Angel Forever

Rich with cheap taste

I thought it might be useful to dedicate one thread to the early tidbits of info we are getting about Lana'a up-coming fourth studio album.

Here's what we have thus far:
 
Interview for The Fader:
I’m a big jazz aficionado. Hopefully my next foray will be into jazz. I feel like I’m getting there with songs like ‘Shades of Cool’ and ‘Cruel World’ and a cover of ‘The Other Woman’ by Nina Simone. I’m inching towards what I really love, which is kind of a Chet Baker, Nina Simone-inspired sound. It’s hard to get that sound because you need great jazz musicians. 
 
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http://lizzydelgrant.tumblr.com/post/90085038067

Interviewer: You will record something tonight, do you know what it is, or right now?

Lana: I do, yeah I do. I have this idea for this record called "Music to Watch Boys To," so. Yeah, I'm just kind of thinking about that and what that would mean [laughs].

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Interview for Galore Magazine:

Are you working on anything new?
Yeah, I just wrote two songs for Tim Burton and Harvey Weinstein’s film called Big Eyes and I’m working on a new record. I’m also always writing small pieces for independent films etc. Dan Heath and Rick Nowels are two of my dearest friends and producers and we are always up to something.

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Interview for Grazia Magazine

What is your state of mind now?
I’m afraid this album will be forgotten. I’m always afraid good things will be forgotten, burried. Musically, I’m still looking for something different, with majestic choruses, beautiful orchestrations, a type of 50s vibe with a bit of soft grunge. Since march, I’ve been writing a lot of new songs, in a more conventional way -the verses, then the refrain, with a strong jazzy influence. I’m having a lot of fun with all of that. And next year, I’ll tour across the USA. I’ve been doing it only once before and I was really moved, especially in Detroit where I could feel the weight of its History. So, that’s why I decided I wanted to do it again, this time with my friend Courtney Love, for two months. My new album will come out after, maybe for late-august.
Did you writing style change for this next record?
My lyrics are very similar to me, who I truly am, but I must admit that I’m currently trying to do some new things. It’s a bit surrealist, full of colors. I feel much more inspired by people like Mark Ryden, Fellini or Picasso… Oh, I’m totally fond of this documentary: “Fellini : I’m a Born Liar”, which explains that the film-maker was in love with his hometown, and each of his movies is like one of its facets. I like his idea, the fact that truth should never impede to a beautiful lie… (she smiles)

You seem to like evoking the 50s imagery in your songs: the golden age of recording studios, ladies singing late at night with their big band…
Yeah, I love it. I love nightlife, the mood that comes from it. That’s why I wanted to meet Mark Ronson: I played him ten songs I just composed for this next album. Not so much that he added his usual signature, soul and funk, but rather it explores a sound close to the golden age of jazz. I wasn’t even born in the 50s but I feel like I was there. And when I still was living in New York, I was looking for this dream, maybe some other girls had the same, to live as a singer in a jazz club where I could sing some standards, but my own compositions too. I had a very ‘romantic’ vision of what a singer’s life should be. I daydreamed about tours in Europe, just like Chet Baker did, for example.
 
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Billboard Magazine:
 
Lana Del Rey has nine songs written for her next album, titled Honeymoon -- four of which "the production is perfect; I'm looking for a few more songs to tie everything together" -- and thanks to her cinematic new song, she's also in the thick of awards season.
 
Does the Big Eyes song give us any indication of how the new album will sound?
It's very different from the last one and similar to the first two, Born to Die and Paradise. I finished my last one [Ultraviolence] in March and released it in June and I had a follow-up idea. It's growing into something I really like. I'm kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It's been good.
You're still writing everything?
I'm doing a cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." After doing a cover of [Jessie Mae Robinson's] "The Other Woman," I like summarizing the record with a jazz song. I'm having fun with my interpretation.
I assume you're relying on the Nina Simone versions?
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "The Other Woman" are my favorites. I'm so so much [a fan].
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Mark Ronson for Triple J:
http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s4174087.htm
 
Says that he rumors of his involvement with Honeymoon are an "internet thing," but says he has heard "beautiful tracks" and does not want to comment on anything before Lana does. However, he says that he has not worked on anything (yet?)
 
