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Beautiful pictures with a fan! x

coming out of my lurk era to ask about this ring???

Earlier today, Lana Del Rey had her portrait sketched in Central Park, New York City.
Yesterday, rumour broke loose that Lana was in New York for a photoshoot to cover W Magazine.

Would do anything for another album with NY vibes 

please another new york album priddy please queen 

Florence and the fucking Hoover
https://www.vogue.co.uk/arts-and-lifestyle/article/florence-welch-interview
 
This interview made me feel a little sad for her. I hope she gets to have children if that's what she wants 

Lanaboards becomes a popular news source
https://www.stereogum.com/2185315/lana-del-rey-nikki-lane-stagecoach/news/

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdChmoJDcI-/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
 
 

May the 4th be with you as we manifest ldr9 teasers 

I've never bought any LDR merch, but this is beyond tragic. Have the team that made it ever heard Born to Die???? 
Which is the best outcome here?
Lana made these designs and thinks they're good enough Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana approves. Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana has no idea these exist. Someone needs to take ownership. 

I've never bought any LDR merch, but this is beyond tragic. Have the team that made it ever heard Born to Die???? 
Which is the best outcome here?
Lana made these designs and thinks they're good enough Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana approves. Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana has no idea these exist. Someone needs to take ownership. 

The weird intro is actually just a slowed down, reversed audio of the guitar loop. Surprise!
This isn't confirmed or anything but I believe it's there to prevent copyright detection. The function of adding it means that it extends the track duration which foils auto-detection based on track duration, and additionally distorts the sound so that YouTube (or whatever site hosted) doesn't detect it.
This isn't as common now but when YouTube first became a thing it used to just automatically delete all tracks that were copyrighted, and then there was a big shift on legislation that allowed tracks to be used if they weren't monetised and the label allowed it or if it was for educational or personal use. Because of this taking a while to kick in, a lot of albums that came out during the 2010s with bonus regionally locked tracks that were shared on YouTube often used these wacky methods to bypass detection so they could all be enjoyed. For example, I don't know if it was intentionally done on Fine China but there is a like some 'traffic' sound effects that play which would be there to avoid detection. Other tracks have like a minute of silence before they start, some songs like Prom Song change pitch etc. The Flipside on YouTube that runs for 5:23 is also slightly slowed down to draw it out a little more - it's subtle but still enough to be noticable. 
So why does this end up randomly on audio files? Potentially whoever was sharing these files just ripped it high quality off YouTube and just did the rounds bundled up with the rest of the CD. I'd guess that any audio files are capped at 320kps. The 5:10 version with no intro is the official, real version. 

I've never bought any LDR merch, but this is beyond tragic. Have the team that made it ever heard Born to Die???? 
Which is the best outcome here?
Lana made these designs and thinks they're good enough Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana approves. Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana has no idea these exist. Someone needs to take ownership. 

I've never bought any LDR merch, but this is beyond tragic. Have the team that made it ever heard Born to Die???? 
Which is the best outcome here?
Lana made these designs and thinks they're good enough Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana approves. Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana has no idea these exist. Someone needs to take ownership. 

I've never bought any LDR merch, but this is beyond tragic. Have the team that made it ever heard Born to Die???? 
Which is the best outcome here?
Lana made these designs and thinks they're good enough Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana approves. Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana has no idea these exist. Someone needs to take ownership. 

I've never bought any LDR merch, but this is beyond tragic. Have the team that made it ever heard Born to Die???? 
Which is the best outcome here?
Lana made these designs and thinks they're good enough Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana approves. Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana has no idea these exist. Someone needs to take ownership. 

My friend is a Qantas flight attendant and she said she's really weird on flights
Like she puts the blanket over her head for the entire flight and even eats her dinner under it 
She hates having her on flights because if she needs to ask or offer her anything it's obviously very difficult

what blows my mind is that there's a literal team of designers behind this merch like what the fuck is going on in those offices?? what are the team meetings and pitches like??  

I've never bought any LDR merch, but this is beyond tragic. Have the team that made it ever heard Born to Die???? 
Which is the best outcome here?
Lana made these designs and thinks they're good enough Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana approves. Lana's team made these designs and thinks they're good enough, Lana has no idea these exist. Someone needs to take ownership. 

Oh yea im dragging her to filth in there ok

I knew her merch wasn't it when you could buy a wooden box for $100
 
I truthfully don't think she cares much about the merch at all but that's just me.

i’m rlly hoping they’ll remake things like the lighter and lyric book so that the scalpers realize they’re just scamming ppl for money 

The BTD era is legitimately iconic due in part to the aesthetics. Lana created visuals and vibes that artists are still imitating 10 years later! There are nearly a countless number of concepts they could've gone with to create some really cool merch and they give us Von Dutch and MORTON SALT rip off artwork...it's low key a slap in the face. 
 
I seriously don't know why they don't do a reissue of her popular merch items like the necklaces and lyric books, you know they couldn't have cost that much to produce and they would sell out in a snap

Not to be that person but...
She or her team just does not care enough, I mean the anniversary already passed, the designs are very lackluster, considering that just in this blog theres people that could do better merch that the fans really enjoy, also 36$ for a tshirt with a meh design plus expensive shipping anywhere outside the US, PLUS awful costumer service. I think the village its pretty cool but it's not it, but if they made an effort (which i have yet to see) with the costumer service and design wise I, and i feel a lot of us, would be more interested 

lana really does have the most ugly effing merch i’ve ever seen