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He's clearly being sarcastic and he has schizophrenia...give him a break.

clearly being ironically satirically wittily quirkily funny 

New interview for V Magazine about it: http://www.vmagazine.com/site/content/5142/lana-del-rey-and-daniel-johnston
 
[Johnston] was typically taciturn when I approached him and asked him if he was going to watch the film.
 
“Probably not,” Johnston responds, barely looking up. “I’m just going to stay here and eat my candy.”
 
Isn’t he interested to hear Del Rey’s cover? “I’ve never heard of her,” he says. “I haven’t heard it. Have you got the song on tape?”
 

Am I the only one that thinks the whole TMZ article about her buying that house to hide out from fans was part of the marketing for the HBTB video? Like they prefaced it by leaking that she bought that house (that isn't her actual house, at least not anymore), and then in the video she's being watched and followed? I feel like it was very strategically done to add to the story that HBTB illustrates.

MPH, TYI and Teddy Bear.
Cry Baby falls in love with Johnny in Soap, afraid to accurately express her love she takes him to the park (Training Wheels) and she attempts to date him and he leaves her. The next video is for the title track I believe, it starts the beginning of the story and the "next" part will be Tag You're It where Cry Baby gets kidnapped by the wolf.

"Soap/Training Wheels Double Feature"

And the fact she reached out to her "fans" for help and they don't even care a little bit..as a human how do you just not care?.honestly I hope her tumblr posts gets rid of some of those spammy fans...she deserves a real fan base..and Ew at people calling her mom and shit

I wish Lana would record her singing her songs, just a simple recording of her with a band with no audience for extra promo. It would be great to hear some of her new songs live.

I feel like Lana has a LB account and just likes to see how pissy we'll get (see's hate for BN, but want for music vids, you all know what happens next)

The shots of her face look really similar to the West Coast video shoot/photo shoot. I hope it's not reused footage. 
 
She even has the same nails. 

do we gotta good guess at when she recorded this? Cause idk why, but the way the guitar is being played really reminds me of the way Barrie plays, and didn't Barrie donate or do smthg with the movie to get into the credits? I could be crazy, but maybe it was a duo, him on guitar and her singing back when they were a thing?

http://lanasdaily.com 
 
Lana @ the premiere for the film on 11/7/15 in LA 
 
http://danieljohnstonfilm.com/daniel-johnston-exhibit-invite.jpeg

Desperately want the 12" white vinyls for BTD, Video Games, and Summertime Sadness. Think I might splurge soon 

Lol it tells me I need to order at least two lyric books to get it wtf

Why did they put the worst photo on the cover oh my God she's so pretty I'm dyingggg
 

Lanas vocals' are sampled in Swan Song, listen:
Listen on Soundcloud.com
 
 
Someone compiled every time she says blue but not every single one:
http://w7edwin.tumblr.com/post/130748011074/tarrancelovesyou-1greenwitchavenue#notes

Has anyone taken the time to count how many times she says blue? I am genuinely curious haha
 

the reason i like UV over HM is because UV (album) had entire SONGS i loved. The instrumental, the verses, bridges, chorus, outro etc. Each part of many songs sounded incredible. Brooklyn Baby, West Coast, PWYC, Florida Kilos, UV, Cruel World, etc, the album had SO many songs that you WANTED to listen to from start to finish, even the bonus tracks SLAYED, and still do.

where as in HM, i find myself liking parts of songs, but not entire songs. I like the chorus of freak, the synthesisers in Religion, the verses in GKIT, the outro in Honeymoon, the bridge in The Blackest Day ("you shoulda known better" part), some parts of Art Deco but especially the jazzy instrumental change in the middle of the song, etc etc

Anyone else feel this way?

I agree with the general consensus that she needs to challenge herself. As much as I admire her work and connect to her viewpoint more than most artists right now, there's something missing in her work ethic as an artist. Doesn't she want to grow? Learn a new instrument, try playing with new forms/elements of expression? Explore a new way of writing or singing? Learning to produce? Where's her hunger? It's like she's paralyzed in a very specific, very evocative spot creatively. She can go 'deeper and deeper' but she can't move PAST it. It feels like compulsion. It can be beautiful and compelling and euphoric when she gets it right, but I'm starting to wonder, like others, where it can go from here. Surely, this is some sort of finale.
 