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The Inquirer:
" I feel that the three records were so heavy and autobiographical. It’s been so cathartic. I like to use my previous work as a jump-off point to do something new. I’m ready to go into more of a ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ surrealist place. That’s why I really do like what I heard about Fellini and all of the movies that were overdubbed and the actors were counting and not saying lines. I couldn’t believe that.
 
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Inrockuptibles:
"Everybody has asked why I wanted to end Ultraviolence by a cover of The Other Woman by Nina Simone. Because she says everything, because I love jazz and may be because it could a door for what could be the next album."
 
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Mark Ronson for Interview Magazine:
 
"Q-TIP: What are you doing in L.A.?
Mark RONSON: I'm going to do some recording with Lana Del Rey today and tomorrow. I found this cool old studio out here. 

Q-TIP: Are you producing? 

RONSON: I don't know. 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. "
 
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On Instagram:

 
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Video from tour saying that the record will be released in September:
https://twitter.com/LanaDeIReyDaily/status/602515526649163776
 
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Honeymoon lyrics found in tour merch:
http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/85451?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lanadelrey

I've been following Neil Krug's work ever since Lana's been working with him and I tried making similar looking covers!
 
ULTRAVIOLENCE:
 

 

 

 
OLD MONEY ALTERNATE:
 

 

 
OTHER:
 

 

January 2016 it is then!
 
Interesting how she thought she went too far in writing Ultraviolence...I wonder if she means the production or the lyrics or (probably) just putting FMWUTTT on the album. I hope she is still proud of it but either way it's a really important record to me and it looks like it at least inspired her to create, whereas after Paradise she was all about retirement and shit.

First, why the reporter mentioned nothing at all about the songs she played for him? A brief description would totally help us to live for the next 8 months    Then she finally confirmed what we already knew: UV is dead and gone. But is funny that we've been calling her a lazy and she was actually working on new songs for all this time. 
 
PS: I'll bet that the first single video of this new album will be very "inspired" by this documentary just like Let's get Lost  Someone watch this please for further proofs

I bought the magazine on their app and she looks FLAWLESS: 
 
 
 
 
and here's the story part
 
 
 

Lana Del Rey: officially too hardcore for Marilyn Manson

She wont win but who cares, she'll attend and look beautiful, standing next to Lorde will expose her for the puffy haired She-Lizard Lorde is!

The children in the end is so Bel Air-ish 
It's like a park or a beach, no worries, just happiness in midsummer.

The outro features the sound of children and thus blends perfectly into Bel Air.
 
Young & Beautiful, I Can Fly, Bel Air, Old Money are the "Mid-July"-quadruple.
 
In Y&B she talks about the future and how she thinks it will be.
I Can Fly is in the present but an earlier present than Bel Air which is the immediate present.
Old Money is her future self reminiscing about the past.

I can fly
You had me caged up like a bird in midsummer
You saw me waiting
I was crazy on fire
Waiting to fly
I can fly
 
I had bright wishes in the summer
I was bathing in sunlight
Painting in the garden
Like a ghost in mid-July
Running fast from something
With my eyes wide like saucers
Spinning in the sun
 
I had a dream that I was fine
I wasn't crazy
I was divine
 
I can fly
You had me caged up like a bird in midsummer
You saw me waiting
I was crazy on fire
Waiting to fly
I can fly
 
Your lies were hard kisses in the summer
I was dreaming of a lake
Dreaming of the water
Where I'd rise like a Phoenix
Or an iron from the fire
I've got things to tell you
Like I know that you're a liar
 
I had a dream that I was fine
I wasn't crazy
I was divine
 
I can fly
You had me caged up like a bird in midsummer
You saw me waiting
I was crazy on fire
Waiting to fly
I can fly
 
You words cut like a knife in butter
I was fighting for my art
Fighting with my lover
 
You had me so tied up
Thinking there's no other
Yeah, right
Yeah, right
 
I can fly
You had me caged up like a bird in midsummer
You saw me waiting
I was crazy on fire
Waiting to fly
I can fly
 
 
 
She definitely has some more mature lyrics throughout this song, but still manages to incorporate some of what she's used to writing about. This and Big Eyes give off a lot of imagery and I really like it.

