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Cute handwriting. I love her.

Underwhelmed at 2am when I first heard it (thanks insomnia). But listening to it sporadically through the day has made me really like it. It feels spontaneous, heartfelt, a little simple in the lyrics for sure but pretty charming & lo-fi. 

If I'd heard Sad Girl without the context of UV I'd probably be pretty worried too, and that turned out OK.

Weird that it just appeared with zero comment from Lana herself tho.

As a NZ resident, should I stay up til midnight tonight (the 14th) & let you guys know? Or can you change your iTunes zones easily to check for yourselves? 

The moon 

For any specific reason? Or just because Nicks has always carried that witchy-woman reputation?

Anyone know if any of the 'ingredients' in the trailer relate to Stevie?

Cute!

Allegedly the billboard is on the main highway you take to Coachella? Pretty sweet tactic if true.

I remember the Ultraviolence cover being described as the last shot of a film noir (like Chinatown), which I thought was perfect and totally changed how I saw it.

Looking forward to seeing how the cover makes sense in context of the actual music.

I love it, even though it was unexpected. It's classic and simple and timeless.

If the record company  is actually going for a hit single in the USA, it may be 30-45 weeks before one would get another single as the focus will be on the one song.

 

In the US, to break a song airplay wise takes months and months as it starts solely due to digital, and then goes from speciality charts cascading to the Hot 100 based on airplay

 

(not saying they will, but if they did, they would playing this as a "50th anniversary of the Summer of Love with the hit "Love" as in All you need is love. And it could happen organically,

it does not necessarily need Ryan Seacrest to play it week one or week 20...it might happen week 45

 

Why are kids in such a rush?

Being in a rush only means one is one day away from being bored that after everything is released, there is nothing new if one is one of those always in a rush.

Life is a marathon.

 

Or as Harry Chapin said in concert when fans yelled out "Sing 30,000 pounds of bananas, he said back it's like sex...one doesn't have their orgasm the first second and then the rest"

and continued with his 3 hour show and sang Bananas as the second to last song before going into the audience or the booth and signing autographs and taking photos for the next 2 hours

after each show (and that was back in the 70s/early 80s before he tragically died in an auto accident, because he was a regular person in a little Volkswagen beetle and didn't take a limo

(or a Taxi) but drove all by himself.)

Did anyone else see this or did I dream it?

Could be a cover/reference to Iggy Pop and David Bowie?

I guess if there is a 'writer unknown' in addition to Abel, then there's a possibility they use a sample of the Iggy song?

You kidding me right???????????????? That's fucking epic.

But you talking about Yukimi or Miho Hatori?

Nah it's true! She was just starting to work with them on the first album/promo stuff when I met her. I loved Blur so I was super excited. I was also poor and needed a place to crash so it was a mutually beneficial thing. Quite funny in retrospect, having to pretend to be in love for the ceremony

But she wasn't the singer for Noodle, she was just the voice in interviews and stuff. Don't think she made it onto any of the records (so maybe a slightly less epic story lol)

Cannot wait for new music. Plastic Beach is a beautiful piece of genius.

Fun story: I married the girl who does the voice of Noodle when I was living in London in my early 20s, to help her get a UK passport! We met working in a restaurant. So Gorillaz will always be special to me.

Did you like the lyric change when they talked about Donald Trump? Queens of putting politics into music, katy who?

Why did you take this as an insult lol. You said you got bored of it but AURORA's songs are slow and indie too soo,...

I actually didn't realise it was a lyric change as that was my first exposure to the song! But after I'd seen the music vid I went back & watched again and was SO impressed with what they did. Amazing band. And I just love the lead singer's curious enunciation of words.

Fell in love with MUNA just this weekend. Their performance of I Know A Place on Jimmy Kimmel is spine chillingly excellent. Absolutely love them

Personally, I love that Lana is fostering a small but fiercely loyal fanbase. The Lana I fell in love with - the girl in the Ride video, the inscrutable and enigmatic Lana of Born to Die - is not a 'Top 40' artist, who plays stupid games with Jimmy Fallon and pimps herself out of her comfort zone for a cheque. She's private, and sincere, and complex. I love that she is somewhat under the radar, that she seems to have found comfort in directly addressing us via social media, that she's crafting not only her art, but the way she communicates with the world, on her terms. 

Tbh I like where she is at the moment. I admire her resistance to the things that are apparently how one is 'meant' to be a pop star these days. She has integrity. And she appears pretty happy with her choices.

Just my opinion.

That's what I heard (from a reliable source) a few months back.

I'm pretty sure the whole album was produced by the dude from .fun (his name escapes me now).

Remember, Ella was fifteen and living in Auckland when she was writing and recording PH, she's now 20, so there's going to be a big development in her sound and lyrics. I think she has a lot of potential in the 'bigger' sound she demonstrated on Yellow Flicker Beat, as opposed to the (lovely) minimalism of PH.

That's awesome, sad to hear you missed it Is there any chance you can share the videos on here

As far as I can tell, it was just the five seconds or so that you've already heard by now, looped. That was at the Town Hall. There was also a car parked in Ponsonby with pulsing green light and smoke coming from inside, and down at Herne Bay beach was a green sign with some lyrics. Kind of a cute little treasure hunt.

I'm in Auckland @@My Sparrow Blue! Didn't realise the happening was literally just down my road until it was over, whoops. Friends sent me some video, the song sounds v different to Pure Heroine, a bit of a banger.

This is what I said about it on Facebook:

 

This music video is so good! I might even say it's perfect. One thing I love about Lana Del Rey is that she can make it sound like she's singing right into your ear. In terms of the "amount" of character her voice has, I would put her in the same category as, say, Leonard Cohen or Stevie Nicks, so I love that her voice is so less processed in this song than in many of her other recent tracks. I love the idea that music and/or being In Love can metaphorically transport you to outer space. In general, I love her over-the-top earnestness and her iconic imagery. There's a reason her fans (me included) call her "Queen."

Totally agree. I was thinking this morning (listening for the umpteenth time) that what sets her apart from her assumed 'contemporaries' (Taylor, Katy, Gaga etc) is the masterful way she uses her voice - she's not scared of restraint, at a time when so many female pop voices are really forceful and aggressive, like they're straining for you to pay attention. Lana has this incredible control and flexibility in her voice that creates the story in between the lyrics.

I dunno if that makes sense, but I'm just so happy with 'Love' 

The more I listen to the song, and now with the video, the more I think this is one of her finest achievements since Ride. Also her most 'likeable' (to the general public) and may well 're-brand' the old image many people have of her.

There's a lightness and airiness and joy about this era already that is like an antidote to the ugliness of 2016 and the feelings of unease and disgust that the rise of Trump and the alt-right have stirred up.

Also, listening to the song while high is like a religious experience 

4am in New Zealand?! Lana, you're killing me.

(sorry if someone already said this) didn't she say she likes to release videos about a week after release? So if the original date was March 6 can we expect it around around the 13th, or do you think the video release was moved up too?

The press release said the video was coming "very soon" so they maaaaay have moved it up? But the word 'soon' is pretty flexible/enigmatic in Lanaland.

Jesus Christ, it finally arrived on iTunes in NZ.

I lay on my bed with my headphones, summer breeze coming through the window, volume up. 

It's so confident, quite simple lyrically but a new kind of intimacy from her I think? Warmer, more outward-looking than introspective. I love the grandiosity of the chorus, it's just beautiful.

My hopes for the album are very high!

I kinda hate this. Was so looking forward to a rollout decided by Lana, starting officially today with the posters. I found the song online so easily but I'm not listening. Waiting for official releases only. 

Damn. This is why we can't have nice things.