GirlAfraid

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I just did google translate: 
 
 

100% ready for uv songs

I don't know if this a Lana confession or an unpopular opinion, but I prefer BB as a demo 1000x more than the album version.

I don't know if this a Lana confession or an unpopular opinion, but I prefer BB as a demo 1000x more than the album version.

I don't know if this a Lana confession or an unpopular opinion, but I prefer BB as a demo 1000x more than the album version.

I've translated it via Google and corrected it:
 
 

With each interview that she gives the less I seem to understand where she's coming from or what message she wants to convey. She's the most mercurial artist I've come across in a long time, which is not necessarily a bad thing (the complexity of her emotions and views), just highly disorienting. Every time I think I pin down a part of her personality or belief system she switches it up so fast I'm left spinning. I think the one thing I know for sure about Lana is that she defies a concrete definition and does not submit to pedestrian conventions.
My sentiments exactly !

I'm really really sad, like a big part of this fandom I knew him thanks to Dayglo Reflection but that was enough for me to love his work. Till this day I find DR as one of Lana's best collaborations. 
 
RIP to Bobby and the never recorded collaboration album.

In my mind ITH is a far more superior track than Flipside. Everything from the melody to the lyrics has a haunting and bittersweet atmosphere. It conjures up so many emotions and moved me from the start much more than Flipside .

In my mind ITH is a far more superior track than Flipside. Everything from the melody to the lyrics has a haunting and bittersweet atmosphere. It conjures up so many emotions and moved me from the start much more than Flipside .

I still haven't fully absorbed the new album yet. I won't be ready for anything new for at least a year, 'cause I'm slow like that. Y'all are an impatient bunch.

i don't really think she meant anything by this statement...but as an artist, I'm near 100% sure that she is thinking about the next album already. though this era has barely begun, there's no doubt in my mind that Lana's brain is actively thinking aboht what the next album will be like. it doesn't mean she will be releasing it anytime soon though.

You guys are getting all worked up about an off the cuff statement to a likely hypothetical question just after she put an album out? This is Lana we're talking about here. Have we still not learned anything? Geez, you guys are so excitable.
 
BTW, "record" doesn't necessarily mean "album". You know the Grammy award for Record of the Year? It's for the best recording of a song.
 

Ha, keep dreaming. Oh, and no @ symbol? Coward.

Nah, its dope fiends..... lol wow, Dope fiends are people who buy from the supplier.. It makes more sense then "things".

this song is so hot

Am I the only one hearing "white lungs, baking powder..."?

what kind of cold ass questions 

Madame Figaro. - Do you have the feeling that the image is always as important as the music? 
Lana Del Rey. - with the first record, I didn't have the feeling that I interested people musically. The project was dictated thus more by the images. This time, I hope that the public won't focus on appearances. I felt controlled by the blurred perception that people had of me, but I don't feel dependent from it now.
 
Your voice appears to be less fragile, as if you were fighting against elements, in particular against the guitars which Dan Auerbach (singer and guitarist of the Black Keys) raised against you. 
I feel like a warrior. A tired warrior, but a warrior. The difference was that I was singing live, in the same room as the band, and recording everything in a single take. It sounded more natural. We kept numerous imperfections. I worked with the same team, began to produce in Electric Lady Studios, in New York, where I met Dan. Then I went to Nashville during six weeks to restructure the songs.
 
Does the record's name, "Ultraviolence", mean that you were not prepared for the success of the previous album? Are you ready now ?
Being rather a solitary kind of person, I don't feel more prepared, but at least I'm fighting. The last three years were very hard, they changed me. Even writing became difficult to me, because I was too much surrouded. When everything around you works as the same speed as you and bores you, suddenly the energy of a meeting an unknown can be rather powerful to give you back the desire and the idea of a melody. These moments became rare, I don't live that many fantastic experiences. For that, I need to take my old car, drive to the beach, and wait.
 
It seems obvious that you belong to the west coast and to all its myths, with your very cinematographic writting style for example. Is it a source of inspiration? 
Yes, undoubtedly, I see images when I write. Visions of future, colors. And I hope to have numerous facets. There is always a dichotomy in me. Concerning the cinema, Some people already proposed me roles in some independent movies shot in Laurel Canyon, set in the 1960s and 1970, but they weren't released. But acting, playing are natural extensions of my work. I would like to shoot with Darren Aronofsky. Or Hitchcock if he was still alive. My inspiration's also very linked to the history and the energy of Los Angeles, the characters I met, like my tattooer, Mark Mahoney. I like the "early 90s" feeling of the city, which evokes a kind of lost cinematography. Just like the spectacular landscapes of L.A. like Pacific Coast Highway, the shoreline.
 
Your albums abound in very melancholic contrasts. You seem to hide a secret under skin...
I try to remain reasonable and healthy, but, inside, I carry many contradictions. I have peaceful moments and a great deal of torments. It is tempestuous. As I adore the color of the words, I chose "Ultraviolence" as a title for the sound that it creates under the tongue, but also for the juxtaposition of a luxurious tone with the hardness of "violence". It pleases me.
 
