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Ahhhh, I can't get over that Cruel World is 6 mins long and it's Lanas favourite. 

why not? she released a 1 and a half minute portion of a song #LifeIsBeautiful #NeverForget

honestly tho, stranger things have happened in the lanaverse.

LMFAO sis 

the only time she smiles on a magazine cover is when she's literally lying on top of 4 dicks 

I feel glad watching this video, it looks like what Lizzy Grant would have released if she had the possibility to do it. I am happy that she finally can make her dreams and visions come true.
It is actually more a song about girls than boys, it's the This Is What Makes Us Girls 2.0. 
Lana depicts herself as an almost non-human beautiful creature, it gives me also Maha Maha teas. She puts on her music when watching the boys to lure them in just like a siren. It's an ode to carnal enjoyment and appreciation of the human body beauty. Do you remember the poem she read during Tropico about how the body is beautiful but is also the soul?
 
Darlin' little queens do you know what you're worth?
I'll tell you everyday till you get it, girl
It's all gonna happen

The cinematography is amazing. The shots of the guys playing basketball are phenomenal

HONEYMOON

A long stalled project because i'm bad at finalising things and compiling them. I think this album is so amazing and infinitely inspiring, what I really wanted to show was Lana Del Ray. The transition between Lizzy Grant to Lana Del Rey. I feel like the defining look of that is Lana in the short film Poolside. She looks insanely good there. All the images of Lana used in this packaging are screencaps from the short film which I have retouched and further edited to make look like official photographs and to improve the quality greatly for print. I used the official cover art as a main inspiration because I think even though it's very low-tech it still has a great atmosphere in it, so I wanted to create something similar. The atmosphere in this album to me is very noir-ish, so I chose to use all grayscale images in the booklet, an effect with sunken highlights which makes the images feel quite sultry.

Gatefold LP 12” Vinyl. 
The blue vinyl is the only striking colour here. It's a nod to Lana's homemade videos and her love for party store toy aquariums. It's the opposite to the yellow I featured prominently through the album design.
 

 

 

16-page booklet mockup
 
 


★ Preview / Download full-res digital booklet ★
 
 
 

Bonus: Album demos artwork
 
 
I've been working on this on / off for so long! Please tell me what you think and be sure to find any lyrics corrections because it's inevitable I probably messed something up!

inb4 we start hearing scat porn from them

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present then we are still in 2011 right now with VG smh   

I have to say that UO did really well handling this event and keeping it fair. And I think this had to do a lot with the group of fans who got there first. They were the ones who took initiative of starting a numbering system, and they were the ones who approached the store manager and asked if that was okay, and apparently the manager was like, "I love you so much for doing this." And these fans had their shit together because they had their own color-coded system of markers to use so that they'd know if anyone lied.
 
And they were also the ones who went and made a list with each person's number and name, and they talked to security to work together. So this way the 125 people who were hardcore enough to arrive early as fuck and camp out all day and night got their places. And they also made sure to keep track of anyone who decided to leave so that they could give that person's number to people on the waiting list (yeah, there was also a waiting list  ).
 
There were a few assholes who were plotting how they were going to sneak in and take people's spots, but with it wasn't possible for them to do it with the system that was laid out. So the first 125 of us were pretty relaxed knowing we had our places. 
 
It was rough on the people who made it late and on the people who were hoping someone would drop out, but the bright side is that they live in NY and that there will likely be a lot more chances to see Lana in the future.
 
AND ALSO the store was so nice for giving the first 125 people free shirts and pizza while we were waiting on line.

Well, this is her first era since UV.

About LIB:
 
Me: So I was wondering about Life is Beautiful. Are we ever gonna get it?
 
Lana: Um, not really.
 
Me: Oh no? It was just a snippet?
 
Lana: No, but don't you guys have it already?
 
Me: No, we just have the snippet in the trailer.
 
Lana: Oh really that's it? I mean I guess I could put it online. But you think people are like really interested in it?
 
Me: uh, yeah!

I JUST HAD MY M&G AND SHE WAS SO SWEET. FIRST OF ALL SORRY TO EVERYONE WHO WAS INSTERESTED BUT I DIDNT HAVE TIME TO ASK HER FOR SHOUTOUT VIDEOS. I GOT TWO SELFIES WITH HER AND SHE SIGNED MY RECORD.
 
