lavender-sunshine

I thought we needed a thread like this
I bet most of us made some physical Lana albums by ourselves, and this is the place to post photos of them and tell about them
I'll start
 
Acoustic EP - just an acoustic EP I made, I didnt put a lot of effort to it, but I like it.
 
 
 
 
Lana Del Ray AKA Lizzy Grant - no need to tell you bout this album. I proud of myself for it
 
 
 
 
Sirens - I wanted it to say Lana Del Rey and not May Jailer. I cant really explain why. It's the one I'm most proud of I think it's beautiful.
 
 
 
 
That's it now it's your turn to post yours and comment on mine just if you feel like it

I'm banned from the Target in my town (something that happened when I was a minor) and I just risked getting arrested to check. I'm literally the stupidest adult. 

I have been waiting on U.V. baby for too long now, too long now

I wish I'd thought ahead before turning down that job at Target months ago. I would have jacked it no question and everyone would love me rn.

I wish I'd thought ahead before turning down that job at Target months ago. I would have jacked it no question and everyone would love me rn.

I wish I'd thought ahead before turning down that job at Target months ago. I would have jacked it no question and everyone would love me rn.

I wish I'd thought ahead before turning down that job at Target months ago. I would have jacked it no question and everyone would love me rn.

Lana finally puts a tight hold on her material. x. 

So I figured that Lana's unreleased can be neatly divided into four main genres--early surf noir material, upbeat gangsta Nancy Sinatra stuff, "Hollywood sadcore", and pop. From there, I made these albums for unreleased material in iTunes to divide the colossal unreleased album in a fun way.
 
Volume I: South Beach Swing
 
 
 
Volume II: Miss America
 
 
 
Volume III: American Dream
 
 
 
Volume IV: Daddy Issues
 
 
 
Unless she surprises all of us and Daytona Meth is some dubstep country rock then all future leaks can probably fit under these distinctions.

Here is my playlist which is just all my favorite songs that fit her "Bad Girl Pin Up" sound she does so well It's not final of course especially with all the *ahem* leaks lately...
 
Heart Shaped Sunglasses
 
 
Every Man Gets His Wish
You Can Be the Boss
Live Or Die
Moi Je Joue
Boarding School
Velvet Crowbar
Fake Diamond
Gangsta Boy
Driving in Cars With Boys
Marilyn Monroe
Lolyta
Push Me Down
Pin Up Galore
Summer of Sam
Jump
Kinda Outta Luck
Playing Dangerous
Backfire
Last Girl On Earth
Hollywood's Dead

NEW UNRELEASED ALBUM:
 
"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang"
 

 
TRACKLIST:
 
Dangerous Girl Children of the Bad Revolution Kinda Outta Luck Beautiful Player Serial Killer Live or Die Match Made in Heaven Hit and Run (Version 1) Scarface You Can Be the Boss Put the Radio on Is It Wrong? Push Me Down Hundred Dollar Bill Playing Dangerous Every Man Gets His Wish Us Against the World You & Me Angels Forever, Forever Angels

I need your help, i've been sitting on this for months and cant seem to finish it. the text just never works out
 
 

@@cartoon eyes
 
don't like it much tbh. I had better ideas for the photo but the quality of it is so bad I couldn't do it
 

Angels Forever, Forever Angels Black Beauty Hollywood JFK Summer Wine Starry Eyed Will You Still Love Me (Young and Beautiful demo) You & Me Backfire Because of You I Don’t Wanna Go Chelsea Hotel No. 2 Ride String Arrangement  I'll definitely do covers for Ultraviolence after I hear the songs. I'd rather know what they sound like first 

She seems preoccupied by repetition, rituals, iconography. It feels almost religious. I believe she truly is a visual thinker, and tries to use her words to paint the obsessive scenery she loves. I like how she talks about how words sound; their universally understood meaning or context isn't so important to her, which I think gets her in trouble with more linear types (journalists) in interviews, etc. The title Ultraviolence is a good example. She knows its pop cultural history, but she bends the word itself to her own will. It's all how it makes her feel, and how she can use word and motifs as tools to create new meanings. For her, language is an intuitive art like everything else.
 
Red dress. Blood red jam. Red lipstick. Red nail polish. Red, white, blue. Blue dark. Blue jeans. Blue hands. Blue mascara. Boy blue. Swayin'. Swingin'. Driving fast, 'bout 99, in cars with boys, alone. The list goes on.
 
I enjoy how sensory-oriented her lyrics are, but I get the sense she does this knowing that concrete words can hold a lot of abstract power, not because she literally only thinks about things in terms of their color etc. I get the sense she approaches melody-writing similarly; she's fine recycling her own motifs because it reinstates the ritualistic nature of her music. That said, I am hungry for new metaphors and themes from her. I'm sure the music she makes in her 30s will reveal a whole new part of her mind and soul.
 

This is the last release before the album and we've already heard the snippets, so I think it's a good decision.

My birthday was on that day in July last year when 8 songs leaked in a day. Truly my best present.

She just confirmed it in new radio interview...
http://m.alt987fm.com/onair/show-blog-54307/audio-menace-interviews-lana-del-rey-12436185/
 
mod note: mention at 13:49.

You can listen to it here if you missed it 

Um, it'd be one thing if she said something like, "Feminism or lack thereof does not enter my consciousness when writing songs, nor should it have to. To be frank, I just don't have an interest in feminism. I also don't believe that art should have to adhere to ~socially correct~ conventions nor should it have to be ~progressive~. I write about my fucking personal experiences, and I'm not about to comprise my art to pacify those that don't respect how I chose to live my life with the person I loved during a time I felt happy and fulfilled." 
 
But no, she didn't. It's one thing to state a lack of engaged/active interest, it's another to DISMISS a social and political movement that has undoubtedly bettered the lives of countless women around the world, including HER. Christ. Cringing hardcore at the "LOLOL FEMINISM IS SILLY AND TRIVIAL IN COMPARISON TO SPACE AND SCIENCE I AM SMART". It just kills me when Lana does her faux-intellectual schtick (politics, metaphysics, etc), because she always comes out looking like a complete idiot. 

And I'm like, god Lana, feminism is an 'interesting concept' because women don't feel free enough to do whatever they want in any society. She always sounds so ignorant whenever feminism is brought up, but now even more than usual. 

i think these photos are a bit more helpful in indicating a recording timeline for AKA
 




 
lizzy's hairstyle suggests 2007, maybe even late 2006 (her hair's length and color are similar to the yayo rock version performance from mid-2007 and in line with the look she sported in the jezebel wlsc concert, though maybe a bit longer)
 
P.S. i think she looks so cute like this! i wonder if she'll ever go back to this style (i doubt that she will, for now)

It would explain a lot, but honestly she's probably just putting some sauce on a weird cult she spent hours reading about online as a teenager and got into. Lizzy Del Grant probably did not live in some weird commune with other teenage girls and a big charismatic "daddy" figure.
 
Do you know what UV is? a 60's/70's throwback album. Do you know what was a "thing" then? Being in a cult. She's the best fanfiction writer tho.