When we listened to your album for the first time, we thought of rock, but is it more complex than that? 
I am delighted to hear that, even if the main influence is rock, in its most classic shape, in the style of The Eagles or Bob Seger. In fact, I wonder if it is not the ideal music to drive. (Laughter). There's an undisciplined and wild mood in this record. Besides, some were not very happy to discover that there was also a kind of a jazz tone in "Shades of Cool" (EDITOR'S NOTE : for us, the most beautiful song on the album). According to me, everything comes from the alchemy created between me and Dan Auerbach and the group. When I hear really fat and gritty electric guitars, it reminds me of music festivals, I picture an outside stage.
 
Weren't you afraid that this indie side made the record unsaleable?  A little bit, yes.   And you seem to be proud of it
Yes. (she laughs). I shouldn't, but it means that my work conveys exactly what I wanted to transmit. We took care and polished all the songs so that they really sound like me, to respect my philosophy, which is to compose songs which speak to me at first.   So, what could be seen as diva poses is in fact perfectionism. What pleases you so much in the act of creation?  I care a lot about my songs. When I was in Nashville, I rented a farm and, every day, I sat down for hours and listened to the band : I was in my place. When it's over, I feel empty and I wait for new signs. I've always looked for signs in everything. I think ceaselessly of death, the concept of mortality is a vagueness that is constantly threatening. I find it to be heavy, crushing, really. What is the purpose? And what if there's nothing after? I believe in a power bigger than us, who can guide us and help us to find the answers. But it is difficult to perceive it when you are constantly in movement.   Are you happy? 
Not really. It is difficult to be happy, I always feel a kind of malaise, and I'm stuck, always expecting something.I am a little disorientated. When I finish something, I am very annoyed…       I might correct some stuff.   Source : http://www.lana-delrey.fr/2014/06/photos-itw-lana-del-rey-en-couverture-du-madame-figaro.html

She was probably shading other people's albums

I like the rapport between these two. They ki ki like two tranny girlfriends, but I wanted more. Fearne gave me what I wanted in the beginning, she seemed to be moving in the right direction, and then BOOM, the interview was done. I really wanted them to elaborate on the "Ultraviolence" conversation. That song gives me so much life, and I would like to hear what Lana's perspective is regarding it, in the audio format.

So I guess this is it rather than the livelounge. Sadface.

Mortality is the one absolute common to the human condition, so it's pretty understandable for it to influence and be referenced frequently in an artists work, even if it isn't the dominant theme of her art. As I stated, there are suggestive undertones and these undertones clearly highlight to me that, as a person, she is clearly struck by the notion of death, but the main motif of her music is love and love lost: just because (for example) she sings 'your love is deadly' doesn't make 'Without You' about death. This is the difference I'm trying to distinguish.  
To be fair I'd retract my statement about BTD being the only song relating directly to death. I would agree that 'Dark Paradise' is also about death (although you could argue it was a breakup, artistic interpretation and all that) b ut more than that it's about undying love and the grief you feel when you lose a loved one. All I meant with that comment was that she isn't singing about wanting to actually die, she's singing about the hardship of having a loved one die (or leave) and the period you go through afterward, unable to move on & finding comfort in the fantasy of the person. So the lyric 'I wish I was dead' is, like I said, hyperbole to communicate the extent of the grief. I don't think she's glamorising death.
 
Similarly, with BTD.. This was the first song of Lana's I heard, and I dunno if it's just me, but the message I got from that song was one of seizing the day, enjoying and experiencing your life (and love) whilst you can - 'feet don't fail me now, take me to the finish line, oh my heart it breaks every step that they take' / 'don't make me sad. Don't make me cry... Keep making me laugh' / 'take a walk on the wild side' - because although everyone is 'born to die' it pains her to get older, and closer to death or the 'finish line,' which stands in stark contrast to romanticising death.
 
For me at least, the bulk of the lyrics you pulled out from each of the other songs don't pertain to the actual meanings of the songs as a whole. The use of the words relating to death: 'I'd die without you,' 'only worth living if somebody is loving you' etc. are figurative, imagery used as a means of expressing herself & as an allusion to something else, for the most part, the extent of love shehas for her man. Mortality is a recurring allusion but not to the extent that love (or even fame, power/submission, or nostalgia) is a motif through all of her work: she isn't, generally, singing about death. That's why I wouldn't call it a dominant theme.

Flipside is kind of lackluster.....Is This Happiness represents a lot in my opinion. 

Are they both perfect lyrically? No.

Does one evoke more emotion than the other? Yes.

When I saw the title of this thread my jaw literally dropped but I was so disappointed by her answers. Well, more so the Barrie ones. She somehow managed to completely beat around the bush on those and I still don't know whether or not they're together. She also seemed kind of pissy. But mad respect for the interviewer for asking her questions that he knew people actually wanted the answers to.