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delulu avenue i know it well

The street in question:

The Delusional Street 📍

Not really 😭 other than the fact that Rick Rubin produced a rock version of Body Electric while he was working on Ride 

Oh wow oh wow.. The Lana iceberg truly runs down to the core of the earth

Honeymoon sessions
September 2014 - December 2014
California Crazy For You Honeymoon Freak Soft Ice Cream (Salvatore) 24 Hours Swan Song Blackest Day Pink Flamingos (Music To Watch Boys To) Dark City  Dead To Me I Can Fly (rework of original 2013 demo) 2015 songs (completed by June 2015)
High By The Beach Terrence Loves You Cry Kill Die Come With Me Paradise If I Die Young Religion Art Deco God Knows I Tried  Other Info
Big Eyes demo is from August 2014
Terrence Loves You had 2 alternate titles, "Jazz N Blues" and "Violet Sings The Blues" 
 

I’m currently making a writing/recording timeline for Honeymoon! if anyone comes across any information please let me know.
This is what I have so far
 
March 2014 - Sessions for Ultraviolence end
 
 
May-June, 2014: In an interview for Complex magazine, Lana notes: "I actually started conceptually thinking about having a supplement, an addition to this record ('Ultraviolence') that could come very easily. That hasn't happened in a very long time. Not since I wrote the "Paradise" to "Born to Die" that I really liked". Thus, it is likely that Lana's fourth project originally started as an accompanying ep to "Ultraviolence", which probably would have consisted of "Ultraviolence" outtakes and some new songs that were recorded in June-July 2014. But by September 2014, it was clear that the project would develop more, when the first sessions for "Honeymoon" started.
 
June 2014 - She records Music To Watch Boys To (Also titled Pink Flamingos)
Interviewer: Are You Going To Record Something Tonight? Do You Know What It Is, Or? Lana: I do, yes I do, I have an idea for a record called 'Music to Watch Boys To', so, yeah, I'm just thinking about it and what it will mean  
Lana began writing music for the soundtrack to "Big Eyes," which includes:
1. An “I Can Fly” rework
2. “Big Eyes."
3. “Beautiful People”
4. “The Good Life” Cover.
 
June 2014: She records Beautiful People (Demo 1)
 
July 30, 2014: She records her cover of “The Good Life”

August 2014 - A demo of Big Eyes is recorded

September 14, 2014 - Sessions for the album begin
 
Sep/November: She records Salvatore/Soft Ice Cream and Swan Song? (They were both recorded at Electric Lady Studios and she was seen on New York on those months)
 
Sep-Dec 2014: Dark City, Crazy For You, California, Black Magic Stars, Honeymoon, 24/24 Hours, Dead To Me, Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood, Freak/Freak Like Me, The Balckest Day and a reworked version of I Can Fly are recorded
 
Fun Fact: 24 was originally recorded for the movie Spectre, but was ultimately rejected
 
Latter half of 2014: A new version of Say Yes To Heaven produced by STINT is made, but was scrapped by being "too overwhelming"
 
 
Initially, "Honeymoon" developed more as a pop record, with a return to the "Born to Die" sound. This is indicated by several facts, namely the leaked demos of the tracks "The Blackest Day" and "Freak" (made by the same producer, STINT [Ajay Bhattacharyya]), further, in an October interview for "L'Uomo Vogue," Lana expressed her desire to work with producer Giorgio Moroder, who is considered the father of synth disco and electronic dance music, also one of the mixer/engineers said that the "Honeymoon" demos sounded like the 80s. At the same time, Lana was still searching for a sound: "I'm still looking for something different, with majestic choruses, beautiful orchestrations, '50s-inspired with a little touch of soft grunge." And at some point in the making of the album in 2014, Lana told Rick Nowels, one of the album's two producers, that she wanted to make a jazz album. That's how the tracks "Honeymoon" and "Terrence Loves You" came about, which Rick says are not pure jazz, but her "versions" of jazz tracks (the original title of "Terrence Loves You" was "Jazz and Blues ")
 
She also had this to say on the early process of making the record 
 
“I wrote the biggest part of the record during fall, winter and spring, and it was a beautiful process because I did it with one of my best friends, Rick. My daily activities consisted on swimming on the beach and writing. The album started very easily and fun with songs like Music to Watch Boys To, Honeymoon and Terrence Loves You, and finally, it went through more modern and sexy songs like Freak and Art Deco. But the line that goes through the record has a lot of jazz influence.”
 
Early 2015: Demos of “Say Yes To Heaven” produced by Stephen Kozmeniuk and Tom Neville are made for the album because of a potential Hugo Boss campaign.
Ultimately the song was dropped from Honeymoon because of the campaign and neither version of the song was approved by Hugo Boss.
 
