Poison Ivy

I agree! But I think that UV and WC are actually very lyrically complex... SOC is not...

I feel like all the three songs I've heard are about the same thing and it's really boring to me. I'm aware a lot of BTD was about love too, but it was lyrically deeper and I was a newer fan back then anyway, if she never had AKA/the unreleased tracks I would've gotten over it with btd alone. I want to hear more songs in the same vein as Ride, Carmen, Disco, Jump, Bad Disease etc - she really has the capability to explore such deep subjects, I'd hate if she was forever stuck on 'I really love that guy man, I really do' . I guess it just got to me because all I heard on Ultraviolence so far was this, it's not like I mind her love songs or anything - a lot of my favorites are technically love songs but also more lyrically complex. I'm sure she'll have all types of songs on UV tho

Better than Shades of Cool, but not as ~free~ sounding as West Coast.

I've seen her 3 times now and all 3 experiences have been the worst concerts I've ever been to, due to the psychotic crowds. I hate it. I love Lana but I just can't deal with this. Maybe it's the shows I've went to (all in Chicago)? My next Lana shows will be in Austin, Texas, so maybe the people there will be better. Not sure... guess I'll find out. I've heard southern concerts are a bit more relaxed. 

I think it's her aesthetic honestly

I would love to go to see Lana live but I just know I'd be trampled being only 5'3. I've been reading a lot of peoples Lana concert experiences and it honestly seems like her crowds are crazier than the damn metal concert I went to last year and even that wasn't ideal. 
 
 

Legit Bowie of the 21st century
 
 
This is what makes us girls
We don't stick together 'cause we put SJWing first

you're welcome!! i've been kind of AWOL from the forum and i'm happy to be able to contribute ♥

AT LAST!!! it took me a little longer than I expected .
Here's my translation:
 
