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But didn't UV Top the charts all over the world inc USA and UK. That doesn't sound like a flop IMO and UV is definitely accessible mainstream BC it got to number one in the charts. I agree there isn't a lot radio friendly singles in UV unlike BTD which had loads of them. The reason why I like Lana is that she makes music to please herself no one else. Whether its mainstream or alternative she doesn't care. All she cares about is the music (Which is rare now days tbh) and I have faith in whatever she dose. I seriously can't wait for the reissue/music to watch boys to edtion but knowing Lana it might or might not happen but who knows tbh...

Purple Rain - Prince I've been in an 80's mood for the last week idk...

Oh lord please make this happen. The Deluxe edition of ultraviolence inc flipside and Is this happiness with some demos along with 8/9 brand new tracks.

These remixes are awful and I thought the WC remixes were bad. Why dose interscope insist on realsing sub-par remixes of the artist singles/album. Are there hoping/insisting for another credic gervais vs LDR hit?

I think that Lizzy Grant is in the midst of the psychological chaos created by the adoption of the Lana Del Rey character when she took the decision that Lizzy and Lana are the same person. Lana is a fantasy and Lizzy is just morphing strangely under this façade. There are two outcomes possible: She will become Lana Del Rey or she will melt psychologically at some point and we'll all know it. I have to agree. I remember awhile ago reading an article about how David Bowie had a full mental breakdown which resulted in heavy drug taking BC he couldn't decipher where David Bowie began and where his infamous persona Ziggy stardust ended. Ziggy literally sucked the life out of him. Many fans including me tbh believe he had some sort of multiple personality disorder. I have a feeling that this maybe what is starting to happening to Lana. She seems to struggle with an extreme case of social anxiety disorder as well. If so she needs help and soon before things start spiraling out of control.

The interview is brilliant and so un biased. Finally an interview that focuses on her music and not her authenticity. And the photos are so beautiful its unreal. :defeated I can see her and Neil Krug collab for a very long time tbh. He and only he catches her in such a beautiful and unique way tbh

I have a keen intrest in photography and im so glad i got into lana's music bc i would've never have came across Neil Krugs fantastic photography if i hadn't. This interview is fantastic and so intresting aswell.

I like both tbh. But I like Lana a little more if that makes any sense. I don't think a collab would work or happen as they have separate vocal/songwriting styles and skills. Though stranger things have happened and I could see in the future both of them doing some production work on each others albums later on in there careers.

I don't know whats the big deal tbh. Most women and some men lie about there age for many reasons. Just one of white lies that dont hurt anyone i guess....

If Lana knew and thought that Sad Girl was a filler why didn't she just kept it as a UV bonus track and swapped it for the gem that is Florida Kilos. It would've made sense tracklist wise BC she could've made a story where she travels from Brooklyn-West Coast-Florida. Its such a missed opportunity tbh

The lyric Get a little suburban is incorrect. I'm a little bit of a car buff and when I listened to CW more carefully I think She sings " Get into The Suburban and Go Crazy". The car in question is a Chevrolet Suburban and we all know how Lana Likes Her Chevys....

With Ultraviolence realsed offically as the second single on august 18 could we speculate that we could see the vid a week to a few days after its been realsed? Also praying we could see PWYC vid release the same time?

Just Found a Random Lana Del Rey Quiz which I thought would be great and fun to share and it would be really cool to see what everyone else gets. Here is the link - http://www.playbuzz.com/elysc10/which-lana-del-rey-song-music-video-are-you Here is my Result - Tropico - You live life to the fullest, you’re interested in everyone around you and appreciate music, art and creativity. Be careful not to party too hard though, it might get you in trouble. You’re a very sexual, complicated and fun person, and people find this interesting about you. Sometimes it causes them to take advantage of you, but you know this and focus on the people that are worth your love. You have a hard time forgiving your own past mistakes, but it’s okay to let go now, you’re doing the best you can!

That was really well written and fascinating article. Loads of interesting comments and ponts too. I love Lana thoughts/thinking articles and this IMO is one of the best. Its also change the way I look at Lana slightly as well tbh. With they could've cut down on the filters tho....

When I'm going to catch a bus to my mates I listen to my favs like Brooklyn baby or PWYC its almost become ritualistic tbh. When I'm at home I listen to the album in its entirety with or without speakers or headphones I don't mind but for me personally its more intimate with headphones. But the best experience is when you listen to UV on vinyl its hard to explain but it was like the whole album was made just to be put on vinyl. Its also a far more richer experience IMO.

