Alicia

i think she's at the rehearsal 

Can people stop blowing this situation out of proportion
 
and there's a bunch of people going omgggggg she left the stage without saying a word, when that's how she leaves every single night 

The problem is that when you are near the front, it is usually not the person behind you pushing. It's the hundreds of people behind you pushing.

ive never pre ordered anything as fast in my life

This is a really good interview, "The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have" is my favourite line

This is a really good interview, "The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have" is my favourite line

This is a really good interview, "The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have" is my favourite line

This is a really good interview, "The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have" is my favourite line

This is a really good interview, "The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have" is my favourite line

This is a really good interview, "The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have" is my favourite line

She didn't do press for two and a half years, she says, exhausted by what she saw as persistent misrepresentations of herself and her story. "Read everything and assume the opposite, then you'll really know who I am." She gives a thin smile. "It really doesn't matter what I say."
Sigh. This is getting really old in interview after interview. Stop blaming everyone else and start taking some responsibility for your and your team's own misrepresentations and missteps that fueled the criticism.

the 27-year-old singer
Del Rey was born in New York in 1986
Case in point.

she recorded an album with producer David Kahne (Paul McCartney, the Strokes, New Order), released in 2009, which didn't sell. Titled Lana Del Ray aka Lizzy Grant
Um, actually the title was just Lana Del Ray and it wasn't released until 2010, but again, great fact-checking.

"I'm not a provocateur."
Titles song "Fucked My Way Up to the Top".
 

She went through a painful period of writer's block while touring after the release of Born to Die, "trying to write things that I thought would be more accessible,"
Why, Lana, why?

Del Rey... grew up in Lake Placid, a small town on the northern edge of upstate New York. "It's the coldest spot in the nation," she says.


Conflict with teachers at school, where her mother also taught, led to her parents sending her to Kent, a private boarding school in Connecticut; her uncle had recently taken up a position there as admissions officer, and he helped to arrange financial aid.
inb4 "Conflict with teachers at school" = "let's make love with our teachers". Hmm, sheds new light on "My Momma" & "Boarding School". Also, I wonder if this is the uncle that taught her to play guitar.

"I was lonely," she says, but "I had this teacher who was my only friend in school. His name was Gene. He read us Leaves of Grass and we read Lolita in class, and it changed my world, which was a really solitary world. I didn't have a connection to anyone in class and when I found these writers, I knew they were my people." Gene was just a few years older than her, fresh from Georgetown University. "He would sign me out and we would listen to Tupac and stuff in his car," she remembers, "and he would teach me about old movies like Citizen Kane. He taught me everything."
Jesus fucking Christ Lana. Now you've mentioned him by his first name? Sorry, Mr. Campbell, there's nothing I can do anymore. God help you now. For the sake of your career, it's probably a good thing you're teaching at an all boys school now.

"Nina" and "Billie" are on her left upper chest, for Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, her favourite singers.
Um, wasn't there an interview where she said she wasn't inspired by any female artists?

After high school, Del Rey attended Fordham, a university in the Bronx where she finished a BA with a major in philosophy, but felt out of sync with campus life.
I still have some skepticism about whether she actually graduated, but at least she's correctly saying it was a "big degree in philosophy" rather than metaphysics.
 
She thinks for a moment and says, "I did lose my car, my family's car. That was not a good thing. I guess that was a catalyst." I wonder if this is a euphemism for crashing it, but it's more prosaic. "I forgot where I put it." She sighs and smiles ruefully.
I just riiiiide. And forget where I parked because I was too drunk to remember.


Um, guys, it's an Australian newspaper. There are these things called time zones...

I really like this interview, it feels honest rather than a lot of pretentious stuff that used to come out of other ones. I think she sounds good on paper for the first time in a long time! It's interesting    that teacher is so inappropriate tbh but 'is it wrong???' 
 
 "I'm not a provocateur. I love to write. The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have. I love rhyming and writing. For years my focus was on building a beautiful visual world and beautiful sonic world and yeah, having such a strong reaction was ... surprising? I don't know." - that's why I don't have much love for pepsi cola pussy/fucked my way to the top, I understand the song will probably be a fuck you to the critics or whatever, but it's not Lana.  Also I really like what she says about writing "It's this feeling that comes over you, like falling in love," it's true. 

This is a really good interview, "The written word is one of the last forms of magic we have" is my favourite line

Lana is so awesome she gives interviews IN THE FUTURE

we've been looking at it all wrong...K = her family's Kia. her entire discography is dedicated to the lost car
 
 
 

The Huffington Post, January 20, 2009
(Probably the inspiration for HI&R, maybe even "Is It Wrong?")
 
Pitchfork, August 30, 2011
 
The Quietus, October 4, 2011
 
Not exactly an admission, but not a denial either. Taken together with her some of her lyrics about desiring fame, sex of a transactional nature, her history of seeing guys in the music industry and taking selfies on their laps, and... well...
 
(hat tip to @ for the handy "Interviews" section in progress)

"I’ve started working with Kelis; she was great, and she’s coming back to finish the arrangement, probably this week. I’m working with Lana Del Rey as soon as she’s done with her album. Wonderful lady… a little crazy."
 
Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/30/giorgio-moroder-dance-music-legend-on-remixing-coldplay-s-midnight-and-crazy-lana-del-rey.html

"The crowd predictably went apeshit" - I love this line

Marilyn Monroe?

Lolita pt. 2 

I'm a 6'1 tall ass man, I've never seen Lana but I've been to enough shows to know that short girls will ask to be in front of you and you /will/ say no.

Does he not have any feelings? When I went to a Lana concert last May, I was depressed after the show for a while. I just couldn't believe how good it was, how good it made me feel.
What made it the best is that you could genuinely see her love for her fans and although I didn't get to meet her, I was almost crying because she is so kind-hearted as she was taking photos with fans and signing their stuff. She's just such a genuine person. 
To be fair, all what makes the concert slightly rubbish is when the crowd overpowers her voice. I couldn't hear her sing video games at all because of all the rays who only knew that song.
I think when she goes down off the stage to take photos with fans/sign things, the crowd goes wild. That's also what I disliked. It felt like I was in a whirlpool. I had no control where I was going, when Lana went to the left, I was pushed to the left, when she went to the right, I was pushed to the right.
The only problems at the concert were the people attending the concert, not Lana herself. (I got elbowed in the face by a male with drawn-on teardrops, because he thought I slapped his head)
When you're in the concert, timing doesn't matter, I just lose track of time and I am excited that I am there.
I would definitely see Lana again if she came back to Manchester, and if I had the money.

Recapped my experience if anyone is interested 
 
http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/blog/108/entry-478-lana-in-sf/

the lyric book is a wasted opportunity for super exclusive nicole nodland outtakes to be published