Greaser Prince

sippin strawberry daiquiris with my neighbor zachary
in my china palace  

sippin strawberry daiquiris with my neighbor zachary
in my china palace  

sippin strawberry daiquiris with my neighbor zachary
in my china palace  

sippin strawberry daiquiris with my neighbor zachary
in my china palace  

sippin strawberry daiquiris with my neighbor zachary
in my china palace  

sippin strawberry daiquiris with my neighbor zachary
in my china palace  

Lana had an interview with a major radio station in Sweden last week where she revealed that her first ever written song was called "China Palace" and it's about strawberry daiquiri!
 
Edited all the redundant stuff and here's what we got:


 
Transcribed version by yours sincerely:
 

ULTRAVIOLENCE: THE MUSIC TO WATCH BOYS TO EDITION

UV came out 5 seconds ago and ya'll are excited for a NEW album? the fuck.

watch us not hear this for 2 years or maybe never at all 

From a recent (currently) unknown radio interview.
 
Interviewer: ... 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].
 
Audio -
http://lizzydelgrant.tumblr.com/post/90085038067

That is exactly the genre I need in my life

Could it be because of the child thing?
Barrie might not be the best influence on a kid, with his dark nature and questionable hygene
Hmm Hmm, who knows...

Oh well.
Date someone famous next plz, now you can
Is George Clooney still available? He is older, and up to par with Lana's hotness....

I mean, has anyone heard Is This Happiness?  

florida kilos duh. lana as the mafiosi queen

Heeey, I thought these Norwegian interviews were pretty good, so I'll translate another one from Dagbladet. 
 
On the performance in Bergen
 
It was amazing. Totally amazing. 
 
It's 2 AM at night and Lana Del Rey (27), is relaxed and elated at the same time. 
 
Dagbladet talks to her an hour short after her performance in Bergen that held place night till sunday. She has already concluded that tonights concert was one of her most memorable performances ever.
 
Lana: "I got this feeling that no matter if I sang jazz or one of my new singles, people would be there with me, and have a good understanding of who I am."
 
The album
 
Both VG and Dagbladet gave Lana a score of 5. Lana describes the album as a mix of the psychedelic 70's, West Coast fusion and underground jazz. 
 
"I am not as formal anymore, I feel more spontaneous now. It is more about snapshots of what has influenced me, both the good and the bad."
 
- "You sing about money, booze, power and sleeping your way to the top...?"
 
Lana: "Everything I sing about on the record is a combination of things that have happened, and things that people think have happened. Money Power Glory, as an example, is about how people interpreted me and misunderstood me. It is sarcastic response to that. West Coast and Cruel World is connected to the excitement I feel when I'm at the west coast, where I live now after I moved from New York. Everything is about how others see me, and how it has affected me."
 
- "In other words, you're taking a stand against the prejudice?" 
 
Lana: "Yes, that is my answer. I felt very sarcastic when I wrote some of those songs," she says and laughs. (OMG I can almost hear her cute and loud laugh as I'm writing this  )
 
Unfortunate circumstances
 
For she can laugh, despite how mass media has painted her picture with sad and heavy paint strokes.
 
The 27 year old, whose real name is Elizabeth Grant, has previously told a tale about how she got sent away at the age of 14 because she had drinking problems. Also about the cult she was part of, and got used by. And her many rock and roll boyfriends. 
 
Not to mention that she sounds unmistakably sad in many of her songs. But is she?
 
Lana: "It depends. I really don't know why everything has to sound so bittersweet. I have felt peaceful and calm while writing nowadays, reflecting on experiences I have had. I was sarcastic, upset about personal stuff in my life and how it has been. But in a more reflecting way than sad this time."
 
- "Do you depend on a certain amount of sadness to make your music?"
 
Lana: "No, I don't find it to be like that. I think I have been unfortunate with circumstances, and it has affected my writing. I am in a peaceful state of mind now, but I haven't exactly been very happy in a while either." 
 
It makes me so mad
 
It may seem like Lana Del Rey adds her fair share of fuel to the fire. Not long ago she said that she often felt sick, without knowing why. And then we have the quote that has gone global since it was published by the Guardian: "I wish I was dead already."
 
- "What did you mean by that?"
 
Lana: "This is another way of sensationalizing whatever I'm saying. It makes me so mad (or it pisses me off, Idk what the best option was). I talked to the writer for three hours, and he saw my show. When you're in a room with someone, it's not just about what you're saying, but it's also about your personality and how you are as a person. It's about reading between the lines. I don't understand why he felt the need to take it so literally," she says. 
 
"To top it off he asked me very leading questions. He talked about Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse, asked me a lot about death and pumped me for answers and how I felt about dying young, because I was sad and had been through a lot (I can imagine her saying this with a very snarky undertone  )".
 
"He wanted to know if I had thought about dying, and yes, sometimes I have. But not always. Only on those days when it all becomes too much. Then I have days where it affects me less. The way he wrote it made it all seem so much more shocking than it really was."
 
Happy behind the wheel
 
So Lana Del Rey is not sad all the time, in case someone was under that impression. She feels her best when cruising around in California, where she currently lives. 
 
Lana: "I spend a lot of time by the sea, on the beach, with good friends. I love recording my music. And I love going to concerts, watch rock stars perform, like Courtney Love, The Who and Gun's and Roses."
 
