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She performed her new album live at a very exclusive small show tonight! Some new song titles: 'Ship To Wreck', 'Caught', 'Delilah' and 'What Kind Of Man'.

omg in completely irrelevant but cool news, one of my fave bands Peace covered Doing It for the BBC live lounge! They have done work with her before
 
here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j9gr8 around 14:40 

omg in completely irrelevant but cool news, one of my fave bands Peace covered Doing It for the BBC live lounge! They have done work with her before
 
here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j9gr8 around 14:40 

Anybody else notice that the Top 10 is entirely white and male? Or that there are only 15 women and 10 black people on the whole fucking list? Which is even worse than it sounds considering some people share their spot on the list with other people (i.e. there's more than 100 people and still only 15 women and 10 black people). 

That was so good.

omg in completely irrelevant but cool news, one of my fave bands Peace covered Doing It for the BBC live lounge! They have done work with her before
 
here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j9gr8 around 14:40 

omg in completely irrelevant but cool news, one of my fave bands Peace covered Doing It for the BBC live lounge! They have done work with her before
 
here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02j9gr8 around 14:40 

Holy crap they did amazing! brought a total new vibe to the song!

This week, Lana Del Rey's first major release, Born to Die, turns 3. Definitely the fans' favorite era, the album was promoted with eight singles, a big amount of beautiful videos that went incredibly viral on Tumblr, two tours, interviews, a re-release/EP, a short film and more. The album sold more than 5 million copies and it's still charting all around the world. It was met with mixed reviews from critics, but half of them were paying attention to Del Rey's personal life instead of the album itself. Now that we're in 2015, Born to Die is among Billboard's best albums of the decade (so far) and it is waiting for more magazines and half-decade lists to praise it just like it deserves.   "Born to Die", the album's second single is the perfect opener – sonically and thematically. You can hear the beautiful violins and loud trip hop beats while she's singing about a young girl fantasizing and trying to survive in a world of dangerous, drug addict men. The song peaked at No. 9 in the UK and its iconic video was an internet sensation. The first promo single and fan-favorite "Off to the Races" is a masterpiece in terms of production and lyrics. While the title track is slow and depressive, "Off to the Races" is a violent alt-hip hop song about an "old bad man" and her sick relationship with him. The lyrics are more than romantic or sexual – they express how maddening love can be. The story-teller "Blue Jeans" features one of the most interesting lyrics from the album. This aggressive trip hop/soft rock song was released as the third single, accompanied by two videos. The first one is a home-made vintage film while the second is a beautifully directed, black and white work of art with a deep meaning. "Blue Jeans" became a Top 40 hit in some Europe countries and it is, without a doubt, one of Lana's most memorable songs/videos. We need to take a moment to think about the perfection of "Video Games", the album's lead single. The mystery behind it and its iconic video. The Top 10 hit was the beginning of a worldwide star, the creation of something important. It was just a simple yet intriguing video, but the whole Internet was talking about it. The majestic melody, romantic lyrics and powerful chorus make "Video Games" her best ballad. Going back to the trip hop/alternative hip hop sound, "Diet Mountain Dew" is a sexy retro song about a pretty girl wondering if her love for this bad man will last forever. The fifth single, "National Anthem", was a commercial failure due its lack of airplay and performances. Its lyrics are clever and open to a big amount of interpretations. In the controversial, high-budget video, Lana plays Marilyn Monroe and Jacqueline Kennedy, while American rapper ASAP Rocky is JFK. It was named one of the best music videos of the decade. "Dark Paradise" was released as the sixth single in order to promote the album, its re-release and the Paradise Tour. Just like the rest of the album, "Dark Paradise" has a very melancholic and dramatic melody. Its music video never saw the light of the day. "Radio" is probably the only optimistic song on Born to Die. The lyrics discusses themes such as hard-working, fame and overcoming. With "Carmen", the second promo single, the album goes back to its dark sound – but this one is definitely the darkest. Del Rey sings about this 17-year old girl Carmen that everybody loves with soft and gloomy trip hop beats in the background. "You said I was the most exotic flower," is the opening line of the jazzy "Million Dollar Man". The fans love when Lana performs this song live – it's an even jazzier version and her vocals are almost always on point (and sometimes they're just funny). The worldwide hit, "Summertime Sadness" is the eleventh song on Born to Die, and the second co-written by the amazing Rick Nowels. The indie pop/trip hop/shoegazing ballad was a hit in Europe in 2012 – it reached the No. 1 spot in Poland and became the 21st best-selling single in the UK that year. In 2013, French DJ Cedric Gervais had his breakthrough with his first single; a Grammy-winning progressive house remix of Lana's "Summertime Sadness". Both the original version and the remix were Top 10 hits in North America, Oceania, South America and Europe. The last song on the standard edition of Born to Die is the rebellious "This Is What Makes Us Girls". The outro of the song is just an epic way to end this incredible album. The deluxe version includes the ballads "Without You" and "Lucky Ones" and the sexy "Lolita".  
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PHOTOSHOOTS/COVERS
 

