GirlAfraid

I love this thread. Makes me nostalgic for when I first started listening to her and would mishear 60% of the lyrics. Body Electric is the first one that comes to mind.
 
Grand Ole Opry: Grand auto spree
 
Whitman is my daddy, Monaco’s my mother:Clinton is my daddy, Monica’s my mother
 
My clothes still smell like you: My coasters/posters still smell like you
All the photographs say, that we’re still young: All the phonographs, say we’re still young
Mary’s swayin’ softly: Mary’s sweatin’ softly

There's no solid info on it being about Azealia, bye.

A long stalled project because i'm bad at finalising things and compiling them. I think this album is so amazing and infinitely inspiring, what I really wanted to show was Lana Del Ray. The transition between Lizzy Grant to Lana Del Rey. I feel like the defining look of that is Lana in the short film Poolside. She looks insanely good there. All the images of Lana used in this packaging are screencaps from the short film which I have retouched and further edited to make look like official photographs and to improve the quality greatly for print. I used the official cover art as a main inspiration because I think even though it's very low-tech it still has a great atmosphere in it, so I wanted to create something similar. The atmosphere in this album to me is very noir-ish, so I chose to use all grayscale images in the booklet, an effect with sunken highlights which makes the images feel quite sultry.

Gatefold LP 12” Vinyl. 
The blue vinyl is the only striking colour here. It's a nod to Lana's homemade videos and her love for party store toy aquariums. It's the opposite to the yellow I featured prominently through the album design.
 

 

 

16-page booklet mockup
 
 


★ Preview / Download full-res digital booklet ★
 
 
 

Bonus: Album demos artwork
 
 
I've been working on this on / off for so long! Please tell me what you think and be sure to find any lyrics corrections because it's inevitable I probably messed something up!

After making out with an orange I'm kind of happy with whatever she puts out, in forms of music videos.

I really don't understand this. I feel like a lot of people have the general consensus that Born To Die is her peak. And they want her to rehash and replicate the music, the videos and the promotional trail. How boring would that be.
 
we have the music, we have the great videos, we can watch them any time. High By The Beach was sooo different upon first listen, Lana hasn't released anything like it before. and now the video, she has done something we really haven't seen from her before (whether you like it or not, is up to you). But she is clearly evolving changing and trying new things and it's so much more exciting to be a fan of somebody who isn't just a one trick pony.

Also I wonder how wet InTheSummer's pussy is right now

"This video sucks"

"Boring Video"

"Bad Editing"

"What is she doing"

"BTD and UV is Better"


 
This video was cool, it was different, and it was very Lana. It obviously isn't MEANT to be this cinematic fucking masterpiece like Star Wars -- it's supposed to send a message.
 
....and the message is this:

mfw people are criticizing lana about a video that she made to prove that she doesn't give a fuck about criticism

bye bitch, nobody cares about your meltdown over HER career. 

The video made the song even better for me tbh

I loved it! It's very simple but entertaining, I bet Lana had a fun time recording and for me that's all that matters  . Also I can't believe some people are "dissappointed" because "it won't help the song commercially". Excuse me? Since when does Lana and this fanbase care about the charts? Chill.
 
PD:
I screamed @ this part   my baby   .

God, most of these opinions are just....blah.
I seriously tire of these forums.
Over analyse
Over critical.
Over gushing.
If you don't like, don't play or watch.
...and get some balance in your life.

Yeah,especially lining up with the idea that she wrote this song during/right after the BTD era. The "never brought into your bullshit when you would pay tribute to me" could be referring to UV's critical acclaim because it was somehow more "authentic" because she was toned down and miserable. Which kind of give me high hopes for Honeymoon Lana to be BTD like high glamour, high production with a side of "call me fake if you want, fuck off"
 
Don't need your money: press, label, endorsement money
 
Everyone can start again, not through love, but through revenge: I'm done trying to please whoever and will actively come at them if the come at me.

That gun don't fit in that guitar case!
 
I loved it though. She looks great and glad she's kicking ass this time. It seemed the common throwaway insult/jab last time around was she is always the victim, etc so glad to see she is turning things around.

Damn, that house is super close to the road. And it's totally not gonna survive rising sea levels, ha. It's really sandwiched between the road and the ocean. Reminds me of a hotel my wife and I stayed at on the coast near the border between France and Spain last year. On a related note, I think she'd really like my house. White walls, lots of windows with wood frames and wood railings, a bit minimalist. C'mon Lana, you know you want to do that private house party for LanaBoards regulars I always fantasize about.   
 
The gun in the guitar case is very Desperado. I got very excited for a minute about the idea of her playing a guitar until I realized that big fucking gun had to be in there.
 
I love how she simultaneously indulges the voyeurism into her life while at the same time telling us she really just wants to blow us the fuck up. (And be left alone and get high by the beach.)

"Cause you're high by the beach
High by the beach
High by the beach
High by the beach
White bleach
White bleach"

Of course I'm going to be in the middle of nowhere without WiFi when this is released.....

Can someone (I'm on mobile) direct all these people with the default Tropico icon to that thread with info on how to solve it / change it because they all look like the same person / bots and it's kinda terrifying

NEW: HONEYMOON

 

I'm scared for the production of Honeymoon. Haynie's BTD production wasn't perfect and overproduced at times, but it was lush and exciting. Auerbach production was sparse at times but it sounded really organic and coherent. I'm worried Honeymoon will have uninspired production and have the worst qualities of each era sonically. I'm not really a fan of Honeymoon song production (to be fair we've only heard 10s) as it sounds so worryingly similar to WFL and LiB and its simply so generic Lana (strings, layered vocals). I guess we need to hear more to identify her sonical themes for Honeymoon.

lana is always doing collabs that never happen

99% chance she never showed up to finish the song 

That's the thing, she doesn't *need* to move anything to make room for new songs -- she could just increase her setlists to a reasonable size for a proper headlining act.  It's sort of ridiculous to only perform 14 or 15 songs when you're an established artist headlining ~20,000 seat venues.  When her peers go on tour they perform ~25 songs at the same venues...

@@graham4anything your whole post has like nothing to do with what people are complaining about. Also comparing Lana to "legends" isn't any better than comparing her to mainstream singers like rihanna or taylor, she's neither of those (at least not 100%). She isn't someone who "wants" to be in magazines 24/7 but it would help her if she would do anything during an album era, it doesn't have to be anything that involves "random gossip" but she could just do some performances on tv (we got some good ones, it's not like she can't sing live at all), release music videos (her videos during BTD were so good why did she suddenly stop expressing herself visually during UV?) or radio sessions (her bbc one turned out pretty good and i really like her Goodbye Kiss Cover so why wouldn't she want to do something like that again?). I agree with pretty much everything Electric Body said in his post earlier, she's been terribly lazy during the UV era and i want everything but that Lana stays as lazy as she was after the Paradise Tour.