Found this facinating article from Salon website that talks about how Lana's music and fascination with death suits today's scociety. Here is the link... http://www.salon.com/2014/07/08/why_lana_del_ray_is_the_perfect_artist_for_an_a merica_in_decline_partner/ And here is transcript... In case you have been under a rock, Lana Del Rey is pop music’s It Girl right now, sauntering past Queen Beyoncé and Miley Cyrus with her languid sex appeal and self-professed death wish. With a sound described as “narco-swing,” Del Rey floats through ghostly videos in various poses of drowning and despair, blowing a pouty kiss to the Grim Reaper in the guise of a Gothic pinup. The kids can’t get enough. Her album “Ultraviolence” has just topped her hit debut “Born to Die” to land at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. “I wish I was dead already,” she confides to the Guardian in a kittenish voice (interview clip here). Asked if she thinks an early demise a la Kurt Cobain is glamorous, she murmurs, “Um, yeah,” setting off a twitterstorm in which Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of the singer who shot himself at 27, slammed her for romanticizing youthful death. “People like you think it’s ‘cool,’” blasted Cobain. “Well, it’s f–king not.” But ask a Goth kid or a vampire fan, or for that matter a Pre-Raphaelite or an aficionado of European Romanticism, and you will quickly find that the pose of eroticized death has been a perennial favorite of youth culture — and it tends to crop up in seasons where young people see an epic fail in society. Enter Lana Del Rey. Love Story for the New Age Del Rey has more than her share of detractors. Some feminists are irked by what they perceive to be the singer’s victim stance (not to mention her professed boredom with feminism), comparing her style unfavorably to Beyoncé’s brand of bootylicious empowerment. Indie music writers complain of her gimmicky transformation from under-the-radar Brooklyn songstress Lizzy Grant to pop phenom Lana Del Rey. (Do they feel similarly peeved with Bob Dylan, once known as Bob Zimmerman?) On Del Rey’s much-panned 2012 Saturday Night Live performance, where she stood looking like she’d just popped a Xanax in pale gown, news anchor Brian Williams dubbed it “one of the worst outings in SNL history.” True, it was weird: Del Rey seemed, if anything, painfully bored with the SNL proceedings. No hopping around the stage shaking her bon-bon. No painfully earnest emotional appeals. What was this blasé siren up to? Becoming the hottest ticket in town, is what. While the critics panned her, fans swooned. Angelina Jolie, remembered for her own youthful Goth phase, handpicked Del Rey to record the theme song for the summer’s hit Disney film “Maleficent.” Kanye and Kim asked her to sing at their A-list wedding. Del Rey is en fuego. Too awkward for the medium of live television, too ethereal for the stage, Lana Del Rey seems to know her bread is buttered on the Internet (she is literally a child of that medium, the daughter of a web entrepreneur who made his dough hawking Internet domains). There, fans embrace her eclectic video mashups and twisted takes on pop culture clichés. There, she can be as detached, noncommittal and as rapturously bored with it all as her audience. With her well-honed weltschmerz and mesmerizing monotony, Del Rey expresses the winter of America’s discontent through the eyes of the youthful bourgeoisie. In “Shades of Cool,” Del Rey transforms the sunny myth of California dreamin’ into a nihilistic ride to oblivion in a Chevy Malibu. Her most recent insta-contraversial hit “Ultraviolence” throws a stink bomb into ’60s dreams of peace and harmony with a fantasy of being roughed up by a cult leader/lover. “We could go back to Woodstock,” she sings. “But they don’t know who we are.” In “National Anthem” she gives a ghoulish rendition of Marilyn Monroe’s breathy birthday address to President Kennedy, followed by assassination clips that segue to a cynical anthem about America real obsession, money, which kills every other youthful aspiration. “It’s a love story for the new age For the six page We’re on a quick sick rampage Wining and dining Drinking and driving Excessive buying Overdose and dyin’ On our drugs and our love And our dreams and our rage” Lana Del Rey is pushing the envelope, and here’s her message, delivered with a languid pout: 21st-century America is a rotting corpse, deadlocked culturally, economically, and politically, and since there’s nothing we can do about it, let’s enjoy ourselves as the body-politic disintegrates, perhaps by savoring some toothsome bites of the past: candy-colored Super 8 films, juicy jazz tunes and clips of sultry screen sirens. The future is a retrospective. All of this echoes the ancient danse macabre, the dance of death, the motif that sprang out of the medieval horrors of war and the plague. It’s a plea for fevered amusement while you’ve still got time. Queen of the Damned You might call Del Rey a musical Queen of the Damned: the expression of a generational sense that America has lost its way, and there’s little hope for redemption. Del Rey’s haunting sense of exhausted sadness is perfect pitch for an era when climate change threatens the planet, bloodsucking financial predators steal the future of our youth and consumer culture deadens everyone. The kingdom of wealth is sterile and limiting; perhaps the kingdom of death is preferable. Del Rey’s pose of expectant pleasure at the coming apocalypse strikes a resonant chord — a cool bravado that eases the pain. In her romantic fantasies, you can almost hear strains of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, a love story in which young lovers seek peace through annihilation. Del Rey and fellow avatars of the death-and-the-maiden trope —one of the oldest in art — have been creeping onto the cultural scene since the global financial meltdown of 2007-’08, and not just in America. In Lars Von Trier’s 2011 film “Melancholia,” Kirsten Dunst’s character Justine welcomes the end of the world by offering her sprawling naked body to a rogue planet hurtling toward earth. “Life on earth is evil,” murmurs Justine. “No one will miss it.” All of this is no surprise to students of psychoanalysis. It was a woman, Sabina Spielrein, who gave Sigmund Freud the inspiration for his theory of the death drive, writing of young women who dream of lying in a coffin, yearning to return to the womb through the tomb. It is women who are most acutely aware of the limitations of society’s institutions and its life-denying strictures: scripts for marriage, motherhood, and career still don’t accommodate women’s desires and creative potential. Why not just imagine sinking into a blissful abyss with your lover? For millennials, the desire to reject an inhumane future in favor of a sensual plunge into undifferentiated nature is mirrored in Del Rey’s videos, where she is often submerged in water, as if suspended in Earth’s amniotic fluid. The world can be saved only when life returns to its primal source. This potent combination of women, sex and death is going to be one of the calling cards of late-stage capitalism. We are experiencing fearsome global dislocations and distorted social and economic systems that are killing our life-affirming instincts. The death drive is perennial, but when a society seems to hover on the eve of destruction, these Eves of the Apocalypse — suicidal brides, young women fixated on pain and death — emerge to speak our well-founded anxieties. They signal that just now, the death drive is very strong. The sociologist Emile Durkheim wrote of “anomic suicide,” a desire for death that comes from confusion and lack of social direction in the face of hard economic times and societal upheaval. When young people can’t find legitimate aspirations, they feel lost and disoriented. They begin to lose any sense of the limits of desires and become mired in a sense of chronic disappointment. A bankruptcy of expectations leads to a nostalgic fixation on the past and inability to actively meet the future. What Lana Del Rey is selling is what a big chunk of America’s youth is feeling: contemporary capitalist society is a deathly bore.

