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How awesome would this style be for Honeymoon if she does go the film noir route




^ Veronica Lake in the 40s




^Rita Hayworth in Gilda




The queen of film noir, Lauren Bacall.

So yall remember when she posted that mr brainwash painting? i guess this is not related to Lana at all but look at this lmfao these are Mr Brainwash painting with "Life Is Beautiful"

 

 

 https://www.google.cl/search?q=life+is+beautiful+mr+brainwash+print&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nFFrVYPSLoyqNuaOgsAJ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643

She uses that phrase in Carmen as well.

Could be the album closer? She's always one for goodbyes and that's what a Swan Song is supposed to symbolize. The "send off" song or the goodbye song
 
Also, this is a kind of beautiful concept for her I think
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_song

I only pray that HM stays in the analog direction she went with UV; the CD was a bit too murky and smashed but the vinyl was really gorgeous with a bit of added analog tube warmth

re:Florence's new one- I read Taylor Swift heavily influenced Florence on this, speaking to her. Which is ironic because
 
Lana directly influenced Taylor's pop album, and it is evident Taylor studied Lana and her music and style in doing her own album, but of course, Taylor lost all sense of who Taylor is on this album, just to sell her soul and be number one one one one one 24/7/365.  In fact, one of her videos was made to coincide directly over Lana's Summertime sadness, and one of her new songs is a direct copy of everything Lana.
Shame Florence thought she needed to change.
 
Whyin the world would Lana want to be Florence?
 
I think Lana forecasted who she is and what HM will be in the last video she released for UV, and in the 3 songs directly on UV that were basically responses to the press and the other artists who are copying her.
("Mimicing me's a fucking bore...to me" from IFMWUTTT) and with the fact that Lana released the pictures recently showing wrinkles (nothing is done without a reason) and the selfie where she crinkles her chin
clearly showing some wrinkles-
 
Focus on Old Money and Lana looking out surveying the land from her window-
Lana is clearly saying she is not looking to be the teeny bopper bubblegum singer that gets airplay 24/7/365 and attempting to compete with Iggy or Meghan Trainor (in 3 years both of whom will be Who???)
but in fact is something past that phase.
 
We shall see, but I expect Honeymoon to be darker than UV.
(And are some people forgetting here- Summertime sadness was a song directly about the suicide of a friend. Maybe some only know the unauthorized by Lana Cedric remix which changed the focus of the song???
I don't get it. There is some disconnect here.

Every time I read this thread I just

After the video she last made, why would anyone think Honeymoon is going to be happy?
 
It is a continuous saga. And the last video was anything but.
 
BTW- I think alt-indie is the wrong terminology anyhow
 
I think what Lana really is is Progressive. Prog-Rock in the broad sense of the term as it was in the late 1960s early 1970s.
From Eno (who was in the Lou Reed pairing) to ELP to Elton and Genesis (before Genesis became Phil Collins AC)
 
alt is really a hybrid term anyhow.
 
Alt really means anyone who doesn't sell a huge amount, but the same person once they do, is sort of shunned from being alt so its a catch-22.
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What it all really is is Hip. Not Hip hop, Just Hip.
 
Or in other words, Lana is in 1969 terms groovy as we used to say
 
What it really is is that Lana is doing what only guys did back then, so there is no comparison with others. She literally is the ultimate feminist in that she breaks all the barriers and is a true equal to all males
that came before in music, not a follower. A trail blazer.
 
and I am saying that without hyperbole.
 
And I expect Honeymoon to dive deeper into the film noir world where no good ever comes even if redemption does.
 
The top 40 people some want her to be (ewwwww) would have been bubblegum in the early 1970s.
 
Does anyone here really want Lana to be bubblegum throwaway?

side note: i was listening to starry eyed and the west coast acoustic radio mix and i could see honeymoon sounding like the two mixed
 
also, music isnt too expensive to make. the lofi lana is the best anyhow. she'll always have a computer and a song in her heart and her stuff will always leak until the internet crashes. so stahp this fighting about promo. she has plenty of money and time to make music. shes already a popular artist.

totally missing the 4 violinists, they add a huge intensity to any perfomer,,but still a great show..

The one thing I would love to see is a full orchestra and strings.
Half the songs she has has strings, but it takes a really big stage to make it sound right. (Perhaps a one off at the Metropolitan Opera House or Radio City Music Hall.)
 
In the overseas tour, she had strings on some early dates.
 
The problem is, on record, Lana overdubs her own vocals, and then the haters say why can't she do that onstage.
 
Brian Wilson and John Lennon quit concerts and part of the reason was they could not recreate it on stage (in the Beatles case, the audience, much like Lana's) was so loud singing along and screaming that they couldn't even hear themselves sing. And John Lennon famously threw up every time he had to go onstage. (Carly Simon too)
 
Best concert I ever saw in my life was Elvis Costello's first show at the Bottom Line club in NYC...he played for an hour and it was one song after another, all short songs.
Saw him many times after, including a 4 hour show...that show, I couldn't wait to get out of there. My ass hurt and my legs hurt from standing and sitting.
 
