Rey in some ways, so match made in heaven tbh 
And he's kinda hot

Loving both of these photos.
 

 

 
Maybe since someone she admires is part of the video she'll step her game up. 

Lana, bby, make this happen