XLWeekly. Ultraviolence is your third album. What mood does it reflect?
Lana del Rey. A sexy state of mind, something unusual for me [laughs]. It's also a free record. I recorded it in six weeks. It was really fun. Before that, it was all very difficult.
XL. Do you mean your sudden success?
L.R. Yes. Even though a lot of people bought my previous album, I knew almost nobody liked it. There were those who wrote that it was horrible, even harmful.
XL. Did you feel mistreated by the press?
L.R. I was given a bad reputation [laughs].
XL. And you didn't deserve it?
L.R. Why would I deserve it? I'm a good girl.
XL. You're accused of being a prefabricated star...
L.R. Authenticity is overrated. «She's authentic!». So what? How boring! Plus, I write and produce all my songs!
XL. In that you are right. Dozens of stars don't write what they sing and no one questions their authenticity...
L.R. Exactly. I was invisible for seven years. Not a single label was interested in me. There was no place for an operatic singer during a time in which only rap and pop were selling in the United States. Not even rock was alive.
XL. And, in 2011, Videogames suddenly puts you on the map...
L.R. Three years ago, I became visible and people started to wonder: «Where did she come from?». There were several blank pages in my history and a lot of room to make things up. In the end, the truth is what is written about you, the journalistic word. It's always been that way. Headlines dictate the stars' trajectory.
XL. You are either hated or loved. Why do you think that is?
L.R. Maybe my messages are confusing. I don't make pop, my creative process is more psychological. When people started to listen, I had already been writing for ten years and had a very deep psychological universe.
XL. You've even been called an anti-feminist...
L.R. Yes, there were some who believed I was conveying a harmful messahe to women, but I was talking about my feelings. I have a wonderful relationship with men. Masculine energy is a great inspiration to me.
XL. It appears that without a certain dose of controversy it is hard to succeed...
L.R. I don't know. But there are people that provoke it, that are screaming for it. I didn't seek it out.
XL. It's also been said that you've undergone some aesthetic touch-ups. Does that bother you?
L.R. Of course it bothers me! [laughs]. What I enjoy is seeming chameleon-like, but I can't stand lies.
XL. The impression is that your “retro” style is almost a reaction to the hypersexual look of other stars, such as Miley Cyrus, Rihanna or Lady Gaga. Is that so?
L.R. It's not a declaration of intent towards what other singers represent. It's my natural style. Although, if I'm honest, there have been a few times when I've thought: «I'm gonna button up» [laughs]. It's just a manifestation of my origins. My family is very traditional.
XL. What were you searching for when you got into this business?
L.R. I was looking for an artistic community like Dylan's, Joan Baez's or Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg's beat generation...in the sixties, where they spent their nights writing novels or folk songs. I also sought respect as a writer within that community. And, truthfully, I found neither.
XL. What did you find?
L.R. If I'm honest: nothing. Ever since I've been visible, nothing is really clear in my life. When the road becomes clear, a new obstacle overshadows it. I've had many ups and downs.
XL. As you tell it, it seems like it's been a tough process. Have you ever thought of leaving it all behind?
L.R. All the time. Life is short. Being amongst people that don't get you is not pleasant. .
XL. You admit that you don't really like acting. Why?
L.R. In the studio, with my producer, it's almost like a romantic relationship, we have a natural chemistry. But when you don't know your audience, you can't trust that they'll accept you if you lose your balance and fall or if you're off key. Now I know that that, too, is part of the show and I'm beginning to enjoy it.
XL. What differences are there between Lizzy and Lana?
L.R. None. I changed my name to show others how I was on the inside. Because, when you're born, you're given a name, a geographic location and maybe even dictated what your profession will be. And I don't want to respond to an archetype.
XL. By the way, why such a hispanic artistic name?
L.R. I have a lot of affinity with hispanic culture. I love its exoticism and passion. And I love the name Lana, it seems to roll off the tongue.
XL. When you were little, you wanted to be a poet. What kind of a child were you?
L.R. I was imaginative, I had a strong inner dialogue, I was traditional and too precocious. When I was ten years old, I already thought I was an adult. My friends were my parents' friends, I thought I was one of them. And I loved to write.
XL. At 15, you were sent to boarding school. Did that leave a mark?
L.R. Perhaps...I barely remember those days. For me, life started when I left for New York at 18. What happened before is buried in the mist. I didn't like boarding school, I didn't talk to anyone. I was in the choir, I wanted to sing with all my heart and didn't know how.
XL. What matters more in this industry: talent, marketing or luck?
L.R. For most people it's, above all, a matter of marketing. For me, it was persistence. It was my dream.
XL. And nobody has tried to drag you in the other direction?
L.R. Sometimes. I make the record by myself, I give it to the company and they come back saying: «There aren't any singles!». And I tell them: «I know!» [laughs]. You have to be very strong. But I always end up winning.
XL. Have you always had this much confidence in yourself?
L.R. As a person, yes; musically, no. When I was 20, a famous producer noticed me after no record labels liked what I was doing. I realized I would not be understood as an artist, but also that there were people who would be interested in what I did. That's all I need.
XL. You've worked with marginalized people since you were a teenager. What has that experience taught you?
L.R. Do you know the expression “a tiger can't change its stripes”? Well, people can change their stripes and even become dragons. I've seen how people without hope have managed to transform themselves and serve as an inspiration to others.
XL. You studied Metaphysics in college. Where did that interest come from?
L.R. When I was 11 years old I realized that we were all going to die...and that distressed me deeply. The concepts of infinity and eternity also tortured me. In boarding school, I signed up for Metaphysics classes. It was the first subject, apart from Literature, that I was truly interested in. For the first time I felt in good company. Although the ancient philosophers had been gone for centuries.
XL. You've spoken of a divine plan, what do you mean?
L.R. Before, I used to design my path and always ended up frustrated. I stopped trying and accepted that life works according to its own rules. As soon as I did, everything started to fall into place. If, for example, somebody recommended a book to me, someone on the bus left it, forgotten, on the seat beside me. Things like that.
XL. Signs?
L.R. Synchronicites. It's been said that coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: «I don't want anything. I'm going to let things happen».
XL. It requires a lot of self-control, doesn't it?
L.R. It's patience. Like letting the lyrics come to me. Sometimes it's painful, but it's the only way. I feel that my path was revealed to me, but I needed to be an empty vessel for it to happen. Like an electrical conduit. Electricity does not go through you if you're blocked.
XL. Your music is very melancholy...are you, too?
L.R. I make an effort to be happy...and I have been. I'm a loner.
XL. And where do you seek tranquility in the midst of the noise that surrounds a star?
L.R. I haven't been calm for quite a while now. My personal life is crazy and my career is full of ups and downs. But it can't be worse than it was [laughs]. It can only get better.
 
Super-private.
1. Born in New York in 1986, she is the daughter of an Internet 'marketing' expert.
2. At 15, her parents sent her to Boarding School to overcome an addiction to alcohol. «A big part of what I wrote about in my Born to Die record talks about those years».
3. In 2010 she released her first album, Lana del Ray a.k.a. Lizzy Grant. Soon after, she requested her label to withdraw it from the market. She wasn't satisfied with the result.
4. Singer Barrie-James O'Neill, with whom she recorded a Nancy Sinatra cover, is her fiancé.
5. On her left hand she has an 'M' tatooed, for her grandmother Madeleine, and the word 'paradise'. On her right, the motto «Trust no one». And on her right ring finger, «Die young».

