DeadAgainst

Unpopular opinion: This guy took so many fucking drugs that he actually managed to pierce the veil enough to discern some part of the "deep psychological universe" underlying Lana's work.
 
Don't do drugs, kids. There are safer methods that won't leave you completely mindbroken.

Unpopular opinion: This guy took so many fucking drugs that he actually managed to pierce the veil enough to discern some part of the "deep psychological universe" underlying Lana's work.
 
Don't do drugs, kids. There are safer methods that won't leave you completely mindbroken.

probably not an unpopular opinion, but
 
it bothers me how literally female artist who does anything slightly alternative is automatically said to have “lana del rey vibes”, like, do the people who say this even listen to lana? some random girl making a rock song with electric guitars doesn’t automatically make her a “lana del rey vibe”
but i don’t mean this as any shade towards alternative female singers, it’s just bothersome to me that people can’t think of anything else to say besides “lana del rey vibes” just because a female artist isn’t making bubblegum pop
 
also, semi-related, it bugs me a lot to see people in the comment sections of mazzy star videos hate on lana del rey and accuse her of copying them, it’s so inaccurate, i do not understand the comparison at all, they are barely alike! and i gurantee you that if lana really did take inspiration from mazzy star/hope sandoval, she would be open about it, like she is with all of the artist she’s inspired by…

They're 100% youtube rips. Choose to believe it or not. There are several vinyl quality checking websites that commented on those 3 songs having very low quality. They are not fans or anything,they do not know why these songs are low quality. At the end, they didn't consider those 3 songs while rating the overall vinyl quality.
 
One example: https://magicvinyldigital.net/2021/11/13/lana-del-rey-blue-banisters-review-vinyl-streaming-amazon-music-qobuz/
Here it shows 3 tracks are lower quality in streaming services and also in vinyl.
 
"As can also be seen in the spectrograms below, tracks 12, 13 and 14 have a cutoff frequency of about 16 kHz (white arrow). This cutoff is abrupt, suggesting the use of a 32 kHz sampling frequency or a hard filter beyond 16 kHz." "*The tracks with a bandwidth limited to 16 kHz are not included in the overall score."

Because we have the original WAV versions and they're better quality than the YouTube rips (better frequency spectrum).

the problem wasn't that they were included, people were mad because she used youtube rips and not actual masters. they should have been reproduced/finalised like Thunder, which people wasn't mad at and enjoyed the inclusion of with the new production. three 2013 songs ripped from youtube and thrown on the album is lazy. but this is definitely a different topic than what we were talking about anyways

I don't think she ever really changed. Born to Die was more about remembering the times when she was a rebel. She's far more open about it now; in the Banisters livestream she's going full crystal child. I think she views people like Jesus more as animus archetypes, being the "big studier of Carl Jung" that she is.
 
Lost but now I am found = Reference to "Amazing Grace" and finding God
"Bel Air" = Spiritual rebirth (the being "found") and asking others to follow the same path
 
The tracks in between are more about going from lost to found, summed up in Tropico. She said Ultraviolence was a "spiritual" album.
 
2013: 
 
 

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

this might be an unpopular opinion here but when u think about it, a lot of Lana's music is a reflection and pondering of being/ existing. there's definitely a lot to do to entertain oneself but we all know she's got a hunger for trying to understand more of the philosophical and metaphysical questions.

these days, the existence and practicing of wonder is honestly kinda dwindling w the age of tech. u might go to a retreat, or a spa find a moment of enlightenment to figure things out but a church can be a more accepting place where not having the answer is alright. sure a lot can get convoluted but if she centers herself, that can be a powerful thing that she might take time to better interpret for herself. who knows really 

I don't think she ever really changed. Born to Die was more about remembering the times when she was a rebel. She's far more open about it now; in the Banisters livestream she's going full crystal child. I think she views people like Jesus more as animus archetypes, being the "big studier of Carl Jung" that she is.
 
Lost but now I am found = Reference to "Amazing Grace" and finding God
"Bel Air" = Spiritual rebirth (the being "found") and asking others to follow the same path
 
The tracks in between are more about going from lost to found, summed up in Tropico. She said Ultraviolence was a "spiritual" album.
 
2013: 
 
 

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

also, religion, spirituality, and/or a belief in a god or higher force can be a very complex, complicated thing which is unique to every individual, just because somebody sings about “rebellious” things doesn’t make them inherently anti-spiritual/religionless

jesus is my boyfriend jesus is my boyfriend he’s my personal savior he’s my personal angel   

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

She writes and sings about God on every album in some way, mostly in the affirmative/positive. That didn’t happen by accident. 
 
