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For an old fart like me who listens to classic rock, it's obvious to the point of being almost not worth mentioning, but for those of you who are younger (basically everyone), "I'm talking 'bout my generation" is a reference to this song by The Who: Also, I love the line "I get high on hydroponic weed". Too bad it comes directly after "I've got feathers in my hair." (Why not go with "flowers"?) #YetAnotherCulturalAppropriationThread

I'm not sure whether it's publicly registered anywhere, but it's definitely older, so I wouldn't be surprised if there's paperwork on it somewhere listing her as Lizzy Grant. That's why I'm not surprised to see it listed this way now that she's borrowing from it.

A few of my quick thoughts on the snippets: I love "Shades of Cool", but "Sad Girl" sounds fucking amazing! Yep. The chord progression in MPG sounds a lot more like that Byron clip to me than CW. The "lay me down tonight" parts in FMWUTTT are just beautiful. I'm a little to surprised to find that "Old Money" is borrowed from "Methamphetamines" considering the co-write with Robbie Fitzsimmons. BTW, great catch @@Rebel identifying the Nino Rota work that both "Methamphetamines" and "Old Money" borrow from. Is that the same vocal take used for BB? Instrumentally, "Florida Kilos" sounds like a cousin of "Brooklyn Baby". My thoughts on a few other things: Not true actually. You are not allowed to post direct download links here, but if it leaks somewhere else you're allowed to talk about it here and say where it leaked. Those are just basic free speech rights on the internet that should be protected against any kind of label pressure. However, I would caution anyone against leaking it yourself elsewhere in a way that you're identifiable and then posting it here. Their ears. I'll never understand this self-denial/self-flagellation thing. Those 4 whole days must have been tough.

...which is why the issue of uncredited writers is so important to him. "Methamphetamines", not "Old Money".

Why is this thread even here yet? It hasn't even leaked let alone been released... If someone wants to make a "Which snippet is your favorite" thread then fine, but...

Shortly after this forum started, I posted about two then-unleaked recordings registered with the US Copyright Office by Elizabeth Woolridge Grant in 2005. The registration for one of these recordings lists the title as "From the end" and describes it as "Words & music (collection)", suggesting multiple songs. The registration for the other lists the title as "Young like me" (but also lists the application title as "Rock me stable"), describing it as "7 songs". Regarding the tracks leaked as From the End and Quiet Now, this only proves that "From the End" is the real title of a real collection of songs, not necessarily what leaked as From the End. And there is no additional proof confirming the track titles of either FTE or QN are real. However, absent any other information, I think it's reasonable to assume that this is the real From the End and that the track names are real. It's also my personal working assumption that Quiet Now is the same as "Rock Me Stable"/"Young Like Me" since it surfaced along with FTE and has exactly 7 songs as the registration indicates, but I think that should be considered more speculative and I'd love to be proven wrong. FWIW, I think the track titles from FTE/QN should be considered a little more credible than the Sirens titles since we know those were guesses, but the person furthest up the chain of custody of FTE & QN claims they came to him titled that way. However, because there's some doubt about those titles, and because we don't know whether Lizzy titled them the same for Sirens, and because they've been known for years under different names, I've advocated labeling the overlapping tracks with the titles they leaked under with their respective albums, as I feel it's the most neutral. And that's the convention the forum has followed. For example, in the "All Lyrics" thread "For K"/"Drive By" is listed as "For K" under Sirens and as "Drive By" under From the End. Both link to a thread titled "For K / Drive By". Of course, everyone is free to label their own personal music library however they wish, but this is how the forum is treating things for the time being. This is subject to change in the event of more definitive new information.

Here's a post that gives a pretty complete rundown of all the evidence she's a year older. Most of the supporting evidence is linked in that post except for two photos of her from December 1987 where she looks older than 18 months to me and information about her entering grade levels at school normal for someone born in the summer of 1985, not 1986. That evidence is in that thread's original post.