Are you working on anything new?
Yeah, I just wrote two songs for Tim Burton and Harvey Weinstein’s film called Big Eyes and I’m working on a new record. I’m also always writing small pieces for independent films etc. Dan Heath and Rick Nowels are two of my dearest friends and producers and we are always up to something.
Where do you live and how many cars do you have?
I live in Koreatown, in east LA and I have two Jags.
Who do you listen to?
I stream KJazz wherever I am on my phone. That is the only thing I listen to.
Who do you fuck with in the music business?
I fuck with Azealia Banks because I have the same artistic inclinations as her and the same taste in men.
Who do you feel you are connected to in music on a psychic and psychological level?
Cat Power and Father John Misty.
Who do you most relate to in terms of your career right now?
Lil Kim
What do you love?
I love the beach. I love when I have those rare moments where I just turn off and don’t worry about anything- maybe put the radio on, drive from LA to Santa Barbara. Maybe take a boat along the coast. I also like to write, late at night near Wilshire Boulevard.
I know when you lived in New York for 8 years you said you’d never leave, What happened?
I loved New York. When I was there it was almost my sole source of inspiration, more than any other man, writer or rapper, but it’s harder for me to get around now. I used to take late night walks over the Williamsburg Bridge, go to all the 24 hour diners with $5 and beg the waiters to let me stay all night in exchange for the purchase of one giant slice of chocolate cake. I would sit for hours and read about interesting people like Karl Lagerfeld and listen to books on tape by Tony Robins to keep me company. I would take the D train to Coney Island, take the D train back to the Bronx where I lived on Hughes Avenue.
I wonder how many notebooks you filled on those subway rides…
So many.
I remember for the short time we lived together in NYC, I used to come home from work and see the entire wall of our studio apartment covered in weird tropical backdrops from the Party City store. There would be tinsel everywhere and streamers taped to the walls and I was furious because it looked like the most bizarre amateur movie set, plus I was worried for your sanity because I couldn’t see where you were going with all of it. Looking back though, your obsession with strange nick knacks and Hawaiian embellishments were like little hints of colors to come for future sounds and videos.
Yeah, of course I remember those days. You hated my electric fishtank which gave me endless amusement. (She winks!)
For the record, I loved that fish tank, you gave it to me for my 19th birthday. I believe the inadvertant theme was ‘Chinatown.’ Now, I know you don’t love to talk about this because journalists have sort of mythologized your past but let’s talk about the trailer park you lived in for a few years- I shot you there when you were 22 and continued to shoot you there for a couple years while you were writing and entertaining and wrapping up your album with David Kahne. You were so sweet and happy that you had your very own place to write and reside in, and extra money from that $10,000 indie contract. It was also a sad time for you because you separated from Steven Mertens who had originally produced that record and who was your boyfriend at the time. I don’t really have to ask you this because as your sister, I think I already know, but would you say this was your most enriching time as an artist and happiest time in New York (despite the split from Steven.)
[smile] Yes.
Do you remember decorating David Kahne’s studio? I remember sitting next to a decorative Urn during one of your recording sessions. Even now, you’ll bring ribbons or bows or specific iconography to recording sessions. How important is it that your space reflects your personal style or headspace?
