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I once knew a guy who believed in some third eye bullshit & he saw himself as almighty and some other crap, but in reality he was basically an internet troll with no life and some fucked up personality and disgusting habits (once you got to know him). he was also very manipulative.this was a couple of years ago and if you ask me about him now, I could very much say, jokingly, that he was like a sectarian, and being around him was like being in a sect, if I wanna make a long story short. but that doesn't mean I was in a fucking legitimate sect. do you see what I mean?

Her Mtv Unplugged videos are still, to this day, the highlight of her career (imo)

Her Mtv Unplugged videos are still, to this day, the highlight of her career (imo)

The singular most amazing thread on this website #trueart

"I wanna die, I wanna die" don't let The Guardian hear about this.

I mean, has anyone heard Is This Happiness?  

The sound and vision on this aren't the best, but it sounds like it was a pretty cool performance.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQiinQcRkw0

http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Entertainment/Music/News/2014/07/10/Lana-Del-ReyBorn-to-make-music/
 
I don't know if this is a rehash from another interview
 
Lana Del Rey’s new album and musical career are the results of battling snide remarks and winning her parents’ approval.
 
Not long after the release of Born To Die, Lana Del Rey told Vogue that the major label release will be her last one. “I feel like everything I wanted to say, I said already,” the American songstress was quoted as saying.
 
That was back in 2012, a year that also saw the New York native facing allegations of record label constructed artistry and fakery after a disastrous live performance on Saturday Night Live and her less-than-stellar musical endeavours in the past surfaced – a far cry from the sultry singer who captivated the Internet with the haunting Video Games.
 
With the barrage of negative criticisms, it would appear that the former Elizabeth Grant has indeed depleted the Lana Del Rey character. But somewhere along the line, Born To Die shipped over seven million copies worldwide and went on to become the fifth global best-selling album of 2012.
 
Maybe it was the realisation that bad press doesn’t necessarily impede record sales because two years after that Vogue interview, we’re greeted with Ultraviolence.
Del Rey took some time to talk about the follow-up to her commercially successful debut in an interview transcript provided by Universal Music.
 
After your last album, Born To Die, you announced your retirement from music. Yet, here you are again with Ultraviolence.
 
I can’t start an album if I have no idea of the narrative, the concept. If the songs aren’t perfect for me, what’s the point of forcing myself?
 
That’s why I answered that I had no album planned. But everything opened up after a chance meeting at a party with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. Some kind of chemistry happened.
 
What gave this slightly hippie, 1970s tone to Ultraviolence?
 
The first song of the album, Cruel World, decided everything. It places the album geographically. In the beginning of the text there’s something minimalist, a simplicity that repeats over and over, very low profile.
 
And then the chorus comes with its big drums, its electric mess. This mixture, this cohabitation between normality and chaos is very symbolic of what I’d just been through in my life.
 
Your songs offer a strange mix of luxury, opulence and sadness. A bit like Roy Orbison ...
 
I feel like I’m making happy songs but when I have people listen to them, they tell me how sad they are.
 
I can’t run away from my life, which was pretty tumultuous. Three years after my real debut, I’m still plagued by both doubt and sadness. I just have uncertainty, emptiness in front of me.
 
And I don’t like not knowing where I’m going. My love life, my family life ... I’m not sure of anything. That’s why I hate when I can’t write because for ten years, writing was the only stable, reassuring thing in my life.
 
You grew up in the countryside. Was it lonely?
 
No, I had a real group of friends, inseparable, we were very similar. It was the first time in my life – and the last – that I felt such friendship.
 
But at 14, I was sent to boarding school, because we did a lot of bulls**t together – like going out with older boys, running away to parties.
 
In this school, I became friends with one of the teachers – he was 22, I was 15 – who helped me discover Jeff Buckley as well as Tupac and Allen Ginsberg.
 
When I arrived in New York at the age of 19, I tried to find this lost friendship again with people my own age. But it was too late, they all seemed obsessed with their careers, their social success ... so I wondered where the musicians were, (people who were) willing to sacrifice everything for their songs, ready to die for them.
 
So you had the feeling of burning bridges with this idea of social success?
 
I read a book by Napoleon Hill that talked exactly about the need for an artist to burn bridges with any career opportunity. For years, my life took place in my head, no one knew anything.
 
It was almost like a double life. I felt so lucky to be receiving these songs which I never told anyone about because for a long time, except for my roommate, nobody heard my songs.
 