I think I was too put off by the eye-roll worthy title "Shades of Cool" the first time to fully appreciate it. But on every subsequent listening, man, sheer brilliance. Definitely one of her best recorded vocals. I also like the bold decision to drown her out with the guitar on the bridge, even on one of her best, most gorgeous vocals, though I wish it was just slightly less drowned out. Just shy of perfection. Are we listening to the same song? I'd say more jazz singer than lounge singer (there's a subtle difference). But I've been waiting for a jazz or lounge or alterna-rock Lana album. It seems I may get a little bit of all three. However, I am a bit worried that this album is gonna be straightjacketed in a single uniform sound much the way BTD was, though I'd much rather be confined in this one. And the difference is that from what I've heard so far, the songs fit comfortably in this sound, whereas the songs on BTD felt forced, seemed shoved into theirs. Though I may change my mind if any UV demos leak. #crossesfingers Try being 32.

Bumping this thread since the OP also deals with the question of when did she live in Alabama, a claim she repeated in her Fader interview:

I'd like to see the original Grazia source rather than this translation of a secondhand source, but assuming this describes it accurately... when exactly did she have time for a cult in between living with her boyfriend in Alabama and having a 7-year relationship with a label head?

Hmm, this is interesting. Reed's doomed lovers were named Jim and Caroline. In the spotlight we see Jim and Chuck... (Motel 6)

After listening on my @@Monicker-recommended headphones I endorse the following lyrics: Though I'm not completely sure she says "like" before lemonade. (Lol, sometimes I think I hear "pink lemonade".) Also, I think she says something other than "this is" before the first "ultraviolence" in the choruses. "If it's"? "With this"? Probably "With his" actually.

I'll post about this in more detail later, but for now see this post and the other posts it links to.

2014 - 2011 = 3 years Less actually. It hasn't even been three years since her secret warm-up show at Grasslands on Sept. 14, 2011. Her last known performance before that was with Mando Diao for their MTV Unplugged concert almost a year before that. But if she's gonna count that, why not also include her four years (at least) of performances leading up to that?

What's more annoying are people who construct a straw man (straw woman? lol) of what feminism is and use it to blithely write off the entire feminist movement and the entirety of feminist thought. This is one of the dumber comments I've seen on this forum. And that's saying something. She's practically begging for Lanalysis. I haven't read Heavier Than Heaven, but I had the same thought when reading that part of the interview. Although it should be noted that Lana didn't talk about it, the writer mentioned it. I get the sense a lot of things mentioned in the article came from the writer's own research (sometimes wrong, see Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant) rather than talking to Lana. Not that Lana wouldn't give the writer wrong information too ("the 27-year-old Lana Del Rey").