I honestly haven’t thought about that in so long. I used to have to have some sort of talisman with me if I was writing. Something connected to the lyrics like a sparkle jumprope or a golden compact mirror- at the time it was really important. Now I have internalized so much of what I’ve come to love that I don’t think about it as much any more.
Why do some people give you a hard time in general?
I choose to write about what I know. I choose not to discuss those stories any further than my music. It doesn’t make things easy for me publicly or in interviews and I do interviews because I believe the music is good enough for me to support it as best I can. Sometimes when the things you say and the way you look don’t add up- people are quick to label you as an impersonator or feel like you’re not entitled to the life experiences you’ve really lived. They’re not deep enough to intuit.
I know you told me in person that you were grateful for your time spent with Jon Parales from the New York Times, what made that experience better than the rest?
For one, he had manners. He was articulate and insightful and aware that I hadn’t done interviews for a year. He did what so many people can’t do which is gauge who a person is through intuition and feeling. Also known as reading between the lines. He has his own internal moral compass and had nothing to gain by telling lies.
Despite the difficulties you’ve had and the tumultuous relationship with the media, it seems like the people who really listened to your record unanimously agree that Ultraviolence is rich with beautiful melodies and uncompromisingly true to your innate aesthetic, describe your process writing this last album…was it significantly different from writing your first?
Not really. When you have a true natural aesthetic, everything comes from the same place and feels the same way as it bubbles up. For me it’s the timing of when I will be inspired that’s unpredictable. The muse I guess you would call it. I could have a lucky run of a flawless string of melancholic melodies that come to me. Or I could wait for years and hear nothing. Of course I always write regardless- but that’s different from being in the flow and effortlessly channeling rhymes and rhythms etc.
What do you do when inspiration is hard to come by? 
Talking about inspiration only makes sense when you’re talking to someone whose truly been inspired and created from that place. It’s difficult when I don’t feel inspired and it’s usually a sign that I’m not living right.
We’ve talked a lot this year about our personal connections to a higher power, what kind of role does prayer or meditation have in your artistic process?
I guess I would say that the beautiful thing about feeling connected to something greater is that even at my lowest point I always have a feeling that I’m being taken care of.
I came with you to Nashville this year along with our longtime friend and Electric Lady owner, Lee Foster. Did you enjoy your time there? I know for me it was a dream, us three living in those little cabins in Mount Juliette, that hot tub in the bedroom, trying to get the truck out of the mud, lots of flannel, driving into Nashville each day.. Did you feel like it gave you what you needed environmentally?
Yes, first of all it was away from home so that was influential in its own way. Having you and Lee there and of course the excitement of working with Dan created a good environment. He gave me that fuzz and that buzz. I also met some girls I loved, namely Nikki Lane, who you shot for Rolling Stone I think? She was an amazing girl. I loved her spirit and her voice and all of us going to a couple of house parties together during my time there gave me a good warm feeling.
Dope, so to wrap up, any plans for the future?
Not really.
[Laughs] Ok, well we should probably focus on the road now, our 250 miles on I-97 is almost up. What episode of Snapped do you want to watch? I’m looking now, it’s between an ex-stripper with three fiancees and a life insurance policy, OR a mother daughter duo whose murder case is probably in the works for a lifetime movie.
We’ve got time for both.
(Car Audio) **It started as an unusual romance between one young woman and three older men…**
 
