demiannn

It's technically allowed because they are different songs!
 
Come on everyone! Only 10 days left to vote! If your list is half-finished, be sure to send them in as quickly as possible.
 
There are 180 songs in the pool right now, so 80 songs aren't going to make the Top 100. Do you want your favourite song to be thrown away? Deprived of its rightful place in the Top 100? VOTE NOW!

daytona meth is an incredible song, but it's not my favorite any probably not gonna make my list. i think everyone loves it because it like basically combines a bunch of songs so it allows you to not have to vote for every man gets his wish and also not have to vote for heavy hitter. but wait actually as i'm listening right now i can't see how this song can not make my list. JESUS CHRIST SHE'S THE GREATEST SONG WRITER I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE I CAN'T DECIDE ON JUST 20 AND ALSO how am i going to really decide on the order? like every single song should be number one. shit. this is an awesome voting thing because if people take it seriously, the results will say a lot about her internet fan base, and more about her.

2013 is almost over (wow that was quick!) so now, it's time for the annual...


(Poster by @@Ultraviolence)

LANABOARDS ULTIMATE SONG RANKING 2013

It’s almost the end of the year and Lana’s song library has surpassed 200 tracks. Every year, Lanaboards holds an event when we, the members, vote for our favourite songs and then the results (The Top 100) are slowly published on New Year’s Eve/Day.

Last year, Ride, Yayo and Blue Jeans took the top spots but with the influx of new many leaks and unreleased songs this year, anything can happen in the Top 10. This is a great way to get involved in the community and to discuss Lana’s many songs. If you’re not a member of the forum yet, join this growing community and vote for your favourite songs today!
 
         
 
The Rules:
Only Lanaboards members can vote (signing up is easy!) You may vote +up 20 tracks and vote -down 5 tracks (for a total of 25.) Only votes via PM will be counted, please do not post your votes in this thread. But feel free to discuss. Please do not vote for remixes; they will not be counted (not even Summertime Sadness CG Remix). Live performances of one off songs are okay to vote for*. You can vote for demos but please do not vote for multiple versions of the same song** (exceptions apply***.) Voting period:
Voting starts December 11th 2013 Voting ends December 30th 2013. Reveal:
Results will be posted in a 100th to 1st countdown format some time between December 31st 2013 and January 1st 2014. While the counting is happening, members are encouraged to participate in a group discussion about the songs and their ranking. While the Top 100 songs are being revealed, I will reveal one of the Flop 10 songs after every ten is revealed; revealing the best and worst at the end of the countdown. Songs in 100th to 11th place will have a banner made by @@Ultraviolence. Songs in 10th to 1st place will have a typographical poster made by @@Rebel. This thread will be locked after the deadline, and the countdown will happen in a different thread.  
Participation:
Simply send me a private message with your song ranking by December 30th. There will be enough time to think about your list. Maybe you could consider listening to a few unreleased songs that you are unfamiliar with or re-listen to AKA and Sirens until your ears bleed! Tell all of your friends about this and please encourage members to vote! The more people who participate, the more accurate and interesting the final results will be. Click here to see last year's results!

 

 
What Not To Do:


 

 
Notes:


 
Prizes:
Since it's the holiday season, every person who votes will be entered to the Lana Del Rey x Jack Daniel's shirt giveaway! A true original, since I designed the print myself. I have an abundance of them since I have been selling them for a long time and I think it would be a great way to persuade everyone to get involved.
 
If you want a chance to get one, be sure to vote soon! I will also make a mixtape CD of the Top 10 or 15 songs in the ranking and send it with the shirt. Keep it or give it to a friend, it's up to you!
 
   
 
HAPPY VOTING!
HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
 


Members voted: @Moy, @@Elle, @@Heaux, @, @@Kittren, @, @, @@Trinity, @@Creyk, @@Ultraviolence, @@lola, @, @@Rebel, @, @@Arzi, @@Tyler, @@PrettyBaby, @@Jack, @@FirstSpider, @@SitarHero, @@Poison Ivy, @@ConeyIslandQueen262, @@Honey, @, @@Stoop Kid, @@SparkleJumpRopeKing, @@Rafael, @, @, @@adoring-lana, @@rdp, @@Black Booty, @@demiannn, @, @@phahad, @@Cleopatra, @, @@LAman, @, @, @@PinUpGaloreLana, @@Leo, @@TrailerParkDarling, @, @@keanefar, @@vmbb, @@cartoon eyes, @@Januli, @@YUNGKALIMXEL, @, @@BenRH, @, @@maru, @
 
Total voters: 54

I love paradise (song) tbh It's so underrated

Not to mention she straight up sang "National Anthem" in front of a whole nation without ever crediting the real artist. I mean look at the dates:
 

Plot Twist: Beyoncé is the greatest Lana/Lizzy/Lizzi/Lizzie/May fan of us all... @@evilentity, consider your days numbered 

sum1 never worked a day in her life

aww lol

That's one way to spend a night.