 
January 6 2015: She says she has written 9 songs, “four of which “the production is perfect; I’m looking for a few more songs to tie everything together” and I’m doing a cover of “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.” She also reveals the tile of the album
 
January 13, 2015: Lana records Paradise
 
Jan-Feb 2015: Art Deco, Burnt Norton, Terrence Loves You, Come With Me, If I Die Young, Religion, God Knows I Tried/God Knows are recorded 
 
January 28: She is seen entering a recording studio with Mr. Brainwash
 
Jan - February 2015: Lana writes “High By The Beach”, “This was probably one of the last ones on the record”
 
Sometime in 2015: Lana sends a list of songs that need additional production, they were
Crazy For You
Freak
High By The Beach/Get High
God Knows I Tried/God Knows
Honeymoon
Salvatore/Ice Cream
Music To Watch Boys To/Pink Flamingos
Religion
Say Yes To Heaven
Swan Song
 
This means that Crazy For You and Say Yes To Heaven were serious contenders for the album
 
 

February 16, 2015: Lana says to a fan that she was done with Honeymoon
 
March 31, 2015: On an interview with Mark Ronson he states “I’m going to do some recording with Lana Del Rey today and tomorrow. I found this cool old studio out here.” “She has some songs and I said I had some demo ideas, and if they are any good, then maybe she’ll like them and we’ll go from there.” Later in a Reddit AMA he said “we did an early version of Terrence Loves You which i still love.”
 
June 24, 2015 - She posts a photo on honeymoon with the caption “So tired in the studio”
June 2015: She records Cry Kill Die and all additional songs are completed

In an interview, Lana revealed that she had written about sixteen songs for "Honeymoon," which turned out to be:
- "Honeymoon"; 
- "Music to Watch Boys To"; 
- "Terrence Loves You."
- "God Knows I Tried"; 
- "High by the Beach”
- "Freak";
- "Art Deco."
- "Religion." 
- "Salvatore." 
- "The Blackes Day"; 
- "24";
- "Sawn Song." 
- "California"
- "Crazy for You”
- "Paradise"
- "Come with Me"
- "Dead to Me".
- "If I Die Young"
- “Cry Kill Die”
- “Black Magic Stars”

September 2015: She records the first demo of “Lust For Life”
 
September 18, 2015: Honeymoon comes out
 
Somewhere in 2015: She records Gucci

Just like "«Tropico» discussion thread", I wanted to create a separate thread for a discussion and systematization of Lana's fifth studio album's sessions, that would later become "Lust for Life". Here's a timeline of sessions' development based on facts we know of (if I'm wrong anywhere let me know):
 

This all gives us an approximate timeline of tracklist's changes:
1. After a political climate change;
2. After the leak of "Best American Record";
3. After Lana axed 3 tracks, making from 18 tracks 15 tracks, to which "Change" will later be added as 16th track.

And here are all sessions from June 2015 - June 2017 that we know of so far:
1. "Serene Queen" (the song was made in one day, is a rough demo that was made on earliest "Lust for Life" sessions and was never come back to again);
2. "Best American Record";
3. "Yosemite";
4. "Sugary Sweet" (acapella 30-seconds idea; snippet leaked);
5. "Cry Kill Die" (snippet leaked);
6. "Roses Bloom for You" (originally planned to be an "intro" to the album; most likely, the one-minute audio that Lana shared via Instagram is the entire track);
7. "Everything I Do" (snippet leaked);
8. "Poetry in Motion" (snippet leaked);
9. Unknown Song (snippet: "When you call...");
10. "Say Yes to Heaven" ("Honeymoon" Version; this version firstly was in consideration for a fifth studio album, but later was reworked);
11. "Say Yes to Heaven" (Fred Gibson 2016 Version);
12. "Fine China" (2016 Version);
13. "Silverlake";
14. "LA Who Am I to Love You";
15. "Malibu";
16-19. 4 political outtakes (Lana shared in an interview);
20-22. 4 songs sent to A$AP Rocky for a collaboration (one of them was "Groupie Love");
23-24. 4 unknown songs "left on the cutting room floor" (2 of the songs are presumably "Yosemite" and "Best American Record");
25-... Other "amazing outtakes from 2016"; songs, meant to be on a follow-up album, that consisted out of outtakes from "Lust for Life" sessions.

