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Cruel World - 3 Shades of Cool - 9 Brooklyn Baby - 7 West Coast - 10 Sad Girl - 10 Pretty When You Cry - 6 Money Power Glory - 6 Fucked My Way Up to the Top - 5 Old Money - 5 The Other Woman - 1 Black Beauty - 5 Florida Kilos - 4 Is This Happiness - 5 Flipside - 5

Cruel World - 5 Ultraviolence - 3 (+) Shades of Cool - 6 Brooklyn Baby - 6 West Coast - 8 Sad Girl - 9 Pretty When You Cry - 6 Money Power Glory - 4 Fucked My Way Up to the Top - 5 Old Money - 6 The Other Woman - 5 Black Beauty - 6 Florida Kilos - 4 (-) Is This Happiness - 5 Flipside - 3

Cruel World - 6 Ultraviolence - 3 (+) Shades of Cool - 6 Brooklyn Baby - 7 West Coast - 8 Sad Girl - 8 Pretty When You Cry - 6 Money Power Glory - 3 Fucked My Way Up to the Top - 5 Old Money - 5 The Other Woman - 5 Black Beauty - 6 Florida Kilos - 3 (-) Is This Happiness - 5 Flipside - 5

Don't you dare come for Sad Girl or Ultraviolence. They're heavenly. Guns and Roses, I agree.

It's not a great song compared to the rest of UV.

Cruel World - 6 Ultraviolence - 3 Shades of Cool - 5 Brooklyn Baby - 7 West Coast - 8 (+) Sad Girl - 9 Pretty When You Cry - 6 Money Power Glory - 3 Fucked My Way Up to the Top - 5 Old Money - 5 The Other Woman - 5 Black Beauty - 6 Guns & Roses - 2 Florida Kilos - 1 (-) Is This Happiness - 5 Flipside - 5

Cruel World - 5 Ultraviolence - 5 Shades of Cool - 4 Brooklyn Baby - 7 West Coast - 6 Sad Girl - 3 Pretty When You Cry - 5 Money Power Glory - 4 Fucked My Way Up to the Top - 5 Old Money - 5 The Other Woman - 5 Black Beauty - 6 Guns & Roses - 6 Florida Kilos - 3 Is This Happiness - 5 Flipside - 6

I'd like to see her work with Parker again, but I think Nowels and Heath are great at materializing her vision. I don't think much would change with different co-writers. And I'd much rather that she stay in more alternative zones and make very cohesive albums than chase hits. Quality albums always stick around, but hits come and go.

I wouldn't expect the sound of BTD to make a return as Lana has expressed mild disapproval of the production because it wasn't 100% true to herself. Also, the next album could be more accessible to audiences but still be genuine for Lana...just look at how well Amy Winehouse's soul album was received or the work of The Black Keys. I think she and Ronson will create something along the lines of Jeff Buckley's Grace. I love the UV videos, but I agree about wanting more flashy videos. She can still project subtlety in a visually-beautiful manner.

The fake track lists coming early this time "Every Boy For Herself" killed me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_To_Watch_Boys_To So many blatant lies

I don't understand why I keep seeing all of this "Ultraviolence flopped" nonsense, particularly from insecure Gaga fans. Lana took a risk with a much less commercial sound and didn't promote the album and it still sold 1.2 million in six months. It was the third best-selling female album of 2014 despite the aforementioned factors working against it. BTD took a year to go gold and UV is almost there. On top of that, it's one of the most critically-acclaimed albums of the year. I mean, I'll take quality over quantity any day, and I usually listen to stuff that never sells, but it's ridiculous to say this album flopped. When do alternative albums with no big singles ever sell 1.2 million WW? Quality albums stick around for a while and I'm sure this one will continue to inherit the same kind of longevity that BTD has. Also: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718

So, jazz and divine are the beautiful and electric of this era?

It's there already.

I'm excited that she said she is changing things up lyrically. I've always said that I think she should maintain the same indie rock/dream pop sound of UV, but pair it with new lyric themes. The idea of a surrealist album that is Fellini-esque is extremely exciting. Although, I do think Lana's idea of classic jazz meets soft grunge will probably just end up being blues rock or something.

12. Trans-Am

Hit and Run "Don't take me home again, take me to a new land."

Let's not kid ourselves. It's coming in January 2016 at the earliest. I'm sort of hoping for The Endless Summer to be the title. Billie Holiday meets Jeff Buckley and produced by Mark Ronson with a couple of tracks by David Lynch. I would orgasm on the spot tbh