 
What's your favorite song from Born to Die? Least favorite?
Favorite thing about this incredible moment for popular music?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clGpZdf3bwY
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

included links for where to listen to them
Officially released:
 
Fire Breather - Single
Fire Breather Stream | iTunes
 
To The Hills EP
To The Hills Nicotine Dreams Shells To The Hills (The Jane Doze Remix) To The Hills (Woodysproduce Remix) Stream [To The Hills] | iTunes
 
Shells - Single
Shells Shells (Hannes Fischer Remix) Shells (Candyland Remix) Stream | iTunes
 
Holy Water - EP (Released last night)
I Forgot Memorials Come Together ft. SIVU Holy Water iTunes
 
Unreleased Tracks:
 
Next Time Blue Blood (demo) Mankind Removed from SoundCloud Crazy The Desert (Original Fire Breather B-Side) Removed from SoundCloud Unleaked:
 
Your Eyes On Me EP (originally released under the name Under the Laurels. It is nowhere to be found on the web) Flowers EP (Same as above) Child of Love (Was meant to be a single last August and again this year but has yet to happen. Will be included on the album) Crazy Fool (Registered) House of Hearts (Registered) No Love Lost (Registered) Our Religion (Registered) Over America (Registered) Tout A Une Fin (Registered) You Made Me love Someone Else (Registered)

contemplating deleting charli form my iTunes after listening to these 2 bonus track snippets 

Will record I'm A Ruin tonight. 
 
It's in 2 hours and 10 minutes I believe

Will record I'm A Ruin tonight. 
 
It's in 2 hours and 10 minutes I believe

People seriously couldn't wait another 10 fucking days for it to be released? When we've gotten a new song every month?    

I always loathed this picture cuz she's wearing the hair behind her ears and it makes her look like a Chinchilla

I don't think that Lana doesn't care or doesn't want commercial success. Remember her comments about females who are trying to replace her and how she feels about them? Yeah.
 
I just would like to know what happend with her giving up on Ultraviolence. Why did she gave up on it? The single choices were also the wrong ones. 
 
I posted many pages ago, that commercial success does matter to an artist. If you don't sell, you get either dropped by the label or they shorten your budget (which already happened with UV). And if you can not continue making your art your fans are used to, your fans drop you too.
 
And that happens even to those fans who always claim they are just here for the music.
 
I would just wish her that she can handle being in the spotlight and having a vision for the next album. I am not really sure if she had it for UV.

I totally stan Paradise, Ultraviolence and AKA but Born to Die is my least favourite thing lana has released and honestly i'm not a fan of it 

I totally stan Paradise, Ultraviolence and AKA but Born to Die is my least favourite thing lana has released and honestly i'm not a fan of it 

Velvet Crowbar is her best song

she literally said when she first mentioned the title "Music to Watch Boy To" that she was away to write and only had the title in her head
why would she rework Driving in Cars and then just rename it.......u know what, whatever ofc its driving in cars with boys

thread ruined by your first post. thank you very much for your effort. 

You actually care about this kind of stuff? Must suck not being able to enjoy anything becuz you're obsessing about whether it does well on an irrelevant list of "popularity" (used loosely becuz we all know that radio is rigged anyway).
 
Lana's only radio hit was a one-off remix of a ballad. She's not likely to have another one - even a remixed one. At least not stateside. That was a major fluke.  The sooner you get over this, the more you'll enjoy her music.
 
As for the topic at hand - the album title is PERFECT, I'm a little weary of her regressing back to her 2012 vibes (don't get me wrong, I love BTD and Paradise), but we all know Lana says all sorts of stuff prior to an album being released that sounds a little inaccurate in retrospect. She probably just has a concept in her head that's likely going to evolve into something pretty different by the end.

You guys are going to be sorely disappointed if you're expecting commercial radio hits. Like I already said, she told fans that UV would sound like Blue Jeans and Dark Paradise. I think she just meant that this album would be similar to BTD solely by way of the orchestrations. Judging by the producer and Lana's descriptions thus far, this is going to be a jazz fusion album, or at least jazzy soft rock. I also would not expect a comeback of the hip hop beats. In the interview I listened to yesterday, Heath said they only added the bass to Big Eyes because Harvey suggested it. Otherwise, it would have remained an orchestral indie pop piece.

Why do we need big radio hits though? As long as her fans appreciate her music, why do the GP have to love it? Maybe I'm naive but I never got this discussion about big radio hits being so crucial. One can argue bigger hits would mean more promo in forms of performances and stuff, but do we really think that would be the case with Lana?

I think we might lose you as a stan after this record. And I Can Fly is so corny.