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this is iconic

I live there lol, I was asking for my date

It's amazing what women in love will do
 
 
love it   

Of course it is.
 
 
I'm glad Lana's ticket prices don't get too crazy.

Endless Summer World Tour
Endless Summer World Tour
World Tour

Black Beauty 7" Picture disc
Featuring @@butterflies Black Beauty remix because I adore it.
 

'Once Upon A Dream'12" Picture Disc for the Motion Picture Maleficent.
Features Once Upon a Dream, the intrumental and other scores from the movie.
 

 

If only the movie was called Big Lips!!!!

According to this review, Lana has contributed to the soundtrack of Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes' starring Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz, coming next month.
 

 
 
Read it here http://filmschoolrejects.com/reviews/big-eyes-review.php
 
 
Check the movie on IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1126590/?ref_=rvi_tt
 

 
Praying for this to actually happen
 
 
UPDATE: Another source seems to confirm this, let's all cross our fingers
 
http://www.josepvinaixa.com/blog/lana-del-rey-did-the-main-theme-of-tim-burtons-big-eyes/
 
 
UPDATE II: Confirmed
 
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/earshot/big-eyes-lana-del-rey-749904?mobile_redirect=false
 
 
 
UPDATE III: Song preview and lyric video
 
http://www.stereogum.com/1722219/preview-lana-del-reys-oscar-hopeful-big-eyes/mp3s/

First of all, LanaBoards, stop voting in people who are gonna skip out on their interviews smh. But we've returned from an off month with the ever enchanting caps-locked ULTRAVIOLENCE! Rivaling even @@Jack in causing a stir and bickering with members, he certainly keeps us active. Currently taking bets on how many times "Cola," "West Coast," and the Ultraviolence cover will come up in this interview. Love him or hate him, SitarHero has the DEFINITIVE scoop!
 
Also know that wherever there's a full paragraph in this interview there was originally a block of emoticons. God love you @@Ultraviolence
 
Member of the Month (September): ULTRAVIOLENCE
 

 

This is the first time someone uses that line with me! So thrilling
 
 
I like pretty much every song on UV, but I just can't get into Flipside...

I'll pray for you yasssitsgangastaboy - you and that disgusting mouth of yours. God bless.

Those candids are from a couple of months back. A lot can happen in that time. Even the recent pics we saw of her and Francesco in New York a from a couple of weeks ago.
 

  She has said on more than one occasion that she didn't consider herself a good live performer, at least not at first. In the beginning, her stage presence was almost nonexistent, though she's come a long way since then.
 

I wouldn't say she doesn't care... (see above). She loves her fans and has a great loyalty toward them. BBC Radio 1's tweet says she was "devastated" to have to cancel. I don't see any reason to not believe that. Lana loves her fans and would not want to disappoint them if she had a choice. Plus, cancellations are bad PR, and I'm sure she's smart enough to try to avoid that whenever possible.

She hasn't said specifically herself, but other sources say that she suffers from stomach ulcers, like Kurt Cobain did.  I don't think that's been confirmed, though.  Last year, during a performance at the Vicar Street Theater in Dublin, Ireland, she was said to have "broken down" during the song "Video Games."
 
Calling it a "breakdown" or a "meltdown," as some publications put it, is a gross exaggeration.  There's a really good YouTube video of the performance (
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In an interview with The Fader (http://www.thefader.com/2014/06/04/lana-del-rey-cover-interview/), the interviewer writes:
 
"I ask her why she was crying.  'I’d been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn’t figure out,' she says, to my surprise. 'That’s a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can’t figure out why. I’d gotten these shots in Russia, where we’d just been. It was just heavy. It’s just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don’t really care that much about yourself sometimes. I thought it was sad. I thought my position was sad. I thought it was sad to be in Ireland singing for people who really cared when I wasn’t sure if I did.'  I’d expected self-congratulation, the triumph of finally making it. You never really know.”
 
Also, it is often said (including in the above Fader interview) that Lana said to the Vicar Street audience, "I think you’re going to have to sing it for me.”  For me?  Nooooooo.... if you watch the video, you can clearly hear her say "WITH me," not "FOR me."
 
 
 
In the beginning, when she first started performing live, she was a bit of a nervous wreck.  She admitted on many occasions that she was a nervous performer.  But that was then... One would think that, by now, 2.5 years and hundreds of performances later, she wouldn't be such a bundle of nerves.  She has, more recently, said that she still gets a little nervous at first, but by the time the first song is done, she's OK and into her groove.  I've never seen her look nervous during performances in the last 2 years, though, so she must hide it well.
 
 
LDR may be many things, but I'm certain "lazy" isn't one of them.  With as much as she does, and as on-the-go as she is, laziness wouldn't factor into the equation.  Unless we're given a good reason otherwise, let's just take her reps at their words.