Alleged tracks:
1. "California" (A "Honeymoon" outtake, insider reported that Lana loved the song and, allegedly, tried to release it on further albums, tried to even make it a single, but this wasn't confirmed);
2. "Wild One" (In 2015, Justin Parker made minimal changes to the original 2012 track "Mike," renamed it "Wild One" and registered with the original version of "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems." But this was done, supposedly, without any purpose, so the track is not an outtake from either "Honeymoon" or "Lust for Life". However, "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems" was later released on "Lust for Life");

well I actually wrote a whole paragraph about timeline based oneverything we know from insider and from lana, but we dont have Jamie xx versions of the songs yet and im pretty sure they arent the one that were intended to be on tropico, and Dan auerbach demo isnt the one that was supposed to be on tropico
this is what I could come up with
 

Hi! I wanted to make a thread where people could discuss and maybe share info about the Tropico album, because it really interests me and I'm sure some of you feel the same way! 
 
What we know:
- It was recorded during late 2012-2013 but was eventually scrapped and turned into "Ultraviolence".
- Lana announced that the short film would use three tracks from "Paradise" instead of songs from her then scrapped album in July of 2013.
- "Elvis", the laptop demo from 2008 was possibly considered for inclusion on the album, but was probably never re-recorded.
- The concept "Ultraviolence" was born and "Tropico" was scrapped sometime after October 23, 2013, since Pink Champagne is confirmed to be on Tropico's tracklist, and it is the latest known recording date we know of for any of the songs on Tropico.
 
"Tropico" track list (that we know of):
 
1. Old Money (Drums Demo)
2. Black Beauty (Demo)
3. Guns n Roses (Demo)
4. Lake Placid
5. Summertime (Janis Joplin cover)
6. Melancholia ("Ultraviolence" Demo)
7. Jesus (I Talk To Jesus)
8. Pink Champagne ("Let Me Love You Like A Woman" Demo)
9. Elvis
10. Earthquakes (Final Version)
11. Illegible
12. Illegible (Money & Power?, Fake Rolex?, Axl Rose?)
13. Illegible (Preacher?)
 
Picture of Lana's notebook with the alleged track list during January of 2013:
 
Other songs (and their recording dates) that were recorded during the Tropico sessions, in other words: songs that were recorded after "Paradise" but before the concept of "Ultraviolence" existed
 
(* = unsure)
 
- 80s Baby (Nov 15, 2012)
- Sweetheart (Nov 15, 2012)
- The Devil (Dec 7, 2012)
- He Hits Me Because He Loves Me (Dec 7, 2012)
- Nectar Of The Gods (May 5, 2013)
- Cherry Blossom (May 5, 2013)
- Angels Forever, Forever Angels (June, 2013)
- Unidentified Flying Bill (June, 2013)
- Madly (Oct 1, 2013)
- Ave Maria
- Cult Leader*
 
Lmk what I should add!
 

> When 2 Brazilians with a VPN, an Aussie Discord scalping group, and a partridge in a pear tree got to the stock first

Lana after switching Instagram accounts for the second time in two years

you know what, once again it proves that she can do nothing and still be iconic 

That cake makes me feel sick
Who the fuck eats a black cake
Obviously Jen's preference so good for her but rich people are so unnecessarily extra
Like just have a normal cake with blueberries and cream or some shit
This cake overanalysis is brought to you by grumpy me
 

Remember a couple years ago when she made a tweet asking people to show they pre-ordered her new album and to leave their phone number so she could call a few people? I got quite a few random texts from doing that  She actually did end up calling one of my fandom friends at the time though, which was sweet x

ok everyone drop your phone number so she can text us the pics 

Right? Like what’s not normal about keeping moments to yourself 

everyone keeps questioning why she's taking a picture of the cake if she's not gonna post it on social media but like maybe she wants to text/email it to someone or maybe she just wants the memory on her phone or maybe she gets pictures printed for physical photo albums or to frame. like i take hundreds of pictures but i don't post any on social media.

The cake
 

who tf she takin the photo for bc ik its not @honeymoon 

No birthday posts for Miss Jen this year 

people are so obsessed with the lizzy grant narrative get over it already please 😭 lizzy BEEN dead for more than a decade now, she got run over by a trailer in late 2010 let her rest in peace! 

“Good luck and love u”…why is she so dramatic it sounds like she’s sending us to the Hunger Games. 

hi it's me Lana! After years of lurking in disguise I decided to say hi.. please stream new robster xx love ♥️ lizzie

So many things about this look...

 
The dress she bought from some random boutique that shein ripped off so everyone thought she was wearing a shein dress...
The DNC jacket, which she did a whole photoshoot for LDR Village that will probably never be mentioned by her again...
The fact that she wore this jacket, dress, and boots together to accept an award...