Harry Chapin gave long concerts. Some went 3 hours. And after the first 90 minutes, Harry was hoarse. I think Harry taught Bruce about long shows.
 
I think if Lana did 4 hour shows, some here would complain that it wasn't 6 hours or 8 hours.
 
It's not the length, it's what you do with it when you do it. Always leave them wanting more is the old Hollywood cliche'. Never have them want to leave before you are done.
 
BTW- if she played twice the length, what would happen is there would be 15 minute guitar solos in every other song. You wouldn't be getting more vocals.
 
But a full classical orchestra, a choir, strings and Lana.
Elton John did that on a few tours. I was lucky enough to see two shows in a few weeks- one in Wembley England, one at Radio City with full orchestra and choir.
The one in England had a white choir. The one in NYC had a black choir. Two best show of his I ever saw (and I have seen him about 40 times since 1973.)
He was able to recreate his first 3 albums that in the past he never could do it right.
 
That is what it would take. But paying for about 100 extra people on stage, and the logistics, make it hard to do a full tour like that, even if they use a local orchestra and choirs.
And that would take a really large stage. And that would probably mean the tickets would start at $250 a piece and go up from there (before scalpers).

What you're talking about? You're referencing her past tours or the Endless Summer tour? From what I saw in videos her show improved: the stage is beautiful, her voice is on point, she has a longer set.Dancers no. But backup singers would be nice mainly to ditch those annoying backup tracks with her registered voice and have the full live experience

I am hoping that she does a BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. She was meant to do one last year but then she got ill or something.  
Pessimistic part of me thinks it's less likely that Lana will do a Live Lounge now as Fearne Cotton has left the station.

Oh, I love this, especially the instrumental which was hard to take in in the snippets. 
I'm intrigued by the description - muddy trap music   

I don't know how long it will take some of the people on here to realize that lana doesn't give 2 shits about sales or success...She's made it pretty evident through the ultraviolence era that she doesn't want fame. It's not like she has to rely on her singing career to thrive anymore, including that she has a rich family. Also Lana even said that she doesn't make music for anyone else but herself and thats how it should be, you shouldn't make music cause you want to be rich&famous you should do it because you love it... 
I think that the whole "honeymoon is being pushed out quickly so lana can get out of 3 album contract w/ interscope" may be true to an extent, but I think its unlikely. Maybe though because she is friends with Azealia Banks and admires the fact that she went indie.

Maybe she made a LDRAKALG 2.0

I know Lana hasn't said anything like this herself, but I really wouldn't be surprised if this album was full of her exploring that "hawaiian" sound she likes so much.  I would look to the intro of the tour for a cue about maybe what this album would sound like. Perhaps thats what she means by a return to BTD/Paradise-- that it will be her exploring the beach/surf rock sound more. She once described Cola as a surf rock song (??). But yeah, I heard the intro of the tour and immediately thought "This must be what Honeymoon sounds like." And obviously the title lends itself gloriously to this kind of music.

Ok, this is sort of random and possibly irrelevant, but I was reading one of Lana's interviews from the UV era and what I've pasted below reminded me of Lana's description of "futureretro" for Honeymoon:
 

She's had some weird dreams lately. 
"Modern dreams, dreaming in modern times. Really strange. I had a dream that I was waiting for someone to find me, and in the sky, where the stars were supposed to be, it was an Uber map. And I was watching this person get further and further away from me, where the constellations were supposed to be. And I woke up totally confused. "
 
This may have absolutely nothing to do with Honeymoon at all, but it's interesting considering HoneyMOON and she's talking about space here. Also, she described Honeymoon as "futureretro" and these dreams are set in the future.
I'm probably reaching here, but just thought I'd share.


 

I hope when we won't get UV Kind of songs at least some songs like Bel Air, Dark Paradise, Blue Jeans, Born To Die and Summertime Sadness.

If I had to predict the sound of Honeymoon, I'd say Back to Black meets Nancy Sinatra's Bang Bang. A mixture of Ronson beats, a jazzy tone, and surf guitar twangs. Plus the colorful lyrics of Stevie Nicks' Bella Donna...like I said yesterday.

They should revive MTV Unplugged just for her though    Like a 90s rock style set 

Lana followed Pete Isben on twitter...
I know it means nothing, but at least it can make some speculations.

And if you don't like it you can beat it, beat it baby 
 
(No, honestly, I know many people won't agree with me on this, but I actually like what Lana did with UV because at least, she could be more herself and seemed more comfortable.)

I bet she herself has been listening to the song all day.
 
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I think we all know this but it's a good time to say it - her voice is out of this world.