- "Do you feel like media gets too caught up in this one side of you, the sad one?"
 
Lana: "A bit. It's also about being obsessed with one persons concept. It is why I have chosen some of the songs I have chosen on the tracklist on Ultraviolence. But I understand it too, the way it is. It makes a pretty good story, but it doesn't have to become fictionalized either."
 
Sensitive and imaginative
 
- "What is it like to be you?"
 
Lana: "It is beautiful and confusing," answers Del Rey, after thinking it through in silence. The she elaborates: "I am an imaginative person, I like being caught by surprise in life. But I am sensitive too. I find it hard when things gets out of my control."
 
"But I still manage to enjoy moments of true beauty, like being here tonight, while it's still bright outside and the skye is blue. I like to capture that in songs, and my biggest passion is still writing. It makes a good manifestation of all the unease, and all that confusion gives life to beautiful things. I am blessed to have that to hold on to."
 
- "You seem grateful?"
 
Lana: "I am. When it all comes down to it, it's all about the music. That's the one thing in my life I can't do wrong."
 
 I'm worried about Lana, she's not happy nowadays? What happened to "I'm happy"? Is she hitting another blue period?   
 

Slant Magazine: 3.5/5 (by Sal Cinquemani)
 
Leading up to the release of her glorified music video Tropico last December, Lana Del Rey declared that the 27-minute short film would be a "farewell." To what exactly was unclear at the time: Some speculated that the singer was leaving the business, a naïve suggestion given her preoccupation, however ironic, with the insatiable allure of "money, power, glory," or that she was simply retiring her stage moniker. Alas, it just marked the end of the Born to Die era, though returning to her birth name—Lizzie Grant, as she was credited in early releases—would have been an apt move, as Del Rey's third album, Ultraviolence, finds her stripping away much of the sonic, if not thematic, pretense...or at least substituting it with a new one.
 
The album jettisons the hip-hop-inflected baroque-pop of Born to Die and its follow-up EP, Paradise, though a few of the latter's songs, including the Rick Rubin-helmed "Ride," hinted at an impending evolution of this kind. There's still plenty of woozy atmospherics, and a synth line at the end of lead single "West Coast" sounds like it was lifted from an early Dr. Dre record, but these touches, courtesy of producer Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, are rootsier and less polished than the trip-hop-tinged flourishes of tracks like "National Anthem." Trip-hop is still a touchstone here, but only because of the mutual influence of jazz, blues, and film noir.
The ethereal chorus of the standout "Shades of Blue" is a decided contrast to both the song's bleak realizations ("You are unfixable") and expressive, deftly timed electric guitar solo, which more accurately captures the singer's angst, while the torchy title track puts an unexpected, and perhaps unintentional, twist on '60s girl group the Crystals' "He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)." Co-penned by Carole King, the song was controversial at the time of its release for seemingly endorsing domestic abuse, the protagonist admitting to having been "untrue," suggesting that she got her just desserts—and liked it. It's an approach that's right in Del Rey's wheelhouse, but the ostensible offender in "Ultraviolence" could be read as not just justified, but a bona fide hero, striking Del Rey in order to save her from an apparent overdose: "I was filled with poison...I could have died right there...He hurt me, but it felt like true love."
 
Regardless of the interpretation, the song provides a revealing glimpse into the Del Rey Doctrine. Her disinterest in feminism—which she infamously declared in a recent interview—is, in effect, the ultimate act of post-feminism, or rather, humanism: Del Rey's lyrics present a woman who's unafraid of her feelings, no matter how politically incorrect they may be. And the LDR persona gives Grant creative license to do so without apology: She isn't condoning a situation, but simply describing one.
It makes the inclusion of "The Other Woman," a standard made popular by Sarah Vaughan and Nina Simone, an odd choice for a cover song given Del Rey is more believably cast as femme fatale than woman scorned. She's nothing if not self-aware, as evidenced by "Brooklyn Baby," in which she mocks holier-than-thou hipsters, but also counts herself among them (her boyfriend is, as she sings, "in the band"). The hook of the bonus track "Florida Kilos," co-written by Harmony Korine, is marred by Del Rey's Britney-grade vocal infantilism, and while that might make it the perfect theme song for the planned Spring Breakers sequel, the song's pop bounce doesn't jibe with the rest of the album's earthier qualities, which complement the Americana imagery Del Rey's been peddling for years.
 
As on Born to Die, though, too much consistency can be a long player's Achilles' heel. Repeated listens reveal nuances, like the acoustic guitar bristling beneath the blues-rock verses of "Sad Girl" and the male backing vocals layering the final chorus of "Brooklyn Baby," but the album's steadfast narcotic tempo and Del Rey's languid delivery, doused in shoegaze-style reverb throughout, conjure a hazy picture of the singer swaying wearily in some sweltering sweat-lodge of a dive in the deep South. An appealing, cinematic image, no doubt, but one that, after 14 tracks, can prove to be enervating.
 
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/lana-del-rey-ultraviolence

Nothing tops a BJ

The world needed this video
Btw, the pool scene is gorgeous but it looks more like the amateur section of youporn than a Bond movie tbh 

So The Guardian spends the whole review tearing her lyrics and general existence down, barely talking about the songs themselves, only to give her a 4/5? "lol you suck but this album is the shit"?

Holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit