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On the collaboration process for Ultraviolence:
“Meeting [producer/Black Keys frontman] Dan Auerbach changed everything. He really brought fun back into my life. We had a natural chemistry between us that was kind of palpable and he was spontaneous. We’d go into the studio with the band and do one cut of Ultraviolence—raw and live with all seven players in the same room with an old bedroom microphone—and leave it as it was. It was thrilling.”
 
On her current fashion transformation:
“There has been an evolution. It came with the music. I love the idea of being able to get up on stage in my favourite denim shorts and my favourite linen shirt and wear a pair of gold bands and diamonds. It is so freeing. When I first got on stage—four years ago—I felt like what I had to do was put a dress on and be presentable in some way.”
 
On how her relationship with rocker Barrie-James O’Neill fueled Ultraviolence‘s lyrics: 
“I’m a dark character and he very is an even darker character than I am. Trying to get some consistency and some normality within the dynamic of that relationship has been impossible. Songs like “Shades of Blue” came out all that.”
 
On what gives her confidence:
“Lately, I’ve sought comfort in one-on-one interactions with people backstage after the shows—spending hours with fans afterwards and drawing energy from that well. People liking what I’m doing on stage is a big ‘fuck you’ to whoever doubted me in the first place.”

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This was pretty interesting to read.
 
I just love that they were so hesitant to put it out, and in some cases it did better than BTD. Never doubt the queen.

Lana Del Rey's new album, Ultraviolence, qualifies as a radical statement from a pop star in 2014 – it's mostly produced by Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach, who relies on electric guitar and other live instruments, and none of its eleven tracks sound much like a potential radio hit. And as Auerbach reveals in Rolling Stone's new Del Rey cover story, her major labels (Interscope and the U.K.'s Polydor) were initially resistant to the idea of releasing it.

 

"There was a lot of bullshit I'm not used to," Auerbach tells senior writer Brian Hiatt. "The label says, 'We're not going to give you the budget to extend this session unless we hear something.' And we send them the rough mix and they fucking hate it and they hate the way it's mixed. And it's like, 'Thanks, asshole.'… I think Lana put her foot down. Maybe it's normal for her, but it's not normal for me.  Really rubbed me the wrong way.  I got really defensive because I thought it was bullshit.

 

"The story I got told," he continues, "is that they played it for her label person and they said, "We're not putting out this record that you and Dan made unless you meet with the Adele producer. And she said, 'Fine, whatever.' And she was late to the meeting, so while they were waiting, the label guy played what we recorded for the Adele producer and he said, 'This is amazing, I wouldn't do anything to change this.' And here's the kicker: Then all of a sudden, the label guy said, 'Well, yeah, I think it's great, too.'"

 

Del Rey acknowledges a six-week period this past spring when Ultraviolence was in limbo. "I mean, I think there were people they wanted me to work with," she says. "I don't know who they were. When I said I was ready, they were like, 'Are you sure?'" She laughs. "'Because I feel like you could go further.'"

 

"I had heard about some back and forth regarding the music," responds Interscope chief John Janick.  "But from the moment I met Lana, I've been of the mindset that she has an instinct that is pretty dead on and as an artist, she is fully formed.  She knows her vision and her audience, and it's up to us to follow her lead on that."

 

"On this album, in my opinion, you didn't want her to try to do something," adds Janick's predecessor, Jimmy Iovine. "I felt she hit a bull's-eye. Everybody's saying to me, 'We need a single,' calling me from Europe. I said, 'You don't need anything.' It's a very coherent body of work, and thought any other conversation was a distraction."

 

In any case, the album debuted at Number One in June, selling 182,000 copies – and Auerbach is now a huge fan of his collaborator. "Every criticism that I'd ever heard about her was proven wrong when I was in the studio with her," he says. "From how great the songs were to how confident she is as a musician to her fucking singing every song live, with a handheld microphone and a seven-piece band. I mean, get the fuck out of here, who does that? Nobody does that, there hasn't been a number one pop record that was recorded like that in forty, fifty years."

 

Source: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/how-lana-del-rey-fought-to-get-her-radical-ultraviolence-lp-released-20140718

I wonder if pale moonlight is a reference to either:
 
-Batman (1989)- The Joker: Tell me something, my friend...you ever dance with the Devil by the pale moonlight?
 
Or Frank Sinatra- Song called Pale Moon
                         - Should I? - Should I reveal exactly how I feel?
                                              Should I confess I love you?
                                              Should I recite beneath the pale moonlight?
                                              And swear by the stars above you?
                          - East of the Sun- East of the sun. and west of the moon
                                                       We'll build a dream house, of love, dear
                                                       Near to the sun in the day, crazy moon at night
                                                      We'll live in a lovely way, dear, living our love in pale moonlight

 

Um... No. tostb talks a lot of shit and she makes people who might be new in the Lana fandom feel like a complete dumbass. When someone asks her a question like "What's OTTR?" She'll reply with some bullshit like "Omfg I'm not google." She's a complete asshole. And no, I might not know her in person, but I've read on her Tumblr page for a while and she's an ass. She contradicts herself, that's why she's not a good reliable source. So don't come at me with that "bitch please" bullshit...

TOSTB is annoying though. 

I don't wanna fieieiiiiight

How dare you?
 
Born to Die vs. Video Games

"I'd flip my hair and make you stare and put my makeup on/And make up stories 'bout my life and put on very cherry balm"
 
basically

Ha, I knew it. In my draft of my track-by-track UV review I'm working on I'd written this:
"Many reviewers have interpreted this as being sarcastic like MPG & FMWUTTT, as a satire of Brooklyn hipsters... I'm not so sure. It seems a little too on the nose. I think she takes herself a little too seriously as an artist and is a little too much of a beatnik wannabe for this to be satire. I think she means it earnestly. And I think she's a little too thin-skinned for that kind of humorous self-deprecation. Besides, it's not the first time she's declared herself a 'Brooklyn baby'."
 
Yeah, there's an entire thread discussing this question because her statements pertaining to this have been so all over the map. Despite that, I think there's little reason to doubt she probably did write a song called "China Palace" when she was very young.
 
Probably next to some lame department store and a Thai food place she wasn't in the mood for.

You forgot the next line, "He's got a massive phallus"

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  

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  

sippin strawberry daiquiris with my neighbor zachary
in my china palace