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I was going to first send this as a status update, then I was going to post it in the Thread for Minor General Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread thread, but then I thought this could cause a big discussion so I created its own thread. If any Mods seem to disagree, they can, of course, move this into the TFMGQTDDTOT thread.
 
Alright, so there's songs like Push Me Down and lyrics like I like it when you treat me mean from Hundred Dollar Bill and the Hit me and tell me "You're mine!" line from the Diet Mountain Dew demo. And then there's the Hit me and it felt like a kiss line that Lana quotes in several songs. There's also her response to when an interviewer asked her why she's always choked in her music videos, and her response being: "I like a little hardcore love".
Is this chick into B.D.S.M. or what? 
The whole "Daddy" nickname mightn't only reference Lolita but also B.D.S.M.-like relationships. Now, I don't know much about all of this but I know "Daddy: is a common title of the male if he is the dominant. 
Discuss whether you think Lana might be into this stuff or not

I love "like the winter we're not in" bc it refers to her aforementioned snow metaphor (turning diamonds into snow), as snow is in winter. Winter we're not in, it's a winter because all of the snow (yayo), but "guns in the summertime" states that it's possibly in the summer, but yayo being white & all, like snow, makes it feel like it's winter in a metaphorical sense. I love it, it's so poetic.

Hit And Run, Meet Me In The Pale Moonlight, Teenage Wasteland, TV In Black & White and Every Man Gets His Wish
But they change all the time...

Maybe you are the delusional one... Ultraviolence is a work of art. In point of fact, every album is a work of art. These people are artists and what they do is create art. Some may not have the taste to appreciate some--like myself with techno music, I can come up with one hundred reasons why I do not like it but it is my own opinion and my own taste. I have been told not to criticise it for it is my opinion and I just do not like it. The fact that I am tone deaf to it does not mean that it is not music.
Many people do not like Lolita; they believe it to be a wrong, inappropriate and repulsive novel. But to me, I adore Vladimir Nabokov's posh and proper prose and I do, in fact, enjoy the story itself.
What I am trying to say is that just because you believe it to be bad, it does not necessarily mean it is bad. It is to you and some others (I guarrantee you are not the only one - and I bet some other users on here, too) but not to everyone.
 
I understand you were only voicing your opinion, but "And you will realise this in few months...You won't play it anymore..." is rather personal. How are you to know this? Have you had a premonition? Have you foreseen such? I highly doubt it. As I have said before, we are unique, thus our opinions also being unique. Everyone will have different thoughts on Ultraviolence. That is the way art is concieved, unless, of course, every single human being on this planet is brainwashed and is forced to think a certain way. But then we will no longer be ourselves and the world would be as boring as hell. Of course, I want everyone to like Ultraviolence just like I want everyone to like me, but unfortunately, that is impossible.
 
But returning to my point, I am sure there are many users on here that will still be listening to Ultraviolence for years to come, and I am certain that I am one of them,
 
To me, Ultraviolence is a work of art and a brilliant one at that!

I would have loved to see the people at Interscope and Polydor's faces when UV reached number one.

This is you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6nIuVjYyJE
 
There's Nothing Wrong With You we still haven't heard i believe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSIofshQ-HE

Old Money Instrumental

My mother helping my grandma use her phone

Absolutely nothing because it’s 2:30 am yet im somehow awake

Okay, but, unpopular opinion: I would love to hear a folk album. Or at least a song. IMHO, it'd be better than Summer Bummer. But then again, I listen to the "Infinite Indie Folk" playlist on Spotify, so I'm biased.

Okay, but, unpopular opinion: I would love to hear a folk album. Or at least a song. IMHO, it'd be better than Summer Bummer. But then again, I listen to the "Infinite Indie Folk" playlist on Spotify, so I'm biased.

just some ppl doing the illegals

Its all been taken down. such a shame. Lizzy would be my most listened to artist on spotify if it stayed up haha

if "fans" like these inspire her songs, she should be hella depressed

Sometimes it feels like I've got a war on the toilet,
I wanna get off, but I keep riding the ride.
 
(Omg, you guys have resurrected this, I feel so blessed!)

Sometimes it feels like I've got a war on the toilet,
I wanna get off, but I keep riding the ride.
 
(Omg, you guys have resurrected this, I feel so blessed!)

i hade to
 
 
Okay, to me, Lana is literally a fucking goddess. Like, no one is more perfect than her (I'll be real though, she does have imperfections…but I guess these imperfections make her even more perfect as we realise she is only a mere human, and all humans have flaws).
 
I am a big fan of jazz. Sonically, I love Lana's style, although if I were to listen to another artist of the same style, I'm not sure if I would enjoy it. Lana's voice has this angelic quality to it, and to me, it's actually somewhat addictive (I do mention around this time last year of what I called "the drug phase" where I was literally addicted to her and I was not happy unless I was listening to her & it's all I ever wanted to do). It's like there are specks of gold within her voice, a treasure amongst her vocal chords, and each time she sings, a little bit of that treasure comes out with it that was the worse metaphor ever. I do miss Born To Die's orchestral instrumentals, though.
 
Lyrically, Lana's style is so beautiful, so magical, so…poetic, which was in fact Lana's goal (or so she mentioned in Ride's monologue). Her words are so eloquent, they posses a kind of prose. As aforementioned, Lana uses literature within her work, which makes it even more poetic. And personally, I believe her usage of themes like daddies, Coney Island, Americana, gangstas, etc. is very poetic indeed. These images are what inspired her and all poets have inspiration. Not only that, but using these themes and turning it into an aesthetic, a persona, a profile, is yet another very talented and creative thing to do. Also, using these themes to describe her life is also important, maybe these images hold some significance to her? Maybe they are special to her. Perhaps they helped her through some of the difficult experiences she claims to have gone through.
And some of her songs pretty much sound like they're coming from my own mouth, I can relate to them so much. This, the fact that I feel like I'm not the only one, and that she might actually understand me, play a very big part. She's just a very relatable person …to a point, of course.
 
 
Also, sorry if none of this makes any sense, it's like almost one in the morning here and I'm really tired.

You know you're a Lana Del Rey fan when you can barely hear the music (like a radio that's on low volume and is in the next room to you) and you can hear a Lana song when it comes on, or sometimes even sense it (is that normal? Because that's the case with me sometimes).

You know you're a Lana Del Rey fan when you can barely hear the music (like a radio that's on low volume and is in the next room to you) and you can hear a Lana song when it comes on, or sometimes even sense it (is that normal? Because that's the case with me sometimes).

You know you're a Lana Del Rey fan when you can barely hear the music (like a radio that's on low volume and is in the next room to you) and you can hear a Lana song when it comes on, or sometimes even sense it (is that normal? Because that's the case with me sometimes).

I've always thought the male background vocals at the end were by Barrie, but the booklet begs to differ...

waitwaitwait these leaks are legit? okay.
 
 
 
yes omg

omg thank you for this very intriguing! how do you find it all?

so I'm reading the OP because I once thought that "K", "Jim"/"Jimmy" & "Bill" were the same guy.
But anyway, I love how that on Jimmy Gnecco's Wikipedia page it has Lana listed under "Associated Acts"
 
  Jimmy Gnecco Gnecco in November 2014. Background information Birth name James Francis Gnecco Born September 30, 1973 (age 41)
Teaneck, New Jersey Genres Experimental rock, Acoustic Occupation(s) Musician Years active 1992–present Labels unsigned Associated acts Ours, Lana Del Rey, Reeve Carney, Neverending White Lights, a-ha, Savoy, Weathervane Website jimmygnecco.com Notable instruments Guitar, Drums, Bass, Pian