GirlAfraid

Did Ultraviolence get released as a single in the end? I have not kept up at all
 
 
Tbh I'm still kinda bummed paradise didn't get more love, another single at least. Still the best thing she's ever done IMO

It feels like the UV project has been abandoned by both Lana and the record company. Even the UV single was a non starter . Not even a tour in the UK to promote it. I really don't understand what's happened, really frustrating as a fan who was looking forward to the videos and remixes etc.
 
Any ideas or have I missed something?

The question I have been asking myself recently was: would UV have made me a Lana Del Rey fan that I am today? Well, I have to be honest: No.
Let's not fool ourselves, the BTD / P era was incredibly exciting: the images, the videos, the endless amount of leaks and the AKA album that somehow blended itself into the same time period. Everything seemed, well not just seemed, it was so exciting. She seemed to care so much about her output, the presentation, everything was just spot on.
 
This era is actually a huge, huge disappointment. Even with the material given, she could have created so much more and interesting stuff. When you want to put a distance between the last era and this one, you can handle it in a way that is still exciting for your fans to live this album with you, not just release it and vanish more or less.
 
I don't care that some people on here, rise their eyebrows and vomit in their mouth when you mention the evil word of "promo", because I will never understand what is wrong with wanting your favourite artist to be on tele, on the radio, playing shows, making exciting videos. She has completly ruined it, tbh.
 
The fact that she herself says that she doesn't feel any drive anymore leaves me stunned. What is the purpose to make music when you don't feel any drive? There is none. When I listen to an album, I just don't want to listen to an album filled with boredom and basically nothing going on there.
 
What is actually going on on UV? Not much, the lyrical content has stayed the same, she has not added anything new, the sound structures are painfully simple at times and it sounds dated which is the worst. You can sometimes cover up the lack of ideas with an interesting sound, but she isn't. It is so painfully obvious that she doesn't have anything interesting to tell.

Hell, I will take anything that is not in the vein of something like "I'm a sad girl, I'm a bad girl"  at this point. And I actually like DMD a lot.

It will be the only song on the album that people will buy, lets be real x.

Well many bands have regularly released an EP/extension after each of their albums, which usually contains unreleased tracks and demos, because they want to share their music (e.g. The National, Coldplay's Viva la Vida: Prospekt's March) . Lana could continue to do the same thing if she wants, maybe for the same reason Paradise was born. However, we all know that being in a mainstream label like Interscope would mean that (almost) everything they care about is money so they can make her make a bundle like what The Paradise Edition was, i.e. to sell more copies of (basically) the same album.
 
I honestly don't think that there is any problems against making a re-release like this, only if Lana has enough artistic ideas to make one, not because Interscope make her do one. 

It annoys me that she's wearing that much makeup in the water and also that it's that intact, so I agree

I've got admit. G&R has grown on me a fair bit tbh BC you can see the potential Lana has for future tracks especially with my fav verse-We should've left Las Vagas and began again/To get back to Detroit/Back to the promised land. The chorus is still awful but there are element's of greatness tbh

Unless she's going to go all the way and release Meet Me In The Pale Moonlight, I also am done with the pale moonlight stuff. The party dress is whatever. It's not my favoirte imagery, but it's just a lana quirk/trademark in my mind at this point

I think I like the demo of Black Beauty better.  It's a great song and doesn't have her lyrical flubs that a lot of UV has.  The added tracks to the song seem okay, but I think it's more powerful without it.  Plus with Sad Girl, which uses the sudden return to the ending minor chord to great effect, it pales in comparison.

I'D LIKE TO APOLOGISE TO THE WHOLE OF LANABOARDS FOR MY BLASPHEMOUS POST, I RECENTLY FELL IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE AND NOW I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND AND LOVE THE ALBUM so yeah. but uv is still superior imo.

1. Lana was called to a costume party and had nothing to wear.
2. She put her favorite white party dress, stole her grandmother's knitting tea tablecloth and some flowers in the yard.
3. Asked her gay best friend to turn the tablecloth towel into a veil. 
4. The party was thrown by Vogue so when Lana saw the oranges she thought "Better eat something since don't fead the models is a thing"
5. A friend was filming the trajectory until the Church.  Praying is in Vogue these days, so the theme was birth of baby Jesus
6. Got home quite drunk, passed the video to the laptop and inadvertently gave upload. 
7. Lana is still sleeping and still doesn't know the video is online

It's kinda hard to understand. I think maybe she wanted to show off her new extensions and walk around in a wedding dress.

people would actually want to buy this mess? i can make the same thing with my phone and a wig lmfao

HA! Yes. I mean, Summer Wine was probably recorded with an iPhone too, but that video is pretty nice, not just walking around in a wedding dress 

Sorry but the Y&B video is very atmospheric and haunting. Simple, but perfect for the song and she looks gorgeous.

I have NO problem with simple, unpolished videos with atmosphere and meaning.
 
However, tell me, what kind of meaning has this? I mean, if you search hard enough you can make up something, but I don't see anything intentional in there. It's just a super lazy execution of what could have been a good idea.

You are so wrong, pls leave

Agree with you on the epicness thing but PLEASE no more monologues ... they are sooo kitsch-y and annoying and everyone screms "so personal!" ....More acting and less monologue would have been very good for Tropico and the so-beloved ridologue also feels so awkward for me, especially the second part.
I dont think an epic video needs a monologue
 
 
but I also don't buy this "she's making art, you can interpret do much, so simple but good, so deeeep" excuse anymore. Eitherway she does a good atmospheric video ala Summerime Sadness, Born To Die or Blue Jeans, atmospheric homemade vids or she could maybe start doing really interesting, storytelling vids. She definitly HAS the potential but I often have the feeling she's just to lazy.
and with storytelling vids I don't mean Katy Pery storytelling. Lana could have the potential for a short-movie-esque musicvideo (what tropico should have been) like the wonderful musicvideo for the yeah yeah yeahs' "sacrilege"

The video would kinda work for a filler track ie. Sad Girl. But Ultraviolence is not a filler track - it's possibly the most important track on the record (especially due to it being the title track). As such, it deserved something epic and at least a monologue.

Half of the vidoe is her, walking through a garden and singing. Then, suddenly, an old man with a walking stick appears and screams "WHAT ARE YOU HIPPIES DOIN IN MAH GARDEN?" and Lana and the guy holding the Iphone start to run panicky, while the song still plays. In the end of the video, the phoneguy runs behind Lana and suddenly stumbles. The camera turns black. The last scene is Lana in the dark, holding the phonecamera close to her face and crying.
 

 
 
 
 
Looking foreward to this!

Blue Jeans didn't had too much going on, but it was atmospheric and still somehow told us a story.
I don't hate this new video, but you can just see that there was 0 effort put into it and the scenes y'sll are trying to interpret seem very random to me. There is not really any passion behind it, that's what's bothering me. And however she will explain and make excuses for this in interwievs, the video will stay boring. Not because it was filmed on a phone or because it has no plot but because it was filmed without any motivation.

This isn't from the video, this is a pic of Lana telling that guy what the video will be like and thats his reaction tbqh. 

LOL @ the zoom in on her mouth while eating the mandarin though.