PARTITION
In "Partition", the camera takes us inside a palatial estate that almost looks like it could have been the setting for the "Born to Die" video. See the exterior and interior below:

 
In the first of several scenes curiously similar to ones out of "National Anthem", we find Mrs. Carter seated at an immaculately set table, barely noticed by her rapper husband peering over his newspaper:

 
In her mind, she embarks on a sexual fantasy. Again she channels Rosalita:

 
Her rapper husband feels up her leg in a vehicle:

 
She puts on a show for him, donning a sequined flapper headdress like Lizzy wears in this photo:

 
Silhouette techniques like something out of "Summertime Sadness" are employed:

 
Beyoncé pole dances like Lana in Tropico over a sexy French spoken interlude like in "Carmen":

 
Like A$AP Rocky in "National Anthem", her rapper husband watches her performance voyeuristically, smoking a cigar:

 
 
JEALOUS
Beyoncé is a jealous, jealous, jealous gurrrrrl. This video begins in the same estate reminiscent of "Born to Die" as in "Partition". In one scene, the former Miss Knowles is draped over a pinball machine like Lana in "Ride":

 
In another we see a "tunnel lined with yellow lights":

 
 
ROCKET
Like "Blue Jeans", "Rocket" opens on a black & white close-up of a reflection of the artist's face in a ripple of water:

 
Later in each video we watch the artist submerge her face in water in slow motion:

 
 
MINE
Like Lana in the poster for Tropico, we find Beyoncé re-enacting Mary in the Pieta:

 
Also, is that another Shaun Ross cameo?
 
 
XO
In "XO", Beyoncé orchestrates perhaps the largest NYC land grab since Dutch settlers bought Manhattan Island from Native Americans for 24 bucks, stealing the famed amusement destination from the Queen of Coney Island herself:

 

 

 

 
 
***FLAWLESS & SUPERPOWER
Since I can't find any Lana plagiarism in either of these videos, I'm just gonna go ahead and assume they must be borrowed from the "Dark Paradise" and "Cola" videos that never materialized. @@Ultraviolence Watch these. One of them may be the closest thing you'll ever get to your precious "Cola" video.
 
 
HEAVEN
Here we have the biggest plot heist since Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds ripped off Gremlins. In "Heaven", Beyoncé portrays a woman mourning her deceased female bff in a series of flashbacks. Sound familiar? Of course it does. It's the plot of Lana's "Summertime Sadness" video. Not content to copycat one Lana video, "Heaven" filches from a few. A shot in a church mirrors the chapel in "Born to Die":

 
In a flashback, Beyoncé's girlfriend sprays alcohol at a campfire party echoing scenes in "Ride":

 
And we see her and her gal pal riding in a car like Lana & Jaime King:

 
She only barely tries to disguise her copying Lana's recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Tropico by saying it in Spanish. Oh, and speaking of Spanish, here's Rosalita yet again:

 
 
BLUE
Sure, there's another "tunnel lined with yellow lights":

 
The sequined bra is back:

 
And she evokes Lizzy's showgirl style:

 
But most saliently, this song is about Beyoncé's, uh, baby Blue love, the black baby daughter she had with a rapper. What a blatant "National Anthem" ripoff!

 
 
GROWN WOMAN
Last but not least, the video for "Grown Woman" consists of home footage of Beyoncé's childhood performances, a clear homage to Lana's DIY videos.
 
 
 

Beyoncé is certainly no stranger to accusations of plagiarism in her videos. Considering the large number of videos comprising her eponymous visual album, it would not be surprising if some of them were less than original. Did she copy Lana Del Rey?
 
Compare the album cover design and font to a Paradise box set booklet:

With Tropico, the "Ride" video, the "Blue Velvet" promo for H&M, and the "Song of Myself" promo for L'Officiel set to the intro to "Cola", Lana released some sort of video for almost every song on Paradise. One could argue that even the idea of releasing videos for the entire album is derivative. Now let's look at those videos.
 
 
PRETTY HURTS
Much like the opening bars of "Ride", the opening bars begin with the image of Beyoncé singing into a slender microphone, wearing a mostly white dress against sparkly blue stage curtains:

 
The song's themes—eating disorders and the dark side of being a beauty queen—are straight out of "Boarding School", "Brite Lites", and "Pin-Up Galore". Indeed, here we see Mrs. Carter in Ms. Grant's short-cut meth-haired beauty queen style complete with sash accessory:

 
Beyoncé also replicates Lana's arched back & cupped hand underwater poses from the "Blue Jeans" video:

 
She not only borrows Tropico co-star Shaun Ross, but doubles down on the African albinism by casting Diandra Forrest. To top it off, Beyoncé even has the audacity to lift Lizzy's iconic trademark sequined bra:

 
 
GHOST
In "Ghost", Sasha Fierce is not herself, assuming the identity of Lana's Rosalita alter ego from her "Song of Myself" video for L'Officiel:

 
 
HAUNTED
The "Countdown" singer's video for "Haunted" begins with a hauntingly familiar countdown straight outta one of Lizzy's DIY "Gramma" videos:

 
Then in true diva style, Beyoncé makes her male servant light her cigarette for her like a little bitch like Barrie at a Lana show:

 
The whole video imitates the imitated Lynchian style of Lana's "Blue Velvet" promo for H&M complete with the requisite Doppelgangers:

 
Yet it borrows scenes from "National Anthem" & Tropico. Black guys gambling? Check.

 
Strippers giving lapdances to white businessmen? Check.

 
People in whiteface? Check.

 
Bubbles? Check.

 
Originality? ...Anyone? Bueller?
 
 
DRUNK IN LOVE
In addition to lyrics that sound like a first draft of "Brite Lites" ("Flashing lights, flashing lights, you got me faded, faded, faded"), this intoxicating concoction's potency is poured from "National Anthem", where Lana grinds on another snifter-wielding rapper, A$AP Rocky:

 
 
BLOW
The cotton candy confection of the music masks Lana-like lyrics ("Every time I close my eyes", "I'ma let you be the boss of me", "Give me that daddy long stroke" and an interlude in French) in a video easily summarized as "pin-up girls at the roller derby". We also see a close-up of a disco ball a la her DIY "Yayo" video:

 
And Beyoncé perched on the hood of a car in a fuck-me pose like Lana in the "Born to Die" video:

 
In this case, we're lucky that "Blow" doesn't Soileau. Bradley sucks.
 
 
NO ANGEL
In an inversion of Lana's "angels forever" refrain, the "Halo" songstress proclaims, "You're no angel either, baby." She asks, "Tell me do you want to ride?" Like Lana in "Ride", Beyoncé is Queen of the Gas Station, knocking off Lana's hot long curly hair and cut-off jeans look. Unlike Lana, at least she's responsible enough to only be figuratively smokin' at the pump.

 
We see chicks on the back of motorcycles:

 
Tacky word bling:

 
And pole dancers making it rain:

 
 
YONCÉ
In "Yoncé", she continues the ghetto theme, banging around with her gang of ghetto girls like Lana in Tropico:

 
Who does Beyoncé think she is to appropriate all these signifiers of ghetto culture from gangsta Nancy Sinatra? Rather uppity if you ask me.
 
 
CONTINUED...

I am literally praying so bad.

Yay, managed to narrow it down to 65 songs!  

redditor's attempt at flirtation 
 

 

wtf like two days after i bought it.

No Better is currently free on itunes.
 
(sorry if I'm late on this info and someone's already posted about it)

did no one else notice that she was copying her Nylon cover shoot pose lol

So everyone fangirls over that one song?
 
I wonder what is that 1 thing most of us obsess over, I guess it's AFFA or Black Beauty. . .

There are still a lot of members who have yet to vote! Last year there were many complaints about the song rank. "This ranked too high!" or "Oh my god why is this song so low?" If you didn't vote. You don't have a right to complain! 8)
 
As an incentive to vote, I will be giving away 1 FREE LANA DEL REY X JACK DANIELS SHIRT to a random voter. I will number the voters and then go to a random number generator and that will tell me who the winner is. So get voting!

Firstly, I'll start off saying that I absolutely love Never Let Me Go. I always mentally group this song with 'On Our Way' for some reason - mainly because both really show off her gorgeous voice, have strikingly cheesy country song sounding titles (reminiscent of Taylor Swift, but don't kill me) and are both an unusual type of song for Lana to sing, especially in her unreleased list.I think they're absolutely amazing, but sound very polished and, dare I say, mainstream (for alternative music) to be unreleased, if you know what I mean? They're just so smooth and her voice is so velvety, compared to, say, Velvet Crowbar, where she sounds passionately desperate and pleading, Tired of Singing the Blues, where she goes a bit all over the place (but I love it) and Every Man Gets His Wish.
 
In my examples, which are my favourites, Lana's voice is perfect but really varies and for ex., in EMGHW and in Motel 6, you can hear Lana laughing while she sings, maybe smiling at the absurdity of the scene in Motel 6 (for the latter). She really gives you a full, flirtatious image. That's why I love her unreleased music, but it is relatively unrefined in a charming way.  Whilst it's not mainstream at all, Never Let Me Go just seems so polished. I can't think of a better word, but it doesn't match her other music. Some of Lana's best unreleased songs are often a little 'trippy', 'sensual' or so alternative and daring/taboo that you can't imagine them on an album.
 
I think NLMG just really stands out for me because it's so smooth and.. practised? I don't want to come across as a hater because I adore Lana's less technically flawless sounding music, and it's all relative, because she's so fantastic. I just feel like it could have gone onto an album but was probably not dark enough/image inducing enough, or maybe the timing was wrong? 

If I ever get married, this will be the song of our first dance 

I love this song, it should be on born to die or paradise <3

This is probably one her best songs ever. Extremely underrated.

He's doing backup vocals on Born To Lie.