Back then, sometimes she’d make four videos for the same song, but most times, nobody much saw them. Try six... #Gramma “I’d been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn’t figure out,” she says, to my surprise. “That’s a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can’t figure out why." Perhaps her drinking was self-medicating? "It’s just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don’t really care that much about yourself sometimes. I thought it was sad. I thought my position was sad. I thought it was sad to be in Ireland singing for people who really cared when I wasn’t sure if I did.” Hate to say it, but that's been evident in some of her performances. the 27-year-old Lana Del Rey Sigh. By the time I click off my recorder, after nearly 90 minutes, her publicist has twice come out to end the interview. In both cases, she rebuffs him. Sit your ass down, Ben. Let her fucking do what she's fucking doing! and her British stylist, Johnny Blueeyes, who during the shoot was prone to bursting into the room and crying, “You’re a staaaar!” Omg, he's worse than all y'all. “I met everyone the same week,” she says. “Because I was very shy, I just sort of stuck with them.” Inertia. Ah, that explains why Ben still manages her. she recorded an acoustic album as May Jailer just the same. (That record, Sirens, was never released, though it eventually leaked online.) Is this the first mention of Sirens in a profile? Under the name Lizzy Grant, she released an EP, Kill Kill, and recorded an album, Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant, which sat on 5 Points’ shelf for two years before it was digitally released in 2010. No, no, it's just Lana Del Ray. Fact checking, people. Today, Born to Die has sold over 7 million copies worldwide, more than Beyoncé’s last two albums combined. You'll never hear me use this word this way again, but... slay. No wonder Bey's tryna copy her. "I lived down in Alabama with my boyfriend" Man, just when I was beginning to think this was metaphorical, or an old lie she stopped telling, she says this again. When the fuck was this? In the video, she has sex with a 40-something biker on a pinball machine. Sex? I didn't seen any penetration or implied penetration. Now that's a version of the "Ride" video I'd like to see. In a number of others, she’s with a scrawny white guy with tattoos. Okay, interviewer, you're forgiven whatever faults your profile may have. Scrawny white guy. LOL. Not that I'm one to talk. “For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept,” she says. “I’m more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what’s going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities. Whenever people bring up feminism, I’m like, god. I’m just not really that interested.” Yes, perhaps at the end of the universe some unimaginably sophisticated being that is the pinnacle of evolution (not to be confused with me, easy mistake, I know) will look back and say, yeah, in the grand scheme of things, that brief period of just a couple millennia when female humans were not treated equal to their male counterparts, not that big of a deal... Wait, but I'm supposed to feel sympathy for a rich pop star that had to endure a few mean comments on her way to the top? Quick, someone call Neil deGrasse Tyson so he can denote the SNL backlash on his cosmic calendar. I ask her why she’s always being choked in her videos, and she gives a fitting answer: “I like a little hardcore love.” Now we know how Lana would reply in this thread. “I had a seven-year relationship with the head of this label, and he was a huge inspiration to me. I’ll tell you later when more people know. He never signed me, but he was like my muse, the love of my life.” Wait, what? Where the hell does a seven-year relationship fit in? Or are you just trollin' the Lanalysts now? Compared to Born to Die, the new album sounds far more like straight-up rock music, recorded in live takes with a Nashville band assembled by producer Dan Auerbach. She’s withdrawing from contemporary pop, a space in which she says she never felt comfortable; gone are the genre-blurring samples that gave her debut the impression of trying too hard to be trendy. The album feels like a sprawling American desert, devastatingly huge, windswept by shrieking electric guitars... She seems to have found confidence in psych-rock and narcotized swing.

And yet we still don't know who the bearded guy from the "Blue Velvet" video is.

As the original tea-spiller about Mr. Campbell, I'd nonetheless like to note that this point can't be stressed enough:

Receipts?

How do we know one of the versions we already have isn't the Kahne version? Is there any evidence this is a real title? I thought this one was presumed to be fake. Is the '/' supposed to indicate you think these are the same song? If so, I sincerely doubt it. Though I'm not entirely convinced "High" is real, everything I've heard about either one suggests they're two completely different songs.

Why? Just because they were part of "No Kung Fu" with demos of some AKA songs? Sorry, but that's not good enough evidence to say they were intended for AKA. For one thing, we don't even know for sure if NKF is a real grouping or if it's just a fanmade collection assembled and given that name by the leaker. Now, I've often wondered if perhaps those demos were what was sent to David Kahne that attracted his interest, and/or was NKF and other demos of AKA songs perhaps recorded with Steven Mertens as work tapes for AKA, and perhaps that's what she means by saying he recorded her first album, or perhaps Mertens played on AKA and/or was also involved in the studio since we don't have any credits for AKA... but that's all merely speculation on my part. There's never been any confirmation of any of that. But David Kahne is pretty clear that the only songs he recorded with Lizzy were the songs that ended up on the album, plus "C-Note"/HDB which he is also pretty clear they worked on "after the album was done" (emphasis mine).

Father John Misty @ Lollapalooza mocking the commercialization of the festival joking that platinum pass holders "get to dry hump Lanna [sic] Del Rey", amongst other perks (3:47-4:35): P.S. Implicit Icona Pop ("some girl earlier") shade from 0:00-0:35. P.P.S. Father John Misty's between-song stand-up act/stage banter was the highlight of Lollapalooza, not Lana.

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

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