Even MAC on NFR! refers to Jesus, who “stilled the waters” according to the Bible. 
 
That doesn’t mean she’s ‘born again,’ but she might be in her heart, who knows? 

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

2005: First, I say my prayer, then I'm all right
I sit in my chair, you dim the light
When I look, I stare with inner a-sight
 
2006: "Pawn Shop Blues," 'nuff said
 
~2012: Is it by mistake or design
 
 
2011: https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/8657-lana-del-rey/
 
 
2018: https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
Spiritual, but not "holy roller" religious. She mentions Kundalini yoga in Violet. Her attraction to Churchome seems more to be because it's a communal activity she can do with her friends.
 
And it's possible, just as Jesus is her bestest friend, some of her other songs may be indirectly referencing things in that direction. "There's so much wholesomeness there to be discovered if people looked at it from a wholesome lens."

Well, the song 'Born to Die' starts with the spiritual (in the sense of spiritual music) line 'Feet don't fail me now'. And Off To the Races includes
Not even to start with things like 'I Talk To Jesus' and all the cult references in Ultraviolence, as well as the Garden of Eden being the central metaphor of the Tropico movie. She's been on about religion for a long long time.

(Nothing about Lana's metaphysics, as portrayed in her work, is underdeveloped. You would have to dive deep into such subjects as Neoplatonism to know that stuff. What she said about her metaphysics in 2012-13 was.)
 
 
An aside—I stumbled on this nine-year-old thread and everyone was totally convinced that Lana was a complete moron, lol. She really was trying to play dumb on the metaphysics stuff as part of some weird persona that went completely out of her control. Even a decade later, people still think she's a nihilist as depicted in Ride, even though Tropico and any of her interviews in the following years would prove that wrong—"die young" was meant in a mystical sense. Like, everyone knows she’s hiding something, but WTF is it? It’s not that Interscope is writing everything, and she’s had ten years to prove that. She just wants to completely obfuscate that there’s more to Born to Die than a bunch of pop songs; it’s more like culture-jamming.
 
 
(Note how Lana always says that she wants nothing to do with the "culture"—she regards herself as a foreign invader, a chameleon, who has to play to their tastes—"I know you like the bad girls"—but badly overshot the target in 2012. I recall in one old interview, she calls herself an "introvert" and then quickly walks the statement back when she realizes it would make her sound abnormal. 2012 Lana would never say the crazy shit that 2021 Lana says, even if their beliefs haven't changed.)
 
 
 
Which brings us back to the "Love" video—Lana's modern manifesto, with a knowing wink. Lady Stardust teaches the kids how to become Star Children and finally venture into space. Lana takes the place of the Monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey, which "seems to represent and even trigger epic transitions in the history of human evolution." Laying all the cards on the table. (And somehow predicting Elon Musk launching his own car into space the following year.)
 
https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story
 
 
What about all these children and all their children's children?
And why am I even wonderin' that today?
Maybe my contribution could be as small as hopin'
That words could turn to birds
And birds would send my thoughts your way
I'd trade it all for a stairway to heaven
 
"I believe words are sacred." The dream that they had In the one nine sixties.
 
 

I'm sorry if this has already been posted but I've found the whole translation of the interview on this blog on Tumblr and wanted to share it with you guys.
 