I thought it might be useful to dedicate one thread to the early tidbits of info we are getting about Lana'a up-coming fourth studio album. Here's what we have thus far: Interview for The Fader: I’m a big jazz aficionado. Hopefully my next foray will be into jazz. I feel like I’m getting there with songs like ‘Shades of Cool’ and ‘Cruel World’ and a cover of ‘The Other Woman’ by Nina Simone. I’m inching towards what I really love, which is kind of a Chet Baker, Nina Simone-inspired sound. It’s hard to get that sound because you need great jazz musicians. --- http://lizzydelgrant.tumblr.com/post/90085038067 Interviewer: You will record something tonight, do you know what it is, or right now? Lana: I do, yeah I do. I have this idea for this record called "Music to Watch Boys To," so. Yeah, I'm just kind of thinking about that and what that would mean [laughs]. --- Interview for Galore Magazine: Are you working on anything new? Yeah, I just wrote two songs for Tim Burton and Harvey Weinstein’s film called Big Eyes and I’m working on a new record. I’m also always writing small pieces for independent films etc. Dan Heath and Rick Nowels are two of my dearest friends and producers and we are always up to something. --- Interview for Grazia Magazine What is your state of mind now? I’m afraid this album will be forgotten. I’m always afraid good things will be forgotten, burried. Musically, I’m still looking for something different, with majestic choruses, beautiful orchestrations, a type of 50s vibe with a bit of soft grunge. Since march, I’ve been writing a lot of new songs, in a more conventional way -the verses, then the refrain, with a strong jazzy influence. I’m having a lot of fun with all of that. And next year, I’ll tour across the USA. I’ve been doing it only once before and I was really moved, especially in Detroit where I could feel the weight of its History. So, that’s why I decided I wanted to do it again, this time with my friend Courtney Love, for two months. My new album will come out after, maybe for late-august. Did you writing style change for this next record? My lyrics are very similar to me, who I truly am, but I must admit that I’m currently trying to do some new things. It’s a bit surrealist, full of colors. I feel much more inspired by people like Mark Ryden, Fellini or Picasso… Oh, I’m totally fond of this documentary: “Fellini : I’m a Born Liar”, which explains that the film-maker was in love with his hometown, and each of his movies is like one of its facets. I like his idea, the fact that truth should never impede to a beautiful lie… (she smiles) You seem to like evoking the 50s imagery in your songs: the golden age of recording studios, ladies singing late at night with their big band… Yeah, I love it. I love nightlife, the mood that comes from it. That’s why I wanted to meet Mark Ronson: I played him ten songs I just composed for this next album. Not so much that he added his usual signature, soul and funk, but rather it explores a sound close to the golden age of jazz. I wasn’t even born in the 50s but I feel like I was there. And when I still was living in New York, I was looking for this dream, maybe some other girls had the same, to live as a singer in a jazz club where I could sing some standards, but my own compositions too. I had a very ‘romantic’ vision of what a singer’s life should be. I daydreamed about tours in Europe, just like Chet Baker did, for example. --- Billboard Magazine: Lana Del Rey has nine songs written for her next album, titled Honeymoon -- four of which "the production is perfect; I'm looking for a few more songs to tie everything together" -- and thanks to her cinematic new song, she's also in the thick of awards season. Does the Big Eyes song give us any indication of how the new album will sound? It's very different from the last one and similar to the first two, Born to Die and Paradise. I finished my last one [Ultraviolence] in March and released it in June and I had a follow-up idea. It's growing into something I really like. I'm kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It's been good. You're still writing everything? I'm doing a cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood." After doing a cover of [Jessie Mae Robinson's] "The Other Woman," I like summarizing the record with a jazz song. I'm having fun with my interpretation. I assume you're relying on the Nina Simone versions? "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" and "The Other Woman" are my favorites. I'm so so much [a fan]. --- Mark Ronson for Triple J: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s4174087.htm Says that he rumors of his involvement with Honeymoon are an "internet thing," but says he has heard "beautiful tracks" and does not want to comment on anything before Lana does. However, he says that he has not worked on anything (yet?) --- The Inquirer: " I feel that the three records were so heavy and autobiographical. It’s been so cathartic. I like to use my previous work as a jump-off point to do something new. I’m ready to go into more of a ‘Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds’ surrealist place. That’s why I really do like what I heard about Fellini and all of the movies that were overdubbed and the actors were counting and not saying lines. I couldn’t believe that. --- Inrockuptibles: "Everybody has asked why I wanted to end Ultraviolence by a cover of The Other Woman by Nina Simone. Because she says everything, because I love jazz and may be because it could a door for what could be the next album." --- Mark Ronson for Interview Magazine: "Q-TIP: What are you doing in L.A.? Mark RONSON: I'm going to do some recording with Lana Del Rey today and tomorrow. I found this cool old studio out here. Q-TIP: Are you producing? RONSON: I don't know. She has some songs and I said I had some demo ideas, and if they are any good, then maybe she'll like them and we'll go from there. " --- On Instagram: --- Video from tour saying that the record will be released in September: https://twitter.com/LanaDeIReyDaily/status/602515526649163776 --- Honeymoon lyrics found in tour merch: http://www.nme.com/news/lana-del-rey/85451?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lanadelrey

I think Lana has definitely become disenchanted with fame after seeing its dark side, but you'd have to be fooling yourself to think she didn't initially want it. Homegirl was obsessed with pop culture and celebria before making it big.

Jazzy rock with surrealist lyrics produced by Mark Ronson This woman is really solidifying her place as a music legend with this discography of hers.

Serving Madchen Amick from Twin Peaks realness.

People will call her inauthentic, but she's always been a musical chameleon, incorporating different genres and fusing then together effortlessly. Producers come and go, but her vision remains. I'm extremely excited for her to explore classic jazz like she had hinted before when explaining why she ended UV with the Nina Simone cover. I'm glad she will be mixing it in with a bit of rock as well...could be quite stunning, especially with Ronson producing. I hope he will be the major producer for this album like Kahne, Haynie, Auerbach.

That's all I would think about.

Nah, I think you're in the majority. It's an incredible album and the one she truly wanted to make. It also earned her a lot of respect that she was lacking. I like the idea of letting the music speak for itself, but I really wish that she had done more with the album...at least visually. Maybe the next era will combine quality, simplicity, and beautiful visuals?