Dazed

Shades Of Cool starts off with lonely sounding guitars that builds up an eerie and intense atmosphere. Lana’s voice breaks through the mist with a fragile “My baby lives in… shades of blue.”
 
The song is written with a 6/8 time signature so just like Million Dollar Man there’s jazz/waltz influences, however much slower and stripped back with only guitars and her one layer of vocals during the verses.
 
The song slowly builds up during the pre-chorus. The guitar picking is then replaced with slow shimmering chords as Lana sings “he lives for love, he loves his drugs.” The pre-chorus flows slowly until she ends the section with “his strange weather….” and then a moment of silence.
 
The song breaks into a beautiful flowery 70s-inspired indie rock merry-go-round-esque chorus. The drums come in and the iconic Born To Die strings make a triumphant return. It’s hard not to imagine Lana spinning Stevie Nicks-style in a flower garden or on the beach when listening to this chorus. Piano notes twinkle in the background layers as Lana sings over the live instruments: “but you are invincible. I can’t break through your world.”
 
The music carries on into the second verse and pre-chorus. The electric guitars are even more present in the second chorus. The old school ‘wub wub wub’ of the guitar strings embellish the already beautiful vintage sounding chorus.
 
The song intensifies even further during the bridge. The song turns into a thunderous mass of electric guitar and loud drums. The chaotic bridge is wild enough to transport anyone back to the live rock concerts of the 70s. The fantastic guitar solo is sexy enough to have Lana grinding during her performance.
 
The music dies down at the end as Lana songs ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs’ as it fades into silence, presumably the solemn conclusion to the calm, wild, calm narrative of the song. This song is a great choice as a promotional single and is arguably many times better than West Coast.

I feel like she will be more inspired to put albums quickly considering the praise NFR is getting. 12 months seems like it could be totally legit if she wants to keep on a roll.

I love Guns and Roses! 

THE TITLE TRACK IS GORGEOUS I-

^girl put that in a spoiler b4 u get warned for spam

This ain't the lfl post discussion thread but y'all are getting way out of hand calling LFL her Britney Jean or MDNA. LFL isn't as good as her other albums, but it still served up some gorgeous songs. The problem lies in the lack of cohesiveness and questionable production choices on some of the songs (not all). LFL is a cute album. It served up some iconic songs like Heroin, Cherry, Get Free, 13 Beaches, etc. It is not her "Britney Jean" or "MDNA", cause those albums were just full on EDM x Pop messes.

I hope being on tour with Blake and his godlike guitar talent inspires her to use some heavier production in the studio

1. Hollywood
By far my fav Lana song next to the Summertime Sadness radio mix. It's a massive shame it was never on Paradise. 
 
2. Hollywood's Dead
One of her most iconic unreleased songs, and a perfect outtake from BtD. Her songs with Braide are among her best.
 
3. TV in Black & White
To honour her first song with Rick Nowels! It's simply beautiful.

Ask her if she would ever consider doing another (psychedelic) rock album...she's at her best when singing over a wailing guitar. 
 
Random and off-topic, but I would love if she did some sort of concept album about a girl joining a cult/the Manson family and finding her way out.

I expect a 5 minute monologue at both the beginning and end of the video. A 3 minute video simply won't cut it. I need another "Ride".

Love and Lust For Life (and the album photoshoot) just seem like they are from a different record. They don't fit the rest of the album and they don't make good openers. It feels like a Spotify playlist that features the two most sucessful and commercial singers at the beginning. The rest of the album (which is already quite incoherent) feels so disconnected from those songs and the visuals from the Neil Krig shoot fit it much better

Get Free confuses me time and time again.
 
beautiful, but It leaves me confused. And the previous end-caps to each record did not lead into the next record to come so ? idk... I think Lana is not sure where we are headed but we are headed there together
 
I guess for me, I'm selfish and fell in love with the love story and sadness of the love songs from HM and UV and now that she says she is over it I'm a bit anxious to see where we go next. 
 
I do love Lust for Life; just confused

to everyone saying this album is so happy.... whatre you smoking?
 
I've listened so many times now and she seems so confused and angry. The only song that would give any inclination shes happy is Love and Lust for Life. The rest all have somewhat of a dark tone.

Am I the only that thinks her sense of style died after 2014 like she mainly dresses like a soccer mom or a primary school teacher it's up to her how she dresses don't get me wrong

love is the worst song released this era

selena gomez can choke!

lana did something completely different here. I felt like it was incredibly unique and she delivered something extremely interesting. It's what I love about lana. You hear nothing like her. She's so creative with her voice. Cannot wait for ldr5, I know she will deliver more fantastic music. She always does

it was the summer anthem like the album itself.
It feels like 4 years since this masterpiece.
Lana needs to get back to this sound asap

The only change about her appearance that I thought was unflattering were her puffed up cheeks, and I don't even think her weight gain caused it. It looked like obvious fillers to me and I couldn't figure out why she would do that. 
 
She looked like a goddess the other night at the Freak premiere and her cheeks had finally settled down enough for her to look better.
 
As for her weight gain, I don't know if it was depression, but maybe she just felt less pressure about what she eats and everything since she doesn't care about the pop star light anymore. Or maybe all that Italian food fattened her up. 
Also, I don't think she always looks a mess in public. Actually some of her cutest candid outfits are from after the BTD era.
 

 

 

 

 
And she looked like a goddess at the wedding she went to with Frannykins.
 

I need the brand of the supplements she's taking so I can be this much serving and like sixty new weaves she delivered like no month before this is what being blessed feels like

It makes me happy that Lana was shading Francesco. It seems like she doesn't think that they will be together for much longer since she makes it seem as though he wouldn't be father material.
She probably already has another guy on the side 

Found this new one
 
 
 

 
 
Oh, and found this in a better quality.

Breaking: "Swan Song" is life-affirming and everything to me, go get your life right now sistrens

I hate to be that person, but it's probably my least favorite video The colored photographs from the shoot were so promising and it would've looked so much nicer. The underwater girls were so out of place as well, mess of a video with SO MUCH potential I'm so sad rn, like I'm slowly unstanning and trying so hard not to...

someone asked her already and she said she didn't know what was going on with it