ALSO I ASKED ABOUT LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL AND APPARENTLY SHE WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT WE ALREADY HAD IT LOL. I SAID "NO, WE JUST HAVE THE SNIPPET IN THE TRAILER." AND SHE WAS LIKE, "OH REALLY? I GUESS I CAN PUT IT ONLINE. BUT DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE LIKE INTERESTED IN IT?" AND I WAS LIKE, "UH, YEAH!"

K so I'm coming back home, I'm strongly apologize bc I'm writing this getting incredibly hammered, basically she arrived 30mins late and stayed 2H LONGER. THIS GURL. SO GENEROUS. ANd she spent like not much time at all w me bc I was extremely stressed and I arrived and gave her the flowers and asked how she was doing and she said I'm excited! and her mascara was on point and I was hypnotised by her tattoos and hearing her laugh made me fucking pass out and she asked me where I was from n I said Paris and she said oooooh and then she asked my name and I had to show that I had written it on my arm bc I can't spell and SHE MISPELLED IT HAHAHA. I don't mind at all it's so cute she wrote Anne-Daphine instead of Anne-Dauphine. n these security fuckers were pressing us as f and so I only had the time to ask her for a kiss and I think she thought she wanted me to get a pic of it and I could only get one pic (but motherfuckers got at least 10...............................) so she took my ipod and took the pic but took it like one millisecond before.... THIS BINCH...... and so many people had so many more stuff, I HATE MYSELF for not bringing my UV and BTD vinyls, at least she got my letter and the drawing from boywonder, I wish I had more time, I wish I had another pic, I wish I didn't freaked out, but, whatever, and then I waited 3h with the lovely @@Degenerate and we saw her go away in her car and she's the sweetest and most beautiful woman on earth, she gave a lil girl who gave her a drawing a vinyl to sign it and said she paid for it
 
I'm 9656897% more in love with her than I was before, she's the first girl I asked and she didn't rejected me and I swear to God that made the Earth that I will never unstan, I love her for real, full homo, full love as fuck, full I'd die for you if you only blinked, full I'm dedicating my entire life to you now, full you're the only reason I didn't killed myself because I heard Next To Me and it changed my mind

oh wow this thread is already shaping up to be as messy as the pre-release one and it's not even been 10 posts yet congratulations

Interview conducted September 4th 2015
 
Pages before the interview (to be updated )
 
Have you ever felt this feeling of being in love, that takes your guts, makes you overturn and leaves you feeling disoriented and distraught, a bit lost, not knowing very well where to place what holds you, what wraps you, makes you drunk and petrifies you at the same time?
  A feeling that often appears when you know you're in love and that you see, in the same time, the object of this love escape, invariably. This is exactly what haunts every song that Lana Del Rey serenely chimes out since several years already, since this moment where her first hits, Video Games or Blue Jeans, seized a public not to let it go, taking it at the heart of romances composed by this young lady of 30yo on a makeshift computer, but nourished by a writing that ceaselessly mixes fiction, reality and autobiography, without ever unveiling itself completely.   Since Video Games, all of Lana's music, every of her lyrics and the slightest notes that composes her songs speak of and evokes only this: love stories seized in singular moments - a dreamy beginning, a raging end. But never at the middle of a story, when tensions (sexual, romantic, intellectual) are soothed or on their way to disappear. In her songs, her voice plays on this register, always stays at the summit of peace but oscillate between the absolute joy of knowing itself of being in a state of being in love and the absolute depression of seeing itself being confronted to the very impossibility of the bond she sings. Lana's voice flirts always with the mystery and what is unexplained - in her or in us?   By mid-summer, she released, in introduction to her new record, a handful of tracks that answers each other, playing on these very feelings. The first, Honeymoon, seems to get an embryo of a story, a bond still full of illusions, romances, desires and blindness - "We make the rules", she sings, adressing herself to another, a lover, like an echo to a breviary very romantic. The world is ours, she says. Nevertheless, the song released a few weeks later, High By The Beach, says the exact contrary. She explores the end of a relation, the disparition of love and the loneliness that follows. The desire of loneliness stronger than everything, at the moment of being done with the other. Destroy, she says. In a few words, she declines the contempt that seized the one, him, her, the doesn't love anymore. Has she seen Godard? Was she thinking of Bardot in Le Mépris? With Lana, nothing surprises, especially not european references, the bonds weaved subrepticely with other arts than music, starting with images, the cinema.   Finally, the third track unveiled at the end of the summer, her favourite it seems, joins like an intimate post-scriptum, giving a new perspective to the story sketched in the two previous tracks. At the heart of this song, Terrence Loves You, she throws this sentence, so cliché elsewhere but so poignant in her mouth: "I lost myself when I lost you". And, as to climb back to something, she also things, in the same breath, this other sentence, "Hollywood legends will never grow old", that says a lot on what obsessed her: the legends, the glamour, the mythical Los Angeles of the 50'. What if Lan, in 2015, was an echo of what Billy Wilder filmed in Sunset Boulevard? The very representation of what it means to be an idol, in her monolithic beauty, her errances, her contradictions and her inherent fragility. What if Lana was the last of these women that made Hollywood? What if Lana, more than a singer, was an actress, the last of mythical Hollywood actresses?     Interview translation by @ no credits to me   In what state of mind did you record this new album?
I started to record it when I was mixing Ultraviolence. The mixing of this album took time, and it was good to start at that moment a new creative process. My mood as really good in the beginning, then it became introverted when I asked myself how to finish this record.