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Lana Del Rey, American icon, seems to be tired of her vintage looks of pin-up dolls from the 50s. This ultra-feminine vibe that you can feel through her album covers. For the very first photoshoot of a huge promotion to come, she doesn’t want to seem very arty and wears clothes from her own wardrobe, from some local vintage shops. We’re back in the 60s/70s, retro vibe, more like Janis Joplin than Patti Smith…
“I have seen so many photographs of me that made me feel uncomfortable. It was too much. But the medias wanted that,” she says, while crossing her big fake red nails.
Cigarette in her hand and iPhone on, playing some reggae music, she says she prefers working with a loyal team. She’s herself very surprised to work with a very new director, the famous Dan Auerbach, leader of the Black Keys.
“I met him in a strip club in Queens. They played one of my song, we danced together. One week later, I went recording some songs with him, in his house in Nashville. Dan is stubborn, a dominant man who likes testing his own ideas first. In fact, it usually sounded exactly like I wanted to. About me, if I am a dominant person? Yes, but only when it’s about my work.”
She is special when she talks, she reminds me of Marilyn – she even tried to imitate her in an old homemade video, Kill Kill.
She tries to find the right words, takes her time, stops the conversation with big peals of laughter. It’s a mix of shyness, apprehension and peace.
Three years after the storm – that sudden recognition, we all were wondering how she was going to face up to the upcoming wave… Except about her look, it will be a big chance because it’s never too late to star a revolution. The hip-hop beats of Born To Die, its strings and legendar violins are gone… Guitars, rock ‘n’ roll and soft jazzy vibes –Ultraviolence is here. Her favourite track is Cruel World, which is about virulent love.
“Ultraviolence is about the male that meets the female. But before the actual sense, I just like the word. It has become the space of a sonorous world that I wanted to make.”
In the record, Lana Del Rey sings about enjoying life and re-becoming wild with the fear of not succeeding.
“When I write, I think about the freedom I had when I was 17, about the life that makes me dream, too. My main influences? The music I listen to and the movies I watch.”
She quotes Jeff Buckley, Nirvana, Nina Simone and adores Kubrick, Tarantino and Lynch.
A cigarette between her lips, Lana Del Rey looks at the landscape and turns her back to a pond full of Chinese carps, all white and orange. Not far away, there’s a beige Rolls waiting to drive, in the garage.
“I do interviews and photoshoots, but I live in real world, I’m solitary. Here, it’s all about me but at home it’s all about my little brother, my little sister and James, my fiancé.”
Lana Del Rey is getting to Los Angeles where she lives now, after living in Lake Placid, her hometown near NYC. She’s the oldest child, and that makes her quite maternal. People used to say that her father was rich, he’s a realtor.
“They pretended he bought my career. But all the labels don’t need money, they want artists. Those attacks were the weakest.”
Unprofessional singer for 7 years, she used to hang out in Brooklyn. She has always talked about her old alcoholism and the way she got over all of this.
Her voice was everywhere in 2011 – the impact of Video Games. Then, everyone was imagining her as a diva, a huge performer. In fact, we all found out who she was – a shy girl. We ask her “Do you enjoy being on stage?”.
She replies “Sometimes…” only, she admits.
Lana Del Rey is unusual, she doesn’t read anything that is about her, “Too mean,” she says, she even avoids social networks.
“I’m still stuck in two worlds whenever I have to talk about fame. In the US, you never see me on TV, I don’t know any famous celebrity and I’m not often outside. In my house, everything is always on – television, radio, lights… It helps me to sleep. I’m nervous every time I have to sleep… What I love? Driving. It relaxes me.”
An aura, sometimes naive and sensual, even sexual, emerges whenever you see her.
“You are sure about what you should reveal, especially when you are an artist. I’m coming from a simple family, quite quiet. I need to feel the situations and manage everything that’s around me. If you say too much, people might misundestand you. And if you stay quiet, they might imagine what they want to.”
She almost stopped everything, so many times, but she decided to stay, while some big celebrities run the music industry, like Lorde, Grimes or Miley Cyrus. The Young country girl, superstar, covers Summertime Sadness on stage.
“I know about it. It surprised me. We are so different. She is bigger than life, without any limit. The main difference between us is probably that I’ve never wanted to do any provocation because I know the risks. I’m quite confused. It disrupted me.”
Lana Del Rey feels like she has lived three different lives, “before the storm, the disaster and after”.
Irony, obviously… But then, she says, in a serious way “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Personally it just deeply hurt me. I’m so tired of it. Luckly, when I write, I don’t think about what people are going to think about my work. I just hope all of this won’t happen again.
Have you already read something good about me? In France, maybe. All the journalists tried to understand what I was doing. Maybe because here, you have a real artistic and romantic culture. I feel understood in your country. In some other contries, what they write isn’t even about my music. I don’t even know why… But that’s life.”
She’s standing here, wearing her torn jeans. Lana Del Rey has understood that she is in conflict… Hopefully, the controversy is going to stop with Ultraviolence, the 3rd Chapter of her career.
“It sounds like everything I listen to. Phil Spector has been one of my inspirations, honestly. The album has a Californian influence… With different effects and progressions, with a tough energy which makes me think of New York”.
Ultraviolence, Interscope-Polydor, end of June.

Confirming two masters. I actually prefer the original; the new one just sounds like they ran some filter over it and sounds muffled. I just throw the Qobuz tracks together with the unmastered leaked tracks and the unmastered Arcadia from the Alternate Video and then only Carolina is left with any significant clipping.
 
I noticed on The Other Woman early version, her voice clips all over it, presumably to create some sort of vintage 78 effect.
 
 
From Lanapedia—I'm starting to wonder if she did it herself on purpose and they had to scramble to fix it later. Someone ask her about it on the next livestream.