Greaser Prince

I always wanted this cover in a big, hq version but never found it ... I kind of like it even though her lips look a little bit awkward. And for some strange reason I always associate this Nodland shoot with Diet MNT Dew xD

This Pitchfork list is a joke. I love Grimes but Oblivion on number 1? LOL

I am so happy Lana finally receives the critical acclaim she has always wanted

She definitely meant Joni. She was a huge part of the 60s Laurel Canyon scene.

definitely read this before, I remember because it was so good.
 
Specifically "artists are more useful alive than dead" and about Rob seeing her in the studio.

and - honestly. What a strange thing to do extracting the small small part of the interview talking about depression and using it as the title. Do you work for the Guardian? 

How the fuck did nothing leak then

Great interview! And I loved her reaction to the dead idols question. Very clever.

This is really interesting! Now I've got that cute picture in my mind where she just sits in the car and starts singing. 
And that she wants to occupy herself with movies makes me really curious but now I'm also a bit worried she might concentrate on that more than on music.. but well, let's see. I really hope she's able to manage both. And I hope she'll be alright, the depression and gastric ulcer thing worries me.. I really want the UV tour but I hope she will have a good rest before she starts touring again, I don't want something worse to happen to her.
Anyway, good one! 

I just found this and thought I was a very interesting interview. http://lanadelreycrew.com/2014/08/lana-del-reys-interview-with-bhmagazino/
 
” Ultraviolence ” gives you the vibe that it could have been written back in the 60′s in Laurel Canyon, this neighbour hood in Los Angeles where an informal community of artists like Frank Zappa and Jim Morrison had been created.
 
Yes, I really love that era, especially Johnny Mitchell, which was my mothers favorite. When I was living in New York, that’s what I was going for, the feeling of community, something like what Jeff Buckley did back in the 90′s, or Bob Dylan in the 60′s. However, I never found my ” gang “, my family.
When I arrived in Los Angeles, I met people who I could play with, people who I could talk to. All those had somehow rebuilt, Laurel Canyon, like Father John Misty and Jonathan Wilson, who I started writing the album with. Whatever I was seeking in New York, I found it on the West Coast. I used to drive in my old Mercedes from one house to another, I felt like I was back in high school. Every seven years the centre of gravity in the music industry moves from one coast to another. Now everything’s in the ” West Coast “.
 
Your songs seem to put melancholy in an environment of opulence. Is this your intention or does this happen accidentally?
 
I feel like I make happy songs, but when others listen to them, they think they’re sad. I can’t escape from my life, which has been wavy. Three years after my debut album, I’m still suffering from self-doubt and depression. Ahead of me there’s uncertainty and a feeling of emptiness. I don’t like it when I don’t know where I’m going. My love life, my family – are so fragile. I’m not sure of anything.
 
What do your fans maybe not imagine about your life?
 
Nobody knows it but I really love to dance, While we were recording in Nashville, when we were finished with the tracks, we would listen to everything we had made and dance along like crazy. We invited people we had met in a shop near the area of the studio and our friends like Juliette Lewis or Harmony Korine. I never worked like that before. It was the first time I was with such creative people in the studio. I learned a lot, now I can isolate myself, I can experiment without trying, even if there are many people in the studio. There’s a huge universe in my mind I usually go to find shelter in. I may not be that lucky in my everyday life, but as far as my work is concerned – I’m blessed. In the studio I’m always surrounded by good people. My mood is always good there.
 
You’ve been through a lot until you released Born To Die, when did you realize that you have to insist on working?
 
While recording Born To Die, I will never forget when my father visited me. He was so surprised when he saw me so sure, so determined, asking for a beat or a deal with my producer. He had no idea what I had been doing for 6 years, the fact that I was building my own little world with passion. My parents didn’t even know I was singing. However when my father saw me in the studio, he told me it was one of the most beautiful days of his life. He was so shocked, he realized that music was my passion. My family insisted on telling me to not drop out of school for music. I finished my studies in Philosophy because I knew it would help me “nourish” my songs.
 
Do you believe in talent?
 
I feel like I have a charisma to make music. However, these last years there were times when I hadn’t written a word I liked and I prayed for my muse to come back to me. And suddenly, last winter, a song like ” Old Money ” came to my mind. What happened with an older song called ” Carmen “, is that I got inspired while walking and wrote it afterwards. That time of my life I used to walk a lot, it was my ritual. Now, I drive and go swimming on the Pacific Ocean. And inspiration comes to me from these everyday actions. I record myself in my car, singing loudly.
 
Which part of your work is pleasure and which part of your work is torture?
 
Pleasure starts and ends with recording the album. Then the pain starts, touring, promotion, difficult stuff. Because even if I try to convince myself it’s okay, misunderstandings and twisted ideas regarding who I am, are constantly being spread around, and I feel like I have to stand up for myself, like I have to excuse everything I do and I don’t need that. My music is quite good for me to not need to excuse myself. Deep inside, I’d rather keep silent.
 
How concentrated are you when you work?
 
I can make my producer go crazy, because I have a very clear vision for my songs and in the end I want the speakers to play exactly what I had in my head. Same goes for the videos. I have the storyboards ready in my mind. I might have made Auerbach so insane this year, but at the end of the day there will be one name on the cover of the album and that’s my name. I have to protect it.
 