You wanted a record linked to jazz. Did you really conceive it in this way?
I think so. In a certain way, the tracks Honeymoon, Terrence Loves You, God Knows I Tried and the cover of Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood have a dark blue (   ) colouration and I tried to increase the tempo of the album with the middle tracks, like Freak and Art Deco.

Honeymoon is one of your strongest songs…
It’s one of the first tracks that I wrote for the record and that overwhelmed me right away. The melody and the lyrics of the chorus kept coming back in my head day after day, but I postponed the moment when I would work on the rest, the harmonics… I ended up recording at the studio and it touched my most sensible point right away. I was happy to follow what I felt even if the melody sounded obscure and a bit from the 30s.

Your songs often mention places, avenues. What’s the importance of LA in your writing?
The places that I cite in this new songs are very important to me. Some times I’d like to be less precise, more universal, but I’m really loyal to myself by evoking certain avenues, streets or names of people. Wilshire Boulevard in particular is very dear to me because I often stop there to write. Maybe because it’s one of the largest streets in LA, or maybe because my way is socializing is by driving along a congested boulevard and observing people.

Are High By The Beach and Honeymoon related?
Now that you mention it, Honeymoon was a more personal song in which I thought about my past, I wanted to share some of my favorite places and all of my moments of peace with someone. HBTB is the last song I wrote for the album and tells, deep down, the solitude. I didn’t think that there would be a link between these two tracks but there is one throughout the record, the same melodic atmosphere, specially in the more jazzy tracks.

The literary references are important to you. What writers or artists mattered recently?
Ginsberg inspires me just as much as before, with his free way of writing his thoughts. I love Emily Dickison, Miles Davis, The Moody Blues, Leonard Cohen, most of all, Bob Dylan. Federico Fellini and Picasso too.   TLY and HM are part of your most personal songs. Did you want to dive into deeper feelings? Find other perspectives for your music?
Not really. I rather had the impression that after three records, I had to concentrate on something more surreal, and not be too much intellectual. That being said, the track God Knows I Tried evoke the confusion I felt and TLY touches me more closely. On this record, I think that I was the closest to my emotions.

TLY seems to evoke an evasive memory.
I love the idea of a memory that slowly disappears. It’s really romantic.

You covered Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: how does this song fit along with your other covers?
I choose covers that tell either stories parallel to mine, or feelings that I would’ve found hard to express with my own words. Depending on the period of my life, I cover songs that allow me to tell things to other people, or even words that I wanted to hear myself saying to fix some of my problems.

The video for HBTB gives the impression that you are trying to protect yourself of the outside world. Is it the case?
Yes.

What impression do you have about the track you did with The Weekend that just came out?
A good impression. We had wanted to do something together for a long time and it’s a coincidence that both of our records are being released at the same time. He’s someone very talented.

One last question: how do you wear your nails this days?
At this moment my nails are neither too short nor too long, very clean and always with a light rose or beige colour.
 
 

 
 
 
SHOOT
 
 
 

what the fuck this is so exciting
whoever is going please take pictures

um if the video is about that movie that means the video will be about an obese drag queen who eats dog shit, because thats what happens in that movie. has lana been inspired by this forums current scat worship???

"MUSIC TO WATCH BOYS TO" MUSIC VIDEO

- Directed by Kinga Burza - 

OUT NOW

Nope, 1 hour for Amazon release in germany, italy, spain. And i think it will come to iTunes at 12am EST. 


 

OMG 

Honeymoon comes out in 8 days and will probably leak in a couple of days "Its so surreal"

From "Honeymoon will be released on the full moon" to scat gifs we've gone through so much