This random girl at a party I went to was talking to me about Lana's cultural appropriation and I just sat there like 

"I'm a good girl"
 
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT I'M A GOOD GIRL
OFFICER/NO, I WOULDN'T DO A THING LIKE THAT, THAT'S FOR SURE
 
 
and btw, the article is in Spanish, not Italian. I could probably translate it but you'd have to give me a week or so because I have exams atm

Super big thank you to @@ednafrau for translating the interview!
 
 
Source

Where did you even pick up annoyed from 
Said it was awkward, which it was
You don't offload stuff like that randomly on people who don't know you regardless of if they're a celebrity 
Was rly awkward and you could tell by the way she pushed past that bit that she was too

I was at the same show, but I arrived after the doors opened (I had to work before the concert). As soon as I walked into the theater, the security guy was on stage talking about how concerned he was re: people passing out & not moving in the crowd.

While I would normally do my best to get as close as possible (while respecting the other attendees around me), I glanced around at the audience & decided to just stand back by the sound area instead. The crowd was pretty nauseating -- there were a few teenage girls taking selfies in the middle of Lana's set, a few other teenage girls were basically twerking & dancing on each other when 'Ride' was being performed, etc.
 
I had a nice time because Lana was much better live than I expected her to be, the band was wonderful, & Lana seemed sweet as usual, with plenty of kind words for Seattle. That said, I don't think I'll be going to see her live again if her concert demographic remains the same.
 
I'm a 23 y/o guy, too, just for context, but I was sad to find out that the horror stories regarding Lana's audiences at her concerts were true. A bunch of really obnoxious, mean, & self-absorbed Tumblr-lite teenagers who seem to suck any meaning or depth out of Lana's music & performance. I secretly hope Lana loses them with 'Ultraviolence'... 

I wonder what attracts these stupid kids to Lana, it's bizarre to me. 

hmmm Methamphetamines probably takes the cake. Bad Disease, Living Without You, In Wendy, C U L8R Alligator a bit more like sad that she's that way, Elvis, Pawn Shop Blues, Yayo maybe, Get Drunk, Disco, Brite Lites sort of, Jump depending how you look at it 

I wonder what attracts these stupid kids to Lana, it's bizarre to me. 

Anything that is popular in tumblr, they need to get on it fast

I wonder what attracts these stupid kids to Lana, it's bizarre to me. 

Unfortunately, that's the sad conclusion I've come to after the two concert experiences I had.

So I was at the Seattle show yesterday on the 27th, and I thought I'd share my experience just to give other people some insight into what they are really getting themselves into at these shows.
 
We showed up at 6am outside the venue and there were already a few people waiting. By 8am, there was a full line that had formed, and the venue staff gave us raffle tickets for being the early birds that guaranteed us first entry into the show, which was really nice. I was in a group of four— myself, my brother, my friend, and my brother's girlfriend. We hung out all day at the show and would leave in groups of two for food and bathroom breaks. By 10am there was a line around the building, and by noon they had herded the line into winding gates, and later formed more lines on the opposite side of the venue doors. By the afternoon it was a zoo there, and one lady told me about an hour or so before the doors opened that the line on our side had extended into three levels of the parking garage across the street. There were A LOT of people there.
 
As far as the tickets went, myself, my brother and his girlfriend all had will-call through Adventures in Wonderland, and my friend had gotten hers through the Ticketmaster presale. The staff kept telling everybody it was a paperless event and that you needed your credit card only to get inside, but they failed to acknowledge the fact that a lot of us had the AIW tickets which were made available to us around 2pm at the box office. Anyway, the AIW tickets were totally valid. Our line got first entry as promised when the doors opened at 6:30pm, and everyone of course ran to the stage against the staff's command. My friend had a hurt knee so we walked as fast as we could and were still able to get a spot up against the barricade. About 20 minutes later we were given the okay to stand, and then shit really got insane. My brother and I secured spots at the barricade and had the two girls in front of us with our arms extended around them so that they wouldn't get crushed against the barricade. 
 
I'm going to be honest here— the majority of the crowd was extremely rude. "Feral teenage girls" is the only way I can describe it. Fortunately my brother and I are both over 6 feet tall and weight 200 pounds each, so we were able to hold our ground, but it was a nonstop struggle from the time we stood until the end of the show. It honestly was the worst during the opening act— SO much pushing and shoving. There was a group of girls behind me who were physically assaulting me the entire show— hitting me, pinching my ribcage, kicking the backs of my knees, scratching me, pulling at my hair— it was ridiculous. One girl who looked like she was sixteen told me she was going to stab me if I didn't move. I of course didn't move, and she of course didn't stab me. One girl poured water on me. My point is, people are INSANE at these shows. My friend in Chicago warned me about it and I took her warning lightly, but now that I experienced the show, I cannot imagine being under 5'5" and lasting long on the floor. There were at least 20 girls who I saw get pulled over the barricade and taken out by security; some of them were stone cold passed out, and at one point during the show, cops came in and were arresting people. 
 
The large group of girls behind me who were attacking me the whole time did not seem to understand that I was physically pressed against a metal fence with a 5 foot tall person in front of me whom I was trying to protect from getting crushed— they still thought they were entitled and should have been allowed to be where I was standing. Before Lana came on, after the opening act, a security guard told all the guys in the front (myself included) to put our arms out against the bar on the barricade and push our bodies back to keep the girls in front of us safe, which I had to do multiple times throughout the show, and every time I did it all of the girls behind me screamed and acted like I was abusing them. Several of them tried to tell the security to kick us out for pushing back against them, but there was literally no other option— these girls did not seem to understand that our bodies were up against steel and that we were NOT going to move any further. One girl gave me a lot of trouble (the one who was pinching my rib cage) and she kept wedging her arm in-between mine and the guy's next to me on the barricade, and I told her repeatedly to get her arm out because when a pushing wave came she was going to end up with a broken arm, but she refused to listen to me. 
 
Luckily, I had a really nice Australian guy to my right who was protecting his girlfriend against the barricade, and to the right of us was a French female college student from Paris who was super friendly and had seen Lana before in Paris last year. I felt bad for her because she was against the barricade as well and people were pushing on her the entire time and she was fighting back. 
 
Honestly though, the crowds— mainly teenage girls in flower crowns— need to CHILL out. I waited in line for 14 hours and we EARNED our spot against that barricade. Honestly I felt like 80% of the crowd were a bunch of spoiled high school girls who had gotten tickets through their parents, and they had absolutely no respect for anybody and were horribly entitled. One girl who was attacking me informed me she "knew more of Lana's songs than I did," and that I shouldn't even have been there— goes to show the maturity level/age group of these girls. I'm glad I was able to give them a wake-up call that they can't always get their way, especially when they are going to try to cheat their way to the front and threaten and hurt people to do so. As I said, I had the benefit of being a big guy who could easily handle their attempts at destabilizing me, but it was disturbing how aggressive and pissed off they were. When the show ended, the security guard near us came up to the barricade and gave me a thumbs up and told me I did the right thing by pushing back and holding my ground to protect my friend in front of me, and all of the girls who had spent three and a half hours mauling me scoffed and were appalled. It was a nice affirmation.
 
As far as Lana's show goes, it was of course incredible. She came down to the barricade and took pictures with fans midway through the set, but stopped and turned around literally FEET before us unfortunately. I got some great photos though and did my best to enjoy the music. 
 
But, yeah, the show was as insane as I was warned it would be. Worse than punk shows. I've seen Hole live before and the crowd was tamer than this. What it comes down to is that the majority of the crowd was immature, selfish, and incredibly mean-spirited. Beware of that. Unless of course you ARE one of these people, in which case all I have to say to you is: GROW UP.
 
Also: make sure you are hydrated and have eaten something, even if it's light. A lot of these girls were passing out as I said and many of them were pulled over the barricade because they couldn't handle it. One of my friends from college was there on the opposite side with three of her friends, and she told me that two of her friends collapsed one had a panic attack and had to be taken out. I guess my point is, yes, these shows ARE as crazy as people are saying they are, and this is coming from a 23 year old male who has gone to multiple punk and rock shows before and been in moshpits. BE PREPARED PLEASE.

My username is becoming more relevant  I think I prefer Ultraviolence over Shades of Cool lyrically, some parts are really good. 

Also on iTunes

My baby lives in shades of blue
Blue eyes and jazz and attitude
He lives in California too
He drives a Chevy Malibu
 
And when he calls, he calls for me, not for you
He lives for love, he loves his drugs, he loves his baby too
 
But I can't fix him, can't make him better, and I can't do nothing about his strange weather
But you are invincible, I can't break through your world
Cuz you're living shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable
 
My baby lives in shades of cool, heart and hands and aptitude
He lives for love, for women too, I'm on of many on his ____
 
And when he calls, he calls for me, not for you
He prays for love, he prays for peace, and maybe someone new
 
But I can't help him, can't make him better, and I can't do nothing about his strange weather
But you are invincible, I can't break through your world
Cuz you're living shades of cool, your heart is unbreakable
 
(The bridge is fucking inaudible)

this is going to sound so good
 
http://youtu.be/PW99k4xPMek
 
So did she just reuse unused clips from the West Coast video shoot, or did she shoot several vids in one go
 
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=744563305586122&set=vb.117713628271096&type=2&theater