But there was a real enchantment. The music came over me, literally. Entire songs, already composed and arranged rushing out of my pen, onto my notebook. I knew it was in me.
 
When I was 20, since nothing was happening, I decided to continue responding to this call, whatever it took. It sounds strange, but I was a fan of my music. I was terrified by how others saw me. It’s so personal, music, that we’re inevitably frightened by rejection.
 
At what point did you feel you were right to hold on?
 
During the recording of Born To Die, I’ll never forget my father’s visit. He was amazed to see me so sure, so in charge, so fulfilled, asking the producer to give me a beat or a symphony. He had no idea what I’d done for the last six years, that I’d patiently built my little world. My parents didn’t even know I sang.
 
But when he saw me in the studio, my father told me it was one of the happiest days of his life. My parents had insisted that I didn’t leave school for music – and I finished my studies in philosophy, because I knew they could feed my songs.
 
I told them early on that I wanted to become a singer, but they didn’t get how passionate, how serious I was. But suddenly when my father saw me, he understood, it validated six years of work.
 
What part of your work is pleasure, inspiration, hard work, pain ... ?
 
pleasure begins and ends with the recording of the album. Then comes the pain. I’m extremely involved in every phase of the album until mixing, mastering. I don’t leave the mixing board until the moment we hand over the tapes, a moment of sadness.
 
Then touring begins, painful, or the promotion, difficult. I feel I have to justify myself, to defend myself, when I don’t even feel the need to because my music is good enough not to have to do that. Deep down, I’d prefer to remain silent.

While I agree with you I can't stop thinking she's much more aware of the aesthetics she's chosen to portray in her music than we imagine. This particular quote it's pretty interesting:   "There is a whole new genre that nobody is observing. The American Dream and American Psycho are starting to represent the same thing. Cinema and music and life are starting to merge. Death is art. We've played pop music out. That wholesome dream is dead (...)I'm talking about epic, knocked-down, dragged-out love stories in song. That's what I'm heading towards. I want to destroy lives with my music and to understand the glamour of danger. Without Scarface would there be half the gangsters there are out there now?"    For me this quote totally captures her whole persona and what she's trying to achieve in her songs perfectly. It just can't be all that unintentional, you see - or at least that's what I want to believe.

I mean, these articles have their validity, but it should be noted that this all seems unintentional. While Lana's just doing her, people are finding thinkpieces and deeper meaning in everything she does. I guess that's cool for her, but I don't think she knows she's doing anything but telling her life story.

Will they ever drop that damn quote? 

Hmm, I feel like I have read this interview somewhere before

@@Monicker sent me a link to this fantastic episode of "Popcast", a podcast produced by The New York Times' ArtsBeat culture blog. A discussion between Jon Pareles, the author of that great NYT review, and Ben Ratliff, the skeptical yet open-minded host, this is the most intelligent conversation I've heard about LDR in the media ever. Truly a must listen. Apart from being just a great podcast, another reason @@Monicker sent it to me is because I'd told him he'd probably think I was crazy, but the guitar intro of "Cruel World" reminds me in small ways of the intros to several different Beach Boys songs. He did think think I was crazy at first, so we were both incredibly amused when Jon Pareles backed me up! Anyway, @@Monicker says it better than I can so I'll let him introduce it:
 

You can go to the episode page, download the MP3, subscribe on iTunes, or click the player below:
http://podcasts.nytimes.com/podcasts/2014/06/27/arts/music/27popcast_pod/27popcast-rev.mp3
 
Edit: If anyone wants to transcribe this podcast for quoting convenience I'd be more than happy to add it here.

"I wanna die, I wanna die" don't let The Guardian hear about this.

remember when she said she would re-release the LDR album
remember when she said ultraviolence would be out in May
remember when the LDR album was called God Bless America and Nevada
remember when Cruel World had the lines 'it's a cruel, cruel world/let the light in'
remember when she said all her song are about the same guy
 
#trustnoone

"I wanna die, I wanna die" don't let The Guardian hear about this.

"you're a hard man to love, I'm a hard woman to keep track of" or something like that. pretty obvious  

I mean, has anyone heard Is This Happiness?  

The post Barrie ERA. After leaving Barrie and his depressive self, suddenly Lana feels light as a bird. See what dating depressive, boring unhappy people does to you? You end up sounding like a suicidal in need of prozac in The Guardian interview

OMG... I'd literally die. I love her summerish song. They make so happy I could die #glamourizingdeath #Lipster