fraises

She didn't do press for two and a half years, she says, exhausted by what she saw as persistent misrepresentations of herself and her story. "Read everything and assume the opposite, then you'll really know who I am." She gives a thin smile. "It really doesn't matter what I say."
Sigh. This is getting really old in interview after interview. Stop blaming everyone else and start taking some responsibility for your and your team's own misrepresentations and missteps that fueled the criticism.

the 27-year-old singer
Del Rey was born in New York in 1986
Case in point.

she recorded an album with producer David Kahne (Paul McCartney, the Strokes, New Order), released in 2009, which didn't sell. Titled Lana Del Ray aka Lizzy Grant
Um, actually the title was just Lana Del Ray and it wasn't released until 2010, but again, great fact-checking.

"I'm not a provocateur."
Titles song "Fucked My Way Up to the Top".
 

She went through a painful period of writer's block while touring after the release of Born to Die, "trying to write things that I thought would be more accessible,"
Why, Lana, why?

Del Rey... grew up in Lake Placid, a small town on the northern edge of upstate New York. "It's the coldest spot in the nation," she says.


Conflict with teachers at school, where her mother also taught, led to her parents sending her to Kent, a private boarding school in Connecticut; her uncle had recently taken up a position there as admissions officer, and he helped to arrange financial aid.
inb4 "Conflict with teachers at school" = "let's make love with our teachers". Hmm, sheds new light on "My Momma" & "Boarding School". Also, I wonder if this is the uncle that taught her to play guitar.

"I was lonely," she says, but "I had this teacher who was my only friend in school. His name was Gene. He read us Leaves of Grass and we read Lolita in class, and it changed my world, which was a really solitary world. I didn't have a connection to anyone in class and when I found these writers, I knew they were my people." Gene was just a few years older than her, fresh from Georgetown University. "He would sign me out and we would listen to Tupac and stuff in his car," she remembers, "and he would teach me about old movies like Citizen Kane. He taught me everything."
Jesus fucking Christ Lana. Now you've mentioned him by his first name? Sorry, Mr. Campbell, there's nothing I can do anymore. God help you now. For the sake of your career, it's probably a good thing you're teaching at an all boys school now.

"Nina" and "Billie" are on her left upper chest, for Billie Holiday and Nina Simone, her favourite singers.
Um, wasn't there an interview where she said she wasn't inspired by any female artists?

After high school, Del Rey attended Fordham, a university in the Bronx where she finished a BA with a major in philosophy, but felt out of sync with campus life.
I still have some skepticism about whether she actually graduated, but at least she's correctly saying it was a "big degree in philosophy" rather than metaphysics.
 
She thinks for a moment and says, "I did lose my car, my family's car. That was not a good thing. I guess that was a catalyst." I wonder if this is a euphemism for crashing it, but it's more prosaic. "I forgot where I put it." She sighs and smiles ruefully.
I just riiiiide. And forget where I parked because I was too drunk to remember.


Um, guys, it's an Australian newspaper. There are these things called time zones...

["Prom Song (Gone Wrong)" starts playing softly in a distance]
 
If you're lonely, baby, hold me
You're my only one
Watching television, kiss until we see the sun
 
You played me Biggie Smalls and then my first Nirvana song
So even though when no one's friends we're really serious
I knew you loved me by the way you looked in second period
 

 
 
So "The Other Woman" might be a thing after all, huh? 
 
Interesting. Sounds so legit

I kinda like it, she looks gorgeous. Tbh I'm glad it's not something try-hard like that cigarette pic, this one is simple but sort of nice.

>>>>FULL VERSION (Except for the first 20 seconds) <<<<<<<<<<<<<
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/zen0l/west-coast-radio-mix
 
 
(I made a new thread, I'm awaiting approval)

It's just an album cover.
L I G H T E N - U P

I don't necessarily disagree, but I just wanted to note the irony of calling a song in which she describes the specific taste of her vagina "the least personal song she's written".

So I guess sweet dear Edward really did lie to us because I don't see Live Or Die here.
Too bad, those fake Ultraviolence lyrics he spilled were actually nice

I hope Sad Girl is a Mi Vida Loca reference. 

If it was then I would be in love with lana even more, somehow. I even call myself after one of the characters in the movie. FMWUTTT, Old Money, Money Power Glory, now those I am especially eager to hear. Albums always leak right before they officially come out. I want to get my claws on that album as soon as humanly possible.

I hope Sad Girl is a Mi Vida Loca reference. 

Probably a thank you for being in her Tropico video.

at people so certain of their skepticism of a tracklisting that was on fucking Amazon. I mean, unless there's a history here I don't know about I would expect they would only put up official information.

at people bothered by the title "Fucked My Way Up to the Top". First of all, don't judge it until you hear it. Second, she's made comments in interviews several times before (and in some other song lyrics) hinting she may have tried that approach (with disappointing results), so I'm surprised anyone's surprised by that title.
 
Hmm, I better start preparing a podcast segment for "The Other Woman" in case it's a Nina Simone cover.
 
Also,   at my prescience. 

"Sad Girl"... serving Mi Vida Loca teas.

Those song bits are lyrics from Regina Spektor's I Wanna Sing!!  I love that she mic checked with that, since they know each other. 
@ oops didn't see that you'd already ID'd the song.

I don't think that's just a necklace?  If you look at the Phoenix pictures it looks like she's got chains around her waist, too.  It's probably a fine chain body harness. 

lmao

Still waiting for Stephen Colbert's Ching Ching Ding Dong character to give a eulogy to Mr. Yunioshi.

You're being really rude and abrasive at this point. I understand that this is a contentious interview and we have a lot of varying, passionate viewpoints, but that doesn't give you license to be a jerk in your delivery. Cut it out or I will formally reprimand you (warning points, post ban, etc).

That's a Carol King song from like over 50 years ago, which Courtney covered 20 years ago. Lana is getting so predictable it's actually starting to piss me off Cliché

I feel sorry for you! I don't know what age you are, but if you're allowed to drink, do it while listening to it. It makes it so magical. 

I have a count down for a 6 am release. 12 hrs 27 mins
And I don't think it'll be 5 am but if it is it'll be 11hrs

Have you guys ever seen a movie like Edward Scissorhands or the Chumscrubber, and the neighborhoods look so beautiful and bright, but there's just something dark about them that makes you uncomfortable?

That is what I think Lana means by "dark," she's thinking outside the box, guys. Wait until WC releases, and then wait for ULTRAVIOLENCE, just give her a chance.

THE
FUCKGIN
FUCK

Nnn

I'm actually going to kill myself, just the idea that this person thinks those lyrics he made up are actually believable 
 
Ban @@Nate , just such a pointless user