Dark Angel

i think it's a cool thread, especially since it also lists all of the information we get in the past year in one place

we learned SO much information in 2023, it's pretty difficult to really comprehend it all, being a lipster really is the gift that keeps on giving...

how did we find out that beatles funhouse party is actually the instrumental for catch and release?

wearin' blonde hair HAH!

that just makes me love oh say can you see even more than before, if that's even possible to think it was so special and personal to her, i can see why, it's so blissful, dreamy, and comforting

i wish people would stop blaming the producers entirely for the sound they don't like when ultimately lana's the one who decides how the music sounds, nobody's forcing her to work with any particular producer or to make her music sound a certain way, she worked with mike dean of all people and still made a piano ballad

i don't really believe she hated it or wasn't at all satisfied with the result, because she still made music videos for a majority of the songs, uploaded them onto her social media platforms like myspace and soundcloud, and performed the songs in david kahne-esque renditions (notably mermaid motel), but i also kinda believe she wanted it to be more similar to steven mertens' demos compared to david kahne's production, i believe in the past she would describe her first album (AKA) being made by her boyfriend which obviously isn't exactly the truth, since AKA is produced by david kahne, but she seemed to appreciate the work she did with steven mertens, and his versions of AKA songs are definitely different compared to the david kahne versions, queen of the gas station was more mellow, mermaid motel was a lot more free-form, trippy, almost like her own kind of epic, and put me in a movie had more prominent instrumentation like the electric guitar, i feel like her live performance of it at the mercury lounge is a lot more similar to the steven mertens version, also, brite lites was more rock-oriented, but on the contrary, the ocean and kill kill are very, very similar not to mention the fact that gramma and smarty were written in the studio, so they weren't songs she originally wrote and had in mind for the album, but that isn't to say she didn't like them or feel connected to them, smarty was uploaded to soundcloud at some point and she wouldn't have made...7? 8? videos for gramma if she didn't like it! it's hard to say exactly for sure how everything went down and how everybody felt surrounding the project, i'm sure there's some songs she wanted to include on the album, like get drunk, trash magic, or pin up galore, that david kahne just didn't think would make the cut, or maybe she just envisioned the final product to be different, but all we can really do is speculate, i do believe she was happy with and proud of the album at the end of the day, but it does have a complicated history, especially since i'm sure at some points she probably felt she couldn't talk about or acknowledge that time of her career because everybody in 2012 was so convinced she was a fake, talentless industry plant who changed her entire identity because her first album flopped, and i'm sure people at the time perceived it to be a cheap, low-effort, basic flop, but it's really one of her most fascinating eras and it 100% deserved better lastly... i'm so, so glad they didn't let her add/remove any tracks lol, i think the album is absolutely perfect, down to the tracklisting of each individual song, i'm actually glad they changed it from the original one starting with for k, pt. 2, ending with mermaid motel, and having yayo as the fourth track because that one just made no sense

honestly i found myself totally satisfied with leakmas 2023 for star lux and beach boys alone but i do understand i'm in the minority

...i regret entering this thread

The Beach Boys 1. The Beach Boys [3:06] 2. Jersey Shore Trailer Parks [6:12] 3. Blonde Hair [3:23] 4. Gold Lamé [3:41] 5. Lana Ray [2:49] 6. Monterrey [5:00] 7. Diet Mountain Dew [4:31] 8. I Can See The Sparkle In Your Eyes [6:37] 9. Rollercoaster [3:55] 10. You're The King [5:45] Star Lux 1. Star Lux [2:36] 2. Peaches And Sunshine [5:21] 3. Living Dangerously [4:33] 4. Tropicana [3:11] 5. Cherry Blossoms By The Sea [6:55] 6. Pontiac Smile [5:40] 7. Seashell Motel [2:40] 8. Pink Stucco [3:02]

80k or 800 lana songs! will you choose financial success? or the artistry of lana del rey...

i'll double and pass it too 40k or 400 lana songs... what will you choose?

2016 and 2022 are the only really notable ones, but 2023 might be the year where we've gotten the most if you count everything we've gotten so far

there's infinite amounts of money in the world... and there's infinite amounts of lana del rey songs of well!... but i choose 50 new songs!

more bottom-of-the-barrel laptop demos if i'm being entirely honest

oh, i totally forgot about that i guess in my opinion it just doesn't really seem like something she would've recorded in 2007, her lyrical style was a bit different then, crooked cop seems more similar to her 2008 or 2009 work, but it probably is actually 2007, since hundred dollar bill, heavy hitter, and hawaiian tropic, all 2009 songs, had "2009 pod audio" in their metadata, according to lanapedia

remember... christmas isn't over yet... it hasn't even started! we still have the rest of today, christmas eve, and christmas day! and if we're really lucky, we'll get a boxing day leak

yeah, some of her laptop demos are quite short

I AM!!!

i think you guys already know my answer... but, specifically 2007 i quite like tropico/ultraviolence as well

imagine if she re-recorded betty boop boop, i was in a bad way, or jesus is my boyfriend

i liked them for most of my lana del rey stanning career so i'm exempt my tastes are just changing and songs like go go dancer just don't do it for me anymore!

ideally, her bad 2018 pop song l.a who am i's 2016 lust for life demo

i know ya'll will hate me for this, but are we seriously begging for MILLIONAIRE? we should've left leaks of her bad 2010 pop songs in 2013