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Oh my god, I adore these too.. I really can't pick if I'm honest. I LOVE Hundred Dollar Bill (but one version is significantly better than the other). Actually, i had an incredibly vivid dream featuring it last night. How funny. The lyrics are genius though.. "cash comes quick when looks can kill" "nothing more gorgeous than a 100 dollar bill".

Hey guys, Wow, I literally last logged on here about 4 years ago! I still fucking adore Lana. I'm so into her unreleased songs at the moment. I found this article on some of them and thought you guys might like it. I seriously adore the way this person writes about her and appreciates her cinematic Hollywood aesthetic. https://hubpages.com/entertainment/Lana-Del-Rey-Most-Underrated-Unreleased-Songs I love how they put 1949 as number 1 - I have never, ever heard anyone mention even mention it. I personally think it's a little work of art and is what made me read Lolita. Controversial as it is, if you like Lana, you need to read it - it's like dipping into her brain. She references it so much.. "swimming pool", "Carmen"... so many of her symbols come from Lolita. I swear I would have put these unreleased songs in at least my top 20. What do you guys think of them?

Hi guys, I'm sure there's some variant of this thread out there, but do you guys think Lana still uses hard drugs? I'm 100% sure she smokes top quality weed, but what about harder stuff? I know she had a meth/coke/heroin trailer park (damn) faze a few years ago, especially around the time of "May Jailer", following her teenage alcoholism. I assumed she'd stopped hard stuff completely, but I can TOTALLY imagine her still doing the "opulent and glamorous" drugs i.e. coke and heroin. "Yayo" means "coke", even if it may be a metaphor, and someone cooks heroin in the West Coast video. It seems obvious that she does hard drugs, because I know from experience (friends) that ONLY people involved with hard drugs talk about them, feature them in art etc. As in, someone who only smokes weed wouldn't make a song involving any imagery to do with heroin or coke. People who don't take hard drugs tend to find them distasteful and not at all luxurious or fashionable, right? Do you think Lana manages to use class As carefully? She seems to be doing well at the moment and looks great. I just wonder because it's impossible to use something like heroin in a sparing, "glamorous" way without becoming addicted. What do you guys think? If she doesn't let it ruin her life it's fine (i guess), but is it really possible to go on that way, lightly using cocaine?

Hmm, you're probably right.. I think she's so infatuated with her whole imaginary scene that she isn't quite capable of being tongue in cheek. By the way, I love your name/username

Yeah, a lot of her songs sound ridiculously autotuned and unfinished! There's a certain charm to them though.. but if some pop person like Selena Gomez came up with a song like Noir, I would absolutely preach hate against it xD No just kidding, but I really wouldn't like it.

So glad you agree! I think Lana's 100% sardonic - mostly innocent but sometimes going towards the cynical side. That's how she can get away with singing such about ridiculously tabooed stuff, like how she objectifies herself the whole time. Also, anyone else would seem so stupidly pious and pretentious singing about 50s glamour, pin-up girl stuff and trailer park hardship, but Lana gets away with it because she's so tongue in cheek . We know she's sort of having a laugh at the same time. Think Behind Closed Doors . I'm also British and have to restrain myself from saying sarcastic,dead-pan things the whole time xD

YES this is exactly what I mean!

Hi, I just wanted to post about this as it's a major phenomenon that keeps happening to me regarding Lana's unreleased stuff. When I first heard them all, I loved all the obviously catchy and/or safe ones, where she sings out clear, like Never Let Me Go, Black Beauty, Motel 6, On Our Way, Velvet Crowbar (at least, those kinda songs seemed more similar to BTD songs than others). Some struck me as really irritating, trippy and strangely structured. Then, those songs started to grow on me, to the extent that they are solidly my favourite these days. For example, I used to think I hated Hundred Dollar Bill, but I adore it now, and how it manages to be opulent and also quite trashy. That's what I love about Lana.. I'm English so find the whole Chateau Marmont, Sunset Boulevard, Chevrolet etc. Hollywoodesque glamour to be extremely interesting and cool to hear about, as it's so different. I also love hearing about Coney Island's degenerate nightlife in Lana's songs, trailer parks and Motel 6 etc. I also thought Big Bad Wolf was so indulgent and annoying, but I love it so much! I love Boarding School, Pin-Up Galore and Queen of the Gas Station, even though I personally think that her vocals are quite bad in these songs (please don't kill me). I think Lana's sounds quite sardonic in her more dramatic songs, especially QotGS, like she's saying, 'just kidding, do you really think I'd pick a gas station over a limousine" XD! Do any of you guys find that songs you used to dislike because of sugary, iffy vocals or unusual structures tend become your favourites? Basically, any unreleased song that strikes me as something negative at any time is likely to become a firm favourite

Hundred Dollar Bill vs Queen of the Gas Station

I'd love to get a risky Lana type tattoo, just a small one saying something like 'Coney Island Queen'. However, I think people have to be SO careful about text, especially if it's someone else's message. Sad and hard to imagine as it is, Lana might very well mean nothing to you in 20 years. Do you really want lyrics on your body about her tough years of degeneration by alcohol - true, they may be very beautifully written, and I do obsess over her lyrics and write them in books etc., but wouldn't want them on my skin. Also, on somewhere like the side of your hand where the skin can have some of those creases from your palm, it's probably going to stretch and look horrific quickly after. You need to research it so much. Also, I'm only 15 and realise that I would regret it. I know people say 'surely you shouldn't regret something that made you happy when you were younger', but if I happened to become a doctor or something, I don't think I'd need the added worry at the age of 35 of having to remove a tattoo saying 'Degenerate Beauty Queen', or to have to hide 'trust no bitch' with thick makeup. I know that sounds really uptight and it's great if you have the guts to get a Lana tattoo, or any tattoo, but I'm just too boring and nervous xD!

Catch & Release vs Hundred Dollar Bill (V1) Sorry if I initiate the end of C & R's long legacy in this game

I limit myself gaming wise. Luckily, I don't have a good enough computer to game on, so I use the PS3 downstairs, where my parents make me come off after an hour. It's annoying, but I think I would game all night if I could play video games on my laptop. I'm talking about Skyrim.. I ADORE it! I don't like shooting games because the violence is boring to me. I need a WORLD to explore, with people, and the ability to break into places, steal stuff ... I love interactions with friendly characters, big, beautifully sculpted worlds to explore, a very customisable path of life for your character to take etc. For example, in Skyrim, I'm an absolute master thief, whilst also being a Thane to many holds etc. Would anyone else have a game like Skyrim to recommend? Ugh, I LOVE the whole slight fantasy aspect.. It's why I also love Game of Thrones! They're both kinda similar, with a slightly Tudor feel, dragons... I don't want to get too addicted to any game though, so single player would be preferable! Knowing me, if I joined one of those league games where you have a clan of strangers that you operate with, I'd have a serious addiction to overcome! Thanks! I'd love something to add to the Christmas list

Loads of songs have grown on me. If I initally hate a Lana song for any particular reason apart from it being boring (like Lucky Ones, which'll never grow on me), I'm almost guaranteed to love it later. For example, Noir, Velvet Crowbar.. the ones that really draw my attention in a negative way for sounding too emotional, maybe trippy (Yayo) are the ones that I end up loving and overplaying.

National Anthem vs Live or Die

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?