For someone who has traveled much of the globe, she acts like no place exists but LA. For someone who claims to be a writer first, I sense no drive to push herself further, to become more nuanced, imaginative, precise. For someone who seems, at heart, mainly preoccupied with existential ponderings, she refuses to offer us a true peak into her intellect. She'd rather link to a famous philosopher's video than share her own opinion. Similar thoughts on why she covers Nina Simone and quotes TS Eliot on record — to add a weight her own work cannot provide yet.  For awhile, that evasion felt like mystique, now it's beginning to reek a bit of fear. She's managed to create a pseudo-reality for herself where she gets to play the frigid icon who never explains, but she's painted herself into corner, one where she cannot let loose and experiment and fuck up and be FREE. She professes her love of being WILD and FREE,  but she seems quite conservative and inhibited at the end of the day. I mean, the fact that she hates Thai food (and also "spicy and exotic" food) actually says a lot about her tolerance for 'openness to new experiences'. I maintain the belief that she's actually closer to Little Edie of Grey Gardens than Marilyn Monroe — a grandiose recluse. And that is fascinating. But there's many ways to create haunting art that deviates from the themes she's already worn thin. I'd like to see her explore her devout solipsism a new way. Or even better, let go of it, connect with the real world and join humanity. At some point, the bubble needs to burst.
 
Maybe she SHOULD start by traveling somewhere new. If she were in Seoul or Tokyo or Cairo, would she just shut her eyes to the present moment? Has anything new inspired her since she first started making music? She prides herself on 'always being inspired by the same few things,' but either her relationship to those things needs to change, or the actual content does. As beautiful and intriguing as Honeymoon is, it is safer than Ultraviolence, where she tried on new sounds, moods, perspectives, eras of living. Honeymoon all feels like a daydream of youth and romance long dead and gone. I'm okay with that, if it really IS the "swan song" for the Haunted Hollywood LDR. It's hard to tell where Lana's head is at now. On one level, she seems to be getting more metaphysical, on another, she seems to want to stick to shallow tropes. It's almost like she's afraid to show how smart she actually is. There's some vanity vs. intelligence schism within her that I've never understood, but seems to hold her back. It's always sad when women dumb themselves down, and the reasons are always rooted in fear of rejection.
 
TL;DR:
I get that she's aiming to be an Auteur, therefore consistent in her themes, but I mean, even Woody Allen eventually ventured outside of the neurotic tics of the Upper West Side....

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David Lynch is another who has mentioned her name, now if only he would place a Lana song in the new Twin Peaks continuation coming soon (or better yet, perhaps
a Lana appearance maybe with Julee Cruise who Lana should invite as a backup singer if she does some shows).
 
and Adele should tweet Lana's name to her 3 billion or so fans but the question is- do we actually want those as fans if they are not real fans? How long does Taylor Swift
tweeting someones name help that other person?
 
better yet, Adele should sing in the BBC lounge a Lana song and have the royalties come in to Lana's bank account
or better yet, how about a Christmas duet
and in advance, congratulations to Adele for what will probably debut at #1 on the singles charts
 
Has Leonard Cohen ever mentioned Lana?
And is Brian Wilson on that list?
And does it count that Lou Reed was about to record with Lana but he tragically died?

Posted every year
 

I know I posted before saying I think Terrence is about Barrie but yesterday I read an interview in which she said they had an almost telepathic relationship, which would fit in with the lyrics of Terrence "Put the radio on, hold you tight in my mind" "trying to transmit, can you hear me".
 
Speaking to Britain's The Sun newspaper, the songstress explained that they have a deep connection and feel very close: "He is definitely a poet. I didn't really know what being a poet meant until I met him. He has changed me in ways that I didn't expect. On the one hand I have everything I've dreamed of in terms of a soul connection, it's almost telepathic."
 
I still maintain that she wrote the song about being in love with someone but having to separate yourself from them because they're so dark. It's clear she loved him and they had a deep connection and in the song it seems as if she is saying, I miss you but I wouldn't change how you are for anything, even if it means I can't be with you because of it.
 
"I still get trashed, honey, when I hear your tunes" is self explanatory.
 
The Hollywood legends reference when in the past she has said (of herself and Barrie):
 
While addressing the state of her next album, Lana Del Rey revealed the strange way she bonds with her boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill. On their down time, Lana and her Kassidy rocker boo reminisce over legendary deceased musicians.
 
"[Kurt Cobain is] a big part of our daily conversation. Jeff Buckley is another big inspiration. And Jim Morrison--I mean, we talk about these people like we know them," said Lana to Nylon magazine. "They're a part of our relationship. We always say, 'All of our friends are dead, and they never knew us.' I'm lucky to have met someone who feels that way, too."
 
 

This would've been the best video for UV. It Shows how lighten up it is and creepy at the same time

There are always two versions of Lana ... The digital versions of her albums are always mastered very "dark" with a lot of sludgy bass and not much treble, which gives them that distinctive depressing funeral dirge vibe. The vinyls, in comparison, are filled with warmth and life. PM me and I can prove it.
 
As far as artistic intent goes ... given how much promo she is doing for vinyl lately, she seems to prefer the latter format. It's only annoying to me because I always have to go on stodgy "the vinyl is better" audiophile rants around nonbelievers ("but she's, like, so dark and boring...").