I think it was Jim morrison who came up with that infamous quote tbh...

New courier i think.....

Why are some pepole being so mean here idk everyones made a mistake here at some point so let it go.#sorrynotsorry for the frozen refrence. It can very confusing for new fans especially since she's change her style of singing over the years until we've got the lana that we know and love today. As i said in a past thread we should all help new fans not rip them to bits. Sorry for the rant though it got me a little worked up.....

Why do you prefer the idea of dying over living and why dose it feature in so many songs? What is your political status/beliefs and would you ever write a song about it e.g a family living on the streets? What's the most inspiring dream you've ever had and has it affected you in any way?

Can't wait lol. Love the the title sounds so cute and for some unknown reason i'm also picking up some lighter happier tones idk.

Obvious choice imo will be black beauty but i have my doubts bc it leaked and interscope might not allow it bc of that reason. Why realease a single thats been leaked well over a year it would be pointless. I personally hope PWYC or MPG will be realeased as singles. There both stand out tracks and very relatable. MPG may even bag her number 1 single spot due to the hip hop and oppulence vibes.

It would't surprise me if they didn't get together. They seem to spark off each other really well tbh.

I don't know if this has been posted or counts towards mc but the huffington uk review is rather nice. Not only dose it talk about the itunes version but it also talks about the album and nothing else. http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/5509458?utm_hp_ref=uk-entertainment&ir=UK+Entertainment

Good on her for sticking up for herself. To manipulate a whole article based on a quote she made is wrong and mis-leading tbh. Finally she's standing up for herself and refusing to be trampled on.