There’s this track on Ultraviolence called ” Brooklyn Baby ” where you mentioned Lou Reed.
 
I was dreaming to share it with him, I thought that he would find the lyrics very fun. I wrote them thinking about him. The day I flew to New York in order to meet him, he died.
 
A lot of your idols have died at such a young age, Elliot Smith, Amy Winehouse, Marilyn Monroe, Jeff Buckley..
 
I do not love them because they died young, but this seems to be the fate of almost everyone I admire. Luckily, this didn’t happen with Leonard Cohen. I do not romanticize death at a young age, artists are far more useful alive than dead.
 
You give the impression you don’t enjoy huge concerts, is that true?
 
I’m on tour in America since the first days of April, it’s the first time I play so many shows and everything goes exceptionally well. These past two years I don’t feel very well physically, I suffer from gastric ulcer, but I can make it through concerts who’s capacity can be over 9,000 people. I smoke, I drink a lot of coffee. I eat chocolate and pizza. My way of living when I’m not on tour isn’t that right. The fact I played Coachella and Glastonbury in the same year is a great honour. When I’m done with my tour, I’d like to occupy myself with cinema and movies. I have received some interesting suggestions and I’m really tempted to say ” Yes! “. When I was little I used to dream about Cannes, the festival, the prestige and the red carpet. I sang there last May for the third year in a row. As a teenager, I dreamt about living in France, an exile poetess. I really loved French culture, especially Serge Gainsbourg.

Alice sent me a free copy of her album. Contrary to my expectations, she's listed in the credits as "Backing Vox: Lana Del Rey". That reminds me. I was going to post some scans but never got around to it.

Me and Lana was walking the streets and then dreams are so random that I remember she started breakdancing in her red converse and it was weird. we were like best friends

Oh. I only dream about being attacked by snakes. 

At a stop light in Hollywood
Windows down, blasting music
Boarding school comes on
Look over to the left
Lana and Chuck are frikken singing along and dancin to it in her convertible 
Green light is on 
We both are driving side by side
Then I wake up

I dreamed only two times of Lana.
 
So my dream :
 
It was the day of my life. Lanas Concert in May. I was so excited and my goal was it to get an autograph and to touch her face like scorvi12 did. After or before the performance I saw her on the street and ran to her to get that what I wanted. I hugged her so tightly that I started to cry. But the crazy thing is now, that I cried in the dream and also in the "reality".
 
Lana I love you :iheartlana:

Just as long it's not the "loon" sound, I am here for it. Although, I also don't want Dan Auerbach on it. I just want music with more layers than on UV sonically. I think that some of the sound of Paradise was actually a good move, it was just that some songs were not that strong. I think that songs like "American", "Ride" and "Bel Air" sound exceptional. I will however forever and ever hate "Gods and Monsters" and "Body Electric". 
 
But I'd rather take another great full lenght than an EP with half-baked songs. She needs to be careful with not running out of ideas for new music. I think she will keep on changing her sound. Thank God she has changed it for Ultraviolence, I honestly couldn't have handled another Haynie overproduction.
 
 
Maybe she should allow her music to be more playful, fun & upbeat   . No audience wants to listen to slow songs all the time, Lana   

Well many bands have regularly released an EP/extension after each of their albums, which usually contains unreleased tracks and demos, because they want to share their music (e.g. The National, Coldplay's Viva la Vida: Prospekt's March) . Lana could continue to do the same thing if she wants, maybe for the same reason Paradise was born. However, we all know that being in a mainstream label like Interscope would mean that (almost) everything they care about is money so they can make her make a bundle like what The Paradise Edition was, i.e. to sell more copies of (basically) the same album.
 
I honestly don't think that there is any problems against making a re-release like this, only if Lana has enough artistic ideas to make one, not because Interscope make her do one. 

L.A.-based DJ-Producer Chris White, a.k.a Whiite, has revealed a remix of Lana Del Rey's "Shades of Cool" with a bonus — he turned the brooding chanteuse into a comic book character for the cover art. Del Rey's caricature finds her with flaming red hair and wearing an American flag T-shirt tied at the front. It's rumored that White is working on a graphic novel series and our fingers are crossed that Del Rey is a developing character.
 
 
 
http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity-lifestyle/lana-del-rey-comic-character

Get read for the Ultraviolence: Music To Watch Boys To edition
 
Hmm, does not even sound so tacky....

Hope so , I love Paradise
 
 
I will never understand people who don't want more music 

Would LOVE another EP!!

more is better
more Lana
more money for her
more music for us
win-win

That would be so unnecesary, she just released 16 tracks 

So in the recent Complex magazine interview, which you can read here, the interviewer asked 'What defines being in a good place?', to which Lana responded:
 
"Feeling really happy and just circumstantially like nothing’s going wrong, which becomes more difficult but that’s only my experience. I think a lot of people think the whole thing is really great. Making Brooklyn my home base for the last two and a half weeks has really helped me out, like I’ve actually started thinking conceptually that I have this addition, an addition to this record that could come really easily. That hasn't happened in a long time. Not since I wrote that Paradise addition to Born to Die, which I really loved."
 
Could this mean a re-release of Ultraviolence with extra tracks, a la 'Born to Die: The Paradise Edition'?
 
Thanks to DelReyLane on twitter for pointing this out!